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Screw symmetry, that thing is awesome.

More progress shots:

My god man, that really does look amazing! It's so smooth and the tones, highlights and free hand is just right! Great Work man!

Veeeeery impressive

Awesome. Your texture and depth are just awesome: pretty much trompe l'oile (or however you spell it).

that is amazing,keep up the awsome work!!!

This model looks amazing, the highlighting and look of dept on the freehand looks so nice, i sub'd i have to see more. Good work

Scrumptious!!!

Very cool - I had to check back to the early pics, as I couldn't remember there being cracks on the carapace originally - excellent!

Moah progress, slowed a little by some hot weather that's made blending difficult (even with a wet palette). This'll probably be the last update for a couple of weeks as I'm heading down to the inlaws' in Sussex. I'll be taking some stuff down with me, hopefully I'll be bringing this and the Chaplain dread back pretty much finished. :-)

Anyway, pics:

Coming along beautifully... enjoy your vacation!

The cracked stone freehand is stonkingly good, as is the gold.
On the gold, I think it would look great on some lizardmen bits and pieces I got lying around, mind telling your recipe for this particular piece?

The gold is:

Scorched Brown -> VMC Bronze -> VMC Old gold -> Mithril Silver
I used an NMM style shading pattern ie generally reverse highlights (light down) and then extreme highlight the shaded upper edges.

With gryphonne sepia and devlan mud glazes to shade down, and a badab black pin wash for edging.

SO BEAUTIFUL.... IT HURTS SO GOOOOOD

Got basically nothing done in Sussex, so today I made a push to finish the legs and torso (less some final weathering).

ohhh Hell Yeah!!

Brilliant work

Today's progress- pushed on with the weapons:

Wow. That looks amazing! Great work!

I assume that 'vorenus' is free-hand as that looks awesooome!

Keep it up.

Though I don't like Ultramarines, this model rocks!

I was worried by the base coat that it wasn't very Ultramarine in colour, but the freehand makes the model perfect

Tremendous! Wow...

Absolutely stunning.

The illusion of depth in the freehand is mindblowing. Can't wait to see this as it finishes.

They're gorgeous, a very different style and it works so well, simply gorgeous.

Clearly you have skill, but this model comes off more as a technique drill. The head is the focal point but the eye doesnt want to look there, its pulled to the whites.

The technique is busy/distracting to the eye and the breaks/cracks in the paint dont have the same color/depth.

Deamons are given to models whose paint jobs accent the models while the models tell a story.

Just trying to be constructive.

Hmm. The general concept behind the piece is one of sensory overload (which'll only get worse once the banner's on)- pretty much every surface is crawling with freehand, and I was hoping the red helm would keep focus on the head, which by contrast is actually very smooth and clean. Maybe I need to bump the contrast on the highlights there a bit - I've also had feedback that seems to lean on the gold needing a bit of a bump on the feathers of the aquila in particular.

Not sure what you mean about the cracks being inconsistent? Could you highlight where you mean on a pic?

I think its beautiful...

Task and Purpose wrote:Clearly you have skill, but this model comes off more as a technique drill. The head is the focal point but the eye doesnt want to look there, its pulled to the whites.

The technique is busy/distracting to the eye and the breaks/cracks in the paint dont have the same color/depth.

Deamons are given to models whose paint jobs accent the models while the models tell a story.

Just trying to be constructive.

I am inclined to agree with the comment that the model is just too busy. I mean the techniques and the ability you have are stunning, but the model looks cramped and crowded, and to me the abudance of the design distracts from the overall model.

I am also interested to know why you didn't do the metallics in NMM?

Just awesome..

A beautiful dreadnought! While I can see where the argument about the too crowded look comes from, for me, it looks fitting for a venerable Dreadnought. An almost holy cyborg-machine thousands of years old has every right to be ornated and emblazoned as much as it wants to be. And I think the red helmet makes a nice focal point, because right now it's one of the only parts of the model where red is really extensively used.

As an idea, you could maybe try to make the eyes glow. Maybe a nice green, or a cold blue - eyes are something that always draw the attention, I think, by our nature.

Great work! I can only aspire to reach your level of skill.