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@vent: Finally got to a real computer... here are the links.

First, the CMON tutorial on picking skin tones: CMON Ethnic Skin Tones

The the dakka article by Eldrad Jonas Painting Faces my Way

Hope these help... (not that you need it). As sketchy as my first attempt was, it would have been far worse without the help provided by these articles.

EDIT: silly page rollover....

No page roll over?

Well, I mean... different than the usual... I can see your post, but the page 203 doesn't show...

Your monstrous Plog really messes with the coding lol!!!

It always does that, you just have to catch it at the right time.

Like the jet bikes - haven't seen any of those for years!

Thanks monkeyh... been hoarding them for a long time. Think the squad's going to look great when complete.

Where to start?

Green = top notch I really like the richness and blending to highlights you have going on!

Face = has nice depth which is unusual for dark skin (or perhaps all the ones I've seen have been lacking)

Cloth = nice deep shadows which is hard to get right (I'm still trying and would interested in how you do it)

the sword = looks mint!

The yellow on the should pad is crisp and smooth (I find yellow very hard to do kudos to you!)

The overall conversion is very very nice and I want one if I could find the place/money/fluff to include it in my army (currently only normal marine bikes converted into hover bikes fit the bill)

Well Knightly... you managed to singlehandedly raise my spirits for the day (not an easy job). Thank you!

There isn't much to the cloth, just the base color with a sepia wash, the some extra wash added into the deepest recesses with a brush to augment the shadows. Might have used delvan mud for the second wash.

Trick with yellow is to start by painting the undersurface white & then use a lot of thin layers over the top.

I think modern bikes could be converted rather nicely... remove the wheels and add something that looks like the hover pads from The Matrix. Would give really awesome options for OSL effects too!


Gits

Gitsplitta wrote:Well Knightly... you managed to singlehandedly raise my spirits for the day (not an easy job). Thank you!

There isn't much to the cloth, just the base color with a sepia wash, the some extra wash added into the deepest recesses with a brush to augment the shadows. Might have used delvan mud for the second wash.

Trick with yellow is to start by painting the undersurface white & then use a lot of thin layers over the top.

I think modern bikes could be converted rather nicely... remove the wheels and add something that looks like the hover pads from The Matrix. Would give really awesome options for OSL effects too!


Gits

You could use the thruster bits on the bottom of the drop pod kit for some level of "hover" bitz.

I might have some of those kicking around as I never detail the underside of my drop-pods.

I glue them into craters

Might as well. It's not like you ever see them in flight!

dantay_xv wrote:I might have some of those kicking around as I never detail the underside of my drop-pods.

I glue them into craters

WIN. STOLEN FOR TRUTH.

--B.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/152863-The%20drop%20pod%20int%20he%20smaller%20side%20crater%2C%20hope%20to%20make%20a%20feature%20of%20the%20bigger%20one.html?m=2

Sorry at work so had to take the pic from my gallery hence the code.

I did another one in a smaller crater but it keeps falling out, (and the doors dont open properly)

I always imagined them obliterating whatever they crashed into and making a suitable dent, I am debating about what to put into the adjacent crater when i finally get it painted ..... maybe water effects and some dead thing, but what kind of dead things???? .

Guardsman are always suitable dead things! the perfect decoration for any setting!!! Craters, ponds, Kitchens, YOU NAME IT!!!

Gitsplitta wrote:

Great work on the biker Gits, i particularly like the skin tones. Keep it up!

dantay_xv wrote:I might have some of those kicking around as I never detail the underside of my drop-pods.

I glue them into craters

Oh I am so stealing that idea, thanks dantay_XV!

Oh yeah, and that biker sarge is looking great Gits, I especially like the green, and am impressed with the shadow as well.

Anyone else think the biker looks like wesley snipes?

LoL, its a 40k Blade!

@Hits: Thanks my friend, I'll keep trying my best... have 9 more to practice on.

@Perplexiti: thanks! First time for that green and the shadow too. Pretty happy with both.


I'm pretty sure there are other celebrities in the head set. We'll see what things look like when they're painted.

i leave for a few weeks and all kinds of awesome pops outta this blog wth? any way love the biker i tried following that tut not one of my stronger forays but im getting there im actually excited for you to do normal blades cuase they will look sweet as pie and im pretty sure everyone loves pie. cuase i know i do.

Nice, really like the green, and it's nice to see a skin-tone other than a white space marine sergeant shouting.

Keep it up

white space marine sergeants are classic grimdark, lol

Can you fire me a quick pm with your email, I have some pdf's for you but I can send them through dakka, thanks


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Ooops should have paid attention to the sig..... bad Dantay

@alabama: Thanks man... has been a pretty productive stretch here considering it's summer and there's lots of other things to do. I finally think I've landed on a blade painting style I like. I'm sure I'll tweak it over time, but for some reason the "flat" spine and "dynamic" blade really appeals to me.

@Matrim: Thank you sir! You should see plenty of both in upcoming updates.

@dantay: (Hint: look at my sig... there's an e-mail addy right there at the top for you.)


I want to apologize for the lack of substantive updates... this week and next I won't have much opportunity for painting & updating what with many summer activities with the family taking precedence (kids will be going back to school in two weeks) and having a dead computer. I hope to make steady progress on the rest of the bikes next week, but it may be the week after before I can post a pic. On a sad note, have to put my cat of 17 years down later today. He had kidney failure and we've spent two weeks trying to get him past his "crisis point" but we just cant... he's done. Kids said their goodbye's this morning. Crappy way to end the week.

Gits

Sorry to hear about your cat, always sad to lose a loving and loved part of a family.

I hope that the family time you all spend together will help you all..... feel happier.

Enjoy your summer activities and we look forward to seeing you back soon with lots o pics.

No need to apologise about the computer problems, we all understand/ have been there, so we forhive ya (if we all get a custom Git Mantis )

Take care my friend

Sorry to here about your cat Gits, I know how you feel. We had put our 13 year old tabby cat after it suffered from kidney failure, and it puts a real dampener on your spirits.

Anyway, the painting looks great as always, nice tones on the face and crisp details on the bike.

I have 3 "custom gits" sitting on my studio shelf all ready to be shipped... I just never remember to leave the darn house with them. Doesn't do me any good to finish my trades and never send the bloody things off!

Tough deal about Holly (the cat). He was my "consolation prize" from my then girlfriend who broke up with me but felt guilty about it & thought I needed a companion... he's been with me ever since. Funny thing is that ex-GF is now my wife! So she got stuck with the cat after all!

@GS: Thanks on both counts. It's the last kindness I can show him. It'll be tough on the kids, but we do still have two younger cats in the house that are "theirs" (as opposed to Holly which was more mine than the kids), so they'll bounce back.

Sorry about the cat Gits, hope you bounce back too.

Thats the same way as to how I endedu p with Archie, my ex-cat too.... except the cat was from my sister as she got it from her ex-hubby, only to find she was allergic to him so he kind of found his way to me.

I kind of decided no more pets as going through having him put to sleep was hard, I really hope your kids will be alright, although I am sure they will be okay over time, as will you and Mrs Gits.


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Anyway back to modelling, now you got to make a bearded ryan reynold scout and a female scout (the hot girl with the ipod--other mp3 player are availbale..... and bow) to make up the blade trilogy bikers.

Actually, I'm kind of jazzed about the possibilities of turning my 3 original land speeders into a squad of attack bikes. Given the right circumstances they could work very nicely with the rest of my overall martial philosophy. I must think on this... and do some digging in the codex.