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Cross posting this here from the 40k RPG thread: Well, I got some painting done on my Final Sanction minis done today. Here are the results: The Kill-team so far:   Brother Gregor:    Brother Octavius:    Brother Sepheran:   The Rest:    Gregor and Octavius I'm basically considering "Complete", barring a bit of touching-up. Octavius came out a bit plain, but I'm rather pleased with Gregor. Especially the Warden lightning bolt freehand I did on the pauldron (the best emblem is a lot worse unfortunately). Sepheran is also complete (and already glossed, to be dull-coated later), however he doesn't quite count, as my friend basically hijacked him and did almost all the painting on him, often using him as an example of how to do the others. My friend also did the tabard on Gregor (somewhat annoyingly, I wanted to do that damnit). The rest are only partially finished, requiring detail work. Lucian the Apothecary however is my great shame. The white came out TERRIBLE ("Oh just throw some Devlan mud on it and we'll see how it turns out"  ). I'm not sure what I can do at this point. I may give him over to my friend to try to fix/repaint but I fear the damage is already done. I did use multiple coats and a khaki/grey as undercoat first too. I'm not beating myself up too hard about it though cause I hear white is a real pain to get right.  The flash also distorted the colors a bit, Gregor's blue is a decent bit darker than the Ultramarine's blue. Overall they're not the most fantastic minis in the world, but I'd like to think this isn't too bad considering its almost my first time painting a mini, bar some warjacks a couple years ago. Its also my first time doing such simple things like inks and even drybrushing. 
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Finished my Deathwatch Kill-team. Pretty good for a beginner I'd like to think.  Just check out this post in the 40k RPG thread if you care to see individual pics. 
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Aug 14, 2010 03:50
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uncle jimbo posted:So I've got lots of these guys I'd say be glad you don't have to do them in 15mm.       Thats what I'll be doing when I place an order for some of those guys in a couple weeks. Not looking forward to it, those are bases are the size of pennies.  Still, I'd love to hear what colors you plan to do the cammo with, and what process you end up using, maybe it'll apply to a much smaller mini. Maybe not.
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Sep 2, 2010 19:20
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Ezekiel_980 posted:Idk the extra plastic card just doesn't do it for me, seems to clean to be ork handy work, maybe try some pieces that are jagged and hang over edges. Still not bad at all so far. Remember paint, the occasional random rivet, and maybe an orky glyph or two will help break up the surface.
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Sep 3, 2010 00:20
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Finished painting my first unit of 10 Seaguard from the Island of Blood set today. Only took about two weeks of a few hours a day 2-3 days a week painting. Still, for a complete novice, I think they look rather nice, especially at tabletop distance, so whatever! Camera flash brightened the colors slightly. The Seaguard are a bit lacking in color uniformity because I was still experimenting with how I wanted to do things. For the rest of them I'll be reducing the number of blues and greens in the unit down a bit. Hopefully that'll speed up painting time for the rest of them.      They hardly compare to the slightly unfinished Swordmasters my friend painted, the Champion is what he used to win our FLGS' painting competition during the IoB event. Still, he's been painting minis for several years, so thats hardly surprising. I'm not entirely looking forward to trying to replicate the scheme for the rest of my sword masters though (I have 3 sets worth of IoB Seaguard, Swordmasters, and Reavers).      Eventually I'll probably pry everything off their bases (my friend assembled the minis and glued them in) and try basing them, but for now I'll worry about getting everything else painted.
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Sep 15, 2010 07:08
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So is there a decent method for removing enamel based paints? While digging around for some bits I found these Warspiders which are rather horrifically slathered in enamel paint, don't remember where they came from but I figured maybe I could strip them.
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Sep 15, 2010 17:29
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^^ Thanks, actually their faces do have a slight wash, but the photo flash kinda killed some of the details. Thankfully these are solid 1 piece(?) metal War Spiders.
