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Aww... He's adorable

Looks like I came decently close... Might have gone a little different, but at least its not "a white brushed version of My Little Pony"

Metals and stone areas are blacked out- This gives us an idea of what he'll look like when he's got more colors. (bottom jaw is removed so I can paint the teeth and mouth easier)

Looking awesome! I quite like the skin, looks really albino and not over the top like the pink would have been. The rusty armor and stone should provide great contrast

Top notch! Hes almost done, so should be just a matter of a day or two before Gator box one starts its march towards you!



Still painting away, but I thought I'd mention a particularly creepy step....




"he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white."

This has been your Jaws quote of the day. We return you to your normally scheduled ramble!

That's properly creepy! Love it.

That is creepy! I love it - had been expecting red albino eyes, but the effect above is even better

Oho? Is that so?
I was just blacking out the eyes in preparation for the layers of red... But if you like this more?

Oh, in that case go for red! Would help show folks it's an albino . Just didn't want you to have to redo things and a bit busy and sleep deprived over here so take nothing I say as trustworthy for a bit. Love the updates though!!

Loving the green verdigris on the head armor (do gators wear helmets? Doesn't seem like the right word.) Looking very nice!

PM sent

Back of the line! He's got a single model from me to do first.

@wehr: Thank you!! Its Secret Weapon's "Armor Wash" over a simple Boltgun Metal basecoat. I dont use it too often for its intended purpose (I go for the Soft Body Black for that), but its perfect for making armor look disused and gross... Toss on some rust powders and you've got where we are now!

As far as the armor terminology.... I think "Helmet" is workable. After all, what is armor on the head? A helmet! Lizards have heads too, after all!

@wyfox: Taken care of! Apologies on not getting to it sooner!!

@WM: Only one model? Psh... thats nothing.. I can knock that out in a day or tw--




Uh oh....






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The Sacral Vault is now complete, and that means that Project Deathroll is officially complete!! (well, at least wave one is ) Albino skin was a real treat to paint... Really pleased with this especially compared to the bright pink... thing... I would have ended up with.










And lastly, a closeup of the head... Perhaps not as creepy as the pure black eyes, but certainly suitably menacing!

Stunning Ramos. Pat yourself on the back for that one.

Looks really good! That eye is creepy!

Two questions: Are the ends of the toes claws? And does he have nostrils? I had thought yes to both seeing the unpainted model, but now I am not sure.

What a great center piece for an army, stunning work Ramos. I have never entertained the thought of getting a commissioned model done but having seen your work here and Gits models first hand I may change my mind. Thanks for sharing your talent.

@Gits: Thank you!! Glad he turned out as nice as he did ^^ Does make me want to paint more albino stuff now....


@wehr: Excellent! Creepyness acquired
He does have nostrils, but theyre taken up by the nose ring- angle doesnt quite get it, but hes got two little pits deeper in the center of that ring.
As far as claws, there arent any sculpted on him, and the stock model I found seems just to put him in ankle deep mud or just different colored skin:



Perplexing...


@Yorkright: Thank you for the kind words
My door is always open to new projects- Iffin the fancy ever strikes you, feel free to shoot me an email or pm!

I'm so incredibly pleased with how this model (and project) came out! Ramos came up with the albino idea and executed it brilliantly. Absolutely fantastic job Ramos!

Wave 2 consists of a unit of frogs plus several miscellaneous models, and I think will be coming up towards the end of the month (or may have slipped into early Oct now). Then it's Titan Time . Hope you all agree the wait has been worth it to see this project unfold!

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Back of the line! He's got a single model from me to do first.

Back of the line yourself Titan-Boy

AS much as I'm not into the ' animal ' models , these are fantastic. Very nice touch with the blue to really offset all the pale colors and draw your eye to the vault.

Kudo's all around.

 Ramos Asura wrote:
The Sacral Vault is now complete, and that means that Project Deathroll is officially complete!! (well, at least wave one is )

Bravo! It's been grand seeing 'Tides posse come to life. Vault conversion really pulled together here at the end in particular, nicely done

- Salvage

SL - The blue was the very last thing added, and I totally agree, it makes the whole thing come together! The in-game model is really the vault itself (the albino gator is just there to hold it up!) so it's great that it draws the eye

Salvage - Awesome to see you're still tracking this . I'm looking forward to giving them a try against Wehrkind's wolves! Although probably not for a few months with all that's going on here, so hopefully I'll have the frogs to bring then too which I think are a pretty scary counter to some Circle shenanigans, and really open up the gator army's game.

