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Looking mighty fine, Yggs

Lucarikx

Awesome looking terrain and Rhino.

Kill team looks great. Well, everything looks pretty great actually

Still enjoying the Kill Team games?

Can we get picks of the other kill team?

Gitsplitta wrote:Wonderful to get caught up with what's been going on with you over the last bit Yggs. Figures look fantabulous as usual. I especially like the lightening effects on the marine sword. Sweet. Love the plague bearer too. Always wanted to do up some of those guys myself.

Games sound like fun... what more can you ask?!

Thank you Gits !

At first I really struggled with the swords, I was really at a loss for ideas about them... And they got my attention last ! I hesitated between airbrushing them red-to-yellow, purple, green, blue, or painting them in metal, until my friend Denis showed me again those Vanguard Vets power weapons ! And thus I came with the lightning effect

As for the Plaguebearers... They are indeed great to paint, and not so tedious ! (Much less than building them anyway !)

And they're nothing more to ask...

IceAngel wrote:Yggs! Welcome back. Love the pics. I envy the paint job on the sword. Very nice.

Lol Ice, it's wayyyyy in your league to paint that kind of effect !

Lucarikx wrote:Looking mighty fine, Yggs

Lucarikx

Thanks mate !

Solar_lion wrote:Awesome looking terrain and Rhino.

Thank you Solar, it means a lot !

whalemusic360 wrote:Kill team looks great. Well, everything looks pretty great actually

Still enjoying the Kill Team games?

Hey hey, thank you Sir

Yup, they are great indeed ! Quick-paced, and insanely fun ! Every dice roll can change the whole game, thus adding some drama to the game !

Sageheart wrote:Can we get picks of the other kill team?

Well, I can fetch one on his FB page !

As always, amazing bright colours Yggs.

 San76 wrote:
As always, amazing bright colours Yggs.

Thank you San ! Considering your mastery of yellows, that's a nice comment

No major update sadly, but I'm still fiddling with my Nurgle Daemon Princes....

Here's the most advanced of #2 and #3, who for now is labelled as "former Apothecary" :



What do you think ? I'm still considering a few head options, would you like to help me choose which one would suit him best ? Or perhaps you have some suggestions ?

Thanks for the support,

Yggs

Very interesting... how about a side view?

Maybe one of the bullgryn heads with the respirator?

Won't he be kinda short? Just for arguments sake.

he looks very twisted - nice work! no idea what head would be cool sorry, but i look forward to seeing him painted.

Gitsplitta wrote:Very interesting... how about a side view?

Ask, my friend, and you shall receive !




Better now ?

whalemusic360 wrote:Maybe one of the bullgryn heads with the respirator?

Won't he be kinda short? Just for arguments sake.

That's his predecessor, I think the bulk of the Troll body fits nicely for a Daemon Prince, don't you agree ?
Thanks for arguing uh, that's (partly) what we're here for

As for the Ogryn head, that's brilliant ! But only because that's precisely one of the ideas I had ... but I think it makes him look more like an oversized mutant, rather than a Daemon :

What do you think ?

San76 wrote:he looks very twisted - nice work! no idea what head would be cool sorry, but i look forward to seeing him painted.

Thanks San !

As for now, here are the contenders for his head :


My favourite, until now, would be the top-left head, that would look like a mask and turn him blind...

He'd look like that :


What do you guys think of that ?

Very illuminating.

My gut response says that the head needs to be bigger in order to match the volume of the model (in a demony way.. not in a realistic way). You might be able to just add bits to that face plate though... horns or something... to get the same effect.

Love that head in the upper-right.

I really like the bullgryn head still, could be very fly-like if you add a proboscis?

 Yggdrasil wrote:

Gitsplitta wrote:Very interesting... how about a side view?

Ask, my friend, and you shall receive !




Better now ?

whalemusic360 wrote:Maybe one of the bullgryn heads with the respirator?

Won't he be kinda short? Just for arguments sake.

Spoiler:

That's his predecessor, I think the bulk of the Troll body fits nicely for a Daemon Prince, don't you agree ?
Thanks for arguing uh, that's (partly) what we're here for

As for the Ogryn head, that's brilliant ! But only because that's precisely one of the ideas I had ... but I think it makes him look more like an oversized mutant, rather than a Daemon :

What do you think ?

San76 wrote:he looks very twisted - nice work! no idea what head would be cool sorry, but i look forward to seeing him painted.

Thanks San !

As for now, here are the contenders for his head :


My favourite, until now, would be the top-left head, that would look like a mask and turn him blind...

He'd look like that :


What do you guys think of that ?

I think that the Bullgryn head works a bit better, to be honest Yggs. Maybe sculpt a hood over the head and make him look less 'mutie' and more 'mysterious angrything'?

Nice!

I think that you should add the rebrether part of the bullgryn head to that top-left part to give it som more character, or do the same to the mid-top part and add a cyclopean-style lens in the middle of the mask.

Yggs, can Gitsplitta send you one of his Mantis Warrior heads?

It's larger then a usual head and fits quiet well with the Lord of Decay motif.

Love the use of the river troll

I think the helm need to be a focal point.. all the closed ones work for me , but I'd add some things to them to make them more imposing!

Gitsplitta wrote:Very illuminating.

