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Sweet Lord you paint fast... and they look niiiiiice!! I don't care for Orks as an army all too much, but I like the more subdued color set for these guys- they look pretty good in the darker olive-green skin!

-Remi

My jaw hit the floor! Awesome painting! but of course you already know that...

Looove eet!The flames are really nice.

I really cannot find anything to criticize, becuase it looks so good!

_Tim?

looking good indeed. i do love the way you do your weathering, very cool

@HF_Izanagi: Thanks very much but in fact I should be much faster really. Cheers about the comment on the Ork skin. Problem with most Ork skin recipies is that they look rather unnatural when being based off Dark Angels Green and Goblin Green (as most are I suppose). I know, that comes from the guy who keeps on insisting very colourful looking Orks but the skin I think should look somewhat natural. It's always hard to take something for real either the skin or the face looks completely unrelatable to us. As we know, the latter applies for current ork models 100% so the skin colour should be more algae-like looking rather than the rather blue-green shades GW's colour range offers.

@deffskulla: Thanks very much. It's always nice to hear when people like what I do. Over the years I really learned that this is what keeps my motivation up.

@_Tim?: Thank ye, Sir. At first I was really reculant to do the big "comet-snout" on this vehicle but I figured that the battlewagon needs to look badass so I simply went for it, tried it out and I think it works fairly well.

@bigfish: Cheers mate. It takes some more time but it proves to be immensely popular with the crowds. Just had a look at your location - I hope you're safe. Must be a really weird atmosphere around the whole London area right now. I used to live there for about 10 months...on tv I saw places I used to go to on a daily basis looking unreal.


Anyhow, got a bit carried away there. I just hope that everybody's safe and sound everywhere really.



So here's another update. You didn't really expect this beast not to feature an extra 'ard Deffrolla in the end, right?

Looking good, Sigur - I take it that the last Nob is camera-shy?

@Dysartes: Thanks very much. Well, he's not so much camera shy. He just likes to hide. :p


The Battlewagon is finished now:









Here's some detailshots:





(because shouting and waving yer choppa in the air is only fun so long when riding in the back of a battlewagon.)

There's also a peace-sign on the one Gretchin's helmet of course.

And here's the nob:


Hope you like everything.

Next up: Finishing the bikers, then some dirtiying up on the vehicles and that's it for the first batch of Evil Sunz!

The speed and quality you are putting out is very inspiring, I currently get through about 3-4 marines a week if I'm lucky.

How much time to spend on painting a day?

The level of detail on that wagon is awe-inspiring. *slow clap*

I have to say I am loving this thread. Your tutorials are the biggest help. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and allowing us to give it a go.

@Knightley: That varies. At the moment I'm aiming for at least 7 hours of pure painting but around that, I have to write e-mails, post on forums, take photos, and do all kinds of other administrative stuff.

@crazypsyko666: Thanks a lot. I thought it deserved some detail as well as the overall impressive look.

@Mr.Malevolent: Glad you like my stuff.


As you may or may not remember, the Bikers were basically half-finished when I put them aside for a while. Today I finished them:






(the design on the Nobz' jacket is based on the jacket Mickey Rourke's character wears in "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man")

Ah, thank you for clarifying that, I had this thought in my head that you only painted for 3-4 hours a day. Still with the hours you put in the results do speak for them selves! This is one of those threads I always like coming to have a read/check of every day.

@Knightley: Thanks, that's always nice to hear.

Today I mostly wrote e-mails, proceeded working on a Rune Priest and Long Fangs squad leader and I did some test miniatures for possibly upcoming projects. After this, I took this photo for your entertainment:



Two scouting parties of the Imperial Fists Space Marines and the murderous World Eaters Chaos Space Marines clash in the street canyons of one of the numerous urban battlefields of the 41st milennium!

@bigfish: Cheers mate. It takes some more time but it proves to be immensely popular with the crowds. Just had a look at your location - I hope you're safe. Must be a really weird atmosphere around the whole London area right now. I used to live there for about 10 months...on tv I saw places I used to go to on a daily basis looking unreal.


Anyhow, got a bit carried away there. I just hope that everybody's safe and sound everywhere really.

Lol, those Epic models are... Epic!!

Will try to reply to your mail soon...

