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This really is great stuff, very inspirational. I will be painting a falcon of my own soon, it unfortunately will not be done to this kind of standard, but you've certainly given me some ideas.

Very impressive freehand you have there.

phew, almost 5 in the morning here in Germany right now, I'm pretty tired xD

Long night, had dinner + 2 hour conversation with our ministerpresident (like gouvernour for US citizens) and a couple of guys from the party...


And I had more than a couple of cups of coffee too many so I couldn't get any sleep.


Turned on the music, started painting, turned it off just now and am almost done with the main hull of my second Falcon!


I had a lot of fun with the tribals, although I'll have to scold myself for being a sloppy idiot. When cleaning the model of plant-seeds (I had been sitting in the garden painting the last week, we have a really hot spring right now and there's a lot of pollae in the air), I used a brush that had some oilcolor on it from another project...

needless to say, there was a thin layer of oil over the whole model that really made progress complicated...

So that was sloppy, but that I didn't immediately just wash it of with soap and water was being idiotic, so I went ahead and painted over the oily stuff.



Results below, I really took my time and enjoyed painting reeeeeeeaaaaally slow and carefull as to not mess up anything. Next up is either his turret, or the other falcons turret, or the front of the harlequin-transport. I dunno, whatever I feel like doing tomorrow.



Critique and Comments are more than welcome, as usual, I'd really like reading your thoughts

I love that rune effect. I'm thinking about doing something similar on the fairings of my motorcycle .

Bajezzus, but your eldar tanks are pretty. Due to my complete lack of pretty-ful painting abilities i picked orks.


May not look fancy, but can be batched painted, ergo, Victory is mine!

But i digress, really nice tanks you got there Archont. What colours did you use to blend out the yellow so smoothly?

Thanks alot ^^ Thogh I'm not sure wether or not Orks deserve being batchpainted^^

For the yellow I used about 8 parts yellow, 1 part bloodred and 1 part chaosblack for the darkest parts (I only use a limited pallette of chaosblack, skullwhite, regalblue, bloodred and sunburst yellow as well as one added metallic colour).

OMG that's so freakin' awesome!!!

Thanks alot floppy! That's exactly what I want to hear my opponent say when he sees them on the other side of the table

Some new pictures, this time of my Venom-Harlequintransport ^^


I got done with the masques on the vyper-chassis and started applying a checkers-pattern. Right now it looks crap, but thats how all my stuff starts. I'll significantly tone it down in order to not distract from the masques, around the masques there will be a fade-to-black, some cleaning up to do.

This is a first draft, so to speak, basically enabling me to create a good and fine pattern on top with predefined boundaries (very important to keep it all in straight lines and not have them diverge at one point or another).



Critique and Comments more than welcome!

Wow, I didn't think you could upstage your Falcon. But your Harlequin transport is amazing. The green face is utterly fantastic and flows so well into the blue and yellow faces. I'm not quite sure how you did it so well, but the checkerboard background is stupendous. The 3d effect of making it look like ruffled cloth is amazing. Great work!!!!

Thanks alot mate! The rugged-cloth effect was by no way intended, I gotta admit... it just happened that way^^ xDDDDDDD

Damn!!!! Frickin' amazing. You could make a mint if you sold your painted figures and vehicles.

The question is wehter or not I'd be willing to let go of my models after spending the most part of one weeks evenings painting them up^^

Also: I doubt people would really be into buying such stuff :-/

There is only 1 reason I wouldn't purchase them. I want to paint my own. No matter how crap mine look, I want them to be mine. But I have no doubt you would get offers. They look good enough, that if you did a display base for them, someone would pick it up just as a showpiece. Art is art. And what you have done is 40K art. Keep it up. Can't wait to see more.

? What is a Venom transport? I don't play Eldar or Harley's so forgive if it is something I missed.

Awesome job so far. I'm marking this thread, so just because you don't get feedback right away, doesn't mean no one is watching!

In the old Harlequin-Codex a Venom was their Transport tank, described as being with the front of a Vyper and some open transport Area in the back.

So what I did was kit together a vyper and a raider to get my personal venom (---> counts as Waveserpent).

Still massively impressed.... You b'stard

Ugh you are too damn good haha !, this is brilliant work mate i love it.

Keep them coming

please delete... :-/ forum betrayed me :(

Long time no update, I apologise for that, but I was busy. And everytime I got done with something I thought, that I should gather more stuff for a bigger update.

Well, as it happens I got most of the stuff I did in the meantime out of reach right now, so here is some other stuff:


First we have the Harlequin Troupemaster, who is on the best way to being done with painting. Only thing missing is some sort of white-sillhouette of a laughing masque opposite to the checkerspattern on the back of his coat. I tried to do him as flashy as possible

Second we got a group of some exodytes, conversions using the guardian, dark eldar warrior, high elves chariot, high elves archer sprue and a couple of other bits.

