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Got done with the next one, a little freehand of a bird or dragonlike thing (probably kolibri-esque?) on the helmet, theme was blue.

Instead of layering with thin red or from black to red I went from blue to red. Fortunately, it looks okay and is alot faster than the formerly used method^^


critique and comments more than welcome!

love the details
those dragons rock!

thanks alot man I sure hope the last one will please you, though I probably won't get him done tonight

you just inspired me!
got any tips for the head?

tips in what regard?

Nothing more than take your time, think about the colors used.

For example: I trie to bring together a miniature by basing most colors on one and the same dark color, then highlighting up - so dark blue goes to white, goes to red etc pp.

For little freehands like that: work clean, do single, precise strokes, after every stroke, lick your brush so it really stays sharp on the top, use very watered down colors, so that you can 1) easily correct mistakes 2) it dries relatively fast. But beware: wait for every stroke to dry, the surface-tension / attraction of water to each other when working on such a small space makes it all go together in one disgusting blob.


So just take your time, do it right the first time and you're good ^^

Great paint.

then i suck ass. lol

Looks nifty. I like dark schemes, but they really need basework to help them to stand out. Post if you get any further on this guy.

EDIT: Okay, didn't realise there was a first page. All very nice work, especially the freehand. The glowing runes on the tanks is something I'm going to have to try.

I love the freehand, I love watching eldar armies grow, keep up the good work

The fact that those are freehand is just awesome. Its REALLY tuff for most people to freehand basic shapes. I know myself, it took more then a couple tries just to freehand squares on my Orks lol. Nice job

KingCracker wrote:The fact that those are freehand is just awesome. Its REALLY tuff for most people to freehand basic shapes. I know myself, it took more then a couple tries just to freehand squares on my Orks lol. Nice job

well, to be honest: I find it much easier to freehand organic shapes than geometrically exact shapes. With the shapes you always have to keep within the boundaries etc, wich usually restults in a lot of correction work on the edges to get it clean and straight.

With runes and animals and the like it's easier, since if your line is a little bit tilted, you just go along with it and adopt to it.


So: Doing Basic Shapes is harder, as far as I am concerned^^

can you give me some tips on my free hand?
e.g. can i post a pic?

sure you can post a pic, it would be an honour, to help you

I can't believe I didn't comment on this when I looked at it before! Your freehands look amazing... thanks for the inspiration

oooooo.....niceeee.... I cant do free hands at all. Transfers FTW!!!

Huhuuuuu ^^ xD

Got working on the final Dragon, wanna make him a devil-like thing, probably inspired by those daemonlike armours the Warriors of Sokar or whatever the hellish-goa'uld systemlords name was.


Helmet is rather dark with white ornamentals, the armour will be in a bright red (and is in no way done yet ) with pitchblack ornamentals...


first lookilook:

loving it so far and top quality free hand work

if your going for pitch black orns. then hitting the areas with a black ink should darken them nicely and give it a better feel

Done with the Dragons!

Next up is the Falcon... wich will take some time to be finished.


Pic of the last Firedragon:

wow love the camo and the blue ROCKS

You're NOT done with them yet. Stop saying you are!
They are not based!!!!!
Base them and you will have a great-looking unit. As it is now, you've got incomplete models with nice paint jobs. Arrrgh! Do your painting work proud and REALLY finish them!


Seriously, nice work.


Seirously-er, base them!




Ghid-baseyourminis-orah

How could I say nay to Godzillas stronges Enemy?^^



Of course they'll be based, though pics of that will take some time since I deposited them in my gaming club^^

archont wrote:...Godzillas stronges Enemy?^^

Finally. A smart human. I will squash you last.




Ghidorah

Awesome painting skills.

The freehand runes are to die for. Do you have a special method to make them so crisp and well defined?

Paul Atreides wrote:The freehand runes are to die for. Do you have a special method to make them so crisp and well defined?

yep: Get them right in the first try with a single brushstroke. After every stroke / painted line: lick the brush, as to keep it really sharp on the tip, only take a little bit of carefully watered down color on the tip (too strong watered down = no good effect / the color running all over the place, not enough = the color being sticky, hard to control etc).

Some quick pics of my Falcon, got alot done on that one, had to change the wing (it pointed the wrong way around! Oo stupid me)

I am fairly content with the outcome of the whole dragon as well as the wing (though I'll touch the wing up a little bit, dunno), runes no the left wing got cleaned from paint that didnt belong there (bad idea to apply black foundation to a model when the falcon is standing right behind it...).


Yellows on the left engine part, those little crystals and the big one the dragon is holding in its claws.... Yellows destroy your brain. I won't do something yellow too soon again.


Expect some updates shortly!

holy gak the dragon and the runes on the wings look amazing

Fabulous freehand work bud. Is it just your camera, or is your black really that grainy?

Beautiful dragon, and you pulled off the glowing runes amazingly! And yeah, imagine helping your
friend paint a Iyanden craftworld...I made him krylon his models, there's no way we're painting THAT
much yellow.

the grainy-esque nature of the black is due to a combination of camera + jpeg resizing, it's not grainy at all xD


Thanks alot ^^


For Yellow: Well, it's alright if you apply a white basecoat, but on black it's a pain in the ass ^^


More pics later, after having a nice game today I'm pumped to get that Falcon done and start the next one^^


edit: I am as of yet undecided what to paint as a freehand on the second Falcon, input / suggestions would be HIGHLY appreaciated xD