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Fantastic work I_F he's absolutely stunning!

Just thinking now that your meat technique would work wonders on Khymearae

Thank you very much Nev and Ynnead. I totally agree, the proper applications of washes and selecting the right wash can be all the difference between a model that looks ok and a model that looks amazing.

I think you're right Ynnead, it'd look great on Khymerae. I likely won't try it out however as those are one of the models GW hasn't put much effort into making easily available for a decent price. In fact any of the beasts as well as grotesques suffer from single model/mono-pose and stupidly priced for what you get. It really sucks because I wouldn't mind trying my hand at running beast packs in games.

Inevitable_Faith,

Haemonculus was outstanding...at your usual level.

Sorry for the later reply, had very limited time and access the last week.

Yellow is not a hard colour to paint as long as you do a sand or ochre base coat.

Cheers,

CB

Thank you CB, I picked up an averland sunset spray can from GW to try out my yellow with, I'm seeing where people get frustrated painting the colour, it feels almost like painting white. Many thin layers trump fewer thick layers as always.

Personally, I find yellow hard to paint and I really don't know why.

I love painting white, its honestly one of my favorite colors to paint. But yellow just always seem to be streakier and hard to get a good base down for.

I can understand that sentiment gummy. I'm using a second hand model to try yellow on and the paint stripping was... less than perfect. I feel my yellow is going on streaky as well but I wasn't sure if it was the irregularities in the models surface or the paint itself. He's coming along though and I'm learning a lot so it's all good.

You sir, are a tease. Speaking of some delicious new project and not sharing.

Soon-ish I'll show off what I've done, I have some colour combos I did that I didn't like and had to restart certain parts of the model. Truly don't get your hopes up though it's just a little experiment so it's nothing spectacular.

The thing is, your 'nothing spectacular' is usually leaps and bounds above my 'put a decent amount of effort in' looking forward regardless

Ok it's been a long time coming but I finally finished my little experiment. This guy was a learning experience through and through. Yellows are definitely higher on the list of difficult colours to paint (they just take more layers than you'd expect, paint them almost like how you'd paint white) and dealing with second-hand models is tough. This poor guy had so much thick paints and and far too much glue on him that much of his crisp details were lost. I stripped him down as best I could but stripping models is also fairly new to me and what I was left with to paint was, less crisp than I would have hoped for. those aside I had fun doing this. I'm not totally sold on all the colour choices yet, the green frag grenades make sense but I don't know if they clash too much, the blue pants may be too dark for my liking too, I wanted a dark navy blue similar to our local EMS but I may need to start with a lighter base. Lastly the faceplate I'm on the fence on, his face seems to be hiding or drowning in the big sea of yellow that attracts your attention. Lastly I may go back and do more on him. I'd like to try my hand at weathering and I feel he'd be a good candidate for it, it'd pop nicely on his bright armor. Let me know what you guys think, comments/critiques are always welcome.

Looking great! The grenades are a dark enough green they don't clash with that wonderful yellow. My only suggestion is do the weathering. With all the muck on his base he looks too clean.

Thanks ChaoticMind. I'm really coming around to the idea of weathering him, you've really strengthened my resolve that that's what I'll do.

Nice. Yellow and blue is a winning combination. The only think I don't like is the hazard striped cable, it sort of gets lost in all the yellow armour. Not sure what would work better though.

EDC

I think you're right about his mask being a bit hidden. In a squad of them, you're going to see the yellows and blues very strongly, but the faces will be a bit overwhelmed. I think that weathering might help that a bit, but possibly some sharp edge highlights of a bright silver would help pick out some details.

I agree about the hazard stripes as well, but weathering up his legs will definitely help with that.

Nice! I like him

Add another vote for weathering. From the few times I've seen it done on gritty Imperial Fists and Bad Moons, nothing takes to weathering like bright yellow. Some chips where you can see the silver of the metal underneath, and a splash of mud or two and he'll look phenomenal

Thank you very much guys, I appreciate your input. I've started researching weathering techniques and I will be using it on him, I'm fully convinced now it's the way to go. I agree about the hazard striped tubing, it does get lost in the rest of the yellow and isn't as strong as it should be. I'm not sure what to do otherwise as I don't really want to make both tubes the same colour and I think going straight black on it would be the next best alternative but that just seems boring to me. Perhaps once I weather his armour the tubing may have more impact, for now at least I'm on the fence whether to do anything about it. For his face I'm going to go back in and re-highlight some of it to see if I can make it stand out more. Failing that I may consider an entirely new colour after I weathered his amrour. Perhaps, however, his face may stand out more with just a highlight and after the weathering is done so we'll see there.

It's been far too long since my last update, life has kept me too busy on non-Warhammer related projects as of late. Mostly a certain entertainment expo in Calgary that I decided to dip my toes into the crazy world of cosplay for. It was a ton of fun though and I could definitely see myself doing more cosplay stuff for future cons. Anyways I got the weathering done on the scion. Personally I think I went a bit heavy handed on it, learning to use that sponge was a new experience and it went on thicker than anticipated in places. Overall though I think I like it, I'll definitely do less scratches next time too. I forgot to add highlights to his faceplate so I'll add that tomorrow but for now I'll call him done. Watcha guys think? Does he just look like a bloody mess now and he's all ruined or did the weathering come out passable at least?

Weathering made it look better. Personally, I think the amount of scratches is also not too much. Maybe some of them could be smaller.

Nice! He definitely looks like he's been trudging through sludge for a couple of days to get to where he is I like it

Nope, weathering looks great. Benefit of a squad is that you can tone it down from here and they'll look fine next to each other.

Whatcha cosplay as?

The weathering is perfect, it adds to the overall look without dominating it.

Thank you very much everyone for your kind comments. I'll likely finish up the other 4 members of his unit once I get my second DE Raider painted up so I'll have more opportunity to practice weathering.

Thanks CragHack for the tip, on the next one I do I'll definitely vary the scratches more and make some smaller ones, I like that idea.

Ynneadwraith that's the look I was going for. My concept for these guys is that they are largely cut-off from most imperial forces and don't have much ability to re-supply often so most of their gear is falling into disrepair. They ensure the basics such as their weapons and armor are functional but aren't afforded the opportunity or supplies to paint/polish/repair any cosmetic aspects of their kit.

Goblinpaladin, once the unit is done I'm thinking you're right, the sum of the weathering will take over from the individual models weathering and give the force a sense of disrepair. Some variance from model to model for how much damage their armor has taken is to be expected. I kept this cosplay simple as it was my first time trying it so I did Kaneki from and anime called Tokyo Ghoul. It was tons of fun but wearing that mask for 4 days really buggers you up, blind on one side from an eyepatch, world tinged red in the other from a contact lense, hard to maneuver in the convention centre around so many people with your vision impeded like that. Totally worth it though.

Thanks ChaoticMind, I'm glad you agree it's an improvement over the base model. Weathering was a scary concept for me to try. It's like "Hey look I finished painting this model and he looks nice and shiny and proper. Ok now let's slop paint on him and wreck it!" Such a nerve-wracking experience

Nice job on the Scion, the weathering looks great!

Thank you very much aku-chan. I'm actually getting really excited to paint the rest of his unit.

Great work I_F. Superb tones on the yellow

Looks baller, going from a glass cannon army to another glass cannon army is always fun

Thank you very much Januine and gummyofallbears. And yeah gummy it seems I'm a glutton for punishment with my army selection. I feel Scions lack the cannon part of the glass cannon equation but they're still hella fun to play.

Nice work on the Scion. The weathering works really well, I think there'are something about yellow armour that lend itself well to weathering.

EDC

Thank you very much EDC, I totally agree about yellow lending itself well to weathering. Most of the armies I see that I like the weathering on tend to be yellow or off-white like 30K death guard.

Alright so to prove that I haven't completely forgotten about my DE force I'm stopping in again to post a completely unsolicited guide on how I do the sails on my Raiders because, why not right? It's stupidly easy and nets some pretty alright results so I figured it may be of some interest to some of you. I'll list the paints I use but honestly you could substitute almost any colours you want for this.

1) Start with a full base layer of Stegadon Scale green painted on with a brush (as opposed to your fingers, from experience I can tell you they don't get the paints into all the small areas a well as a brush with).
2) Next drybrush on some Kabalite Green over most of the sail area. Leave the base layer showing mostly around the edges.
3) Drybrush on some Sybarite Green in the areas you did on step 2. For this make sure you try to stay inside the Kabalite Green area and leave the base layer untouched. Feel free to make the drybrushing take on some strange shapes at this stage.
4) Start drybrushing on some Pink Horror, this needs to be on a smaller area than the green drybrushing and can go anywhere on the sail you feel like. It doesn't have to stay within any boundaries and so feel free to even have it overlap onto the base layer.
5) Just as you did in step 3 you'll now drybrush on some Emperors Children into the Pink Horror areas. Stay within the areas mapped out by step 4 but feel free to make this take on strange shapes within the Pink Horror.
6) Get some white scar on a large layer brush and hold it upside down. I then use a toothpick to pull the bristles back and "flick" the paint on the sail to get a random pattern of white dots of varying sizes. Make sure to pull away any other projects from the painting area at this stage as it's super messy and you'll get white paint everywhere. It should go without saying that you do this part of the sail in a sub-assembly and don't paint any other part till you get this stage done since you'll just have to redo it after this.
7) Share your work on DakkaDakka and receive the praise and adulation* of your fellow hobbyists for producing such a stunningly beautiful raider sail.

*Praise and adulation not guaranteed, at the very least you managed to paint a Raider sail and get some progress done on your DE army right?

I'm pretty sure I forget a step in there somewhere, I took notes and somewhere along the line "profit" was written down, I think it's near step three. And because I'm sure my nonsensical rambling above probably means little to anyone I'm including some pictures to helps explain what I mean. Anyways I hope you guys enjoyed this tiny tutorial and hopefully I'll be back before too long with some more progress as I feel I've been getting stuff painted even slower than usual as of late, gotta pick up the pace if I'm going to be ready for 8th edition.