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Last kroot ranger!









What say you?!

can someone say x-ray-vision? ladies get your knees together...

well i guess there is no need to turn on the light switch with him around?^^

looks cool

Viktor von Domm wrote:can someone say x-ray-vision? ladies get your knees together...

well i guess there is no need to turn on the light switch with him around?^^

looks cool

hmm i wonder what kroot women look like.

Ive now primed all the kroot no pictures of that, not exciting anyways

i have made some counter images for my psychic powers. Guide, Fortune and Doom. Ill let you guess which is which.



probably end up being 3cm to 6cm squares.

probably get something done tomorrow, well today seeing as its 1am.

as i´ve never played a game before...what are these counters for?
they look nice and cool and your back with mayan or aztech icons.
well as for female kroot, look at eatattau.com they might have something like that^^...

cheers mate^^

They will mark what Psychic powers i have used and on what unit.

oh kay^^

A little paint on the Kroot: WIP



going to make their skin a bit like stone with some blues greens mixed in a little bit.


Played a game today: Highlights
1750 Points Eldar vs Tyranids

Seize ground

Tervigon rolls double ones on first spawn roll
Avatar dies turn 2 after doing nothing
eldar runes shuts down Nid Psychic powers
Warp spiders mishap back into reserve
Concentrated fire from Pathfinders do 5 wounds in one turn on a big nid (tyrannofex maybe)
Warp spiders come in behind the enemy lines survive and contest their objective

Glorious Eldar victory!

congrats!

it´s about time hte eladr pirates claim victory!
the kroot looks good, this will effect the skin ? when different basecoats are done then you will get instant blending? cool thought... something do try...

A tiny conversion:







Pirates just do what they please i guess.

is it just me or does the eldar on that weapon platform is a bit bigger than the others?

all in all very nicely done, good blending, and a fiery touch to the squad.
are the bases completed i cant really say so with this pic. also i have to say you should adjust your camera to artificial light scource to get a not so red and warm light effect on your models...^^

crimsonmicc wrote:

From left to right: Guide, Doom, Fortune
First guy looks focused like guided meditation.
Second one looks like it is shooting doomed snakes out of his doomed head toward his doomed enemies.
Third looks like he is happy to have just been given a fortune in gifts.

Am I close?

I also want to say: the small detailed and razor thin fine lines of the runes on their guardian's armor is AWESOME TO THE MAX! Fantastic brush control

Psyker_9er wrote:

crimsonmicc wrote:

From left to right: Guide, Doom, Fortune
First guy looks focused like guided meditation.
Second one looks like it is shooting doomed snakes out of his doomed head toward his doomed enemies.
Third looks like he is happy to have just been given a fortune in gifts.

Am I close?

I also want to say: the small detailed and razor thin fine lines of the runes on their guardian's armor is AWESOME TO THE MAX! Fantastic brush control

Nope not even close, all very well reasoned though .


The first is fortune the the icons are kinda stylized shamrocks.

The second is guide its a telescope that the lizard guy is peering through. The snakes are just to emphasize the power and fill a little space.

The third is doom its a skeleton and it holding a nut thing, which is like the mayan icon for the number zero. Because doomed squads will probably be gone at the end of the phase.


Its interesting to see a different interpretation of what i intended. I mostly use them to reminded myself that i used the powers, have the terrible habit of forgetting the rules that benefit me, like using my psychic powers will running two psychers .

Thanks for the compliment, i think that most of the free handing coolness is from having a tiny brush (theres a picture a couple pages back).

Long time no post!

A WIP Kroot and Finished kroot. First the WIP:





And da finished one:







Whether the other 12 get this level of detail is up in the air, all thats really important to me is the white face paint stuff.

Some advice. First off, painting, you need to water down your paints. not alot, just enough that you lose that "chunky" consistency that can cause you to lose detail in recessed areas on the model. additionally and most importantly TAKE YOUR TIME. Seriously, maybe you have a tournament to attend tomorrow, or all your friends are are coming over for a game and brining their shiny fully painted armies and you don't want to feel left out. don't let it bother you, slow the down and work on a model until you are happy/proud of rather than merely satisfied with it.

a sloppy paint job particularly on neigh unstrippable plastic models will bug you when your painting skills improve.

as for your conversions, keep this in mind, the best conversions are those that are not immediately recognizable as such. the best case scenario with a conversion, particularly for infantry is to have someone come examine your models after a game and remark "wow i didnt know GW made one of these" to which you respond with a sly chuckle "they don't".

