++ AUGUSTUS b'RAASS ++ pre-heresy BRASS SCORPION p.247

[SkimaskMohawk]

So being unable to see the new pics at work, I'll warn you about the amount of detail going on with these models. Between trim, divots, bone growths, tentacles, censors, cracks and Daemonic faces there's a lot of potential to break up a scheme.

 

EDIT: I like it a lot, though personally I have no issue with the shoulders being the main colour. Only suggestion would be to grime it up even more, but maybe I'm just projecting my own scheme

Edited March 27, 2018 by SkimaskMohawk

[BubblesMcBub]

He looks good but can you post a pic of him next to a few of your poxwalkers?

[hushrong]

Oh man, that looks great! I like the light green pads as it looks faded but interested in seeing what you will do with that Castellan Green.

 

And yeah, probably the only meatshield out there that does its job with big, terrifying smiles. They just want to share the gift of un-death with anyone foolish enough to come near the big tanks.

[gaurdian31]

Man I missed a bit, love all the pox walkers and the Plague Marine looks great! I really like that daemonic should pad.

[DuskRaider]

I like it a lot! I'd actually say I'm a big fan of the all white, but the green does pop on the scheme well. Glad my tutorials came in handy. As far as the $20, well... let's just say I've seen a lot in my days, lol

[Lord Commander Eidolon]

I'm a little late to the party, but I'm on the other side of the world, so excuse that.... I've been waiting to see the marines. You paint stuff up too quickly!!

 

I take it you are going with bone, wash and highlight! A sensible and time effective step.

I was going to suggest really pushing contrast in the shadows, I built my white up from flat earth brown, tan then white as a final highlight. I then used streaking grime enamel as an oil wash over a gloss varnish. I like this because it allows for cleaning up mess/mistakes.

 

Here's one of mine!

 

http://i67.tinypic.com/6fp35f.jpg

 

Hopefully the contrast shows. I would have liked to see a dark green shadow on yours, in the deepest shade areas. That said I do like your current scheme and sometimes I think the old motto, keep it simple, stupid works well!

 

I really like what you've done. I'd just encourage you to have fun with weathering chips, rust and grime streaks!

[KrautScientist]

Hmm, I am actually surprised how the tester Marine doesn't blow me away in the same way the shovelware Poxwalkers did ;)

 

Upon closer reflection, however, I think I can offer some - hopefully valuable - feedback:

 

The model looks fairly cool from a technical standpoint, but it all blends together a bit, seemingly lacking points of visual interest. I'd suggest the following changes:

 

• Seeing the model as is, I  think you'll definitely want to go with slightly darker green shoulder pads
• for some reasons, the mutations (particularly the tentacle/face on his left pauldron, the horns somewhat less so) look less interesting than the icky flesh on your Poxwalkers: I'd personally go for something more disturbing and closer to the way you painted the Poxwalkers.
• Painting the entire boltgun in that one samey, rusty tone wasn't a good idea: On this particular model, the gun is such a large area, and that area now blends together into this huge, indistinct block. I'd either push the contrast between the shadows and the prominent parts, or go and pick out the decorative filigree (for lack of a better word) in a contrastic colour.
• The model also seems to lack that last bit of polish that would truly make it stand out, namely the last highlights to add a bit of pop to areas like the horns, the teeth, the sharpest corners of the armour -- stuff like that.

All in all, I think you're on a promising way, but the guy still needs more work.

