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That looks awesome! should fetch a nice price on ebay. I absolutely love the model, it's on my to-do list and will be for some time I guess

Very nice! What a great model, too.

Robbietobbie wrote:That looks awesome! should fetch a nice price on ebay. I absolutely love the model, it's on my to-do list and will be for some time I guess

Lt. Coldfire wrote:Very nice! What a great model, too.

Cheers chaps, the model is outstanding, it's one of the best of 2011, the only minor complaint about it is the amount of time it takes to paint the bone-bits, bit everything else about it is brilliant; assembly isn't too time consuming, because of its pose you get LOADS of opportunity for creative basing, also it ust looks incredibly evil!

A few round-basers for you 40kers out there, I'll get some good shots with eyes and base-rims done on monday, these guys were done to a fast gaming standard, so the aim was a simple but effective scheme and clean execution; the red's not photographed at all but it's got more depth than the picture shows:

Nice looking Terminators there! I know what you mean about photographing red though they still look brilliant.

Do you end up with more Fantasy than 40k commissions then? Also are you up to more Ogre painting? Or is this the end of them?

Brilliant work!
The terrorgiest was amazingly well done, you even went in to paint texturing for leather on the rear leg (only place large enough to see).

I can't wait to see the daemonettes, but I am wondering how you did that gore effect for the first Cockatrice?

The terrorgiest is looking superb.

BloodGenisis wrote: Brilliant work!
The terrorgiest was amazingly well done, you even went in to paint texturing for leather on the rear leg (only place large enough to see).

I can't wait to see the daemonettes, but I am wondering how you did that gore effect for the first Cockatrice?

It's done in a horribly fiddly way using vallejo liquid mask, and stretching it and superglueing each end, however I've been recommended using UHU glue instead

GiraffeX wrote:The terrorgiest is looking superb.

Cheers bud


The VC release continues; I'm going to be very much sick with etherealness by the end of it I should think!

Heads up to anyone thinking of getting these: they are very time consuming models, I was planning on doing a quick job, but they took me double what I was expecting them to, plus they're not that fun to put together, I like the sculpts, but in terms of assembly they're just not in line with the standard I've grown to expect from GW in the past couple of years with their plastics.

I'm still pretty pleased with how they came out:





They're up on eBay of course.

All thoughts welcome as ever!

Really nice job on the cloth parts!

Robbietobbie wrote:Really nice job on the cloth parts!

Cheers Robbie

Finished 2 of these guys late last night, just the coven throne to go now, to be frank I'm pooing myself; it's a pretty intiidating kit, especially given the difficulties I had with the smoke on the firebelly!

That's the VC initial release wave done for me, phew!

Awesome! I was hoping you were going to paint that flying chariot blood cauldron thing. Amazing work there, wow. Approved.

Wow that's some really nice work! I'd be surprised if that didnt make the blog as well (gz for your zombiedragon making it btw). The cauldron of blood really stands out from the model even though all of it is really well done!

Lt. Coldfire wrote:Awesome! I was hoping you were going to paint that flying chariot blood cauldron thing. Amazing work there, wow. Approved.

Robbietobbie wrote:Wow that's some really nice work! I'd be surprised if that didnt make the blog as well (gz for your zombiedragon making it btw). The cauldron of blood really stands out from the model even though all of it is really well done!

Cheers very much guys

The second Wight king's up on eBay, here's a pic of him:


I'm also working on a slaughtermaster which my client has decided to have leading his Ogres, it's got a fair bit of greenstuffing on it which I found difficult I must admit!

Another great job, on both models! Your ogres really are some of the best I've seen (and I've seen quite a bit now that i'm figuring out how I'm going to paint my own ogres). I PM'ed you btw!

Robbietobbie wrote:Another great job, on both models! Your ogres really are some of the best I've seen (and I've seen quite a bit now that i'm figuring out how I'm going to paint my own ogres). I PM'ed you btw!

I'm so sorry Robbie, dakka never lets mestayed log in so I didn't notice them, my apologies!


As with quite a lot of the stuff I do there's a lot of stages, which get faster towards the end, and about half of the work is in the 'prep' stage.

Prep

1 Halfords grey primer
2 Chaos Black all over
3 Halfords Grey primer from 45degrees
4 Skull white from on top

Painting
5 Watered down codex grey, dheneb stone and chaos black mixed with vallejo glaze medium all over (mix it to the colour of codex grey, I just add the other paints to get a foundation colour in there for strong pigments
6 Ogryn Flesh wash in recesses
7 Re-paint step 5, leaving wash in recesses
8 Add Fortress Grey
9 Add dheneb Stone


If you want a much quicker version I'd do something along the lines of
1
(2 if you want bright highlights)
6(all over), if you want less red more dark use devlan mud instead.
7
8/9

Hope that's of some help mate, sorry again, I didn't mean to seem rude!

Byron

Thnx for that description and no worries about not noticing the PM, I'm not exactly in a hurry (got a TK casket of souls to finish as well as some dreadfleet stuff before I start the ogres). I need to strip the paint off most of the ogres before I start anyway so no problem. Kinda figured you probably didnt even notice the PM.

