Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I've become so utterly handicapped by these washes!

The boss himself is like... 90% done. I think.









The mechanical parts and metallics like the gun and hand need a bit more work just to make it less 'giant mass of boltgun metal'. I put tin bitz in places on both, but after some badab black wash it starts to become difficult to tell where, exactly. Still, I am pretty pleased with the biker's overall appearance, and I think the eye is enough to make me happy.

I sort've feel like doing the grot next, and then the bike itself.

It's looking good so far Ein. Looking forward to seeing the rest soon. As for the washes, they really give the look of a good grimy leather on the coat, which works perfectly. For the eye, it might look better in person, but the OSL around the metal parts looks a little dark to me and could possibly be a bit lighter, but then photos are always a bit tricky! As always, loving your work sir!

No flamin skulls? kewl rider ein

He's Wazdakka, but not Wazdakka.

Inyoka, I know what you mean about the OSL. I'm having a hard time striking any sort of balance without the glow getting overwhelming. To the eye, it admittedly looks better, as it's much more forgiving than a cold, unfeeling camera lens...

That said, I think it gets the point across. I'll tinker with it a bit more to see if I can get the glow on the inner part of the eye socket to be a bit more pronounced.

Fair enough. I've not tried OSL yet myself, but I have a big conversion in mind that is screaming out for it so will have to try it myself. Yours does get the point across though.

jamsessionein wrote:He's Wazdakka, but not Wazdakka.

Inyoka, I know what you mean about the OSL. I'm having a hard time striking any sort of balance without the glow getting overwhelming. To the eye, it admittedly looks better, as it's much more forgiving than a cold, unfeeling camera lens...

That said, I think it gets the point across. I'll tinker with it a bit more to see if I can get the glow on the inner part of the eye socket to be a bit more pronounced.

or how about half sunglasses over the other eye even if its kinda wierd you do nt have to paint the eye

The exhaust part is making his arm look Kind of like the big O, which instantly wins in my book. Then when the rest of it is also perhaps the best biker boss i have ever seen, I feel confident to say you have a winner on your hands once again Ein.

I just have one thing that slightly disapoints me, The picture two pages back with your weirdboy, Wurzagg i think it was? Makes it to me seem a bit disapointing you didn't use a red led for the eye to really give it that UMPH.

Its still the best warboss i have ever seen though

darn good job on the model. i cant wait to see the bike when it is done.

I'm so poned.

But still, keep up the good work.

I usually rely a bit on the natural light that comes in my apartment for photography, but today's weather has been pretty poor. I took them anyway, and tried to do a bit of color-correction to compensate for the awful wash of my yellowy kitchen lights. You get the idea, I suppose.

I used a bit of brass on the power fist and the piping on the gun to get some more visual interest in there, and touched up a couple spots on the boss. Also more obviously, the grot got painted up. He's not holding on to the pole 'tight' right now because I haven't glued his hand on the pole properly. I still want to be able to remove him so I can paint the bike easily.







Bike next!

A very good paintjob, as usual.

Okay. I've not had much time, but I started painting the bike a bit. I've got to say, I'm not too pleased with what I've managed so far... my mentality with this thing was that it was basically going to be constructed from spare parts from his ol' Fighta Bomma, so I was going to have it somewhat banged up, and the paint chipped off the front grill. It's alright, but I've had a really hard time with getting the paint smooth on the reds and metals, despite how much I water the paints down. It works, I guess.









Tried freehanding checkers on the top, and I'm not too thrilled with them, either, but I'm not going to worry 'bout it for now. I'll work on it a bit more tomorrow.

It's fine, just a bit too clean - dirty it up with some black and brown washes.

Thats amazing, keep up the good work.

wwwww000000000000000000000000000000000000000000w

That is bloody fantastic. finish and show please.

WOW You have very impressive modeling skills!

i realy think it looks darn good.
Is his name Arnold Orkinizer

yanno the problem with how incredibly awesome your minis are is... No one can try and impress others by saying "yea thats mine....totally made it from scratch....whats that? Oh I let a uh.... museum "barrow" the piece"
anywho nicely done Ein I think the bike is looking really cool, altho the chips look more like cool paint job then chipped paint

I have to say that, for me, the paintjob on the bike doesn't work. I'm normally a fan of your work, but you do say you want constructive criticism, so I'm going to give it a go. I think the problem with the red on the bike is that you've painted metal all around it so that you get an island of red surrounded by metal. To me it looks like that is the 'pattern', rather than it being a banged up piece of (previously) red metal. Now, it might just be the style you're going for, in which case "Fair enough", but the usual way of doing it would be to paint the whole piece red with a small bit of metal colouring on some but not all edges. To me, it just looks 'overdone'. A few washes will doubtless 'knacker' the metal up a bit, but I'd be tempted to paint more red on the areas, then have many more possibly smaller chips on.

Just my thoughts. Incidentally, you've inspired me to start my own conversion which may well be prostrating itself on a thread here soon. As always, thanks for the inspiration!

I whole-heartedly approve of the flaming skulls!

Love the model, but I gotta chime in about the paint, one tiny little fiddly bit:

The crossed checks on the front fairing look a lot like the confederate flag. I saw it, and immediately thought you were going for a Dukes of Hazzard "General Lee" kind of look. While that would work for 99% of ork vehicles, it directly conflicts with the Arnold/Ex-pilot nutter theme you're shooting for. Perhaps a single, linear racing stripe of checks would work better?

Either way, great job on the model, the "grimy" feel of the paint on the boss is perfect.

Wow - that Boss and his Bike are ded 'ard! Fabulous job, as usual!

You sir are amazing.

Wow, really great custom stuff!

I agree with Teek, it does look confederate/general lee look, but I'm a southerner, so I really like the look.

i think the bike looks cool, but it would look cooler if the warboss was on it.

Phwoar, check that stuff out. I feel so bad compared to you (hides in corner).

Your... Like Dakka Dakka's version of Sebation Stuart from ATT. Marvelous.

Teek wrote:The crossed checks on the front fairing look a lot like the confederate flag. I saw it, and immediately thought you were going for a Dukes of Hazzard "General Lee" kind of look. While that would work for 99% of ork vehicles, it directly conflicts with the Arnold/Ex-pilot nutter theme you're shooting for. Perhaps a single, linear racing stripe of checks would work better?

I didn't really notice the whole confederate flag thing until I posted pictures, but at this point it's too much work to go back over and fix it, and I think it looks alright.

I did get a bit more painting done. More work's still needed.









Banner and more details/weathering to come.

does it get annoying KNOWING people are just going to tell you how your stuff makes there brains turn to gak? Im just curious