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Yet again Vik to the rescue, I like the red.

For me the verdigri actually needs a little copper pocking through, maybe from bottom upward.



Picture paints a thousand words and all.

Feel free to delete.

good idea cam... just a tad copper....!!!

Your conversion work never ceases to impress me. Stunning, just stunning.

very interesting mix of bitz... I had that torso and arm combination in my mind too...state troopers with new stormtrooper arms?...
also I like the gun wielding arm conversion... that looks good... how much cutting was involved?
and I can´t really tell what legs you used...

and indeed... lots of griming to do... it looks ´orribly mint currently^^

Half right .
The head, torso and legs are from the empire greatswords kit ( they look more armoured than the state troops, an army made of the state troops would look cool though) + the new storm trooper arms with the hellgun having the barrel swapped for a bolter muzzle break and the ammo clips swapped.

Blissfully little cutting, the arms fit a treat (so no filling!) and don't look goofy like scout arms would. Only thing I need to do is add a ejector thing for empty casings. I'll be basing it off the M4 series adding a little flap is easier than drilling in etc.


@cam: No-way could I delete that.

I see what you mean.Thing is verdigris occurs strongest on top most facing surfaces and those that would be most exposed to water; rain, paths of least resistance etc and what is dissolved in it.
I will be adding surface variation, I was trying to add streaks as I went, and I can add copper via scratches and damage and also some can show under the skulls where they, but it's a pyramid, 4 of the sides face up .

@vik: I'll see what I can do.

I've just been playing with Vallejo "Glaze medium" add a little black to some watered down and, hey presto, I have something that resembles Badab black, takes a while to dry mind you. Not bad considering it was the

Thanks alot everyone.
OMN

greatswords... of course... I should do more learning my bitz :facepalm

Nearly finished



oil wash to add streaks, and some rusting needs adding, sorry its a little shiny there is a glaze on parts that takes hours to dry.
Not too sure about the verdigris arches on the bases (they took ages to do).

also I need to do something about the wires on the base corners, ideas anyone?

Thanks for looking.

OMN.

I like it mate, I think its very "correct" , i.e. when you look at verdigris in real life it tends to be a standard flat, even colour.

Maybe for the sake of interest it could use some stronger toned steaks in different shades or copper showing thru ?

Not a critism as such, as i really like the effect you've achieved !!!!

Looks brilliant.

Wires look like they are lightening rods! So either copper, black with copper connectors (my choice), or verdi.

black with copper connectors (my choice)

how does he do it??? my thoughts exactly....

also, liken the chips you did on the verdigris!

as for the arches and probably the skulls... I would have gone for brass here... but if I was you...I'd messed up the whole piece anyways paintwise

I love the pyramids! The verdigris looks great. If you wanted you could always add some washes of bronze to the recesses of the small arches. I did something similar on some verdigris bronze masks and it worked out well.

One thing I've noticed on some buildings near me is that the verdigris color can actually leach out from a metal roof and stain the stone below it. You end up with turquoise rain streaks and stains on grey stone. It's really cool looking and could be a nice way to tie the roofs into the grey parts.

 weirdingway wrote:
I love the pyramids! The verdigris looks great. If you wanted you could always add some washes of bronze to the recesses of the small arches. I did something similar on some verdigris bronze masks and it worked out well.

One thing I've noticed on some buildings near me is that the verdigris color can actually leach out from a metal roof and stain the stone below it. You end up with turquoise rain streaks and stains on grey stone. It's really cool looking and could be a nice way to tie the roofs into the grey parts.

THAT is what I should have written.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Looks brilliant.

Wires look like they are lightening rods! So either copper, black with copper connectors (my choice), or verdi.

& Vik

Good choice , I'll try to do them less weathered burnished copper with a light wash maybe.

 weirdingway wrote:
I love the pyramids! The verdigris looks great. If you wanted you could always add some washes of bronze to the recesses of the small arches. I did something similar on some verdigris bronze masks and it worked out well.

One thing I've noticed on some buildings near me is that the verdigris color can actually leach out from a metal roof and stain the stone below it. You end up with turquoise rain streaks and stains on grey stone. It's really cool looking and could be a nice way to tie the roofs into the grey parts.

Will do. I'd nearly forgotten about the staining, kinda rushing to get these finished so I can move on to other-things without adding even more to my desk . The bronze wash sounds like a great idea I'll give it a shot.

I tried to add some darker streaks on to the pyramids but I don't think it worked out, looks like greener blotches, nvm I'll fix it soon enough.

@ BigH: Thanks a lot mate, I'm pretty useless at getting streaks to work right atm, I must stop watering my paints down so much.

Thanks all
OMN

Now I think I'm finished.


I added some rust whilst I was adding more verdigris and finished it up with some oils.

Whilst I had my brushes out I also finally got around to painting the extras for my Imperial fists Ironclad dreadnought that.



Other things; some bases. 10, 25mm bases, down 30 to go!



And lastly this is what is next for my painting block.


2 Street lamps, that weird psyker mutant guy, 2 random flag waving traitors and 'Hamlet' the snork.

Thanks readers.

OMN.

the pyramids now look stunning... the streaks and the verdigris I think you got very good looking! truly impressive!

and boy... is that a haunting yellow dread... amazing this rich hue!
also I like the claw


and...snork???

Ah, the patience to work with yellows

Yup pyramids look fantastic, nice job on the weathering.

That is one very yellow dread. Loking great.

Interesting crowd in the last pic.

Nice work on the pyramids, OMN.

Dread looks good and the bases are good too.

Thanks people. I'm quite happy with how they turned out. Now I just have to try and remember how I painted them for next time. I'll get some close up shots soonish.

@ Vik: Snorks from the PC game STALKER not this snork or these (which would be way more creepy imo.

yellow painted from black covered with gloss varnish, really shiny I 'may' fix that. Meanwhile I'll put a full frontal view up at some point.

Extra images of that dreadnought



I've been too busy/tired to get the images of the pyramid sorted, fingers crossed tomorrow.

Thanks for looking

OMN

Nice job OMN.

Is it the photos or is the black a little flat? Could do with a highlight of some kind?

Nice yellow though.

Those little Gothic pyramids look fantastic now you've got them weathered and everything,
Nice work .

Thanks hk1x1 glad you like them & DrH thanks, the black is highlighted just the photos.

more images at last.



and I also got some more done on the second arco flag.


Thanks all

Yup those pyramids look amazing. Inspirational, giving me ideas.

Love the flage great movement.

Thanks cam

Plasma.. Blue, or orange?

I'm thinking orange

Something wicked this way comes


Kinda got those lamps sort-of finished. So now 4 matching


and resin loudspeakers

with more bubbles than you can shake a bar of soap at

More sporadic updates in the near to distant future
.

Blue for the plasma looks more imperial IMHO.

The something Wicked keeps reminding me of Hannibal for some strange reason

Love the lamp posts the blue and gold contrast really nicely with the off white

Great idea on the speaker shame on the cast turn out though, are these parts you have 3d sculpted ?

If you start to sell them let me know I have a use for some on my Grot tanks

only you LDD could see Hannibal (Thanks btw )

and yes those speakers are 3d printed, so far I've only had one cast that's turned out ok-ish I need to re-mould them to fix the bubbles.
I've plans to bolt the few that I have on a tank turret for mobile propaganda Kim jong style.

less updates in the nearer future?... RL been bugging you?.. best wishes mate!

as for the wicked one... *shudders* but in a good sense...^^...and now as LDD mentioned it... Hannibal the tv show... with that fether that spiked his victims...

the lamps look very good... very good !

as for the plasma effect... well the scheme says orange... but the thought of LDD I second too... blue plasma is more IG...

and the resin loudspeaker... well bulletholes^^... seems someone doesn't like propaganda^^

I ususally go blue for the plasma weapons

Nice work on the lamps.

Loudspeaker looks nice (excepting bubbles).

Interesting start to the wickedness.

And blue is more typical for plasma weapons. So orange would be a nice change.
However, I think the blue matches the tank's scheme better.
Also, from a science standpoint, blue light is actually higher in energy than orange and blue stars (made of plasma) are hotter than yellow/orange stars...

Just some thoughts. Depends on what you want. Go with what you like.

Blue is for winners and makes dice roll better !