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Nice work Fin'. Looks great.

For the lenses; He's already blue, You "can't" do green, You don't want red and the gems are yellow/orange... Purple then? Possibly on the warmer, red, side of the world of purple.

Thanks guys it did pass through my head to try gold lenses last night... at least that would pick up on the gold on his armour...?
Because he's mostly cool colours, I should be going for something warm really. I tried green because I really liked the illustration of a Shadow Spectre in the Imperial Armour book, and that had green lenses (but, it also has to be said that the eyes were large in comparison to those on the mini, so there was just more surface area for the colour to shine through).

In my head, he's cold colours because of being trapped in the ice for so long. When I get around to it, the normal Shadow Spectres are going to be a warm white instead of a cool white.

Whoah! Finn that is just BEAUTIFUL! like really gorgeous mate, I like the subtlety of the hues of white and blue you did and cannot wait to see more of this style from you, the tabbard is perfect especially with the gold banding!

I had another go at the lenses before I try something different. I went over them with white so I had a bright undercoat, and then went straight in with some of the green fluorescent pigment I got a while ago, and did a bit of over-painting so I could have a bit of glow from them. Then a tiny bit of shading with thinned down Dark Angels Green and Waywatchers wash/glaze. Not the best shot in the world, but they're certainly brighter this time around! Too much?

Irillyth is looking very nice I preferred the original colour for the eyes as they are Shadow Spectres I envisioned they wouldn't be so bold.

I do like the new version but find the pic a bit too much of a close up, finding it a bit hard to see how the mini would look at a more normal distance but that could just be my screaming migraine I have today.

better shot?

I love it, just looks ethereal. Brilliant.

The green works well. See, you can do green.
Good job.

lol I can do it, just not well! I don't know what it is, I just have this real block with greens, I come all over cack-handed with it! I'll be getting some practise in when I finally get around to starting on the Scorpions

Nah, I know what you mean. Everyone has something that turns out well easily and something else that always seems to be a struggle.

Look forward to the Scorpions.

I'm still vaguely hoping for some new plastic Aspect kits will be released, but I have enough metal Aspect Warriors for a respectable force

That's better, those eyes look really nice.

okay, so both arms stuck on (how solid a stick, I'm not entirely sure), and I'm working on the ribbons - a quick highlight of the gold and now I'm blocking in the Baharroth Blue for the white to sit on top of. I also have the armband on his left arm to block in with gold. I think that this is definitely the most challenging mini I've ever attempted - the Avatar was big and detailed, but in comparison was a fairly straightforward job (it's quite possible I'm forgetting how tricky he was to do!).
Also progress made on the first of the normal Spectres, and you can see how I'm going for a warm white on these guys. I need to figure out what to do with his trousers... either a wash of Gryphs or black I'm thinking.

Nice work Fin'. The squad will look nice like that.

That gold work is fantastic. Looks awesome.

After some feet-dragging (got totally addicted to Orange Is The New Black), and a holiday in Iceland (amazing place, one of the hikes we went on was like walking through middle Earth), Irillyth is done - at last!
Definitely the most challenging model I've done, just for the sheer intricacy of it. If you're thinking of picking this bad boy up, don't even attempt to do it fully assembled!
Hopefully the shots are okay and do him justice.
Onwards and upwards!

Well, the break has certainly done no harm to your ability to paint Excellent job, nice spectral feel to the paint-job to match the mini. And I know it's not the focal point, but I love that rock

Totally brilliant. One of the most beautiful models I have seen in a while.

Glad you had a nice break. Welcome back.

thanks guys : ) I'm really pleased with how he came out

Great job on that model, nice ghostly color choice. I got home from work and my wife was watching orange is the new black....... guess what sort of scene I heard/walked in on .

Smashing job on him Fin'.
and I second the nice rock.

Glad everyone's digging the rock lol Nothing too special going on there really, just a wash of Devlan Mud, then two of Badab Black, and a soft drybrush of Dheneb Stone.

Yeah, there seem to be quite a few of those scenes Theophony our timing was going to be off whatever time you came home lol

Time for something different - fed up of white and yellow! In an attempt to improve my green skills, here we have Scorpion 1, and I have to admit that he's coming along fairly well, so no complaints for once. Also for once, the green highlights on the dark grey armour are showing up much more than they do in the flesh. Not an awful lot done on him at this stage, the chest and sword arm highlighted, a start on some of the dark grey armour and the faceplate.

I've just started reading this blog (well, I read the last 2 pages... will read 1-67 soon, promise ) and it's great!

That Irillyth is just so damn good!
I know what you mean about having a weak dark green. My VGC Dark Green has to have 2 layers at least over black to even be (barely) perceptible.

Thanks Zambro
my Dark Angels Green seems to be quite a thin pigment, which is nice because I can get some nice smooth transitions with it, but it does take some work to get it visible!

You're back! Horrah.
Beautiful work man.

The green's looking good there Fin. Good job on the Scorpion so far.

 Zambro wrote:
I've just started reading this blog (well, I read the last 2 pages... will read 1-67 soon, promise ) and it's great!

Ok, so I did it. I went back and read the other 67 pages...

Hot damn, that Avatar is good. And those Harlequins... Awesome!

Oh look page 69 and Nerdfest turns up! you knew that would happen didn't you Fin? that scorpion is brilliant dude! I can't wait for you to do more on him, the faceplate is classic Finnan and that green, Oh that green is loverlyyyy

you're never too far away Nerd, which a comforting thing : )
Cheers matey - slow going as always, I'm gobsmacked at how quickly you're working these days