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Is that black base, or real dark green?

Solid black base. Considered doing dark green, but stock looks like its black.

Some areas really took on a dark green cast though... Real weird optical illusions!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Ah... but she's "out of stock" and "unavailable". *sigh* The best ones are always like that, eh?

All the best women are Married and none for me to look for .... So join the club gitz

Barge now has metals.




Not pictured are the daemonettes and Steeds of Slaanesh for the Chariot. All of them have armor basecoated and skins complete.

Progress is hitting the "wall" that seems to appear sometimes during these projects. That and things became stupidly busy around here the past few days, including today's trip south to play a little bit of EFT. Fun game, if a bit absurd for the amount of tokens I used for my Earth troll. (short story on this is that he can place tokens that do a bunch of stuff, including acting as explosives. Gels can copy this ability and place their own... There is no cap on this )

Camera still sucks, so picture quality is crappy anymore. Add that to the list of stuff I'll need later! ><


Hopefully this Barge will see completion some time tomorrow!

Shiny!

Couldn't resist...

"B-but... That always burns it..."


True story... every microwave I've ever used has burned the crap out of popcorn when I use that damn button!! I guess Im just unlucky, is all...


Anywhooooo.... Barge is done (and very shiny!)
Seems that with the black background and the relative shittiness of my camera (that I am continuing to force into service), the crons really got bright. In reality the minis are all much darker.

Annihilation barge and lord on foot


Command Barge:


A rear shot, showing off the heat damage on the engines. I also put the effect on the Tesla weapons, figuring that all that raw electrical energy was bound to warp the metal a little bit!


The Lord on foot (Magnetized for convenience!)



And a close-up of the bases. Client decided on obsidian rocks and ashy plains, so I took a bit of influence from Minecraft and made the obsidian slightly purple. (black wouldnt look as nice!) Again, the rock is not quite that bright purple!



Thanks for reading!

Listen to the pops. What do you have as the rocks?

Do the popcorn on a lower power or a shorter time

Looks good. Is there to be more Crons with this as a test piece, or is it a one off fancy HQ job?

@moonpie: Bit of a funny story about those rocks... Theyre just pieces of slate I picked up on the side of the road (got a ton of the stuff!)
I found it as I was walking to what is now my favorite FLGS in Columbus (The Guardtower). For whatever reason, I decided one day to take a little walk to check it out... A little 5 mile walk.
Nothing terrible, nice day and all, but on the way back, I decided to take a "shortcut," adding an additional 3 or 4 miles onto my hike xD Needless to say, I was a bit tired after that!




@WM Hes thinking of some more Crons right now. Possibly a Night/Doom Scythe and a Ghost Ark.

Looking good .. I like the purple rocks. very original.

Now back to finishing your Adepticon army?

Love the terrain and bargre, awesome work. The smoothnes of your glow effects is outstanding, I can never get I8ne to blend that well.

@SL:Maaaaaybe later.... Gotta clear my backlog of commissions first!

@Ir0njack: Thank you! Trick to keep in mind on the glow effects is lots and lots of thin layers. I was thinning the paints to almost a wash with the scorpion green. Then it was covering less and less of the area with the layers as I went along.

Worked more on the Chariot (hopefully finished in a coupla days).
I want to do a bit of a twist on the stock GW scheme, so Im keeping the pale lavender skin and black armor... but Im planning on a particularly vivid color for the hair on the steeds and daemonettes! The skin at this stage is the only thing complete on this. everything else is basecoated or in progress:


And the steeds, who just need a little work on the leather straps and metal armor:


Finally, I did a little bit of EFT this weekend for a change of pace (Went down with Alf to play a bit down near Columbus. Battle report of sorts is here).

The goal with these guys was to break a little from the stock paint schemes... In the wizards' case I inverted it entirely!

Oh man those Slaanesh models are gonna look great! excellent so far, I love the claws so far.

Thanks nerd! Some more pics for ya:



I really like how the steeds ended up being a warmer tone of purple than the chariot itself. Glad that it turned out that way!

