Vindicatus Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Long time lurker, first time poster; I've enjoyed being able to sit and read what folks have to say (speculation or otherwise) on a variety of topics, but I figured I'd share in my first serious sit-down attempt at knocking out some quality work. Be warned, it's a little image heavy. Disclaimer : These photos were taken with my iPhone because my digital camera is currently sitting in a black hole, someplace. As a result, they're a little blurred in some cases, but I think they get the point across. Disclaimer 2 : I have absolutely no vocational, artistic training whatsoever. I suck at drawing, have issues keeping between the lines when colouring, and painting something as simple as a dog on a piece of canvas will look like a brown orb with a head and a hot-dog sticking out of it's back. Regardless, I would definitely appreciate some constructive criticism (you're your own worst critic, after all). Ordo Malleus Inquisitori Rhino (side) http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n528/Vindicatus_133/009.jpg Ordo Malleus Inquisitori Rhino (back) http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n528/Vindicatus_133/011.jpg Ordo Malleus Inquisitori Rhino (top) http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n528/Vindicatus_133/012.jpg Thunderhammer GK http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n528/Vindicatus_133/019.jpg Grey Knight "Champion" http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n528/Vindicatus_133/016.jpg Grey Knight (misc) http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n528/Vindicatus_133/017.jpg Grey Knight Grand Master http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n528/Vindicatus_133/018.jpg Grey Knight (Firing, arm braced) http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n528/Vindicatus_133/014.jpg Grey Knight (Firing, arm extended) http://i1138.photobucket.com/albums/n528/Vindicatus_133/015.jpg Questions, comments and such are greatly appreciated. As a side note, I intentionally made them look a little 'grungy', because being a former soldier myself, I know that in the middle of the thick of it, no one's looking like they just showed up in their Sunday's best. War is dirty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Race Bannon Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Post more and win! I love the dark armor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee265 Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 wow that color makes them look even more deadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadlift58 Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 that is some awesome work. i love the rhino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-=Dan=- Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Love the gunfire also! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindicatus Posted December 23, 2010 Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 I appreciate the...well..appreciation :D Surprisingly, the gunfire was a smashing success on my first try. I ordered up some muzzle-flash bits from ArmorCast, attached to a dowl, based white, airbrushed yellow up to about the midpoint, then airbrushed in some orange and deepening red towards the tips in the back. The real pain was showing the backflash on the armour of the Grey Knight firing. Again, surprisingly, I got it down the first time (I'm going to have to do it again on a PoS model to figure out how I did it and write it down for later) with a little light shading with the airbrush, applying darker tones of red the further back on the armour I went, with brighter yellows and oranges on the tips/creases of the armour closer to the flash itself. I rather liked the idea of putting muzzleflashes on Terminators because it just seemed right. They're slower moving, sure, but keeping the enemy's head down with gunfire before crashing through a barricade to start putting foot to ass? Definitely gave it the right aire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecritter Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Welcome to the "I hate you" club. Awesome work. Are you sure those are standard size minis? That much detail makes me think they're much bigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindicatus Posted December 23, 2010 Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 There's a club of hate? Sounds ominous. ;) As for the mini's, they're actually terminators, and not standard Power-Armourd Grey Knights, thus, way more ornate. I was thinking about how awesome they would look fully painted and on a battlefield...then I started painting them, and realized how horrifying that much minute detail really is. All in all, worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ecritter Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 The "I hate you" club is just a bunch of artist that do such great work that I hate them. Its well deserved ... and quite an honor (I guess). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Kharloth Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Always a fan of black-armored grey knights ;) I'll be watching this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindicatus Posted December 23, 2010 Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 It's an honour to be hated by you, then. There are worse things int he world. ;) And @Lord Kharloth - they're actually gray. I used Adeptus Battlegray and a helluva lot of Badab Black/Devlin Mud (because when in doubt, use Devlin Mud). Turned out amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindicatus Posted December 23, 2010 Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 Quick note as well : keep an eye out in the future for pictures of my Thunderhawk Gunship that I'm painting up after the (in)famous Inquisitorial Black Ships (This was originally an edit to the above post, but figured people would want to see this, and edits don't update the thread. :)). Might have it done by January, depending on the flow of commissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannosaurus Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Love the muzzle flashes and the osl, and the back of the rhino is sweet too. Only slight criticism is that the GKs look dusty? Not sure if that was the look you were going for. However very dark, menacing GKs, nice work :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindicatus Posted December 23, 2010 Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 @Tyrannosaurus- Actually, dirty/dusty was what I was going for (that and, again, it was taken with an iPhone, so they didn't get proper justice that way); like I said, being a soldier myself, I know that war is dirty. Also, looking shiny makes you pretty (and a wonderful target), so while blisteringly silver armour might be effective in a parade setting, nothing quite makes the heretical fear what's coming than a blue-eyevisor'd Grey Knight, dusky and dirty, coming to kick your teeth in. It makes them look more menacing, more ominous and foreboding (which, if you think about it, if/when they show up, you're already thigh-deep and sinking in heresy, so it fits). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannosaurus Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 @Tyrannosaurus- Actually, dirty/dusty was what I was going for (that and, again, it was taken with an iPhone, so they didn't get proper justice that way); like I said, being a soldier myself, I know that war is dirty. Also, looking shiny makes you pretty (and a wonderful target), so while blisteringly silver armour might be effective in a parade setting, nothing quite makes the heretical fear what's coming than a blue-eyevisor'd Grey Knight, dusky and dirty, coming to kick your teeth in. It makes them look more menacing, more ominous and foreboding (which, if you think about it, if/when they show up, you're already thigh-deep and sinking in heresy, so it fits). Good answer Can't wait to see some more stuff, aren't GKs the next army to get an update from GW? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudley Nightshade Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 Surprised no one has said this yet. The first thing I noticed, naturally, was the awesome :D The second thing I noticed was the mould lines on the right arm of the Thunderhammer GK. Gotta say, the muzzle flashes and directional lighting were some ambitious touches that worked out to be very, very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindicatus Posted December 24, 2010 Author Share Posted December 24, 2010 Yeah, when I had filed off the arm itself, I couldn't quite get those to completely disappear. Even trying to grind down on it and sand it out, they wouldn't go away. Granted, I took the arm itself from a hideously old plastic model, recycled from a friend of mine (I couldn't for the life of me find a singular bit in my gynormous box of them for a Thunderhammer). Next time 'round though, it'll be better. :) I have something to look at to remind me of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dudley Nightshade Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 It's really only barely even a criticism. The models are so good overall that I suspect most people wouldn't notice in person. It's just an unfortunate camera angle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 Pretty cool gritty look you've accomplished. The one thing whic stands out to me is the strange position of the smoke launcher on the rhino. Seems like an accident waiting to happen. "Brother Joe, poke your head through the top hatch and see if you can't get a bead on the target position. Driver Tim, deploy some smoke to cover us." FWOOMP! THUNK! "My eye!" "....oh, sorry Joe..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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