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Sep 15, 2010 18:38
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Did some painting today, in roughly 5 hours I inked the robes of 18 sea guard, and painted/dry brushed the metal on their armor, and painted a mage minus some touch-ups. How do you people work so fast...  Here is the mage    Of course, the Camera flash made everything brighter (should look into building a photobox or something), and mercilessly reveals every tiny knick and mistake... but oh well, I think its pretty good considering my skill level, and the important part is it looks good from tabletop distance. Just needs a bit of touch-up, and a few other minor things. I missed that pouch on his back for example, gem on his head-piece too. I'm thinking of trying to lightly dry-brush on some brass or brighter gold onto the staff wings. Might redo the hair too, not happy with it. The book was really intimidating to do, I almost murdered my friend when he bumped the table while doing it. Came out good IMO, though I'm a little disappointed with the crescent. I'm considering hitting the pages with some watered down sepia or devlan mud but... I dunno.
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Sep 29, 2010 02:38
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From one novice to another I think it looks good, and yeah, washes/inks can really help with the look. However... is he wearing lipstick? 
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Sep 30, 2010 20:24
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I've nearly finished all my seaguard, 34 in total (28 troops + 2 sets of Full command). The back rank in these pictures is slightly unfinished, but I'll get them done in a couple hours next time I can paint. Of course, I still need to base them too. That'll be an adventure, I've never based a mini before. I was thinking of doing sand since they're Elven Marines. What is a good way to do a sand base? I assume real sand is a bit too large/coarse, though I guess I could look for some ultra-fine stuff.    Few shots of the mage, kitbashed from some misc HE parts, did him as a break from the batch painting:   
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Oct 11, 2010 20:05
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Aranan posted:Also, make sure to check the OP for a list of A SHITLOAD OF BASING LINKS. Yeah, I was digging through those already, but I was hoping for some quick tips for sand specifically.  And a can of spray should definitely last longer than 20 models. I did all 35 of those dudes with a single can and had plenty left to spare!
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Oct 11, 2010 20:54
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Samurats? Oh dear. Wait till one of my local Skaven players sees this. Where are those from?
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Oct 12, 2010 03:08
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Well, I'm very much a novice, so I'll take that praise with a thanks. Those guys are the first stuff I've painted in years, and the only things I'd done before this were a handful of 40k minis using enamel paints... (they were hideous).
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Oct 12, 2010 09:10
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overthefalls posted:
They look great! I'll be tackling some of my IoB Sword Masters on Thursday, and I'll definitely be keeping Richyp's tutorial in mind. Ironically, I think they'll be easier to paint than my Sea Guard were, they have less fine details. Or, at least, less fine details that I'm gonna worry about painting. No ornate scale skirt detail, no shields, etc. Less colors too.
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Oct 13, 2010 07:09
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Two 7x3 units of swordmasters obviously. At least the old metals and the new IoB plastics are very similar looking, they'll mix together well. The new Lions/P.Guard don't quite blend as well with their old metal brethren. Can't decide on the trim color my my sword-masters. Classic Blue, Red like yours, or maybe a purple like my friend painted our FLGS' IoB promo-display Swordmasters. Either way they'll have medium dark grey robes under the armor. I also can't decide whether I'll use normal Mythril Silver or the Mythril Silver mixed with blue ink that I used on the Seaguard. I wonder how that'd look with a Bedab black wash over it. I'm also considering giving them a watered down blue wash after the bedab black to make it more bluish, like my friend's Swordmasters. Maybe I'll test it on a single mini.
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Oct 13, 2010 07:39
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Well, did my first batch of Swordmasters over the last couple days.   I swear they look better in real life, I apparently suck at photoing minis. The Inked blue surfaces come out looking really weird (very noticeable on the standard and helmet hairs, they're darker and, more importantly, smoother in person). I also feel like I suck at painting gems, but thats probably because of the lovely store brushes. Either way I'm learning more with every mini, and they look fine from 3', so I'm happy. These guys were actually surprisingly simple to paint. They're honestly less detailed/ornate than the Seaguard, so I'm getting them done faster. Big big thanks to Richyp for his tutorial. Your finished pictures make me feel terrible, but your process helped give me focus and direction, even if I didn't follow them 100% (Step 6 was basically left out).
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Oct 16, 2010 17:16
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I painted the pouches and hanging straps blue like the rest of the trim. Those look great btw.
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Oct 17, 2010 17:51
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Very nice, thats part of the plastic Prince/Noble set, yes?
