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Back to the big chaps:



They're not finished yet, but well on their way, apologies for crappy shots/the state of my hand!

Byron

Nice pants Looks good byron, I really like the archers on the last page, those cloaks and hoods look really good

Robbietobbie wrote:Nice pants Looks good byron, I really like the archers on the last page, those cloaks and hoods look really good

Cheers Robbie, the characters get mighty-fancy highlighted versions of the troop's trousers



All but done on him now, betteer pics once he's snowed!

Byron

Very well painted Byron. Love the blood effects and MC Hammer pants.

However, MOAR NECRONS!

The blood splatter on Bragg looks incredible!

Byronic wrote:

Cheers bud, Siple recipe on them, chainmail over a black base (airbrushed to keep it smooooth) then devlan mud all over, then mix pigment with water, sploosh it all over, wait for it to dry and then use a soft brush all over to leave it in the crevices. I do <3 my pigments!

This part I didnt understand.

Which pigments are you using? Vallejo?
And what do you mean with sploosh it all over? Really love your rusty results and I want to copy that!

Lt. Coldfire wrote:Very well painted Byron. Love the blood effects and MC Hammer pants.

However, MOAR NECRONS!

Not being one to disobey my commander/Lt. I may well have something of interest for you tomorrow

Norn King wrote:The blood splatter on Bragg looks incredible!

Cheers bud, it's very rarely I'm properly pleased with anything I've done for more than an hour, and the pleasure of this lasted at least 2 before I started wondering how I could do it better

When I do my Ogres for yself over xmas they're going to be bloody as hell!

Hive2003 wrote:

Byronic wrote:

Cheers bud, Siple recipe on them, chainmail over a black base (airbrushed to keep it smooooth) then devlan mud all over, then mix pigment with water, sploosh it all over, wait for it to dry and then use a soft brush all over to leave it in the crevices. I do <3 my pigments!

This part I didnt understand.

Which pigments are you using? Vallejo?
And what do you mean with sploosh it all over? Really love your rusty results and I want to copy that!

No worries Hive, cheers for the question: I'll do my best to break it down for you; any more clarifications you'd like don't hesitate to ask, my textual communication skills over the internet are pretty limited so I'm sure there'll be a fair few more examples of my horrific sentence structure/grammar/missing of words won't help readers!

Step one: Chainmail + Mithril - all over (a black basecoat as with all silver stuff)

Step two: Devlan mud, all over, twice, don't let it pool, and let it dry between completely (really important, can't stress this enough)

Step three: Mix up pigment (I used Vallejo rusty-oxide type one)) with water, put it wherever you like, don't worry if it looks bad/too much, we'll sort that in step 5!

Step four: WAITTTTTTT - let the pigment dry, completely, it'll lighten as it does, when it's the same colour as it is in the pot - even in the deepest recesses it's dry.

Step five (magic step): grab your not-too precious brush of choice and give the models a thorough 'drybrush' with no paint on the brush, this should remove a lot of the excess, and leave the rest in the crevices/gaps, if this isn't enough removal you can lick/wet a finger and rub it off manually, or even use a brush, untill they're sealed pigments are workable.

Step six (optional): Seal your chaps, varnish/alcohol/whatever - stops pigments from being removed, in this instance I didn't seal them because no one's going to be picking a ghost arm up by a necrons head, and if they are it's not pigment damage they need to worry about!

I think that's it: I hope that's of some help!

Byron

Byronic wrote:

I think that's it: I hope that's of some help!

Byron

Wow, thank you very Much!
I will try this out as soon as possible. Seems to be easy.

One more question, do you have airbrushed all of the green layers on your barge or were there brushes involved? I am asking because I am in search for a quick, easy and nice looking technique for my Necron Army. I have no longer the time to paint every single mini with brushes...

The metallics on Bragg's weapon are amazing, any tips for getting results like that?

(as an aside, how did you do the wood? it's very subtle and understated and it looks great)

Hive2003 wrote:

Byronic wrote:

I think that's it: I hope that's of some help!

Byron

Wow, thank you very Much!
I will try this out as soon as possible. Seems to be easy.

