ShotgunFacelift Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 in an attempt to broaden my conversion experience I tried to convert some chaos terminators into 2 different rune priests, and my first lone wolf model. As these guys are supposed to be the more heroic brothers of the Space Wolves company I thought tru scaling would do them justice. Of the things I've learnt. - Practice, practice, practice - Things look way different under harsh light - GS will not stick to the model after 15-20 mins (no matter how much you swear at it) - When smoothed correctly GS looks great, but looks like smeg if its not. - GS Beards are tough - keeping fingerprints off GS is even tougher The energy arcs (spirals) on the rune weapons looked really good before painting, but don't look so hot now. The tru scaling is more obvious with the lone wolf, I wanted to keep the hooded part of the terminator armor for the rune priest to indicate the Psychic hood. its more obvious in side shots, that the rune priest hood only covers the head, and tapers down to the back where the backpack connects. Rune Priest 1 http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee73/CollateralDamage_photos/SNV80011.jpg Rune Priest 2 http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee73/CollateralDamage_photos/SNV80013.jpg Lone Wolf (Storm shield and thunder hammer version coming soon!!) http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee73/CollateralDamage_photos/SNV80016.jpg I've still got a fair amount of highlighting to do on the armor and will need to add a few more layers to even out the colors. But I could really do with some help with the painting. The lighting effect painting does not look how I planned it at all, and I would appreciate some pointers on how to pull it off. ;) Same with the blue to white energy arcs, I just dont know where to go from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattCrawford Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 Chaos Termie bitz for loyalists? http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss211/MattCrawford/extraheresy.jpg?t=1267296561 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShotgunFacelift Posted February 28, 2010 Author Share Posted February 28, 2010 Heresy it is. But for practice its less expensive than buying new minis and "having a go" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattCrawford Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Haha, fair enough. I like your sculpts. And yes, even though heretical, you've mostly make the armor seem passable-loyalist. The painting, however, leaves something to be desired. Its probably the harsh light you were talking about, but the paint looks a bit thick. I also dislike the blue lightning coils. Its a nice concept, but they don't really add to the model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShotgunFacelift Posted March 3, 2010 Author Share Posted March 3, 2010 yeah the painting looks like hell. Looks like its back to the painting table for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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