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Happy b day!

Happy Birthday Iffy, thats truly an awesome cake.

Wow...brilliant blog has brilliant cake too!?!

Now I have to find that squig model. His facial expression is priceless. I hope some of it is in the sculpt and not just your super paint work.

Happy Birthday Iff! July is the month of champions! (my birthday was last week )

And mine is next week

Clearly all the super cool people are born in July. Everyone else is a loser. aww yeaaah.

First group shot up, huuuge pic.



Not best quality as the settings and lighting needed for a giant shot like this are gak, but I will be uploading small finished shots of each group shortly Yay Squigs.

Super cool people Assemble!

I like the squid heard. The different flavors work well.

best ork army ever. period.

whalemusic360 wrote:Super cool people Assemble!
I like the squid heard. The different flavors work well.

They are really eyeburning when all together

Rogue Wolves wrote:best ork army ever. period.

YAY

Starting the final shot uploads now - here are 3 so far, click for big

Character standard



Showpiece standard

hey Iff, I dont think I ever asked how you panted teeth because they are fantastic!

Rogue Wolves wrote:hey Iff, I dont think I ever asked how you panted teeth because they are fantastic!

I actually paint them differently depending on whats around them, haha. I alter the shades quite a bit, but the basics for tabletop teeth I do would be to base a dark brown or neutral bone like dheneb stone, then highlight that up to bleached bone (2 layers usually), add sepia or mud around the gumline, then final highlight with bleached bone and white. It's quick and quite nice looking. For the higher standard stuff, its the same idea but in way more gradiated layers with way more washes.

And here is the man himself, finally completed and I am super duper happy with him. Boy be eye melting.

Wurrzag -

Spectacular work Iffy, so much vibrant color it stuns the mind (rather like one too many tequila shots).

And yes... all the cool kids are born in July.

Gitsplitta wrote:Spectacular work Iffy, so much vibrant color it stuns the mind (rather like one too many tequila shots).

And yes... all the cool kids are born in July.

I will honestly be sad to see them go, but not sad to recieve the payment for them Haha. I really do hope the owner is super happy with them, he was talking about getting a display made to put them in and that would be brilliant I think.

Here are the final few tabletop guys, and that marks the final shots of my beloved squiggies.

Fabby Squigs.

That is some awesome stuff!! Keep up the good work!!

I love the squig army. All I can say is...dat mask.

So cooooolll!!!

You truly do a magnificent job, Iffy! The squigs look absolutely stunning all together!

(oh and happy belated b-day!!)

Ifalna wrote:

Rogue Wolves wrote:hey Iff, I dont think I ever asked how you panted teeth because they are fantastic!

I actually paint them differently depending on whats around them, haha. I alter the shades quite a bit, but the basics for tabletop teeth I do would be to base a dark brown or neutral bone like dheneb stone, then highlight that up to bleached bone (2 layers usually), add sepia or mud around the gumline, then final highlight with bleached bone and white. It's quick and quite nice looking. For the higher standard stuff, its the same idea but in way more gradiated layers with way more washes.

And here is the man himself, finally completed and I am super duper happy with him. Boy be eye melting.

Wurrzag -

This is honestly one of the best Models i have seen, everything about it makes me happy and is very appealing to the eye! I dont even play that army in fantasy and it makes me want you to paint me one!

He used to be one of the most hated characters in competitive warhammer fantasy. Players and tournament organizers would practically foam at the mouth when you mentioned including him in your list.

The figure is wonderful though and I have never seen a better paint job for him.

And it is well and fitting to see him surrounded by lots of squigs.

Miss Dee wrote:Fabby Squigs.

All Squigs must henceforth have crazy colours!

baneofmorgoth wrote:That is some awesome stuff!! Keep up the good work!!
I love the squig army. All I can say is...dat mask.

The mask will go down in history as the most amount of time I have spent on something so tiny. Enraging, but rewarding!

Ramos Asura wrote:So cooooolll!!!
You truly do a magnificent job, Iffy! The squigs look absolutely stunning all together!
(oh and happy belated b-day!!)

Awww, thanks so much! ( for the bday wish too )

Cutthroatcure wrote:
This is honestly one of the best Models i have seen, everything about it makes me happy and is very appealing to the eye! I dont even play that army in fantasy and it makes me want you to paint me one!