 

Hope this helps, buddy! :)

[Kizzdougs]

Fantastic work bro! I really like the Nurgle+HH Death Guard scheme that you've gone with. Really nice work :tu:

[Panzer]

Hmm, I am actually surprised how the tester Marine doesn't blow me away in the same way the shovelware Poxwalkers did ;)

 

Upon closer reflection, however, I think I can offer some - hopefully valuable - feedback:

 

The model looks fairly cool from a technical standpoint, but it all blends together a bit, seemingly lacking points of visual interest. I'd suggest the following changes:

 

 

• Seeing the model as is, I  think you'll definitely want to go with slightly darker green shoulder pads
• for some reasons, the mutations (particularly the tentacle/face on his left pauldron, the horns somewhat less so) look less interesting than the icky flesh on your Poxwalkers: I'd personally go for something more disturbing and closer to the way you painted the Poxwalkers.
• Painting the entire boltgun in that one samey, rusty tone wasn't a good idea: On this particular model, the gun is such a large area, and that area now blends together into this huge, indistinct block. I'd either push the contrast between the shadows and the prominent parts, or go and pick out the decorative filigree (for lack of a better word) in a contrastic colour.
• The model also seems to lack that last bit of polish that would truly make it stand out, namely the last highlights to add a bit of pop to areas like the horns, the teeth, the sharpest corners of the armour -- stuff like that.

All in all, I think you're on a promising way, but the guy still needs more work.

 

Hope this helps, buddy! :)

I second this.

The only thing of interest for my eye is the seemingly out of place red detail on his chin/chest.

More contrast between the green and the “white“ would be good.

[malcharion]

Hi augustus !

 

Congrat for the pox ! That amount of work in no time, and quality with that !

For the marines the white is really cool but I've to agree with kraut on this one he is not standing out has it should. Another green could do the trick (the heresy one) but I think that it lack someting to tie it to the pox, like your beautifull yellow/orange for the bubbons that we can find on all the pox ;)

Hope it helps !

 

Malchy

[Chickenleg]

I am a bit late but I love your Poxwalkers! Awesome Conversions! Cheers!

[Augustus b'Raass]

Holy crap, thanks for the overwhelming amount of great feedback, guys!

I've improved on the miniature one last time - he now has so many extra layers of paint on his pads that I cannot do any better. Suffice to say I did three things:

Pauldrons: used GW Castellan Green as the base and highlighted it with some Straken Green after a wash of GW Agrax. 

Gun: Went for a black casing. 

Tentacles: added another ede highlight of Pallid Witch Flesh to the end to tie them into the flesh recipe of the poxwalkers.

Horns: added edge highlighting to them to make them look sharper.

 

Here's the result:

 

 

 

 

Hope you like! I'm well into painting the first squad of five plague marines - with no less then three plasma guns... wooooo! Any ideas on the hue of the plasma? I was thinking a striking purple/pink. But Blue is also a great option, methinks....

 

Cheers!

Replies:
 

@ SkimaskMohawk: Eh, I think I'll settle for this amount of grime for now - it's always possible to go back and do more. :)
 

@ BubblesMcGub: Next time, gadget!

 

@ hushrong: Thanks! Glad you like it!

 

@ guardian31: Thanks! Good to now you caught up ;) haha I was on a bit of a spree...

 

@ DuskRaider: Alright, alright. I won't tell if you won't then. ;)

 

@ LCE: Yeah that method is far too involved for me. I want a maximum of three steps for any surface. More, and I cannot keep up my desired speed.I will go for more grime and rust streaks etc, though!

 

@ KrautScientist: Thank you for another comment full of super constructive feedback! I did everything you suggested! :D

 

@ Kizzdougs: Thanks! COming from you, that means a lot!

 

@ sfPanzer: Well glad I did everyhting he suggested then!

 

@ malcharion: Same as with Panzer :)

 

@ Chickenleg: Broooooook!*  (*Thanks! in chicken)

[Maarten]

I think if there's anything I could add to the discussion it would be that the metals on this guy shine a bit too much compared to how dirty the rest of the mini looks.Other than that he looks great.

PS Have you decided what you're gonna do with the sagittarius kit yet?

[KrautScientist]

Much, much better, buddy! Glad to be of help!

 

Two very small things, though: I think the flesh still isn't quite there -- if anything, it seems ever so slightly too blueish to me? But then, maybe that's just the lighting of the picture. However, it does seem a bit too "cold", if that makes any sense.

