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Count me in this competition Nerdfest! I'll have something for you guys by the 18th!

Heres the model i'm gunna paint. Built him up earlier today, i'm looking forward to seeing what I can do with him

"gunna" ???

Gunna - gonna - going to
Sorry for my crude slangs

Oh, I knew what you meant lips... it was just funny to see it written that way.

Its the DCMs job to troll people. Like now Im trolling the troller for the trollee, by saying that Gits is a little girl. And the cycle continues

*snicker*

*posts with spinning Git avatar*

Wonder how people get the impression about us and the mods.

Yea, the Moshpit is such a mystery to them, and oddly enough, once youve seen the glory that is the Pit......you say "Huh....that IS what I expected"


OK WIP of my "Nob" so far.




Im kicking around the idea of doing OSL on the klaw. Yes? No? Eat my own hat??

That blending is seamless KC! i'd leave it as is but i don't want to be seen to be offering advice to the entrants so DO WHAT YOU FEEL! ;-)

Gettin' WIPy:

 nerdfest09 wrote:
That blending is seamless KC! i'd leave it as is but i don't want to be seen to be offering advice to the entrants so DO WHAT YOU FEEL! ;-)

Well many thanks, the blending...was a real bitch to get to the point where I was understanding it I too like it, but Im looking at this like, I need to try an do things Im not comfortable or familiar with to improve my painting skills. So yeaaa

So I was going to post some WIPs I took on Friday, but instead I finished the model

@Nerdfest, how do you want the pics to be sent?

So here he is, General Warfield and companion:






This one is by far my favourite... He just loooks so happy (and crazy, of course)











And a couple of shots of my inspiration from Starcraft 2:

Flinty, your conversions are always cool.

I'd say try out the OSL on something else first KC then if it's fine go for it.

Flinty my good man! epic as I've come to expect! :-)

just shoot me a PM with a good pic of the finished model and I'll work with it :-)

Oh man, now I have to pick one of them...

Very happy with how it came out, but to be a bit critical for a second, the weathering kinda fades into the camo scheme, which is realistic, but annoying considering the time put into it, the OSL doesn't work too well as the hole is too deep. On the other hand, I'm really happy with the freehand and the camo scheme in general, the glossed up blood/ichor spatters work quite nicely (in real life, anyway) and the little guy's crazy grin always makes me smile

Just make a mash up picture of it at different angles.

 n0t_u wrote:
Just make a mash up picture of it at different angles.

This is what I would do. Take a main picture, and then some "high lights of the model" pictures and stick em together in paint or photoshop. That way you can get everything in there


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 n0t_u wrote:
I'd say try out the OSL on something else first KC then if it's fine go for it.

Well Ive been thinking about it and Im probably going to pass. Simply because, OSL, the light is suppose to be slightly darker then the source, and around the base of that klaw, the blue is already pretty damn dark, so I think it would just end up looking weird. Decision made gents time to finish that klaw and move on to other parts me thinks

oh flinty...

and for that matter kingcracker...

if i don´t finish my leaders on time it will save me the embarresment to loose against these minis...darn....


by the way... flinty... that cut open shoulderpad... very cool idea... consider it nicked... i need to find a way to use that...

I'm still waiting to be added to the entrants list

 GiraffeX wrote:
I'm still waiting to be added to the entrants list

What?...... omg......



Fixed bro!

I'm sort of tempted to change my entry picture to this:

But, not sure if the picture is better than the one I submitted though. :/

Na man it's all good :-) I've seen your work closely, I follow your blog man!

Good then, the photo taking part has to be one of my weakest.

@KingCracker - Mashup done and submitted

Regarding the OSL, I wouldn't do anything more to the base of the klaw itself, but maybe run some light blue highlights over the metallic pats of the klaw where it would reflect the light from the klaw tip?

@Vik - It does seem to work nicely as a way to enhance bionic arms. I'm sure better and more ornate versions could be worked up as well, my one is definately a prototype and pretty work-horsey

See, not only is this thread about winning a beautiful custom trophy that we are obviously all clambering to win! but we have (as i had hoped) been inspired by others work and now learned new tricks and ideas we can put into action with our own projects and maybe next years Golden bathtub! ;-)

Finished, I think.

Loads more pics in my p&m blog (link in sig) and will get a mail off to NF soon as.

darn... graven... i just took two endless minutes to search for some moldlines man... there is no tackling you guys

and flinty... actually i´ve made long ago a helmet out of a shoulderpad already... i bet there is lots of cool deeds in these little bitz that we yet haven´t discovered!

and nerfest...aye... such competitions are a good way to get out of the comfy zone, learn new stuff and get to know more peeps too... winning prizes like golden bathtubes then comes second....almost

...... Almost Vik but not quite!