@bigfish: Well, at least you're okay then. :p I think it's been three quiet nights now and the obligatory calls for "more rights for the police to do stuff" is setting in.

@Yggdrasil: Thanks, looking forward to hearing from you.


Here's some closer-ups of the Epic models:






...and of course there's something to be done about those remaining Space Wolves:


I'll post a list of the remaining Space Wolfy stuff later so we get an overview of what's left to do about this army. I think I also should go do some army shots of the Orks but the weather's pretty cloudy today and I prefer to do those things outside...well, let's see when I can do those.

Anyhow, comments and critizism are highly welcome as always.


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Hey, there's a picture of other new stuff:

Right, here's a last one for tonight - first WIP of Fenrisian Wolves:


Very interesting working with the plastic Wargs for the first time. Close up and painting them they prove to be much more interesting than I thought. Depending on the angle you hold them they look like a completely different animal, ranging from deer to cougar. :p

. Depending on the angle you hold them they look like a completely different animal, ranging from deer to cougar. :p

How delighfully insightful!

@nerdfest: Thanks but it's true! It (especially the head) is somehow very much between dog, wild cat and large rodent. :p

Right, after some more highlighting, shading and detailling...



And here's the finished wolf banners:


Hope you like everything, c&c welcome!

I love the banners, the colour tones look really natural

Dan

Man, those Epic scale models must be tiny! I'd need a goddamn microscope to even try to paint those things.

Wargs looks excellent. I'm planning on painting my Skorne Ferox, which are big cougar looking cats, this winter and will go into similar direction with them.

Those wargs do look fantastic though! I really like how you've done them! top stuff as usual! the fur is awesome!

Great lookin' wargs... they're not GW... but they remind me of Magnus' talk with his soldiers while the SWs visited their planet. "There are no wolves on Fenris"...

They look close, but they aren't "wolf-like". I like them!

-Remi

@D.Smith: Cheers.

@crazypsyko666: Yeah, they're kind of small and have next to no detail. After this first range of plastic infantry for Epic, they made them quite a bit larger.

@Metsuri: Thank you. I usually would have gone for grey "wolves" but as the bases are all grey that wouldn't have worked.

@nerdfest09: Thanks muchly.

@HF Izanagi: Well, they are indeed GW. Or did I get the sentence wrong? :S


Right, I'm not sure if there'll be much to see in here today as I'm down with a nasty cold. I hope I'll get better soon so I can get more stuff done again. Maybe there'll be some WIPs of the two Space Wolves Drop Pods up later tonight but I can't make any promises.

Er, perhaps I looked in the wrong section? I checked SWs, but are they in a different section?

Either way, comment still stands- excellent wargs of Fenris!

-Remi

They're in the lotr section.

@HF Izanagi: Thanks again. Yeah, as Grim Smasha said, they're from LotR. Interesting little bit by the way - these wargs got genetalia. At least they're hinted to have them. Not something you'd see on regular GW beasties.


Still got that annoying cold (I'm sure you all know how annoying it can be to paint with a runny nose) but nonetheless, here's some new WIP shots!

One of the two drop pods I'm working on:



Apart from that (and some terrain) I started painting the Cockatrice:



Hope you like everything so far. I'll try to get some army shots of the Evil Sunz online later today.

The skin on your cockatrice is great, looks suitably leathery and tough, that will be one model i'm keeping an eye out for when done! fantastic so far Sigur!

do you actually have a tiny evil moustache like your avatar? I always imagined you do!

@nerdfest: Cheers. In fact I do sport a fancy moustache. As well as a bell around my neck. And a tiny black leather vest. And that's about it.

Speaking of freaks of nature, here's another WIP of the Cockatrice:



I think I'll need to redo some portions of the skin. I really aimed for a pale, pinkish "plucked chicken" look. Did a bit of research too of course. In fact, I had a picture of a plucked black rooster open in a tab for the past two days. When painting animals or anything that remotely exists in real life, image search is such a great help for inspiration or for taking another look at things. I recently read a thread (on another board) in which someone asks how to paint a cow. I suggested using some sort of image search for some reference material and he replied that he knew what a cow looked like, thankyouverymuch. I gave it a thought and realized that I have a certain concept of what a cow (or most animals) looks like but once I actually start painting one it's just such a great help to have lots of reference material at hand. Anyway, enough of me rambling about cows. :p