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Being the Spruemeister General, I must say I am surprised you are not cutting thin threads of sprue and knitting him a cloak.!!

Ha ha.
I'm not much of a knitter though...

I wanted some practice at putty work and this should be the ideal thing to do that.

I've coated and strengthened the card of the cloak and the tissue of the hood with superglue and I'll putty later. If I work in small pieces and build up the hood/cloak slowly it should all work out fine...hopefully...

^ Not 'much' of a knitter DrH? so does that mean you 'are' a knitter just not a good one?

lol Nerd. I've not tried knitting really, done some stitching of various sorts when I was younger and was competant but not had cause to knit anything.

In other news; The Dark Vengeance Tactical squad I painted on commission was sold in 5 minutes!

congrats on the sell i just started folling your blog recently. read it and enjoyed what i saw.

it was quite entertaining.

again grats are in order for the sprue hut that looks like loads of awesome work. at any rate glad to have watched and learned something between you and giraffex i feel the need to up my game even more than i been trying.

Congrats on the sale of he commission

I've got catching up to do since this last week has been busy, but liking the auspex. Even though every time I see one it reminds me of one of those bopit toys niece had.

 alabamaheretic wrote:
congrats on the sell i just started folling your blog recently. read it and enjoyed what i saw.

it was quite entertaining.

again grats are in order for the sprue hut that looks like loads of awesome work. at any rate glad to have watched and learned something between you and giraffex i feel the need to up my game even more than i been trying.

Thanks alabama and welcome.
Glad you like the blog, it's been fun making it and it's always nice to know that others are enjoying it too.

The hut was fun and the techniques involved can be used for all kinds of model building.
It's definitely more than the sum of it's parts. The individual elements that make the hut are relatively simple and it's the combination that makes it what it is.

Yeah, there are many bloggers here on DDakka that have pushed me to raise my game time and again, there's always something new being posted that just blows everything before it away.


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 Theophony wrote:
Congrats on the sale of he commission

I've got catching up to do since this last week has been busy, but liking the auspex. Even though every time I see one it reminds me of one of those bopit toys niece had.

Thanks Theo. It really surprised us at how quick it sold

Ta. Yeah, I see that now.

In actual modelling news, I have coated the hood in putty, but it needs some sanding and a few additional creases carved in. I'll hopefully have something to show later.

yea i know what you mean man. i just wish some times i could raise the bar not too sure on how to though i think if i start trying to highlight that would push the envelope a little for me...

just got some eldar in a trade gonna try and push those guys to the limit...(more of a painter than a modeler)

but it should be a good test...any way would love to here your thoughts on my painted chuckle heads if you get around to it.

i just aprreciate folks that think outside of the box and it makes me strive to be better in the hobby and that to me is worth it when i find a new blog or find something interesting to look at.

your take on the cloak is wonderful it is really well done looking for more of that in the future and if you need a guardsman or two i can help you out as i have a few extra floating about.

any way keep up the awesome and let the modeling/paint flow.

 alabamaheretic wrote:
yea i know what you mean man. i just wish some times i could raise the bar not too sure on how to though i think if i start trying to highlight that would push the envelope a little for me...

For me, it was trying something new on each model. I'm always on the look out for new painting and modelling tips/techniques (and I've asked many people questions about their models and how it was done). Then when the opportunity arises (such as the current hood and cloak) I give it a go and try to solve any problems I encounter before moving on.

So you can see through my blog that early on I was just painting each model a different colour scheme. I then started adding a few more complex painting techniques and then started some putty work and now I'm onto carving sprue...

But little steps (don't try to do everything all at once) and build up your skill base slowly. Dry-brushing and highlighting are a good step to take.

just got some eldar in a trade gonna try and push those guys to the limit...(more of a painter than a modeler)

but it should be a good test...any way would love to here your thoughts on my painted chuckle heads if you get around to it.

Eldar are fun to paint. Many people seem to think that they are difficult to paint, but I found them easier than the Tyranids I did before.

I'll give your blog a look when I get a chance. (although the link in your sig' appears to be kaput somehow)

i just aprreciate folks that think outside of the box and it makes me strive to be better in the hobby and that to me is worth it when i find a new blog or find something interesting to look at.

Indeed. There is much we can all learn from each other.

your take on the cloak is wonderful it is really well done looking for more of that in the future and if you need a guardsman or two i can help you out as i have a few extra floating about.

any way keep up the awesome and let the modeling/paint flow.

Ta. I have a few more Eldar to play with, some Tyranids I haven't touched yet and a whole box of Tau to tinker with yet, so much to do and so little time... *sigh*

Yeah, more later...

Just fixed the link in my sig...i guess i did something wonky to make it not work >.<

yea i liked the eldar range and they seemed fun to paint its a lot different than painting power armor. Lots of little details.

