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a: blood for the blood god!
b: guess you can try
c: I personally think the bloodletters could use some more colours, some brighter reds as the models seem a bit 'dull' though they're really well painted!
not sure what to make of the green hellswords though hehe

Do you mind to describe how you have done the OSL on the necron warriors. It seems effective but yet not too hard to achieve.

Lt. Coldfire wrote: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

That's spot on as ever bud, cheers!

Consider it noted, when I get to the khorne chars I'll try and add some depth, I'll also get some pictures of these chaps against a black background or something and see if that helps everything out.

Requiem wrote:a: blood for the blood god!
b: guess you can try
c: I personally think the bloodletters could use some more colours, some brighter reds as the models seem a bit 'dull' though they're really well painted!
not sure what to make of the green hellswords though hehe

Cheers mate, this is all gold in terms of helping me improve, I went for green as it's a nice contrast, and I thought I needed soe other colours in there, the other option was doing them firey, but I thought that might be a bit too samey, what do you think? If these guys sell well there may be another batch of them to do in the future, who knows!

Hive2003 wrote:Do you mind to describe how you have done the OSL on the necron warriors. It seems effective but yet not too hard to achieve.

Sure bud, I go over it a bit in page 4, but if you want more specifics just let me know and I'll sort out a step by step.

Byron

Byronic wrote:

Hive2003 wrote:Do you mind to describe how you have done the OSL on the necron warriors. It seems effective but yet not too hard to achieve.

Sure bud, I go over it a bit in page 4, but if you want more specifics just let me know and I'll sort out a step by step.

Byron

Call me blind, but I couldnt find how you have done the OsL on your necs step by step...:(

It's the same method as I used for the tubing roughly bud.

Base the area in dheneb stone/skull white (the only true way to get things nice and bright), I used the airbrush and brush for the following steps, but you can just as easily (and more neatly, although more tie consuming) do it with just a brush and glazes, either way I water down the paint with thinner rather than water, and add a drop of vallejo glaze medium.

Start nearly at the brightest and work to dark, leaving the area that you will put your final brightest highlight on bare and white.

Step one: Scorpion Green + Sunburst yellow 50.50

Step two: shade down with SG + Dark Angels Green 50.50

Step three : 25.75 SGAG

Step four: DAG

Step five: DAG + Chaos Black 75:25

Final Step: Go back to your highlight area (which is hopefully still white at the very tip) and add Skull white to step one mix.

With the warriors glow I did a quicker version of this, going from mid tone to highlight, so step two to one to final step from above, then on the tubing I darkened the ends of the tubes with step four and five.

I hope that helps, if anything needs clarification just let me know.

Byron

Auction is ending on sunday by the way guys, get bidding so I can buy myself yet more models that I'll never find tie to paint for christmas....

I say without any exagerration, that's some of the best chaos-oriented painting I've ever seen. Your colors are frankly mind-boggling. They look so good I think I'd have trouble playing with them if they were mine.

Do you take commissions by chance? I'm building up a IG army but sadly don't have enough time to paint the entire thing myself. Its going to require some conversion work also which I'm planning to do. Am looking for field a Tallarn-themed IG army. but I'm definitely going to let someone with more painting skills than I tackle Al'Rahem. Send me a msg if you're interested in possible commission work. Cheers mate.

Regards,
Ignatius J R

dmcs414 wrote:I say without any exagerration, that's some of the best chaos-oriented painting I've ever seen. Your colors are frankly mind-boggling. They look so good I think I'd have trouble playing with them if they were mine.

Do you take commissions by chance? I'm building up a IG army but sadly don't have enough time to paint the entire thing myself. Its going to require some conversion work also which I'm planning to do. Am looking for field a Tallarn-themed IG army. but I'm definitely going to let someone with more painting skills than I tackle Al'Rahem. Send me a msg if you're interested in possible commission work. Cheers mate.

Regards,
Ignatius J R

Thanks very much bud! I've sent you a PM, and here's some more pictures just for your kind comments , also asome of what'll be getting the treatment next:









(not sure why the matrix entered their movement tray.....)


