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Ifalna, you're "tabletop" work is so my better that my best work... it's.... depressing. But please keep up the blog, I'm learning a lot.

I did all cloth and tassels on my warriors in red, just to get alittle more colour against all the grey and gold, thought it work out pretty good

Gitsplitta wrote:Ifalna, you're "tabletop" work is so my better that my best work... it's.... depressing. But please keep up the blog, I'm learning a lot.

Thanks for pointing that out Git... I'm not the only one in the grim future of the 41st millenium...

Looking very nice Iffy! A nice goad to keep me cranking along on my WoC lads

Finished off the tabletop standard Iron warriors this morning. I find it funny that I have never painted a space marine before this year, and have spent the last few weeks working on nothing but. Curse you tiny spacemen.

They have custom bases on the way in the mail, so the black crappy ones are not what they will be on when they are mailed back to the owner. They took me no time (comparatively ><) so I am happy with how they turned out. The VII was awkward as I have no real experience at freehand, so I am adding that to the list of things I seriously need to practice with. Incoming massive photo spam D:


I really thought the one above had a fancy tongue coming out of his helmet and was considering cutting it off due to how ridiculous that seemed. Then I realised it was a hook, which is only slightly less ridiculous.


Poor Salamander


Weathering attempt 1


Weathering attempt 2


All together now

Korvydae updates will be up in a few hours, going to go grab breakfast now.
His mace, gems, and golds are finished and his armor highlights have their first layer down. He does not have much longer to go at all.

How could you do that to the poor salamander?! :( Salamanders are the only non-jerk SM's from what I've read, we need more not less!

Guess it should have been an ultra then? :(

The VII could be company markings.

Fantastic work there.

You really went allout with the stripes on that bolter and reaper, very brave. Your tabletop puts me to shame -.-

I have no idea what the VII is hehe, I'll ask him when I contact him next to solve the mystery!

Limbo, the bolter was the first one I tried stripes on. I made them way too thin. I think they need to be wider to actually be noticeable on the mini's, but doing them small first trained my hand a bit for when it came to doing the rest. Thanks for the compliment too, means a lot.

Korv is well on the way. I want to keep the golden mace looking very old and oxidised. From what I read about space marines, their weapons and armor can be centuries old, so I don't feel a sparkly golden mace would really suit very well. I may put another highlight on it, I may not, I want to finish off everything else and have a good look to decide on if it should be brighter or not in comparison to the rest of the figure as darkening it back down to how it is would be awkward.





And this is to show just how different he looks in natural light. I really can't wait for my lightbox to arrive so I can diffuse it properly, the light in all my pics at the moment is just way, way too harsh.

Lookin goood. I concur on old weapon theory. Although if you want it shiney you could say he polishes his hammer (teehee)

Coming along very nicely. I like you're comments about the gold hammer, however you might think about adding some bright highlights where the hammer would actually be striking objects, as whatever patina had developed over the centuries would be removed with the contact of battle.

Just a thought.

This is the clean vs dirty argument all over again though I think Iffy, half of the people on here will say that its centuries old and should be weathered the other half will say " but its holy wargear that is lovingly maintained by its wielder". At the end of the day which ever way you go I know it'll look fab.

btw I just love the detailing of the face, always makes me think of what a seriously p off Borg drone would look like.

He looks like a borg to me too A really angry one.

I'll leave the mace as it is for the moment, and if when the model is finished it looks too dull, I'll give it a subtle mithril/shining gold highlight to bring it up a bit more. Personally I can't really decide which makes more sense, it being dull or shiny. I am sure they take good care of ancient artifact weapons of legendary strength, but at the same time centuries of dirt and blood would be rather hard to wash out, yet alone the natural dulling of the metal.

Then again if you want to be realistic, a solid gold mace would last about 3 days of smashing into people before it was a solid gold matchstick

Hahaha, very true but then again maybe its an undiscovered metal that is only gold in colour, oh don't you just love plot holes

I run a very tight "my subscribed threads" list but just cannot unsubscribe from this thread . . . which I probably should considering that you're now making me want to get IW termies as well as an RG army. Looking very smart indeed!

Korvs face looks awesome! About the hammer, I like that it's not so shiny, matches the white more since it almost looks like a very white silver, find it kinda hard to put into words.

thats pretty damn awesome. I love the skin detail. that's the kinda skin tone I wanna go with my Legion of the damned marines. hows what next on the cards after this guy ?

Ifalna wrote:I have no idea what the VII is hehe, I'll ask him when I contact him next to solve the mystery!

Limbo, the bolter was the first one I tried stripes on. I made them way too thin. I think they need to be wider to actually be noticeable on the mini's, but doing them small first trained my hand a bit for when it came to doing the rest. Thanks for the compliment too, means a lot.

Korv is well on the way. I want to keep the golden mace looking very old and oxidised. From what I read about space marines, their weapons and armor can be centuries old, so I don't feel a sparkly golden mace would really suit very well. I may put another highlight on it, I may not, I want to finish off everything else and have a good look to decide on if it should be brighter or not in comparison to the rest of the figure as darkening it back down to how it is would be awkward.





And this is to show just how different he looks in natural light. I really can't wait for my lightbox to arrive so I can diffuse it properly, the light in all my pics at the moment is just way, way too harsh.

Thanks. I'll try that flesh tone at some point because I really like it. I'd keep the mace that colour but add some sharp highlights to the edges and scratches to the striking panel (for want of a better term).

Looking forward to seeing him completed.

Thanks again.

Peter

lovr the work you put into these guys!

Someone has good taste in tv shows (Firefly rocks!!!)

Maybe its just me but the more paint that goes on him the paler his face gets, I think its a wicked effect. As every one has said but i'll say it again , i am really loving the tips your learning as you go it should help us all get better!!

Korvydae's skin is spot on. Looks fantastic!

Thanks for the comments all!

His armor highlights are done now. I just need to emphasise the change between the armor joint and the plate as some of his metals joints are getting hard to see. I tried to get some pics but the morning light is really ruining them, his armor looks grey in it and it is completely one sided lighting, so I will get some pics up later tonight when I wake up for nightshift I am counting down the hours till my lightbox arrives. It hopefully will cut out having to deal with this crud.

Iffy,

Have you used the Army Painter primers? I know that they do a good grey but have yet to pick any up to try it out.

I have a grey.

Man, I love grey.

I am a noob in the world of primers I'm afraid. I have only ever used GW black up until very recently when I tried out white :( I have heard good things about grey though.

My new brushes and lightbox have arrived at work so I am excited about testing both out No sign of my Vallejo paints or bases for the termies yet, just have to wait.

The model is coming along nicely. I like how the skin tone been done.

I started using grey primer myself....brings out the detail as if sprayed with white, but more forgiving.

Its a neutral color and found out that you have little more control on your color tone/hue/palette than you do with black or white.

Wow, so the lightbox... made a slight improvement in photo quality.





Maybe not the black background next though, he has vanished! It came with a blue green and white one too Really happy with it for the €16 ish euro it cost! My new brushes arrived too so Im going to go slap that Skaven with them. As for Grey primer, that sounds like a really interesting choice. I'll see if there is anywhere around I could try and get some from to try it out. Always open for new things!