yakface wrote:
I can't tell form the picture what improvements, if any, have been done to the Guardians as well...
Honestly, not much (yet)... I changed their optical and unique antennas from red to blue. And that's really it. I intend to make their torsos look more like the Wraithlord's and most likely change their catapult colors to the mottled dark angels green that I use, but I've got a lot of unpainted models between here and there, and I'm getting ready for a league season. But the guardians will eventually get the treatment they deserve.
The thing is, the guardians were the first unit I put together and was running into the color issue. Dark and drab... and even dark and sharp, looked really wierd when I painted them on my guardians initially. I had to strip those guys twice before I decided. Before them, all I had done was a large amount of Necrons. And other than the C'Tan, they don't really test your abilities.
I had avoided Eldar for the longest time because of their colors, and I myself thought it wasn't my cup of tea. The only reason I grabbed a box of guardians in the first place was because I had just come back from deployment, and my minis were on a cargo ship sailing across the Atlantic. I wouldn't see them in two and a half months, and this is the only thing the local Hobbytown had besides some spehss mahreens
tac squads. I've come to eventually love Eldar and the way they look, but I've found that painting them is MUCH more challenging than Necrons or Tyranids. Maybe that's why I've grown to like them... because they don't take it easy on me. From my experience, though, you can't paint a drab set of eldar. It just looks awful.
black-rabbit wrote:
It's always good to see a painter who can take on criticism and use it to improve their technique.
Well, I doubt myself, and look to you guys for guidance. I'd be lying if I said I didn't ignore the things at least a few people said (not necessarily here), though. I LOVE painting awesome models, but I usually don't get that much better until someone points out what I'm doing wrong. You should have seen the garbage I was painting from my first batch of Necron Warriors as recently as April of last year, when I got started in this hobby.
Jimsolo wrote:
Second off, how'd the psych class go?
It's PSY201, General Psychology. And we're working on chemical and brain function and proscesses of learniing and all of that basic crap. Frankly, it's a class filler for an easy 3.0 so that I can raise my GPA enough to transfer to University of South Carolina... a failed stint in college before I joined the army (this was in 2004) left me with a 2.16 GPA. Now I'm squandering my GI bill on crap classes that I can't use (My
Gen-Eds are finished) for as much as three semesters, just to get a GPA I need to transfer.
So far, I'm looking at an A in this class. I just finished my mid-term. I haven't seen the grade, yet, but I think I've got an A.
In my experience, the difference in me now and back then that got me that A as opposed to what would likely have been a C is self-discipline and knowing how to study properly.
Byte wrote:
I really like your basing.
The wraithlord's basing, the blue-ish parts, have an iridescent medium mixed in. It's hard to capture on camera, but it gives it a bit of a pearly glint. It was an experiment to see how the medium would look - I didn't want to put it on something has hard to fix as an actual model's body. Unfortunately, the acrylic medium was made for canvas (my woman's an artist by hobby - she offered me the medium for my Eldar), so it took a LOT of acrylic thinner I picked up from a Hobbytown to keep it from applying (very) lumpy and gnarled as if I poured non-Newtonian fluid on it.
