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Really awesome work dude I'm sure that painting comp you went to must have been attended by philistines and blind folk

Thank you for your kind words inflatablefriend (love your name!) and warboss_waaazag, I greatly appreciate it.

The voting for this comp was public vote so it was just anyone who passed by the place were asked to vote. There was so many entrants this year that I'm sure my entry just got drowned out in the sheer volume of competitors, it was open class too so my cronos was up against gargantuan creatures, tanks and infantry alike. I'm sure it didn't help that the selling point of my cronos is the muscle and you can't see that without flipping him upside down, I'm sure most voted solely on looking at his back shell which I admit isn't nearly impressive enough to compete. I feel confident that if it was official judge voting I may have scored higher as they would have taken a closer and more in-depth look at my entry. It's not a huge deal though, I'm still happy with him and will seek to improve for next year.

 Ynneadwraith wrote:
Really awesome work dude I'm sure that painting comp you went to must have been attended by philistines and blind folk

Honestly, this ^^

your attention to detail on this model is fantastic

You should be happy with him. He looks great, and it wasn't a safe call to try the muscle effect. It paid off and paint award or no, you have an awesome model to show for it.

I wouldn't worry if it was just random people off the street they asked to judge. Not knowing 40k, their eyes were immediately drawn to the largest models there. The freehanding of the cherry blossoms is unique and excellent, all while his sinewy body is clever and well done.

Thank you very much Guildenstern, youwashock and justaerinatthewall. I am quite proud of him, I pushed my skills in new directions and I feel I'm a better painter for it so it's a win all around. He's garnered good reviews online and on my Instagram account (he's by far my most popular model to date) so I'm happy.

I want to thank everyone for your support all this time and I look forward to updating with more things that you'll all hopefully like soon.

That Cronos is a amazing piece if work, top job IF!

EDC

Been a while since my last update, figured it was time to show what I've been working on. I finally put the finishing touches on my second set of wyches, I'll take some proper photos later today. And my next project has been settled upon, today I'll be opening that box and getting to work on my second DE HQ.

Sounds good IF, looking forward to the haemonculus!(Gawd I hope I spelled that right)

As promised here are the photos of my completed Wych squad. This one has the razorflails (my favourite wych weapon aesthetically) and utilizes my newer way of painting the pink armor plates and back pieces. I much prefer this slightly updated look and it's actually easier to paint as well. Once I get my purchased to painted ratio under control I'll be going back to my original wych squad and raider and making them match.

On a side note I started breaking down my sub-assemblies for the haemy as I'm prepping him for painting and I noticed something that I've never seen in any photos of the haemy before. He's got an open part on his right side back and you can see inside to what looks like some guts and mechanical things. It's a really neat little detail that I thought was really cool to see. If anyone is on the fence on getting this kit I highly recommend it, the details and sculpt on this guy are some of the best I've seen out of GW in my opinion.

Inevitable_Faith,

The Wych squad with the new pink method looks really good, the colours seem to pop out.

Cheers,

CB

The wyches look incredible, I always look forwards to your DE!

The haemi is definitely an exciting project, are you gonna do the flayed flesh look on him too?

Sweet looking squad. Cool color scheme.

Thanks guys for the kind words.

For the Haemy I think I'd really like to try out the flayed flesh look on him. I'm contemplating instead of doing all his flesh like that instead I'd pick out certain body parts and do them flayed and others with skin, kind of try to really push the frankensteined piecemeal look that Haemies have. I am struggling to find any good amount of spots I can put pink on him though...

Looking at the model in my hand, I think go for the chest and one of the pairs of arms.

That's very close to what I was thinking too, perhaps the back part of his head too as he has that other face stapled on it'd make great contrast.

Cool! Loving the Wyches. They look absolutely stunning

I'm amazed by that Haemi sculpt. I've always been leery of it because Finecast, but that level of detail is just amazing. Never noticed that before.

Really looking forward to what you'll do with the 'frankenstein partially flayed' look brilliant idea

Great looking squad there!

Going back a bit, how did you do the tubes/vials/etc. on the chronos? (which looks very nice in the close ups, by the way)

Thanks guys, I appreciate the comments. Ynnead the Haemy is actually plastic. He got re-done in plastic for the DE 7th release.

