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lol...nope either purple or piunk is not my style...and for that effect i should have taken these colors then^^

I've got a few examples of heat/smoke weathering, and my two best examples are my heavy flamer-wielding terminator and my multi-melta wielding dreadnought, but I can't find pictures of them.
in my next pic update I'll snap a few off ^^
here's the only one I have I can find, on my librarian (might have to zoom in a fair bit though)


come to think of it, I think I have a few pics on my picasa gallery, but I CBA to dredge it up ^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:at jeroen...
yup^^

Why do you think I provided the tools (or kilts) for some soldiers

that reminds me to get going with the tank so that i can direct my attention back again to the böck devils and their queeny...ach me aching back... it is always work...

at chibi...
it is like making the splits... i have to really balance that realism/grimy with the posh/clean...

Trust me I feel your pain.....I finished assembling my Lemon Russ Executioners and my Ogryn stand ins only to learn through e-mail that Mantic is now taken the first pre-orders for Warpath. So I had to dig around in my budget and place an order for some Forge Fathers.... luckily itll be months before they ship. So much painting to do.

I tend to just use Mithral Silver or Chainmail.

Over that apply washes of a dark blue such as Regal Blue and Scorched Earth dark brown (forgot its name)

Then for the really darker burnt metal apply washes of as mix of the brown and blue. This will make a black which you can make warmer or cooler depending on the ratio of mix.

Haven't got a good example to show but to give some idea

Paint work is looking cool mate, like the red and white banner , nice touch .

hi neil, yep thought about a bit of chivalry was apropriate^^

at chibi, if you could, a detailshot of the exhaust would be nice... this is a very nice effect you created! i like it very much!

at jeroen... i hope to see some pics of these matic minis soonish from you...as i had seen some pics of them they look very promising...also they carry quite nice guns...a quadro barrel pistol in each hand is as bad as you can get in my book^^

at shrike, like the effect on the melta too...looks suitable burnt and used...what paints did you use for that? also i have to ask what helmet is the liberian wearing...looks like a GK to me with a hood...or is it a BT helmet?

Viktor von Domm wrote:at shrike, like the effect on the melta too...looks suitable burnt and used...what paints did you use for that? also i have to ask what helmet is the liberian wearing...looks like a GK to me with a hood...or is it a BT helmet?

I used chaos black, scab red and boltgun metal.
paint it chaos black, drybrush boltgun metal over the closest end to the user, then drybrush scab red over the middle third, and have the end tip chaos black. smudging the paints can also help if they don't look smooth.

the head is a dark angels head. GWS removed the kit from thier site, but AFAIK if you dredge up the page and order it, you can still get it. It's a 2-sprue kit containing 10 dark angels, lots of heads, weapons, gear, ect. for £12. An incredibly good deal IMO.

this was my last guess, DA... know that and own some partly sprues on my own...but that particular head has escaped me^^

recipe looks doable...will try that later on out with some special weaponteams...or even better the twinlinked flamers of the tank...

Viktor von Domm wrote:this was my last guess, DA... know that and own some partly sprues on my own...but that particular head has escaped me^^

recipe looks doable...will try that later on out with some special weaponteams...or even better the twinlinked flamers of the tank...

nice.

^^

at jeroen... i hope to see some pics of these matic minis soonish from you...as i had seen some pics of them they look very promising...also they carry quite nice guns...a quadro barrel pistol in each hand is as bad as you can get in my book^^

Well soon is a relative term then....as they are pre-order. I dont think they will ship for another 3 months or so but I'll keep you posted. Promise.

ouch...3 month...thats an early santa then...


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here are as suggested some try shots of the brassed up details like dantay and a bunch of others suggested...

opinions?












of course there will be touchups shortly but this is something i did by interpreting what you all meant^^ hopefully^^

cheers, vik

um....update time see above?

looks good, but I feel there is something missing... maybe it's just that the colours are so similar?

to be honest i have wondered about that too... any suggestions to cope with that? i am willing to change major colorparts...so i am game to any good suggestions...

maybe a heavy drybrush/stipple of boltgun metal instead of the brass you've gone with?

BTW while google image searching for steampunk tank colours, I found this:

does it's side view look like your tank, or is it just me?

yep it sure does tho i didn´t knew it before^^...
i more thought maybe i could redo the whole ocker/brownish color all over and let the brass stay in place... what do you think about that then?

Coming along vik, coming along

I'd say keep the brass, that helps with the viktoriana feel, you want that in there. Switching the ochre for muted yellow or green could be nice, possibly a grey. I'd say a faded grey/green would be good.



TBH none of those is exactly what I was looking for, but maybe it'll help

hmmm well firstly thank you monkey, and secondly i think your definatly right with the brass...it has to be touchd up but the general idea behind it is good and thus it will stay^^
the other mentioned tones are a bit not so up my alley...the grey and the green would bring the tank too much into the WWII theme for my liking and i rather think of it more WWI meets victorian steampunk...so this stops me from going that route...i think that you have a certain workable thought with the yellow but what i will be throwing into that discussion is the dheneb stone. this would again blend the tank into the army better as mecharite red and deneb stone and then the brass are the main colors of the army... what do you think of that?


for refference the lighter patches on the tank...the regimental colors and the "whitish" parts of union jack are done in deneb stone...but this could lead to another discussion as then it would be a very bright tank...and dirt would then by a major issue...as in it has to be aplied...

also i thought about using boltgun metal all over to give the tank a more bare metal look...

as said above i am up to all kinds of evil against the tank^^

so let me now your opinions...

Maybe try a wash of black or dark grey on the ocher? Just to darken it a bit. I was honestly thinking more of a wrought iron look to the filligree, have that be darker (maybe Tin Bitz, with a little drybrushed bronze?) than this way, but I like the brassy details. But either way, you need one to be darker, and the other to be lighter.

Could try red instead of Ocher. It'd be one of your regimental colors, and stand out from the detailwork. And remember, this is Steampunk, so they're not necessarily going to be hiding their iron behemoth, so camoflauge colors are unnecessary.

Yeah, red would be good. Dheneb would end up a bit bright I think, but red's nice, good contrast with the brass, regimental colour, sounds good to me. You'd probably have to put a brassy border around the Jack for contrast, and maybe re-think the already red panels.

i think anvildude and monkey you both are right about the red... and sure i then should redo the already red spots...i think i then go for some more deneb stone with a bit of a twist... i am developing some ideas right atm...

if this fails i still can use my idea of bare metal...
you know the one good thing working with so much cardboard is you can never really hope to obscure details with tooo much paint... cardboard details are way too thick to drown them^^

at monkey:

you'd probably have to put a brassy border around the Jack for contrast

what is "jack" supposed to mean in that context? i seem to miss a certain something here...


at anvil:

And remember, this is Steampunk, so they're not necessarily going to be hiding their iron behemoth, so camoflauge colors are unnecessary

thats probably why i came up with the whole steampunk act in the first place...i feel not at home with stealthy armies...i am more a "gather in a field and bludgeon the other bugger that wears the wrong colors kind of fighter"^^

Well, I was just agreeing with Anvil

Jack as in Union Jack If the main body is red than you'll want to make sure the symbol of the Empire stands out.

of course^^ yeah you are right... i have to think how i can make it stand out from a more reddish hide then...

just some inspiration for possible colours
also, I found this one that looks quite similar, on a search for "steampunk tank" ^^

You're joking, right? That's one of Vik's piks.

Anvildude wrote:You're joking, right? That's one of Vik's piks.

yes, I'm joking

Sometimes my own pics show up in searches as well.

shasolenzabi wrote:Sometimes my own pics show up in searches as well.

Me too

then I realise I am still on Facebook

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

shasolenzabi wrote:Sometimes my own pics show up in searches as well.

Me too

then I realise I am still on Facebook

my pics barely ever show up, but my web searches occasionally do.