One more question, do you have airbrushed all of the green layers on your barge or were there brushes involved? I am asking because I am in search for a quick, easy and nice looking technique for my Necron Army. I have no longer the time to paint every single mini with brushes...

The barge I used a brush for all of the highlighting, airbrush was solely for the base layer (which I shaded more towards the recesses, simply by spraying ore of the fairly dark paint mix of chaos black/dark angels green there, this is why I started from a light basecoat, airbrushes are as good for shading down as they are for highlighting up!)

You could get a great result for the barge drybrushing it as I did with the ark though, big brush over the base-layer with barely any paint on, can't go wrong

A Kvlt Ghost wrote:The metallics on Bragg's weapon are amazing, any tips for getting results like that?

(as an aside, how did you do the wood? it's very subtle and understated and it looks great)

Thanks very much Ghost, which ones are you wanting to know about, brass/weapon/gutplate/all of them?

@ Lt. This is for you bud, better pics coming soon once the client's O.K'd the job:






Byron

Something big for you all

nice work! really good job on the monolith eventhough i'm not a big fan of the colourscheme (still really well executed though). And impressive skullvayne manse! Like it better than the 'eavy metal one

Robbietobbie wrote:nice work! really good job on the monolith eventhough i'm not a big fan of the colourscheme (still really well executed though). And impressive skullvayne manse! Like it better than the 'eavy metal one

Thanks very much bud, here's some mildly better pics complete with decals just in case that'll improve the scheme

That actually does make it look better, but still I'm not convinced. Just seems to bright for necrons (that's just my taste though, you did a good job on the painting).
Can't believe I only just noticed you shortened the flux arcs

Awesome lith. Did you do your drybrushing technique for the edge highlights?

Lt. Coldfire wrote:Awesome lith. Did you do your drybrushing technique for the edge highlights?

Cheers Lt. Yeah I did, but I then went back in and did a couple of *very* careful badab black washes in the cracks to re-define things

It's not quite that bright in r/l, and it's more weathered, but the only way I could find to get it to actually look mildly turquoise was to put it against a blue background; I'll try it with a grey/black one tomorrow if these stormclouds clear.

Byron

Great job!
Bravo!

octavus wrote:Great job!
Bravo!

Tah bud

I took a lot of shots of Ogres today, I'm still cobbling together unit pictures, but here's a load to give you an idea of what the army looks like, the movement trays definitely add something and keep stuff looking a little bit more tidy I think.

Link to army shot, because it's wiiiide! : http://i433.photobucket.com/albums/qq59/I-hatephotobucket/Warhammer%20Portfolio/ary-1.jpg

Congratulations again! Somebody at GW likes you

Damn Byron, that's an epic army there.
If I had to complain, I think that the beard on the last guy is a little too unnaturally white IMO. He gives Gandalf the White a run for his money.

How do you pick out all those super fine details on things like that pouch on the last guy? Is it more drybrushing or are you actually laying down 100 brush strokes on something as small as that pouch there?

Robbietobbie wrote:Congratulations again! Somebody at GW likes you

Cheers Robbie, you saw before I did, I might have missed it as well, thanks very much!

Lt. Coldfire wrote:Damn Byron, that's an epic army there.
If I had to complain, I think that the beard on the last guy is a little too unnaturally white IMO. He gives Gandalf the White a run for his money.

How do you pick out all those super fine details on things like that pouch on the last guy? Is it more drybrushing or are you actually laying down 100 brush strokes on something as small as that pouch there?

Lotsandlots of brush strokes


Right, I could really do with some thoughts on the below problem chaps, hit me up with your yays/nays!

I've painted up a unit of Necron Warriors, they're all done, then I got to putting in the rods and a not sure if they work, please give me your opinion, the other option is to shade them like the piping at the front, but I'm worried that it may be too uch of the same thing (I can't test as I don't have any spare rods!).

Apologies for the desperate plea, but I need to take pictures toorrow orning to put in the auction on ebay.

Here's the pictures with/without:



Come to my rescue internet warriors!

Byron

Awesome work there man.

It works to me - BUT, since you seem to have an AB handy, why not just ab them a nice neon green and fade to white in the middle? It works now, but, that would be another level I think...