Thoughts on the unit filler/herald on the front right? I realise the filler's a bit generic, but if any devotee of chaos is going to find time for a cuddle whilst marching to war it's these gals.

nice! can´t wait to see how you paint your pink horrors and daemonettes considering your average models they'll be awesome and i'll be begging for your recipe hehe
the crusher is cool! i found it hard to come up with a somewhat unique way to paint them but am happy with my result (you can see pics in my gallery if you want )

Requiem wrote:nice! can´t wait to see how you paint your pink horrors and daemonettes considering your average models they'll be awesome and i'll be begging for your recipe hehe
the crusher is cool! i found it hard to come up with a somewhat unique way to paint them but am happy with my result (you can see pics in my gallery if you want )

He looks great bud, has he got a coat of varnish on him? I think the slightly satin finish works really nicely on daemons, fits with their 'other world-ness'

Byronic wrote:He looks great bud, has he got a coat of varnish on him? I think the slightly satin finish works really nicely on daemons, fits with their 'other world-ness'

Thanks! Nope at that point it didn't have a varnish on, but it does now! bit shiny now, so probably gonna use some matt varnish from vallejo on it to dull down the shine, works like a charm!

now get painting!

I have been painting bud don't worry!

I've broken my one unit 1 day rule though; I used heavy glazes on the pink horrors and flamers today and vallejo glaze edium takes a long time to dry if you use a lot, so I'll be completing both units on day three, I'll get some pictures then.

Byron

Byronic wrote:It's the same method as I used for the tubing roughly bud.

Base the area in dheneb stone/skull white (the only true way to get things nice and bright), I used the airbrush and brush for the following steps, but you can just as easily (and more neatly, although more tie consuming) do it with just a brush and glazes, either way I water down the paint with thinner rather than water, and add a drop of vallejo glaze medium.

Start nearly at the brightest and work to dark, leaving the area that you will put your final brightest highlight on bare and white.

Step one: Scorpion Green + Sunburst yellow 50.50

Step two: shade down with SG + Dark Angels Green 50.50

Step three : 25.75 SGAG

Step four: DAG

Step five: DAG + Chaos Black 75:25

Final Step: Go back to your highlight area (which is hopefully still white at the very tip) and add Skull white to step one mix.

With the warriors glow I did a quicker version of this, going from mid tone to highlight, so step two to one to final step from above, then on the tubing I darkened the ends of the tubes with step four and five.

I hope that helps, if anything needs clarification just let me know.

Byron

Great thx! Trying it out right now.

And you really used Devlan Mud on your warriors?? Doesnt look like....

Byronic wrote:I used heavy glazes on the pink horrors and flamers today and vallejo glaze edium takes a long time to dry if you use a lot

Would a hair dryer speed things up?

What kind of self-respecting man has a hair dryer lying around? Get outta here.

Lt. Coldfire wrote:What kind of self-respecting man has a hair dryer lying around? Get outta here.

Those who have a girlfriend!

In that case, what kind of self-respecting man has a girlfriend!

Hive2003 wrote:

Great thx! Trying it out right now.

And you really used Devlan Mud on your warriors?? Doesnt look like....

Yeah bud, warriors in the ark I used devlan mud mixed with vallejo glaze medium (magic stuff)

Warriors in the pic with scarab swarms I used 2 or3 parts asurmian blue 1 part devlan mud and 1 part glaze medium.

Arakasi wrote:Would a hair dryer speed things up?

I'm not sure bud, I think the heat may proote 'tidal marks' when it dries, not entirely sure though.

Lt. Coldfire wrote:What kind of self-respecting man has a hair dryer lying around? Get outta here.

Haha, I've got less than 2cm of hair on my head now, but considering the length it used to be...

Hive2003 wrote:

Lt. Coldfire wrote:What kind of self-respecting man has a hair dryer lying around? Get outta here.

Those who have a girlfriend!

Lt. Coldfire wrote:In that case, what kind of self-respecting man has a girlfriend!

Haha, maybe spending the amount of time I do paintign 32mm high toy soldiers a girlfriend would sort me out a little!

Ummm... You know you can blow cool air through a hairdryer right?

Not all hairdryers can, I know mine can't

sick dragons dude

You're incredibly prolific. Keep up the good works.

I'd like to ignore the hair-dryer semantics above I can't resist though, needless to say despite having a shaved head and being technophobic I am capable of working one (I think :s), I'll errata my above statement to "unnatural acceleration of the drying process" ^_^

Joske De Veteraan wrote:sick dragons dude

Cheers bud!

aosol wrote:You're incredibly prolific. Keep up the good works.

Haha, thanks, I like to keep busy ^_^

I hope you've all had a good Christmas!

