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Really great stuff Yggdrasil! Looks like a solid competition. Gerat minis, especially yours!

the extreme close up says it all - yes you can learn to be a great painter, even if you were crud at art in school!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/307623.page

That is my White Lion Lord. Keep going through the pages for painted pics of him. As I said, simple conversion but I feel it came out better that the other one.

Congrats Yggdrasil on making the GW website!

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=13300014a

Thank you guys!!!

kastellan wrote:http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/307623.page

That is my White Lion Lord. Keep going through the pages for painted pics of him. As I said, simple conversion but I feel it came out better that the other one.

Wooh, this one sure rocks!!! Actually it does look really good, but the competition was for IoB so I guess it wouldn't have made it!!!

I love the colours used for the lion, he looks great! Thanks for sharing that out!

Jeep wrote:Congrats Yggdrasil on making the GW website!

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=13300014a

Thanks...

That was the surprise I was writing about on wednesday... I have to admit, I imagine I'm a bit proud of that, I didn't think I'd see it posted on their website...

Congrats on getting on the GW website, Yggs!

_Tim?

Well done Yggs, That mini is really something to be proud of..and so is getting on the site when you aren't an employee of GW

Thanks again!!

As for the GW employees, I cannot wait to go to my usual GW store, and brag about that with the store manager (who's a really nice guy btw)!!!!

Yggdrasil wrote:Thank you guys!!!

kastellan wrote:http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/307623.page

That is my White Lion Lord. Keep going through the pages for painted pics of him. As I said, simple conversion but I feel it came out better that the other one.

Wooh, this one sure rocks!!! Actually it does look really good, but the competition was for IoB so I guess it wouldn't have made it!!!

I love the colours used for the lion, he looks great! Thanks for sharing that out!


Thanks mate

@kastellan : 'Welcome, you deserve it!!!

Ok, now for some updates on the Skavens... I finished the first regiment of my future Skaven Host!!!

Here be Plague Monks!!!



The Plague Deacon, Krookspaw the Infectious :


Skuulik the Blind :


Esaki Dusksnake, Eshin infiltraitor [edit: that was a mis-spelling, but it fits the Skaven theme perfectly, doesn't it? An infil-traitor hahaha (sorry for you, InfilTRAITOR, I didn't mean to hijack your username ] :


Goreek the Devout, bearer of the Seeping Trinity :


Boneklaw, halberdier :


And, a few group shots :





Front rank :


Quite threatening uh?


So, I'm proud to say they look quite good... Though the painting has quite evolved over time (Skritch was painted over a year ago!), I still think they look like a proper seeping host of infectious boons...

Dirty, nasty little rat-things Like the touch of purple, adds a nice bit of colour without overpowering the general raggedy look of the regiment.

Do like these, they look pretty pestilency? Lol.

Well done sir!

monkeytroll wrote:Dirty, nasty little rat-things Like the touch of purple, adds a nice bit of colour without overpowering the general raggedy look of the regiment.

I agree with this, the use of purple is great (btw, is it your camera or did you use a light purple wash on the robes?)

Great job, I especially like the details you worked on every model of the unit.

The boils might benefit from a slight, very controlled Scab Red wash, and then a dot of white mixed with Bleached Bone in the middle of each boil.The purple looks great, and I like the dirty feeling of the robes! How did you do it?

_Tim?

@ monkeytroll, kastellan, Rose_Mountainz :

Thanks !! People seem to enjoy the purple indeed, I like using it for the details...

@ Hyenajoe :

Some robes got various washes of green, blue, red, and purple so you may see some hues in them, that's possible!

Also thanks for pointing out the details, I'm spending a lot of time trying to male each model unique, though it doesn't show much when they're formed up... So I can only be happy when someone notices it!!

@ _Tim? :

As for the boils / warts / bubons, they do have red & purple washes, but I've been preventing myself from touching them up, in an attempt to spend less time on the details to get an army painted quicker, to a less-than-usual painting standard... So yes, I could've done them better, but I think I'll leave them as is!! lol

As for the robes, there has been various techniques used from the first mini, last year, to the last batch of ten, a month ago!!!

But the way to go has been all the same :
- light basecoat (either White, or Dheneb Stone, or Bleached Bone, or Rotting Flesh):
- 2 heavy layers of Gryphonne Sepia;
- Various coloured washes to add some small stains, hues & shades, mainly Asurmen Blue, Baal Red, Leviathan Purple, Thraka Green; all watered down to (try to) remain subtle;
- 1 or 2 other layers of Gryphonne Sepia to soften the coloured washes;
- some minor highlights on the edges with the basecoat.