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Oct 19, 2010 17:12
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They still look good dude, don't worry. Spent today examining my options for the High Elf Prince/Noble kit I bought. In a fit of inspiration/madness I decided to try to stretch my dollar by getting three minis out of it. I took a few bits from it, hacked the head and arms off my extra Seaguard musician (I have two painted already) and made this:  Pretty nice IMO, first time I've ever really cut apart a mini like that, was really worried I'd screw things up some how. The only mistakes I made were stabbing myself in a knuckle once and putting a few nice slices in my thumb,  got to put super glue to use in its original function. The shield is only tacked on for now as I'm going to paint him before gluing that on (and I'm debating leaving it off since I'll never run a noble not using a greatweapon). Also the greenstuff isn't nearly as noticeable without the camera. Funny thing is, I'm considering using him as the Seaguard unit Champion for if/when I'm not using him as a GW Noble. A spear that huge should be able to pass for a Great Weapon in my opinion, the blade is the size of a normal elf's helmet! Base mini for reference (A single piece, save the forearm holding the conch horn). 
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Oct 25, 2010 03:50
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Well, I have another IoB hack-up conversion I to attempt:  Prince Altharn (Griffon Dude) Head/Torso + Swordmaster Standard Bearer Legs + Misc Arms & Bits. Looks a bit trickier than the one I did. \/\/\/\/ I know exactly what you're talking about! I hope you didn't spill too much, or hit a miniature.
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Oct 25, 2010 22:06
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Oh, neat idea on the waves for the Swordmaster banner, I may have to yoink that for my second SM Banner since I'm leaning towards doing a "Naval Expeditionary Force" theme for my dudes because of all the Seaguard and my kitbashed Seaguard Prince/Noble.
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Oct 27, 2010 19:14
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Painted my Noble conversion last night. Still needs a  Overall I'm pleased with how he turned out. Except maybe the whites, despite generous thinning and about 4 layers, it still came out with a slightly rough surface. Purple and white is a surprisingly nice combo, and I'm very glad I decided to take a risk and change the under robe from green-blue to purple. Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Oct 29, 2010 |
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Didn't get any painting done this weekend. But I did make some characters! Put together a mounted Prince, nothing special, built completely using normal Plastickit Prince parts. However I did some conversion work on one of the Island of Blood mages.  I may have gone a bit overboard with his gaudy hat. You can't really see his face underneath that huge crescent moon. Even worse is I'm considering shaving down the sides of a bow and sticking them on either side of the helmet like this guy did on his Teclis conversion. Though I was considering having them sweep back rather than just curve inward. If I do that, I might redo the head all together, that crescent is really just too huge... maybe. I'm not sure! I also need to either greenstuff that hole in his chest or find something to cover it up with that doesn't look odd. Either way, this guy will hopefully come out as a nice arch-mage. Aside from that I also kitbashed a mounted mage using the body of the Dragon mage and a tiranoc chariot horse. Given that a mounted mage is kinda-sorta useless, he's pretty much intended as a display piece, hence the 50mm base. Besides, even if I did put him on a normal cavalry base, he'd never be able to rank up with those huge flowing robes! I love how dynamic it is coming out, the mini has a nice sense of speed to it. I still need to do a bit of work on the saddle area, but I'm not sure what to do. I suppose I could just leave it as it is, using the IoB Griffin chair back and a bit of greenstuff.  I have no idea how I want to paint either one of these guys. But I might just enter the mounted mage in a local painting competition that is coming up at the end of the year. As a novice I know I'll never win, but gotta start sometime. 
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Today I painted the kitbashed Terror-Krooza I built yesterday and posted in the 40k thread. Its not painted well but it is painted Orky. I love Iyaden Darksun and Mechrite red, and I'm really happy with the flames on the engine cowling. All-told I spent maybe a buck, buck-fifty in bits from my FLGS on this thing. My friends the FLGS owners were so impressed with the work and eager to see my getting on the newly growing BFG scene at the store that they dug out a box full of old ork and leman russ bits to use for additional kitbashings. I'll probably be trying to make some Escorts tomorrow. Why didn't I turn to orks sooner? My favorite part about mini-making is taking random bits and modifying or creating in whole something different.
