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Farty Wiffmas wrote:Here's my new entry:

The eye is halfway through having OSL done to it so it does look pretty awful at the moment!
Comments and critisicm is always welcome!

I have a secret crush on DE. The models are so dynamic; I love it!

The blending on your helm is looking pretty good, imho. I'm looking forward to seeing what you have in store for the rest of the model!

As for the OSL, it looks like you'd like to have both the eye and the slit be glowing, but I think I'd stay away from OSL from the oddly shaped slit and just do the eye. Trying to get the lighting right from such a weird source would be really tough. I think you have a good start on it!

neil101 wrote:@Rawson , good job on finishing him up , i love the osl and matching green purity seal.

Thanks, Neil! I'm glad people are liking how the OSL turned out. That was a bit ambitious but I'm happy with it!

Keep up the fight, everyone!
Rawson

@Sentinel:
Well, it's just an easier way to paint, especially such complicated models, where some visible details will be unreachable if the mini is fully glued together.
Good skin tone on that Ork, by the way.

@Rawson:
Nice one

@Farty:
Good luck with this OSL. For some reason I'm thinking about a harlequin pattern, when I look at his plain red suit.

@neil101:
Thanks, man!

Whoo! I'm painting, slowly, but purposefully:



I'm a really crappy photographer, so the pic doesn't show a zenithal highlighting properly, however the main purpose of posting this is to show my first attempt on rusty elements. Any C&C?

C&C would only be how jealous i am of that cool talent of yours...

what will be written on that label?

Well, almost four hours of painting a small piece of plastic - it is a talant indeed

Oh, and that's a good question... I don't know
The name supposed to be on that label and I have a large list of names for my characters, yet none of those are suitable for this guy, in my opinion. Still searching... Any suggestions?

mind if you share your ideas first... for a general feel of your direction? after that i can help you better inthat department...

Weee, got pretty much everything pinned at this point, and everything holds together on its own so far. Still need to add more detail with GS, a few more bitz, and liberal use of chains. I think I'm going to try mocking up the mini with some Repentia accompanying her on the base too.

Valix, It just sounds cool

@El Vic:
Well, the name should sound heavy and loud. As the guy is.. Heavy. And loud. "Loud" is his nickname, actually. And he likes shooting!

@Capitansolstice
Valix sounds cool, indeed, but not heavy enough though.

what about banshee, screamer wouldn´t fit as it sounds too chaosy...

loked in a latin translation site....

what about merus ...means louder...as in brother merus ...

or surdaster...means half deaf... as in brother surdaster...

Woohoo! More than 4/5ths of the way there now!

Finished the chapter champion and have started work on the final honour guard

Hope you like it!

LDP

hw could one not like these... how did you get that thin line of bright white of the lightning so thin and so bright? that gladius is looking a wicked backstabber!!

AWESOME work LDP!

Sorry I haven't updated Here in a while. Since my birthday I haven't had much time for painting.
I spend most of driving now . I have my L's (I got 100% on the test)! That's right everyone I'm on the roads now, watch out .

... Anyway here is my almost finished mini.

The pics are quite bad, (looks nothing like IRL), but they will give you all a rough idea of what he looks like.
A few touch ups here and there and It's finished. I'll update with better pics then.







C & C would be great!

And I haven't forgot about the Segway Rough Rider! I have done some work on him but not enough for it to be worth showing you all!

Nice, but did you forget to paint the eyes in his helmet flying poo?

