For 'I've got two hours tonight and a tournament tomorrow' it seems inked base spray over 90% of the model doesn't do a half bad job. I reckon the shiny orcs are at least better than bare plastic anyway, and I can fool myself that I'll come back to do some details one day.
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Here's a washed out picture of a thing I made.
I need a new camera...
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I'm working on LotD still. Almost done with the 3rd model. I am really enjoying working on these. And it's so much faster painting them than my Fists, relatively. I'm just taking more time with them.
I'm only getting to work on this in short-ish spells (kids are off school for half-term break) but I'm really happy with how he's coming on.
Ok... I need to know what paints/techniques you used on his belly plate... That combo looks sharp
It's airbrush heavy but you could recreate it via regular brush using glazes amd a hairdryer.
Primed Vallejo Russian Green;
Based the armour with VGC Camouflage Green;
Highlighted the upper areas with a 50/50 mix of Camo Green and VMC Ice Yellow;
Airbrushed a few thin layers of Citadel Agrax Earthshade into the recesses.
Then with a regular brush I washed with Athonian Camoshade, edge highlighted with the yellow/green mix (more towards yellow though) and glazed a few more thin layers of Agrax into the recesses to boost the contrast.
As a finishing touch I painted thinned streaks of VGC Charred Brown running from the craters.
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I'm only getting to work on this in short-ish spells (kids are off school for half-term break) but I'm really happy with how he's coming on.
Ok... I need to know what paints/techniques you used on his belly plate... That combo looks sharp
It's airbrush heavy but you could recreate it via regular brush using glazes amd a hairdryer.
Primed Vallejo Russian Green;
Based the armour with VGC Camouflage Green;
Highlighted the upper areas with a 50/50 mix of Camo Green and VMC Ice Yellow;
Airbrushed a few thin layers of Citadel Agrax Earthshade into the recesses.
Then with a regular brush I washed with Athonian Camoshade, edge highlighted with the yellow/green mix (more towards yellow though) and glazed a few more thin layers of Agrax into the recesses to boost the contrast.
As a finishing touch I painted thinned streaks of VGC Charred Brown running from the craters.
You mean like trying lighter and stronger hues on pieces of paper to get brush control down? Honestly you’re probably better off just using the paints you want to practice with. Different paints are finicky in their own unique ways.
I’d test them out on some horde models like guardsmen so any mistakes get lost in the crowd, and you get the productive feeling of actually getting something painted.
I'm only getting to work on this in short-ish spells (kids are off school for half-term break) but I'm really happy with how he's coming on.
Ok... I need to know what paints/techniques you used on his belly plate... That combo looks sharp
It's airbrush heavy but you could recreate it via regular brush using glazes amd a hairdryer.
Primed Vallejo Russian Green;
Based the armour with VGC Camouflage Green;
Highlighted the upper areas with a 50/50 mix of Camo Green and VMC Ice Yellow;
Airbrushed a few thin layers of Citadel Agrax Earthshade into the recesses.
Then with a regular brush I washed with Athonian Camoshade, edge highlighted with the yellow/green mix (more towards yellow though) and glazed a few more thin layers of Agrax into the recesses to boost the contrast.
As a finishing touch I painted thinned streaks of VGC Charred Brown running from the craters.
Instructions unclear, ran paint through hair dryer, now it doesn't work.
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Finally managed to put everything for the elf team together. Now waiting for the airbrush booth. I hope that is usable without that snorkel that you can get extra?
WIP Salamander next to the Raven Guard I did before. The Salamander was more fun to paint, whereas I feel like highlighting all that black would get old pretty quickly, but equally that green's not my favourite colour. So in summary I suck and I'm still no closer to actually committing to one army.
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WIP Salamander next to the Raven Guard I did before. The Salamander was more fun to paint, whereas I feel like highlighting all that black would get old pretty quickly, but equally that green's not my favourite colour. So in summary I suck and I'm still no closer to actually committing to one army.
Look into some successor chapters if you want to use Raven Guard rules. I still think Salis are a really good SM army and are a bit under appreciated.
Look into some successor chapters if you want to use Raven Guard rules. I still think Salis are a really good SM army and are a bit under appreciated.
Or just roll your own successor chapter. You pick the colorscheme, lore, army style, etc. The only downside to successors in general is you would lose access to Shrike/Vulkan, but that's only one unit for either of those armies.
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If green's your favorite color and you want to run as Raven Guard then the answer, of course, is Raptors.
Look into some successor chapters if you want to use Raven Guard rules. I still think Salis are a really good SM army and are a bit under appreciated.
Or just roll your own successor chapter. You pick the colorscheme, lore, army style, etc. The only downside to successors in general is you would lose access to Shrike/Vulkan, but that's only one unit for either of those armies.
I don't see why you would. If you want your raven guard to be mauve and polka-dotted, they're mauve and polka-dotted raven guard. And Shrike, in all his mauve and polka-dotted glory, can lead them.
Yeah, a successor chapter would be an option, although I do like Shrike as a character. And I guess officially Salamanders don't have any successors? Apart from maybe the Black Dragons, which doesn't really solve the problem.
What I really want to do is a samurai-themed chapter, maybe using some of the Blood Angels kits that have stylised muscley armour, but I'm not sure if my modelling skills are up to that.
"I told you," said Ford. "Eddies in the space-time continuum."
"And this is his sofa, is it?" said Arthur.
Yeah, a successor chapter would be an option, although I do like Shrike as a character. And I guess officially Salamanders don't have any successors? Apart from maybe the Black Dragons, which doesn't really solve the problem.
