metcalfedan Posted February 1, 2009 Author Share Posted February 1, 2009 Sorry I haven't updated for a while guys... I've been busy building this for a friend: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/IMG_0563.jpg But lets not go into that, Anyway, this is a slightly outdated army pic, I'll get a new one soon: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/IMG_0560.jpg I've started work on some more hardcore veterans to work with my force, first the Dreadnought from AOBR: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/IMG_0564.jpg I also started the repaint of my sternguard: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/IMG_0565.jpg And started my Thunder Hammer Termi sarge: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/IMG_0566.jpg Along with this, I tried my luck on an assault marine: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/IMG_0567.jpg And the Company Champion is pretty much finished and on display (just need to paint around the base): http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/IMG_0568.jpg http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/IMG_0569.jpg Speaking of my display, I will try painting it later in the week to match my bases and here is a pic of everything that is finished so far: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/IMG_0570.jpg Oh and 1 more thing [/Jackie Chan cartoon Uncle impression] I tried painting the black armour on cassius: Here he is with 3 coats of badab black on mithril, I wish i did it with boltgun now, oh well: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/IMG_0571.jpg C&C much needed. Thanks ;) EDIT: now I can go and play in the snow WOOT! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twistinthunder Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Mick Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Good looking models :), as allways good job again ^_^ . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryJohnny Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Ooohh... I see a Dreadnought! They look all look really good Metcalfedan. :) Don't make us wait so long for an update next time. J/K ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metcalfedan Posted February 1, 2009 Author Share Posted February 1, 2009 Ooohh... I see a Dreadnought! They look all look really good Metcalfedan. :tu: Don't make us wait so long for an update next time. J/K :D I'll try :) What do you think of the black on cassius? I might have to leave it at that because anymore layers and I could start to loose detail, I already have on his left shoulder... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AngryJohnny Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 I think he looks good, I wouldn't add any more black washes. I wonder if it would have more of a black color look if you were to mix a little of your silver into the black? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snozz Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 The black looks good, I like it. Can't wait to see the finished model. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubbs80 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 I decided to try this tonight, even though I'm pretty new to painting minis. In fact, I'm so new that the picture I'm posting here is the first I've considered to be complete. There's definitely a lot of room for improvement. ;) I didn't set out to make the armor gold, it was a total accident. Before it became gold, it was black metallic. This was after about 4 layers of the black Citadel wash. I mixed what I intended to be some very dark grey to try to highlight the armor and it turned out to tint it goldish. This is a result of my Game Color Smoky Ink being very dark brown instead of black, as I was expecting. Anyway, enough preamble, here's the pic. As I said, this is my first mini and I know there are things that I could've done better. The chest eagle is a good example, as it looks 10x better from the opposite angle, with silver highlights against the gold. It's sort of mashed up from this angle. C&C are of course welcome. http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww309/cubbs80/SpaceMarinesAssaultTerminator2-2-20.jpg Ps. Yeah, there's a lot of crap in this pic which would seem to indicate that I've been doing this for a while but I've mainly just been experimenting with things since I've never done anything like this before. I have a box full of attempts that I need to rework.. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metcalfedan Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 I decided to try this tonight, even though I'm pretty new to painting minis. In fact, I'm so new that the picture I'm posting here is the first I've considered to be complete. There's definitely a lot of room for improvement. :devil: I didn't set out to make the armor gold, it was a total accident. Before it became gold, it was black metallic. This was after about 4 layers of the black Citadel wash. I mixed what I intended to be some very dark grey to try to highlight the armor and it turned out to tint it goldish. This is a result of my Game Color Smoky Ink being very dark brown instead of black, as I was expecting. Anyway, enough preamble, here's the pic. As I said, this is my first mini and I know there are things that I could've done better. The chest eagle is a good example, as it looks 10x better from the opposite angle, with silver highlights against the gold. It's sort of mashed up from this angle. C&C are of course welcome. http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww309/cubbs80/SpaceMarinesAssaultTerminator2-2-20.jpg Ps. Yeah, there's a lot of crap in this pic which would seem to indicate that I've been doing this for a while but I've mainly just been experimenting with things since I've never done anything like this before. I have a box full of attempts that I need to rework.. lol. That's... That's... That's like the first time I saw Chuck Norris do a roundhouse kick! INCREDIBLE! :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubbs80 Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 LOL. You're far, far too kind. There were some posts about highlighting the armor a ways up and they're right, it's