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Bebop dude! I love the group shot, simply looks stunning so far and the more you add the more impressive it shall become, your poses and the way you have made each one so individual is commendable and now i'm also doing some Tau I'll have to scrounge up some Kroot and do a similar bright paint on my own Bebop style!

@ panda. Thanks so much comrade and welcome to my blog! Thanks for taking the time to comment, I've been creeping your stuff for sometime and don't heed my own advice and offer up some positive support. Ill be sure to
@brian. Yes, I understand your thoughts. I too had the same issue in its inception but the only remedy is to gs some kind of strap. Not gonna happen so I think it's just fine to assume they either auto attach or are hooked to the leather bandoliers. Also if I'm incorrect to assume that they sit on the firewarroirs in much the same mysterious fashion? I could be wrong bout that. Anywho, no worries bout lunch, I'm going to rock port actually:p next time!
@stephen, welcome! Thank you and yes a Kroot marbo would unlock so many possibilities, however seeing as I want my model count down ill not be doing a guard counts as. However for scouts, if I do a sm codex, I'm considering a kind of chameleon effect.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Bebop dude! I love the group shot, simply looks stunning so far and the more you add the more impressive it shall become, your poses and the way you have made each one so individual is commendable and now i'm also doing some Tau I'll have to scrounge up some Kroot and do a similar bright paint on my own Bebop style!

Quite the hefty compliment nerd, specially from such a prolific painter. Just don't make me look bad

I'm bk in NYC for a lil so sadly there won't be any work done, except fluff and concepts, but ill be sure to share here! also, I'm on Pinterest. Kevin Charles. Follow me if you're on it I'm making quite a cool collection of inspired minis from all over the net and categorized into helpful specific boards. If anybody sees something they like inbox me the link and ill add it to a board

What's pinterest? and how does it work?

and of course i won't make you look bad! how the hell can I? seriously dude you can paint rings around my work any day of the week seriously!

Liking the work on these awesome Kroot!

Excellent work, and I hear you on not wanting to paint a bunch of them to use as a counts-as horde army. It makes each model that much more fun to work on.

I really like the Kroot you have done so far, you should see if anyone in your area plays Necromunda and then you could make a nice little warband without getting burnt out by painting too many Kroot!

@nerd it's like a virtual bulletin board where you can pin your favorite online images onto virtual clip boards. It seems so basic but any interest I have, say, I dunno, tiger striped space marines, I can create a board and pin images I see fit, to it. It's pretty cool and I'm trimming the fat on sme junky images when you google search any 40k mini. And about my painting. You sir are wonderfully nuts. :p

Hi shaslo, thanks for the compliment and coming by glad you are enjoying some pics!
Oaka, you are too kind. Im not a huge fan of necromunda, and I don't know why. Actually I think I do. Because to overcome my true weakness at focus and willpower, nothing less than a illy painted army will do. The full Monty. Gotta make it happen:p I was peeping I think a different thread of yours. The zombie Kroot. Genius. So funny and you totally nailed the idea on the head with the paint scheme.

Sir this is a fine blog indeed! I have read through it, and I liked it! alot! It has given me many a fine idea, I'm really impressed with the quality of your painting and the attention to detail. I noticed somewhere that you felt that your painting was decreasing as you went on, but I think its far better to actually finish an army with a really good paintjob than do half a guy to a pedantic quality and never get anything finished...(I myself am VERY guilty of that!)

By the way I have to admire your foresight! I was looking at your catachan command squad on the first page and noticed the kroot head on the banner, painted the same as these latest fellows, It's a nice touch for cohesion etc but also implies you've been plotting this krooty awesomeness from the start! I barely know the next figure I'm going to paint, let alone the army I'll do in a few years!

Anyway, loving everything here, keep it up basically, i have subscribed and will be watching intently!

