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Necrons with Object Source Lighting

littleboyblues — GMT

Just trying to learn some new techniques. I'm not 100% satisfied with this but it isn't horrible either. If any awesome painters out there could give some pointers or tips it would be appreciated. I just have to paint all the warriors and a c'tan.

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alexwars1 — GMT

You know what? You should be happy with it. It looks great.

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Crimson Cobra — GMT

The weathering on these is absolutely fantastic!!
The choice of blue is very interesting and looks great against the light earth tones.
The OSL is really good for your first tries. The positioning is mostly right and it doesn't look too OTT like it sometimes can.
Keep working on it and defnitely show more pictures of this army!

-CC

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webmax — GMT

Great weathering....!!!!

Very good the blue light....!!!!

Could you describe you weathering process ?

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Snarkbolt — GMT

You should be proud of your skill, i wish i could paint like that, i'm not that into necrons but that's amazing.

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littleboyblues — GMT

The Weathering was...

I sprayed with red/brown primer.
Then sprayed a mustard camo color leaving some of the red/brown show through.
I sprayed an Ivory color really lightly and from a straight above angle.
I took a sponge and applied splotches of vallejo German C. Black and GW scorched brown.
I used devlan mud and made some shadows and brought out the lines and detail.
I clear coated with gloss.
I applied oils in black, white, yellow ocher, and burnt umber in small dots.
I used turpentine to streak the oil paint and smooth it out to make transparent streaks.
Lastly I applied MIG standard rust wash... (this stuff is GOLD) Best product I've ever found.
Clear coat in flat Tamiyas.

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em_en_oh_pee — GMT

Very nice work. Beats the crap out of 99% of the 'Crons I have seen.

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jutami — GMT

Just thought I'd point out that in order to achieve an effect of "light", no matter the color of the source, the colored areas that represent light must be "lighter" than the surface they are lighting. Otherwise the effect looks like there's colored paint on the model. I think in quite many models your light values of the blue are actually darker than the basecolor of the necron, making the light effect fail. It's not really rocket science, light + light makes more light, so if you add a blue to an already lit source(assuming your necrons aren't in the dark) the area will be lighter than the surrounding area only getting light from a single source. Try it out.

Other than that I think the crons look nice.

Cheers

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iron_fazoo — GMT

Very nice, Refreshing take on the bland silver and green Necrons we see all so often,

Good Job!.

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DemonBunnyMan — GMT

very nice work

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Nate TG2 — GMT

Wow. Not the typical boring necrons! That Monolith looks killer!
Well done.

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elaverick — GMT

They look awesome, it's really tricky to make a Necron genuinely interesting and you've certainly got it here.
I love the two 'crons appears from feet of the Res Orb Lord as well.
Have to say I was blown away by the quality of the painting on these and the self effacing way it was described, and then I spotted your avatar and realised you were the guy behind the muraled Land Raiders and BFG fleet. Two for two on awesome threads so far, keep 'em coming

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Mad Monk's Mekshop — GMT

they look so much more believablethan the GW/metal versions..great work mate!

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LunaHound — GMT

littleboyblues wrote:The Weathering was...

I sprayed with red/brown primer.
Then sprayed a mustard camo color leaving some of the red/brown show through.
I sprayed an Ivory color really lightly and from a straight above angle.
I took a sponge and applied splotches of vallejo German C. Black and GW scorched brown.
I used devlan mud and made some shadows and brought out the lines and detail.
I clear coated with gloss.
I applied oils in black, white, yellow ocher, and burnt umber in small dots.
I used turpentine to streak the oil paint and smooth it out to make transparent streaks.
Lastly I applied MIG standard rust wash... (this stuff is GOLD) Best product I've ever found.
Clear coat in flat Tamiyas.

Can you tell us what the Mig rust wash looks like in the pic?
( sorry i dunno which is which >< )

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Marneus Smurfgar — GMT

I was totally impressed until I noticed it was you, littleboyblues.

From you, I expect nothing less, hehehe.

This, like everything else I've seen from you, is amazing. I LOVE the blue!

Keep it up, I don't quite feel inadequate enough yet...

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anticitizen013 — GMT

I feel like the black sheep of the bunch... I don't really like the lighting but the rest is beautiful. Outstanding weathering and colour scheme and I DO like the use of blue rods instead of the rave-green (ins ins ins ins!! ) but the object-source lighting isn't doing it for me and I think they would look better without it (alternatively, read the next paragraph for my thoughts on how to improve it). But that's just me. Sorry to be negative about it but that is my opinion.

To make it look better, I think it needs to be a bit stronger on some of the models... some of them the blue looks too dull. I suppose what I'm getting at is the heavy destroyers (I think that's what they are, anyways) look pretty good because the blue is so bold, but on the lord and the immortals it's too dull. Increase the intensity of the light and I feel that it would make it look much better!

Those are my thoughts on how to improve it in my opinion, hopefully it helps

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littleboyblues — GMT

@Lunahound; I outlined the Rust effects on the the monolith and a pic of a gundam model I've recently done where you can see it better.
Its very transparent and very watery. Hopefully that helps its about 12 bucks for a 4 once bottle. Its so thin I don't ever foresee running out of it for years and years. It's magic... Over a metallic paint is where it really looks fantastic.

@jutami; Anytime someone gives me advice I look at their gallery to see if its worth listening too.... Holy Crap sir... I love your eldar and your keeper of secrets. I tend to agree with you but the only thing I have left to paint is a c'tan and some warriors so I'm going to finish the army on the current path. (this is a pretty low quality army) I'll keep your advice in mind for future OSL projects though. Thanks!

@elaverick; Thanks! I actually played my first game with that fleet the other day. Fun game. I'm trying to expand my marines more and more so I can have a full Renaissance apoc army, but I keep getting side tracked by other projects.

@anticitizen013; Thanks for the compliment. I think if I could go back I would make the blue glow less intense on everything. A very subtle haze more or less from all the rods. Looking back I do see what you mean by some of my earlier painted models the blue is very faint and by the last ones I did its very... blue. Thanks for the constructive criticism. Your Farseer is Ace btw.

@everyoneelse; Drybrushed silver necrons bore me to tears as well. I wanted to do something different.

Thanks for all the feedback!