Battle Brother Loken Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 No pics :) ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starks333 Posted October 22, 2009 Author Share Posted October 22, 2009 haha ya my bad <_< check back in a bit, ill post new pics on my other bucket when i get the first stage of bases done Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Loring Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 Thanks, Iassume you mean two layers of salting, washed silver...salt...tin bitz...salt...black...water. Hmm, it may be a bit time consuming but I'll give it a try. I may also try washed silver with only a light spray of tin bitz to get just partial coverage and then black. I'd like to get an effect that were the paint has chipped/weathered it's started to rust/age in places. Not sure if ceramite weathers, but I'll give it a go! Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starks333 Posted October 22, 2009 Author Share Posted October 22, 2009 Thanks, Iassume you mean two layers of salting, washed silver...salt...tin bitz...salt...black...water. Hmm, it may be a bit time consuming but I'll give it a try. I may also try washed silver with only a light spray of tin bitz to get just partial coverage and then black. I'd like to get an effect that were the paint has chipped/weathered it's started to rust/age in places. Not sure if ceramite weathers, but I'll give it a go! Thanks again! no not two metallic layers, two colour layers instead of metal you can also do what DV8 did with his and use a 8b or 7b pencil and manually "scratch" our guys and then use bestial brown and dark flesh and snakebite to add washes or streaks to create or simulate the effects of rust Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starks333 Posted October 23, 2009 Author Share Posted October 23, 2009 quick pic as i work on the bases :rolleyes: its plaster + dirt + water for the colour is powder pigment plus some umbral umber http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Starks3333/40k/Scorpions/100_5939.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starks333 Posted October 24, 2009 Author Share Posted October 24, 2009 Sometimes its eays to forget where everyone started, so heres a shot of my first ever painted model http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Starks3333/40k/Before%20and%20After/100_3775.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Starks3333/40k/Before%20and%20After/100_3776.jpg And here are the bases after they have dried, still mroe colouring and dust applying to do though http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Starks3333/40k/Scorpions/100_5946.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Starks3333/40k/Scorpions/100_5947.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Starks3333/40k/Scorpions/100_5948.jpg Drop pod with some pigment added for the blackness...i also painted the rivets silver to help break up all the green http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Starks3333/40k/Scorpions/100_5949.jpg And heres the terminators, the 5 last models i have to paint(only thing left is the raider) i got carried away and painted their eyes red, ill have to go over that when i finish the hammers, i also need to re-highlight the green to bring it in line with the rest of the army, other than that they need the green washes and they are done....i need to re-highlight up the one sternguard and the captain too for the same reason, i also wanna fix the sternguards face...it doesnt look right http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Starks3333/40k/Scorpions/100_5950.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
13skullz Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 These models... Are so effing beautiful. Love 'em. Although, I must say that the assault terminators' stances make them look like they are trying to stand on a hunk of metal covered with mashed potatoes. -Skullz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starks333 Posted October 24, 2009 Author Share Posted October 24, 2009 @13skullz, ya i got the termies already glued to their bases, and i didnt care enough to throw o milliput for ground work, it will look better when the colouring and dusting is done tho Here's the last of the foot troops finished up! i borrowed my girlfriends cam and got some pics tha actually show the work for once! http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Starks3333/40k/Scorpions/IMG_0535.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Starks3333/40k/Scorpions/IMG_0536.jpg http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Starks3333/40k/Scorpions/IMG_0538.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GumbaFish Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 I was curious do you plan on picking out a lot of the smaller details later on once you have the army ready to game with, or are you just uniterested in doing them. While the main color looks great some of them seem a bit bland and haven't had skulls, backpack vents, purity seals etc picked out or just been plainly picked out compared to your usual stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starks333 Posted October 25, 2009 Author Share Posted October 25, 2009 I was curious do you plan on picking out a lot of the smaller details later on once you have the army ready to game with, or are you just uniterested in doing them. While the main color looks great some of them seem a bit bland and haven't had skulls, backpack vents, purity seals etc picked out or just been plainly picked out compared to your usual stuff. im not sure which details you mean? the vents are painted silver n the backpacks, the purity seals are all painted(no writing as i dont like writing n them) they are just in a greyish colour(like leather) rather than a whiteish colour(like paper) as i dont like them tanding out, i would remove them all too if i cared to spend the time to carve them all off and resculpt the skulls are green mostly because i dont like them and dont want them to stand out, i could of spent time shaving them all off but instead