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Good start. Nice color choice.

Agreed with the above, great color choice Git!

Looking fantastic gits. What color system are you using with your air brush?

Progressing nicely Gits, they look bloody good even just assembled and base coated! :-) you can just stop now so I don't get another hair brained idea to start something I'll never finish :-(....... don't know anyone after a GK army do you?......

I bought Blackhand's old GK army, so I'm out. whalemusic360 will probably buy it... he buys everything!

Not this time, warhams money going to Titan fund for the near future.

Come now Paul, throw off the tyranny of 'or' and embrace the beauty of 'and'!

^ Hear, hear, I concur :-)

First upshade. Big thanks to MajorTom11 for helping me sort out how to handle the purple. One upshade left to go!

Push it up even more, but the blend is going nicely, you transitioned nicely from cool to warm!

2 more steps, redder violet top down zenithal with AB then magenta brush edging should do it!

Will do!


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Perhaps not the best figure to show as there's an awfully lot of top highlight on this one because of the pose....

Looking great so far Gits, this is very exciting.

By far my favorite way of shading purple. Nice rich and warm magenta

Looking spectacular, Gits!

Blue marine, blue marine, same blue marine...I hate purple.

Looks good I imagine..

OK, I think the airbrushing is done. It's really annoying because this really isn't what the army looks like... there's too much red in these colors... I just cant get my camera to process the colors correctly. Also from this angle... some of the figures just look magenta (like the bikes). That's a camera angle issue. They aren't just magenta.


It's also worth mentioning that when I finished the final highlight, I only had about 15 seconds of paint left in the bowl. That's cutting it a little close. I can do close-ups of specific figures if people want. With reasonable upgrades, this army comes out to 1150 points.... and it's legal. The next installment (whenever that comes) will be two more bikes, 5-10 more tactical marines and a sicaran. OH, and I'll be adding another rapier as soon as it comes in the mail.

Mate, I think they are looking really good. I totally hear your frustration with the white balance, I get that all time. I've taken to including a piece of white paper in one corner to adjust the balance to on the computer, if that's helpful?

What a great canvas? Can't wait to see some of the other colors appearing.

Looks pretty perfect for EC to me from here! If you want better color representation, zoom in on a single model, the camera is trying to balance the white based on a focus zone, but from that far away you won't get a good reading.

Irrespective of colour balance, they still look damn tasty.

That purple looks magnificent. So smooth and deep. It will work so well as a base for the detail work.

Yeah, I'm liking. Even if the camera is playing up it's looking cool.

EDC

Thanks guys, I'm really happy with the way they turned out. Special thanks again to MajorTom for guiding through the process and reminding me of the lessons learned from his color theory class.

I just want to caution you guys about not expecting too much from these on the first go-round. I have two weeks to make the models table worthy... What that means is I will be doing my best at the elements I paint on them, but they'll just be getting the basics. Ferrous metals (steel), gold, decals & basing. Anything beyond that will have to wait (unless I get things done ahead of time of course). It's tricky because I have a lot of mundane commitments between now and then.

So... ferrous metals next.

And you know... they look a lot less red on my screen here than they did at home. It might not be my camera but the way the color is set on my home monitor. Hmmmm....

I'm sure they will look great man, and besides you've put together a whole force and well, quantity had a quality of its own!

A tight deadline could explain the red-shift. It’s coming so fast you are getting the doppler effect.

That’s a big lot to get done in two weeks, best of luck.

They look good on my monitor. Now I need to figure out How I get a personal coaching session from MT as well.

Damn those look so nice! I need to find the motivation you have to work on my HH army.

I'd be happy to share the information and guidance I got from Tom with anyone. PM me your e-mail address (not you SL, obviously) and I'll send it along.

@EC: Desperation born out of running out of time is a wonderful motivator. That and the fact that this is the army my son will be playing at Adepticon and I want him to have something nice to put on the table.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I'd be happy to share the information and guidance I got from Tom with anyone. PM me your e-mail address (not you SL, obviously) and I'll send it along.

@EC: Desperation born out of running out of time is a wonderful motivator. That and the fact that this is the army my son will be playing at Adepticon and I want him to have something nice to put on the table.

Hmm...I I see, that too would make me want to finish it! But...I need to make a child first. I don't think my wife would like the reason though haha. You are an awesome dad though!

I'm sure there have been less reasons to have a child.

How would this play out.

Man: Honey, we need to have a child.
Wife: Why? Don't you have miniatures to paint?
Man: Exactly. I like to paint my HH army but what's the point if I can't give it to my child so when they get old enough to play at Adeptiocon they look awesome.
Wife: good point.. Come get some!

Ok.. I need help!

 Solar_lion wrote:
Wife: good point.. Come get some!

Are you suggesting that EC is married to Bruce Campbell?