Now for some updates :

Since I hadn't prepared my Clan Rats for painting last weekend, I set myself to a mini I had assembled last year, GSed a bit this summer, but never painted...

I used it as a test mini for my future Nurgle army... I'm not really convinced yet, but I guess that's something for a start!

So here it is, in its (WIP - still have the base to paint) zombified splendor!!

Plaguebrother R'phul, Host of Nig'zsok the Meagre :



Some various pics :

A close-up view

The shoulder pad with Symbol of Nurgle... Oozing with blood & other sick, oily matter...

A small plaguebearer face on the backpack... I had a small drop of GS left!!

An attempt at OSL on the bolter... supposed to be a green marker light...

I am so happy with his face, I think I managed to render it nicely with bruises, scary gaze, sick skin tone... And what do you think of the bloodied face trapped in his backpack?

So... I have a week's worth of holiday ahead, I'll be trying to finish him & begin my next Clan Rats regiment...

As for the Skaven : do you think I should stick to the almost same palette for the regular Clan rats regiments, or do I change them utterly to make the Plague Monks stand out more? I'm leaning towards a Pestilens-affiliated army, so I think it might be better to keep them close...

I also plan on using the few Pestilens bodies left as the regular units Champions, what do you think?

Thanks for looking,

Well, it seems my Plague Marine wasn't worthy of any comment...

Updates:

Plague-brother R'phul :

I finished basing it nevertheless, so he's done now :



Is he really that bad, or isn't there anything wrong with him (ie. "Wow, yet another Plague Marine", "How boring", etc...)????

Tzeentch CSM Test mini :

At first he was only kitbashed, but I found he'd be better with a few GS bit here and there...

As for his right arm, I still cannot choose whether to add a boltgun and count my future squad as Tzeentch CSM squad or Tzeentch Chosen, or have them on all sorts of Discs of Tzeentch, counting as Raptors, thus requiring a bolt pistol...

What do you think I should do? I guess the Fast Attack choices are quite hard to fill, so that's tempting, but I prefer the look with boltguns...

Oh, you want pics first? Ok, here they are :

General view:


Details on the legs : some jewels & and tortured face are embedded in the shin plates. Anyone has tips on how to avoid making it crappy?


The symbol of Tzeentch on his shoulder pad, the only thing I seemed to get right with GS :


An overgrown eye, gift of the Watcher of Ways :


The original aim was to try and recreate the grotesque mutations of the 90's Chaos Warriors, helped with the new Horrors kits, Possessed bits & a bit of GS... What could I do to further that feeling?
Next one has a lot more Possessed parts in it, and was built as if running while shooting his boltgun from the hip... Maybe some pics later!

Marine Swap :

At last, I begun painting the Marine which is supposed to join Gitsplitta's Mantis Warriors in their crusade for redemption...

Here's the progress so far :



Not much, I admit, but that's a start!

Cheers,

I really like that plague marine - I must have missed it first time round. The colours are nice and bright - It stands out. And tenzeatch marine dude looks great too. embedded heads look good but its hard to tell before they are painted. But I do love tenzeetch style marines so do it!

I hink the plague marine looks ace, also a nice touch with the green light from the boltgun. I think raptors would be great, they really are a handy unit imho, so I say go for it.

The plague marine looks incredible. I love the colors, and the face. Very creepy, very characterful.
And the work so far on the Tzeentch marine looks very promising. Very fine work on the greenstuff, particularly that Tzeentch emblem.

@ Rose_Mountainz, weetyskemian44 : Thanks for the kind words! I don't have much experience with Tzeentch troops or Raptors, so I guess I'll give them a try!

@ tinfoil : Thank you very much !! I'm a total fan of your master-crafted Harrowed , so I'm looking up to your comments!!!

Updates :

Well, not much of an update, but...

I think Father Nurgle invaded my kitchen, and possessed my frying pans :


Filthy Frying Pans of Nurgle!!!

Or am I becoming obsessed & paranoid???

Plaguebrother R'phul, Host of Nig'zsok the Meagre :

Oh....I quite love that guy. That's awesome.

And I think its obsessed.

Great job on the Plague Marine, I really like all the importance you give to details (the bolter, the backpack, etc...) and the general mood of decay (that unfortunately most of the plague marines conversions don't reach).

Concerning you Tzeentch CSM I'd say this : GO FOR THE FETHING DISCS!!!
It's a very promising conversion. I like the mutations, but I think they might look even better if you give the GS around a smooth aspect (rather than the warped flesh) as if it was a natural part of the armor.

I don't know if you'll be interested, but here's the tuto I've made for robed CSMs:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/307974.page

PS: I don't own Possesed frying pans, but my fridge gives access to the warp, you put something in it, it disappears, and when you've forgotten about it, it reappears!

The colors on the scaven are great! Also love your work with the green stuff

Yggdrasil wrote:

I think Father Nurgle invaded my kitchen, and possessed my frying pans :

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Filthy Frying Pans of Nurgle!!!

OMG the Mods removed my possessed Frying Pans!!! Stating plainly they weren't hobby related... Damn, I wish I had the power to bring them back...

Hyenajoe wrote: I really like [...] the general mood of decay (that unfortunately most of the plague marines conversions don't reach).

Whoa, this is one of the nicest compliment ever. Thanks!

Hyenajoe wrote:
Concerning you Tzeentch CSM I'd say this : GO FOR THE FETHING DISCS!!!
It's a very promising conversion. I like the mutations, but I think they might look even better if you give the GS around a smooth aspect (rather than the warped flesh) as if it was a natural part of the armor.

Ok, ok, I'll go for Raptors!!! Too bad I cannot find a good way to make legal Tzeentch CSMs ON discs WITH Boltguns...

As for the GS... That was the aim, actually... Just couldn't pull it out!

Hyenajoe wrote:
I don't know if you'll be interested, but here's the tuto I've made for robed CSMs:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/307974.page
PS: I don't own Possesed frying pans, but my fridge gives access to the warp, you put something in it, it disappears, and when you've forgotten about it, it reappears!

Nice tutorial indeed! Though I'm not sure I have the skills required for smooth belts & clothes... Well, actually, I AM SURE I don't have them!

@Psychosis PC, Element206 : Thanks for the comments! I have trimmed some more Skavens, so will begin my other regiment... in a month or two!

UPDATES :

Worked a bit on Gitsplitta's Marine for the Great Marine Swap ; here are a few WIP pics :





I'm really glad with the colour scheme, I think it looks quite unusual... My GF prefers the Necron Abyss / Enchanted Blue / Ice Blue way for the contrasting colour, while I prefer the Necron Abyss / Hawk Turquoise / Hawk Turquoise + Bleached Bone path...

As for now he's still at the Necron Abyss state, so what do you think? I'm not saying I'll change my mind, but I'd like some feedback (plus she'd be glad to hear Dakkaites are siding with her!)
For comparison, check a few posts upwards, youh have the arm with boltgun in the Turquoise way...

Thanks for looking!

It looks very promising, I especially like the blue fade on the right knee-pad.

_Tim?

Well, nice paintjob on this marine, how did you paint the armour (bleached bone + wash or Skull white + wash, and which wash did you use?). I like the Turquoise option for the blue elements, but you're Girlfriend's proposal seems interesting, do you have any pics to make a comparaison?

Concerning your GS problem, I'm absolutely sure you have the required skills, it's probably just a matter of tools; what tools do you use to work GS?

Well, you were quite close, it's Dheneb Stone + thinned down & controlled Devlan Mud washes... + Highlights in Dheneb Stone.

I tried White + Wash for some of my Plague Monks, but was annoyed with the highlights as white was too light and the other colours (Dheneb, Bleached, Rotting Flesh) didn't match the tone...

As for the blue, I guess it would look pretty much the same as these pics, only with some more highlights...

By the way, _Tim?, the fading on the knee-pad is just a result of the lighting coming from the right... Lol!

On another subject, I have a pic in my gallery which seems to be about to steal the front view :

Da Giggling Punkie Nurgling!

So, would you guys mind voting for him, so that I can know if he really looks better, in 2 hours of painting, than my time-consuming, almost-winning High Elf Sea Guard?

wow your skill with a brush is astounding, so smooth blending , and great colour choices!

Oh wow, love all of it esp the chaos termintor with the GS work. I'm a bit envious of your ability to do some detail work there and certianly got some ideas just by looking at it!


Skaven are really cool, it was one of the old Rat Ogre models that helped to get me into this hobby in the first place.


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Yggdrasil wrote:
Details on the legs : some jewels & and tortured face are embedded in the shin plates. Anyone has tips on how to avoid making it crappy?

Keep the GS really wet and use either a modeling scalpel or clay working tool (also keep wet) to work the GS slowly and patiently in ONE DIRECTION. You'll get a smoother join and the crud will be easy to trim away. I like the way you are using trimmed plastic for details, do the same thing myself due to lack of GS detailing skill.