the kroot looks very good. really like the white face. looks like the white hand of the LOTR orcs. one minor crtizism. i think he definitly needs some washes. he looks too flat. although i know he got some cool msucles i cant really see them. some devlan mud or even badablack would greatly help. as for the critizism of your conversions, some people clearly haven´t followed the thread so the argue with standard arguments. these don´t aply here, you try to achieve new perspectives. doing it the oldfashoned way wont help.
whenever someone tries to think out of the box this will happen. don´t let it get to you. your doing great!

and: nice to have you back on the board!

cheers mate, vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:the kroot looks very good. really like the white face. looks like the white hand of the LOTR orcs. one minor crtizism. i think he definitly needs some washes. he looks too flat. although i know he got some cool msucles i cant really see them. some devlan mud or even badablack would greatly help. as for the critizism of your conversions, some people clearly haven´t followed the thread so the argue with standard arguments. these don´t aply here, you try to achieve new perspectives. doing it the oldfashoned way wont help.
whenever someone tries to think out of the box this will happen. don´t let it get to you. your doing great!

and: nice to have you back on the board!

cheers mate, vik

Yeah it definitely does need washes and some other detailing. Overall it needs some more bold contrast. The head is pretty good with the face paint and tips, but the body got a bit too dull from the brown and green layering i did and if you believe it, the gun was originally a metallic brown (tin bits i think its called). Nothing like macro photography illustrate my oversights.

Also updates unlikely more than once a week. But ill try to get one in a week

I personally like my conversions, and they have gotten a warm reception where i play.

I personally like my conversions, and they have gotten a warm reception where i play

and that´s what counts at the end of the day...

Made a bit more progress on my kroot rangers.

Guardians are not that great. Thus some will be come dire avengers and some will become rangers. SOME already are rangers! or more accurately skin thieving, double crossing, head chopping pirates. The paint on them now is to start the base color texture.


The kroot head will be skull color.


In his left hand is the kroot's beak and face.


This guy will have a bit more sandstone like skin color. Also planning for some kroot to be blueish. But all will have a green and brown layer on top.

A nearly finished one:



Ticklish underbelly


Face markings.

Thats it for now. Feel free to tell me how harebrained my conversions are and comment on the painting on page one.

the second pic looks so shakespear! "i knew him..."

cool idea to make it look like they are not actula kroot now but rather fancy looking armor...

cheers mate, vik

interesting

Hey look an update!

Almost a full squad almost fully done.


Kroot face painting has really become my forte.



Oh NO those trixy eldar have gotten into a Tau sticker base and well... you can see the damage for yourself.

actually some of the tau writing looks like tatoos on the eldar, like the look a lot...

vik

An Update?!

Building up the base coloring on the avatar.






And for my newest edition, a wraithguard unit, a mutant spirtseer.



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2


hopefully have atleast 3 wraithguard by the end of the week, eventually would like to have 10. Possibly a wraithlord in the works.

A weary band of Dire avengers wandered in, and posed for some pictures. Hopefully a few more will come along. I think the middle guy is a Samnite.





Found another wraithguard too. Almost done. Looks like he was a dancer in a previous life.

I notice some texture on one of the early figs and on the avatar that looks like raised cross-hatching. How are you getting that? hot glue?

Kandle wrote:I notice some texture on one of the early figs and on the avatar that looks like raised cross-hatching. How are you getting that? hot glue?

It is quite literally cross hatched with an x-acto knife. Usually i do this so two smooth surfaces will take the glue better and when im pressing the pieces together they do not slide around as much. Less sliding is really helpful when custom building models with pieces that were not designed to go together.

Also glue wise i use Duco, which is more gel like than GW's plastic glue. So i dont know if this stratagy would be wise for GW's glue.



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More Dire avengers





and the standard of the wayward avengers

Wraithlord!



All three gun mountings are magnetized. Using Magnets out of sonic care toothbrushes. They are quite strong.




Looted plasma power core.


All my corsairs, all converted/scratch built. (except 2 warlocks).

nice assembly line^^

mind spilling the beans as to where you got the clock bits for your standard?
looks really got, but i am afraid it is a bit big for that skinny fella...


vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:nice assembly line^^

mind spilling the beans as to where you got the clock bits for your standard?
looks really got, but i am afraid it is a bit big for that skinny fella...


vik

I believe its from a WHFB terrain kit not totally sure though; it was part of a big bag of unlabeled bits i got. Normally eldar wouldnt be able to carry that banner but he is strength 3.5, so he is fine .

I started making a "jet bike" Autarch:




I was thinking it could either have wings like a hussar or japanese style flags:





What do you think?

could work, but to make it more eldar or just generally upgrading that mare to a jetlike proportiens i would add a horn to the head of the horse to just make it a bit better than average horse...do jetbikes are able to fly or only hoover above ground?
and jep i think those back flags would definatly work for eldars...