And a closeup of the steeds (this is a much better demonstration of the colors, btw):


At this stage, the harnesses need to be painted up to match the saddles, then the crew just need a few details knocked out. Should have a finished product tomorrow!

Titan repairs are complete, save for cabling, which im still hunting for.



In other news... saw Godzilla yesterday.
NOTE: Im a massive cynic... bear this in mind. you've been warned, haha. Also, I dont think there are any spoilers in there. Go see the movie yourself!

Overall, Id rate it a solid "eh". The monster scenes are awesome, and I love the design and concept behind Muto (though i dont think EMPs are as devastating as it makes it seem... Though im no physics major, of course). I love the movements of the creatures as well as their behaviors... really shows some research on behalf of the animators!

However, and thats a massive however, the human scenes were overly drawn out and the leading guy and his wife were awful actors... Shoot, the movie really just shoulda had Watanabe's character as its focus rather than the bland pair and Cranston's story at the beginning. Coulda stuck a lot more Kaiju in there!!

Other than that, the storyline was the tried and true Godzilla film. Monsters fight each other and humans are ineffectual. Nature balances itself, nukes are bad xD

The trailers all looked terrible, too, including a god awful movie that rolls with the whole "humans use 10% of their brain" fallacy. Just makes me foam at the mouth that such a stupid concept makes it to screen. On top of dumb science, its bad writing that brings nothing more than a lame revenge plot we've all seen again and again.
Another Tom Cruise movie=meh... Then The Giver looks like a huge overwritten dramatization "inspired by" the book... Cant even remember any of the other blah trailers.

Its like nothing but garbage is coming out these days :/

[/moviecynic]

Anywaaaaaaays....
Ill go back to painting now...

Ugh, "Lucy" is the 10% brain movie, I've seen that trailer a number of times and its just....ugh.

I will say, Godzilla movies are infamous/notorious/classically oddly paced with long stretches of human scenes juxtaposed by shorter kaiju scenes.

I will agree that the 'main' characters were not particularly lovable. My only other issue is more naustalgia than anything: the lack of practical effects. Particularly the stages used in the Heisei/Millenium movies. The work and detail put into creating destructible Tokyos and Osakas is just amazing.

In the end, I kept comparing it to other movies in the same genre, especially the first american film, rather than to movies as an entire medium. Personally, I'd call this the best Kaiju movie I've seen.

Did you catch the Mothra easter-egg? I'm not a particular fan of her, but it was cute anyway.

F that. Godzilla rules.

The dude is Kick-Ass and the new Quicksilver in Avengers Ultron and the chick is the Olsen sisters' younger sister but has been in some good movies including Marth Marcy May Marlene and is the Scarlet Witch in Avengers Ultron.

We watched it on Tuesday in Atmos and I was literally cheering in it. Plus "Tom Cruise movie" otherwise known as Edge of Tomorrow formerly known as All You Need is Kill contains an power armor wearing Emily Blunt, so schwing!

Plus next week is Xmen Days of Future Past. New transformers movie coming out. Guardians of the Galaxy. Interstellar looks amazing. Movies this year are awesome.

Haters gonna hate.

Also, dig those chariots. Nice work even if the subtlety of the color is basically lost on me. Smoove.

I'm kinda meh on going to see Godzilla. I agree with moonpie on everything else though. Other then Interstellar, which I think looks boring as eff.

Zilla was more old formulation than the last one. Thou it's based on the new directing styles the SE's was very good and the story was at least consistant ands centered on the main human character. That said I did want more monster and less human. I think the " kick ass " actor was the weakest element.

I agree with moonpie ( wait.. what? ). Xmen looks great and got decent reviews. Thou again I dislike the directors choice for quicksilver ( esp the way way they designed him in the film) . Hoping the Cruise movie will be good. Thou probably be better without Cruise. ( what.. was Daivid Spade not available?)

Looking forward to movies this year.

oh and nice job on the chariots.....

Just love those steeds.

Gits, how dare you be on topic in a painting thread!

FYI, I too enjoy the looks of the steeds

Pfft, on topic. There are movies to be discussed!

