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I both love and miss polished blue - great to see it getting some love here! The coat d'arms equivalent to it is spot on though, so if you find your old pot gumming up like mine did, opening a nice, fresh coat d'arms one is a joy.

yeah,
That's good to know for those who want to try this colour.
Isn't Coat d'arms GWs old supplier? so it's the exact same colour?

It's crazy it's gotta be like 20+years old but my Polished Blue is like new!



Panic...

Hey Panic, are you uploading pics taken with an iPhone? I think you are, because the native resolution of your pics is exactly what mine are. There is a bug where iPhone pics show up blurry, lego explains it here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/634838.page

So, unfortunately you have to resize your pics to avoid that - I just do so in MS Paint, and save them as .png files so I don't lose any quality. I've done it to yours here so we can see them clearer - see below!





The trooper I resized to 700 pixels wide, group shot 1000 pixels wide, then I uploaded them to the gallery and selected "full size" instead of medium before copying the image code for the pics into my post here.

If you compare to your original images you can see how much clearer they are above (not counting the fact that I made them a little bigger):


This happens a lot now in the P&M section and I think people don't even realize it, since everyone has iPhones! Maybe we can band together and get it higher on the "debug" list for lego

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All that out of the way, man, love how these are turning out . Regarding the visors, they can't just be polished blue, right - now that I've got the sharper pic up, I can see some interesting effect on the first trooper's visor - how are you achieving this? Also, you're going to be painting the backpiece metallic or something, right?

yeah,

 RiTides wrote:
Hey Panic, are you uploading pics taken with an iPhone? I think you are, because the native resolution of your pics is exactly what mine are. There is a bug where iPhone pics show up blurry, lego explains it here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/634838.page

yup iPhone...
I tried a different app to save the image as a lower resolution,a dn posting full size here to see if that helps.

Been messing about making the guys more bright green...
Kept the new paint to the armour. what do you think? Better off dark?

The Journeyman helmet rocks. Makes him stand out as a officer.
But the apprentice bot handler doesn't stand out as much with the doom helmet so need two more fully enclosed helmets.
Anyone have two fully closed bot handler heads to trade? I have load of Epirian bits (all the regular heads and the bot handler heads with open visors and a few pig iron heads)

 RiTides wrote:
...Regarding the visors, they can't just be polished blue, right - now that I've got the sharper pic up, I can see some interesting effect on the first trooper's visor - how are you achieving this?

I'm not shaking the polished blue before using it so there is a interesting swirl mix of ink with the metallic flakes.
and then I fine-lined the visor edges in chain mail.

 RiTides wrote:
... Also, you're going to be painting the back piece metallic or something, right?

Bingo!
Contractors are the Epirian spine and so it feel fitting that they should have Epirian steel protecting their spines.
I have painted the central column of back plates chain mail.


Panic...

Oh man, I love that central spine being painted steel! That's excellent

For the green, I definitely prefer the darker shoulder pads / armor!

I'm not sure if you've done anything different on the pants or not, but there seems to be a bit of variation. Imo the color / highlighting on the pants on the third model from the left (in the front row of this last pic) is absolutely perfect . There are some nice highlights on the pants there, but they aren't too bright overall themselves (whereas the bright test armor is just really, well, bright all around, rather than just on the edges!).

I personally like the bright green parts - makes the mini 'pop' IMO.

 filbert wrote:
I personally like the bright green parts - makes the mini 'pop' IMO.

It does, but also draws the eye to the bright green instead of the face...

So my vote would be either for the darker green, or a brighter faceplate... although that might leave them a little too psychidelic.

Those fully enclosed bot handler helmets are worth their weight in gold. If there's ever an Epirian upgrade sprue, I hope it comes with ten of them on it.

Lovin' the scheme for these.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
If there's ever an Epirian upgrade sprue, I hope it comes with ten of them on it.

I keep bugging them about upgrade sprues, but they're all "Plastics are hard" and "We're not wizards" and "Seriously, what are you doing at my front door?".

Panic - For the good of the Doom team, I'll hook you up with two enclosed handler helmets . Just PM me your address!