I've decided to make the most of the small holiday break by speed painting (by my standards at least) an Ogre army, I've wanted to do one for a while given how much I enjoyed painting one for someone over the past few months.

I'm doing this ary pretty much entirely going on how much I like the models, so the build's going to be far from 'optimised', basically I'm going for the lowest model count and the largest aount of big furry beasties possible!

Basically My list comprises of:
2 Thundertusk
2x4 Mournfang (fluffy I know)
2 x9 Bulls
LvL4
LvL2 - (firebelly or beasts user)
BSB

I'm going to be assembling and painting all Ogres except the characters as one lot, I'm trying to push my painting by a) Painting them fast and b) Painting them differently from my usual style, I'm going for bright warm colours (except for trousers) and fairly obvious highlights. Concerning the relative speed I' cutting every corner I can in order to try and get them out quickly.



These are my 2 testers, please let me know what you think, I'm particularly curious as to whether you think the gut plates work, and whether black or brown base-rims would look best. Also what corners you think I've obviously cut. All criticism is very valuable though, as in a couple of days once it's all assembled I'll be doing all 26 Ogres, and once I've started there's no going back!



Apologies for my faulty M key and crappy pics!

Byron

I think they look good! Not so keen on the bellyplates though, I think it's the red that isn't working for me

Robbietobbie wrote:I think they look good! Not so keen on the bellyplates though, I think it's the red that isn't working for me

A few people have said this; what do you think of it now it's weathered up Robbie?

Here's a couple of pics of the guys tattoo'd, bloodied and weathered up, also one of them with a mountain sybol on his gut plate. I definitely want to weather their plates, but I'm not particularly pleased with how they came out, any thoughts or suggestions here would be great.

I'm pretty much decided on the scheme, I'm trying to go for using split complementary colours, with the main being the blue/green of their trousers, and then reds and oranges (gut plates, blood/rust, bases respectively) for the complementary's, I've not done this type of thing before, so it's a bit of a leap into the unknown.

I might give the the same tattoo on the other biceps, but I love the musculature of their arms, and it seems almost a shame to cover it up/a waste of one of the easier and ore obvious areas to highlight.

All thoughts welcome, I'm now going to spend a few days taking off seal lines and doing some construction, it's only the details that I've got left to decide.



Basically:
What do you think?
Is the blood too much?
Tattoos O.K?
Any ideas on the weathering?
Where on earth are all of my 40mm bases?

Byron

Such amazing details. I could never do as good as this! Great job.

Don't listen to them Byron! They look great
too much blood, too much blood... is that even possible?

I think this paint scheme is really cool, and unique as far as I can recall. The red on the belly plates at first appeared very nice on it's own, but then seemed to class a bit with the red of the very nicely gored hands. However, once you stared darkening this red on the belly plates and weathering them, I think all the elements came together and blended nicely (perhaps the lighting in the earlier pics was just brighter?).

The black tattoos are a really nice touch as well, and do not detract or clash with what you have already done. I would lastly note, I really like the pants. Good work. Cheers.

They're great. *queue Tony the Tiger*

Ogryn wrote:Such amazing details. I could never do as good as this! Great job.

Thanks very much, glad you like them!

Requiem wrote:Don't listen to them Byron! They look great
too much blood, too much blood... is that even possible?

Apparently so, I find it hard to knowwhen to stop sometimes

Astroman wrote:I think this paint scheme is really cool, and unique as far as I can recall. The red on the belly plates at first appeared very nice on it's own, but then seemed to class a bit with the red of the very nicely gored hands. However, once you stared darkening this red on the belly plates and weathering them, I think all the elements came together and blended nicely (perhaps the lighting in the earlier pics was just brighter?).

The black tattoos are a really nice touch as well, and do not detract or clash with what you have already done. I would lastly note, I really like the pants. Good work. Cheers.

Thanks very much for the feedback Astroman, I'd hoped the weathering would sort the out somewhat; however I think I ay try using some pigments or something on them when I embark on the epic session or 5 when I paint the lot, luckily the gut-plates go on last.

Lt. Coldfire wrote:They're great. *queue Tony the Tiger*

Cheers Lt.

I'm still assebling guys (and painting daemons...) so no more exciting updates for a while.

I hate seal lines.....

Just a quickie chaps, did this guy yesterday for eBay:



Any thoughts?