i just painted them the same colour as the armour, in some cases ive done them gold, if they are accompanied by a crux or termie honours cross, in order to break up the green im not a fan of bling'd out models, i like simple schemes yet ive still used about 20-25 colours on them the problem with photos is they show zoomed in shots of areas, this army was painted quite fast(even though it took me months to finish) i spent only a couple hours on models, for example the biker captain took about 3-4hours, the captain on foot about 3hours, the 5 man termie squad about 3-4 hours , and so on, i havent given them the time as individual pieces like Lunchbox, instead i made an army look good overall, i just dont have the patience for the single model treatment i may eventually go back over the army and adjust bolter colours to red or black, further shade and blend the green, and clean up some things, add some freehand to the empty spaces and so on, but right now im just aiming to finish the army and move on to some other things :lol: i will try and get some better shots in once everything is 100% finished, for now its just quick pics Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GumbaFish Posted October 25, 2009 Share Posted October 25, 2009 I think maybe on seeing the skull on the captains backpack not painted I presumed that then the subdued purity seals were just basecoated as I am so used to seeing bright parchment colored ones. Now that you explain how you just don't like all the fiddly bits and wanted to subdue them it makes more sense. As a lot of the links seem to have exceeed bandwitdh I think I placed too much emphasis on the captains backpack which just stuck out to me since other details have obviously been paid attention to while the skull remained unpainted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starks333 Posted October 29, 2009 Author Share Posted October 29, 2009 painting is complete! I will post close ups tommorow or something, my computer was down for a couple days and cam was full so i couldnt get any other shots http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Starks3333/40k/Scorpions/IMG_0689.jpg and now im doing the dusting and painting of bases, may only be doing the dusting on the half im selling for now http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/Starks3333/40k/Scorpions/IMG_0690.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starks333 Posted October 29, 2009 Author Share Posted October 29, 2009 @gumbo, just hope you arent taking that as me getting defensive, i just wnated to explain why its like that :lol: the "for sale" lot finished :D http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0707.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0709.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0710.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0715.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0722.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0724.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Loring Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Exceptional work, the faces on the scouts are absolutely superb!!!!!! Where are the helmets for the normal marines from, they look excellent and fit in with the models perfectly! Excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DV8 Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Exceptional work, the faces on the scouts are absolutely superb!!!!!! Where are the helmets for the normal marines from, they look excellent and fit in with the models perfectly! Excellent! Forgeworld Red Scorpion kits. On every marine in Power armor...even the Land Speeder Pilots. Very nicely done Starks333, I look forward to playing with/against your army again soon :) Maybe even find a doubles tournament perchance? :D DV8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinigami Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 :o this army is superb, I love the execution and the paintscheme itself! May I ask you a couple of things? First of all, how do you proceed with the main surfaces (chipped green ones)painting, after the first airgun highlight? Do you wash and highlight the surfaces more, and if so, which colours/ washes do you use? Second, I really like the gold on your models, it looks different from the usual GW"shining gold" tone, which's a bit too deep in my opinion. Again, could you please tell me which colour or mix of colours you used to achieve that beautiful gold tone? Regards!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starks333 Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 :o this army is superb, I love the execution and the paintscheme itself! May I ask you a couple of things? First of all, how do you proceed with the main surfaces (chipped green ones)painting, after the first airgun highlight? Do you wash and highlight the surfaces more, and if so, which colours/ washes do you use? Second, I really like the gold on your models, it looks different from the usual GW"shining gold" tone, which's a bit too deep in my opinion. Again, could you please tell me which colour or mix of colours you used to achieve that beautiful gold tone? Regards!! ill start with the gold cuz its easier....i mix up burnished gold GW, and vallejo air chrome(brightest silver you can get) so i get a colour that looks like "white gold" then paint er on, after that applying washes of devlan mud to shadows helps colour and define its shape, and add a highlight of the main colour plus more chrome and done!....my metals are just quick an easy literally paint them in 20-30 seconds as for the green, the airbrushing gets you the bulk green and bulk highlight, so the trick then is to define the various shapes by lining(i used devlan to save from mixing) and that gets your shapes seperated but the model still feels a bit flat even with all that, so the key is using a slightly more saturated colour(in my case my main green with a bit more green, less red which i used to dull it) and i apply controlled glazes over the sides of certain shapes, or to areas i wanted to give more definition...so instead of going light to dark, it goes light to saturated to dark....this is what brings out the curveyness of the shoulders, or the shape on the termies, and helps emphasize your lighting without always going brighter or darker After a bit of discussion with some friends, it was decided that i should do more to the master of the forge and so i did, i added the freehand and chipped it, and i redid the shoulder pad trim, brightened the orange "glow" and ...thats it :P http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0732.