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This looks amazing, If you haven't already i suggest that you try commision painting as your skills are extremely impressive

Comment huh? How about too awesome for words? Believe me, if I had any ideas I'd share them (of course, the likelihood goes up if its Orks or Grotz...)

Lol, I dunno, SOMETHING has to suck on something!

I guess I should count my blessings that my work and the teams work are well received, but I am used to my real-world clients (graphics and marketing stuff) and with them, there is always something...

The Dante is coming together really well so far imo, however as it has deviated from the concept art in a few ways I want honest opinions either way to make sure I do right by the mini before it leaves Mr. Freakforges hands.

In any case, work has continued on Termie squad 1 too, and I can see a light at the end of the tunnel! Only freehand symbols, jewels and ropes to go. Ah fek... pipes, wires and weathering too, almost forgot about those lol

Imho I say remove the blood drops on the sides, keep he one in the middle and keep the head as it is. I think it will give some focal point to the center and head because of the center blood drop. Just what I think would be cool, consider it?

That is an idea, I think it would be more architecturally interesting to have the columns un-obscured and maybe dig out some vertical grooves, since he has already put ionic style capitals? Something like this?



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MajorTom11 wrote:Lol, I dunno, SOMETHING has to suck on something!
I guess I should count my blessings that my work and the teams work are well received, but I am used to my real-world clients (graphics and marketing stuff) and with them, there is always something...

I understand this well (web dev stuff for me) - but there are two distinct differences. 1) You aren't making this for me, so I have no preconceived notions, or perhaps enough buy-in. 2) I *know* you guys are doing a much better job than I can currently - which makes it harder to see where to improve things.

I *will* try harder in the future though

If I may make a suggestion?
Get rid of the drops on the colums, and add some more detail to the colums themselves, like MajorTom himself suggested. You could use the large central drop on the "hood" to draw the eye into the face by adding a second, smaller drop to the centre of the forehead. The implied movement of those 2 drops will automatically draw the eye downward into the face.
At the moment the three drops seem to draw the eye around the face instead of into it.

The more I look at it, the more strongly I am agreeing with that assessment. The drops to the side are pulling the eye away, needs to go I think.

I have to say, I would be inclined to leave the crown off. The hair has been sculpted too well to cover it up, and there are a lot of Crowned Dantes around, it's be nice to see an uncrowned one.

The colour of the Genestealer blood and guts reminds me of Alien.

I hope it's not as acidic otherwise the termi with a genestealers head in this PF is going to melt based on the amount of splatter on him. :-)

Loving your work.

In my best Clarence Bodicer impression I like it

Hey boys,

Been a little bit since the last update, just been painstakingly slogging through the final details of the Termie squad. Only things left are wires, some misc small details and weathering... Almost there!

First though, a quick look at how the Dante Style Terminator is coming along -



And on to the Termies, I went a bit nuts on them lol, they are by far my most detailed paintjobs to date, and I thought I went crazy on the stealers... remember, you can click on them to zoom in -























I am determined to finish these guys this week, preferably before wednesday... after that, I think I will reward myself for slogging through this and play my first game of Spacehulk lol! After that, I think I will do some sculpting on the newest magus I got from Maow minis, paint up the C.A.T and paint the Librarian... after that, the last 5 Termies and the set is complete! Then it will finally be hybrid time, full on.

Cheers guys

Gorgeous my friend. They look great.

You should get Dante cast, Id buy one for sure! Awsome work, keep it up!

Looking good! Any reason Dante got an ogre gutplate?

wow very nicely done Dante-nator lol That is very good and much better than me.

Yup it is coming along nicely! Not sure about the gut-plate myself but I'm letting him run with it, it is very hard to judge before it is done, but I have faith!

Gonna get some proper pics of the termies when I'm done, there is so much detail that isnt turning up in the above pics. Thanks guys!

this thread made me do a sick in my mouth with geek joy! thankyou

azekio wrote:this thread made me do a sick in my mouth with geek joy! thankyou

Lol! Wasn't exactly the effect I was going for, but you are welcome!!

DISASTER :(

Finished the Termies on weds as scheduled, and yesterday I was taking the final steps of a matte sealer spray before glossing the jewels and taking the final pics...

And the fekking sealer frosted all 6 of my completed termies... I read somewhere once that hand brushing more sealer on can sometimes help... but at this point I am pretty convinced I just ruined 100's of hours of work... Fek. I even did a test model before hand and it was fine, fury is not a descriptive enough word here...

Holy cow, that's really, reaaally bad luck man ! Is there any way of saving them ?

Really cool log, i love the space hulk terminators, the Dantenator looks sweet mate!

Balls,
Sorry dude. Are they completely toasted or saveable?

Ouch. If I could Paint to that kind of Standard, and that happened to me... I'd be breaking things. You must have some mixture of Patience and Self-Restraint. Really unfortunate mate, I wish there were a way to fix it. There's only one explanation; they've been claimed by the All-Consuming Gods of Chaos.

Here is what I am dealing with... did some experiments with water to see if the sealer became clearer when wet... no luck, I am losing hope here... Some are worse than others, but they are all effed... Lost so much of the highlights and transitions.

Worst part is, I had them sealed properly and clearly with a Satin Krylon, I decided to be extra cautious and seal again with matte as these guys would be touched while playing... Even took the precaution of sealing a test mini first, which went fine. Somehow, half an hour later, something changed and this happend... The only thing I can think of is maybe to heat them in hopes it will smooth out???

:S :S :S











*heavy sigh*

It may have been the humidity level that did this to you. What were the sealers that you used exactly? Did you let the Satin dry completely before applying the Matte? I use sealers of all kinds quite a bit in my work with decorative concrete. There may be a way to "break" and reset the sealer using solvents/thinners, I'm not sure if it will damage the beautiful paintjobs or minis. I will continue to brainstorm on this... very sorry that happened to you.

Wow, thats a whole new level of suck you just discovered. Im truly sorry that happened, those were (are?) some awsome lookin dudes.

I thought a bit more on your problem, I would try using a very small amount of Mineral Spirits on a test area. With the Satin finish underneath if you apply it gently and don't use too much it may break down that cloudy layer of sealer for you without damaging anything else. Mineral Spirits will evaporate very quickly and hopefully not fully penetrate all the layers of sealer, while being a strong enough solvent to loosen (and hopefully clear up) the Matte layer. That's all I came up with so far...

Thanks a lot guys, I am going to give a go with nail polish remover on a small portion of the worst effected area on one guy, a gloss layer over the top of another area, and finally mineral spirits and johnsons floorwax on another bit... hopefully, one of those 4 will melt the matt layer without raping the paintjob underneath....

I do have another Hulk box I bought to have extra floor sections, so if I need to, I can start over with fresh minis... I'm not sure I'll be able to dredge up the motivation after this debacle lol. :s



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hope Mineral spirits is a bit more effective... :S I really need to melt the top layer, its too rough to coat over, it still shows through...

How about white spirit or thinners?