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Iffy, if your looking at lights and bulbs you can allways go with daylight bulbs.
They arent cheap, and will pop if left on all night (had a few do this) but it gives you a nice natural light with no tint to it.

Failing that, the old strip lights work just as well (like the old school style ones)

Either one will give great light for a pic, and you can get a light box setup to work fine with it.
Just watch out though since they do generate a gakload of heat over time.

۞ Jack ۞ wrote:Iffy, if your looking at lights and bulbs you can allways go with daylight bulbs.
They arent cheap, and will pop if left on all night (had a few do this) but it gives you a nice natural light with no tint to it.

Failing that, the old strip lights work just as well (like the old school style ones)

Aye dayglow are win, problem is I am out of time now. Had to make do with 2 small desk lamps I stole from the bedroom, meaning the light was Peach--> <-- Peach and white on top, so a dodgy effect. 2 small desk lamps will be on the way shortly, but Korv will be gone by then so the pic is just to show that extra bit of detail before he is on his way.




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Hmmm



Just arrived in the mail Thinking I will either paint him up as a Smurf in between commish work and ebay him, or if anyone would be interested in taking him and would like a different scheme, drop me a PM.

Got word back about the DP, so construction will commence when I get home Actually excited about painting him, I get to revisit my ollld favourite, grey skin. Hopefully when his base arrives, it won't be as much of a failure as the poor Iron warriors ones.

Would love to see him as a Imp fist to help me out with my army. But with heavy battle weathering. Kinda like this pic which has proved the inspiration for my army.

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/1231850559/gallery_24723_3002_280114.jpg

Yellow recipes are always fun to see being put out.

Thats an option for sure Lennysmash, but I need to make sure he has the best chance to sell on ebay, so I will take a look and see what the most popular chapter selling is ( I imagine smurf )

Demon Prince ASSEEMMBLE

Way too much GS needed. I can fill in gaps fine with it, but don't ask me to sculpt, hah.







Priming starting now. Plan is to keep his armor the same as the IW's, his skin will be pale grey blending down to vallejo gloss black for his claws and spines/horns. Gold trim on all the armor, and some hazards where I can fit them. He will be to character standard, so a bit above tabletop.

The owner of the Ravenguard was so happy with Shrike and Korv that he has asked me to do his Forgeworld venerable ravenguard dread, which is an absolutely stunning model, so I am very chuffed Won't be taking it on for a bit, and it will likely be quite a while till completion as other commissions have prio so it will only be worked on while I'm taking a break from them.

I tried out some super basic zenithal lighting on my old HE bolt thrower guy. I think I have the basic idea, and it became a lot easier when I stopped thinking so hard and just let the obvious lighted areas from above take over. I found treating it more like something I was colouring on a 2d medium more effective then thinking of it as a model, as my brain kept being overrided by what I have beat into it from hours of normal hightlight. He is only tabletop but I learned a lot so I am happy regardless.

Ifalna wrote:Thats an option for sure Lennysmash, but I need to make sure he has the best chance to sell on ebay, so I will take a look and see what the most popular chapter selling is ( I imagine smurf )

True to a point, when it comes to a proper pro painted mini and not the some people call pro painted on Ebay the chapter doesn't really seem matter as much as which mini it is. I think there may be difficulty selling the AoBR commander for much at all. How much were you going to sell him for anyway?

Ifalna wrote:Way too much GS needed. I can fill in gaps fine with it, but don't ask me to sculpt, hah.

I'm the same I working up to asking Blackhand and the like for a full shoulder pad sculpting tutorial. All the tutes I've come across are good but a bit more geared towards the basics, like mixing the stuff and keeping tools wet.

Ifalna wrote: Priming starting now. Plan is to keep his armor the same as the IW's, his skin will be pale grey blending down to vallejo gloss black for his claws and spines/horns. Gold trim on all the armor, and some hazards where I can fit them. He will be to character standard, so a bit above tabletop.