Catching up...movies all sound so-so except 'zilla, sounds like classic kaiu fare to me - daemonettes and steeds lookking good, especially liking that metallic on the steeds - but the burning issue that's been raised for me is 'popcorn button'?

You guys have a pocorn button on state-side microwaves? We just have to listen for the pops over here.


(............and here comes the swarm of Brits to nay-say me and tell of their wonderful 'button-for-everything' nuclear cookers )

Those steeds are lovely Ramos excellent choice of colour and I really like how you've blended it into the metal as well.

Hahaha Huzzah for being on topic with our off-topic-ness

@misk: I did catch that, actually! Got a chuckle out of me, for sure. I think they had a Godzilla toy around that same scene, too... though i may have been seeing just a regular ol dinosaur toy.

This movie seemed to focus even moreso on the "struggles" of the humans than normal... or at least it was presented in such a manner that it seemed much longer... Didnt do anything for me except to make me want the scenes to move on already! I can sort of agree with missing a bit of the practical effects, though in this day and age its hard to come by. I dont know if its any easier or cheaper (thoughts are "yes" to both), but CG rules the road nowadays. At least it was still very pretty to look at!

@moonpie: Hahaha! Yeah well, like I said, Im too much of a cynic for my own good... Movies just dont "do it" for me anymore, in general. xD New transformers get an instant "meh" from me, as I really thought the second and third ones sucked, haha. I will say, though, I am kinda interested in Interstellar, if only for watching how they present FTL travel. Looks in the trailers to be a decently hard-sci-fi look at warp travel. Might be nice! Not sure I'd pay to see it in theaters.... but eh. Who knows

@WM: Its worth seeing, I guess, iffin you dont mind my complaints above. When the monsters are on the screen, its an amazing movie. Humans, less so.

@SL: Yeah I appreciated how they got back to basics with the story after that (wonderfully) awful 90's movie (though I wasnt nearly as bored watching that one as the human parts in the new one... hmmm...)
You might want to see a doctor about agreeing with moonpie though... Let us know if your lamenters suddenly start turning pink

@Gits: Many thanks!! Pastel colors like the skintone I got here continue to be one of my greatest challenges. Its so easy to muck up the colors and make them too bold (as my normal paint technique tends to be). All the horrors of painting white just seem to grow as soon as you slightly tint it xD

@Alf: Gracias!

@monkey: Yes indeed! Behold the miracles of 'Murica!!


Like I said, though.... I always burn the popcorn after using the damned thing! Listening to the pops is still the best way.

@GX: Thanks!! I wanted to try to keep my palette limited on this mini for a change, and tried to mix the purple color into all of the others. Even the magenta color has it mixed in at its darkest.


So Chariots done!
Was a PAIN to get a background for! Its huge... Hard to pick up, too, being so spindly and spikey... Cant imagine gaming with this thing xD


Close-up of the crew:


And of the steeds:

Sweeet! Looks good. Let's get the paints used?

I really only eat popcorn from a 52oz popper... Movie theater popcorn FTW! We have a filter, oil system. agitator motor, heat. lights. warmer. and oil dispenser button, so....still have to listen for the pops-cause I'm a pro.

As far as movies go, of course I'm not going to pay to see them. I only pay for art house flicks. I paid to see Under the Skin and Only Lovers Left Alive. Really liked Lovers. I get to "quality check" X-Men DOFP on Wednesday night in Dolby Atmos, which is the only way to go(other than IMAX, of course). Good to see your work.
You have anything on the plate for your own collection or are you too far behind on commissions?

Also, did you see Solar agree with me? Gold Star Day!

Glad I'll be able to pick that one up in person, I suspect I'd never get the foam peanuts completely off the spikes.

Very Nice!

Thant's glorious Ramos. Truly. Some of your best work. The model itstelf is stupid and makes no sense what-so-ever.... but your paint job is just brilliant.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Thant's glorious Ramos. Truly. Some of your best work. The model itstelf is stupid and makes no sense what-so-ever.... but your paint job is just brilliant.

You forgot the part where it also isn't very good. Whatever, daemon lawn mower of DOOOOM doesn't care.