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0733.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0734.jpg Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiplash Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 great looking army its astonishing in comparison to your first mini!! thats so cool seeing how far you have come i think the back half of the speeder bike thing isnt dark enough for me the dust is too thick and bright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starks333 Posted October 30, 2009 Author Share Posted October 30, 2009 it does that automatically on forums, it worked when i first posted it, oh well, apparently im not supposed to post it here anyways :P as for the jetbike, im not gonna worry about fine details like that, these are just tabletop pieces, i could of gone way further to make that piece more interesting but the time commitment and what i get out of it just arent worth it for me i may be adding "freehand" to more things throughout my army later on, a friend of mine likes designing the stuff to put on, and i dont like designing the stuff to put on, so it works! more to come a bit later on tonight after i finish the remaining bases Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GumbaFish Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Oh no I didn't think you were being defensive at all. Looking good, I definately like the addition of freehand to the MOTF. I find this sort of painting using the airbrush to apply an initial highlight followed by more definition later on to be quite interesting. It obviously gives some pretty nice results, and at a darn fast turnaround too. I presume you apply a base green then a lighter green in a similar manner to people who dust from above with white primer when doing zenithal lighting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starks333 Posted November 1, 2009 Author Share Posted November 1, 2009 Oh no I didn't think you were being defensive at all. Looking good, I definately like the addition of freehand to the MOTF. I find this sort of painting using the airbrush to apply an initial highlight followed by more definition later on to be quite interesting. It obviously gives some pretty nice results, and at a darn fast turnaround too. I presume you apply a base green then a lighter green in a similar manner to people who dust from above with white primer when doing zenithal lighting? yup, pretty much, it saves a lot of time on highlighting, just not when you screw up and have to redo a lot of it like me!!! ^_^ the end result still reruires good technique and application of colour and paint, with glzes, blending on the other parts and so on but its nice and dirty, not super crisp yet still has crispness to it The army is now complete....as i mentioend i may go back later on and add freehand to vehicles and add the dust and such, but for now it is done <_< http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0745.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0765.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0766.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0767.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0769.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0768.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0747.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0748.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0751.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0752.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0753.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0760.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0763.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0764.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0754.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0755.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0757.jpg http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll18/BionicCow/Scorpions/IMG_0758.jpg Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nose Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 I have yet to finish an army (too busy switching between project's) and I must say, you did a very fine job! The rust effect is really good and looks quite nice on your army. I congrat's you. You should be proud. Very great looking army! Nose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yogi Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 This is soo original.. very cool. Going throught this thread at first I was like What the hell is he doing.. but it looks great in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinigami Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 thank you so much for your tips, I'll try that method out myself. :) Again, a grat job, you managed to get iall painted and detailed so fastly and still the result is simply astonishing. Havin' used the airbrush also give the whole a cohesive feel which i think is really important for the general looking of an army. Hope to see other of your paintjobs posted in this same board sometime!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiplash Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 incredible stuff now that i see the army all together it looks sooo much better the orange blades and eyes etc contrast the army sooo well although subtle it really adds to the peice i have to say that the vehicles do stand out surprisingly without the dust i will eagerly await the fully finished army Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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