I really enjoyed painting my guardsmen but i kinda cheated. I did the basic three color thing and called it good with a wash on top as well there is a million (more like 60 or 70 infantry men) but it was a challenge to paint that many dudes. took me more than six months to get them all painted minus my commissar lord...to finish all my IG i just have to start the commisssar lord then ill be done with them.

the tau in my opinion are just fun to paint the sculpts just have a lot of things going on..

yea man have a lookie loo when you get the chance tomorrow (your time) ill have a proper update to show. I am updating it today just waiting on my box to get here before my update cuase its gonna be a huge picture fest.

Neat commission sale Dr!

I'm in no rush to finish models, so I really take my time to get each one done to as high a standard as possible before moving on.

Yeah, all the little armour plates on the Eldar really look good when they are picked out and individually highlighted (there's a few that I've even added blending to each plate).

The more effort you put into each model the better they will look and pay attention to all the little details, that's what lifts a model to a whole new level.

Not a huge amount of progress here, I've been busy going to town on a librarian...

But I said I had thrown some putty at the hood and I've just been over it to tidy up the details.
I gave it a quick coat of grey to tone down the WHITE of the putty.

It's still a little rough in places and it's really hard to get in an smooth them, but will see when I do a bit more to it.
I tried to do some "stretch creases" around the point, but couldn't get them to look right, are they missed?

What do we think, does it look like a hood now?


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 cormadepanda wrote:
Neat commission sale Dr!

Thanks Comrade.

Grats on the sale.

Thanks Galorn. Early days yet and it'll be a while before I can be up to a similar scale as your(mighty)self.

Grey stuff can behave very similar to the green stuff, but the slower cure time allows mistakes to be corrected before it hardens.

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Grey stuff can behave very similar to the green stuff, but the slower cure time allows mistakes to be corrected before it hardens.

Cool. I'll keep an eye out for it.

Gailforce9 is where I get mine, for 18bucks you get a lot of it.
http://www.flamesofwar.com/gf9online_store.aspx?CategoryID=13168

100grams of the stuff as well as 100grams of green stuff in tubes




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Looking much more convincing now H, great job. I don't think creases at the top is actually a natural place for them to occur, hoods are designed to fit that shape so you don't need to add them.

Thanks Shas.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Looking much more convincing now H, great job. I don't think creases at the top is actually a natural place for them to occur, hoods are designed to fit that shape so you don't need to add them.

Cool. I saw something like them on a picture somewhere. But I like that reasoning Job's a good'un.

Next job is the cloak...

Your models are getting nicer and nicer!

Keep it up!

da waaagh orkz wrote:
Your models are getting nicer and nicer!
Keep it up!

Thanks da waaagh.

I have actually done something! and it's something for this blog!
Having finished the Librarian (that I have been working very hard all week on) for commission earlier today I had some time to start on the cloak of Guardian #9.

and wow, this is difficult. I spent ages *correction* AGES poking and prodding and smoothing and poking some more and smoothing over again and ... you get the idea...

and I then realised that I was doing the creases in the wrong direction and I should really LOOK at the reference tutorial I had open in front of me then try to replicate what I SEE and not what I think should be there...

After that, I am reasonably happy with how it looks, but it will need more attention once I've finished adding all the putty...as always...

What do we think?
Am I heading in the right direction?
Do they look like creases in a cloak?
Anything that needs more work?

They look creasey to me. The question is..do you want the robe flowing dramatically? If so, then more swoop, otherwise this looks great!

 dsteingass wrote:
They look creasey to me. The question is..do you want the robe flowing dramatically? If so, then more swoop, otherwise this looks great!

Thanks Dave. There will be bigger and more swoop-y cloak-ness further down the cloak.

This is just the top "hanging" third of the cloak.
The indent on the left (as you look at it here) will have some cloak curling back towards the camera, then a few big ripples in the middle and then it smooths out towards the point on the right. That's how I am thinking of it at the moment...

Looks and sounds good to me. Nice work.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Looks and sounds good to me. Nice work.

Cool. Thanks Cam.
Will do more later.

Yep I think your creases look solid, hard to say more until you've added more putty but I'm sure you'll nail it bud.

 Casey's Law wrote:
Yep I think your creases look solid, hard to say more until you've added more putty but I'm sure you'll nail it bud.

Thanks Casey. Have a look below for more putty.

So the next session of putty work has added the middle of the cloak.
It's looking a little dodgy at the moment, but if you place your hand over the unfinished bottom it looks better (maybe).

I'll leave this to set properly before attempting the last part, which I think will be the make or break moment...

Yep, looks promising for sure. You've got this in the bag.

Looks great, and you have inspired me to have a go, using card as former, for putty work. Yours looks so good. It seems to flow very naturally.

Casey's Law wrote:Yep, looks promising for sure. You've got this in the bag.

Camkierhi wrote:Looks great, and you have inspired me to have a go, using card as former, for putty work. Yours looks so good. It seems to flow very naturally.

Thanks Guys. It's been really difficult to get it looking like this and it's good to know that it is looking natural.

Cam, that's cool. Remember to "set" the card in shape with superglue (thin, runny stuff is best) first.
The first section I did was just one lump of putty that I spread on and poked at.
This second section was added in sausages of putty (starting from the left side) which were each smoothed on before adding the next sausage.
Good luck.