I was actually really lazy for the tubes and vials Nev, I really ought to up my game on them as I know I can do better but once I saw how many were on him I just got lazy. Anyways it's a base layer of Caliban green, then I "fill" the vial or tube with moot green. I then used a watered down coelia greenshade wash just in the recesses of the vials or connection points of the tubing. Some hard highlights with white and lastly slather them all in 'ardcoat for that glossy look. Duncan Rhodes actually has a painting tutorial on the vials and it's fairly close to what I do but I think his is better as he has bubbles and more realistic shine painted on, he also uses yellow with the green instead of white if I remember correctly.

He's plastic?!

BRB. Getting one right now

Thanks for the how-to on the vials that's really helpful

You won't be disappointed with the kit Ynnead, it's full of character and so many cool bits. Here's my update on my first real day of painting the Haemy, things are coming along nicely I think.

Wow thats good! I absolutely love the mottled look of the skin, and you've got so much definition between each piece. Wish i could paint half as well as that!

Is the mottled look selectively applied washes, or a basecoat with a highlight applied leaving patches showing through?

When that picture first popped up on my screen, my first thought was “someone’s cat loves then and brought them a gift” Looks like some sort of dismembered small bat/bird. Which I guess kinda works for a homunculus.

Love the patchwork cloak! Any thoughts of putting a tattoo on any of the sections? A fuer de lie or an aquila might be fun. Skulls are also popular.

Always a joy to see what you're working on. I just wish you didn't make DE so tempting.

Thank you for the kind words everyone, I'm thrilled that there was no "what is it supposed to be?" comments. This was actually a ridiculously easy look to achieve Ynnead, I'll post a step by step below.

I've never though about putting any tattoos on the skin patches Nev but now that you mention it I think that could be a fun addition. It'd test my ability to freehand but could really add some character to his designer coat. Thanks for the idea Nev, I'll do some research on painting tattoos and making them look believable.

Any sugestions on how I could make DE less tempting ChaoticMind? If I painted with exclusively home reno paint roller brushes? Perhaps I should construct my models by putting the bits in a box with some glue and shaking it violently? Actually both of these ideas sound kind of fun. At any rate I'm glad I can disappoint you by painting appealing DE.

Ok so the cloak was really easy to paint, here's the steps:

1) Use Rakarth Flesh, Cadian Fleshtone, Pallid Wych flesh and Dryad Bark to base the skin patches. Just make sure that no two skin patches of the same colour are touching. Also make sure to paint the corresponding reverse side of the skin patch on the inside of the coat the same colour as the outside.

2) Give the whole thing a heavy wash of Reikland Flesh shade.

3) Paint all the staples in leadbelcher

4) Selectively use Carroburg crimson wash in the recesses between skin patches letting it creep out and stain the edges of the patches.

5) Use leadbelcher again to add a little bit of shine back to the top of the staples but leave the sides of the staples tinted crimson.

And that's it, pretty straightforward. I'll be adding some blood for the blood god once the model is finished but otherwise the cloak is done.

Nice and gruesome. Looking good.

The Haemi looks ace!

Thanks guys, I got a lot more work done on him today, I'll be updating later tonight on the progress as I think I'm going to put a couple more hours into him before I call it quits for the night.

Figured in this update I'd show a bit of process. Not sure how well it'll translate but hopefully it goes well. Also I'd love to get your guys advice on one part. I got this of--whitish dress thing for him that I will be smattering with some blood for the blood god but I'm also curious if I should dirty it up some first, maybe apply some selective washes to make it dirty, particularly around the base. What you guys think yay or nay? If yay then what colours and techniques would you use?

Looking fantastic dude thanks for the how-to on the skin. That's not far from what I was up to, but goes a little bit further so it's useful stuff same with the how-to on the flayed skin

He's looking stunning so far I love the idea of the white surgical apron, and although I have no idea how to go about it I love the idea of dirtying up the lower edges. Perhaps with some sort of dried blood look, like a ruddy brown.

Hmmm, one thing you might try on a test model. If you stick a blob of Blood for the Blood God on something and then dab it away ever so slightly with a tissue, you get a sort of translucent circle of blood with a more solid line around the edge which looks a lot like blood staining.

Not sure if that was something I stumbled upon accidentally and it won't work again, but might be worth testing out somewhere