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Metsuri wrote:If you are doing the splatter in random method, I don't think you should go for more. I agree that it is a danger in going for more gore than looks good and I have also a taste for over doing it. I love the he currently looks and he will be a nice center piece for some lucky gamer.

It's completely random, there's no way to predict how it'll work (that's part of the joy of it), thank you very much for your kind words!


Tester for 360degree technology with Karl Franz, please let me know your thoughts (we're working on lighting issues)

That looks great! love the tigerskin. The 360 degree view looks good too though I agree that the lighting could be me consistent

Robbietobbie wrote:That looks great! love the tigerskin. The 360 degree view looks good too though I agree that the lighting could be me consistent

Cheers bud.

Some more BA stuff for a regular client may well be on its way soon guys; I've not forgotten the round bases!

Good curious to see them. My brother is painting up his own blood angels army at the moment

Here's one shot, apologies for the picture quality!

These are to fast gaming standard, so they're fairly simple scheme wise, just tried to keep things crisp and coherent

http://www.elementgames.co.uk/images/gallery/12/289-large.jpg


Also our mark 3 3d view machine has been tested out with the steam tank model that I did, please let me know your thoughts!


http://www.elementgames.co.uk/warhammer-fantasy/the-empire/empire-steam-tank

Cool stuff! VERY decent gaming standard all the cloth is better than anything I can do! Any pointers on that?
can't help but notice that in the 3D view some pics are blueish others pink!? some seem a bit blurry

Requiem wrote:Cool stuff! VERY decent gaming standard all the cloth is better than anything I can do! Any pointers on that?
can't help but notice that in the 3D view some pics are blueish others pink!? some seem a bit blurry

Thanks bud, we're working on the lighting for the pictures, it's very tricky when you have to do more than just a 360degree view at one level!

Sure, the cloth was base-coated in dheneb stone and bleached bone, then washed with gryphonne sepia with a *tiny* amount of bestial brown added, once this was dry I used bleached bone for the highlights.



Well after however any hours it is I've painted some of the new Necron Wraiths, the kit is brilliant, although assembly took nearly as long as painting, which is a bugbear of mine with the necron stuff.

Click the picture to go to more views in my gallery (the backs of these guys are gorgeous, lovely to paint!):



I'd give the kit 8.5/10, it's brilliant, but a couple of the points where the bits join the sprue are a little ill conceived (on the inside of the 'scythes' rather than the outside for example).

I painted them in the same way as my annihilation barge a while back, if you're interested [url=http://elementgames.co.uk/forums/viewforum.php?f=20]here's a link to my tutorials page[url]

Any comments or criticisms please let me know as ever!

Byron

Holy smoke, did you get those today?! Very fast (and very good) work

Flashman wrote:Holy smoke, did you get those today?! Very fast (and very good) work

I didn't move from my desk for about 9 or 10 hours!

Thanks bud, here's another of them 3d'd

http://plail.co.uk/element/wraith2.html

I've assembled the Triarch Stalker and will complete the painting of it tomorrow, it's a nice looking model, if only the TK in fantasy had a bit ore of this vibe!

3d view is brilliant this time!
As are the models of course, but saying you put most others to shame would be pointing out the obvious

Requiem wrote:3d view is brilliant this time!
As are the models of course, but saying you put most others to shame would be pointing out the obvious

Thank you Requiem! I think we're very nearly there with the 3d


Well it's been a very Necron-y weekend, here's the Stalker to go with the wraiths, click the image to go to my gallery for more views:



Also here's the direct link to the 3d view of the wraith, we'll have one done for the stalker soon!

http://plail.co.uk/element/wraith2.html

Both of the Necrons look brilliant. I really like your choice of colors on these figs, they stand out from the crowd really well.

Metsuri wrote:Both of the Necrons look brilliant. I really like your choice of colors on these figs, they stand out from the crowd really well.

Thanks very much Metsuri, if I can use hawk turquoise on a model then I will, any excuse is enough!

You guys may remember me mentioning this a while back, well I've made a little progress with it.

I'm in the process of trying to paint a full 2400point daemon army in less than 7 days, and I've been taking pictures along the way with some units with the intent of writing tutorials. These daemonettes were painted in one sitting in about 9-10 hours, which could be useful for someone if they have a tournament coming up etc

Anyway I've written a tutorial here describing how I did it.

Here's a picture of the finished unit:




let me know if it's of any help, what you thnk I could do to improve it, or if there's any general questions you'd like answering, I'll be doing lots more in the future so with some feedback hopefully I can make them more helpful!

Impressive work! really liking your wraiths and stalker. Especially impressive considering how fast you've painted them!

Byronic wrote:Thanks very much Metsuri, if I can use hawk turquoise on a model then I will, any excuse is enough!

