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You sir, have a gift!

lone dirty dog wrote:I cant believe that a paint job has improved the detail so much, this has tempted me to dig through some of my old models

I love to read that my painting makes people want to paint. Let me know if you dig one and paint it, I'd love to see it !

@ Ruglud, Gits and Eldercaveman : thank you !


The dragon is almost finished, so I have started working on the next project. I'm gonna try to build a new army for a 40k tournament in september.
I don't know if I'll succeed, but at least I'll try !

A teaser of what's coming :






Of course, I'll post pix of the dragon as soon as it's finished.

That looks oddly like a nemesis clone from Rackham's confrontation. You going niddly on us?

3 boxes and loft checked but still no High Elf dragon found now where did I put it

 Minus wrote:
I'm gonna try to build a new army for a 40k tournament in september.
I don't know if I'll succeed, but at least I'll try !

A teaser of what's coming :






Of course, I'll post pix of the dragon as soon as it's finished.

Please be Nids, please be Nids, please be Nids..........

inmygravenimage wrote:That looks oddly like a nemesis clone from Rackham's confrontation. You going niddly on us?

I have NO IDEA what "niddly" means. (and google translate says it means "niddly" so... yeah ! )
It's not a Nemesis clone, but it's from Rackham and it's much bigger. However, the project involves Nemesis clones to.

lone dirty dog wrote:3 boxes and loft checked but still no High Elf dragon found now where did I put it

Hope they didn't disappear into the warp !
I imagine you running everywhere and screaming "Where are my dragooooons ?" .

Eldercaveman wrote:Please be Nids, please be Nids, please be Nids..........

Won't be Nids, I'm sorry.


Oh, and I finished the painting of my dragon yesterday, just in time for tommorow's 2Vs2 game. Hope you like him !

AWESOME !!!!!!!!! JUST AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh for the love of all things holy! Thats an awesome dragon! Very well done

 lone dirty dog wrote:
AWESOME !!!!!!!!! JUST AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing to add

Very nicely done Minus! *applause*

Niddly - in the style of Nids. Abomination then I take it, and the big one at that? You doing dirz should be awesome!

Oh I guess I know why google didn't translate that one.
"Niddly", like tyraNIDs, sounds logical. Thanks for the explanation.

So yes, it's an abomination. And yes there'll be Nemesis to. But no it won't be niddly. It's more... let's say... torturated. And now that the dragon is over I'll have the time to try my color scheme. I have an idea of what I want already, but I need to paint it to see if it works, and how I can do to get a color scheme that is fast. I need my army done for the beginning of september. (why didn't I decide to play orks on that tournament ? )



And I am REALLY pleased by the comments on my dragon so far. It took me so much time, it would be a pity if it didn't look good in the end. So thank you all for support.

Dirz as deldar? Nice. That's where all mine went!

 Minus wrote:
Oh I guess I know why google didn't translate that one.
"Niddly", like tyraNIDs, sounds logical. Thanks for the explanation.

So yes, it's an abomination. And yes there'll be Nemesis to. But no it won't be niddly. It's more... let's say... torturated. And now that the dragon is over I'll have the time to try my color scheme. I have an idea of what I want already, but I need to paint it to see if it works, and how I can do to get a color scheme that is fast. I need my army done for the beginning of september. (why didn't I decide to play orks on that tournament ? )



And I am REALLY pleased by the comments on my dragon so far. It took me so much time, it would be a pity if it didn't look good in the end. So thank you all for support.

I think what we can all take from this is.............. you should paint Tyranids.

inmygravenimage wrote:Dirz as deldar? Nice. That's where all mine went!

Yep !
Dirz have the perfect look for Dark eldars.

Eldercaveman wrote:I think what we can all take from this is.............. you should paint Tyranids.

Problem is : I don't have any of them.
If someone offered me a tyrannid army, I'd have no choice but painting them.


Today we had a 2Vs2 WHB game at home, and it turned out to a complete slaughter. The facing armies (dwarves + ogres) had such firepower that all my monsters were wiped out of the board in 2 turns. My dragon didn't do anything.
But we had a great time, so that's what matters the most. I'll see if I can post photos of the game later.

