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It definitely looks like he's just pure musculature, no skin looks great!

Perhaps some little bands of white would add to the effect, like the bands of fat you get when you look at human musculature.

He looks awesome already though

Yeah I still got a long way to go on his skin but it's getting there, I will be adding a highlight to each muscle striation (ugh that's gunna be tedious) and I do plan on adding the lighter coloured tendons/ligaments (the white parts you speak of) once that is done.

Lookin' pretty good here IF! I like the flayed look, probably cause i'm a 'cron player and FO are very prominent in my builds.

Lookin neat I_F.

I'd totally borrow that from you if I was gonna paint up much more HC, but I think the Ynari have taken that from me

Thank you very much for the compliments guys, I got a lot more work done on the muscle and in my opinion it looks a lot better now, just gotta do the ligaments and tendons to finish it off. I'm really digging the flayed look and I think it works especially well for the Cronos to help him stand a part from the Talos engines.

Flayed ones are gorgeous models Justaerinatthewall and loads of fun to fight on the tabletop, they have lots of good potential to be a real standout unit on the table to get away from all the necron silver paint.

The beauty of painting flayed flesh is you don't have to paint only flayed covens units Gummy, you can paint flayed Eldar, flayed Orks, flayed guardsmen or even flayed Tau. In fact if it has skin it can be flayed! So don't worry about specific units just go ahead and flay them all!

That model is a real chance to flex your muscles (heh) from a painting perspective. You can really get in there and play with glazes and gloss coats to make it very rich and visceral. Looking good so far.

Shadow Spectre came out really nicely. Loving the Cronos. flesh work is sweet

It's been a great challenge painting this muscle, so far I think I've had moderate success. I'm reluctant to start playing with glazes and glosses at the stage it's at right now for fear of butchering what I've done (in a bad way). I'm not confident enough in my skills or knowledge to know how to apply them to good effect. I was also thinking blood for the blood god would work but I'm pretty worried it may just botch the whole job instead. If you have any suggestions on how to apply glazes and gloss to improve this I'd love to hear it, always nice to learn new things.

Thanks Jan, I had a blast painting the Shadow Spectre, the bloodbrides were great practice for doing that much off-white work. I hope the Cronos comes out nicely as it's looking like it'll be my entry for the competition at the end of the month instead of my wraithknight.

Here's the latest update on the muscle texture, let me know what you guys think please, as the one who painted it I have a hard time discerning the quality of the work with clear eyes.

Wow that's impressive!

I get the fear of applying glazes in case it ruins it. I'd steer away from Blood for the Blood God for this purpose. I've found it's actually pretty viscous with a high surface tension to allow it to clump up like blood globules do. It's very, very clever, but not quite what you need.

I know it's probably going to be a ton more effort, but could you paint up something else as a test piece for your glazes/washes?

Depending on time I can do a test piece. The only problem is that I leave on Monday to visit my girlfriend for a week and don't know how much painting I'll be able to get done while I'm there. I'm really pushing to try and have this guy done by tomorrow.

How have I missed 2 pages of stuff since I last checked in?!

Loving the flayed skin look, I'd say you've nailed it!

EDC

Chronos looks great, I see the flayed look clearly in the photo.

Cheers,

CB

Thank you very much EDC and CB, I appreciate the comments, helps me know if I'm doing things right or just messin em all up.

That skin is coming on great.

Thank you very much SJM.

Wow, the actual Cronos is creepy, yours is just even creepier...
Maybe you cold try diluted Blood for the Blood God? I think indiluted it will darken everthing too much and your painted details will disappear. Otherwise some Bloodletter and gloss varnish could result in something similar but much more controllable.

Thanks for the comment and advice SoaJ. I'd like to experiment with it more but unfortunately I'm out of time now to do anything else on the muscle, I still have to wrap up the rest of his parts (the tiny arms on the side and the plethora of glass tubes and vials all over the model) so for now it'll stay as is until after the competition. I do like the idea of mixing some gloss and paint together though, I have a feeling it may dilute the gloss factor as well so perhaps trying out those tints that GW makes may be in order.

Wow!!

That flesh is disgusting and unsetting, Perfect for a chronos I guess

Awesome work however, I really don't think the skin needs much more, its looking amazing.