What I really want to do is a samurai-themed chapter, maybe using some of the Blood Angels kits that have stylised muscley armour, but I'm not sure if my modelling skills are up to that.
Just paint/mod them however you want. And if you want them to be raven guard that look like yellow samurai? They're raven guard, and samurai shrike can lead them. If they day after you want them to be dark angels, then they're yellow samurai dark angels. Etc.
And anybody who tells you you can't do that is an idiot not worthy of your time.
Either way, it's a Daemon prince, right? It looks however it looks, and if that means the wings or head(s) or assorted tentacled masses may not be perfectly to scale with the torso or limbs, so be it.
It's beautiful, because that's the way the chaos gods made it.
Does terminator armor just have mechanical manipulators that the wearer controls from the wrists? Because unless Typhus is a double amputee those look like robot hands.
Does terminator armor just have mechanical manipulators that the wearer controls from the wrists? Because unless Typhus is a double amputee those look like robot hands.
I have absolutely no idea.
Rule of cool I guess?
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Probably? IIRC there was once a description of tactical dreadnought armour training that had the user learning to react using just their neural link controls rather than actually waving their arms around and one result on the 2nd edition Shokk Attack Gun table for terminators has the snotlings displace the pilot into the warp whereupon the suit begins to act randomly as the trapped greenies panic and trigger the controls.
Of course with chaos duders, especially Nurgle, this gets a bit blurry as they literally fuse with their suits after a while.
Probably? IIRC there was once a description of tactical dreadnought armour training that had the user learning to react using just their neural link controls rather than actually waving their arms around and one result on the 2nd edition Shokk Attack Gun table for terminators has the snotlings displace the pilot into the warp whereupon the suit begins to act randomly as the trapped greenies panic and trigger the controls.
Of course with chaos duders, especially Nurgle, this gets a bit blurry as they literally fuse with their suits after a while.
All marine suits are partly controlled mentally, it’s what the black carapace is for.
For terminators I always though that the arms were entirely mechanical because otherwise the shoulders and head make no sense in relation to each other. I kinda figured the guy was in there crossarmed like a vampire.
This also makes sense when you consider that terminator armour was designed as an extreme environment worker suit for regular humans, ala the power loader from alien.
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Yes, the Carapace allows the suit to read the wearer’s intent and ‘get out of the way’ just in time so they don’t squish themselves against the plates ahead of the motion etc. but that is, by default, always done in tandem with the wearer actually making a movement for maximum intuitiveness. Terminator training being to separate the motion of the pilot’s arms from the intent to move the suit arms (because they’re crossed in front of his chest and possibly also operating the suit’s sensor systems) makes sense in that context, no?
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Ok... I need to know what paints/techniques you used on his belly plate... That combo looks sharp
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It's airbrush heavy but you could recreate it via regular brush using glazes amd a hairdryer.
Primed Vallejo Russian Green;
Based the armour with VGC Camouflage Green;
Highlighted the upper areas with a 50/50 mix of Camo Green and VMC Ice Yellow;
Airbrushed a few thin layers of Citadel Agrax Earthshade into the recesses.
Then with a regular brush I washed with Athonian Camoshade, edge highlighted with the yellow/green mix (more towards yellow though) and glazed a few more thin layers of Agrax into the recesses to boost the contrast.
As a finishing touch I painted thinned streaks of VGC Charred Brown running from the craters.
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I’d test them out on some horde models like guardsmen so any mistakes get lost in the crowd, and you get the productive feeling of actually getting something painted.
Instructions unclear, ran paint through hair dryer, now it doesn't work.
"And this is his sofa, is it?" said Arthur.
Look into some successor chapters if you want to use Raven Guard rules. I still think Salis are a really good SM army and are a bit under appreciated.
Or just roll your own successor chapter. You pick the colorscheme, lore, army style, etc. The only downside to successors in general is you would lose access to Shrike/Vulkan, but that's only one unit for either of those armies.
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I don't see why you would. If you want your raven guard to be mauve and polka-dotted, they're mauve and polka-dotted raven guard. And Shrike, in all his mauve and polka-dotted glory, can lead them.
they said green is not their favourite colour :P
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You got me. I don't actually pay any attention to you people.
Bunch of nerds.
Also I painted a Saruman model I've had lying around for 17 years or so:
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What I really want to do is a samurai-themed chapter, maybe using some of the Blood Angels kits that have stylised muscley armour, but I'm not sure if my modelling skills are up to that.
"And this is his sofa, is it?" said Arthur.
Your model just reminded me how funny it would be to have a figure/statue of Saruman holding a Magic 8 Ball instead.
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Just paint/mod them however you want. And if you want them to be raven guard that look like yellow samurai? They're raven guard, and samurai shrike can lead them. If they day after you want them to be dark angels, then they're yellow samurai dark angels. Etc.
And anybody who tells you you can't do that is an idiot not worthy of your time.
This guy made that conversion. Looks like it works?
https://dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/545065.page?userfilterid=22236
It's beautiful, because that's the way the chaos gods made it.
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I have absolutely no idea.
Rule of cool I guess?
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Of course with chaos duders, especially Nurgle, this gets a bit blurry as they literally fuse with their suits after a while.
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All marine suits are partly controlled mentally, it’s what the black carapace is for.
For terminators I always though that the arms were entirely mechanical because otherwise the shoulders and head make no sense in relation to each other. I kinda figured the guy was in there crossarmed like a vampire.
This also makes sense when you consider that terminator armour was designed as an extreme environment worker suit for regular humans, ala the power loader from alien.
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