Luther's W.o.S.P. (Works of Slow Progress)

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work on the Primaris LT. Are thos Ork skulls on his base?

[LutherMax]

Excellent work on the Primaris LT. Are thos Ork skulls on his base?

Thanks Bjorn! Possibly... it's resin!

[ranman8]

 

Excellent work on the Primaris LT. Are thos Ork skulls on his base?

Thanks Bjorn! Possibly... it's resin!

 

Where from? they look great.

[LutherMax]

 

 

Excellent work on the Primaris LT. Are thos Ork skulls on his base?

Thanks Bjorn! Possibly... it's resin!

 

Where from? they look great.

 

I think this one was from Dragon Forge – they are great indeed! Secret Weapon ones are also good, and you can get them from various eBay sellers.

[hushrong]

Runnik looks fantastic and was well worth the time!

[Guest Triszin]

hey luther, used some of your techniques and mixed em with mine.

 

heres the result!

 

 

=)

Edited September 19, 2018 by Triszin

[LutherMax]

Looks great Triszin! Love the battle-worn look!

[LutherMax]

Chaplain Dread conversion, done in the style of my army, but as a commission for an all-Dread army made up of different Chapter Dreads...

 

[thewarriorhunter]

Luther, not sure if you've done it but can you post photo's of your photo setup? I'd love to see how you're doing your back drop, camera/light placement, any special things you use, etc. Your pictures are fantastic and I am currently looking to up my photo game.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work on the Chaplain Dreadnought.

[LutherMax]

Thanks guys!

 

Luther, not sure if you've done it but can you post photo's of your photo setup? I'd love to see how you're doing your back drop, camera/light placement, any special things you use, etc. Your pictures are fantastic and I am currently looking to up my photo game.

I wrote a little article on it ages ago, here, but since then I’ve made one important change which was to ‘upgrade’ my lightbox to one of these. Very happy with it indeed!

[thewarriorhunter]

Thanks for the link!

 

I've got access to a large format printer at work so I think I'll be giving those a try. I guess I need to get out my DSLR and learn to manually operate it as well and get it off Auto mode.

[TheOneTrueZon]

Thanks for the link!

 

I've got access to a large format printer at work so I think I'll be giving those a try. I guess I need to get out my DSLR and learn to manually operate it as well and get it off Auto mode.

 

Auto mode on most cameras is the pits. Think of it this way, a camera has a light meter that is always measuring light values. That light meter lives in a world of black and white. On auto mode, that meter is being told - "HEY, make everything GREY. As middle of the road GREY as possible, don't care about the highlights, shadows or any of that other bulls**t - AVERAGE EVERYTHING, I DON'T CARE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE".

 

And thus, a potato pic is born.

 

Shooting in manual is a learning curve, but one that has infinite rewards when it comes to image quality. 

[thewarriorhunter]

I took photography in HS and learned all about manual control of film cameras. I need to just take an afternoon and refresh myself on what does what.

[LutherMax]

First squad of Reivers done. As these are the special ops of the force, I gave them a slightly darker, more muted colour to their armour.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 26, 2018 by LutherMax

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Beautiful work on the Reivers.

[keeblerartillery]

Love it - well done with muting them but keeping the 40k "pop" of color.  Great job on the sergeant too - clever way to mark and keep that "pop" without saying "I'm in charge, shoot me!"

Also - I just started on my scouts, and I have to say, I desperately wish the CC weapon scouts looked like reivers 

Edited October 29, 2018 by keeblerartillery

[Majkhel]

Great inspiration as always, Luther! Love the toned-down color idea - makes them look particularly sinister. 

[LutherMax]

This is a Space Wolf test model I've been working on for a long time. It has been stripped and re-painted several times, but I finally achieved a tone of blue-grey for the armour that I'm happy with. It was surprisingly difficult.

 

Please let me know what you think. If folks like it and want to know how it was done, I will produce a guide and do the same for the other loyalist legions.

 

[keeblerartillery]

Gorgeous. One of the best schemes I've seen for them

[SkimaskMohawk]

Great work, you've got the blue grey down perfectly. It's not the embarrassing periwinkle they usually go for, instead a real sinister winter-grey

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Well done. How will you decorate his base?

[hushrong]

Those reivers are jaw dropping as is the wolf. Fantastic paint jobs!

[LutherMax]

Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad the test model is well received!

 

Well done. How will you decorate his base?

I will do a new model with step by step pics for the guide, and that one will be properly based. Need to figure out a good way to do snow / ice!

[Leman Russ SW]

I saw a video where a guy mixed snow flock and water effect to make and nice icy snow.