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I might just keep it put white. He’s got that floating/hover thing going on. How’s he getting dusty? Getting dirt on you is for lesser races. Not blood splatter, he makes sure there is plenty of that.

If you do end up with weathering it, I’d keep it light and on the hem.

Seconded on the lightness of the weathering, but i do think it'll look beter with a little bit

That looks amazing!

I like the idea of the blood for the blood god on the apron, it'll look quite fitting. About the weathering on the apron, Because of his sump supporting him, I feel that he would never let himself actually get dirty.

My vote goes to painting the apron and the rest of the mini, and deciding if you should add weathering afterwards.

Thanks for the tutorial on the skin!

Inevitable_Faith,

The Haemonculus' cloak looks fantastic, thanks for the painting guide as well. That's what PLOGs are really about, sharing the great methods we use to achieve the results with others and growing the painting part of the hobby. Wonderful work.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks everyone for your kind words, I think before I dirty up his surgical apron I'll do a dry-fit of the pieces and see how the colours are interacting. One problem with painting in sub-assemblies is that it's very easy to lose sight of the big picture. It's funny, ynnead, as I was doing some experimentation with blood for the blood god last night and I found if I add water when it dries it'll dry with a hard ring on the outside and leave the center fairly clean. I agree Nev that if I do dirty up the apron it'll be just on the bottom hem and it won't be too overpowering.

For painting I have his base and arms to do so I'll be chipping away at those but I'll also experiment with different techniques and washes to see about making the surgical apron more realistic, perhaps once everything is put together it'll look less out of place as it currently does.

Ah that might be what I ended up doing as I was trying to dab away an errant big blob with a variety of different things (one of which was a slightly wet paintbrush).

Definitely worth doing a trial fit to see how it looks before finishing it off I doubt it'll be a make-or-break decision though so no sweat, and it'll likely look good either way

He could probably do with a little gritting up, but not too much. You have a lot of great work done already and don't want to cover it up.

Super well done. The patchwork coat is simply superb and really works with your scheme.

Thank you very much guys. The Haemy is nearing completion, if I get a few good hours in tomorrow I believe I should be able to finish him up.

Nice how to on the flayed flesh look. Really useful.

The haemonculus is looking awesome so far.

EDC

I definitely appreciate the tutorials on the skin and the flayed meat. When I get around to painting up my old school warp beasts, gonna steal me that meat technique.

Welcome to the thread goblinpaladin it's nice to have you here. Glad you found the tutorials helpful. I like the term "meat-technique" I 'll definitely be using that from now on.

Been catching up. Love the exposed musculature look you've started using.

Thank you very much Aku-chan. Hopefully I'll have the Haemy ready to show off soon, he's painted but I just gotta finish up the base on him now. I did him up with the same musculature style as my Cronos.

Haemy still hasn't been based but I did get a small 5-man unit of Kabalites done. Here's the first Kabalites to join my ranks, for now I'll probably use them as cheap backfield objective holders as without a venom or raider they aren't likely to be too useful. Comments and critiques welcome as usual.

Nice! I like a lot

I love the pink just so much. Have you named your Kabal, by the way?

Thanks guys, glad you like them. In fact, goblinpaladin, I have not named my force. Currently with its makeup I'd say it falls in the Wych cult category. I'm really terrible at coming up with names unfortunately.

Very nice! Almost reminds of Slaaneshi marines. Though i'm sure that's not what an eldar would like to hear.

Looking good dude.

EDC

Thanks guys, I got 5 more that I'll be getting done soon, likely after doing up another raider.

I don't mind hearing that at all Justaerin, after all the Eldar birthed Slaanesh, if anything Slaanesh marines are copying me not the other way around.

Finally got around to finishing up the base on my Haemy and taking some photos. It is ridiculously hard to get any good shots of inside his coat with my current setup, it's either too shadowed or if I try to add more light it blooms up and turns too white. Oh well hopefully it's clear enough in the photos for you guys. I want to put a little shoutout to Januine who's Haemy inspired me to pick up this model a long time ago (even before I started a DE army) and it was only till recently I felt comfortable to try and do it justice, I hope you like it dude. And a huge thank you to everyone else who has been so insanely supportive of my work since I started this thread, you're all amazing and I probably wouldn't be where I'm at without your critiques and comments. With the Haemy done that wraps up my Dark artisan formation and next up for DE will be my second raider. I have a small side project I'm experimenting with at the moment too, mostly just something to satisfy my curiosity since I keep hearing how yellow is hard to paint. As always comments and critiques are much appreciated.

Great work IF! The coat is suitably grimy and patchwork, and the base was worth the wait. Glad to see you finish a formation, that always feel good. Maybe some CW Iyanden there?

Thank you Justaerin, I'm amazed at how easy it was to do the cloak and how it goes from looking terrible to looking really good after just one wash application. The stitching and extra wash were like icing on cake after that. Actually my yellow experiment doesn't have anything to do with any form of Eldar (shocking!), I am quite excited to see how it turns out though.

You can't tease us like this. Tell us about your secret WHFB Nordland or 40K Scythes of the Emperor or whatever!

As for Haemy the Haemonculus, I'm wasn't thrilled by the current models (I'm a cranky old man) but this is great. I'm really excited to try out your meatechnique on my old warp beasts.

He came out all sorts of cool. Take a bow.

Thank you very much goblinpaladin and youwashock. By all means goblin have fun with the meat-technique™, I look forward to seeing how it turns out for you.

Looks incredible! I adore the blood on the cloak, its a great touch.

The kabalite also look pretty fun, They fit your force well.

Thank you very much Gummy, glad you like them.

Nice little hovering evil butcher/mad scientist!

Washes are often like bottled miracles. They can take a model from “meh” to “wow” in one sloppy step. Or used in more precise applications for a lot of other things.