I have found the happiness that is hawk turquoise with my Malifaux painting and have to agree with you. I am starting to paint my Project Pandora kit soon and the corporation guys will definitely get it on their uniforms.

Robbietobbie wrote:Impressive work! really liking your wraiths and stalker. Especially impressive considering how fast you've painted them!

Cheers Robbie, I feel that Necrons have become somewhat of a speciality of mine, definitely the 40k race I feel the most confident painting fast and to a high quality.

Metsuri wrote:

Byronic wrote:Thanks very much Metsuri, if I can use hawk turquoise on a model then I will, any excuse is enough!

I have found the happiness that is hawk turquoise with my Malifaux painting and have to agree with you. I am starting to paint my Project Pandora kit soon and the corporation guys will definitely get it on their uniforms.

Hell yes, Best. Colour. Ever.

It goes with everything, bleached bone makes some beautiful shades of highlight, sunburst yellow makes it more vibrant, if you're wanting something really dark 50/50 with chaos black is gorgeous as well!

I've done another unit of wraiths after people kindly pointed out that units of 5 are common (my 40k knowledge couldn't fill a tea cup!)




And here's them all together, click the images for plenty of more views in my gallery!





As ever here's the link to The tutorials I've written, including the one I wrote for how I paint necrons



Here's a link to eBay in case anyone's interested

great work and gz on making the blog again

Just opened this thread to see what was new with you, incidentally I just opened up the GW blog. Lo and behold, I was looking at the very same pictures on both pages!
Congrats on some amazing models

Robbietobbie wrote:great work and gz on making the blog again

JBrehaut wrote:Just opened this thread to see what was new with you, incidentally I just opened up the GW blog. Lo and behold, I was looking at the very same pictures on both pages!
Congrats on some amazing models

Thank you very much guys, it's always really gratifying to see my stuff up there, there's a lot of sweat and tears that go into the models!


Ebay auctions end tomorrow evening

No pictures today I'm afraid guys, but I have done another tutorial, this time it's on how to sculpt scale mail, I'll be trying to improve or at least re-remember sculpting over the next couple of weeks, this is the beginning of it

How to Sculpt Scale Mail

I'll follow those tutorials with a lot of interest, my sculpting skill ends at making a couple of acceptable crimson fist logo's so I'd be happy to pick up a couple of tricks

Cheers Robbie; I hope it's of some help!

To go with the last tutorial How to sculpt chain mail

Byron

P.S something big and necronny may be around the corner in the next month, possibly in a scheme I've not yet tried ^_^

I've mostly been working on 40k recently, I have squeezed in a quick Magnetising Units and Painting Bases tutorial, give them a look if you fancy.

And here's necrons in another scheme as promised Still WiP, but it's nearly done, these are being done to my fastest standard.



More to come soon, I'm doing an entire ary in this scheme, inspired by Chad Mierzwa's Necrons in the last white dwarf.

Wow really good work on the blue gem! any tips on how to achieve that? I've got a monolith lying around that I bought secondhand and it looked like the previous ownen glued it with a glue gun or something... so I have to paint it up but it just doesn't come out right

Robbietobbie wrote:Wow really good work on the blue gem! any tips on how to achieve that? I've got a monolith lying around that I bought secondhand and it looked like the previous ownen glued it with a glue gun or something... so I have to paint it up but it just doesn't come out right

I used the airbrush on mine Robbie, but basically if you shade the same angle of every flat bit it'll get the same effect, whether drybrush or blend etc. e.g. I picked the right edge and botto right corner and put the highlight there in every section.

I've done a new tutorial, painting a dreadstone blight, feel free to check it out

Here's a WiP picture from it:

Hi Guys, I've painted up a Nightscythe,



There's a couple of WiP pictures and a brief review on my
newly started blog, please take a look:

I was waiting for you to finish one of those! Looks good!
helpful tutorial btw, I'm considering doing some watter effects myself soon but I'm thinking about doing a swampy gaming table so vallejo water effects will probably be way too expensive to use. Shame though cause it looks good! Thinking about buying a clear two-part epoxy for it

You may be able to get away with it robbie, you don't need much depth at all to give the illusion away if you do a couple of layers getting a bit bighter each time, there's so many different products out there unortunately, I've only tried 2 of them

I've been burning the midnight oil, and here's the SM flier done:



I kind of wish that I'd got the Ork one now, 3 fliers in 3 days would have been quite an achievement!

That stormtalon actually looks better than the officials pics i've seen so far! good job!

Robbietobbie wrote:That stormtalon actually looks better than the officials pics i've seen so far! good job!

Haha, cheers mate, it's lovely to paint in blue, I never get to do it!

Blog post is up with a couple of step by step pictures:

http://www.elementgames.co.uk/painting-blog/?p=31

and here's a cropped one of the biig boy