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I love the way the light plays across her surface. She's just glorious. 0

God, you're one fortunate guy Gits. The Titan as well as the box both look incredible, fantastic feats of painting. Well done both of you!

Wow, that warhound titan is amazing. The freehand looks like etchings!

And a little of my own work... which is complete rubbish given the amazing pieces recently featured on this blog.

Coming along nicely Gitz!

It looks amazing. The white works really, really well to break up the purple which enhances it a lot. I think the effort spent by yourself and others to get that white spot on was very much worth the exercise and think about all of us hangers in that have also benefitted.

Wouldn't exactly call it rubbish . That's a very vibrant colouring, love it!

Funny, I hope to be as good as you one day.

The colouring is perfect, i.e. the purple against that white. The white is just so good, trying to think of something I can paint to try it. Such a really deep purple too. Brilliant stuff Gits, inspirational as always.

You don't have to be so hard on yourself, the Sicarian is looking amazing. The white has been done very well, almost perfect IMO. Maybe just a tad bit more shading around the edges and I think you'll be close to finished! The help from MajorTom has shown a serious improvement in the purples too, so overall a very well done from me!

I am strongly thinking of having a go at a white like this on the Necron army I will be shortly starting. White "carapace" on the steel skeleton. Sort of how they used to do the pariahs of old. Any idea how a white monolith would look?

Gits,
Really... you are being too hard on yourself. Please, for the sake of us plebs down here... knock it off!

That tank is coming along nicely, Gits.

Finally blocking out the golds.

Oh! That's looking MUCH nicer!

Dang Gits, this looks amazing!

That's a lovely looking Sicaran.

EDC

Knock the golds back to tin bitz or bronze, leave the bright gold as the lghtest value, you may be pleased , control that contrast! In this case, you already have a high contrast on the white, tone the golds down and cut the yellow, you will stop them competing so much with the white and make everything more harmonious.

With all due respect Tom, I'm going to take a pass on this one. I think the treatment of the gold should be uniform across the army (as is the purple and will be the white) and I've got too much done to change it now. I do appreciate your suggestion though... I'm sure it would look fantastic.

Still working my way through it. Have the first highlight shade down and am working on the sepia wash. Hope to have it done before bed tonight.

HOW DARE YOU QUESTION MY COLOR COMMANDS!!!



Lol j/k of course that makes, sense, too much to go back to... you could just knock her back with an extra devlan wash too if anything but if it is as it is, it ain't bad all the same!

Is beautiful!!

"Make the gold less shiney," says the man with a polished gold death-mask as his avatar.

 MajorTom11 wrote:
HOW DARE YOU QUESTION MY COLOR COMMANDS!!!



Lol j/k of course that makes, sense, too much to go back to... you could just knock her back with an extra devlan wash too if anything but if it is as it is, it ain't bad all the same!

Actually, that's exactly what I'd planned on doing.

E-gods... some of you must be rubbing off on me.

Anvildude wrote:
"Make the gold less shiney," says the man with a polished gold death-mask as his avatar.

You have misquoted me good sir... I said, make it less yellow... bit of a diff


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PS to explain that -

The yellow is an issue on the Sicarran because it has an incredibly strong contrast in hue to the purple, hence, because of the amount of gold panels, it is drawing your eye all over the model, in addition to the white which is doing the same due to a brightness and saturation contrast.

This is less of an issue on smaller models or models with less panels accented because there will only be a few, thinner points, it is less competitive to the whole. In this case, the panels were already painted so my suggestion was to mute the hue contrast by using a more desaturated or browner metal. Had I been able to make a comment before, I would have merely suggested painting fewer panels gold and leaving the gold the yellow gold.

Hopefully that makes sense on reading!

 MajorTom11 wrote:

PS to explain that -

The yellow is an issue on the Sicarran because it has an incredibly strong contrast in hue to the purple, hence, because of the amount of gold panels, it is drawing your eye all over the model, in addition to the white which is doing the same due to a brightness and saturation contrast.

This is less of an issue on smaller models or models with less panels accented because there will only be a few, thinner points, it is less competitive to the whole. In this case, the panels were already painted so my suggestion was to mute the hue contrast by using a more desaturated or browner metal. Had I been able to make a comment before, I would have merely suggested painting fewer panels gold and leaving the gold the yellow gold.

Hopefully that makes sense on reading!

Oh! Oh!! I think I understood that!

Is it not a good thing to have your eye wander over the whole model?

Definitely some fine work comin' in from everyone here, Cam's shipping department goes that extra mile! Nerdy's Titan looks great too, been a real blast watching that come together.
Your Sicaran is looking equally spiffy, with the gold amount being just right for something belonging to Fulgrim's kin. Takin' real shape here Gits, I look forward to seeing all your future tanks if they're done like this!

Well, when I finish this one (hopefully in the next few days) you're going to see me go nuts as I'll have about two weeks to build and paint two rhinos and some infantry for an upcoming 30k tournament. Going to have to be much more efficient about how I paint the rhinos. Can't afford to feel my way through them like I did here.

You got the process down now. It looks great. Well done.

If you ask me that's looking pretty damn nice. Now you have it down pat, you will fly through the Rhinos.

As a BTW.....

Have you seen this thread...
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/725246.page

A big well done to Cam', Nerdy, and of course Gits', on three lovely jobs. Well, 4 actually, Cam' did a smashing job on that box too.

I'm with 'Tom on the gold, but stick with it, Gits', these are meant to be bling-marines aren't they?! I can see them liking it.

Now you know the process the rhinos will be quicker.