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I took a short break on my Red Hunters project to try out my first finecast miniature. Abaddon was the perfect choice as I always wanted to try him out and the details on the finecast model just looked amazing ...




Added some pictures of my Abaddon shot from other angles ...

That looks very good! Did you have any miscast issues?

jelrik wrote:That looks very good! Did you have any miscast issues?

Just a small one ... on the banner trophy is a spiked space marine helmet which looked as if a small part was missing. I did not consider it a problem as the helmet should look battered anyway.

Thats not to bad. Oh well keep up the good works!

On close inspection that's a really, really tight paintjob there, not a brush stroke out of place! Probably the best Abbadon paintjob I've seen to be honest, top stuff!

Looks great, the green robes add a nice contrast. Fist bump for a fellow Red Hunters player who also plays Black Legion!

Top shelf work!

How do you get the black to look so... black!

BladeWalker wrote:Looks great, the green robes add a nice contrast. Fist bump for a fellow Red Hunters player who also plays Black Legion!

TBH I am not a player, just a painter. I chose the same color for the robes as the Eavy Metal team of GW did ... because I really had no clue what other color would fit ;-)


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Daedricbob wrote:On close inspection that's a really, really tight paintjob there, not a brush stroke out of place! Probably the best Abbadon paintjob I've seen to be honest, top stuff!

Thanks very much !!!


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Cottonjaw wrote:Top shelf work!

How do you get the black to look so... black!

Well, just two layers of black and no shading ... I like black :-)

It looks so black because everything else is crisp and clear.

Well done.

Was that taken with camera flash?

Nice job. Glad to see someone with a positive example of finecast models.

Very impressive. You didn't even whank about finecast! The model looks amazing.

very nice painjob that, i am always partial to tha Abaddon figure too.

wtwlf123 wrote:Was that taken with camera flash?

Yes ... I should not have used the auto-adjusting of images from Dakka because it made the model look even brighter ...

That's really cool. Very nice paint-job.

As for the photo itself: Use a pure white back-ground, no flash, then open the photo with http://pixlr.com/editor and use Auto Levels in the Adjustments dropdown. Then if you need to, play around with contrast and the other tools in the same dropdown menu. Unless you have a new version of photoshop, that is. If you do, just use the Auto tools in the Image dropdown.

SgtSixkilla wrote:That's really cool. Very nice paint-job.

As for the photo itself: Use a pure white back-ground, no flash, then open the photo with http://pixlr.com/editor and use Auto Levels in the Adjustments dropdown. Then if you need to, play around with contrast and the other tools in the same dropdown menu. Unless you have a new version of photoshop, that is. If you do, just use the Auto tools in the Image dropdown.

Thanks for the help ... will try that out at the next photo session :-)

I bought Abaddon in metal about a month before the finecast was announced.
I was not pleased.
great painting BTW

DrChaos wrote:I bought Abaddon in metal about a month before the finecast was announced.
I was not pleased.
great painting BTW

Yeah, I always wanted to paint him but then I looked at the metal figure in the blister and always decided to postpone this. Finecast is different because you can see the details so much better. But we all know there are negative aspects as well ...

You did a great job! I like the base and the look of him.

Awesome Job

great work.

Oh man he looks great!

Why does this Abaddon have arms?

Henners91 wrote:Why does this Abaddon have arms?

please elaborate that ...

Fireball wrote:

Henners91 wrote:Why does this Abaddon have arms?

please elaborate that ...

Please do..

Nice job btw, I just got my abaddon a week ago and have yet to pull him out.

Fireball wrote:

Henners91 wrote:Why does this Abaddon have arms?

please elaborate that ...

http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Abaddon


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Good paintjob though

Fireball wrote:

Henners91 wrote:Why does this Abaddon have arms?

please elaborate that ...

In reference to the old metal model, on which the arms would ALWAYS fall off. Always. oh apocalypse games, thou art my bane. or at least that of my models.

Winthster wrote:

Fireball wrote:

Henners91 wrote:Why does this Abaddon have arms?

please elaborate that ...

In reference to the old metal model, on which the arms would ALWAYS fall off. Always. oh apocalypse games, thou art my bane. or at least that of my models.

Understood

In reference to the arms joke i just have to say... guard the topknot, spiky bits and the sword like no tomorrow... finecast is more fragile the metal.

But great painting job and i really like how bright the trim is, really pulls out the model and sort of makers it pop.

Nice job!