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Love the ammo feed on the Speeder Git's looks great

Hahaha your welcome Gits. It was a pleasure to go through
I love your missile racks and the way you've built them does make more sense, unlike GWs version with the whole poke your head out of the side and have it explode thing

Thanks guys. Picture to date. Got some decent detail work done today. They're starting to come into focus. Some surprises left though...

Looking great, chief!

I think those missile casings would look better in brass though...

Looking good so far.

I can just hear the two in the right hand LS talking:
gunner - "what are those two looking at?"
pilot - "dunno, something over there."

Thanks guys.

@CL: I did too. Could have come up with some plausible excuse but decided not to fight it.
@Dr. H: Funny, I react to them differently. I think they're far more interesting than the other pair looking straight forward. These guys look like they're actually interacting with the environment.

Well, I've put off doing the next major phase about as long as I can. We'll see how it works out. It'll make a pretty significant change in how they look. Keep your fingers crossed because there's no going back... Might be a day or two before the next update as I won't want to post until the next step is done. We'll see how much time I have for painting.

And suddenly, black and yellow camoflage. XD

looking good so far
I'm a bit conflicted about the brass details though, hope there will be some washes/weathering to tone them down.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Thanks guys.

@CL: I did too. Could have come up with some plausible excuse but decided not to fight it.
@Dr. H: Funny, I react to them differently. I think they're far more interesting than the other pair looking straight forward. These guys look like they're actually interacting with the environment.

Well, I've put off doing the next major phase about as long as I can. We'll see how it works out. It'll make a pretty significant change in how they look. Keep your fingers crossed because there's no going back... Might be a day or two before the next update as I won't want to post until the next step is done. We'll see how much time I have for painting.

Variety is the key. You have to have some looking forward or the one's that are looking about are not different (you just have a bunch of blokes that aren't paying attention).

They both tell different stories individually, e.g. the left pair are both focussed on a target and are racing to close the distance and attack. The right pair are moving slower and searching for something.

It was only the positioning in that picture that made me think that earlier, change the angle and the story changes.

Good luck with the next phase.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
@CL: I did too. Could have come up with some plausible excuse but decided not to fight it.

I was just winding you up, sorry. I think the white looks good, possibly the better looking if the two, but it doesn't make a huge difference, just go with what feels right.

Nearly done!

I'm loving the speeders so far! looking great!

Surprises! I LOVE Surprises!

Gits! glad you fixed the missiles being in brass. It looks lovely with the scheme. Really good work, i and want the surprise?

Really does look good even if you don't add anything. They could pass for complete at this stage and within the style of your army!

Still you have your plans!

Yeah.... I'm kind of scratching my head over it. I had an idea to alter the second color pattern in order to change the visual profile a bit. I tried it... it looks good but didn't do what I wanted it to do & is suggesting a more radical change which I'm unsure of. I think I'll do the bumper first... see if that changes my opinion. If not, I'll be jumping in with both feet!

Have 4 days off starting tomorrow and I'm really hoping to wrap both of the Typhoons up in that time.

I think there looking great Git's. Dr H's quote is spot on I think, its what I was thinking when I saw them as well.

New battle report! Please leave a comment if you like it!

DA vs. Necrons, 1000 pts, Adepticon FOC - game 2

OK guys... here's where the typhoons stand. I've got the yellow blocked out and washed. It's not finished yet... but this gives you the general idea of placement and tone. I'm thinking of adding yellow in two more places but I'm not sure and would like everyone's opinion. The areas I'm thinking of adding more yellow are the little raised area in the support bar between (above) the two crewmen... and the front collar of the missile launchers (that raised area in the front). It's not that hard to do so it's not a work issue... but I don't want to drown them in yellow either. That being said... I WOULD like to give them a rather distinct visual profile, so I'm not at all opposed to a fair amount of yellow on the speeders. Another option I considered is painting the doors yellow. This would definitely change the visual profile of the speeder and is something I'm not entirely talked out of (Thing 1 said "no").

Please let me know your opinion on if I should add any extra yellow and where and give me your reasoning if you can. Opinions backed by rationale are always more useful when making a decision than just a poll.

Thanks!

I really like it. My first thought was "Woah! The door trim is intense! I'm not sure at all!" But then I took in the whole image. Looked it really close, and I really see the logic. It works as a whole, and it makes absolute aesthetic sense.

Leave the doors, trim the missile launchers in yellow then see if you need to paint the crew compartment bar.

Looking great so far.

Right I'll try that again after bloody firefox crashing for like the fifth time today.

I like the placement of the yellow.

The yellow/black will look better once highlighted etc... you said you're not finished so so far.

I think the doors should stay green as it would make a large area of yellow if you painted them and the yellow works better as an accent colour, as it is on the actual marines.

The piece between the marines could go either way. I can't think of a good reason not to paint it yellow.

I do think that the front of the missile pods would be good yellow. It would tie them to the MW vehicles and not to any green landspeeder. As an alternative, if the whole front would look too yellow then maybe just a yellow stripe around the front edge...

I think that's all I was going to say, so good job.

I think the yellow looks fine where it is. Anymore yellow would be too much i think. Hope it helps

Agreed with most, front rim of the Typhoon launchers should look great !! Then see if you need moar yullooow

Liking the yellow so far...think the doors would be too much.

Missile pods...not sure about the front collar, was thinking the middle section might look better, the rest of the yellow bar the bumper is in recessed panels rather than outer panels, so think it would work better doing the same for the pods...

Whichever you prefer I'd do the pods first and then make a decision on the cockpit bar.

I'm thinking that it would've been more consistent to paint the bar yellow and the pads on the bumper black... (noting mt's observation), unfortunately that ship has sailed unless I want to add another coat of white on the bumper and then re-paint the whole thing. That's a lot of coats of paint...

I vote do the collars in yellow.

Nice strong yellow to be sure. I'm not a fan of the yellow on the bumper bar thingy. It makes it look like its got bright yellow teeth.

Otherwise, its awesome as per usual.

Gits it looks wicked! :-) I think the yellow makes it look brilliant, it's a prime example of pushing a bit from your comfort zone and getting an outstanding result, the door trim in yellow is a really good touch to the scheme, I think you did the right thing for sure! are you doing any more to them? weathering etc?

I like it! I don't think you really need to add anymore (but then again, I don't get the 360).