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Great stuff Q0rbin.

The combat squad of marines look great. (I prefer the grey and yellow too btw but understand the time scale). It will also make for an interesting army having two allied renegade forces.

Forge Fiend looks good.

Hey Q0rbin, I tried your technique this afternoon, to represent a badge of "marksmanship" in my Fire Warriors squad...

It looks awesome, thanks !!!

If you wanna see, check here

PDH wrote:Great stuff Q0rbin.

The combat squad of marines look great. (I prefer the grey and yellow too btw but understand the time scale). It will also make for an interesting army having two allied renegade forces.

Forge Fiend looks good.

Yeah I know but I got tired to paint like that when it took so long time with every model.

Yggdrasil wrote:Hey Q0rbin, I tried your technique this afternoon, to represent a badge of "marksmanship" in my Fire Warriors squad...

It looks awesome, thanks !!!

If you wanna see, check here

Goodjob, I told it wasn't to hard to do. Fits very good on tau models.

Next guy up
-Now I got a machinegun (autocannon) hohoho

Any WIP pic ? I'd need to identify the parts for that AWESOME *machinegun*

Orks Big Shoota shells, Trukk exhaust, CSM vehicle "gargoyle barrels", CSM bolter ?

Great job Q0rbin, as usual

Nice autocannon build. I usually find the scratch built ones to be a little goofy, but yours really works.

 Moltar wrote:
Nice autocannon build. I usually find the scratch built ones to be a little goofy, but yours really works.

Agreed with you Moltar, that one really looks "realistic" (if one can say so)...

For all the others, that's why FW released those :

Yggdrasil wrote:Any WIP pic ? I'd need to identify the parts for that AWESOME *machinegun*

Orks Big Shoota shells, Trukk exhaust, CSM vehicle "gargoyle barrels", CSM bolter ?

Great job Q0rbin, as usual

Thanks Ygg, It was a long time I made it but I think it's a bigshoota with gargoyle head and heavy bolter ammo feed

Moltar wrote:Nice autocannon build. I usually find the scratch built ones to be a little goofy, but yours really works.

Thanks moltar, nice to hear it's not goofy.
And of course next guy in the club.

Lol I hadn't thought Big Shootas were THAT big

Nice job on the latest one, though those old Zerker legs sometimes make for an almost awkward stance... Yours is great !

Yeah I know Ygg, they are a little stiff those zerkslegs, but why not use them so it can be some variation in the army.
And I also finished another model, of course I used your OSL-technique Ygg. A guy with a plasmagun. Damn it take time to get the OSL ok.

Erh... INTENSE is the word !!!

I think you got the technique way better than me

Feel free to tell what works better for you, what you're doing different, etc...

Great model again :sob:

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Erh... INTENSE is the word !!!

I think you got the technique way better than me

Feel free to tell what works better for you, what you're doing different, etc...

Great model again :sob:

Thanks Ygg, it's so friggin hard to do OSL, The time, the perfect amount of water and paint. But your tut have really helped me.
Thanks but I think your technique is pretty darn good to.
The only way I can describe my technique is That I use very much water and very little paint. And have my patience on the highest.

So to finish this post I can now say that I have finished the first squad to the legion Abyssal silhouettes, exept the legion-marks on the shoulderpads. I have tried some OSL and some other bling bling on the champions axe.

What a bunch of badasses. They look great, Q0rbin! Champion is a total boss. Love the effects on the axe and the subtle OSL. Great looking squad!

Thanks Moltar, I didn't know if the axe where good or not but I'll take your comment that it looks good then.

Yeah, Champion axe looks great ! The purple adds another dot of colour, without being too much...

Awesome squad, all in all !

(You're actually on the brink of convincing me that those are better than the grey & yellow ones )

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Yeah, Champion axe looks great ! The purple adds another dot of colour, without being too much...

Awesome squad, all in all !

(You're actually on the brink of convincing me that those are better than the grey & yellow ones )

Thanks Ygg, yes that was what I tried to do, I thought it would be a little dull with some of the other lightningeffect colours that I used.
And I also finished a new marine today, a predator in the abyssal silhouettes colourscheme. But I'm not 100%pleased with the lighteffect on the body.

Wow ! I love the lightning effect pretty much...

I think that if it looks weird, it is because of where you put the boundary : right in the middle of the model, as if cut in to (or as if he just waded in waist-deep mud)...

I think it would look better if a bit more "random", or "angled" on the model - as in this one, for instance :



And the Predator locks are awesome as well... Did you just GS them ?

This is some really inspiring stuff, mate! I have to admit that I wasn't completely sold on your new painting recipe at first, since those CSM seemed like a poor replacement for your earlier models. You've really found your feet with the nee recipe, though, and I love the autocannon marine, champ and Pred-Marine. Brilliiant work!

Yggdrasil is perfectly right, though: Repaint one of the legs to look more "uncloaked" and the effect will be even more convincing!

Looking forward to your next update!

Yggdrasil wrote:Wow ! I love the lightning effect pretty much...

I think that if it looks weird, it is because of where you put the boundary : right in the middle of the model, as if cut in to (or as if he just waded in waist-deep mud)...

I think it would look better if a bit more "random", or "angled" on the model - as in this one, for instance :

Spoiler:

And the Predator locks are awesome as well... Did you just GS them ?

Thanks Ygg, yeah I had now try to done it a little more not in a straight line.

KrautScientist wrote:This is some really inspiring stuff, mate! I have to admit that I wasn't completely sold on your new painting recipe at first, since those CSM seemed like a poor replacement for your earlier models. You've really found your feet with the nee recipe, though, and I love the autocannon marine, champ and Pred-Marine. Brilliiant work!

Yggdrasil is perfectly right, though: Repaint one of the legs to look more "uncloaked" and the effect will be even more convincing!

Looking forward to your next update!

Thanks Kraut, nice to hear that I am convincing with the new scheme. Yeah, I tried to do a little less in a straight line but its hard to to see that at the moment.
ANyway, here's another predator. Only three left.

Wow, awesome !!

Will they be the army Chosen ?

You know what would really rock? One of your Pred-Marines leaning against a wall, where the division between the cloaked and uncloaked parts of the mini wouldn't be vertical, but rather horizontal. That is, the part towards the wall would be cloakes, and the one facing away from it uncloaked, with the transition effect running roughly around the middle of the mini. Just sayin'...

Yggdrasil wrote:Wow, awesome !!

Will they be the army Chosen ?

At first when I made them in the previous edition they where meant to be chosens, but now I just going to use them as regular marines because I want to get some variation.

KrautScientist wrote:You know what would really rock? One of your Pred-Marines leaning against a wall, where the division between the cloaked and uncloaked parts of the mini wouldn't be vertical, but rather horizontal. That is, the part towards the wall would be cloakes, and the one facing away from it uncloaked, with the transition effect running roughly around the middle of the mini. Just sayin'...

Yeah I have thought of that but I scramble the idea, sorry. But instead I made this runner, who is cloaking out from the terrain.


And I also pimped the sword on the previous one:

Gosh, Q0rbin !!!

1. You're getting too good at OSL & lightning ;
2. You're getting faster with each passing post...

Please stop that, or I'll REALLY become envious !!!

Thanks Yggs, nice to hear you like it. This next thing I've done is not a model but I'm going to use to my models. It's a displaybase for the army and I finished it in a hours today.
I will take a better pic when I have the time.

 Q0rbin wrote:
Thanks Yggs, nice to hear you like it. This next thing I've done is not a model but I'm going to use to my models. It's a displaybase for the army and I finished it in a hours today.
I will take a better pic when I have the time.

Hey, in France it's Armies on Parade on September, 14th... Do you plan on taking the Abyssal Silhouettes to such a competition ?

Also... I don't recall you showing us the cultists... Could we have some close-up pics ?

The rusty-red, Mars-like environment looks great

Very cool, the rusty basing and that Autocannon conversion are great!

I love the bullet cases flying out the sides. Fantastic Ork bit that is.

Yggdrasil wrote:

 Q0rbin wrote:
Thanks Yggs, nice to hear you like it. This next thing I've done is not a model but I'm going to use to my models. It's a displaybase for the army and I finished it in a hours today.
I will take a better pic when I have the time.

Hey, in France it's Armies on Parade on September, 14th... Do you plan on taking the Abyssal Silhouettes to such a competition ?

Also... I don't recall you showing us the cultists... Could we have some close-up pics ?

The rusty-red, Mars-like environment looks great

No as you might noticed Ygg, I wasn't on thr GD france, I had to work. And yes I will give you some shoots of my cultists.

Mister Feral wrote:Very cool, the rusty basing and that Autocannon conversion are great!

I love the bullet cases flying out the sides. Fantastic Ork bit that is.

Thanks mister Feral, nice to hear that you like it.


And of course, here's the fourth predator, the one with the plasma weapon. The sad or hard thing is, that I don't know if the osl from the weapon should glow over the cloaking-glow.

It could probably be argued either way, but since the plasma gun is not cloaked, it probably should bounce off his cloaked leg, like you have it. I suppose it would come down to a matter of how light is reflected/refracted through the cloaking system. If you were to change it, you'd have to leave the glow on the portion of exposed armor above the cloaking line and have the glow just cut off. It all comes down to your preference. I'm not sure how the half-glow would look. I think I prefer the way that it is now.

Thanks Moltar, nice to hear that you are on my side.
So finally I finished the leader to the ripper squad/predators, Hope you like him and here is also a squad picture on them.
And here are some close-ups on the cultists Yggs.

Rippers and cultists look amazing, Q0rbin!