Third up is a groupeshot of all the tanks I am almost done with by now, followed by a full view of both the phoenix and the last I started, a Falcon that will feature a good-vs-evil stile freehand.

The last pictures are of my first Serpent. On the right wing I tried something interesting with the panels, going from a deep blue to a red, although I am not quite sure it shows on the pictures and honestly the blend from blue to red creates some quirky effects with the surface... The yellow part is not satisfying yet. Other side, the dragon. He is almost half done, the body will be from a... I cant find the word in english, it's the color you get when mixing blue and green and lighting it up, kind of like the surface of the ocean, aaaaaah "Türkis" would be the german word. Anyways, from that rather bright color to a deep green. While doing that I tried to create a texture of some sorts, hinting at the roundness of the body. Wings will be from green to a fleshlike-color, eyes probably in a deep red with white pupil? I have no idea yet. Should I make fire come out of his mouth?



Thats it, critique and comments would be highly appreciated!

archont wrote:
Unfortunately I'm not too good of a modeller and therefore can't model structures like that on my miniatures - i paint them! ^^

Heh heh, we should get together and swap jobs...I'll build em you paint em Seriously nice paint job on ALL your models, I think you have captured the decadent feel of the Eldar superbly.

Though I haven't played Eldar in years they were my first love. Here are a few of mine from days gone by.

Cypher871 wrote:

archont wrote:
Unfortunately I'm not too good of a modeller and therefore can't model structures like that on my miniatures - i paint them! ^^

Heh heh, we should get together and swap jobs...I'll build em you paint em Seriously nice paint job on ALL your models, I think you have captured the decadent feel of the Eldar superbly.

Though I haven't played Eldar in years they were my first love. Here are a few of mine from days gone by.

Dude, your painting is neat and inventive, you get vibrand colors AND you do awesome conversions!

Some day I'll be in the UK again, just went last autumn to take advantage of the good euro - pound conversion, but someday

I really admire your conversions and your models, and although I started out with Spacemarines, Eldar (and their sinister cousins) were my first love as well, when I started. (Sadly, the Hobby shop I went to didn't carry much else except for Marines).

Really impressive, and I feel honoured by your commendation

Your painting talent speaks for itself and blows mine out of the water ; ) You should consider putting a tutorial up on how to achieve those lovely tones and shades, especially on vehicles...theres a competition running for it at the mo too. Keep up the stunning work buddy.

I was already pondering the thought of wether or not to participate, but honestly, theres nothing more to my painting than patience I'll do a Tutorial, you motivated me to do one! If I win, I'll grant you a wish from what I won

Holy damn, your shading and highlighting are phenomenal. To paint a tank like that in a week is... well... nearly unbelievable.

Well, for the record, I did nothing else in that time, I had vacation (and now I'm done with school and will go to the german army in a month), it was sunny outside, our garden has a spot with perfect light all day, I had good food and a radio I was able to carry outside while at the same time having conversations with my mum / friends.

The result is simple: One week of very very very concentrated painting


Thanks alot

Where would I find a tutorial on how to paint those glowing effects like on the side of your falcon?

I'll make one the coming days and enter it for the contest running this month But if you're really interested, I did describe it in brief in a previous post of mine.

archont wrote:I was already pondering the thought of wether or not to participate, but honestly, theres nothing more to my painting than patience I'll do a Tutorial, you motivated me to do one! If I win, I'll grant you a wish from what I won

Heh heh, the tutorial will be it's own reward. While we await the tutorial could you give us the link to your earlier post please. Slightly off topic...are you joining the army as a long term career? (just being nosey...I am ex-RAF, I was stationed at Bruggen on the Dutch/German border for 3 years...lovely country).

Thanks

Cypher871 wrote:

archont wrote:I was already pondering the thought of wether or not to participate, but honestly, theres nothing more to my painting than patience I'll do a Tutorial, you motivated me to do one! If I win, I'll grant you a wish from what I won

Heh heh, the tutorial will be it's own reward. While we await the tutorial could you give us the link to your earlier post please. Slightly off topic...are you joining the army as a long term career? (just being nosey...I am ex-RAF, I was stationed at Bruggen on the Dutch/German border for 3 years...lovely country).

Thanks

I haven't decided as of yet, wether or not I'll do it for a longer time. But since my parents are moving to Canada and I definitely want to stay in Germany, Money-wise going to a Bundeswehr-University and becoming an Officer is probably the clever thing to do. Though I'll be in the Army, not the Airforce.

RAF, on a sidenote, is German for "Rote Armee Fraktion", a socialist terrorist organisation in the sixties, here in Germany, long since gone. I was a little bit confused when you used it in your post, since something in my brain made click and said: Aaaaah, Royal Air Force, not Rote Armee Fraktion. xD



Unfotunately the weather got in the way of my painting, here it's been raining the last two days, so no progress, sadly. There should be nice weather over the weekend, so I'll get some stuff done then, I hope