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A nice way to honor Dsteingass

just a thought why not give him a little mud on his shoulder to hide the flok? just an idea maybe a little more mud stains .

and a question do you think i can remove the legs of harker relative easy/ i want him to become my wolf lord. so remove legs replace with power armor legs and a bit of fun stuff change his heavy bolter into a giant combi weapon that sort of stuff.

Hey! Great idea! I'm looking at mine and yeah, removing the legs would be easy, just need to watch the belt of pouches and grenades, but if you don't want them, it should just take a saw bisection, then take a clipper to the pouches and grenades and watch them fly across the room. INCOMING!

Can you make the flock look some shrapnel that got lodged in his arm? Or a piercing of some sort? Otherwise a tattoo should do the trick.

All great ideas. What im going to do though..i think...is put a spare piece of tyranid chitin on his shoulder over it. Ill use it as a spot color, perhaps tie into the flower....like the tyranid hunters veteran squads i saw somewhere. Otherwise the tattoo will do fine as its the same concept as mud etc etc

I *knew* he would look awesome at normal size!

Awesome it's getting beter and beter!

Don't really spot the flock right away or is it that tiny thing the on left shoulder I think I see?
I normally would remove it and paint over, but if you can make it work like a scar or a badass bitching tatoo I'm not complaining.

I look forward to your next post.

Ooooh a Scar! Great idea Fab.

Very cool idea.

btw, my tank thread needs a push as it is appending to old posts again and I have fresh pics too!

That is FANTASTIC, he looks like a real (small) man!

great i guess i need to pick up a model of harker and yell incomming

Thanks for all your guys input Ive made more progress today...more touch up and highlights on skin as well as that tattoos have been added. Sliiiiight clean up on them but im very pleased with how they came out. Even more so, the belt, i really like. I wasnt sure what to do with it, but over at jamumools Cadian page hes got this dual woodland camo and desert camo thing happening, which particularly like. Its gotten some C and C about being too busy..but i think it looks sweet and it popped into my mind to do something along those lines. So i painted a camo green belt whatcha guys think?







going with brown leathers on the pouches and black grenades and shoes...not sure about the wrist cuffs...also i realized that pit by his belt is a giant belly button, so i need to get in there and touch it up

Well, since I see a Krak Grenade, it could be painted red as well, as most of the marines painted have Krak red and frag in OD green of some sort. Just a suggestion.

I am even more honored with the amazing paintjob he is getting! I would've called it "good enough" several stages ago myself!

He looks sweeeet!

The skin looks really good, I like your method. I agree with the approach to the belt, having a flat color next to multi-color camo offsets it nicely.

markoseugene wrote:The skin looks really good, I like your method. I agree with the approach to the belt, having a flat color next to multi-color camo offsets it nicely.

thanks Though the belt is camoed also...i hope that comes across...i kept it pretty subtle but i like it...

good, what color did you use for the tats?

Awesome! Just read whole thread, and very impressed with all your work, just amazing. So much character, and clean crisp paint job.

p.s. glow in the dark plants = brilliant! don't suppose you could try and show us a pic of a few glowing? I imagine that would be really hard to photograph.

I think those may be the best skin tones and detail I have seen on a model of this size. I tip my hat at thee sir.

Thanks guys Welcome new comers to my thread, so glad i caught your eye!

Capitansolstice wrote:...what color did you use for the tats?

The basecoat for the tats is a watery (always) mix of 10% Black, 50% Regal Blue and 40% Flesh Mid tone (in this case is 25%bleached bone/75% Dwarf Flesh). For shading i add more black to the mix, for highlight i add more flesh tone to the mix.

Whoa whoa whoa. How the hell have I missed this? Awesome work here my friend. Best looking Cadian army I've seen. +subscribed

I go away for a week and all this awesome happens with out me wth??? Love how harker is turning out i think im going to try that with my de succubus (except they are grey skinned too many combat drugs lol) well keep it up man!

I hate it it looks ugly, the skin jobs looks pathetic and do you call that a free hand? o wait i was looking at my own models

yours is awesome but one tiny thing. do i miss a head on that IG eagle?

lol fatty! You sholudnt think that about your work either! There is a head on the eagle...i mean its tiny man, theres about enough room for a micrometer of mass, and some kinda beak. i still need to clean the tats up but the overall shape and design is strong and man, thats the part that was a little nervewracking! Especially on his arm...it was challenging to do that over such dynamic muscles.

holy greens! i am away for not even a week and you come up with something as grande as a sgt. steingass...very cool and fitting name....looks a bit like a modern jungle version of a guy from the howling commandos....the camo of the pants is simply sweet! highlights on camop patches.... fantastic! and then the skin! he looks stunning and i am man enough to say so^^ those muscles^^
the camo belt is a very nice idea and i am aplauding you for not going red! that way it is much more fitting than a guy with a big gun in the jungle and he gets taken down because of a red towel around his belt.... lol

have you thought about what mini you will be choosing for a fatty? well you have to agree the speed you are painting in seems to be so fast that new projects have to be planned quick^^

thanks by the way for still sharing your work with us...
oh and, how can a painter as you possibly break a brush if he paints as acuratly and fine as you??? if my bristles of my brushes resemble a mob i am not surprised but you? makes me wonder....^^

cheers, vik

yeah but the imperial eagle has two heads and i only spot one. and i was trying to be funny my work is awesome i will make a tread for my space wolves when i go and work with them again

Vik! Welcome back sir! Thanks for the comments i was hoping youd like the way this one was turning out, and youve been gone a week! Glad you are back!
@ Fatty...yeah...ive been painting them wrong for this entire time! How did i miss this and be able to call myself a 40k fan?? Let alone imperial guard! Maybe im tainted!!! Oh well im not fixing it Itll cost too much and there is a certain point when you gotta just let it be.
@ Vik. Fattys mini i have some quite good ideas for. I have a waysss to go on this guy b4 hes done. Heres todays update for that matter. The leathers further highlights and such. More to come. Another glaze on the skin. And finally i decided on a hair color. In this case, i went with red hair, like the GW mini. I dunno, i wanted something flamboyant ala MMO Character Creation..FFXII lol,,,but alas, it wouldnt have worked i dont think. I kept it somewhat natural...a lil more red, maybe a glaze or two...well see...here he is on his way to life..

WOW.
He looks ten times better than my attempt,keep up the good (fantastic) work.

Leather looks great! Dang the whole thing looks great!