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Imperial Renegade wrote:

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Saw you post on HAZZER's blog and decided to check it out. Your 'Nids are perfect!! Really enjoy the gross bio-stuff on your bases, makes it look like they are freshly spawned and hungry to consume everything in their path. Subbed and will be back for more.

I agree. Thanks for subbing. I will hopfully get some more pics up soon.

See how easy it is t draw a couminty together just from a coulpe of blogs!

MeatShield wrote:Your free hand looks great. If you keep it up through out the army I think you could develop some real skills. Don’t worry about the quick and frenzied dry brush technique, if you want to get an army on the table asap then that is the way to go. Just make sure to follow it up with some ink washes to blend it in better. I should also say, it wasn’t just the free hand that caught my eye. I love some of the poses that you have pulled off with your space wolves. Keep up the pace and inspiration, and you have a hell of a thread.

Thanks! I am really enjoying painting/modeling somthing other than Tyranids, I got a new can of primer, and just sprayed three models. I am looking foward to finishing one of them. Hopefully I will get some pics up to night! Im really excited about all of this!

HAZZER wrote:

Imperial Renegade wrote:

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Saw you post on HAZZER's blog and decided to check it out. Your 'Nids are perfect!! Really enjoy the gross bio-stuff on your bases, makes it look like they are freshly spawned and hungry to consume everything in their path. Subbed and will be back for more.

I agree. Thanks for subbing. I will hopfully get some more pics up soon.

See how easy it is t draw a couminty together just from a coulpe of blogs!

I know!!!! Im really going to update this often now!

Imperial Renegade wrote:

HAZZER wrote:

Imperial Renegade wrote:

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Saw you post on HAZZER's blog and decided to check it out. Your 'Nids are perfect!! Really enjoy the gross bio-stuff on your bases, makes it look like they are freshly spawned and hungry to consume everything in their path. Subbed and will be back for more.

I agree. Thanks for subbing. I will hopfully get some more pics up soon.

See how easy it is t draw a couminty together just from a coulpe of blogs!

I know!!!! Im really going to update this often now!

You really should!

True, im going to post pics of my wolf gaurd soon!

Ok, so I went with a more difficult free hand on the sholder pad and would like to know how it turned out. This is also the first model for SW that was not OOP that I painted. Tryed some highlighting on a lot of areas. I would like to know if the fur/skin on the bolter and shoulder pad is good or not. I hope you like!

What color are you using to highlight the blue? It doesn't seem right. That or the highlight is too thick.

I like the freehand on the knee and the red shoulderpad. The paw is nice, on both minis, but the "Russ" is a tad skewed.

LOVE the fur on the right pad though. Very nice.

Thanks. The russ I think im going to make thicker. but for the highlight, im not using blue its bleached bone.

Really like the guy! the wolf pet on the SB is exerlant! The freehand is imporving! (Keep it up your really good at it)! But the Hilight is far too thick. I would sujest useing a 50-50 mix of SW grey to enchanted bule? There are many articles on the web which can show you how to paint SW I would sujest giving it a try!Keep it up your learning very quickly!

Oh wow! I like the paintjob just the way it is! Good contrasts, my weak point is color selection.

Thanks, I am going to try and get some spacewolf grey and use this for highlighting. I like doing free hand. Im really not that good though.

Imperial Renegade wrote:Thanks, I am going to try and get some spacewolf grey and use this for highlighting. I like doing free hand. Im really not that good though.

Space Wolf Grey is perfect for highlighting Shadow Grey. I use that combination on a lot of things that aren't even Space Wolves.

As far as "not that good at freehand"... doing it is how you get better, and I respect the fact you're not afraid to try it and drive forward. You'll get better for sure. I'm stuck in my old ways of painting and I don't venture out of my comfort zone very often. You're developing skills that I don't have. Keep it up and one day you'll realize that you are getting a lot better. Those are the days that really make all this worthwhile.

Scond that! you really are improving!

I, as well, love it the way it is. wonderful.....

actually for me the bleached bone highlight looks more like wear and tear...which i think looks very good... what i am not really fond of is that yellow tone you usesomehow that looks a tad in the wrong color temperature...it is not swinging in the same way as the grey and red... but that might be just me and my monitor...

Sorry guys. I was away at the march for life in Washigton DC last few days. I am glad you guys like my free hand. Im actually going to try and do some layering with the yellow so i can make it look deeper. I do like the highlight IMHO I am going to paint some more wolf gaurd soon, but I also just got a box of SW grey hunters.

You're forgiven, get to work.......

LOL Will do!

Good cause, btw. Thanks for participating....

No prob. I go every year. We need to stand up and put this to an end.

Looks good! If you can get a really fine brush and really take your time on the highlighting. Its a pain in the you know what to do but the end result justifies it!

How long did it take DaVinci to paint the Sistine Chapel?

My meaning is, it looks good. Be patient and it will get better.

I say this really only to psych myself up for the inevitable learning pains I will be going through when I start to learn to paint......

Im sure you will have no problem learning to paint. As for me, I need to keep working on my other wolf gaurd. I should have him finished by tonight, but Im trying to paint some nids as well, so we will see what happpens.

DaVinci had a small army of lackeys to help (and scaffolding) too

dsteingass wrote:DaVinci had a small army of lackeys to help (and scaffolding) too

Yes, but.......after half of it was done, he did not like what they had done, and he fiered everyone, and then redid the whole thing by himself. Courage and determination........I dont think I could do that.

Yeah, that's the part that got me......

I agree, but I guess his mind set was if you want somthing done right, You got to do it your self. Hey, it got done and it looked amazing, so........Nuff said. I will try and get some pics of some stuff im working on tonight. but until then, I can only post words. I will say though...........This guys thunder hammer is turning out amazing!

Ok, the thunder hammer is looking good.



And where are the pics of it?



Hmmmm?




I don't see them.....

lol I did not post any pic yet, I was trying to be annoying and say that it is turning out amazing. I might be able to get a WIP pic at lunch in like 30min, so I will do that then. LOL this is going to be fun to see what people think of this guy!

Ok, so I went with breack early, and got some quick pics.

Wip on the Wolf gaurd,

Wip on the Trygons Base,

Wip on the Trygon it self.

Enjoy!

Diggin the multi colors on the Thunder hammer cables.....


Trygon looks great, too....