Holy crap, well thanks! You should pick one up and paint him, he was intensely fun. Going crazy with all those skins and feathers was very entertaining

JB wrote:He used to be one of the most hated characters in competitive warhammer fantasy. Players and tournament organizers would practically foam at the mouth when you mentioned including him in your list.
The figure is wonderful though and I have never seen a better paint job for him.
And it is well and fitting to see him surrounded by lots of squigs.

Hah! Was he horrifically overpowered? I remember Teclis was a total joke for quite a while, and if you fielded Archaon, people would just refuse to play
I'm glad people are enjoying the scheme so much, it was a total gamble and I am thrilled people are liking it!

So tonight I finished up this chap.



Final shots of Carnivean pending owner review May still have changes.

Tabletop standard, 4 layers highlighting max, focused on neatness to give a really good final tabletop feel without being extremely detailed. Needs some final gap filling.

its not a squig, but i like it alot! the color of the gums is great, and i really like the black/blue carapace! it really reminds me of the videogame "Borderlands" good job Iff!

Those orks and squigs will look fantastic as a whole army. Im jealous.

That Wurzag is really, really lovely. You don't see enough vibrant colors in painting these days, and yours somehow manages to literally have a rainbow of colors without it looking garish or clashing. Neat linework, good shading, and great colors all around!

Norn King wrote:Those orks and squigs will look fantastic as a whole army. Im jealous.

So am I, I wish I owned them :( I will miss them a lot. /sadface

Brother SRM wrote:That Wurzag is really, really lovely. You don't see enough vibrant colors in painting these days, and yours somehow manages to literally have a rainbow of colors without it looking garish or clashing. Neat linework, good shading, and great colors all around!

Wahey, thanks a lot! I think the cape worked well because of the pastel scales that kind of pulled it all together without taking away from the strong colours, it was an experiment but I am thrilled it ended well.

Rogue Wolves wrote:its not a squig, but i like it alot! the color of the gums is great, and i really like the black/blue carapace! it really reminds me of the videogame "Borderlands" good job Iff!

It totally does look a bit like a Skag! It has that cell shaded feel to it too.

I'm starting to feel I am getting a good grasp of my "style" for my tabletop stuff, I've started leaning towards a quite cartoony, clean finish for tabletop that looks nice without being extremely detailed, and it makes me feel great because for quite a while I was finding myself swapping attempted styled quite often till I found a niche.

That I can output work quite quickly now that looks pleasant and also conforms to a set standard and look is something that is really making me happy.

Im a fan of your style.. because well i loved borderlands, and the coloring you do (like on this model) really puts that style in my mind, and im glad do hear you found the "Ifalna Style" ... im still in the depressing finding stage...

I've been lurking on this thread for quite some time, since the start of the squig herd project. With its completion, I felt I had to break my silence. I am frankly in awe. And I hope at some point in the future I develop your level of skill. I look forward to following your future projects (and gleaning tips and techniques here and there).

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Rogue Wolves wrote:Im a fan of your style.. because well i loved borderlands, and the coloring you do (like on this model) really puts that style in my mind, and im glad do hear you found the "Ifalna Style" ... im still in the depressing finding stage...

In fairness I bet I only think I've finally got it, and I'll change again soon. Ack.
You should try to emulate different looks you have seen, like cartoony, clean, fine lined, dirty, weathered etc and see which one you enjoy painting and could work on Thats kinda what I've been doing for the last erm.. near 2 years now? Wow.

Dicrel Seijin wrote:I've been lurking on this thread for quite some time, since the start of the squig herd project. With its completion, I felt I had to break my silence. I am frankly in awe. And I hope at some point in the future I develop your level of skill. I look forward to following your future projects (and gleaning tips and techniques here and there).
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Ahhh! Welcome aboard! I don't like posting descriptions of how I painted something in detail when I post a shot as I don't like to come across as if I'm tooting my own horn at peeps who really don't care, but if you ever do want to know how I went about doing something or tried out a technique, just ask or PM. I do not bite whatsoever. I am like Betty, I am a nice person with good feelings all of the time.

Cool looking Everblight.

Miss Dee wrote:Cool looking Everblight.

Woo

I finished up the tiny Shredders tonight, they are really tiny, smaller than some of the squigs which isint that noticeable in the shot but will be when you see them next to the Carnivean hehe.



Tabletop standard still, basic but still trying to make them pop.

Next up is the warcaster in this set who will be character standard, then its on to some Greenskins and .. Boats! Whoaaah.

nicely done Iff!

I like those little guys! Very nice!