My gut response says that the head needs to be bigger in order to match the volume of the model (in a demony way.. not in a realistic way). You might be able to just add bits to that face plate though... horns or something... to get the same effect.

Love that head in the upper-right.

The upper-right head is a Chaos Spawn one, allegedly for a Nurgle-oriented Spawn !

I'm not sure I totally agree with you on the head scale, I think it sometimes works to have a smaller one, to emphasize the twisted nature of the model... Still, you'll see below

Thanks for your advice ! I'll probably follow it for Prince #3

inmygravenimage wrote:I really like the bullgryn head still, could be very fly-like if you add a proboscis?

Bullgryn head seems right indeed, but I'll most probably only add a hood & cables of some sorts... I'm not sure how you want me to add a proboscis on a gasmasked head ?

Kanluwen wrote:
I think that the Bullgryn head works a bit better, to be honest Yggs. Maybe sculpt a hood over the head and make him look less 'mutie' and more 'mysterious angrything'?

Yeah I agree with you Kan, we'll see how it works...

The hood was good-looking on the first Prince, so why wouldn't it here ?

STC_LogisEngine wrote:Nice!

I think that you should add the rebrether part of the bullgryn head to that top-left part to give it som more character, or do the same to the mid-top part and add a cyclopean-style lens in the middle of the mask.

Wow, that's pretty ambitious for sure ! I'm not sure I'll be able to pull that off without ruining it all...
As for the top-mid part, I had also thought about your cyclopean lens, but rather where there's already a "hole" in it... Do you think it would work ?

IceAngel wrote:Yggs, can Gitsplitta send you one of his Mantis Warrior heads?

It's larger then a usual head and fits quiet well with the Lord of Decay motif.

Well, due to their "black widow" tendencies, I think Mantis heads would rather be appropriate for Slaanesh

Sageheart wrote:Love the use of the river troll

Thanks ! I'm glad I had this idea in the first place !

Solar_lion wrote:I think the helm need to be a focal point.. all the closed ones work for me , but I'd add some things to them to make them more imposing!

So you'd agree with Gits... Damn, too late, I chose the "rebreather" path... Let's see how it works out for now ?

OK, so here's the latest WIP !



I also bulked out his shoulders with the Ogryns pads, to try and turn it closer to a (former) power armour... I'm pretty happy with it so far, but still lots of work (and weathering) to do... What do you guys think ?

As for the Tau, I've spent a few hours on my Kroot squad... Nothing to fancy, just airbrushed their skin, and completed their crests...





I still have a lot to do for them to be complete !

Thanks for the support again mates

Yggs

Very nice! They will stand out for sure.

Turquoise on the shaper was an excellent choice Yggs.

kroot looks awesome Ygg and the demon looks really promising. did you make the bases?

Loving the kroot so far, Yggs!

Kroot look 'genial', remind me a bit of Minus's work, if you don't mind me saying

Solar_lion wrote:Very nice! They will stand out for sure.

Notwithstanding their stealthy nature... Well, most probably

Gitsplitta wrote:Turquoise on the shaper was an excellent choice Yggs.

Actually he's just the test model... Shapers are the two with more Tau-ish gizmos (Pulse Rifle, Auspex, Antennas...)
But I find it makes a nice constrasting colour, both with the orange and their brownish skin !

Thanks uh

San76 wrote:kroot looks awesome Ygg and the demon looks really promising. did you make the bases?

Thanks San !
What bases are you talking about ? As for the Kroots, that's just some kind of cement, & a plasticard girder... As for the DP, it's not even started... yet !

RiTides wrote:Loving the kroot so far, Yggs!

Hey thanks ! They've been sitting, undercoated & all but forsaken, for far too long... So I'm back at them !

Thank you guys

No progress for the next 3 days as I'm on a recon mission for my new assignment... Moving closer to Paris ! lol

Liking the Kroot. The colourful crests are nice.

Like where you're going with the daemon - you could have a proboscis extending from the bottom of the mask between the two canisters - like graven I think that could have a very nurgle feel.

I like the first set of kroots with the cloaks

Nah, they look good man, as if that's any shock to us

Lovely model that DP. Which god will it be?

Those Kroot look brilliant, but that DP is awesome.

Dr H wrote:Liking the Kroot. The colourful crests are nice.

Thanks ! I was pretty glad with the crests, but had to put a lot of efforts without the proper airbrushing paints... Now that I've found some, it's way easier !

monkeytroll wrote:Like where you're going with the daemon - you could have a proboscis extending from the bottom of the mask between the two canisters - like graven I think that could have a very nurgle feel.

I like the first set of kroots with the cloaks

Nah, they look good man, as if that's any shock to us

Ah ok, I get the proboscis thing now... That's an idea, but I'm not sure I could make it look good... Not confident enough with my skills, not to mention the GS sculpting I'd have to do to make it work !

As for the cloaks... Actually, that could be a great idea !

Q0rbin wrote:Lovely model that DP. Which god will it be?

The GreatFather of Life & Decay, of course !

Camkierhi wrote:Those Kroot look brilliant, but that DP is awesome.

Thanks for those kind words Cam... I'll try and refrain from disappointing the audience !

On a side note, the WD from last week had an interesting bit of fluff that I cannot remember from anywhere else... I don't have my iPad with me, so cannot quote it thoroughly, but it was really surprising.