Sounds like some really good colour choices, for the hazards how about painting one of the fists in kind of a broken hazard pattern, to show the hands conversion from a power fist through into its mutated form now. Just idea and one I've probably failed to express properly,

Need to keep an eye on it now the DP is started
Gap filling and sculpting arent that different iffy.
Both require a range of techniques to get right.


Grab some cheap GF9 GS and give it a go, you would be supprised how easy it is once you get the basics.

Ifalna wrote:
Priming starting now. Plan is to keep his armor the same as the IW's, his skin will be pale grey blending down to vallejo gloss black for his claws and spines/horns. Gold trim on all the armor, and some hazards where I can fit them. He will be to character standard, so a bit above tabletop.

Sounds decent, but wont the model be very grey/black? I mean, the hazard stripes and trim will break i up, but will it be enough for a centerpiece model?

Check out whatwhat's tutorial on greenstuff (in the tutorial section).

Thats got some really awesome tips. Otherwise, just get some colour shapers and mess around. The shapers make life so much easier you'll be very surprised!

Pale grey will be enough to make it an eye catcher, it won't be dark once all done. Something very similar to



The amount of gold trimming will definitely help it stand out too He is all undercoated now and I am starting to build up his skin. Will be leaving the metals till last as none are being obscured by any of the flesh, which is awesome.

@ Jack : Oh gap filling is np, I have just never had much interest in sculpting with GS, bar when the gap that needs feeling is huge and needs extra detail on top. My rubber top paint shaper tools make it a walk in the park.

Edit: Vitruvian XVII, exactly Got there just before I hit submit.


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DP is now on his way

First coat - Codex grey + small amount of chaos black over all skin.
Heavy wash badab, then a drybrush of codex grey to help distinguish all raised areas and show some shading.



Eyes - Scab red base, highlighted to blazing orange at bottom. Black slit pupil, white edges to create red Iris.



First highlight - Codex grey with small amount of chaos white, thinned down and painted over all raised areas, leaving very little recess showing.



There will be two more layers of highlighting bringing him up to a very pale grey. All ridges/bone/fingers will be grey blending into gloss black.

You're probably right, and seeing how good your tabletop chaos look I can't wait to see how a centerpiece will turn out o.O

Edit, I see what you mean now, he looks great! Will be wonderful ones the trim is painted!

Yeah the colour looks good Iffy, though I'm def not won over by the model as a whole. Not just yours but the whole kit in general. I think it has something to do with him 'flipping the bird', makes him seem like a chav rather than an ancient demonic entity.

I agree with Lenny. This model just doesn't look that good.

Aye, the only armoured arms being the fingery ones seemed pretty poorly thought out. Unless you count slaaneshy tattoo like raised areas as armor :S

Head choices are pretty awful imo too, but the torso and back options are both pretty nice.

DP Updates will be up tomorow night. Skin will be all done and hopefully the claws/spines
Found this baby just now and am very, very tempted.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Space_Marines/Space_Marine-Infantry-Accessories/LUGFT-HURON-CHAPTER-MASTER-OF-THE-ASTRAL-CLAWS.html

Astral claws paint scheme is kind of tiger stripes, or is the wiki a bit out of date? He would be fabulous to paint.

lol, being as old as they are, i think thats the most up-to-date paint scheme for them.
However, with the new imp. armour book im sure they will get a new scheme.
Chances are they will simply make the scheme a bit darker than before, and a possible pattern change. (no other chapter really uses patterns)
However, DPM marines wouldnt look bad.


also, i actually have time off work lol, so i get to paint for once

The picture of the Astral claws actually dates back to when they were refered to as the Tiger claws in the background fluff I'd assume. Therefore any scheme would be fine. The other scheme offered is the Red Corsairs scheme which I believe was chosen after they had been declared excommunicatus, but I have a feeling that this doesn't not match their original livery.

Although it has to be said that GW will probably take the easy way out on it and make it so, how novel of them, more red marines, lol.