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enri posted:This is the best FLGS and what the hobby should be about, fostering creativity Well, I've know the guys for 10+ years now, my best friends really. But yeah, the FLGS rocks (now), the volunteer turn out to help move/prepare the store when it changed locations shortly after my pals bought it from the old owners was amazing. Heading down there today to try my hand at cobbling more ships together. I think I'm gonna try for a few escorts tis time, I have ideas for using melta-guns and a few other bits I saw.  Anyone who makes minis and doesn't try their hand at kitbashing once in a while is missing out.
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Built some more BFG ork stuff today, this time a trio of escorts (no specific type/class). Not as satisfied with these, unsure if they look suitably "orky", hopefully paint will fix that. Any tips for doing checkers? Making such small ships proved troublesome, hard to find pieces that I like to construct the "main body" of the ship. My favorite is the top one, though I think I may use the prow/head of the lower one in further escorts I construct (may even replace the prow of the middle one with a similar piece). All told I spent maybe 3-4 hours on them, most of that time sifting through bits trying to find something that worked. 
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moths posted:I can't tell if I like or dislike Photoshop's contribution to this, but it's something that may be worth exploring. I'm a dummy, what was photoshoped?
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Built more Ork BFG ships today.  The Krooza is the last one I built today, but its a Krooza, so it goes first. Its a bit small compared to my first one, which is itself a bit small compared to Imperial BFG cruisers, but whatever. Scale isn't THAT important in BFG since its all based on the bases and stems. Mostly happy with how it turned out.  Next up are four escorts. Built the top pair first, and I'm not very thrilled with them, but whatever, I need 12-15 escorts so they'll do. The second pair I like better, especially the little guy, he's so small and kinda looks like a fish, so I'm naming him Da Guppy.   And finally, a group shot of all the new ships. Unfortunately some of the bits used to build this batch had been primed on the sprue, which is making these photos not as good as they could be (though the crappiness is mostly due to my own bad camera skills).  Gonna try to go down to my FLGS tomorrow to do some more work, but I can't decide if I want to build more ships, or paint what I got. So far I've only got my first Krooza painted, leaving the second new Krooza and 7 Escorts unpainted.
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Made another four escorts today. The bottom left one is my new favorite, its awesome. The bottom right one is rather un-orky in my opinion and may be placed aside as some random Xenos ship. Still, up to 2 Kroozas and 11 Escorts. What I'm REALLY wondering about now is how I'm going to do the 15-20 Fighta Bomma groups I'll need. Even if I just build a single bomma per 20mm base thats still a very small craft that I need quite a few of. The only idea I have right now is whittling chunks of sprue or snipped bits of pole and sticking tiny plasticard wings on. Any suggestions?
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Threw together another tio of Ork Escorts outta Skrap and gubbins tonight. Brings me up to a total of 14 Escorts (and two kroozas). More than enough for 1000 point games, and I've assembled one 1500 fleet list that uses a dozen (the minimum amounts required to get a 'Uge Ship really), but since, with the ork fleet list I'm using, tiddla skwadrons with leadership 5 or 6 get a free escort, I suppose I need to build two more. Still, the end is in sight, at least for the escorts. Good thing too, I'm really running low on suitable bits to make escorts out of, and I'm now worried about being able to scrounge bits and parts to assemble three or four more capital ships. Oh well, I'll figure something out. Here is the pic. Decided to wait until I've got everything built to paint them. Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Mar 23, 2011 |
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More Kutsom Ork Ships! Finished the final two escorts last night, they're pretty mediocre as I just wanted to get them over with, though they look slightly better than the picture portrays. The right escort is pretty much just the hip section of a broken sentinel (badly painted) with a few bits thrown on.  I then started work on another Krooza and ended up finishing it today. I'm rather pleased with how it came out. Its about the size of my original krooza, but a bit wider. Its slightly back-heavy and tips easy, but oh well.  All thats left is one or two Kroozas and a 'Uge Ship, then I get to paint everything.
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Uber Kosh posted:Could I get some comments on my attempt to Nurgle-ify some Chaos Knights? Looks ok. One thing you nurgle-ify them could be done while painting. Have some joints/openings in their armor have leaks/stained-streaks of bile or other vile liquid coming out of them. Don't make it over the top, just something soft and subtle, like rust-runoff stains on armored vehicles and the like. Like this, with bile instead of rust:  (specifically referring to the runoff-streaking under the black thing)
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Apr 9, 2011 06:47
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Hell Diver posted:I had to crank out a quick picture for my oath, but the Ogryn are done. So, rest easy Fix, they found a good home. Everything I see that Ogryn with the blue shades I just go and... 
