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Ok, so here is my WIP Tigurius, still need to do a few bits and touch up in a couple of places. Click here for the full 1824x1368 image. My question is, how should I do the eyes/face? I have always struggled with faces, which is why all my marines wear helmets! Any help would be appreciated as its the best model I have ever done and I don't want to ruin him by cocking it up.
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Matgash posted:Ok, so here is my WIP Tigurius, still need to do a few bits and touch up in a couple of places. I'd say put a few Elf Flesh highlights on the raised areas of his face: tip of his nose, cheek bones, etc. It'll help his face pop a little more, just be sparing in your application.
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Feb 22, 2010 16:32
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The Good Professor posted:
Honestly painting anything pure black is probably a mistake. It doesn't leave you any colors to use for shadows. I think that's one of the few things I remember from art classes - oil painters almost never use pure white or black except to mix with other colors. I always recommend my friends use a very dark brown or blue if they are painting something 'black'. If he does want to go with black skin, look at some photos to get some guidelines on how to best pull it off (Salamanders with tribal style face paint/tattoos would be neat) http://www.loupiote.com/photos/2917217657.shtml
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Yeah he shouldn't try to do pure black- more like dark greyish base with almost-black to black shading and lighter gray highlights. When I do mine I base it gray than wash the poo poo out of it with multiple washes of badab black. According to the book, Salamanders do a lot of ritual scars/brands which makes sense with the whole fire thing. Basically the longer they live, the more they have. But they start on the chest, I think, and only the most senior dudes have them on their faces. I'd have no idea how to paint scars like that nor would I have the ability to do that kind of intense detail work. Fyrbrand fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Feb 22, 2010 |
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Feb 22, 2010 19:30
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Here's some WIP pics of my Stormcaller who's rolling along nicely. This is a little more than a single night of work, he's a lot of fun to paint and came together pretty quickly. Just have to do his arms/staff and some clean up and he's done.  
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Feb 22, 2010 20:42
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Hell Diver posted:Here's some WIP pics of my Stormcaller who's rolling along nicely. This is a little more than a single night of work, he's a lot of fun to paint and came together pretty quickly. Just have to do his arms/staff and some clean up and he's done. Hell Diver, you're making me want to play Space Wolves. Stop it. 
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Feb 22, 2010 20:44
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I might steal your wolf pelt ideas, Im painting up some TT style SW characters this week
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PaintVagrant posted:I might steal your wolf pelt ideas, Im painting up some TT style SW characters this week Like most of the painting I do I try to boil down to as few steps as possible, so I do Cathan Brown with a Devlan wash and Khemri Brown/Kommando/Bleached Bone for the light areas. The black was mainly a way to break up the big patch of fur, but I need to blend it better on the head. I'm sure you can execute on the idea far more capably. I'm kind of bummed that his beard/face is my favorite part of the model but they didn't photograph that well.  PierreTheMime posted:Hell Diver, you're making me want to play Space Wolves. Stop it. Just give in, you know you want some Thunderwolves. Hell Diver fucked around with this message at 20:57 on Feb 22, 2010 |
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Feb 22, 2010 20:51
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I've just removed the mold lines from 25 torso fronts, backs & pairs of legs. Tomorrow, arms, heads & backpacks. Eye-gougingly fun stuff. Also, have set a personal challenge, how many skulls can I get on a single dude. With a legswap & a belt buckle swap I'm up to 4 at the chest. Head, arms, shoulder pads, backpack & weapons should get this one dude up to 13, now just to find a helmet with a skull on it. I may go all Spacehulk with the base though, stuff it with every skull I've removed from the chaos sprues. Is there a plastic spacemarine helmet that looks like a skull?
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Feb 22, 2010 21:53
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Cakefool posted:Is there a plastic spacemarine helmet that looks like a skull? There's a good CSM one you can file down to remove some of the chaosy stuff.
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KingMob posted:Crossposting from the Warmahordes thread:
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Fix posted:There's a good CSM one you can file down to remove some of the chaosy stuff. I'm looking through that set now, not sure which one you mean... I ordered the SM casualties on Thursday, free next day delivery hasn't turned up yet < >
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Feb 22, 2010 22:03
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Cakefool posted:I'm looking through that set now, not sure which one you mean...  Click here for the full 1632x916 image. The one on the left.
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Feb 22, 2010 22:05
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Hell Diver posted:Here's some WIP pics of my Stormcaller who's rolling along nicely. This is a little more than a single night of work, he's a lot of fun to paint and came together pretty quickly. Just have to do his arms/staff and some clean up and he's done. Your painting is repeatedly clean, They look really great! I think my major issue is not being able to tell where the detailed points are. What to paint a different color, where to paint a different color. I think I could paint better if I knew just a few of those basic ideas. Hell or PV, if you have any suggestions that would be awesome.
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Fix posted:
Huh, I don't have one of those. I have 2 boxes of CSM, I take it that's from a different box? I will also steal the idea of using the tabards to disguise the cut-up legs, I never seem to get the upper legs to look right.
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Cakefool posted:Huh, I don't have one of those. I have 2 boxes of CSM, I take it that's from a different box? You get one in each of the new-ish Chaos Space Marine boxes. I bought a few boxes of CSM a year or two ago and they have them.
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Anphrax posted:Your painting is repeatedly clean, They look really great! I tend to work fairly methodically through my models as I get easily sidetracked. The best thing for me is to start with the big picture and work my way down to the little stuff. I always start by basecoating everything. For the average space wolf I'll paint the whole model codex grey. Then paint one shoulder pad Iyanden, then the other mechrite, all of the wolf pelts cathan brown, then the bone Khemri brown, etc., etc., etc. Blocking the model out in this way can really help you put everything in its place before you get too focused on highlighting or picking out the little details. It also gives you a better guide to work from than just painting one section at a time, as it can still sometimes be hard to get an idea of how the colors will interact if you're just building one area up at a time. tl;dr: Basecoat everything first. This helps you get a big picture of the model and then start working from the biggest stuff downward. As for actual color selection, a lot of that comes from practice and trying different things out. What does help me is that I have pretty routine ways of painting different materials and I take the time to decide on what will be what before I get past the basecoat stage. A good concept can be just as valuable as steady hand when it comes to painting. Hell Diver fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Feb 22, 2010 |
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PierreTheMime posted:You get one in each of the new-ish Chaos Space Marine boxes. I bought a few boxes of CSM a year or two ago and they have them. drat. I'll make a note for the next bits buy.
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PaintVagrant posted:This. That librarian's eyes are awesome, and a little bit scary.
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There's also a berserker head that is more skull-like and less helmet-like iirc, but you would need to cut off the bunny ears.
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I'm looking to attempt some wetblending on my fire dragons helmets, from blazing orange to an orange/golden yellow blend (towards yellow for pure yellow edge highlights) and I'm wondering - is it better to do orange basecoat & wash, then pure orange at the top and blend in 2 or 3 strips of progressively lighter yellow/orange down to the yellowest parts, or basecoat yellow then paint orange at the top and drag it down through the still wet yellow, reapplying orange in smaller areas until only the deepest bits are pure orange? should i skip basecoating alltogether and start straight off with the blends? I've seen it done a few different ways and it's still a little hard to follow
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Cakefool posted:I've just removed the mold lines from 25 torso fronts, backs & pairs of legs. Tomorrow, arms, heads & backpacks. Eye-gougingly fun stuff. http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat1310001&prodId=prod550008a crap. not plastic.
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I swear I read about some fantasy skull helmet that people use to convert up chaplains, but I'd have no idea where to look.
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Feb 23, 2010 05:13
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It is on the Chaos Warriors sprue.
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Meh, I'll survive, it was only to see how many skulls I could get on one guy out of the box.
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I'm not sure about the fantasy head, but isn't there a skully chaos space marine helmet people use to make chaplains?
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NecronSchmecron posted:I'm not sure about the fantasy head, but isn't there a skully chaos space marine helmet people use to make chaplains? Yeah, that's the one I indicated.
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Nah there's another one different to that. I'll try to find a pic but there's an awesome variant of it on the chaos vehicle accessories sprue that has a big rear end bionic eye on it. Remove studs from helmet = awesome-o chaplain helmet edit: ding ding! this guys used it for... a chaplain conversion!  
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Feb 23, 2010 12:16
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Fix posted:Yeah, that's the one I indicated. BAH! I fail, and apologize, good sir.
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It's ages since I posted anything, so here's a bit of wip. I call him... Mr. Ploppy.
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Cakefool posted:I've just removed the mold lines from 25 torso fronts, backs & pairs of legs. Tomorrow, arms, heads & backpacks. Eye-gougingly fun stuff. http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/skulls-bases-round-25mm-p-142.html
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But those are...bases?  Here's a good head, I used it in a Chaplain conversion awhile back. EDIT: And here's the Fantasy skull head people mentioned earlier. From personal experience I'll tell you know that should need to trim the back of it a little bit for it to fit on a Marine torso. bhsman fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Feb 23, 2010 |
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Just wanted to say, Helldiver, KingMob, PV and RJS you guys have made the last two pages many shades of awesome. Your paintjobs all look awesome and effortless
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So a local tournament has been announced for late march. I decided to register.  I've also decided to paint and base more in a month than I have done in the past year. 
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NecronSchmecron posted:So a local tournament has been announced for late march. I decided to register. You've got this. Vehicles are easy and fun to paint and you have done a beautiful job on the other guys. How many points at the tournament and what does your list look like?
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Its 1750 and its kind of a stupid list. HQ Vulkan libby w/ terminator armor storm shield Null Zone, Might of the Ancients (thinking of changing this since I will almost always have Null Zone up at close range) Troop x2 10 tac marines combi flamer power weapon flamer multi melta Elite 10 Assault terminators w/ thunderhammer storm shields 10 sternguard w/ 4 combi melta 1 meltagun rhino Dreadnought w/ extra armor multi melta, heavy flamer drop pod Heavy support Whirlwind 1750 on the nose. I've already undercoated the rhino, whirlwind and the drop pod (almost) with knarloc green. The Dreadnought's lava basing is all he really needs and that is nearly finished. I'll post pics when he's fin. Edit: Update. Brother Rone was a non conformist. He said "NO!" to base centering. 
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bhsman posted:But those are...bases? Yeah, those are bases. If one was going to try to put the most skulls on one marine then they should get the most skulls as possible on his base too.
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So, I'm bored. Well, not so much bored as I am out of ideas for photo tutorials for the thread. So, I turn to you, fellow Goons, for suggestions. Let me know what you want to see--anything non-painting is fine--and I'll get to it. I've covered a lot of "green stuff" in the past, and I could always use practice for more, different things that I have yet to try.
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