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Those nids are super striking with the red. Not super big on the green tint to the photos tho

 Skimask Mohawk wrote:
Those nids are super striking with the red. Not super big on the green tint to the photos tho

Green is my favourite colour.

 Crablezworth wrote:

 Skimask Mohawk wrote:
Those nids are super striking with the red. Not super big on the green tint to the photos tho

Green is my favourite colour.

I'm not sure there's ever a place for green tint, but especially not on minis that are predominantly dark coloured.
I feel you'd be better off keeping the ambiance as clear as possible so the contrast makes the black pop more, and the colours that *are* bright offset the darks in a really effective way, but that filter washes them out.

Just my 2c.
I don't want to seem like a downer though, I love this thread and it always inspires me to work on my own stuff more

 karlosovic wrote:

 Crablezworth wrote:

 Skimask Mohawk wrote:
Those nids are super striking with the red. Not super big on the green tint to the photos tho

Green is my favourite colour.

I'm not sure there's ever a place for green tint, but especially not on minis that are predominantly dark coloured.
I feel you'd be better off keeping the ambiance as clear as possible so the contrast makes the black pop more, and the colours that *are* bright offset the darks in a really effective way, but that filter washes them out.

Just my 2c.
I don't want to seem like a downer though, I love this thread and it always inspires me to work on my own stuff more

If there isn't a place for green/cyan that isn't a world I want to be part of. I actively make the black pop less because there is a tendancy for the blacks to get crushed. I let the black stay crushed for the nid pictures, some of them are better for it, a lot of them look worse and the historgram looks like a cliff. I don't use filters, I set a white balance and an offset.

White light is really boring I find and often incredibly harsh to skin tones and paintjobs alike. The other problem is it's a moving target to some extent because of the flicker cycle of the lighting in the basement, not to mention when I use the ring light for a setting sun effect it only complicates that.

I really like the colour in these

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Have you got originals before the green tint so I can see what you mean? or do you do the offset in-camera?

2000pts game vs lutnit's imperial guard. I ran my deathwatch as chaos, mainly nurgle. I managed to squeeze my count as forgefiend and plague drone into the list so that's cool. Lutnit didn't mind me running a single fw unit.

Battle report coming soon. For now enjoy the pics

The new Oblits look really nice!

 Andilus Greatsword wrote:
The new Oblits look really nice!

Thanks mang , I tried to cover all the bases in terms of weapons but those bastards have so many.

Ok, just a couple of thoughts on this thread.

1) Why have I never seen this thread before? I've been missing out!

2) Damn, those are some gorgeous models. Makes me wish I could paint/model that well.

Awesome stuff so far. Particularly love the city board's posters and so on.

looks awesome, who won?

I love your conversions! This thread consistently impresses, and it's always a pleasure to see it bounce back up to the top of 40k General Discussion.

 Skimask Mohawk wrote:
looks awesome, who won?

It's a secret


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 liquidjoshi wrote:
Ok, just a couple of thoughts on this thread.

1) Why have I never seen this thread before? I've been missing out!

2) Damn, those are some gorgeous models. Makes me wish I could paint/model that well.

Awesome stuff so far. Particularly love the city board's posters and so on.

Thanks mang


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 Brother SRM wrote:
I love your conversions! This thread consistently impresses, and it's always a pleasure to see it bounce back up to the top of 40k General Discussion.

Thanks dude

 Crablezworth wrote:

Wow!! This thing is cool

Thanks mang

I'm hoping that with enough patience it may one day actually kill an enemy unit. Gotta tune those auspex's or something.

Quick update, got a game in vs An00bis's tau. Didn't get too many pix sadly.

Love the pictures and conversions! See, this is what the game is all about. How tepid these scenes would look with unpainted models.

 amanita wrote:
How tepid these scenes would look with unpainted models.

Agreed, painted all the way!

Big 3000pts 2v2 game. Khain's eldar and lutnit's farisght enclave vs skimask mohawk's raven guard and my deathwatch (white scars). Played on an 8x4 and decided to setup roads again, they look nice but they're a nightmare for dice. Batrep is in the oven.

Game vs skimask mohawk's raven guard, 2000pts. Batrep in the oven.

The standard of painting helps, a badly painted army would be glaringly obvious at this detail

Lots of epic shots in that Marine vs Marine battle. Must have been confusing with all the black though.

Every last photo in this gallery is amazing!

I'd just like to post a warning that the cancer that is 7th edition might negatively effect the rate of picture taking; we might need a few games worth of chemo therapy (a.k.a learning the new rules) before we get our game time down to a picture taking level

I'd be willing to give some radiation treatment... which I guess means lots of lasguns.

Game from sunday, we opted to play 6th edition, because 7th will be a trainwreck for the next while

That was an epic game; the duel between yarick and typhus was pretty funny to watch, as was the wraithguard overwatching the chaptermaster lol

I really love the shot of the entire table edge of evil, really captures the scope of the flanking maneuver

Damn, I need to get down to Ottawa again for a game some time... Lots of epic shots here.

 Andilus Greatsword wrote:
Damn, I need to get down to Ottawa again for a game some time... Lots of epic shots here.

I'm just happy GW decided their game was now a "shared" experience. I was worried I'd have to pay for it

I'm down for a 6th ed game for now, 7th maybe in a month of two.

 Crablezworth wrote:

 Andilus Greatsword wrote:
Damn, I need to get down to Ottawa again for a game some time... Lots of epic shots here.

I'm just happy GW decided their game was no a "shared" experience. I was worried I'd have to pay for it

I'm down for a 6th ed game for now, 7th maybe in a month of two.

Yeah I know what you mean, my local group needs to get a house rule doc written up to make it all work and fix the stuff GW couldn't be assed to. I'm a bit busy this weekend, but I'll see about working something out in the next weekend.

I'm reading the 7th rules and already getting confused between 6th and 7th. I hope we switch soon O_O