Whoa, that is stunningly beautiful, Minus. You are a king, sir! A DE army from you sounds exciting too, looking forward to it.

Thanks a lot Casey.
A preview of what's coming. I'm still preparing my models but my two talos are ready for painting :




Can't wait to try my color scheeeeeeeeeeeeeme !

Wow! Amazing upright conversion. Very excited.

Those are going to be fething awesome!

Those are very pretty! Consider me intrigued.

I'm preparing all the models for the painting (removing mold lines, little conversions, rebasing it all and so). I'm almost done with this so I should start painting the test models today. I need something that catches the eye AND that is pretty fast to paint. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED !

I'll most probably need your opinions to validate my color scheme before I start the mass cloning process. So keep an eye looking in there.

Interested to see what you come up with. Personally I'd like to see something colourful and eye catching like Jon's Drowned Gardens.

OMG, I didn't know Jon's army. I wanna cry now.



Ok, let's go.
When I came back home this afternoon I grabbed a handful of minis and started applying colors everywhere to see how it goes. What I want to do :
- the color for armours (and for vehicles) has to be red.
- I thought that a green skin (kinda weird-sick-mutant green, not orkish green) would work well with red
- all shiny bits (eyes, weapons and so) will be scaly green, because scaly green is magic
- the color scheme must be eye catching
- the models MUST be really fast to paint


I need a third color for clothes. I tried turquoise because it's a color I never painted before, but I'm not sure if it's a good choice. Maybe I should go for beige.
I applied battle damages on the armor plates because I'll do so on the vehicles so I think it will look good together.
As you will see, I tried several green skin colors, I dismissed most of them and picked the two ones I prefer. But I'm not sure if I should choose one of them (and wich one) or if I should try something else.

These are the first 2 test models. It's a quick paintjob, so don't judge the technical level of the painting, think "colors". Tell me what you think. I take ANY advice, positive or negative !
(also these are TEST models so don't bother for mold lines and model preparation... I painted thos models directly)

Haha, have you seen finnan's stuff too?

I think the red is lovely and the green is a great idea for skin. My honest opinion is dump the turquoise, it's too busy next to them. Beige is a great idea, a nice modern military desert khaki would be absolutely perfect next to the red and green. I prefer the green on the left but I feel like the green should be paler and more sickly, maybe even with a yellow tinge but overall just much paler would be my suggestion. The lenses will look good in green next to that I think.

Just my two pence!

I prefer the green on the left. I agree that the turquoise doesn't work. Whilst a khaki might be okay, it's then at risk of just being a dirz scheme; strong, but aged, colours I think A washed out pink might work, as well as being more deldar. Maybe yellow, rather than khaki, alternatively?

Ah, I didn't know the official scheme for that army was similar. Pink is an awesome idea.

I "finished" one test model to see what it looks like when it's complete. I'll answer your comments later, now it's time to jump to my bed and sleep.

But you're free to comment this one.

The skin is excellent. There are mold lines on the inside of the right arm and the glowing cable that are distracting me. I'm just not sure how I feel about the red armor.

I like the red armor, but the mold lines, yeah.

 Minus wrote:
These are the first 2 test models. It's a quick paintjob, so don't judge the technical level of the painting, think "colors". Tell me what you think. I take ANY advice, positive or negative !
(also these are TEST models so don't bother for mold lines and model preparation... I painted those models directly)

I know I often forget some mold lines but there's a HUGE one on the top of his head. I wouldn't have failed on this one.


I'll keep the red armours like this 'cause you seem to like them and it's really easy and fast to paint, and go with that not so green skin wich I'll try to make a bit lighter.

@ Gits : what bothers you about the red armour ? Is it TOO red ? Should I paint some areas an other color ?

@ all : since I painted the whole model and there's no more white areas, I think that the turquoise works better in the color scheme. But I'm not 100% convinced though. What d'ya think ?
I'll try other colors. I see you recommend beige and... pink. I'm affraid that beige could look flat or boring (beige and red is a common color scheme). Pink is far more original but would pink work well with red ? Do you have an exemple of what kind of pink you have in mind Inmygravenimage ?
Does anyone have an idea of what could work ? (pink, purple, blue, green, orange, anycolorthatcomestoyourmind...)