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Post by sionnach19 on Jan 15, 2013 12:25:40 GMT -5
Yeah, harder to see in the pictures... what I'd done is paint yellow on/around the eye, the used white on the eye itself, and finally put a yellow glaze on. The yellow may have obscured the white highlight a bit much, in which case I guess I could retouch it. Will think about it tonight while I'm basing.
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Post by sionnach19 on Jan 17, 2013 1:48:19 GMT -5
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Post by Tim on Jan 17, 2013 2:02:26 GMT -5
Looking pretty nice. If you make it over tomorrow be sure to bring them. The eyes look very solid, we done sir.
A far as khador goes do you mean color scheme?
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Post by sionnach19 on Jan 18, 2013 3:11:17 GMT -5
Tim was nice enough to use his lightbox and get some halfway decent Goblin pics... Here's some way nicer images! I'd meant thoughts on what to paint next, Tim -- Khador, Thorin's Company, or Tervigon. I'm thinking of bringing my Khador and Tervigon down to school with me (I need a bit more practice painting people before I tackle the Dwarves -- Winterguard Infantry get to be my guinea pigs for flesh!)... I want to try a more advanced paint job on this Tervigon as a standard to update my Tyranids to, as well as using him as my monster submission for our eventual painting contest. The Khador stuff I just want to get battlefield ready, so finding a solid color scheme and tackling all my jacks infantry. Really working on upping my painting game here, so we'll see what happens! I also have an Emperor's Champion to paint using Tim's epic gold recipe, may submit him as my hero... we'll see!
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Post by captainecho on Jan 22, 2013 18:16:54 GMT -5
The flesh tones are really looking nice. The layered mottled look is pretty cool
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Post by sionnach19 on Jan 22, 2013 20:59:46 GMT -5
Trying to paint some Khador now (except I forgot my metal paints... le sigh). Having trouble picking a color scheme. There's the classic all red: The alternate white/red scheme (this looks much harder to paint well -- excellent weathering is what really makes this come together... I'd be much more keen on painting it if I hadn't just primed my guys black!): The alternate green and red "Soviet" theme (I'm least keen on this one, as it only looks good in a few cases): And finally, a grey with red trim (this is what I was originally setting out to do, but now am having second thoughts!): I'm really torn. I don't think I want to do the military green. I'm dreading even trying a mock up of the white color scheme, as it will be so many layers over a black primer. I think the grey scheme can make a really cool alternate, a little variation on the traditional theme; but it misses some of the bold, iconic-ness of the straight red. The other trick is figuring out how to paint infantry/warcasters so that they match my color scheme -- I think the warcasters in white or green are underwhelming; and even the grey will be tricky as I want them to be distinct and bright. The other downside to the dark grey is that painting the grey is very similar to how I'm trying to paint black armor for my Space Marines, and that overlap doesn't give me a chance to broaden my horizons. Another painting questions -- how does one paint warjacks? Is it just highlighting the armor? or doing some kind of blending to make the big open areas of armor look properly shaded? I'm not sure where to start!
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Post by aetios on Jan 22, 2013 22:49:07 GMT -5
You could always flip the red/green mix so it's primarily red with green trim. You could even use the dark grey/black on the joint pieces to break it up a little more.
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Post by Tim on Jan 23, 2013 11:10:58 GMT -5
I like the dark bluish grey, fun color to paint. That's my vote.
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Post by dante on Jan 23, 2013 16:02:22 GMT -5
Do something outta left field! Yellow and brown khador!
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Post by Dr Carnivean on Jan 23, 2013 20:02:42 GMT -5
Damn, Bri - 39 already?!?! Are those all goblins from the Hobbit set? They're really looking nice. You get to play yet?
I like the 'currently painting' line of your sig - might have to appropriate that myself.
For Khador I like the grey scheme too. I hear you though about the classic all red Khador look. Maybe you could keep a big character jack all red to make him stand out from the pack.
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Post by sionnach19 on Jan 23, 2013 21:12:21 GMT -5
Yeah, 36 plastic Goblins, the Goblin King, Grinnah, and a generic captain... easy way to bolster that painting margin! I got one game in with my old highschool friends which was a lot of fun. The goblins were awesome, one of them has a special rule that allows him to call for reinforcements each turn so I was recycling Goblins faster than they could be killed off!
I think I'm going to try the grey scheme... it still has the elements of red armor, and the Warcasters can still get red armor which will look good. If I can't find a good way to paint the grey (or I fall in love with a great way to paint the red) then I may change gears and revert back to the "iconic" Khador look.
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Post by dante on Jan 23, 2013 23:06:42 GMT -5
Still cant change your mind? YELLOW AND BROWN! ;D
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Post by sionnach19 on Jan 26, 2013 21:42:59 GMT -5
Well, just finished ruining a pVlad model! Here's some really crappy pictures of him. I was trying something a little different -- in the fluff, Vlad's armor is relic knight armor instead of steam powered warcaster armor so I figured a more traditional paint scheme could reflect that. Ultimately, I don't really like it -- and once I stopped liking it, I unfortunately gave up on painting him seriously. Stopped using the wet pallete, too lazy to thin paints or mix colors right... just slapped things on, which is why the red cloak and the blue eyes/sword look so bad. I have to figure out how to paint faces/human skin tones, but I'm going to start practicing with the Winterguard or something... want to eventually work up to the better faces on the warcasters and solo's. Anyone have any good tips/advice? Next up I'm going to tackle a juggernaut I have sitting here... I'm pretty sure that I'm just going to stick with the standard color scheme, Warmahordes doesn't lend itself as well as 40k to alternate schemes imo. I'm looking at Vlad and just saying "Man, he looks *wrong.*"
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Post by Tim on Jan 27, 2013 3:08:35 GMT -5
One tip I have is that everything I work I feel looks bad to start. It's only till the second or third layer/highlight where it all comes together.
The model itself looks a little anorexic. And he has very little face to paint it looks like do that's going to be ultra tough.
His cape though, that's begging for some nice layering practice. See where the creases/high points are? Even the slight dips and raises along the bottom edge? Take that same red you used before the wash and cover almost all the cape again leaving only the deepest spots. Add a tiny bit of yellow/orange and paint it all again, leaving a tiny bit of the red you just did. Add a tiny bit more yellow/orange and leave about half of what you just painted showing. Lastly paint a really bright and sharp highlight on just the crests of the folds in orange. Good layer practice to learn the technique. It won't be seamless but it will look good.
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Post by captainecho on Jan 27, 2013 8:58:06 GMT -5
I agree with Tim, and since my standards are so low, I can safely say that you've effectively surpassed anything I've done on a model that scale. To quote darth vader "last time we met, I was the pupil and you were the master, now I am the master." except, change I to you.
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