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Ah... Love the retro batman cloak.

Good job on Ivy.

Cape is looking great.

Paradigm wrote:Ivy is looking good, the spot colours add a lot and the lab coat is a great addition!

Wish I could still get hold of that model without having to go direct, it'd round of my Birds of Prey nicely and I'm not a fan of the other version of Ivy.

MillerBat is coming along nicely as well!

Cheers. I was very lucky to get one from a mate. I don't mind about AO Bats or even Adam West being direct only but when it's a major competitive variant seems a bit harsh.

GiraffeX wrote:Ivy is really nice Graven, great work

Means a l ot Chief, many thanks!

JoeRugby wrote:Great Ivy dude

Cheers mucker!

shasolenzabi wrote:Liking the classic batman colors, and the very plant-like Ivy

Thanks, I'm hoping I can rock the grey too.

Solar_lion wrote:Ah... Love the retro batman cloak.

Me too, thanks, it is a beautiful sculpt here.

Dr H wrote:Good job on Ivy.

Cape is looking great.

Cheers one and all! Thanks for the input with Ivy, I think I am ready to call her done:










As for the colours on the cape, they are getting there


Ignore the grey, of course.

So the ongoing plan is one mini a week, ish, to a decent standard. Can't do it without you gang - many thanks!

Holy color wheel Batman! Looking good. Nice touches on Ivy's base.

So far so good there!

One mini a week, thats not bad thats what I'm trying to aim for, instead of one a month which Ive been doing for the last few months!

I almost want to see some yellow highlighting on parts of poison ivy, TBH. Maybe detail the eyes a little more. ( my current fixation is with eyes. Forgive me.)

Ah, the light for painting. Look into Ott-lights. I have this one, https://www.amazon.com/OttLite-L139AB-Task-Swivel-Black/dp/B00070PA8U/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1474327643&sr=8-3&keywords=ottlite only mine is bubble gum pink. (yech. But I only paid $19.99 for it on clearance. For that price, the color was irrelevant.) It is very useful, and portable. Note the handle

Solar_lion wrote:Holy color wheel Batman! Looking good. Nice touches on Ivy's base.

Thanks mate. Just going classic with him.

shasolenzabi wrote:So far so good there!

GiraffeX wrote:One mini a week, thats not bad thats what I'm trying to aim for, instead of one a month which Ive been doing for the last few months!

Ah, but you are painting to a muc higher level than I. I'm taking S-L's advice, working on one thing at a time to a presentable tabletop level.

Red Harvest wrote:I almost want to see some yellow highlighting on parts of poison ivy, TBH. Maybe detail the eyes a little more. ( my current fixation is with eyes. Forgive me.)

Ah, the light for painting. Look into Ott-lights. I have this one, https://www.amazon.com/OttLite-L139AB-Task-Swivel-Black/dp/B00070PA8U/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1474327643&sr=8-3&keywords=ottlite only mine is bubble gum pink. (yech. But I only paid $19.99 for it on clearance. For that price, the color was irrelevant.) It is very useful, and portable. Note the handle

You are forgiven, I have actually gone back and lightened them further. I'll try to get a better pic. I've had a look at the OTT on amazon, thanks for that, I think I'll try to pick one up.

Anyway, in a fit of pique last night, decided to work on the grey as it was annoying me:

Washed with black ink and then blended up with Wolf Grey. Getting there. Lovely model, all told. Feels very shiny at the moment but that's inevitable.

Swung by my local club last night, only for an hour or so once kids were away to bed. I dunno, it was nice to touch base and all but slightly demoralising at the same time - you can't really do much of a game in an hour (fine for beer and pretzels games, naturally, but that's a separate thing after all).

Suicide Squad box is out, and da-yum but I want one. Can't justify the cost of ordering direct from KM for a promo Bombshell Harley, may work on the family to get me the regular boxset - still on a general BMG buying hiatus as I have soooooooo much stuff anyways. But still, didn't stop me finally picking Imperial Aces so at least my star wars collection is where I want it to be (till the new releases tomorrow )
Later peeps
graven

Bats is looking mean, that grey is dead on I think, and lets the blue and gold bits really stand out without being flat itself. He could end up your best Bat yet!

I'm definitely down for a SS set, it's just an amazing deal! 2 full crews, terrain, counters, the lamppost and sewer bits that I've put off buying for far too long and that amazing new Batman, at the places you can get it for about £60 it's practically daylight robbery! So long as KM don't screw up the distribution or anything, they seem to have knocked this one out of the park!

Batman is looking great graven. Glad you got to touch base with you local crew. Community is important in wargaming.

Thanks chaps, appreciated. For your trouble... Batman's back!


Started my imperial Aces


And thought I'd share this beauty one of my mates made, a scratchbuild studio scale Eagle from Space 1999:

Note the star wars ships for scale!
This thing is mostly paper, straws and juice bottles. LEDs too. Extraordinary stuff eh?


