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Thanks very much guys, I am glad I managed to pull things off properly -

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Your theory is somewhat flawed to a degree. It doesn't account for light source intensity or material behavior. In order for the red to turn outright purple, the red areas would have to be strongly diffuse (absorb light, not reflect). In addition to diffuse, subsurface characteristics would also come into play. Taking that into account, the light, as in your example would need to be primarily ambient and soft.

As the red of the armor would assumedly be laquered enamel, it would have a strong specular characteristic, in other words, a propensity to reflect light as opposed to absorb. This, in combination with an assumed degree of low reflectivity would mean the armor, despite it's color, would contribute a fairly low degree of red wavelength against a strong lightsource, the end effect would be to desaturate the red as opposed to presenting an equal chroma tone of purple.

On the model, the areas are toned down to a burgundy type color, and the blue does indeed sit over it, but being semi-translucent, there is some minor (and appropriate) purpling happening believe it or not.

But overall light will not have the same effect as mixing colors on a pallete, it is more about the balancing of diffuse, specular, reflectivity and light source intensity which is really more of a positive/negative contribution model as opposed to a purely additive one.

Sorry to get so specific, I deal with light behaviour every day in 3D animations etc at my studio, it is a pretty exhaustive field and quite counter intuitive in some areas.

Hope that makes sense!

Makes perfect sense to me, thanks for explaining

No problem! Glad it made sense, it took me a while to make heads or tails of it lol...

So, now all that is left to do is figure out how to pack this stuff.... lol

That gold on the contemptor is so full of detail.

I dont know anything about OSL but I know that Contemptor is freakin sweet!

I hear on the grapevine that there might have been an award for you at Adepticon? The Vehicles winners page on CMoN is broken, so I can't tell for sure, but your Contemptor was certainly the nicest in that category

He won 2nd in the vehicle category.

Yup, 2nd nicest, but I'll take it!

That contemptor is a beast; bloody lovely. I like the dread too - can't wait to see it hanging off the back of an SR - but 2 things jump out at me: the osl on the green lights on the left shoulder looks a little overdone IMO, and that transfer really grates against the sheer beauty of the rest of the fig. But, hey, it's still on a whole other planet to anything I could pull off

IMGI, dreadie was done in a day, so not up to the usual

Could use some chipping on the badge to break it up though you are right it is a bit harsh...

Thanks!

MajorTom11 wrote:IMGI, dreadie was done in a day, so not up to the usual

Could use some chipping on the badge to break it up though you are right it is a bit harsh...

Thanks!

Dread was done in a day?! You suck... I paint for a day and I get more on me than on the model :(

But serious, congrats Tom, you definitely earned the award you won, if not the award just out of reach. You know this means next year you have to do better

After meeting Mat Fontaine, Chris Borer and Dave Taylor, not to mention seeing the Eurostars' work...ya... I am proud of my level of work thus far but to really compete at that level I need to spend a great deal more time and effort on my stuff. These guys don't tolerate any imperfections in their work, even if it means scrapping and starting over.

Seeing Chris's work irl was nuts, his precision is beyond reproach, I will forever more refer to him as Chris '1200 dpi' Borer. Mat's work... His color depth and lighting are stunning... He is by far the bet north American painter IMHO. The Europeans were superhuman.

Also got to meet our very own Navarro too, who won gold for sculpting...awesome guy, and I always thought he was a great sculptor, but I only saw his nids. Turns out he was holding out on us, his new stuff, professionally and personally, is literally world class pro.

MajorTom11 wrote:After meeting Mat Fontaine, Chris Borer and Dave Taylor, not to mention seeing the Eurostars' work...ya... I am proud of my level of work thus far but to really compete at that level I need to spend a great deal more time and effort on my stuff. These guys don't tolerate any imperfections in their work, even if it means scrapping and starting over.

Seeing Chris's work irl was nuts, his precision is beyond reproach, I will forever more refer to him as Chris '1200 dpi' Borer. Mat's work... His color depth and lighting are stunning... He is by far the bet north American painter IMHO. The Europeans were superhuman.

Also got to meet our very own Navarro too, who won gold for sculpting...awesome guy, and I always thought he was a great sculptor, but I only saw his nids. Turns out he was holding out on us, his new stuff, professionally and personally, is literally world class pro.

that sounds really cool. I wish I could see some if their work in person

^ Wow tom, sounds like you had a great time, hopefully i can get to some nice conventions this time around

Congrats Tom. Got pics of you getting your nerd on?

MajorTom11 wrote:After meeting Mat Fontaine, Chris Borer and Dave Taylor, not to mention seeing the Eurostars' work...ya... I am proud of my level of work thus far but to really compete at that level I need to spend a great deal more time and effort on my stuff. These guys don't tolerate any imperfections in their work, even if it means scrapping and starting over.

Seeing Chris's work irl was nuts, his precision is beyond reproach, I will forever more refer to him as Chris '1200 dpi' Borer. Mat's work... His color depth and lighting are stunning... He is by far the bet north American painter IMHO. The Europeans were superhuman.

Also got to meet our very own Navarro too, who won gold for sculpting...awesome guy, and I always thought he was a great sculptor, but I only saw his nids. Turns out he was holding out on us, his new stuff, professionally and personally, is literally world class pro.

I can't speak to much of what Tom wrote, other than to say that his work is even better in person!

However, I am 100% in agreement with his comments on Navarro's work - it is unbelievably incredible to behold!

And since he hasn't mentioned who else he works for, I suppose I won't either - but it is for a company you'd recognize, and it is quite awesome!

It was nice to meet a bunch of people from Dakka in Real Life at Adepticon, and one of the highlights was meeting Major Tom - he really is a nice guy, believe it or not!

Been a while boys

I have not had a ton of time for hobbying lately, most of the time has been spent building marines for the BA... focusing on PH builds atm.

I also had a private lesson with my now friend Matt Fontaine, a great guy, great painter and most importantly great teacher... We worked on a model I have since been picking at when I can, something out of the ordinary for me in many ways, something that will hopefully be finished up soon! It has to pass Matt's 'Does it and therefore you suck' test first though lol.

So, I have decided to cut back the BA project quite a bit. I just went absolutely bonkers buying stuff and really, it gets to the point where it is more discouraging to look at the pile. As such, I will be making an effort to cut down a great deal of the army I collected to leave myself a solid selection of models in game terms (prob around 3-4k worth of stuff to let me have options for list building) and not keeping 5 land raiders and 15 other tanks and 11 dreads... just not necessary LOL.

The plan is to finish building everything I will keep, and then go on a heavy airbrushing spree and get most of the basecoats and as much progress on the foundations done on everything. From there, I will pick at one squad at a time, 5 - 10 models. Need to get myself into manageable blocks... will still be doing a higher end job on these, but I am not going to kill myself trying for max skill on everything.

When everything is build, expect a ridiculous amount of stuff on swapshop or ebay after that lol!

This brings me to the second part of my 'announcement', I have decided to start a Necron army too, I will be designing a very quick, good looking but simple paint scheme for them and will be looking to belt through them pretty quick. Yakface finally gave me my first game of 40k and I like the idea of building something I could maybe bring to adepticon next year or actually play with anytime soon. In the end, I will have 2 armies, Necrons and BA, bro-fists all over the place . Same deal here, I will build several units and then start conveyor belting them.

So I will jump back and forth in between BA and Necrons, working on a unit each for the foreseeable future... I wish I could say I was confident progress would be quick lol!

Of course, in between all these things, I will occasionally work on show-piece models as well, stuff dedicated to just being a display model, like the contemptor was... plinths, diorama etc type stuff.

So, not to just come in here and blab on, I also decided to get the airbrushes out as it has been a while and do some practicing... here is the results of 4 hours, priming to sealing (GS's the screw holes and eye lenses etc was done previously, took about 40 mins) I quite like the result given the time!



Cheers boys!

Like it, and very different take to Gitsplitta's - more skull, less servo. The eyepiece is particularly groovy.

Hey! It's nice to have you back. The servoskull is cool, and the promise of necrons is cooler.

I'll be around

Great to see you back Tom. I'm sure I'll be jumping at some of the stuff you end up selling. Any idea on scheme for the crons? I will check out the skull when I get home, remote desktop is not flattering to paint jobs.

Not decided yet, a bit torn between the classic scheme or doing something different with blues/turquoise and golds and tin... or ceramic look... really not sure. Will have a look around the net for inspiration and also have to make an assessment on what will be a simple, effective scheme.

Nice job MajorTom, I am definatly excited to see some more of your BA, and your new Necrons!

Hmm well look who crawled out from under the rock... I see a US flag next to your post...what happened???

Skull looks good, I had a similar idea when I saw it but never went to the hobby shop on release day so didn't get one. My OCD says you should have spend more time getting rid of that mold line down the centre...but a very nice paintjob regardless. I see some oil work in there? Any plans to use that thing when you actually play the game?

Also, do take some pics of your current plastic army, I want to see the plastic you've amassed to gauge if I need to add to my stockpile

Good to see you still about Tom, its been too long!

Getting chummy with matt fontaine, we are moving up in the world! Pretty soon you'll be scooping demons by the handful too.

Very excited to see more from you.

So very subbed ^_^

awesome work and I shall look forward to seeing what else is in the pipeline too!!!

That...is impressive!

I've never been a fan of that tape, but it never occurred to me to paint it. Brilliant idea!

Inspiring as always Tom.

Shawn G.

Oh wow that looks really great, I'd be worried about using it being painted so well.

GiraffeX wrote:Oh wow that looks really great, I'd be worried about using it being painted so well.

If it's varnished well enough it shouldn't be a problem, unless he launches it across the room that is

Excellent paint job on the skull, now where is the painted tape

Kroothawk wrote:Excellent paint job on the skull, now where is the painted tape

Now that's just evil Kroothawk. Evil aside, he does pose a fair question Tom...

Shawn