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I'm going to try to paint these two elf guys who I reckon turn war into an artform. Not by being particularly great at it, but by doing it in a very stylish way.

Heres a WIP, may be a slow one as I’m going away for a week

Here's my finished Blood Angels Primaris Lieutenant Tolmeron kit, all finished.





In hind sight, I probably should have painted the eyebrows brown, instead of blonde, as most blonde people have darker eyebrows.

Captain Brown wrote:

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
So to change my entry slightly, rather than just enter one aspect shrine, I want to do multiple aspects to embody the art of war. So I'll have a Fire Dragon, a Swooping Hawk, a Warp Spider and a Howling Banshee. One of each obviously, not whole squads

Nuts, and here I was thinking we would be buddies doing a similar themed single Exarch and some members of the same shrine.

I have made zero progress since my proof models [feels shame], too caught up in making terrain.

Cheers,

CB

Haha, I very well could be returning to the original entry if I don't get my backside in gear!

@ShadowsandDust; that sword is really nice. You might want to put some matt varnish on his hair; it’s a bit shiny to my eyes.

I’ll enter a flyrant I’ve got primes black so far.
I’ll post progress pics.

UPDATE


So the antlers on my Avatar a a pain. Adding a tiny amount of green stuff, shaping, blending and smoothing one prong and waiting for the GS to harden (I tried doing more than one prong at a time, but it went really badly) so I've been working on the other two Avatar side projects alongside it.

The First is as a base for a kit bashed cloaked Cryptek (my son plays Necron). Entirely built from scratch from spare Necron pieces, there are parts from immortals, wraiths, and death mark in there. the Avatar is base scenery- I drilled out the body to make it look like the molten centre was flowing out. I'm going to add a few more scarabs the base I think, and the paint isn't quite finished yet. I'm pretty pleased with it though and I might put this guy in instead of the main Avatar I was thinking about.

Update part 2

The other Avatar I'm working on is an idea I totally stole from Fifty who started a conversion but didn't finish it. he managed to close his avatar's mouth (I tried but my knife slipped and I just destroyed the lower jaw and had to completely rebuild with GS. The first picture is his unfinished conversion - I'll try to find the thread I saw it on and link to it.

The plan is to have this guy waiting to be animated by the Farseers, seated on a throne with gold Aspect Warrior helmets around him, on plinths or maybe built into the throne somehow. I want to create a Craftworld map for Killteam, with this as a central objective. its a bit ambitious, so it's either going to look great or a bit shonky. I'll let you all know.

EDIT: I meant to add this photo of all my Avatars together:

Month is half over, and I’m getting close to finishing the sloppy basecoat stage on 1 out of 3 of my models.



Need to pick up the pace.

I'm still on 12 hour shifts so I'm dividing my time between painting horus and reading about him. Almost done now. Only world breaker to finish then a little tidying of the highlights. Not been my favourite primarch to paint, but damn it's a nice model.

The detail on Abaddon is astounding QAR! That face!!

Tikay Fortooun wrote:
The detail on Abaddon is astounding QAR! That face!!

thanks dude, but its not abby, its his old man.

I'll enter a single Iron Warriors marine - as a veteran of the long war, he's sure to know something about the art of war (or he may believe that fortifications are the artworks of war)...

Tikay Fortooun wrote:
Update part 2

The other Avatar I'm working on is an idea I totally stole from Fifty who started a conversion but didn't finish it. he managed to close his avatar's mouth (I tried but my knife slipped and I just destroyed the lower jaw and had to completely rebuild with GS. The first picture is his unfinished conversion - I'll try to find the thread I saw it on and link to it.

The plan is to have this guy waiting to be animated by the Farseers, seated on a throne with gold Aspect Warrior helmets around him, on plinths or maybe built into the throne somehow. I want to create a Craftworld map for Killteam, with this as a central objective. its a bit ambitious, so it's either going to look great or a bit shonky. I'll let you all know.

EDIT: I meant to add this photo of all my Avatars together:

It is really great to see someone else pushing on with a seated Avatar!

Mine actually has a bit more progress done to it than the last photo I ever posted;


I actually greenstuffed all of his knees, elbows, nick, a stomach, a back very similar to yours, and I added wire to start sculpting some hair. For some reason, I have no photos of him at that stage though.

However, I think I am going to pull him apart and do the GSing again, as I made him more upright than I want him to be. Now I feel like I have a (friendly) rival and need to get my gak done!

Haha! It’s on! I’m going to have to raise my game from a quick dry brush!

Looking good so far everybody.

I've picked up some Autarchs on ebay recently, which would be perfect for this month's challenge - but on the other hand the month's half over already and I'm almost certainly going to be too busy to get one painted up to enter. A shame.

Loving the avatar, we need more 'guy sitting on throne' models.

Making progress on my entry:

He's definitely getting there; the skin and bone details are all done, so it's just the metallics and cloth left to finish, plus the base. Oh, and I'll need to do the eyes, too.

A little progress:



I still have some work to do on the light grey cloth, the eyes, and so on. If anyone spots something else I need to sort, feel free to say...

 SmallChanges wrote:
A little progress:

I still have some work to do on the light grey cloth, the eyes, and so on. If anyone spots something else I need to sort, feel free to say...

Wow, that is a great looking Iron Warrior! The lines on the chevrons are very sharp.

Here are the finished duders!
First, my Clamavus

And then her Mallex and friends

In an unexpected turn of events (amazing what painting something random just because you want to does for productivity), I'm finished early.

Nice. Liking the subtle dust around the feet and as noted before, the hazard striping is boss. Good work.

Yes, really good. The eyes have come out well too.

Horus the warmaster. Will get some more photos edited a little later.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Horus the warmaster. Will get some more photos edited a little later.

Gosh... that's insanely good.

queen_annes_revenge
You have my vote already, but can I ask how you get that malachite look on The stone? What colours? Washes and dry brush? It looks awesome.

Just saw this, my current work would fit the theme.



EDIT: due to irl stuff I won't make the deadlines.

Tikay Fortooun wrote:
queen_annes_revenge
You have my vote already, but can I ask how you get that malachite look on The stone? What colours? Washes and dry brush? It looks awesome.

I followed a guide I found online. I'll try and find it and list the paints I used.


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https://figurementors.com/Guesttutorials/painting-marble-effect-scenic-bases-leonardo-archini/

This is the guide I followed. Not sure if the link works. It's not working for me.

I replaced his colours with vallejo luftwaffe camo, mixing with kantor blue and macragge blue for the green tones

Then for the lighter tones I mixed gauss blaster green, vallejo khaki and white (in varying degrees/mixes) until you're using super light tones for the marbling and stippling.

The trick is to not track the marble lines across the block lines of your basing material, to create the effect of different blocks of the marble.

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:

Automatically Appended Next Post:
https://figurementors.com/Guesttutorials/painting-marble-effect-scenic-bases-leonardo-archini/

This is the guide I followed. Not sure if the link works. It's not working for me.

I figured out why your link isn't working. Where it says "Guesttutorials", there should be a space between "Guest" and "Tutorials."
So https://figurementors.com/Guest tutorials/painting-marble-effect-scenic-bases-leonardo-archini/ is the proper link, or https://figurementors.com/Guest%20tutorials/painting-marble-effect-scenic-bases-leonardo-archini/