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that belt is soooo....well i run out of adjectives...but defintaly mucho^^
the hair, well he is pretty badass already... so the red hair prooves this just as well...as again for that belt...the looks surpreme!

yep and i am glad to be back too.... there is so much backlog i have to read... and only i have been away for a week....you are such a productive bunch here at dakka....gosh...seems the next holidays i have to get a webconnection to stay ontop of all this great work^^

One ginger you don't want to mess with. Looks sweet colour is spot on.

Last update for today. I promise! >_< Tried out three different schemes for his bracers. Green, then silver and gold. which looked HORRIBLE. So i went with a sold silver. Did a minor sky earth thing on it and i got the p3 silver which i must say i like alot. Quicksilver i think it is. Its gotta a blue ish tint. Anyways i also did more work on the grenades and flower but not interested in showing right now.

How is this possible! It's so amazing! fantastic job mate, well done!

Wow, this is great.

but not interested in showing right now.

whut???
what a shame^^

but the bracer looks cool...was secretly waiting what you would do with that!

great looking silver i really don't have anything else to say

Ok so, well...the flower wasnt makin it. I knew in my mind when i put it on that even though i realllyyy wanted it...there simply wasnt room and its placement was too close to his leg. Essentially there was too much green right there. It just looked funny, I cant explain it. But. I chopped it off. :( Sorry. But i think its best for the mini. I finished up the boots. Maybe a couple touch ups here and there. The grenades are also basically done. And ive begun work on the hard part. The gun. the bullet feed especially. This took about an hour, to base coat the shells which are brass. Steingass asked me a while back how i do brass shells, and i wasnt sure. But heres my mixes. Burnished gold 75% + 25% Snakebite leather. There here i wash with devlan mud. I dont want the color to get too orangish...ill pick out details with straight burnished gold. then mithril silver to that mix.

grenades and boots - flower

from afar

the beginnings off the bullet feed


C and C appreciated...

the paintjob of the boots looks like a really shiny pair of boots^^ someone is huffing and puffing on them each day ...those are loved boots^^

also the grenades...very three-dimensional looking!

but the main course is the amobelt! ever since i had a MG3 in my own hands i have fallen in love with brass shells^^

the pic is a bit blurred so i can´t really say what color the peaks of the bolts are...? or will they get their treatment in the fullnes of time yet...


vik

ill probably dial back the reflection on the boots maybe add some dirt and yeah the shell tips are not painted yet. The will be silver obvi. Its far from done. hence the lame pic. Just showing color.

i would leave the boots as is....as i think they look sweet! let him have a bit of bling to go with the brassen bolts^^

Love the muscles!

Lovely bolter shell belt!! I am impressed!

the bullet feed is coming along nicely i think...some parts need a touch up but its on the right track

With all the effort you have there, have you considered fully drilling out the barrel, including the flash holes on the side?

Gorgeous model.

Amazing. And so fast too!

The quality of this painting is amazing! (Yay 100 posts )

bebopdrums2424 wrote:the bullet feed is coming along nicely i think...some parts need a touch up but its on the right track

What a striking example of an understatement.

Harker looks fantastic.

Wow! Great thread! They are all great. If I ever do Imps, catachans are def the way i'd go!

I have looked through but I may of missed so i'll just ask...

Any chance of an army pic in the dark?

Guys thanks for the feedback. Ive reached a point in this minis life where im starting to dislike him. This happens all the time. I start seeing things i dont like etc etc etc...The bolter casing is so bland and gigantic and it covers up the great detail on his abs completely. Oh well, the gun is the centerpiece of the model now and i dont particularly love painting bolters. Actually.i hate them. As such, the real hurdle for me on this mini, and has always been, the bolter casing. So i better put in some time on it or else i could ruin the mini. We will see if i do anything worth sharing today...Oh what i will add later tho, is some mini's i picked up for cheap and maybe a few shots of the requested glow in the dark plants

well i like the heavy bolter...in fact i have to ask you since you got rid of that plant....could you do some spent bolter casings ...like a heap of them as the decoration of the base....i am thinking of something like this:



well not as much as these...but something that shows the drama of a gunnerd that is spending lots of amo...

the brass by the way add nicely some different color to the model in my opinion...

and if the weapons as such is putting you off...have you thought about swaping it with a heavy stubber from a necromunda gangmenber?


otherwise i think the model looks awsome and thankfully we all have seen here how cool and well detailed the abbs of serg. steingass are....


vik

you go far with your bullets mister you even painted the center silver? why am i saying this to you, you painted it

but the boots are what throw me off he look i am a big bad a** dude in a jungle but i don't want my boots to become dirty, what gives man? dirty them up a bit there just to nice

Hmm fatty, you and vik have different ideas of the drama behind this model And Vik, there are a few casings around his foot which i shall paint and perhaps add another stack as i have a few bits from the ork battleforce. Anyways the casing is coming along slightly better than i anticipated. I dont hate it...for some reason in my head i imagined danger striping around the barrel...from some video game?? i cant remember where the image came from but i kinna' like it. I mean its totally pointless...SHOOT THIS WAY.. ... heres todays update. Lots of stuff still to do for him...

Looking very nice indeed if you need additional spent bolter rounds a length of the appropriate styrene rod is easy to chop off casings from...

yeah lots of things to do to him.... he looks so much unfinished he is almost not started with at all....you´re kidding right? i think i would have called it a ready mini days ago^^

i like the idea of the hazard stripes too! looks like doom (?) or other ego shooters^^ but i think a fitting design!

Absolutely gorgeous!

Holy
That's awesome

(sorry for all the swearing, when I'm impressed like hell, that's what I do)

I like it. Love how the gun turned out.
Absolute one stunning model.

The skin on him is so impressive. I wish I could paint nearly half as well.