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Looking good kes, get the paints out!

Man, that's a crappy weekend Loki, keep your chin up!

I'm thinking about making a blog in order to get comments on how to improve my painting. The thing is, I now have models from pretty much every faction.
How would you organize such a log ?

Help me =P

 Von Skyfury wrote:
I'm thinking about making a blog in order to get comments on how to improve my painting. The thing is, I now have models from pretty much every faction.
How would you organize such a log ?

Help me =P

Just throw all the pictures up and file under 'miscellaneous' Job done.

I finally picked up my paintbrush for the first time in months. 2 Crazykoalas 90% done and a zero half finished.

I put an update on my blog. Margot has a face now, and Durok looks a little better.

Also, the stylish grenade launcher Metro makes his debut.

Dude... if the bearing only cost the Maghariba Guard... you've got a hell of a mechanic. Count your "blessings."

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Dude... if the bearing only cost the Maghariba Guard... you've got a hell of a mechanic. Count your "blessings."

No, it was far more. But it ate up my spending money for the week.

Then this week I decided instead to go with a box of Odalisques.

So I have tried to keep up wit ha painting long in the past but just couldn't stick with it. ANy objection with my just dropping off the pretties here for viewing pleasure every now and again?

That looks amazing mate! Definitely reminds me of those guys off Ghost in the Shell

Actually, I wouldn't mind having a thread in here for people to just drop pics in. Even this thread. Hunting through logs in the painting section gets tiresom, and also time consuming. When I have 5 minutes free at work, having one thread to drop in and look at some stuff would be nice.

Though I'm not sure if it's against Dakkas rules.

 -Loki- wrote:
Actually, I wouldn't mind having a thread in here for people to just drop pics in. Even this thread. Hunting through logs in the painting section gets tiresom, and also time consuming. When I have 5 minutes free at work, having one thread to drop in and look at some stuff would be nice.

Though I'm not sure if it's against Dakkas rules.

+1 if it's ok =P

I'm for it! Just so long as it also goes in the blogs and show off too.

@BD that is fantastic. Looks like a racing remote!

Not sure what rule it would be breaking... When updating in multiple threads I find it useful to put all of my progress for the update in my own P&M blog, and just the "highlights" in a combined thread - but if all you have are highlights, I can't see how that would be a problem to just post here. I'll see it either way

 Arakasi wrote:
Not sure what rule it would be breaking... When updating in multiple threads I find it useful to put all of my progress for the update in my own P&M blog, and just the "highlights" in a combined thread - but if all you have are highlights, I can't see how that would be a problem to just post here. I'll see it either way

Ha!

It isn't against any 'rules' that I'm aware of - so go for it!

Also, BD, your remote looks great, even if it is in "PanO Camo"!

It might be good if its a stickied thread so we dont have to search for all the time.

 Alpharius wrote:


It isn't against any 'rules' that I'm aware of - so go for it!

Also, BD, your remote looks great, even if it is in "PanO Camo"!

The Nomad arms dealer "BlueDagger" is a notorious figure in politics. His base of operations is located on a Pan'Oceania world where he uses diplomatic immunity as a shield against official Pan'O retaliation, under the guise of a legit Nomad trading outpost. Rumor has it that the facility ships all sorts of contriband and illegal goods for sale throughout the world's black markets, but of course all O-12 searches have come up with no evidence. Rumor also has it that "BlueDagger" choice of uniform color for those "security forces" working for him is to conceal any illegal activity to blame on the local Pan'Oceacian forces. Nomad PR representative have repeatedly denied any wrong doings of the outpost.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/493203.page Update with some bits of painted scatter terrain. You can never have too much scatter terrain!

More remotes fun

Those are looking great BlueDagger.

I am currently in the "painting them up while trying new techniques" stage. And so mine aren't nearly as nice.
I fet like experimenting with "reverse highlighting" As in starting with the lightest color and working my way darker as I went along. The Orcs really show the difference with it.

At this point I can confidently say that each model is around 2/3rds done. Not including the baseing for each one. Still some heavy lines and ugly faces to fix. Not to mention the small details here and there.

Everything looks great guys. Definitely post your highlight pictures here if you want! The more useful this thread is for people the better. Make sure you post a link if you are also posting to a blog, that way we can leave you a comment if we have time.

It's about time I post again, but I'll do that once I've caught up with Dakka.

First time painting brown skin, that was tough. Pics make it look more grey then it really is.

Yeah, when I decided to do my Ghulam doctor with darker skin, I had no idea what I was in for. Definitely not easy.

One of my fav models in the line and really happy with how she came out.

Both look fantastic.

I found, with the few dark skin tones I've done, that starting with a reddish brown first and then do darker washes works really well.

Man it feels good to be on a roll again. Next up Vortex Spec Ops conversion




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Motivation, I has it!

Look really nice mate, love the colour scheme on those Pan-O and great work on that tattoo! Is that all free-hand?

 Pacific wrote:
Look really nice mate, love the colour scheme on those Pan-O and great work on that tattoo! Is that all free-hand?

Hehe, they are Nomads Correct the tattoo is freehand though. The studio model has some kinda weird red tatoo vein thing going on, but after painting him up he totally needs a tribal tattoo lol

Man....so many talented painters. I look at everyone else's work, then I look at mine......and DESPAIR!!!!

I doubt I'll ever be that good.

Zeta Ockham wrote:

I doubt I'll ever be that good.

I think we all said that to ourselves at one point. Over time the more and more you paint the more tricks you learn. Keep practicing and if you have high class painters in your area meet up with them someplace and pick their brain for tips.

The best advice I can give is paint every day. Doesn't matter what - just do a layer on a colour, or bang out a whole model, paint something every day. It helps keep your brush control up to scratch. When I look at my Tyranids, the models I did at the start and the models I did before I started moving to Infinity, I can see a very clear improvement.

Sadly I've stopped doing this lately, so my stuff is worse than usual. My Hawwa sniper is nearly finished and I almost don't want to put photos up of it.