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Thats Lovely

 weetyskemian44 wrote:
The story so far... chlorophyll for the chlorophyll god...

That does look sweet! Also, copper based blood works for Khorne too

Stunning, simply stunning.

Great work, loving the metal tones.

serendipity wins the day!

Looking forward to all the other plastic models arriving now. Especially tomb kings skeletons.

That 'zerker rules, Weety! Lovely use of colors.

Unfortunately Tomb King skeletons (the basic ones, that is) are pretty rubbish. They're relics from 10 years ago (or something- like two or three editions anyways).

The Tomb Kings special models, though... Mummies, Tomb Guard, the various Statuary and the Carrion... Top Notch, perhaps some of the best models GW has made for the Fantasy line.

Nice colour there Miss Wheetie

Anvildude The ones I brought look pretty cool - they are chariot champions and a bit more interesting than the basic skeletons. I got a box of the basic ones too anyway, on the basis that you can never have to many skeletons. Unfortunately the cool mummies I was bidding on escaped out of my financial grasp.

Thanks miss dee its a nice shad of green isn't it. I'll be using that one again.

Speaking of relics from many editions ago I picked up these for next to nothing, just for something to mess about with.



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Lots of skeletons arrived today. Just the bog standard ones. Here's one I put together - I will make a little GS skull for his shield boss.



And heres some more ink experiments, once again I was trying to make a sort of grey colour by mixing red and green ink. It looked perfect when it went on but then it separated as it dried giving this weird effect.



I've been developing something of a passion for the empire recently and I have a fancy to paint an character on a horse. I've never painted a horse.

Experimenting over for a while. Going to do a nice paintjob on these just so I can say I've painted high elves. A couple of coats of armour wash and some careful highlighting puts them back on the right track.

Interesting experiment. Looks quite cool on the upper part of the bow.

The scavvy with his skin complaints is top notch and a great comparison of your evolving skills / styles from the earlier version (both great in their own rights though).

Plastic Chaos Warrior is epic, the armour colouring is so so smoothly done and really complements the brass / gold.

Your expiremental ink wash would look great on gun barrels and vehicle exhausts as it has the effect you seen when metal gets super hot...

Agreed, that is a great effect for exhausts etc.

Hi there!

The next stage on the elves was to wet blend in Vallejo flesh tone (basically beige) in all the skin, gold and hair areas.



Next I added the first layer of colour washes to the cloth, wood and leather, using blue, sepia and a red/sepia mix. As it turns out I think you can still see the results of my experiment shining through in the armour - if you look close you can see very pale warm and cold tints, which I think makes the illusion of reflective metal more convincing



Next are highlights to the gold and the wood, flesh wash, and gems.

Close up on the face:

Looks real nice weety. I've got a bazillion of those high elf models from whfb box if you decide you want more :p

Thanks. I reckon I could batch paint these. But I don't really have room for regiments.

Anyway I finished em off. Highlights and gems and shield. They look pretty good for what they are.

So pretty
Great job. Like the blue/purple colour and the metals are excellent.
and the wood is nice...

Just imagine a whole row of them. Shiny...

Glad you noticed the wood - bit of a special effort on the bow.

I've won a few more bits on ebay; a dark vengeance librarian, a Tomb King, an empire drummer and I've still got my sights set on painting a character on horseback.

Tomorrow I go back to painting ugly things. Here's the skeletons assembled

I am tempted, Weety, to send you an Imperial Guard Praetorian Rough Rider for commission.

Well if you decide to do that, send me a pic of the figure and I will make you a quote. It sounds like something I would enjoy painting. I just have the urge to paint horses, with dappling and socks and all that other horse stuff. I think I saw a model where the painter had really captured the dappling effect and now I have to try it.

The extra effort on the bow really shows, but is nice and subtle.

Look forward to seeing your DV libby, as that's a model I've actually painted.

A pirate came in the post today - I am super excited about painting pirates. I made him a little wooden deck base out of milliput.

Also a big snap-fit elven mage chap. Not quite so excited about him.

Tomb guard arrived yesterday. Very delicate miniatures, I had to pin him together through the spine. Fingers crossed more plastic bounty will arrive today!



I had a very boring day in work and did some doodles. This was my favourite. I want a model that looks like this guy.

If you are after pirate miniatures weety check out the Freebooters Fate, loads of nice stuff there.

Thanks for the tip. They have some nice things...

further progress on skelies and pirate man. I hasn't used armour wash on the skeles - I thought dark umber was more boney.

Fantastic as ever miss wheetie

Cheers! Still enjoying the stargate I hope?

My dark vengeance librarian piece turned up yesterday - a taxi driver found it under his car out in the car park. Lucky for me he came and rang the bell. In the post persons defense it was in the tiniest packet ever. Slight damage but its all in one piece.
I didn't know dark vengeance were all snap together! Looks like something out of a kinder egg. Still its quite good once its together, but it felt like my creative input was being left out of the loop.

Anyway I was very busy this morning and finished all the plastic stuff I'd started.

My pirate, I will call him jim the shiv.



Elevated pic to show milliput deck base.



Skeletons

Love dem bones xx.