 

I also completely agree with Malchy above: He needs some of those distgusting yellow buboes, and it seems like there are some bumps on both the mutations and the armour that would lend themselves really well to the effect.

 

EDIT: Oh, and I almost forgot to add that I really like the red fly detail on his gorget :)

Edited March 28, 2018 by KrautScientist

[Panzer]

Yep that looks way better. I still feel the red on his chest/chin is a bit odd but overall a nice job. ;)

[DuskRaider]

The final product looks good! I think the darker green definitely works much better, it contrasts the white more. I like the red icon, but I may be a bit biased 

[Viridia]

Now that plague marine looks the business. The red detail on the gorget/chest looks good as a contrast, and the black on the bolter helps a lot with that.

[Vairocanum]

Fantastic work on the DG marine! Love the color scheme you're going with, can't wait to see more!

[hushrong]

Oh yeah. Yep yep yep! That's Death Guard right there! And more are on the way with plasma!

 

I really feel pink would be a neat color for the plasma coils to contrast with their legion colors.

[gaurdian31]

The update is looking good!

[Eldrick Shadowblade]

digging the new deathguard! Pretty amazed about how you cranked out all those poxwalkers! How did you even have time to get mold lines off all those guys!

[sockwithaticket]

That's a great take on the Death Guard, there's a really unhealthy pallour to the armour.

[Atia]

Great start on your Death Guard - keep it up Auggi !

[Augustus b'Raass]

Cheers, everyone!

Eventually, I went with gold trim for the shoulder pads and some other minor modifications to the colour scheme. I tried a softer, warmer tentacle, but found that it looked just too damn comical or christmas-y - so I stayed with the relatively cold scheme of Daemonette Hide, Purple wash, Slaanesh Grey and then Flayed One Flesh for the tips. 

 

I also had a ton of fun paitning and converting this squad of five marines up - but DAMN do these things have a lot of detail! Also, the drybrushing technique needed for this sscheme is a lot more convoluted than simply airbrushing the shades on, so this project will take A LOT more time and I will definitely not get back to the speed I had with my Imperial Fists. Oh well. Hopefully I can enroll in the Gibraltar Open tournament in what, August/September? 

 

Anyway,  here's pics!

Group shot!

And here's individual pictures. let's start with the champion:

 

And here's the rest of his squad:

 

 

 

I suddenly realized I forgot to count - I had painted a backpack to few and a right arm too many. Oh well, gotta make that up in the next plasma squad!

 

I realize this is mostly the standard squad from the DI box with some plasma added, but I just wanted to test out the paint scheme.

What do you think? Let me know!

Cheers!

Replies:
 

@ Maarten: I agree, so I've started adding brown washes over those. What do you think now? About the Land Raider kit you made: I'll make it Death Guard, and do it in combination with a MkIIb kit

 

@ KrautScientist: The flesh is cold purpleish. It might be the picture. 

 

@ sfPanzer: Ah but I love the red spot colour - it makes the miniature 'pop'.

 

@ DuskRaider: Haha of course you're biased! I stole it from you! Thanks for all the inspiration, dude! You really helped me along. I am in your debt!

 

@ Viridia: Cheers - yeah te black on the bolter/weapon casings was a must to make the scheme work.

 

@ Vairocanum: Thank you buddy! What do you think of the first squad?

 

@ Hushrong: Haha I totally went with the oposite of contrast with the legion colours! How do you like the green?

 

@ guardian31: Thanks!

@ Eldrick Shadowblade: What mold lines?

 

@ sickwithaticket: A greater compliment could almost not be given - thanks!

 

@ Atia: Thank you, Atia!

Edited April 5, 2018 by Augustus b'Raass

[Maarten]

 

@ Maarten: I agree, so I've started adding brown washes over those. What do you think now? About the Land Raider kit you made: I'll make it Death Guard, and do it in combination with a MkIIb kit

 

Looks great man! The depth I've come to expect from you.

 

Can't wait to see that land raider, I think it might be the first nurgly one in the world.