Aye.

"Red marines with black trim? This will surely be both eye catching and instantly recognisable, go ahead with it!"

Any idea around when the armor book will be released? Would be awful to get him, paint him, then have the colour scheme proven completely wrong just after :(

your flag has changed?

I don't see anything desperately wrong with the demon prince model. But seeing as they are so huge and powerful I suppose they could have tried harder.

The astral claws mini is great!

Aye my work Ip is ever changing, going to have to request it gets set to Ireland permanantly as it is getting pretty confusing now. I think I was showing as coming from France for a while too, who knows where next month!

I dislike the Dp's face options immensely, not enough options at all, if you wanted to go anything other than Khorne or Undivided, you have to convert it. Even the more Slaaneshy of the options just does not look right at all. Nice set of plastic wings though.

So, any other vampiric tendancies?
You dont sleep


Done some digging for you on the claws.
1: the book is out now by the seems of it (can be ordered)
2: paint scheme has changed drastic.
3: have a pic:




Seems they have gone grey and blue lol.

Seems like they are really running out of Sm colour ideas, that to me looks just like a weathered ultramarine colour scheme. It really needs something more obvious to differentiate it or it will just look awful.

He is ordered now regardless, so fingers crossed more info appears and that Dread is just a once off. If I wanted to paint an UM I would have bought one ><

lol, someone on here is bound to post as soon as they get the book, so ill keep an ey out for you.

But from the dread, i would hazard a guess that its blue shoulder, weapon and guns, then grey everything else.

Scheme could work out great if done right. (ie: by you)

Aha! It is a very dark silver with navy detailing, thank god. I was really dreading it turning out to be just an ultramarine ripoff.
Pic from the Gw site -



That looks doable and a great exercise in dark metals Looking forward to this now.

It looks ok, paint scheme makes me think instantly of GK, suppose with a bit of conversion work on the detailing could prove quite an interesting BC or Inquisitor.

Bleh, why do they allways paint then assemble? lol
I rather keep it in 1 piece to paint.


So, ordered yourself one yet?
Seems alot of the FW characters look damn good for thier price.



And since i had some spare time i got working on the throgg sculpt lol, poor daemon prince.
Needed a base model since i cant be arsed to build a frame, so daemon prince is the test dummy.

Nice work in here! I will definitely be coming back to check more out. That FW Huron model is one of the best I have ever seen, anywhere. I am looking forward to seeing what you do with it.

Jack, I did indeed order one. Cant wait.

Reecius, thanks very much! He is indeed one of the nicest models I have seen so far. His claw fist is really astounding.



I did not get as far with the DP as I had hoped tonight as I was only able to start painting at 5am, but he is well on the way now. Just one more edge highlight layer and is skin will be finished off. The grey is Fortress grey and the final layer will have a speck of white added to it, but it will be an edge highlight only. Fingers crossed I can get his claws and horns done before bed, maybe teeth too. My chair is not helping as I have not gotten a proper sized seat for me since moving and I have to hunch over an awful lot to paint, which means repeated breaks for my back :(



If I get his skin and horns done I will post an update later, if not, they will be finished and armor started tomorow He has raised markings all over his legs, they look like unpainted dodgy grey bits in this pic but that is because he has not had his cleanup yet. His legs will look a lot neater once those look separate and not like badly painted side patches.

Edit: Oh, and next month will be a full Lizardman army for this blog. I freaking love painting them, so excited D:

I sometimes paint lying down to save on hunching - I have a coffee table / work bench that is just the same height as the bed - I expect eventually I will end up with a sore neck instead of back though.
lookin forward to the lizard horde

Very nice job on the prince so far.. White skin will definetly give nice contrast. Can't wait to see it finished. I'll be watching how you handle the other parts.

And try to find new and nice chair too. :> Broken backs aren't nice.

Skin looks great! How about stacking some boxes or books on your painting station as a temporary solution?