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HalloweenBomber wrote:put this on warmachine and hordes NOT P&M blogs :Censored:

??? What's with the hate? I'm painting, and blogging it as I go... but besides that, thank you random person who doesn't matter for rudely expressing your opinion... Now if you were something like, I dunno, a mod, that would be different.

Ah being polite, how it will get people to actually listen to your arguement rather than piss them off and marginalize you at the same time.

Modquisition on:
This is an appropriate location. Please continue the discussion-thanks.

Also-nice minis.

PLease do not troll other users, if you have a concern over somehting being in the wrong forum then please contact the moderation team

Ta.

Just a little more work, metal is bugging me. I think from now on its gunna be -base metal, black ink, a wash for colour. and apparently I was on drugs or something when I was doing the cloth 'cause I missed his arm bands on his left arm at the elbow... and the trim on his waste but that one is small. So metal, touchups and details. Almost done!

I only got a little done 'cause I ran out and got some stuff, like a new lamp, so I don't have to use my reading lamp to paint and stack boxes to get it at a good height. New bendy army lamp yeah!

I love the roasted chickens, but then again I always love roasted chickens.

Stunning cant wait for more

So got a game in Friday night and Madrak faced his first defeat at the hands of a hammersmith and a centurion. Man, heavies are HEAVY. and with Darius bringing the centurian from low to full... tsk tsk tsk... oh well, I'll get more chances in the future!



The metal ended up looking a lot more beat up and weathered, partially from getting to and back from my game (a little scrapped off) and partially from playing with some washes some more. For some reason the eyes are darker this time and the face seems a lot less lively than the other guys... not sure why, it was done the same way. Anyway, wet brush the base black, than paint the front/rear arc markers and seal. Oh, and I may have drilled through his quiver... its a little obvious.

Well, he's done, but the humidity is keeping me from sealing him... stupid 90% humidity... pics later.

still humid...

here is fan shot of finished Impaler, with the next job started and a teaser in the background.

Those whelps look like small imps next to the impaler in their bright red skin.

So which one is it next the Mauler or Blitzer?

does that answer your question?

Yes, it does.

The group shot looks nice, now I have to get of my backside and take one of my skorne.

Looking for some direction on how to paint a bottle like the one the whelp is holding.


Besides that, the whelps are moving along. 2 done, 2 more almost done, 1 primed. After that I think I'll tackle Madrak as an experiment in albino colouring. (I think I'll go gray for skin tone and keep in dark) As a reward for finishing my starter box and a complete warband, I'll do the Mauler

And a little fan service....

Ahhh... the whelps are so cute!

I say paint up the bottle eithe rhillbilly jug style(tan with XXX) or wine bottle green(dark to light)

I love where your heading with this especially to the fact that I seldom see people put that much effort into hordes. Love the hair to btw GREAT WORK!!

Deminyn wrote:Looking for some direction on how to paint a bottle like the one the whelp is holding.

Check out this tutorial in CMON. It has some nice pointers how to paint these translucent items.

I like the whelps, they look cool and fit to the army. I was not a fan of painting them all in different skin tones, and your figs prove the point.

Yup, the whelps are done except for 1 thing... the bottle. But that's for another day.


Poor boy in the back row, got blocked by my bane bottle.... I'll get him a shot just for himself to make up for it. I like him.



Work has been a bit frustrating lately, so I'm not getting that easy going feeling and the painting is suffering a little for it. I'm hoping tomorrow is calmer and I'll tackle that bottle properly.

edit: There he is!


I tell you, I get 1 day a week where the humidity is less than 90%. I forgot that I'm gunna try to play tomorrow, so maybe no painting tomorrow. And hopefully no loss of paint on the unsealed guys.

So I was delinquent for more than a week... kinda in the dumps with the start of winter I guess...

So I finished that bottle and the whelps are done!


None of those are great pictures but you can see I kinda pulled off the effect of light in the bottle. The tutorial in CMON that Metsuri suggested was great.

So I started Madrak. I decided for my albino lava trolls I'm going with grey skin tones. To help tie the albinos into the larger warband, I'll be painting the robes of Madrak in deep red tones. Basically the inverse of the previous trolls.


I'm going back to my roots on painting metal with a heavy and dirty drybrush. I'll try ink followed by washing and see how it turns out. The scrolls tubes will probably done in wood with metal end caps. All stones will be red/orange in colour (may try that object oriented lighting or whatever its called). I started off a little heavy on the layers, (I blame my week of not painting and skill fade) Anyway, I'm not dead, just a little sad.

oh, and my axer broke in half and I pined him back together. And I lost against some Khador... my mauler got trashed in his debut without doing anything. I need to get better on guessing distances to avoid being charged.

Madrak. Metal cleaned up. Red robes started.

