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Yeah, so far... so good. The fact that the photo is a little blurry up front helps the lava illusion a bit. *grin*

It's going to take a bit of fiddling to get the stones right but we'll see how it goes. Am raiding Pyriel's Salamanders gallery for ideas. He's got better rocks than I (OK, better everything) do but I'm doing my best.

IronfrontAlex wrote:Where is the OP? he owes me $!

Not sure what tony is up to, but he has stated he is very short on time right now, so I'd send him a pm and be patient.

The Good Green wrote:I'm interested, Sageheart... a little slow, but interested. I've got two more Sewer rat markers not spoken for, or we can discuss something different. What kind of markers do you have in mind?

I have no idea haha. ive never made a marker before but have a tons of spare parts i would love to play with. A counter for BA or IG woudl be nice. Throw me some ideas and i'll see if i can make something for you

Git, that lava effect looks really really cool. Is it layering colors from red to white? I would like to try something similar on an eldar avatar. (When i actually get one)

Yes. Blood red to orange, then a red wash. When that dried I came back with light orange, yellow and white.




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Progress for tonight. Assembly and basic painting complete. All that remains are the glowing effects and the story to go with it... which is pretty well formed in my head but needs to be written down.

Wow, git.. I absoloutely love it more than I love my erh.. uhm.. something that I love a lot!

Now I'm really looking forward to getting it to my house!

SWEET!

Qusestion: Do you think I should have the little rivulets of lava coming down the edge of the base, or should I leave it as is with the base fully rimmed?


OH... and I wanted to add a special thanks to vent for helping to solve some of my photography problems and pointing out these really cool backgrounds that can be downloaded and printed off the net.

Thank you sir!

Hmm.. depends really.. I dunno really.. try it out an take some pictures, if it looks good, keep it. Otherwice, paint over it

Fair enough!

Those backgrounds look really good BTW. As for the Lava Drippping....what does your trade partner want?

Look up two posts! *grin*

Gitsplitta, Is it bad that I always get you and Artsoldier mixed up when you post close together?

HAHAHA! Not bad...but funny! How can you get them confused? Mine is so obviously the one with the purple tongue! Should I change my Avatar?

He's such a handsome guy... it's only natural that you'd confuse him with me!

Argh hows could you mistake a evil suns for a bad moon.

O.K. gretar's marker is finished. The glow effects are in though minimal as the paving stones don't really stick up much when compared with the lava. I decided to nix the lava flowing over the base edge as in some of the cobbles there is actually lava going all the way around them and it got very messy & complicated. However I wanted the marine that he did for me on the base for a final photo op... problem is that I needed to give him a bolter & and new shoulder pad and those darn inquisition pads have a big crest on them that meant removing the backpack & while I did that the arm fell off and well, you can see where this is all going...

In any case... he'll be all fixed up tonight. Hope for a final photo then & a little story to go with it before I send the volcanic marker off to it's new home in Iceland (very appropriate I think).

Gits

Yeah sorry, I kinda ran out of superglue so I had to use my dads UHU Superglue..

It really sucks at its purpose(which is gluing stuff together), and my eyes hurt the whole time using it..

Ah well, I hope you can fix him though

No problem gretar, all the parts came off very cleanly and it'll be much easier to get the new parts (pad and gun) on this way. He'll be beautiful again... so don't sweat it. :-)

Good to hear, looking forward to pictures

So I got a couple layers of skin on them, plus the camo pattern(s):

I think a good dark green wash should soften the lines a bit. Then it's on to the metal on them. No progress on the bases, yet... but I've got the color scheme in my head, so... not much more of a wait.

Lookin good GG! Like the camo... especially the stripes.

Excellent. Now I know which one is yours, too.

What primer do you use? Is it grey or are you painting straight onto plastic?

Those orks are lookin pretty sweet TGG! Keep up the nice work.

TGG: Suits me just fine!

OK, finished Gretar's Salamander objective...



The objective is made to accomodate a 25mm base so that someone can worship or pay homage at the shrine. Here a lone Salamander silently meditates on the littany posted on the sacred stone after a very, very long journey.

Oh wow! Didn't look at my emails till now and just saw these pictures! Looks VERY good Git, looking forward to seeing it on the field with my sallys

Glad you like it! Hope to get it in the mail today (I have 4 things to send out... yippie!) At least I'm making some progress.

Excellent Marker Git! Looks really good with the marine!

Honest, I am still working on some, not been forgotten, just..err, a bit neglected possibly. I'll try to get some done at the weekend, they're all still up for grabs and I forgot to post this on this thread: