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Hi all, I'm ha started a new army and wanted to show what I have finished.

I love the shell casings flying out of the ejection port.

I love Ork bitz

That first guy looks like predator! Amazing stuff.

Your shading and your color choices are excellent.

I think, personally, that your plasma weapon is WAY too glowy. I prefer my light auras to be minimalistic at best, and although that is a personal taste, yours appears to be pretty intense.

The dust on their legs bothers me a little too. Like the lighting, you've made it very intense, but the dust doesn't play, I think, even if you like your effects over-exaggerated. To get that thick of a coat on their lower legs, they would either have to be slogging through mud (the bases look dry, and there doesn't seem to be any of the clumps or thickness one would associate with mud) or have been running around in the loose dirt for so long that they would have a patina of brown all over, getting gradually darker as it went down.

Loving the work on the eyes, by the way. That's the nice, subtle glow effect that tickles my pickle.

Look forward to seeing more of your work. You've got a bold style that has lots of promise.

that is probably the best thing i've seen in weeks. Love the colour scheme so much!! well done. Be nice to see it expand. good work


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how did you achieve this paint scheme??

Love the shell casings, nice little touch. Great work overall.

 Jimsolo wrote:
Your shading and your color choices are excellent.

I think, personally, that your plasma weapon is WAY too glowy. I prefer my light auras to be minimalistic at best, and although that is a personal taste, yours appears to be pretty intense.

The dust on their legs bothers me a little too. Like the lighting, you've made it very intense, but the dust doesn't play, I think, even if you like your effects over-exaggerated. To get that thick of a coat on their lower legs, they would either have to be slogging through mud (the bases look dry, and there doesn't seem to be any of the clumps or thickness one would associate with mud) or have been running around in the loose dirt for so long that they would have a patina of brown all over, getting gradually darker as it went down.

Loving the work on the eyes, by the way. That's the nice, subtle glow effect that tickles my pickle.

Look forward to seeing more of your work. You've got a bold style that has lots of promise.

It's pretty obvious that brown shade on the lower part of the chaos body is a heavy build of a desert waste land, like if you drove a 4x4 off road on red earth, it gets covered in it. His achieved this perfectly. As soon as I saw it I could picture the home world or battle ground these guys were fighting on

 fleetwolf wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:
Your shading and your color choices are excellent.

I think, personally, that your plasma weapon is WAY too glowy. I prefer my light auras to be minimalistic at best, and although that is a personal taste, yours appears to be pretty intense.

The dust on their legs bothers me a little too. Like the lighting, you've made it very intense, but the dust doesn't play, I think, even if you like your effects over-exaggerated. To get that thick of a coat on their lower legs, they would either have to be slogging through mud (the bases look dry, and there doesn't seem to be any of the clumps or thickness one would associate with mud) or have been running around in the loose dirt for so long that they would have a patina of brown all over, getting gradually darker as it went down.

Loving the work on the eyes, by the way. That's the nice, subtle glow effect that tickles my pickle.

Look forward to seeing more of your work. You've got a bold style that has lots of promise.

It's pretty obvious that brown shade on the lower part of the chaos body is a heavy build of a desert waste land, like if you drove a 4x4 off road on red earth, it gets covered in it. His achieved this perfectly. As soon as I saw it I could picture the home world or battle ground these guys were fighting on

If that's the case, then I still think there should be some more dirt up top. On the plasma gunner, the dirt is a bit more subdued, but on many of the models, they are just covered with dirt midway up their lower half, and it's like it just ends, leaving the rest of their armor factory fresh. It's perfectly fine to have models with dirt on them, or even a lot of dirt, it just looks a little unnatural when it's unbalanced this way. To my eye, anyway.

 Jimsolo wrote:

 fleetwolf wrote:

 Jimsolo wrote:
Your shading and your color choices are excellent.

I think, personally, that your plasma weapon is WAY too glowy. I prefer my light auras to be minimalistic at best, and although that is a personal taste, yours appears to be pretty intense.

The dust on their legs bothers me a little too. Like the lighting, you've made it very intense, but the dust doesn't play, I think, even if you like your effects over-exaggerated. To get that thick of a coat on their lower legs, they would either have to be slogging through mud (the bases look dry, and there doesn't seem to be any of the clumps or thickness one would associate with mud) or have been running around in the loose dirt for so long that they would have a patina of brown all over, getting gradually darker as it went down.

Loving the work on the eyes, by the way. That's the nice, subtle glow effect that tickles my pickle.

Look forward to seeing more of your work. You've got a bold style that has lots of promise.

It's pretty obvious that brown shade on the lower part of the chaos body is a heavy build of a desert waste land, like if you drove a 4x4 off road on red earth, it gets covered in it. His achieved this perfectly. As soon as I saw it I could picture the home world or battle ground these guys were fighting on

If that's the case, then I still think there should be some more dirt up top. On the plasma gunner, the dirt is a bit more subdued, but on many of the models, they are just covered with dirt midway up their lower half, and it's like it just ends, leaving the rest of their armor factory fresh. It's perfectly fine to have models with dirt on them, or even a lot of dirt, it just looks a little unnatural when it's unbalanced this way. To my eye, anyway.

Thanks everybody.
Yeah I know that they look clean on the armour, but the pics dosen't show the dirt/rust on the models that good. In real life the rust/dirt shows more.

The shell casing effect is top notch. Overall, the group looks great.

Thanks Chris_P.

Time for some new



And some cultists.

You got real murders out there! Loving so far.

Thanks, livanbard.
Today I made a displaybase for the army, hope you like it.

Hey mate how did you build your display piece? Looks awesome

All of your stuff looks great, I agree that I think the OSL is exaggerated as far as my taste, but well done none the less. I'm also not sure about the brown on just the end of the bolter for the predator guy, this would tell me that he is always carrying his bolter at his side and it's collecting a lot of dirt?

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Or I am an idiot and they are probably meant to look like they're blending in....

fleetwolf wrote:Hey mate how did you build your display piece? Looks awesome

Thanks, I just bought a picture frame and took some of mine styrofoam and build the wall.

Brokksamson wrote:All of your stuff looks great, I agree that I think the OSL is exaggerated as far as my taste, but well done none the less. I'm also not sure about the brown on just the end of the bolter for the predator guy, this would tell me that he is always carrying his bolter at his side and it's collecting a lot of dirt?

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Or I am an idiot and they are probably meant to look like they're blending in....

It's like you say, it should be that he is cloaking, and so is his bolter.

Ok guys, new guy, tried not to do that exaggerated osl on this one.

Perfectly exicuted army you have there Q0rbin

I like the OSL on this last painted model.

Good job, and keep the paint train rolling

Very nice!

Probably my favourite army on this site at the moment. Blown away

Looking good. Some of the osl and dirt weathering is a little ott.

greenturneddark wrote:Perfectly exicuted army you have there Q0rbin

I like the OSL on this last painted model.

Good job, and keep the paint train rolling

Thanks I will do that when I have the time.

StyleXHobby wrote:Very nice!

Thanks!

fleetwolf wrote:Probably my favourite army on this site at the moment. Blown away

Thank you, nice to hear that you dig it. I will Pm you later how I did the display base.

Barksdale wrote:Looking good. Some of the osl and dirt weathering is a little ott.

Yeah I know that some of the OSL is ott but the dirt is just the way I like, I want them very muddy and dirty at the lower part of the legs.

Will maybe finish the leader to the predators today or tomorrow.

These are painted really well! That having been said, I'm ready for OSL to fade as a painting fad.

Very nice work, I like the lightning or glow on the decloaking effect. Right where the split is. Very well executed.

Samurai_Eduh wrote:These are painted really well! That having been said, I'm ready for OSL to fade as a painting fad.

Thanks man, sorry but I'm not familiar with that last sentence you wrote.

SBG wrote:Very nice work, I like the lightning or glow on the decloaking effect. Right where the split is. Very well executed.

Thanks man nice to hear you like it.

And of course here's another update, because the ripper-squad is finished(predators).