@RT: Yeah looks like early October now- Titan will be one of those massive projects I do in the background, especially because we're waiting on more head and weapon variants to be released. So right now it'll just be assembling, but hopefully it'll see some paint sooner than later! I just gotta figure out a good way to do the metals... hmmmmm

@SL: I know you dont like all the animals Got some real heavy armor coming in the next few weeks, so theres that to look forward to!
Anyways, like Tides says- the blue was actually the last thing added to the vault. Really glad to see it was an addition for the better. I think I had thought of as I was painting the stone, it but brushed it off as being too much color... Just shows you how wrong I can be sometimes!

@Salvage: Thank you very much!

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Army shot-
Honestly at a real loss when it comes to taking massive shots like this. I just dunno what to do- So much space and you cant get a good angle without other stuff getting in frame.... ergh... Chalk that up to my inexperience with large scale shots like this!

Anywho... ARMY!


Pic is very zoomable (better be with a 16 megapixel camera!)



Today Ill be working (and hopefully wrapping up) the Dragon for OTL, and putting the first paint on a pair of assassins!
Till later today, gents!

That makes total sense and definitely looking forward to seeing the titan get assembled as well as the other little projects you have going (OTL's dragon is looking sweet so far!).

Army shot looks great! The frogs will be blue so should help tie in the blue color to the army a bit . Man I am excited to try running Maelok (who will use the Vault) and Rask (who will use all those Shamblers in the middle - very smart to knock those out first like you did).

Great work on the army, Ramos.

My favourite is the tortoise-dude-thing. Where did he come from, I can't find him (searching for a model is hard when you don't know what they are called)?

Dr H, that is a Whati from Kaha Miniatures!

Their website isn't loading for me at the moment, but I had super fast responses from them via facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kaha-miniatures/234998289861459

If for any reason they're not shipping at the moment, I do have a spare Whati, but since they're in France and you're in the UK you might want to reach out to them first via Facebook

Cool, ta RiTides. That would explain why I couldn't find it. There's no rush from my end but I'll add it to my list.

I resized the group shot so it's a little easier to view in the thread



Looking forward to seeing the OTL dragon finished!

 RiTides wrote:
I resized the group shot so it's a little easier to view in the thread



Looking forward to seeing the OTL dragon finished!

Wait aminute... how did you do that? Looks muuuuuuch sharper but still from the Dakka gallery. Would like to know so I can do the same with my pics!

(also looks AMAZING btw)

Go to gallery, copy image url (right click, its an option there), use said url with the image brackets around it.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Go to gallery, copy image url (right click, its an option there), use said url with the image brackets around it.

I see, he's using the original version instead of the small or medium ones. There's only one problem with that: on mobile it looks like **** because the pic isn't scaled down so the text becomes tiny. Is there any way to fix that or is it planned to be fixed?

I just resize the pic in MS Paint and save as a .png (saving as a .jpg will make it look very poor), upload to the gallery, and once you navigate to it's page in the gallery, under "Share this Image" select "Full sized" instead of "Medium"

I also sometimes use http://www.pixlr.com , which is like an online version of photoshop, but I have found that resizing in Microsoft Paint works much better and loses less detail! You just have to be sure to save it as a .png. Sometimes I'll take that .png and convert it back to a .jpg file using pixlr to reduce the size, but that can still lose some detail.

I started doing this to get images a little larger than the "Medium" size, but mostly because there is an error with the gallery right now where pics of certain native sizes (notably my iPhone pics!) show up blurry under the "Medium" setting. When you resize, 1000 - 1200 pixel width will keep the forum page from getting a scroll bar at the bottom - much wider than 1200 pixels and it will cause the thread to scroll on many monitors and make it a pain to read.

Hope this helps

Edit: Ninja'ed twice! On my mobile (iPhone) I do have to zoom out a bit to see this image. But even if you only want a 600 pixel wide (Medium size) image, sometimes resizing it yourself (rather than having the Gallery do it) can help it show up better. If this one looks too wide on mobile to you, you could go with 800 - 1000 pixels instead of the 1200ish I used here when manually resizing.