Ultras and Fulgrim and fun, oh my! :D Got my hands on Rylanor... 01/02/15

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**Swordwind**

When I started Eldar, I had never heard of highlighting, washing or even thinning my paints. I also only had one brush. A big one. Which I used to paint fiddly little gems.

**bubble**

MrMerlin wrote:
Elnibbus wrote:It's quite interesting to see that a lot of women who start the hobby are far better painting to begin with than blokes. Must be something to do with the fact that you can colour co-ordinate better and automatically know what the colour "champagne" is... (It's a cream colour, just so you know guys).

Maybe women are better because most men are just downright bad at the beginning.....

I remember my first time painting.....

*kick open door, farts, scratches back of head* -murmurs swearwords- *throws himself on chair, wich reponses with squeaking noise*
"lets paint some orks"
*grabs poor ork boy, pics up brush* -thinks about color choice, for like 10 seconds- *grabs brown paint, shoves brush in way too far, smears paint on roughly the right location (and about everything else....).....*

8 minutes later

*throws brush somwhere* "methinks im done!" *holds ork away from himself, closes one eye and looks at model* - *is mighty proud of himself *

now, im not at all proud of these first 20 orks......

though the above might be a little exaggerated.....

hahaha, you literally made me lol reading that!

How old were you when you started painting out of interest? xxx

Swordwind wrote:When I started Eldar, I had never heard of highlighting, washing or even thinning my paints. I also only had one brush. A big one. Which I used to paint fiddly little gems.

lol thats hillarious XD xxx

**MrMerlin**

bubble wrote:

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MrMerlin wrote:
Elnibbus wrote:It's quite interesting to see that a lot of women who start the hobby are far better painting to begin with than blokes. Must be something to do with the fact that you can colour co-ordinate better and automatically know what the colour "champagne" is... (It's a cream colour, just so you know guys).

Maybe women are better because most men are just downright bad at the beginning.....

I remember my first time painting.....

*kick open door, farts, scratches back of head* -murmurs swearwords- *throws himself on chair, wich reponses with squeaking noise*
"lets paint some orks"
*grabs poor ork boy, pics up brush* -thinks about color choice, for like 10 seconds- *grabs brown paint, shoves brush in way too far, smears paint on roughly the right location (and about everything else....).....*

8 minutes later

*throws brush somwhere* "methinks im done!" *holds ork away from himself, closes one eye and looks at model* - *is mighty proud of himself *

now, im not at all proud of these first 20 orks......

though the above might be a little exaggerated.....

hahaha, you literally made me lol reading that! How old were you when you started painting out of interest? xxx

got my first Orks for my 16th birthday, wich was in dec 2010

**J-paint**

I think my first model was an uruk hai from the lotr when it first came out, i got really annoyed that with my one really thick coat of dark flesh and blobs of boltgun metal they didn't look like the ones in the picture. Wish i hadn't sold them on ebay for 40k funds now, feel i need to prove myself to them after i drowned them so unnecessarily.

**bubble**

Heheh, everyone's anacdotes about their first models are making me laugh

Sorry about the lack of updates recently, just had a lot of work to do *Sigh* all work and no play makes Lucy a dull girl. xxx

**Elnibbus**

My first models were the first "white metal" Wolf Guard Terminators. I was annoyed because the suggested paints on the back of the box didn't match what I'd done! Lol.

**bubble**

Hi everyone,
Sorry about the lack of updates! Here's my next Sanguinary... I prefer the first personally. I think the earlier one is A LOT better, I seem to be getting worse! haha.

This one is a bit 'dirtier' looking on his legs, which didn't really come out on the photo... but the reasoning behind it was if he's fighting, he's not going to look pristine. So I used quite a lot of Devlan Mud to get that dirty look.

Thoughts as usual please

xxxx

**MrMerlin**

I wouldn't call him bad. You did a good job on the gold, as before, and the wings look nice as well. Only thing that doesn't look good is the thick paint on the back of the wings.... but thats only a minor issue....

if you want them to loo cleaner, I'd suggest thinning down the washes.... but I haven't tried that myself, its only a guess.

Now paint the rest of the squad!

**bubble**

MrMerlin wrote:I wouldn't call him bad. You did a good job on the gold, as before, and the wings look nice as well. Only thing that doesn't look good is the thick paint on the back of the wings.... but thats only a minor issue....

if you want them to loo cleaner, I'd suggest thinning down the washes.... but I haven't tried that myself, its only a guess.

Now paint the rest of the squad!

yeah I know! Something went wrong with the wings- The spraypaint sort of left them a bit odd in places, and then the white was all gloopy and thick ...

haha it's not my best.

I did take your advice and painted the body yellowy/brown before putting the gold on this time!

xxx

**SelvaggioSaky**

I really like the colors on the wings, I say to go for the light blue for all of them.
Don't worry, You are already good with the paint, just need practice!

**bubble**

SelvaggioSaky wrote:I really like the colors on the wings, I say to go for the light blue for all of them.
Don't worry, You are already good with the paint, just need practice!

Aww thank you, that's sweet

I think I maybe rushed this one a bit as well... Yeah I like the blue, think it makes the wings stand out nicely.

