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Hi All

I was requested to do a 'little' painting for a chap who is about to go to a tournament. He wanted various things included quite a few arms, Inquistor Corteaz and lots and lots of magnets to be sunk into the bodies and arms so that he can change his termies as he sees fit per battle! He really wanted them nice and battle damaged!!!!

Anyways the photos!

Cheers

well done.

they are battle dammaged, but I cant really see any detail on the terminators, maybe a wash or something to make it "POP"

Damn, that must have taken quite a long time to magnetize. Nice job!

for the painting, are these finished? They look very basic to me especially compared to the Corteaz mini.

what kind of a tournament allows for switching wargear? I want to play in that!

Well done on the painiting. I really like the Power Swords the blending looks superb. How did you do it? if you dont mind me asking.

Ivory base looks very stark and unfinished.
Green and red details are not crisply painted into the areas they should be and lack highlight and shade.
Obvious mold lines show through the paint jobs.
Basing is not consistent.
Separate shoulder pads are an odd choice, why not glue them to the arms?

If I were paint judging this I'd give it a 5/10, average.

Hi

Thanks for the comments! After constant consulation, the deathwings are exactly to the chap's specifications! He did not want too much wash-only sepia in recesses! Everything was needed to be dirty and battleworn. Corteaz was a different matter as he wanted as close to the GW version as possible! Some mould lines were annoying due to their position. I wouldn't go far as to say that there were mould lines all over the place! The main ones are left on the shoulders which are going to be padded.

As for the blending, the dual coloured sword was done as Les Bursley does his and the others were also airbrush blended!


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Augustus wrote:Ivory base looks very stark and unfinished.
Green and red details are not crisply painted into the areas they should be and lack highlight and shade.
Obvious mold lines show through the paint jobs.
Basing is not consistent.
Separate shoulder pads are an odd choice, why not glue them to the arms?

If I were paint judging this I'd give it a 5/10, average.

The pads were not glued to the arms due to the fact the chap wanted to choose where to put them! But as stated, everything else is exactly to the letter of the commission. I had to copy his painting methods from 5 photos. I personally would have done them differently and with loads of pop, but I suppose the fact is that he already has termies paintied like this and didn't want anything to make his squads look eclectic!