 Lorek wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
If there's ever an Epirian upgrade sprue, I hope it comes with ten of them on it.

I keep bugging them about upgrade sprues, but they're all "Plastics are hard" and "We're not wizards" and "Seriously, what are you doing at my front door?".

Have you tried approaching their homes in fully enclosed helmets?

Absolutely fantastic. Great concept and execution, ten outta ten!

Yeah

 RiTides wrote:
Panic - For the good of the Doom team, I'll hook you up with two enclosed handler helmets . Just PM me your address!

Sweet!

Panic...

It's impressive what a simple head swap can do. With their regular heads, they look like the rent-a-cops the fluff makes them out to be, but these heads make them look like proper soldiers.

If Ritides wasn't going to I was about to volunteer them.

*even though technically I can't lol

Yeah,
Got the DoomGuys finished at the weekend.


I ended up repainting painting all the shoulder pads goblin green and re-washing with 50/50 water and green wash.
And then picking out the edges again with moot green.

I also edge highlighted the black bits on the Guns and Pistols with dark grey.



Command Guys!
All 4 of my Bot handlers will have Maelstroms edge heads.
The apprentices will have their heads swapped soon.

I painted the little arc notches in the bases red, blue or green to mark out who commands which squads.

Squad colour Yellow has been reserved for a Scarecrow commander and his Ai buddies...

Red Squad.


Blue Squad.


Green Squad.




And a few quick shots of the Dooy Guys searching some bunkers for key cards.

Red Squad.


Blue Squad.


Green Squad.


You click here to see how I made these buildings out of DIY supplies and the SAS terrain sprue.

Panic...

Yeah, those look sweet...

Nicely done!

Very cool panic

Have you done any with a pistol to represent the squad leaders?

Very nicely done, Panic.

yeah,
Thanx!

Seventyone wrote:
Very cool panic, Have you done any with a pistol to represent the squad leaders?

Nope...
This is Doom Team everyone gets a big gun!
I'll have to think of way to mark out squad leader.
Maybe I'll paint numbers on them?

My understanding is that anyone can be the leader when the current leader dies.

"I need a corporal. You're it, until you're dead or I find someone better."

Panic...

I think blood smears on their armor would be a good indicator of a squad leader...

That green you settled on is just the perfect balance, nicely done Panic!

I think a red slash on the shoulder pad could make for a good squad leader

The base notches painted with each squad's color is a really a nice touch, too!

 RiTides wrote:
That green you settled on is just the perfect balance, nicely done Panic!

I think a red slash on the shoulder pad could make for a good squad leader

The base notches painted with each squad's color is a really a nice touch, too!

First thing I thought of when I read that Ritides:

They turned out brilliantly Panic. Well done. Any thoughts yet on the base theme? I want my Karists to be on an ice world, but can't decide where to have the Epirians - I like each army to have different bases

Yeah,

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
They turned out brilliantly Panic. Well done. Any thoughts yet on the base theme? I want my Karists to be on an ice world, but can't decide where to have the Epirians - I like each army to have different bases

Going to pick a base theme with ArbitorIan and we will both base our armies the same.
I quite fancy trying one of the new cracking paints that have appeared recently.

1) Humans done!
2) Drones start.

The apprentice bot handlers need some bots!
so I unclipped the bits for 8 spider drones.
Minimal trimming was required.
The Drone body has a mould line down each side that was easy to scrape off.

Don't they look cute??
Assembly is super easy took a about a 1hour from sprue to done!


Panic..

Fair enough, can't wait to see what you choose.

Still loving the pig Iron Helemts, but found these from Maxmini.eu and think they may be more what I was going for

Yeah,
They look great, it might be best to buy a few and check the size before buying in bulk.
as those heads look very heroic scale /comedy and the heads might not match the size of the contractors body/hands.
If that makes sense...

Panic...

Good call, I think it says heroic scale in the description.

Yeah,
Well 28mm 'heroic' is the standard 28mm scale we are used to.
With big heads and large hands. Like GW guardsmen.

ME is 28mm but the hands and heads seem a bit more normal...
Maybe Someone else can chime in on this as I'm no expert on these things.

Panic...