I'm saving the guy holding the banner 'til last, I reckon doing that fiddly paintwork is gonna give me a headache haha xxx

**J-paint**

Looking good! The gold looks much more weathered this time, i like it. =] The thick white can be fixed by thinning it down with a small amount of water. I think your definitely improving though! keep it up. =]

**bubble**

J-paint wrote:Looking good! The gold looks much more weathered this time, i like it. =] The thick white can be fixed by thinning it down with a small amount of water. I think your definitely improving though! keep it up. =]

thank yoooou

I tried the sepia wash at first but it made the gold look too... orange? xxx

**Elnibbus**

Devlan Mud is the way to go. I use it on pretty much EH-VAR-EE-THINK. It's awesome.

I tend to stay away from painting bright gold. I paint dwarf bronze with a little scorched brown in it then wash with devlan mud and badab black. I then highlight with a mix of dwarf bronze and boltgun metal.

**bubble**

Elnibbus wrote:Devlan Mud is the way to go. I use it on pretty much EH-VAR-EE-THINK. It's awesome.

I tend to stay away from painting bright gold. I paint dwarf bronze with a little scorched brown in it then wash with devlan mud and badab black. I then highlight with a mix of dwarf bronze and boltgun metal.

I quite like the way the gold looks but I might give that a go when I'm more confident

xxx

**S'jet**

Just remember with washes... if you want to strengthen the effect of the wash, sometimes it's better to apply it more than once, instead of one overloaded coat. That way you can build it up slowly to get the effect you want. Unfortunately in painting lil' toy soldiers, most of the time its better to paint multiple thin coats. Which obviously takes longer *grumbles*

**bubble**

S'jet wrote:Just remember with washes... if you want to strengthen the effect of the wash, sometimes it's better to apply it more than once, instead of one overloaded coat. That way you can build it up slowly to get the effect you want. Unfortunately in painting lil' toy soldiers, most of the time its better to paint multiple thin coats. Which obviously takes longer *grumbles*

haha thanks

Sorry about lack of updates guys, had a lot of 'real world' stuff to be doing :S

I'm interested to hear your opinions on what I should do next though- Lemartes, Guardian of the Lost or The Sanguinor? xxx

**Elnibbus**

Thought you were dead! Lol.

It depends entirely how confident you feel painting and which you'd prefer (also depends if you want to jump in at the deep end and paint the Sanguinor in non-metallic metals

).

**bubble**

Elnibbus wrote:Thought you were dead! Lol.

It depends entirely how confident you feel painting and which you'd prefer (also depends if you want to jump in at the deep end and paint the Sanguinor in non-metallic metals ).

hahah that made me giggle!

No not dead just got so many deadlines *sigh*

I'm gonna do them both eventually but I want a Death Company so I might do Lemartes first... xxx

**Elnibbus**

Deadlines? Tell me about it- have had 3 courseworks to do in 3 months and an extra one to have done at the end of this month. But I have a presentation on Tax budgeting and revision to get in too, which doesn't leave much time for painting Space Wolves...

**bubble**

Elnibbus wrote:Deadlines? Tell me about it- have had 3 courseworks to do in 3 months and an extra one to have done at the end of this month. But I have a presentation on Tax budgeting and revision to get in too, which doesn't leave much time for painting Space Wolves...

hahah I know... it's just essay after essay after presentation... lol. I have made a start on the next figure though

xxx

**Mr. S Baldrick**

Lookin good, I really like the gold and the highlighting on the wings.

first rate.

**bubble**

Mr. S Baldrick wrote:Lookin good, I really like the gold and the highlighting on the wings. first rate.

Why thank you sir!

hopefully have some more up in the not too distant future xxx

**MrMerlin**

yeah, these darned deadlines..... dont we all love them ?-__-

lemartes or the sanguinor.....?

I personally save my HQs for the very last, "practising" on my other models. I haven't painted any of my "important" models yet.... maybe I'm overdoing it.

Anyway, answering the question: I'd paint the sanguinor (but all the other sanguinary guard first

).

On the other hand, DC are also really cool....

**bubble**

MrMerlin wrote:yeah, these darned deadlines..... dont we all love them ?-__-

lemartes or the sanguinor.....?

I personally save my HQs for the very last, "practising" on my other models. I haven't painted any of my "important" models yet.... maybe I'm overdoing it.

Anyway, answering the question: I'd paint the sanguinor (but all the other sanguinary guard first ).

On the other hand, DC are also really cool....

Yeah i know, I don't wanna mess up the individual figures but at the same time when these guys are done I need something else to paint... I may go ahead and buy a Death Company first...

Is it weird that I wanna make a group of space marines with skulls for heads rather than their helmets? lol xxx

**bubble**

Hello one and all, FINALLY have a new model to show you. He actually looks better in real life than he does in these photos but you get the general idea. Think I've made improvements in terms of the body of the marine since last time, the wings on the other hand are still... well... ok.. but the white paint is giving me nightmares- it's so gloopy haha. Went with a black wash again after trying sepia last time. I just prefer the look the black one gives the model, it's more exaggerated

comments welcome!

**SelvaggioSaky**

Better shading on the gold in this one, well played!

**bubble**

SelvaggioSaky wrote:Better shading on the gold in this one, well played!

aww thank you

Yeah I just went for it more this time.

I actually just made a blue wash and put that all over the wings so they're looking a little better now I think xxx

**MrMerlin**

yep, your new choice of washes is really good! Do the rest like that!

**Elnibbus**

Hoorah for new models! Your painting is getting better. As for gloopy white paint, it's always better to thin it down and do several (read LOADS) of coats rather than one.

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Hoorah for new models! Your painting is getting better. As for gloopy white paint, it's always better to thin it down and do several (read LOADS) of coats rather than one.