@El Vic:
Thanks for the tips.
I like the "half deaf" idea very much - a great irony! But the word is too long for this lable, so it should be Surdo (deaf), i guess.
Anyway, I had a lot of spare time at work today, so I've done a little research on that matter and came up with several ideas... In many movies and games the stereotypical Heavy gunner or similar character is a Black guy, Russian or Latinos. Some kind of an African name won't be suitable, since my guys just isn't black, and any Russian name sounds way too common for my ear for obvious reason. So I'm thinking about Latinos style name or, well, a classic SM Latin name.
Here's some variants:
- Surdo
- Manus (Power, Vigor... in Latin)
- Mons (Mountain or Rock in Latin)
- Blain (A guy with Minigun from the oldie-goldie Predator movie)
- Kamov
- Fuego (Fire in Español)

Personally I like the last one - Fuego. Sounds exotic (well, for me) and... hot

in the army we always had this joke about our maingun the (back then) G3... it had a setting for sigle fire and one for rapid fire (uncontrolled) and of course secure... the letter showing the burst setting was "F" as in "Feuerstoß...wich means burst... well what i am tlaking about, we used to call the F stands for Frieden...which is peace... what about some irony here? bttle Brother Piece... whereever he shoots there is only piece...or pieces^^

Mons is a nice thing... but it lacks a certain roll of the tongue... if you get my meaning... and i think manus is too overused...at least i think so^^ and surdo i have to say sounds to hiphop for me

well fuego sure works...see above... on the same line of thought i guess...

Yep, I agree with every statement.
Mons is short and doesn't give that feeling... Well... You know, what I mean. And Manus is simply boring.
Frieden sounds nice, but it will be hard to write on the small lable. It can be shorten to Fred (Peace in Germanic languages). Fred, Fred... Fred. No, Fuego still sounds better to me.

i think you menat to write "Friede" wich would be valible as it is even a real name... but if you are feeling burnt to Fuego...Fuego it is^^

Well, I took Fred from Danish language and then google told me it's a regular name for all the Germanic, anyway, I'm sure there're a lot of variants for different counties and languages. And Friede somehow reminds me of Freud... Oh, my SM can be a great psychoanalyst with such a tool as his weaponry! Imagine that: *pointing his gun at patient's direction* "Do you want to talk about it, weakling!?"

one could also think he is desperatly trying to compensate something....maybe the loss of an even former bigger gun...just a thought that had crossed my mind...

I thought SM's... Um... gun... is atrophied due to misuse of steroids and augmentation. Or do they *augment* their... Gun as well? Oh, I think I don't want to know!

yeah ... how is the weather this time of the year in ST.-petersburg ?

Yeah, definitely we should change the topic...
As always - dark and cold, rainy and windy.

What about Berlin?

well it is cold and wet...and... i think i am too in St. Petersburg lol tho we do get seasons^^

aye yey yey... it is interesting to see how off topic we get when UG is away

yeah... where the heck is he? RL is overrated^^

@El Vic:
Almost true - in St. Petersburg there's only season in the year - the windy and rainy one... We live in a god damn swamp

@Capitansolstice:
So, how's the weather in Illinois?


But yeah, we should get back on topic:
OMG LOOK!!! A HEAD ON A STICK!!!


Unfortunatly, another crappy picture and too much light hitting on his calvity - it suppose to be gray, as shaved. Anyway, that was a brave attempt to paint an unshaved chin. Also, I should repain this green lens.

I just wish I could paint that good
The Weather here is very nice, a blustery autmn 55 degrees (farenheit) so like 10-15 ish Celsius?

well he looks suitably gruffy in my opinion^^ and yeah i suppose you should add a bit of spark to the lense...otherwise i think he looks very good to me...despite the "bad" pics^^

lets see, after changing my idea many times, i think im going to post up my first fantasy models, or my mordheim captian, depending on what gets finished first

ishkatar wrote:OMG LOOK!!! A HEAD ON A STICK!!!


Unfortunatly, another crappy picture and too much light hitting on his calvity - it suppose to be gray, as shaved. Anyway, that was a brave attempt to paint an unshaved chin. Also, I should repain this green lens.

Great start! I think you've acheived the stubble look quite well and the level of detail is great! My only bit of CC is for the bionic eye (which you already referenced as needing work). Are you shooting for OSL or standard lens technique? (My vote is for lens, if that matters at all )