Looking real good. Nobody will mistake what you are going for. I will also suggest staying away from BFTBG. It is a neat tool, but not subtle enough for your paint job.

Got the Cronos all finished up tonight. Thank you very much for all your comments and critiques everyone as I worked on him, they were a big help even if I couldn't test out all of the suggestions. I did notice one issue once I put him all together though, one that I'm sure will cost me any chance at medalling in this upcoming painting comp (if that was even possible in the first place). It's the model itself, his pose means no one will be able to see his chest and stomach on the table during voting and I feel that's his strongest feature. Voting at this comp is not by judges but rather open voting to the public but they can't touch the models (probably for good reason) so with his hunched pose they'll really only get to see his shell, which is kinda "meh". Oh well, can't be helped now. Anyways here's the pics. Hope you guys like him and of course comments and critiques are greatly appreciated.

Wow now that is a thing of beauty it is a real shame that it won't be immediately visible, but what an achievement!

I think you're selling yourself short on the carapace as well. The pink blossom motif is very striking, and might be just enough to make people look just a little bit closer and spot the underside

Thank you very much Ynneadwraith for your kind words. We'll see what happens on Saturday if either of my models are good enough to medal in their respective categories, I won't be holding my breath though. I do still like the carapace, the motif is still something that pleases me visually, we'll see as well if it's well-received by the public vote this weekend.

At the end of the day however I am still proud of what I've done with this, the parts that are similar to my Talos in my opinion I've done better, cleaner lines, neater edge highlighting, the flower motif is a bit tighter and the spine tentacles far outshine the one I did on my Talos, clear improvement in all those areas. The muscle texture was tons of fun to paint and, for my first attempt, I am pretty happy with the results. This was another learning experience that I feel paid off pretty nicely in the end.

Those muscle fibres are looking sweeeeet

is it possible to use a longer stem to the base and file the top so it's at an angle so he's a bit more tilted up?

Looking great though

I'm drawing more and more parallels to 'crons with this boy, now with the green piping! Maybe I need to stop reading my codex so much...
Looking excellent IF, a worthy entry for this competition!

Wow!

It all looks awesome as per usual!

It's a shame the body isn't as noticeable, however, the cherry blossoms are absolutely striking and quite creepy paired with the skin and idea of the mini.

Good luck at the competition!

Thank you very much for all your kind words everyone, they're greatly appreciated and really get me stoked on starting my next piece, likely a Haemonculus.

@finnan: welcome back to the thread dude, glad to have you! I did try different poses and with a longer stem it'd still be awkward to see his chest properly, you really kinda have to just flip him upside down to get a good look at it. I did find a way to showcase it though without touching the model, a small makeup mirror, it sits right under the base and reflects the chest quite well so you can see it without touching the model. As long as the organizers at the comp allow me to place it there with my model it should be adequate to get a decent look at the whole thing.

@justaerinatthewall: At the end of the day what's the difference between one bloodthirsty murder machine and another?

@gummyofallbears: Thank you always kind sir. I do like the play of the different themes at work here, the tranquility of the blossoms is really at odds with his flesh, I was worried they would clash in a negative way but I think overall they're working together not bad.

I'm back from 8 days away from home. The painting comp I went to was a ton of fun but unfortunately I didn't do very well at all. There was a ton of entrants in each category and there were some amazing standout minis for sure, it was quite intimidating. I asked the organizer how my minis fared overall and while I'm not surprised I didn't medal this year I was a bit disheartened at where I stood, both my minis were quite near the bottom of the pack for the public voting. Oh well, it can't be helped I suppose, hopefully I do better next year. On the bright side my Cronos seems to be fairly well liked over here on the Dakka painting comp so that's got my spirits up.

On that note a few people in the voting thread had mentioned they wanted to see close ups of my cronos. With my limited photography skills I've done the best I can for now I believe so here's some extra shots of him. If anyone wants to see any specific angles or spots let me know, my photo booth has a semi-permanent spot now so I don't have to tear it down anymore.

That's a really lovely painting with some truly fantastic attention to detail, love the contrast between the delicate black and blossom carapace and the meat beneath.

Very nice!

Yes, what inflatablefriend said, except in my voice.