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lol... i actually contemplated theft on building sites for a long time which i haven´t commited yet

So here is my WIP for the fighting pit - more accurately: the Eldar proving shrine.



Still a ton of work to do, even before starting to paint. I wanted a piece of terrain that I could use as random terrain or as an Eldar Landing Platform.

Any critiques or suggestions?

thats looking really cool! I had forgot there was more people than just vik entering

Mars, that is looking extremely cool! It's great to see that someone's doing Eldar terain, I can't wait to see how it turns out!

@RW: Well there's Vik, MauS, Mars and Maede....

wow... mars... that is very cool looking... at first i thought the base was a prefabricated hex... but then i zoomend in and saw how sharp you´ve cut your work! excellent !!!... now the worrying on my part is starting

Haha I'm also starting to worry... I'll have to judge this!

yeah... you can´t win on all frontiers


we get the sweaty work... you get the other side of the sticky stick

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
wow... mars... that is very cool looking... at first i thought the base was a prefabricated hex... but then i zoomend in and saw how sharp you´ve cut your work! excellent !!!... now the worrying on my part is starting

I'm lucky that I can design everything in the computer and then print out pounces. Everything lines up better that way.

Anyway, here's a better shrine and platform:

Woh i like this a lot

I'm lucky that I can design everything in the computer and then print out pounces. Everything lines up better that way

*looking green with envy...shaking fists!*

well that explains it...

Now my challenge is finishing it all.

...unless I sell it as an alien world with strange pink stone covering the entire surface...

I like to build, but I'm not as keen on painting as I was. My plan was basically to cover the tops of the foam with sand and paint the edges to match. The Shrine platform would be grey and the Shrine itself would be purple or red. I'll have to do some photoshop to see which I like better.

(I had some time this morning to do some planning)


Any suggestions?

That is one very good looking shrine, mars! Though I think red would be a tad too.... red. Imo, light brown or a purple-bone mix would look better on it.
But then again, my brother, who plays eldar, likes the red.... and he says you should put some gems on it, lol.

not purple... Slaaaneesh would like that...

 Galorn wrote:
not purple... Slaaaneesh would like that...

That's a good point.

I think I'm leaning toward red. My craftworld scheme is red and grey with blue spirit stones. Maybe the platform should be stone on top of a pile of SS? That might be cool (although a nightmare to make). I was thinking of having a banner hanging from the shrine somehow too, not quite sure yet how that will work. Gotta think about it...

Can you imagine the pompous conversations and arguments among the ancient Seers about what color to build the Craftworlds?

well... if i give you any suggestions it would be like shooting my own leg.. anyways ... the landscae like this would be awesome looking... as for the shrine...hmm... whats the color theme of yon army? somehow green is more in my imagination than either red or purple... the latter as a definte no go... and no... i don´t give false suggestions here

also... gems would add a cool variety of details... maybe even carve one of these eye icons of eldars in the horizontal beam?

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
well... if i give you any suggestions it would be like shooting my own leg.. anyways ... the landscae like this would be awesome looking... as for the shrine...hmm... whats the color theme of yon army? somehow green is more in my imagination than either red or purple... the latter as a definte no go... and no... i don´t give false suggestions here

also... gems would add a cool variety of details... maybe even carve one of these eye icons of eldars in the horizontal beam?

Yeah, that would be pretty cool. I was thinking of writing/painting them down the legs of the shrine- maybe making an eye to hang from the upper cross beam (between the two horizontal beams) like in the Stargate movie. Carving would be better though. I'll have to open it up in Illustrator and see if I can get some sequence from the Eldar font set to look ok. Good idea though.

Oh and I don't think green. 1) I think it would look funny with the yellow of the sandy environment, 2) I don't use green in my army scheme - grey, red, and a little blue. 3) maybe blue, then?



And here is the test in blue and green:

small carvings on the support beams... like you stated as in stargate and the big eye on the horizontal one...

and the blue/grey color looks better,,, then i also would go for a different color of the support beams...the grey one that is apparently your main color...

and for the base i think the same mix would be a good choice... grey as a base color and then on the raised stripes the blue...with some red gems or other details...


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by the way i had a look at your gallery... cool stuff there...

those shield walls... nice idea... i think there is some valuable ideas even for my IG in there... and those orky warbikes... cool idea...

if you need a thread follower... what´s your main thread?

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
small carvings on the support beams... like you stated as in stargate and the big eye on the horizontal one...

and the blue/grey color looks better,,, then i also would go for a different color of the support beams...the grey one that is apparently your main color...

and for the base i think the same mix would be a good choice... grey as a base color and then on the raised stripes the blue...with some red gems or other details...

Hmm... Not sure about the idea of a multi colored shrine, mostly because there's no lines to separate the different pieces. I'll have to think about it. Maybe I can color the carved areas differently: blue or grey on red.

I was actually thinking of having a eye emblem hanging between the horizontals:


but just the eye, not on a disk.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
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by the way i had a look at your gallery... cool stuff there...

those shield walls... nice idea... i think there is some valuable ideas even for my IG in there... and those orky warbikes... cool idea...

if you need a thread follower... what´s your main thread?

I think you found my "blog". I don't know that I have a main thread though, other than possibly that.


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Or maybe not.

How about something like this? Banners hanging from the sides and a medallion hanging from the lower bar.

hmmm... banners.... hadn´t thought about that... but i think that would work...

the hanging eye... also a good idea...and the carved runes... i think you are onto the right path now!

darn...there i go ruining my win

No offence, but hanging banners off of a Japanese Gate, is like slapping a billboard on the side of a church advertising Durex...

seems a little off... personally I'd go with a detailed paintjob like doing wood effect or something, or maybe crackle glaze.

Uh-oh Vik, there goes your chance to win.... mars.... I like the eye-idea a lot, and I also think the banners are cool... and blues seems to work very well....
that's gonna be a nice competition!
Where's Maede btw? and MauS?

well at least i know that maus wanted to post some pics around sunday...

 AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:
No offence, but hanging banners off of a Japanese Gate, is like slapping a billboard on the side of a church advertising Durex...

seems a little off... personally I'd go with a detailed paintjob like doing wood effect or something, or maybe crackle glaze.

Well, first off, it's an Eldar Gate/Shrine to Asuryan, but I know what you mean. I'm not sold on the banners either, to be honest, but I wasn't unsold on the idea and wanted to get some feedback. I agree with the need for strong finish on the shrine. I was thinking marble actually, but I was thinking of a Japanese gate and a solid, polished finished.

I'd go for white actually... with maybe green or red runes...

 MauS wrote:
I'd go for white actually... with maybe green or red runes...

Like This?

I'd do that but without the banners

Wow that looks really cool, maybe if you didn't want banners you could add bigger raised symbols made with greenstuff or plasticard, on the ends or sides of the top bars of the gate.

 MrMerlin wrote:

Where's Maede btw? and MauS?

Been distracted by the new chaos codex and painting all my cultists...

I tried casting the floor of the pit tonight but it's not ready for pics yet and didn't get around to wip's, should be ready in time though.

 mars2024 wrote:

 MauS wrote:
I'd go for white actually... with maybe green or red runes...

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i really would do a different colored horizontal beam... would pop this way more!