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Nice battle shot.

Those airbrush tutorials where indeed very intersting.

A nice pic indeed gits! I saw your defence line whilst browsing the gallery, was very well done indeed i must say!

Those speeders are looking great Gits, and I love the action shot behind the barricades. Keep up the great work!

Nice work dude, sorry to hear your having a bit of a shoddy time of it. That's one serious injury your sporting!

Anytime Brother.. that is a great shot of the game!

Hey guys, thanks for all the kind words.

New battle report is up. My Adepticon army vs. evil Necrons! Please comment if you like it, there's about 6 hours of work in this one... maybe more.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/506829.page#5272698

@Alf: Great! Looking forward to seeing what you're coming up with! Black is just fine.

I'll get some WIP pics up tonight and put them in the GMS thread.

I want to try some battle damage on the armor, but I'm afraid of messing up my paintjob (I'm really proud of this mini )

You're call entirely Alf.

I'll try your chipping tutorial on the studded shoulder pad and see if I don't like it

Good battle report! Clearly you seemed to holding your own for the most part.. considering the necron air attack.

Great work brother

Object Source Lighting...Hmm, thinking about it now it doesent really make sense..Its for plasma guns or fire when you paint the light reflecting ie green or bule for a plasma gun or reds and oranges for fire...No what i meant was zenthal...

'Speeders looking great Gits...sorry to hear about your injury week...good to hear there's no lasting damage

@spudkins: thanks!

Got it Haz. Actually there really isn't zenithal on the speeders... Just regular old airbrush shananigans.

@MT: thanks mate, I hope not. A little worried about the look of the finger tip but then it's only been a week.

Hi Gits, just dropping in to say hi, sorry to hear about your wrist & the speeders look very cool. Hope you are healing well!

Howdy folks! Been a long time since I posted any painting progress... but I finally made some. This is the OTHER LS Typhoon (i.e. not the one from the last update). The cockpit is now done, the crew are glued in place and I've begun the work on the missile pods. Not to catch the other one up...

Gorgeous as always. I am constantly drawing on your blog for inspiration! The contrast you're able to put into your vehicles is really visually striking. How do you decide where your highlights go? They don't seem to reflect any sort of lighting source, but they always look right nonetheless.

(I may be stealing the veterans-with-a-different-paint-scheme idea. )

Nice job though was looking forward to hazard teeth when I saw you'd updated! One thing I really like on this is how well the metals contrast against the painted weapons. It's not something I'm usually a fan of but I think it works a treat here, and actually it's something I'm going to play with a bit myself I think.

looking good, i think all that is needed is to paint the egeal on the front and it is done!!!

Raatcharch wrote:Gorgeous as always. I am constantly drawing on your blog for inspiration! The contrast you're able to put into your vehicles is really visually striking. How do you decide where your highlights go? They don't seem to reflect any sort of lighting source, but they always look right nonetheless.

(I may be stealing the veterans-with-a-different-paint-scheme idea. )

Thanks Raatcharch, glad you can find some good ideas here. My approach to vehicles has morphed quite a bit... and to a degree depends on the vehicle. My Rhinos and vindi are done using a technique called zenithal lighting. It's based on a real optical effect but I'm not sure that I'd call it a realistic technique. It is striking though & best done on a disassembled model (just to make the painting easier).



My LS Storms (which still aren't done by-the-way) have a Major_Tom inspired paint scheme. Basically I shaded up the model like you would any model, then I ran a dark line along the seams and joins.



Lastly, my newest speeders are shaded up about 3/4ths of the way... but then I save the last highlights for specific areas. Larger plates, areas I want accentuated, highest areas, etc. But they aren't highlighted with this last step all over... just in spots.



All 3 are viable techniques & amazingly enough... go together reasonably well.

inmygravenimage wrote:Nice job though was looking forward to hazard teeth when I saw you'd updated! One thing I really like on this is how well the metals contrast against the painted weapons. It's not something I'm usually a fan of but I think it works a treat here, and actually it's something I'm going to play with a bit myself I think.

Inspiration borne out of laziness. I almost painted the whole weapon metal, but since the airbrushing was turning out so nicely I decided to go with the green/metal scheme. I'll get to the teeth... but it'll be one of the last things I do.

HAZZER wrote:looking good, i think all that is needed is to paint the egeal on the front and it is done!!!

I wish...

I like the way in the last speeder pic. the gunner is looking over the gun rather than just facing forward. I assume it was intentional as to believe otherwise would render you mortal! And such blasphemy will not be tolerated by Huron!

Yes, the crew on the other speeder was modeled to look as if they were searching for something or someone on the ground.

Too bad the flight stand isn't poseable as to raise the back end up slightly or allow for some different looks ( like you did with your scout bikes!

Well, I could always mount this the same way (on wire), but making the project more complicated is not really what I'm looking for. Though I must admit that I can't stand the GW flying bases... I think they're crap.

I bought some magnetised flight stands from a user on Dakka ages ago - still haven't attached them to my Deffkoptas, but that's another matter. Just can't find/remember who it was. I have it in my mind it was empchild/Battleroad Games and Hobbies - but if it was, they don't appear to sell them anymore... which is a pity, and of no use to you at all... right, I'll stop "contributing" now...

That random, circular, wandering comment just made my morning!

There's someone on eBay that sells metal posts flying stands. I'll eventually get a couple of those and do up real bases for them.

God, your painting is just immense... love your use of older models too - brings back memories of that 2nd ed painting style that i just love

 Rothstein wrote:
God, your painting is just immense...

Great! Now they are calling you God! ~sigh~ Now that Graven is Satan we are all spiritually screwed!

So... if your god .. can I have a Pony, and by Pony i mean Kate Beckinsale! Don't make me ask Graven!

@Rothstein: thanks mate, glad you like it! More to come!

Kate who??

Her from Underworld, etc. Being from thereabouts I know that stuff