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I love how you Adeptus battlegrey turned out.
How did you manage to have it so bright ?
I use Codex grey for highlights but it doesn't even look as bright haha

I have no idea, I don't think it's any brighter, but after you really wash the first layer, the second layer of the pure grey has a lot more contrast to it, and that gives you that slightly brighter look.

For an example of lots of different greys, you can look at the gun he's using. That goes from Adeptus Battlegrey to Codex to Fortress Grey, then gets washed again to blend everything together. I like how it looks for metals and guns for sure.

I love it looks great keep up the work!

Love it - absolutely stunning stuff, and a great color scheme!

Blue + orange(y) always wins for me!

Thanks guys.

I'm definitely going with a dark grey/bright orange color scheme for my ALEPH when I start them eventually. I have a Marut to paint, but I'm not going near an ALEPH army until I get my Ariadna complete. My Haqqislam is nearing completion... so it's time to start branching out into my next project!

It's going to be awesome having a fully painted army, that's for sure.

So I decided to stay up late and get the Maghariba done. It is simple proof that if large flat surfaces are involved, Chem chokes and forgets how to paint.

It looks… okay. The wash didn’t turn out how I hoped, and I think I blame using the new ‘almost Devlan mud’ wash rather than finishing up the bottle I had. Seems a little more red than before, but it also blotched up a lot more.

I should have drybrushed it in Dheneb Stone and then give it a second light wash to kill that effect, but I figured that out after I was too far along. Ah well.

So, tell me what you think, and more importantly, tell me what I could do better. I don’t know if I’m going to keep him the way he is or throw him back in the dip after flogging myself for a week.









Whelp… there it is.

I'm really liking that Maghariba, super cool looking

Yep, I really like it
The wash did a good job imo
I love the skull

Maybe more edge highlights ? I don't know actually =P Maybe I'm the one using too much highlighting hah

Thanks guys.

I dunno. I think my camo stripes might need to be brighter or darker... when I washed the model it turned them almost the same color as the body of the machine.

I have some pretty gaudy highlights on the blue for the legs, but I'm worried if I do any edge-highlighting on the body it'll look out of place.

The skull I'm still iffy about. I thought it was a cool idea at the time. And it adds to the model, but I dunno if I like that specific look... I'm just bad at freehanding though.

I agree on darker/brighter camo stripes
But I think you freehand very well actually =P

Wow... haven't been back in a while. The Maghariba (I'm guessing that's the 6-legged tank of dead-sexiness) is looking pretty good. I was going to say-

1st shot- don't like the color. But I now realize it's the lighting. Skip that.

I would have to say the skull doesn't fit, as badass as it looks. Your team right now reeks of "professional kill squad". The skull is more "marauder/pirate"... something. Cool, for sure and awesome freehand.

As for the lightning bolts... darker? Or two-tone? The lightning bolts look good as is, but maybe another shape of a slightly different hue from the base color and the darker bolts?

And one last thing- question: Is that walker-tank part of the Infinity model range?

Looking real good- also your sniper elite with the alternate blue-focus color scheme. Keep 'em coming!

-Remi

Yeah, I like having stuff on my vehicles and machines. If I ditch the skull I'll probably paint the canopy some flat color.

And yes, the Maghariba is an Infinity model. Probably one of my favorites, which just irritates me all the more that I can't paint the darn thing properly.

The Jagdpattern camo was originally Khemri-Brown pattern over the brighter Dheneb Stone, so there was a nice bright contrast. After washing it all blended together.

Maybe I should swap it out and make the striping brighter than the main body, rather than darker. I can bang that out in less than thirty minutes when I get home... think I should do it? Or try something else?

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:Yeah, I like having stuff on my vehicles and machines. If I ditch the skull I'll probably paint the canopy some flat color.

Maybe I should swap it out and make the striping brighter than the main body, rather than darker. I can bang that out in less than thirty minutes when I get home... think I should do it? Or try something else?

For sure- the decals and stuff "finish" models. (which sadly, much of my collection lacks). Perhaps more tech-military pattern decals and such would be more appropriate? I actually like the metallic- it helps mesh it with the rest of your group.

LOL... you have a color program on your comp? take a picture, modify the the strips for dark bolts/light bolts scenarios and choose from there? I've done repaints. I hate them.

-Remi

No color program. I do everything through my phone. And at the moment I'm at work.

I wouldn't be able to photoshop my way out of a paper bag anyway.

Getting the gold for the canopy smooth has proven to be nearly impossible. It loves showing brushstrokes, another reason for the skull added to it. My original plan was to do a Warthog sort of look with the mouth and teeth painted on the front... cause that I can make look good.

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:No color program. I do everything through my phone. And at the moment I'm at work.

I wouldn't be able to photoshop my way out of a paper bag anyway.

Getting the gold for the canopy smooth has proven to be nearly impossible. It loves showing brushstrokes, another reason for the skull added to it. My original plan was to do a Warthog sort of look with the mouth and teeth painted on the front... cause that I can make look good.

LOL, then you and I are in the same boat, friend. I was hoping you'd be a bit more fortunate than me.

And that sucks about the brush strokes... hmm... I tend to use an airbrush and super-watered down paint layers... not sure how to get out of this type of problem. Sorry.

... at the same time, this "warthog" talk intrigues me... wish I could be more help, but looking forward to the final product!

-Remi

I might give that a go. The Mag definitely has the face for it. And I like drawing teeth on things.

I always love mech pilots. I imagine them tough and confident, and they love to have custom stuff on their machines that make them stand out and make them their own. So nose art, funky paint schemes, kill markings... all of that stuff is awesome to me, and I want to inlcude it where I can.

Though the gold ties the model in with my others, if I do the warpaint on the nose I'm going to have to get rid of it, as I think it will just distract from the rest of the model.

Won't know till I get home! And I may distract myself with some other projects rather than getting right back into that monster.


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Well now I’m in trouble.

My drop pod of stuff from The Warstore showed up. Two orders I had made both appeared at the same time.

So this was waiting for me when I got back from lunch.




I am going to be very… very… busy.

The camo pain on your crawler is ace. Having a black line separating the colours was brilliant !

Yeah, it's actually Chardon Granite. When I did the jags initially, I did them in Chardon Granite, then I went back and filled them in with Khemri Brown, leaving an edge of the Granite all around it.

It's a lot faster and easier than trying to paint on jags and then outlining them later.

I would hate to play against you just because I'll look bad right from the start.

Says the guy with the fully painted army. Your stuff looks good CDK, don't sell yourself short.

So I got home, broke open my many packs of stuff, and got right to assembly.

A few hours of cutting, filing, and LGS later, I had myself an almost full Ariadna army, along with some bolstering forces for my Haqqislam.

If you’re wondering why The Warstore is out of Ariadna stuff… well… sorry.

As you can see, I’m going to be pretty busy in the painting department for a while. Should get everything primed up tonight, probably do the bases, and then go play some Minecraft. I have ALL day Saturday to get some painting done, so I’ll probably take one of the Line Kazaks and use him as a test monkey for my paint schemes. I was going with dark blues and greys for my SAS guy and Emergency Service guy… but I already have a lot of blue in my Haqqislam. The Ariadna forces are a good bit more disorganized though… at least when it comes to uniforms and stuff, so I might take some liberties and bounce around with different colors, while still maintaining a theme to tie them all together.

I’m thinking about Chardon Granite, or some other dark grey/brown for all of the armor bits, and then doing other accent colors for everything else. I want them to be dark, and really play up the camouflage aspect of the army… but not too much, I like things to be bright and clean…

Hmm…

It’ll be different, that’s for sure.

As for pics, here’s what I accomplished last night…







Tonight, priming!

Nice !
But could you please stop stealing my color schemes ideas ? =P

Von Skyfury wrote:Nice !
But could you please stop stealing my color schemes ideas ? =P

Nope!

Maybe if you got on the ball and started posting some paintjobs I'd be less inclined to steal your 'ideas'!

Pics or it didn't happen sir!

Yeah I'd have to stop being afraid to paint Infinity models first =P
And you're the one stopping me to do so =P
I already know your models will look better anyway haha
Hopefully with time I'll get better =)


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And you could also choose different factions !
After Haqqislam and Ariadna, don't give Yu Jing a try please =P

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:Says the guy with the fully painted army. Your stuff looks good CDK, don't sell yourself short.

Fully painted?! What you talkin bout Willis! (the old guys will understand that) The few that are painted is maybe a quarter of what I have of Yu Jing. And so far I've only competed 3 of my combined. (Which reminds me I need to take pics of my completed Skiavoro.) At least with 40k I could spray most of the stuff I did lol. But I must say you have inspired me to get more done for sure. I love that Magriba. It makes me want to do my Guija finally. Of course now that I have him build I want o convert him a little :( oh well.

Well in all seriousness, I'm not the greatest painter ever. A lot of the stuff I do is just simple tricks and good color choice. If I can give any advice, I'll be glad to help you out. The only way I got better was to buckle down and start painting, and then keep trying new things.

As you can see by my Maghariba, I still have a lot to learn.

And don't worry, I'll probably skip Yu-Jing for now. I'm thinking I'll either do Nomads or PanO after my Ariadna are all finished up... but we'll see!


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@CDK - Well you know what I mean! You have an army profile up and all, you have a bunch of painted Yu-Jing... I'd call that a painted army!

The key things I found with Infinity figs is to thin the paints and take your time! Take the time you would use to paint a squad into that one figure. There is no need to rush. And thining the paints and doing layer on layer will help keep the great detail.

your models are looking awesome! i especially love that walker!!!

Keep up the great work.

Thanks guys.

Glad people like the Maghariba. I think I'm going to hold off on doing any drastic redesigns to it at the moment. I have too much stuff that is unpainted to sit and worry about repainting things.

I think that's a good policy to have on that sort of stuff.