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Nice touch on the shield. Are these Knights for WM ...ie the same Household?

Not mine. I know several are Gits, not sure if all are though.

These are all destined for House Taranis- Knights of Mars!! So bright reds with black and white accents.

Might want to look into some D-weapons, Solar.... These are all going to Gitsplitta

 Ramos Asura wrote:
These are all destined for House Taranis- Knights of Mars!! So bright reds with black and white accents.

Might want to look into some D-weapons, Solar.... These are all going to Gitsplitta

Will 3 Wraithknights do? or... I have 3 knights as well! They just won't be as pretty as Gits or his knights.
Still I be interested in playing against him with my Cult Mechanicus robot army. Mechanicus vs Mechanicus. ( like 2 leftys fighting each other - inside humor for Gits)

His Mechanicum list will look good with these brawlers.

Ill have to put that down as another challenge for the Gits and I to do list. Right after our "Whose da big boss Ork vs. Ork battle"

Definitely look forward to seeing the eventual bat-reps, SL!



Progress!!

Put color to the Assassin bodysuits- The client wants to use them as more-so game pieces, so he wanted the suits to have a different tinge of color on each of them. These are all a bit on the glossy side due to the paints I used. Looks near black until you hit it with bright light. Then the colors pop right out!




Also starting to pick out the detail colors on the infinity figs. Always impressed with the level of detail on these, though I just as often fret that I cant paint as well as their studio guy(s)!! Seriously on the mini some of the details are damn well near invisible!!

I really like the idea for the assassins, I will have to do the same with mine

Looking sassy!

That's a cool idea for the assassins! And the start of the Infinity figures look promising

How many knights are in that household, Ramos / Gits!? The little details on the back of the shield were a great touch.

Ramos is making 4 in total for me. Have no idea how many the fluff says. I'd imagine quite a few.

Iirc, According to the fluff Taranis has the most knights of any house, as well as larger numbers of the rarer variants like the Castigator. Fitting for the Knights of Mars.



Anywho... Assassins have more colors on them! Nearly finished. Just a couple details to go then the bases.

I really like them, the more muted look makes me feel like they could be actual assassins. Maybe some more details on the Vindicaire's rifle is the only thing that stands out to me?

@RiTides: Well, they did have a ways to go detail-wise in that shot, so theyre understandably muted-looking.
Now they're all wrapped up and done, but I think they still have a bit more of a muted tone to them than my normal stock. Most of the minis are black (or a close shade thereof), and the strapping is kept very dull and dark brown- I even tried to keep the metal areas darker. I think the most jarring change in these is after adding the gold that all 40k minis need to have on them!



So ok. These are the first shots with the new camera, and its nice to be able to take pictures without having to charge the battery every 2 minutes. Still need to work out the focus, though...

The group!



Eversor (my favorite)


Vindicaire:


Callidus:


Culexus:

fantastic job you've done on them. cracking stuff

They look really good! The camera focusing is, as you say, still a WIP though

Do you have it on a tripod? Do you have it on a timed shutter? It could be from a shake when you are hitting the button.

Are you doing manual or auto-focus? What is your F-Stop and shutter speed?

Have you been eating. Is your carbon detector going off.

Look good!

Was your air speed velocity equal to that of a coconut laden swallow?

Nice work there. Personal preference, Callidus should have been a redhead lol.

African or European swallow?
Second the redhead suggestion. In case there is a vote.

Any more WIP on those Knights?

Is it kosher to "poke" in P&M land? Just wondering if you're back to work on Gits' knights, etc

Better ask a MOD if its cool.

Yeah, good advice - you better ask first Rhodey!

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Better ask a MOD if its cool.

You ARE a mod.

But for real though.

*PING*

 moonpie wrote:

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Better ask a MOD if its cool.

You ARE a mod.

But for real though.

*PING*

So is the poster I was replying to. And the one after mine. That's the joke.

 moonpie wrote:
*PING*

Sounds like we're on a submarine

I know Ramos sometimes gets busy and doesn't get on Dakka for a week, so no worries here, just looking forward to seeing more Knight goodness

I'm alive.

Just dealing with stuff around here and it took some time- sorry for the silence!




Infinity guys are done, all painted up to it with the Sisters I painted recently.

Still working with the focus, but in playing around with the settings, I think I got a workable mode. Moved to F3.5 and a 1/20s shutter speed and upped the ISO to 400. Using autofocus, but this camera has a touchscreen that lets me (in theory) move it around to where I want it. Final result is improved, more or less.








And a few random bases he sent me. Lets me play with the SWM kits I've had sitting around here:



In other news, Knights are prepped and ready to prime as soon as I get the final kit on Saturday.
I've also started to mess with some of RiTides gators- a massive group of little undead things that just need a quick job on them. Its sort of an experriment with painting to tabletop/above tabletop quickly. We'll see how it goes.

The Infinity models look sharp, but those bases are actually my favorite - very nice!! I think your camera also focused on them the best, too

The gator experiment sounds great! I think you're referring to the shamblers (which are literally just a bunch of little undead guys to a lower standard than the rest, very wash-heavy). The only thing to remember with those is I'm hoping you can do them in 3 different "shades" since there are so many similar sculpts, to break them up a bit (like a yellowish tinged set, a greenish tinged set, and a more muted or almost brownish tinged set).

Also the rock painting on your basing above might work well for the bases they're on! It's just the rock with some branches and then the oozing slime:



(The whole army are on the same style bases, so will likely be done the same)

Very much looking forward to these, and seeing Gits stuff finished, of course!!

Glad to see you back Ramos!

 RiTides wrote:

Those bases ...

- Salvage

Ping... and here was hoping your absence was due to a beautiful woman in Wisconsin!

Ahhh wouldn't that be nice, Solar?
Alas, no. My issues were far less interesting xD


@RiTides: Yeah the bases photographed perfectly... just need to figure out what exactly I did different! Have a feeling its a case of how far I take the photo from... needs more practice.

Hear ya loud and clear on the colors all around. Think I've got an idea where to go with them.

Speaking of....

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Today I started on the Shamblers. Not too much work on them yet. Just a quick 2-layer airbrush, then a green-black wash. Still needs a few more washes, then some random colors picked out.