Re:Ifalna's minis - Celestial WraithKnight Update + Fire Prism for sale

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**Arm.chair.general**

Wow, brilliant looking plague Marines!

**Ifalna**

Dysartes wrote:Nah - Disapproving Horse all the way ;thumbsup:
I see they've not gone with compulsory Timeline roll-out yet.

Hurrhurr, I really do love him too. The face. I didn't even do anything, he's sculpted that way.

Not yet with Timeline, no, but I actually really like it now. It was confusing at first, but once I got used to it I preferred the control I had with it. Use it on my personal account as well.

Arm.chair.general wrote:Wow, brilliant looking plague Marines!

Thanks man, I'm looking forward to painting the Nurgle one as I get to go higher quality with him

**Rogue Wolves**

you just got Liked

now i can follow the same models in 2 spots!

**whalemusic360**

Well played on the avatar korra 1337 celebratory gif.

**Gutsplitta**

Hey Ifalna - I notice you use an airbrush quite a bit. I've done some basic camo schemes on some WWII tanks with an airbrush, but never attempted the the type of shading on 40K figs like you've done with the squigs. Can you point me to any good airbrush tutorials specific to painting minis?

And thanks for all the inspiration. I really like your work!

**Ifalna**

Gutsplitta wrote:Hey Ifalna - I notice you use an airbrush quite a bit. I've done some basic camo schemes on some WWII tanks with an airbrush, but never attempted the the type of shading on 40K figs like you've done with the squigs. Can you point me to any good airbrush tutorials specific to painting minis?

I would consider myself still a total novice with the airbrush, as I mostly use it for just fading colours together or basic OSL (Object source lighting) highlighting. When you get down to the nitty gritty of the squigs, they have just been brushed their base colour, then faded up to a couple of different highlight colours. It's a lot simpler than it looks, when I get my webcam I will show exactly what I mean.

The tutorials I focused on were mostly the mechanics of the airbrush and how to use it for basic Object source lighting. I think once you get to grips with how to angle the brush so you are only hitting areas that should be highlighted, you can then experiment with lots of different colours and shadings

Dakka has an amazing osl tut here - Click

And I used what I learned from random Airbrush upkeep vids and guides on google, keeping it clean is the single most important thing to know when it comes to getting good work out of it.

Gutsplitta wrote:And thanks for all the inspiration. I really like your work!

**Dysartes**

Justice League of Squigs, go!

**Ifalna**

Ogod Dysartes no, I have so much actual real work to do D:

One day I will make a spiderman and punisher squig and all will be well, but that day is far off.

**Dysartes**

You don't want to do Marvel Squigs, Ifalna - DC is the right publisher for the Justice Squigs of Ireland...

The original line-up would give us...

Supersquig...
Batsquig...
Wonder Squig...
Flash Squig... (might need a new name)
Green Squig...
Aquasquig...
Martian Squig...

Colour suggestions available on request

As an aside, Ifalna, do you have any tips on painting the sort of wolf skin/pelt cloaks that the Space Wolves tend to wear?

**whalemusic360**

Booooo! Marvel squigs ftw! The X-Squigs and Avengsquigs alone...

**Dysartes**

whalemusic360 wrote:Booooo! Marvel squigs ftw! The X-Squigs and Avengsquigs alone...

I'm not convinced Avengsquigs works as a unit name, whalemusic - ideally, you'd have a unit from each setting in your Goblin army

**whalemusic360**

Squigvengers? I want an Age of Squgpocolypse unit now...

**Dysartes**

whalemusic360 wrote:Squigvengers? I want an Age of Squgpocolypse unit now...

Now, Age of Squigpocolypse is one I like the sound of

If people don't like the JLA-inspired squigs, I could always go for a Justice Squigciety of Ireland idea...

Flash
Green Squig
Hawksquig
Sandsquig
Spectre
Doctor Squig
Hoursquig
A-squig
Johnny Squig
Supersquig (not to be confused with the earlier Supersquig)
Batsquig (not to be confused with the earlier Batsquig)
Doctor Mid-Squig
Starsquig
Wonder Squig (not to be confused with the earlier Wonder Squig - in this case, it'd be the other Wonder Squig's mother/creator)
Mister Squigrrific (can you imagine a squig with FAIR PLAY down each leg? I can...)
Wildsquig
Black Squigary

**Rogue Wolves**

dont listen to him!! avenger squigs assemble! you can use that giant one as hulk too!

**Cutthroatcure**

I am on board with this plan!

**Gutsplitta**

Ifalna wrote: I would consider myself still a total novice with the airbrush, as I mostly use it for just fading colours together or basic OSL (Object source lighting) highlighting. When you get down to the nitty gritty of the squigs, they have just been brushed their base colour, then faded up to a couple of different highlight colours. It's a lot simpler than it looks, when I get my webcam I will show exactly what I mean.

The tutorials I focused on were mostly the mechanics of the airbrush and how to use it for basic Object source lighting. I think once you get to grips with how to angle the brush so you are only hitting areas that should be highlighted, you can then experiment with lots of different colours and shadings

Dakka has an amazing osl tut here - Click

And I used what I learned from random Airbrush upkeep vids and guides on google, keeping it clean is the single most important thing to know when it comes to getting good work out of it.

Thanks for the pointers. I guess I need to pull my airbrush out and do some practice. WWII German tank schemes at 1/72nd scale can be so random, it doesn't take a lot of accuracy. I think the fading will be something else. We'll see.

Ifalna wrote:

Nice.

**Dysartes**

Rogue Wolves wrote:dont listen to him!! avenger squigs assemble! you can use that giant one as hulk too!

Nah, Atom Squig-sher from the JSA.

**Ifalna**

There are just so many options, but I only have 2 squigs!

That means they have to be super iconic, Batsquig and Jokersquig? Spidersquig and Goblinsquig? THIS IS HARD.

Also, for any other EU D3 players, make sure to redownload - https://eu.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4410912 due to the previous installer problem.

**Dysartes**

Supersquig and Lex Squigthor?
Green Squig and Sinisquig?
Professor Squig and Magnesquig?
Captain Amerisquig and Red Squig?
Batsquig and Two-Squig?
Iron Squig and Squiglash? (Using Iron Man 2 as inspiration)
Squiglock Holmes and Professor Squigiarty?
Squigverine and Squiggertooth?
Batsquig and Squigcrow?

**IceAngel**

Are you set on super heroes and villains? Or can it be any duo?

Perhaps Beavisquig and Buttsquig? Or Rensquig and Stimpsquig? Pinkysquig and Brainsquig?

**Eldrad40k**

Wonder Twin Squigs

**Dagirlz**

How do you paint so well, how long have you been painting, whats the one technique you would recommend learning as a painter, if you don't mind think you could take a look at my WoP and finished model threads and just drop a comment on how i can improve them. Sorry your just amazing at it.

**Ifalna**

Whoah, lots of questions!

Dagirlz wrote:How do you paint so well, how long have you been painting

Practice and research I guess, I am nowadays painting 6 hours a day bar my weekends so its lot of practice which is the most important thing, and I spend a lot of my mornings reading about new techniques or watching tutorial videos or browsing sites for new ideas to try out myself.

I think it's important to not just be stuck with one "style" and be able to paint mini's lots of different ways, so research is a very big help with that

Painted my first mini's in 2006, then stopped for a while and only painted stuff for fun. My tabletop standard now is better than how I used to paint, so you get the idea >< Started trying to lean how to paint the proper way in 2009 when I joined Dakka.

Dagirlz wrote:whats the one technique you would recommend learning as a painter

Brush control. If you are neat and precise you can paint a mini with just 2 highlight colours and have it look really striking, thats kind of my formula for my usual cartoony style, keep it very simple and neat. Neat work = good work, even if you aren't shading or highlighting.

Dagirlz wrote:if you don't mind think you could take a look at my WoP and finished model threads and just drop a comment on how i can improve them. Sorry your just amazing at it.

If you Pm me the links to some of the models you would like feedback for, Ill get back to you later today

You have lots of shots up and some are very lovely, so just send me the ones you think you could improve on.

**whalemusic360**

Professor S and Squigneto?

Maybe we should stop the brand hating and go for some Amalgum squigs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_Comics for those interested/confused.

**Rogue Wolves**

oh man if its only two it has to be Batsquig and Jokersquig!

**Dysartes**

Rogue Wolves wrote:oh man if its only two it has to be Batsquig and Jokersquig!

Why so serious about this, Rogue?

I'm not a fan of Jokersquig as a name, though a Dark Knight styled one could look good.

**Rogue Wolves**

when she said jokersquig all i could think of is a squig in some creepy dark knight joker makeup!

**Ifalna**

A Dark Knight Joker mangler would be.. AMAZING. Imagine that., the riders on stop screaming at who he was charging at " YOU WANNA NO HOW HE GOT DESE SKARS??"

Taking a time out from this showpiece standard Squig to add up some WIP shots, mostly for the owners benefit

First Showpiece mini I have gotten to paint in quite a while, really, really enjoying it.Hopefully the detail difference between him and the other Squigs is noticeable.

Squig is only about 50% done, his skin I am about happy with now, but we need to decide on his blue woad warpaint and add it on top, including lots of little drips and smears. Then he needs his varnish layer, with extra attention to the mouth, then onto his metals... then the goblin.. oh man.

You are getting facebook shots redirected because IM LAZY OK.

Also totally thinking of editing in this background from now on so the mini's don't lose their colours to white glare, though I may darken it a bit further first.

**Rogue Wolves**

simply amazing iff! The skin is so nicely done, and i love the blue gums!

**Ifalna**

It feels great to not have to stop myself and say " Whooahh, stop, this is only meant to be xyz standard", I am freaking enjoying this.