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Simply amazing.

I will have to agree that it is a busy work of art but it still looks great.

Today's progress:

Where's Pullo?

Great model, I love the freehand, but the heavier and lighter white highlights are a tad busy compared to the more subtle blue/black areas. I'm loving the banner and you've done an excellent job on the metallics, great highlights. Can't wait to see more!

It looks great, but I'm not sure if the colour you've chosen for the Tyranid's crest really works with the rest of the model.

i see were your going with what every one is calling the busy areas, well my interpritation of it is that there the more un'noticed bits and your trying to make the whole modle interesting yea, well thats how it looks to me, amazing skill any which way you look at it

Today's progress.

Good Sh*t dude.

i dont like the white/black checkers thing on the guns. Other then that very nice paint job and free style

exelent job mate that is one very nice looking dred. looking forward to seeing the other one too.

Beautiful work - looking forward to seeing the rest of your work!

Did you lighten the gold on it ? or is just the picture ? If so it looks much better to me, not that it looked bad before though

lookin' good, mate...
this will definitely be an eyecatcher for the judges...
should easily make the first cut, and get you a little pin...

lookin' forward to the finished product...

cheers
jah

Listrel wrote:Did you lighten the gold on it ? or is just the picture ? If so it looks much better to me, not that it looked bad before though

No, it's just facing the light there. The gold is all metallic, so if it's not facing the light it can look quite dark. This'll change a bit when it gets varnished - the matt spray will mean the metal looks lighter from more angles, hopefully that'll look alright.

@Jah-joshua: That's nice, man. I'll be happy as Larry (who the feck is Larry?) this time round with a pin...

untill somebody pointed it out, I thought the cracked stone was carved in with a knife. utterly stupendous.

Damn son, that there is an amazing piece of work.

how much is a commission of this detail worth? PM me if you dont want to publicly disclose.

I've been looking at this thing since the beginning, and I just found what was bothering me.
Now, don't get me wrong... I think the model's turning out beautiful and will probably end up better than any model I have in my collection (re: painting).

Thing is, though... You're looking for Golden Demon level.

With that in mind, I think you should pay better attention to the base.
With all the blood, sweat & tears you're pouring into the model, the base is a detractor. For your everyday, gaming model, the base would be a very nice base. If you want one of those little statues, though... you're going to need more.


Eric

Aye, the base is a bit meh IMO. I may redo it, or may add more detail. I'll think about it more as I do the final weathering powders to tie everything together. As for price (for a clone of this one), I'd think somewhere around £650 - £750 is about right by the time it's done. So far I've put somewhere around 80 hours solid into it, and I'm reckoning there'll be another 20 or so to go on.




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Today's progress. As one of my kids managed to get run over by a car yesterday (he's ok, just bad bruising) things have been a bit, yeah... anyway, got the gold done, highlighted the metal on the AC's, chains on the nid, bit of highlights on the yellow stripes and some freehand, and the U's... I tried to go for an embroidery effect (big nod to giganticdark's excellent forgeworld UM redux's banner see http://coolminiornot.com/218198 ) and it's sort of working a bit. I'll probably add a border or some lining to it to allow some harder highlights, but some sort of design needs to go on the backdrop of the banner (and this'll also be embroidery styled).

how did you get thet tyranid skeleton.

That looks amazing, hope you get a high rank at GD this year (Bronze, Silver or Gold?).

@Sageheart: It comes as part of the FW Ultramarine Venerable Dreadnought's banner.

I hate to say it but I think the mini has way too much going on texture wise. There is one type of more subtle cracking on the chest and shins (which I like better), another NMM looking type on the free handed 'cracking parts' parts, the checkers are lost amongst the details. The things that aren't covered in free hand are highly textured physically, so in the end it is a bit overwhelming.The Tyranid also lacks contrast against the banner, and kind of blends into it.

I am a massive fan of your work, I just think in this case it is too much of a good thing. That being said, you aren't done yet, so I reserve my final opinion for the end! I am actually quite confident that most people would not share my design opinion on this one!

In any case, I always look forward to your work, keep it coming!

And in case it wasn't busy enough already, today's progress:




Quite pleased with how the banner is now - I think the nid doesn't blend in so much...

Regarding the general business, tomorrow I should start the airbrush and pigment weathering passes which should tone everything down a touch. Should actually complete either tomorrow or Friday afternoon.

I think it looks great!
The base is simple, but characterful and goes well with the model whilst the model, painting skills and banner are all very impressive!
However, like some I do believe that it should be either cracked/textured or have the white painted cracks/pattern on it, rather than both, but that's just me and it's not finished yet...

...aaaand done. I think. Maybe will tweak the odd bit here and there. I dunno. Big images.

well done, mate...
you really stepped-up the skills with this guy...

best of luck at GD...

cheers
jah

Very nice work... good luck to you!

Cheers guys! If you spot anything you think could be improved do mention it - I'm sure there's stuff to fix there, like the crux on the banner and skull on the back of the engine block...

Truly inspirational work on one of my favourite FW models. Thanks a lot.

Simply awesome!

And I love the base, actually.

Well done, but not overdone.

Great stuff, and good luck!

Un-freakin' believable. If that doesn't win Gold, or Silver at the least, then I can't tell my left from right.