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I liked the plainer wire iteration of the lightning

Looking forward to seeing it painted

I agree with jshbchnn. The plain wire work looked cool (picturing it painted as lightning). I know that balance is hard to get though, as far as highlighting the bits that are more important to the model.
It's looking great, all the same. I can't wait to see it with some paint.

This is a really inspiration and amazing project from start to finish. I am especially interested (as are many) in how your "psychic effects" turn out. I've been kicking around ideas for something similar for my ork weird boy... but have had my plate too full to experiment. Really looking forward to seeing how things paint up.

Absolutely love the implied motion in your figure... really makes it come alive.

I am very interested in seeing the totally finished and painted model.
It looks great unpainted and can't wait to see it painted up.

You modeling skills are great.....very inspired by this.

Rick

Please don't go back to the random lightning! You obviously have talent as a sculptor and I think the bird looks great as a starting point. If you put as much effort into the details it should be a really unique effect.

Keep the eagle lightning - it's a great concept. I'd just say move the eagle closer to the fist - at the moment, it looks like he's got an eagle attached to him, when you want it to look like it's being conjured right there....

I agree with Ian. The eagle is a characterful touch, but it looks like he is holding a balloon eagle on a string right now, maybe rotate the palm so that it faces up and bring the eagle a bit lower.

Rotate the fist so the palm is uppermost and flat and use the sculpted eagle lightning but reshape it slightly so its more angular (splaying the fingers out if possible would add to the look of control). That'll perfect your idea IMO.

Really nice idea , well impressed

This is really excellent. I can't wait to see how you paint it... I think some lighting would be amazing.

jshbchnn wrote:I liked the plainer wire iteration of the lightning

I agree

Hey, thanks for the new comments, all. I had thought this would have fallen off the first page into forum thread oblivion by now...

I have started painting this, it's about 40% finished right now. I have a lot left to do. I'll try to get some pics up soon to show progress.

I'm still not sure at all about the psychic eagle construct... maybe it is just that it has to be closer down to the hand so that it doesn't have a balloon look to it. Also, as someone mentioned, maybe adding a few more arcs of lightning to it will remove that feeling as well.

I still have the psychic eagle, though it's completely unpainted at the moment... I also have already painted a lot of the Dread's power fist, so I'm not sure how doing some of the psychic power object source lighting will look... I think it will depend on how the psychic eagle itself looks first.

In any case, i'll have some pics up soon, hopefully by Monday.

Thanks for keeping the interest alive!

GrimTeef wrote: Also, as someone mentioned, maybe adding a few more arcs of lightning to it will remove that feeling as well.

That sounds like it would work great. Go for it!

I don't have any insight as to how you would do it, but it seems to me that something that joined the eagle and the power fist together, or made clear the eagle originating from the power fist... might solve the "balloon effect". More than just the tendrils... would have to show an energy source emanating from the glove in various directions... some of which were forming into the shape of the eagle.

Just a thought.

Like an Iron Man palm blaster?

Not exactly... more like a nimbus of energy enveloping both the fist and bird... or energy radiating from multiple parts of the fist (palm and fingers) coalescing into the bird.

As I've said before... I have no idea how you'd pull it off... I'm certainly not that good of a modeler. But if one was to figure something out... man. It's such a brilliant idea (the original one... not mine), love to see it come together.

Okay, I really went and put both feet into the whole psychic-hawk-construct-thing, as you can see from the painted pics below. I think that adding the extra electrical arcs to the construct really help, and don't make it look like a balloon or a Aliens facehugger anymore! It's all glued in there now, so taking it off would do more damage than anything else at this point, so it's here to stay...

The paint job is not finished, still a ways to go yet. Final stages of highlighting on the blue armor parts still needs to be done, as well as lots of work to do on the bare metal sections. The eyes, purity seal details, bright object source lighting on the power fist and some on the shoulder area... yeah, like I said, lots to go.

But this is the basic color scheme and how he'll look in general. The real trick is going to that object source lighting. That will really bring the thing together, I'm hoping, and make it look like energy and not possessed noodles...

Thoughts? Comments?

That is excellent. You have really captured the idea of what a Librarian dread should look and act like. He doesn't seem focused on the battle, but seems intently focused on building up psychic energy. Well done, and I can't wait to see how you finish it off.

Even in the beginning stages of painting this looks incredible I would love to see how the rest of your army looks your modeling is superb too keep up the great work.

Love it, and the psychic hawk looks real good; glad you put it back in there! Maybe the blade and the hawk should be the same colour to maintain balance across the model? or do you want to draw the eye to one side in particular?

Hello, mcfly! Sorry, had to say that. Thanks for the comment, I did want him to look like he has something else on his mind besides just the immediate enemy. Glad you think it works.

WingsOfCadia - thanks. The rest of my army pics are up in the dakka gallery, if you want to see them.

Commissar - yeah, seemed more people at least wanted to see some psychic activity, if not the hawk itself, but the hawk is iconic to my chapter and I did want to see if I could make it work, so in it went. I actually have started painting the force weapon and the psychic construct power, and they do indeed have the same color - a bright electric blue-teal color. I figured a balance would be the best way to go.

I thought about starting Blood Angels
And the I thought I shouldn't
And now I think I should

In other words, AWESOME! The magical powers in his left hand makes him look even more awesome!
And very good painting too.

Awesome model. Easily one of the best dreads I've seen on dakka.

Nice Dread

Even with the painting you've managed so far it looks really ace once you paint the little details and do the lighting effect i think it will really come alive.

AWSOME!

Looks freakin' badass.

I've got no constructive criticism to add at this point in the painting process. What you've done so far looks very crisp and nice and I'm looking forward to the final highlighting and the OSL.

Can't wait to see that awesome hawk painted. Really liking this, great job.

Very impressive indeed. Agree with comments about matching colour of hawk with blade... maybe a bit lighter than the blade infact... actually... leave it as is but maybe add a watered blue wash so it just makes certain areas a light blue?