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detailing on the wings - hasn't turned out too badly, although I could certainly wish for a steadier hand!

I should have gotten a shot of this, but I reversed the scheme on the underside of the wings - grey wings with yellow stripes. Pics next time!

Great freehand

That looks fantastic. The freehand looks great.

... not that I have the attention span of a fruitfly or anything... new Guardians, X-Men style! Lets face it, it was bound to happen sooner or later!
I got the simpler Guardians, so there's just the weapon arm left to stick on - I didn't attach it as I wanted to to the stripe down the torso. Not turned out too badly! Not sure what colour to do the weapon, so I'll have a think about that...

Very cool. Perhaps blue for the weapon to go with the gems?

Looks very effective so far.

Bone might be a nice contrast to the black. Or grey perhaps.

first half-squad of Guardians done, and they've turned out pretty well. This is speed painting for me - minimal highlighting and details.
The second half of the squad plus the weapons team coming up next

first of the Shadow Spectres finished. Don't think I've quite cracked it yet. I'm going to try for lighter armour and blue ribbons on the next one...

That spectre looks quite nice. That being said I think that adding blueer ribbons and making him lighter will look even better

Awesome!

Looks really fiddley. I can appreciate that from doing my howling griffons, but youve taken it a step further again!

The guardians look great! Only thing is, they look somewhat plain without the big gem on their gun painted. You could really extend the orange stripe to the gun with an orange gem.

I love the Shadow Spectre.

finnan wrote:first half-squad of Guardians done, and they've turned out pretty well. This is speed painting for me - minimal highlighting and details.
The second half of the squad plus the weapons team coming up next

These guys seem reminiscent of a football team (hand-egg for you brits). It looks a little odd in light of the other models, but if you throw a few shots of them together maybe I'll change my opinion. Excellent work though!

progress on the Guardians - most of them blocked in and a little work done on the weapon platform. A bit of tidying up to do on the Craftworld icon, just to make all the lines a consistent width.

Really like the freehand on that weapons platform, may i suggest adding a bit of highlighting to it to make is pop a bit more

The freehand there looks great! Have you decided on a gun color yet for the guardians?

... I'm being lazy on the gun colour lol
I'm going for Charadon, then a wash of black, then a couple of washes of blue. It does make a difference, but doesn't show up too well on the photos. I think what I might do when they'yre all done is go back and do some detailing on them, maybe a jewel and a couple of stripes, but nothing too major.

TheChronoTrigger: yeah, the icon is a bit flat at the moment (in line with my speed-painting, minimal highlighting for this bunch!) but I know what you mean. At the moment it's flat yellow because I had to correct some mistakes when I was doing it, so some whiter highlights in the corners would probably be a good idea

Very cool. The color scheme is great. It's simple, yet memorable and distinct. More please

Loving the color scheme!

The guns look good black (or granite). Just the gem needs to be coloured.

i litterally went WOW whne i saw those guardians, great job and also cool work on the spectre and the ship on the previous page.

Man, loving the work you're doing with them Guardians.

I've read your whole blog and it's amazing. Everything looks amazing. Well Done!

Also if you don't mind me asking how did you paint your Eldar Hornet to make the glow look so life like?

Great job on everything by the way.

thank you all for the kind words - as ever, it's nice to have my stuff appreciated (and to know that I'm doing stuff right! lol)

Porcupine: someone else asked me about the Tron Glow, and here's what I replied:
it was actually fairly easy (once I'd gone wrong a few times and learned from my mistakes!)... the first attempt I think I did the glow too wide, and it was a bit overwhelming. That also might be because it was quite a light colour - Hawks Turquoise and white. When I started to redo it, I had a look at light sabres, and the glow around them is actally fairly muted, so I just went for pure Hawks the second time around. It looks really strong against the grey, but gets knocked back A LOT when I put the white in. If I really wanted to go the extra mile, I would have done a hawks:white highlight, but that might have been too much.
So tip no.1: don't make the glow colour too light.

How I did it: blocked in all the dark colour and then did the glow colour over the top. As usual, I just thinned down the Hawks and then applied it in lots of thin layers - so thin I could barely see it applying. I did thin layers, so while it took quite a few layers, it wasn't too slow to do.
Tip no.2: thin down the paint 1:5 paint:water, and just have a little patience when building up the tone. I used a 000 brush so it wasn't heavy-handed or anything.

After I'd done the glow, I thinned down some Skull White so it'd flow a bit better and dropped it into the recesses as the actual light source.

That's about it really. It wasn't the most exciting painting job, but it came out okay, so the effort paid off.

hope that helps : )

Thanks for your reply finnan, it's very help full.

Will this painting technique work on a Necron abyss base coat?

Also you don't mind if I use this glow effect on my eldar tanks do you?

Thanks again.

You're more than welcome I don't see why it wouldn't work - Necron Abyss is pretty dark, so if you use a lighter colour for the glow, it should stand out enough.

Of course I don't mind!

I like where you have been going with the army...I would like to see some photos of the guardians beside the tanks you did earlier.

donno if you caught this but the bottom of the gun platform looks like it's crackling on the surface. Looks like a bad priming from the one photo. May want to recheck to see.

Otherwise, nothing but great things in this thread, Great new take on guardians.

just had a look at the platform, can't see any crackling... might be the aggressive drybrushing I did on them all lol
the plan for the platform is to tidy up the yellow more than I did on the guardians - larger, flatter areas are more unforgiving of the Basecoat, Wash & Drybrush The Hell Out Of It process, particularly yellow (which is almost as bad as white for getting it nice and flat!)

Guardians done : )
They've turned out okay for a quick job, and I quite like the weapons team.
Not the best shots, so I'll try again later, but you get the idea : )

They look like little fire-lights in the dark. I love them!