Since i don't have any glaze medium and I'm not particularly good at mixing paints consistently I'll probably just paint on two thin layers of codex. The rest of the steps I plan on following. So washing with ogryn, repainting the codex grey and then paint on codex grey with fortress grey and as a final layer codex grey, fortress grey and dheneb.. Do you think that'll work? Good thing is I have all those paints so that helps :p

Thanks for the rundown on how you did them!

I'd drop the dheneb stone if you're not involving it in any of the previous layers, it's quite a distinct colour, just go for pure fortress for the final highlight (or with a bit of codex to keep ot from being too bright)

Good luck mate, let me know how it goes!

Nice

brilliant work as ever! very nice

wow the undead do look great and the do love the rust on the Wight king's sword and actually prefer your covern throne to the 'eavy metal one

Alright thnx for the tip! I'll try it out on one of the ogres that doesnt need stripping

Might be a little boring though only using grey... Do you think that adding a little shadow grey to the mix and shading with badab in stead of ogryn would give a nice (blue-ish) effect to the grey?


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I went ahead and did a testmodel with some shadowgrey added to the mix.. let me know what you think! (it look's darker on the picture than it really is)
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/425990.page#3842006

Thanks very much guys

@Robbie

I'd avoid badab-it's a bit severe, maybe use devlan mud instead.

If you're going for a blueish tint you could always use a 3:1devlan/asumrian blue wash or something

Awesome. That ogre guy reminds me of Hannibal.

Really great looking necromancer. Very sinister. I think he looks better on foot then on the back of the coven throne.

How do you do the little scratchs all over the armour and weapons? Or is it simply a really fine brush ?

You have some amazing work in this tread. Glad I found it!!!

Really liking the cloaks you're doing on these guys! Looks very.. well.. undead

I did go for devlan instead of badab 'cause I too figured it might be a little much. Do you think it turned out well? I've added a bloody handprint on the ogre's face and some snow on his shoulders and head since taking the picture. Love trying out all this new stuff

Lt. Coldfire wrote:Awesome. That ogre guy reminds me of Hannibal.

Yay, that's the type of reaction I was going for

Zwan1One wrote:Really great looking necromancer. Very sinister. I think he looks better on foot then on the back of the coven throne.

How do you do the little scratchs all over the armour and weapons? Or is it simply a really fine brush ?

You have some amazing work in this tread. Glad I found it!!!

Cheers mate, it's a pretty fine brush but that's by no means the most important thing when you're trying to do stuff like this, it's taken me ages to work out but here's what it comes down to:

1.) a brush with a fine *point* not the tiniest brush ever, the pointiest!
2.) you need your paint at the right consistency, and choose a bright one! I used mithril, thinned to 'milk' consistency, and not too much on the brush
3.) a) Take your brush fro palette to model FAST! with such a tiny bit of paint at the end the moment you put paint on the brush it'll start to dry.
b) Secondly if your room has the radiators turned up to 11 the drying tie on the end of the brush will be pretty much halved! Sit in a coat if it helps, in a freezing cold room

All of the above goes for freehand banners also. Additionally if it's on a nice darkened background the scratches will show up better, it's all about the paint consistency, I found it takes me 2 or 3 attempts to get it right where i do one scratch and it doesn't work, but once it's right just keep things swift and steady and you'll do half the area with one brushload.

Robbietobbie wrote:Really liking the cloaks you're doing on these guys! Looks very.. well.. undead

I did go for devlan instead of badab 'cause I too figured it might be a little much. Do you think it turned out well? I've added a bloody handprint on the ogre's face and some snow on his shoulders and head since taking the picture. Love trying out all this new stuff

It's looking solid mate, only a couple of crits: 1, I'd suggest matt varnishing (or dullcote if you can get hold of some, it's magic!) the entire model, his trousers are a tady shiny, it'll also protect it for gaming use, and secondly (post matt) get some gloss varnish or taiya clear red (x27 I think, it makes blood look amazing, I used it on the guts on the butcher) and aybe also tamiya 'smoke' (I think x17) I used this underneath the red to make it darker, they're both mega glossy and the best blood products around!

I'll have another update pretty soon

like.... NOW!

For those of you who think that I never paint anything for myself


Testers:


Bulls/'Guts




The entire army (actually with one spare Ogre+Mournfang)


The thundertusks are next, once they're both done and my core are finished that'll be 1100points, originally this was meant to be a speed painting project but I like the models/went overboard on details for that to be true any more, the core took me 4 days (fairly solid days at that) to get to where they are currently+an hour and a bit to do the tattoos on all of them, so once all of the gut plates are weathered they'll have taken the best part of 5 days I guess.

Nice job! those ogres look splendid.. Curious to see what you'll do with these thundertusks

my model actually hasn't been varnished yet ^^

Robbietobbie wrote:Nice job! those ogres look splendid.. Curious to see what you'll do with these thundertusks

my model actually hasn't been varnished yet ^^

I'll be getting some pictures up of this tonight

even though its only the head/tusks:

awesome!

Oh my.. looking forward to seeing the complete model