difficult to get the hue just right. I found a color to use for it by accident (go figure, again) when I was trying to touch up some slop around my repaint of the head. At this point I'm using Vallejo Game Color metallics so I mixed up a bit of the tin, gold and smoky ink, which was a bit more bronze colored and produced a nice highlight. I just hit the tops of stuff on the side this picture was taken. When I fixed the head, I covered up everything but the eyes - which turned out pretty good (GC blues) - with GW Astronomicon Grey (whatever the light grey Foundation is called.... I bought the set since I couldn't figure out how to get paint to cover evenly at first) and then highlighted it from this side with some straight Vallejo white. Oh, and sorry about the phone camera picture. I don't have a dedicated photo camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twistinthunder Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 i just noticed but how'd you model the guy hopping over terrain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amit Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Those miniatures/painting technique is coming along really well. The power armour champion looks awesome! Keep us updated pls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubernator Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Along with this, I tried my luck on an assault marine:http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/IMG_0567.jpg Is that... an assault marine walking up a wall in the background?! O.o focus pic on him, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedan Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 This technique is really great, started on Kantor using this technique. Unfortunatly I have not gotten to doing the red areas on him yet. On a side note, any word on the bronze color? I personally have not had time for trying it out myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metcalfedan Posted February 3, 2009 Author Share Posted February 3, 2009 Oh yeah, I tried it on another Uruk-hai, it looks quite good! I'll try to get a pic up soon :D Same for you Hubernator. :jaw: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screwhead Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 ooooo the metalic black came out a lot better than I thought it would.. almost makes me want to re-do my terminator chappy... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metcalfedan Posted February 6, 2009 Author Share Posted February 6, 2009 ooooo the metalic black came out a lot better than I thought it would.. almost makes me want to re-do my terminator chappy... It just seems a bit too bright too me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Clausel Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 It just seems a bit too bright too me. And it is... It really needs to be a lot darker. Maybe try with som Black ink? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mika Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 That is wonderfull. Great idea with a very good end result. I think i will steal your idea for my Cygnar army first :mellow: Then, do you have any suggestion so as to get an UM blue ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metcalfedan Posted February 6, 2009 Author Share Posted February 6, 2009 Then, do you have any suggestion so as to get an UM blue ? Maybe lighter washes of blue, or not wash the layer of badab black to make it lighter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Mick Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 True but lighter version of this i kinda dislike(except 2blue layers instead of 3 like mine :D but not much diffrence). Ofcourse totally your own choice ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrike22 Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 Along with this, I tried my luck on an assault marine:http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/IMG_0567.jpg Sorry, i deleated the origionals (quote tags that is) But how many of those guys have Pfists? Because it looks to me like all of them do. EDIT: Also good work and i do agree the black could be darker but i can offer no advice as i cant paint for [insert word here] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyescrossed Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 I haven't even had a chance to do my metallic marines because I haven't gotten Baal Red yet :( I love your work! Oh, and how did you come across painting them this way? Were you experimenting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metcalfedan Posted February 7, 2009 Author Share Posted February 7, 2009 Along with this, I tried my luck on an assault marine:http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/IMG_0567.jpg Sorry, i deleated the origionals (quote tags that is) But how many of those guys have Pfists? Because it looks to me like all of them do. EDIT: Also good workand i do agree the black could be darker but i can offer no advice as i cant paint for [insert word here] The whole squad has power fists and the sergeant has a thunder hammer. In normal 40K games they just count as close combat weapons, because after all a power fist is a "close combat weapon". And in Apocalypse games they are an uber-vanguard-titan-killer-of-doom squad. hehe Oh, and how did you come across painting them this way? Were you experimenting? Not quite sure, I think it was experimenting, yeah, yeah it was, when I started to paint a Legio B&C "sternguard" squad I tried this technique on their right shoulder pads :( Oh yeah, here you go hubs, some more shots of "flipper" from when he wasn't a Crimson Fist: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/DSC00365.jpg http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/DSC00367.jpg http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/metcalfedan/DSC00366.jpg You can tell I like to recycle old minis... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyescrossed Posted February 7, 2009 Share Posted February 7, 2009 Reminds me of Prince of Persia. Also, if you get WD, can you remember which one the plastic Balrog was released in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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