MajorTom11 wrote:It works to me - BUT, since you seem to have an AB handy, why not just ab them a nice neon green and fade to white in the middle? It works now, but, that would be another level I think...

That's exactly what I was thinking bud, however it's been pointed out that as they're going on eBay people may want the 'classic' rods to go with their current armies if they're adding to an existing collection. I'm still completely torn.

Any other opinions chaps?

Byron

AB some plastic rod and provide both options?

Arakasi wrote:AB some plastic rod and provide both options?

I don't have any and I've already listed the auction :{

I've put up this picture, and stated I can paint the rods if the buyer wishes, hopefully that'll keep any prospective bidders happy:




And secondly a few more views of the manse, again there's more pics in my photobucket, I don't want to spam the thread too much!



A real hotchpotch of stuff is going to be forthcoming in the next few weeks, I'm trying to make space in my drawers

As usual, you make me want to throw away my brushes in despair. Great work.

In your defence, your ebay necrons will probably absolutely wreck almost anyone else's painting, so who cares, rods or not, they make most other crons look like gak so why not go full hog lol

Norn King wrote:As usual, you make me want to throw away my brushes in despair. Great work.

:| that's not why I spend all of this time squinting and carefully painting but-cheeks on 32mm high soldiers! Thanks though bud, as ever if you want to know how I've done anything just shout out.

MajorTom11 wrote:In your defence, your ebay necrons will probably absolutely wreck almost anyone else's painting, so who cares, rods or not, they make most other crons look like gak so why not go full hog lol

Thanks so much mate, very nice of you to say!

Right, a big update for you chaps and chapesses, this is straight up copied and pasted from another forum, apologies for mass producing it, but I'm not re-wording something this long!

Hello internet, as I've got a little break from commission work I'm making an effort to clear out some of the stuff that's accumulated due to hardcore hoarding over the past year or so, those bargains I couldn't resist on eBay, or (more commonly) those half-baked ideas that only got to the buying a battalion box from Maelstrom in a sale stage.

The first of these projects is a Daemon Army that I've had for a bit, I thought I'd log my progress here a) So that it my be of some help to other people
b) An an insentive (please feel free to bully me) to actually finish this project.
c) I'm looking to improve the quality of my stuff, also I'll probably be selling this so it's a bit of a shameless self-plug ops:

Firstly here's the rules I've set myself:

1 I am not doing it 7 days on the trot (as I've got some stuff yet to arrive in the post, and I'm away on the weekend), plus mainly I just don't think I could hack it, also it's not all assembled yet.
2 1 unit - 1 day, no longer apart from finishing touches, both to keep it fast, and because starting and finishing something in one day is good for feedback loops as I'll actually see some progression.
3 The timing isn't to include assembly, as I am VERY slow at putting models together/de-seal lining them, I had to build and base 5 Bletters this morning before I started, it took me 50minutes...
4 I am aiming to at least have the units to a good tabletop standard, but nothing over the top in terms of quality/time put in, a little more on chars, but nothing special.

I went to work on the bloodletter (25of them) unit today, my aim was to attempt to keep the mood dark, even if the colours had to be a little bit brighter, pictures speak much better than words so here they are, I'll get some better ones soon hopefully, desk shots are awful, hence me having so many in an attempt to convey the colour, which failed.



2 main questions,
a) Would blood on the weapons/claws a la champion throughout the unit look OTT
b) I am planning on glossing the horns, there's a nice example of this in the army book, any reasons why I shouldn't?
and 2 more....
c) What do you think of the unit? Have I just wasted a very long day, apart from the forging of a brilliant arse-groove into my painting chair?
d) Would a tutorial be of interest to anyone? It'd be pretty wordy/long, so I thought I'd ask before I go to the effort of writing an unreadable bullet pointed list of unconventionally organised grammatical errors.

As long as it's constructive hit me with your criticisms, I don't mind if the first line is 'These are poo' as long as there's a point afterwards.

Thanks for looking,

Byron

Their skin looks too flat to me. Everything else looks good, but the skin just doesn't work for me.

a) I don't think it would be OTT
b) Sounds good to me
c) Read above.
d) Not me, never plan on painting these guys!

Might not even sound like advice, but that's about the best I can give