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dsteingass wrote:

bebopdrums2424 wrote:But i think ive proven myself a proficient painter

If by "proficient" you mean being peers with Golden Demon winners in painting ability, yes.

steingass, very nice, but not true Ive ALOT to learn from many of you guys. Perfect example was your ice mix And rogue, i didnt mean to say it that way, what i meant was that i like to follow my own ideas until i run into a brick wall, then ill see what other people are up to. Darn internet.

That's what we are here for d00d. We all learn new and different little techniques for the betterment of the internet!

hell yeah. just looking at other painters and asking how they did something is a great learning moment. thats how i came up with my bronze scheme (check my blog in my sig or my gallery)

i did just that... high time i did that by the way^^ dunno what kept me from it for so long... sorry mate^^

and bebop thanks mate... i´ll be there to say my 2 cents and hopefully i can learn too a thing or two seeing you creating marvels with paint^^ and for my your creations should get some award...ouch... that would put me in the loosing position in our bustle at the competition... well then again i have done little to nothing on that project for the last two weeks...urgh...^^

im lucky that a gw store near me has a 7 time GD winner working there, still never went there but i will eventually

I will be sure to post some stuff when I get back into my groove. Seeing as I just recently came back to 40k a month ago, from a 3 year absence haha.

Oh and btw Guten Abend Viktor wie gehts (minoring in German)
And Bebop with the thanks you give your supporters you deserve an award

hehehe i can speak german too, KATSE!!! SHEIB (thats an s set)

YES i to like your work keep up the great work

lol... danke schön, gut geht es! i hope to get alarmed when you put your stuff on Aboucher !

at rogue... did you mean cat and some other word i can´t be bum...ed to translate lol^^

at bebop... do you feel the power of nonsense creeping upon ye already? that´s what happens for a lack of updates^^


vik

ach nein bitte nicht herr Doom. aber mijn deutsch is nicht so sehr gut. yeah all the schools in holland have german in our classes. i hatted it because of the grammer (dyslexia isn't a friend )
he bob where are our updates? we will run amok and start posting my little pony comments!

yes that is exactly what i said, i know real german words but i find these and apfelsaft to be my favorites

LOL!! I love that you guys can find so much joy in my absence >_<!!! lol. Ask and you shall receive! Another update for the squad in progress. The sargeant is actually taking more time than i wanted him to. My overall need to paint every detail is overwhelming lol. Also, havent really ever painted a genestealer before so...well...practice is practice. Still, i tried to dial it back so its still somewhat army painting mode. The second guardsman is actually pretty fast. Next time i wont add so much goblin green around the bottom of his chest guard. Just the top edge. Itll look slick But i definately like the over all progress so far on this squad. I must apologize for the lack of anything exciting really since page 13 lol. >_< Unfortunately because of my drumming career, sometimes i get wrist pain from painting and i need to dial it back. Thats why not as much has been happeing and why i haven't started a real serious character model for fatty, I promise some really cool stuff on the horizon once i get my strength back.
Also in other news, i competed yesterday in a RTT tourney at my game store. I lost 2 of 3 battles against very skilled opponents, but won best painted army. Against very stiff competition. My friends flesh tearers were gorgeous, and honestly should have won. Individually my character models were better painted i think, but on the whole, his smaller elite army gave him time to do more on each individual model, and they were all extremely well painted. Musta been my aquarium plants that won it for me My prize was 25$ store credit so i bought a broodlord to be my CC for this regiment
Anyways, here are more WIPs
the sarge



regular guardsman #2




anyways, theres a 3rd but ill jst update him in the next wip with the qhole squad Hope you like. Also on the list is the finishing of my 3rd sentinel. Its close , just gotta do the driver

Oh YEEAH D00D! That bright green is an excellent contrast to the purp now! Totally badass!

the purples on that sarge are fenominal man! nice work

dude that's awesome! i feel your pain just began 45 ork boyz.

Amazing!

The look great. The green and purple lwork very well together. They lend themselves to a night stalker theme. The difference between the skin on the sarge and the solid color of the bandanna and gun on the trooper show the transition from human to 'nid incredibly well, I think. Very cool.

I'm looking forward to seeing the broodlord all painted up. Are you going to convert him much? Oh, and will he count as Al?

Also... what is that thing on his shoulder?

I really like them, the conversions are cool and the colours work very well.