Nice choice on your albinos.

I went with olive for mine since everything else has dark skin.

Madrak looks good! The red robes bring much needed warmth to the fig and the gold metal areas complement it nicely.

Are you going to keep the plates surrounding his head dark? Currently they frame his head nicely and make it the natural focal point of the mini.

The bottle on the whelp looks nice too, from what can be seen from the pics.

Well, Dakka just deleted my previous reply... so I'll try again.

I like the idea of keeping those plates dark, but I need a little guidance on what to do. If I went for black base, what do you edge with? Gray or blue? harsher maybe with a really light white?

edit: Hey, my flag was Canada for once! Never remembered to say something to a mod about that... and it was just this post, and I've posted from this computer before too... weird.

Edit: Not a whole done. Leather and wood got base and ink, still need to re establish the base, than highlight (may just be a highlight as its really small areas.) When I was looking at the pictures, I kinda answered my own question when I noticed how the light was hitting them. I'm gunna do black, with the horizontal layers just a slight bit of grey, than some harsh edges. So here is the pics.


C&C welcome

Well, here's tonight's progress. I tried source lighting from his hand, but I don't think I really got the brightness of the source, so it just looks messy. Unless someone's got some great tips or tutorial, I'll probably just undo it and cover it all up. Leather done, gems done, plates done (black, than the flats done in dark gray, than black wash) started base.


rawr.

recently it's been a pet peeve of mine cruising the forums that, in Warhammer Fantasy, everyone seems to have forgotten Brets completely. I love my Brets and they are still playable, definately still mid tier and competitive. Why does everyone forget them?

edit: Things noticed from the pictures after posting them: Dust on robes and little bit stuck to them, cleaned off now, the hand did not do the lighting right at all. The neck plates are a lot darker than the pic let's on. You can't really tell but his arm veins are slightly red too.

Christmas Break was alright. Long break from painting but I'm back and restarted painting. I'm trying to finish off the Trolls I got (Mauler, Angus and Blitzer) before Febuary is out. So without further ado. Madrak done (minus sealant) and first layer of skin tone.


All I did was tone down the overdone pink from his hand thing with a couple black washes. Looks acceptable now.



All this needs to get done 'cause Infinity Nomads are coming in soon, and Malifaux Viktorias will be close behind... Not to mention the FOW British Motor Company after that... and the 40k Tyranids that are sitting in a box waiting to see if the new codex is going to be usuable. And the WM Cryx that I got with my Trolls (I'm still stumped on them, which doesn't encourage me to bump them up on the list.)

Also, I might be doing a black wash on it after my brother suggested keeping him black. I want him to still be read, but the wash might be cool.

So I got some decent time painting in tonight. The Mauler got his skin layers done. His hair got awesome and the mouth became quite gibbly. Loincloth is started, and washed, highlight to come tomorrow. A little detail on the nails and he'll be ready to munch some models. He was actually pretty quick to paint. Just a whole lot of skin. Oh, and this was the inaugral use of a wet pallet. Which I'll be using all the time from now on.



I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the rocks in the skin, I'll go searching the net for ideas. Feel free to throw them out there too.

The skin looks good, but the model lacks some contrast. It now seems a dark and the shapes are a bit lost.

I would do the rocks on the skin with some light color to get some needed contrast on the fig. That along with light colored nails would probably fix the lack of contrast.

Nice work so far on the mauler.

So I went to town with drybrushing the rocks 'cause I tried actually painting the edges and i sucked at it. So I got the contrast in and some different colour in and it turned out alright. (Dont worry Mauler, you are still dead sexy) So a little loin cloth and a little arc markers and we move onto Angus. Good thing too, apparently the infinity order is in and I'll have that stuff end of next week. I've still got Angus and Blitzer to do... I'll try and finish trolls before I get the Infinity going!

Warning, these are just happy pics, didn't set up tripod or diy lightbox setup

So the mauler is done, highlighted loincloth and did the arc markers, and added little streaks to his nails.



And I'm looking at Grim Angus and having a bit of a time thinking of how to paint him. So that'll go on hold for a little while () And I'll entertain myself some other how until I decide.

Here's kinda what I was thinking. The only thing is he doesn't really fit in.

Ah photoshop, letting me test something in 5 minutes instead of 5 hours and having to redo it.


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Excellent work! I love the skin tones and metal work.
The trolls are quit well done!
waaaaaggghhhhh

Nice work on the Mauler, the lava rocks on his back nicely light up the model.

Angus is suffering from the green pants and the bright red shirt. You don't have those colors in your army and they really don't fit there. If you replace the bright red with the same hue that is on Madrak's robes and give him similar painted pants or use a bit darker gray on the pants that would work.

You have a nice selection of colors on your trolls, now just stick with em to get nice and coherent force.