J paint, thanks a lot for the kind words and for actually going through the blog lol. As far as your comment about foresight. You are exactly right. That Kroot head was painted just for fun, but I remember it being my favorite part of that banner mini. I don't have access to painting all the time so actually, I just paint in my head. I don't ever paint a mini until I've fully painted it in my head. Ill think up schemes or use my color app on my iPad to test how colors look next o each other. Sometimes i just dream up wierd converions that i probably ould never actually put to life. Everything I do is planned out from the beginning, usually. Some minis, the harker model and the unfinished <sadly> prince yriel model I painted in steps. I paint something I like, the try n figure out what's the next step. The danger for me in that process, is that sometimes I Paint myself into a corner. Anyways, thanks!

I love the kroot! though some of the camoed gearpieces remind me of watermelons :p I haven't looked through all the posts, but are they actually meant as camoprints or as leather from a green tiger-thing?

I love the kroot! though some of the camoed gearpieces remind me of watermelons :p I haven't looked through all the posts, but are they actually meant as camoprints or as leather from a green tiger-thing?

lol thank you for the compliment and the funny commentary I can totally see how they come across as watermelons maybe thats why i like it! But yes it is a camo print, albeit a quite bizarre one on purpose. this here is my inspiration for the armor, and in a larger part the models as a whole.

Man, i like the watermelon camo.

Hey guys, so I'm still in nyc for a bit so I don't have much access to painting. But for the sake of any interest of this plog, I've decided to share some kind of random stuff regarding design notes I've been fussing with. Forgive the artwork, it's all iPad stuff with a clumsy stylus so it's pretty sad. With that said: I've been doing a bit of fluff work on these Kroot. Obviously a lot more thought into poses. I need some stock action poses. Just shooting straight ahead, so those will be first on the docket on my return to California. Also, more importantly, I've settled on the tau codex as a counts as. It makes the most sense fluff wise and allows me to use certain vehicles without bending the rules too much. As far as that concerns me, I've got to designate one model per firewarriors squad as its captain or shaslo or whatever it's called. These guys, I'd like to have 4 squads of twelve; so four guys, will be standard bearers. So with the purchase of my new iPad I've been very crudely working up some design ideas for these tau banners. Couple things I want to remain obvious in this design. I'm moving away from their normal low tech feral vibe, and definitely want them to seem as they've mastered the tau technology and have 'evolved' with it, so to speak. Also, I kind of am tipping my hat to mix of starwars like designs and possibly that alien race in world of Warcraft. Some of this may or may not be obvious. Just sharing my thought process is all. So there are two strong themes I've filtered down to. The red hand logo, kind of red scorpion influenced, with what I think is a strong color combo, the same used on the base of the first Kroot. The logo is cool I think and could be used throughout the army. The other is a kind of see through silk with the strange superman font. Circles etc etc. very alien. On both designs there may or may not be glowing words. The font would just red on the first banner idea. Also mounted drones and other sized tau circles would probably adorn the fronts. Also im not sure about the shape but im thinking longer and thin. somewhat elvish, kinda...definately square. ill also probably GS the banners...ok ok, Anyways, here are some pics, please disregard the sad art skills. I don't even know if it's a good thing to post this stuff but I wanted some outside thoughts
Hoping to be brush in hand soon
Bebop

Liking the first banner dude, and the idea of the crossed bones at the bottom of the page! you HAVE to do that it'll just look brilliant with your Kroot! ;-) are the two circles on the lower banner shields or drones? with the purple i am getting a cheeky Muppet vibe if i squint lol!

Hi guys!! Welcome me back!! If I'm posting on my thread it means break time for jazz and time for bebop to pick up his brush and inch ever forward to finishing a full squad of my Kroot army! I mentioned before that I wanted some less static poses. More gun firing actions, less meandering about. This is the fifth trooper in my squad of 12 and ill be recreating this pose probably a dozen more times. The only pain in the ass was the left hand holding the gun, having had to scoop out the original Kroot gun and the place in between gun and positioned arm. All without gluing my fingers together:/ I also gsed a thumb. Which honestly, is mindbogglingly difficult to maneuver and sculpt such a tiny piece of putty! I could really use some insight as to how you pros sculpt fingers!!! Here's trooper number 5, almost ready for primer save a few flash lines!!

Welcome back, good to see an other Rebel kroot around

Welcome back. Pose looks good.
I feel your pain with sculpting hands/fingers. I've recently been doing a bit for a couple of guardians.
Vik posted a link to a tutorial on my blog when we were discussing it:
http://sciborminiatures.com/en_,sculpting.php?id=508

But the thumb looks fine, good job.

Yay you're back and you bought us gifts of models! thank you Bebop! now we wait for you to compound our happiness with paint :-)

i like the banner concepts... but if you want to have evolved kroot... why not to dome more plstic or even holographic banners? i bet you could paint these!

the new kroot fella looks interesting... the headset looks very cool!... but i think the plant life should sand or more grass to the done in drone...to blend it better ...

Vik I think I set the bar too high with my unfinished attempt at see through cape over rainbow armor of prince yriel!! Ill be adding texture paint instead of sand to blend the base like I did the other minis. Though to be frank, I'm not a huge fan of it. It appears to go on glossy, and isn't so textured. But for the sake of uniformity and the hopes to actually make it work I'm going to continue to use it:/

WB Bebop! Aquarium plant bits?

NIce to see you back. Love your kroot.

Very cool Kroot, I have to say one of the first I have liked, I have been kind of a "Tau Purist" like Farsight in the past haha.

I seldom use textured paint... but it is all the same in the fullness of time... and if it too glossy then just use it for the texture and paint over it anew...

well... I really would consider those holographic banners... if not with tau, where else would you have a chance to have such japanophile tech?

Hey Guys! Well today i finished the 5th "fire rebel"! Sorry i didnt post many paint WIP pics but you all seen it before so i figured id just upload the finished mini! (save for the little white dot on the green phaser lens on the carbine, which has been added at the time of this post). I would like at some point to do a "step by step" of how im painting these kroot, but thats a while from now. This mini took the longest of the 5 iive done so far but after a two month break, the standard is still pretty similiar i think! The green alien gore around the lower lip and splattered on theshield and gun handle i thought was a fun little detail for added character. The left hand was a drag honestly. Hard to paint clearly because it was a novice attempt at sculpting just a thumb. I think im going to try and just a GS a whole hand the next attempt. Any ways, heres the fifth trooper. Please note that the photos are severly magnified by the iphone lens! So go easy on me

@Vik: What ideas do you have for a "holographic" banner. Youve got my attention
@ Steingass: You know im crazy for the aquarium plants You should see my collection!






cheers!
Bebop

Nice work, looks cool. Like the green splatter.

i like the gore effect you gave the lil carnivor!... looks like he didn´t clean himself after a small quick snack on the battlefield

very cool... if you ever happen to make such a step by step then mainly about the weathering you did to the shield/shoulderpad... this is something that is most useful...anbd maybe the handprint too...

i can´t see anything that really looks off about the sculpted thumb... in fact... i don´t know if anyone would ever notice that this isn´t just a GW made thumb?

and as for the holobanners... well basically you take a "stick" and add a projector like device... and then ahev a rather bland rectangular surface... i think a japaneese looking banner like the samurai used would be the best... as for the look... well i am thinking blade runners advertisments and such things...

Nice as usual

Now, holobanner, that's a great idea...
Maybe do It with a clear plastic sheet with the symbol colored on?

interesting idea... but i think it would look a bit akward compared to the rest of the painting style...a bit too flat?... i saw holo stuff in the microarts thread latley... that woudl be the style of painting i would love to see ...

Vik did you see the ideas for banners that i did on my ipad? the one with the flourescent pink alien script seems to be what you mean? we might have the same thing in mind?
And the handprint is super easy. Its just the geometric symbol i used (the kroot hand making a peace sign) haphazardly painted with a brush that years of dried paint has ruined beyond repair. I wanted it to look like the orcs of the white hand helms and shields in lotr, where the kroot dabbed his hand in red paint and gave the tau shield a slap!

The Highlighting is just off the chain Bebop!