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My Skratch Buildin' Ork mood continues. This time however I felt like taking a break from space ships and working on something appropriate to another Specialist Games classic; GorkaMorka.  Unfortunately this is as far as I got with pictures before the camera decided it was too low on battery power to cooperate. Which sucks, because these weren't very good pictures. 
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ApocalypseMeow posted:Just finished the first unit of my Lizardman battalion today: Those are some wonderfully vivid colors. Hey, Hell Diver, what colors would you recommend for your Catachan skin process if I wanted to try using it on Orks?
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Tuxedo Jack posted:Thank you very much, I appreciate that. Ignore them, those airships are perfect.  Afterall, they're flying hunks of metal and canvas, they're already huge targets.
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So I was at the FLGS today building a fancy space marine because I was bored. He's not important who cares, though, yes, the barrels are drilled. Anyways, I was talking to the owner, my friend about the various specialist games when we both agreed it would be pretty awesome to see Blood Bowl get played around here. So I have decided I'll try to drum up some interest. To start that I grabbed the last of my Boyz sprues and built the first few Orks for a Blood Bowl Team!  Lineork, Blitzer (padz = Blitza ), Lineork, Thrower. I'm gonna order a box of 40k boyz to make some more with (the last box sold this weekend, which sucks because my FLGS is having a 30% off instock GW boxes sale this month), however I'm not sure what to do about the Black Ork Blockers. The Boyz box will work handily for Linemen, Throwers and Ork Blitzers, but aren't quite worthy of Black Orks. There is a WFB Black Ork box set in stock but even with the 30% I'm not sure $25ish is worth 4 Black Orks (with 6 leftover). However, they would look pretty awesome... I'm torn. Anyways, one more thing. I am  ing myself. I need to stop building poo poo and actually paint something for a change. So I declare the next pictures I post in this thread will be painted stuff or you know what. Probably these BB Orks. Speaking of, how does the Nu Mork Gargantz sound for a team name? Blue armor, white undershirts, kahki/tan pants, brown boots gloves?I wonder if I should greenstuff a ball for the thrower's throwin arm. [edit] There is also several sprues worth of Dark Elf Corsairs sitting around the store that I might try to convert into a Dark Elf Team using heads/helmets, punch daggers or just paintjobs to differentiate between Linemen, Blitzers and Runners but that obviously leaves no solution for the Witch Elf. Then again I suppose a starting team doesn't need a WE. \/\/\/\/\/ A good idea, though I doubt I'd be able to get my hands on some easily. Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Apr 19, 2011 |
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ApocalypseMeow posted:I also like the ice blue, makes them looks like frozen viking skeletons from the frosty north. Those minis have an excellent "cold" feel to them for me.
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Well, I finished painting two prototypes for my blood bowl team today. Learned a few things that is for sure. I definitely need to redo the pants. I chose a completely wrong undercolor. I'm also not entirely satisfied with my Ork skin. The left one (painted first) I found difficult to do the highlight/lightest shade in a way that didn't look overly distracting, which I solved by mixing the middle green with the light green a bit, watering it down, then unloading most of it from the brush. The second one however, I mixed in too much medium green so its barely noticeable... Ah well, I wasn't planning on using these guys as primaries anyways. The colors I used for the Orc skin were P3 colors, Gnarls Green, Iosian Green, and Wurm Green, I believe. Overall I'm satisfied with the basic "look", though I'm debating using a brighter blue which is currently Mordian Blue undercolor + Enchanted Blue (Left) or Cygnar Blue Highlight (Right). I'm probably just being overly critical of myself. [edit] Oh, I made the ball too, trying to shape greenstuff into an football sucks, kept getting too thin or point or lumpy or... Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Apr 22, 2011 |
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WhiteOutMouse posted:Try to use the non-furry helmets for your team. Just does not look as good as a normal helmet to me. Just my 2 cents. Yeah, I quickly decided I didn't like the furry helmet. I don't even think changing the furry part to white or whatever would help it.
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