O.o What a twist..
But I like it! Your conversions are very nice, keep up!

i too have marveled a the the "bit" on the shoulder...looks like some scale from a nid...hmmm...

at fisrt i thugh this was a real good photoshop thing you produced as i only saw the upper torso and head of the genestealer witth the grenade launcher..., then i saw your fingers and i knew thsi is your painting... gorgeous... loooks like done on canvas...really like it very much!
one thing the new minis made me feel akward about was: the yelling guy... the one with the spareribs on his back... those ribs are flying way to much around for my liking... i think they should hang more tighter to the back... or you could add another pack of ribs directly under his first ribcage^^ he could be the quartermaster for your gang^^
and i too think that the green on his stomach is a bitt to bright there... looks like you over did it a bit with the highlight there...*cringes* sorry someone has to point out this stuff^^

BUT! i really have to say you won me totally over with your paintscheme for your genestealers... it works and it even sells the fluff...and i like it for the pure esthetics of the scheme...

also i have to ask... that torso of the grenadelauncher guy... did you just paint on those abbs on him? very cool! and about this very conversion i have to say something else...: some peeps might have used a standard cadian body with a genestealer head... i say... this would have been dumb... a guy with a head as big as this never gets this on again...so you choice for body was way clever! sound composition all over!


vik

LOL! Annnnnnnnnnnnd Vik breaks out the heavy artillery. OK. Clearing up the thing on the shoulder. Its a preliminary idea for vox casters. A symbiotic alien worm of some kind. Obviously, its way too big. On the genestealer sprue it looks tiny, but when put on the arm...its GIANT. LOL. so, either i should cut one in half then GS a few bits of ripped skin to look as if its dug in, or maybe just GS them entirely since they need to be so small, or perhaps let the idea go as there really isnt alot of modelling room for something like that on the models anyways. The torso is a kroot torso. And yeah, just around that left breast plates bottom edge, too much goblin green. But since these effects are made with three washes, brown, green, brown, any touch ups are almost impossible. Moving on cuz, i cant get too stuck ive got 57 more to paint. The ribs, i agree, vik. I just glued em on lol. I love that my modelling blind eyes dont even see those types of flaws. I just glue stuff >_<. Anything well modelled is by accident i assure you. Ill definately tyake more care on future models, as there will be many So anyways, im glad they are coming across well I TOLD you guys the colors would work! And GG, the broodlord is going to be fun, im thinking i may not even convert him since hes just a giant mutha ing genestealer. And that fits in the fluff of my ideas that the more in command, the more converted to alien they become. Also, im toying with the ideas of using crop circle designs for banners, vehicle markings, tattoos and icons. Ive also recently aquired a bunch of metal old magus and asatropath characaters so there are LOTS of special characters in store for this regiment. The tank camo scheme will be an opposite of the troop camo scheme. Goblin Green, with scorched brown spots.

mqybe his shoulder was the wrong psoition for this worm... but i would´t change it now...leave it as is... also i just realized that there is some wound around/ under that worm... well now it makes sense to me...

i want it on the back of the neck. But thats just so cramped back there it looks kinna stupid:( Yea the blood was my "cover up" for bad modelling technique. Bebops very own!

just an idea Bebob. why don't you let the worm stick out of his head? its more realistic as a vox caster why would a worm in your arm allow you to recive and make calls. in his head it wouuld be more logical and then the worm can be a sort of hive mind responder or a synapse responder.

but thats just my rambling

lol i mustve posted right before yours went through. Head, back of neck, we are on the same page. Great minds think alike eh fatty?

how about making one worm (just a bit of GS ) looking out from the vox casters ear?
like with chekov in star trek wrath of khan?

Bebop is killing it once again, it all looks really good. I have a question what is a good color for highting codex grey?

hey your the first person who says i have a great mind most people say i have a disturbed mind 0.o but it is great to hear that you had the same idea

Well you know what they say fatty, there is a fine line between genius and insanity haha

Aboucher wrote:Well you know what they say fatty, there is a fine line between genius and insanity haha

you are encouraging the fatty! Which is good, dude can paint! Aboucher, just use fortress grey to highlight, or if just wanna add white to grey thats fine too.
Here are a few final wip pics for the day. Finished fatigues for the sarge, and added more deets on the grunt. When i realized i was trying to make a ray ban emblem on the side with dts i knw i had a problem. lol
taken with an HD flash cuz its night now.





they are both 85% done. More on deck.