revnow Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 For the past month or so I have been playing in a campaign hosted by my local gaming club. I'm going to use this thread to post battle reports and updates on the campaign. But, just as important is the fact that painting is taken into account in the campaign, giving me impetus to finish my Daemonhunters. So, the first little bit is a side by side of the two paint schemes I'm considering for my Grey Knights. I'm still pretty amateur on the whole painting aspect so C&C are obvious welcome, but what I would really appreciate is thoughts on which scheme ya'll prefer. The idea was to do something other than the traditional boltgun metal. I have closeups of the individual models if anyone wants. I'll also try and post battle reports from my first 5 games throughout the week. I was a bit more lazy on the greyish one with regard to some of the details. http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/DSCN3415.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dzudzilla Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 I very much like the brighter scheme, my own knights are very dark and gritty , almost dirty looking but your approach looks very cool indeed...that's it , just my two cents... *-just a quick edit . May i suggest trying to find a different color for the storm bolter casing? And maybe using the same color on the blank shoulder pad...just to make the model pop a little bit more...that's it, im done... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-1921379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
panbient Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 yeah i like the brighter scheme as well. if you want to stand out you might as well take a big step. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-1921527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jester_prince Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 I actualy love this scheme... my GKs dont looks very good (traditional metal scheme), your scheme might actualy be the answer to my problem. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-1921654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
krewl Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Same for me a vote on the brighter one. Very nice look & feel on that guy. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-1921928 Share on other sites More sharing options...
revnow Posted May 10, 2009 Author Share Posted May 10, 2009 So I never actually got to posting any batreps or anything, so I'm just going to transition this thread into asking for painting advice from the Inquisition community as the army progresses. The next question is which style do ya'll prefer with regard to the NFWs. these are the first two finished termies btw, the remainder are done except for weapons (which I need feedback on). http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/DSCN3584.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-1982748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozybonza Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 the one on the right for the NFW. I can see what you were trying to do with the other one, but I think it looks a bit weird. 2nd one looks awesome though. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-1982919 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karitas Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 agreed, while i understand the 3d lightning, it's not as sucessful as the paint job. at worst it looks like uncleaned flash your paint on the right hand model is the right balance of sublte and stroong, its very effective, and i like it a lot. *cough*tutorial*cough* if anything it makes the armour on the model look a tad flat - it might be the photography, but if it isnt, you might want to look at lifting the contrast on the shadows on him :lol: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-1983049 Share on other sites More sharing options...
revnow Posted May 10, 2009 Author Share Posted May 10, 2009 Heh, normally I would blame my crappy painting, but this was in fact the picture. I'm still learning the ins and outs of the new camera I'm using, and all the previous pictures were to dark, so I used a complete white background, but that just ended up blasting all of contrast off the model and overlightening it. in decently bright light (direct sunlight and eqv.) the armor is about 2 shades darker, and the recesses about 3-4. I'll try to work out the photography issues when I post the rest of the squad. As for the painted electricity, the process was pretty simple. The NFWs are boltgun metal and then washed with a 1 part ice blue, 1 part mithiril silver, 2 parts water wash. I did a really thin skull white highlight on the edges of the NFW, and then used a 0 brush to slowly work lightening from the base to the tip using the "cleansing of St. Muriel's Chapel" (I think is the name) picture in Codex: DH as a rough aproximation of the look I wanted. The electrical arcs are also skull white, the key to doing them well is to remember that electricity will fork to multiple points of contact, work from base to tip, and do them twice to ensure that the brightness of the skull white against the boltgun metal holds when the second wash goes over. Then a second wash of silve/ice blue goes over the top to blue/silver up the arcs. I put it over the whole blade, this way the blade has the glowing quality of an energized weapon, and the arcs are still several shades lighter. You could do a third wash to blue up the arcs, but I worried about that potentialy over covering them, or wiping them out entirely. Edit: Pics of the finished squad http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/DSCN3593.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/DSCN3596.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/DSCN3602.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/DSCN3607.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-1983106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Master Iapetus Posted May 11, 2009 Share Posted May 11, 2009 I definitely like the variation in color, the gold runes pop a lot more. And some nice attention to the personal heraldry. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-1983698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
revnow Posted September 24, 2010 Author Share Posted September 24, 2010 These originally went up in the finished works forum, but I thought they may be more appropriate here. Updated the highlights on the original termies as so many suggested http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-09-22_17-57-51_907.jpg The finished GM + Retinue. The GM has actually undergone some subsequent repairs due to a horrendous act of destruction accidentally visited upon it by a large textbook. http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-09-22_17-43-41_420.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-09-22_17-43-55_311.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-09-22_17-44-28_983.jpg Lone pics of the GM http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-09-22_18-29-38_369.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-09-22_18-29-52_939.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-09-22_18-30-29_692.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-2520635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentlemanloser Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 Nice! ;) What's the colour of the Armour? A mixture of Bleached Bone and some other stuff? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-2520856 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oiad Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 Love the psyker-lightning effects too. That it extends up the arm and from the eyes (unhelmed) seems just right. Anymore and it would be overkill. Did you use thread/wire on your earlier models to create the effect? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-2520882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
revnow Posted September 25, 2010 Author Share Posted September 25, 2010 Thanks! Armour is a basecoat of graveyard earth, then Kommando Khaki, wash with thinned Badab Black, highlights in 50/50 mixture of Kommando Khaki and Skull White. The NFWs on previous models have all actually been redone a bit to match the current models. I tried modelling the lightening effects with wire on one model originally, but the effect didn't grow on me, so it has been updated to match the others. I think I'll have to wait for my greenstuffing skills to catch up before I consider trying that again. The lightening effects are skull white painted on in lightening arcs and then washed in a mixture of 1 part enchanted blue, 1 part ice blue, 1 part mithiril silver, 4 parts water and a very small amount of dish liquid (to break surface tension). Looking at these pics I actually just noticed some more of the damage from the textbook. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-2521074 Share on other sites More sharing options...
revnow Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 Update. More done. CLearly I'm not that great of a photographer. Changed up heraldry and blacklined recesses on hair http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-10-05_18-14-52_834.jpg Grey Knights! The only half decent picture I took! http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-10-05_18-27-06_701.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-10-05_18-32-43_54.jpg Sigh, one day I'll figure this whole picture shooty thing out. http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-10-05_18-39-15_724.jpg Who likes unintentional blue filter? http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-10-05_18-42-08_138.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-10-05_18-42-46_537.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-2529303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
revnow Posted October 18, 2010 Author Share Posted October 18, 2010 Finished! Mostly, display board still needs some work, but whatever. After two years of start and stop and some serious changes in my painting style, this damn almost all metal behemoth is finally done. Will probably be unable to resist adding things as time goes on and the new codex comes out, but it feels really good to have this whole army done. http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-10-16_11-41-27_148.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-10-16_11-42-05_163.jpg http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-10-16_11-43-09_77.jpg A picture from my first round. GKTs vs. Shrike and 10 TH/SS terminators. (10 became 5 due to some concentrated incinerator, stormbolter and psycannon fire) http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn5/revnow85/2010-10-16_10-54-17_968.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/163463-campaign-log-paintingbatreps/#findComment-2539843 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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