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That star ship is brilliant! Batman is looking good very comic bookish if you know what I mean.

Coming along nicely!

That's a neat scratch build to say the least!

Right, curse you all!

Redone eyes, lamentor glaze, yellow highlights. Much happier.

And FM Bats is just about there...


Again I think the eyes need work still...

Thanks for C&C as ever!

Love the changes.. My only suggestion ( and this may be from the camera ) is BM cloak is too glossy.

That's the Batman I grew up with.

And as for Space 1999.. nice scratch built and I'm not ashamed to say I saw the series when it first was aired.

Yeah, bad photography. I'm actually tempted to start using shots of scenery for backgrounds.

Right my lovelies, I need your help.

I decided to start my planned Hawkgirl conversion. She'll be getting an armoured midriff because I don't believe in cheesecake with abs of doom, and also I'm going for a more CW look for her. But, more important, she's going to be hovering.

Pinned to heck at arms and wings.


Now the question is, does my planned stand work aesthetically?


She'll be pinned into it at the knee, and attached at the back of one wing.


Does the illusion work?


Cheers buddies!

Nice job on Ivy and Batty.

Yeah, that pose / attachment can work.
Could you have her leaning more forward; attach further back on the wing?

What I'm seeing for the pose is that she's just passed the lamppost and the wings have folded in and just now unfolded and ready to beat.

Like birds do when the go through small gaps.

With her as close as you have there's not much space for the wing to have unfolded and drawn back.

With her leaning more forward it gives more space and gives the impression of more speed.

That is all assuming that you see the pose in the same way as I do.

The problem I see with what I'm thinking is that the head would now be too far forward (she'd be looking at the ground), and that'd need to be re-posed.

The alternative (you can see I'm thinking as I go here) is that she is just raising up vertically... and then it's all fine really...

Thanks for the detailed thoughts! Yeah, I could position her forward and down slightly - and ultimately, she d be looking at a fight below her anyway though I was assuming take off. The pin through the lamppost and into the wing will be a challenge mind...

So, made a bit of progress on her belt:

There will be another strap across the middle also, before adding some to the left leg also. And then, there's the arms. May just GS at the cuffs.

Stole some abandonned toys from the kids also -


And thanks too to whoever tagged the life out of this!

Yeah it works.

The middriff belt is awesome . nice touch.

Well she's built!

Lots of etch added. Pretty happy, though wish I'd managed to tilt her forward more.

It's no stripper terminator but still

Awesome, looking forward to seeing her painted!

She looks very nice, do we get a stripper terminator as well?

Nice job on Hawkgirl. Like the belts.

Flying chickie-babe... ooooh.

Paradigm wrote:Awesome, looking forward to seeing her painted!

Ha! You and me both. Oh, alright then. I've added some basing gravel in front of the light to become broken glass.

GiraffeX wrote:She looks very nice, do we get a stripper terminator as well?

Naturally...


Been there, done that

Dr H wrote:Nice job on Hawkgirl. Like the belts.

Yeah I'm really impressed by etchmaster (which is now part of Black Phoenix games), and looking forward to Armored Syndicate in its new miniature-based board game incarnation.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Flying chickie-babe... ooooh.

Say that again near her mace

The mini a week is not going well but this was a funny week, obviously. Still, wife and I are getting our first night off the 3 kids in, well, ever on Saturday (a wedding) so that hopefully will be fun.

Anyway, talking of the mini:


So I'm happy with the basic brown. However, I've just laid down a basic skin tone only to realise that for CW Hawkgirl it's wrong. Hmmmmmmm. However I'm going to be darkening the majority of the leather brown right down so I'll worry about the skin later I think; I'm considering just taking it down with brown washes, thoughts? Likewise, the wings have been done in light grey with a very thin sepia wash before I wash them black and start taking layers of grey into three bands through to white on the leading edge.

Generally I'm pleased about how the basic conversion is looking now got the first colours done. Hope y'all like!
Cheers
Graven

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Well she's built!

Why yes she is !

silly boy


So, an experiment. I used black ink with thinner on the wings to give me a transition on them. I'm not adept at using thinner but it's good to try!

I wasn't going to post this, and in fact she's further along than this but I think it's worth documenting the full process.
The colours were inspired by gulls and the extraordinary work of Ramos Asura on Hordes stuff.

Oh, and in other news, go have a look at the revised boardgame version of Armored Syndicate:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/703000.page
Very pretty, very cool.

That's so badass! I love it when a plan comes together! The vehicles have peaked my interest. What are the plans?

Thanks dude!
Honestly not sure about vehicles. I think I'll pop the board off the van so models can stand on top, but beyond that not sure. Any suggestions?

Also, progress: