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Very cool plants Vik, a whole board would be killer (you'd be dead like you said) , and we don want that. I love the fact the hug for the hug god mantis warrior is going to show some love to the berserker .

 n0t_u wrote:
I'd have started with white to make those glow, but either way works fine. You got a good green to contrast nicely with it already.

Oh yeah, that's a good point. The white is at the middle in the picture.

Start nearer the stem and work outwards is the easiest thing to avoid splodges on the already painted bits.

Glad to help Vik. I'm far from the expert on such things. We all learn from each other on here.

Did I miss it? What is it then if not an aquarium plant?

For a good glow- the trick is to have lowlights as well as highlights- you'll have some places shading into very tiny slivers of white, but you'll also have some places shading into specks of almost black.

Glowy shroom trees!

 dsteingass wrote:
Did I miss it? What is it then if not an aquarium plant?

He said a few pages back they are dried plants he found in a shop. Some type of shroom. I'm sure the aquarium ones are probably just replicas of the real things.

thought they were built from plasticard and cardboard

I also think that you should paint white closest to the mid and paint darker the further out you get. you could also try layering like the way you paint lenses. it takes a hell lot of time but it works

Looking awesome. Love the marine.

And my 2 pence worth.....Deep purple to start, or possibly very deep blue through to purple, then through pinks to white. I am by no means an expert. Some of the best work I have seen for that would be Arakasi. His shading work is truly amazing.

Love the shrooms, btw.

Yep lots of shading for those trees

Oh vik. Sweet, just make sure if you want a good glow effect you build up to a solid white somewhere no matter how thin.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
i am by far struck only feel the guilt of having done a bad job, so no offence taken here^^


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So i went on with the painting with "dun it duncan"...
now i went for a more darker scheme alltogether and made a few needed touchups of red with mecharite red instead of blood red...this gives the whole mini another mood altogether...
also i did the capace and helmet firstly black and then steely and then again went over the steely bits with flesh wash to create a somewhat brassy effect...
hope it shows now...
also i washed the trousers with ogryn fleshwash and the white face too... so the trousers then received a rather heavy drybrush of undiluted white and where washed alter with fogryn wash again...also i couldn´t help but did the base too as i saw i reached quite a good level with the mini real soon...well there will be some work still on the mini but in concerns for the overall paintscheme i think i was kind of satisfied for now...
do you mind? do you think its not suitable? then tell me^^ as i would gladly do another testing before i go into large massproduction^^

the base of course will get a bit of a wash too and thus a bit of grittier look then...


vik

ah almost forgott the pics....silly ole me^^




cheers mates

You just can't paint a Cadian red and brass and call it steam punk

Conversions, especially steam punk conversions have need a lot more effort then that; I can just paint a cadian with blacks and blues and call it an ODST

Bosobo, it is not the included Cadians, he has other minis and has made tanks and mecha for his army that look to be steam powered. That cadian is merely another "redcoat" of the Viktorian Guard.

Actually.. i never seen a army shot from Vik! that would be something worth doing.

You mean Vik assembling the regiments or parade ground drill? yeah that would be cool

Yeah Vik!

Go on Vik, you know you want to.

Make it a family affair, enlist the kids in rounding up the troops. I'm sure your ice is good at getting herds of little ones in line as well .

 dsteingass wrote:
Yeah Vik!

exactly...

and... we don´t feed them, eh? you know who?

today no pics... but i painted... the base, the ground got yet another drybrush in blue...a bit brighter now...theni realized i overdid the drybrushing a bit and i coverd the blue ground with asurmen blue... which now looks rather decent to work further from...

also the MW got some serious work done... hard to descripe... but i started with details... i´ll stick to the leafy look for him...and i will add some yellow and red spot colors here and there... but in essence he will be green... different hues of green but he will look like a walking leaf...

and khorny got some metal work done... atm i am a bit unsure of this mini... he is kinda the weak spot...(well obviously as he is the victim to be^^) from an artistic point of view...

and i think i will wait a bit till you all have settled as to how to work with the plants^^

and dave... i got a big twig like thing in an artshop... it was completly white... and dry... costed me just one €... rather cheap for such a good looking item!...and the moment i saw that thing i knew i would want to use it fot this project!!!...


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an army shot... mates... we are so far away from an actual army shot ... million miles away^^

soo by the way in our summer holidays i wanted to review the issue of the STEAMPUNK AIRSHIP (only caps for those of little faith ) with my sons help...^^

then you sir need discipline! *cracks whip* discipline!

LOL... you reapeat yourself from thread to thread

well i guess some folks need discipline...and be fruitful with their hobby adventures...

well...a bit of discipline never hurt...

thats not punny

yes...cos it is funny

Oh oh, Vik is trying to do stand up

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/530146.page
Kickstarter for steam punk figs Vik

Nice troops for Vik, they even had redcoats as it were.

Viktor von Domm wrote:soo by the way in our summer holidays i wanted to review the issue of the STEAMPUNK AIRSHIP (only caps for those of little faith ) with my sons help...^^

*pinches arm* did... did that just happen? Is it returning? *faints*

oh yeah... I am already subscribed to meridian miniatures thread here... good looking stuff and no mistake... but there minis are all rather historical scale than heroic scale... one would need to build a whole army from these to hush up any scale issues...

and yep... airship build mate... your dreams will be come true ... my head atm is full on ideas to how to get this floating again^^

also... update on some mantis warrior related stuff...I think the pics will speak up for themselves...here they come

here is the mantis warrior...spotlight on his shoulderpads:



khorny adversary :




and the base...



and this is the current look:



still all very WIP...the base needs lots of more coats of course..


cheers, vik