excited to see more! maybe you can do a Primaris Krom? there's a very easy conversion that's kicking around that you can do using krom bitz and the dark imperium LT.
Drakeslayers - Kine G'namadth (Hounds) Completed
Thanks Wispy! I’m looking forward to doing some more Wolves.
As far as Krom being Primarisized or “crossing the Rubicon” as it were, I want to see where they take Primaris for the Wolves some before I do that. I have some plans to try a Primaris Great Lord of some kind though.
Everyone else, thanks for the Likes!
Some days you’re knocking things down like a bull in a china shop, others your brushes are going “What did we do to him? Why doesn’t he love us?”
Been a slow few days - managed to get my aged/antique gold started, and got all the soft armor, electrical flex conduit, and the utility belt painted. I did the latter in the new Iron Warriors base color, and I really like how it looks, it’s not tremendously darker than Leadbelcher, but I think it darkens better with a single coat of Nuln Oil (both gloss and matte) than Leadbelcher.
I tried to get this image in a little more natural light to show the armor color a bit better, as I think the previous image shows it as brighter than it really is (Mechanicus Standard Grey is approximately basic Sprue Grey).
Hopefully I can get some more done (at least the armor panel shading)!
Keep up the good work!
I'll take your Iron Warriors Paint Test as a note! That could be helpful to break up larger areas of Leadbelcher aswell.
I might have to pick up a jar of that - I like the new metallic options so far.
Thanks RikuEru! I'm finally getting some edge highlighting done!Keep up the good work!
I'll take your Iron Warriors Paint Test as a note! That could be helpful to break up larger areas of Leadbelcher aswell.
The Iron Warriors base color really is nice, I like it for a darker base.
I think it's definitely a good option and GW's metallics quality does seem to have improved!I might have to pick up a jar of that - I like the new metallic options so far.
So as I said, I've gotten the main body shading done, and I decided to drop the thinning of the Nuln Oil and use of Agrax Eartshade - the thinned Nuln turned out too shiny and there really was no reason for the Agrax.
However, I've hit a snag and I'd like some opinions on where to go. On the right leg of this model (left side a side you are looking at it) I used pure Dawnstone for the edge highlight. It almost looks too starkly different to me. On the left leg of the model, I did a 1:1 Mechanicus Standard Grey:Dawnstone, and honestly I think it's too subtle.
So opinions: should I try and mix a 1:2 Mech Stndrd Grey:Dawnstone (and accept that I will have to keep making that over all my Primaris Wolves even though I would prefer a little less stark initial line highlight) or do I just stick with the pure Dawnstone? (And if you actually don't think the 1:1 Mech SG:DS is too subtle, I'm all ears.)
Ignore the remains of the gloss shade application - it turned out that way when I thinned regular Nuln Oil with airbrush thinner - I'm going to apply some matte medium or varnish over it to knock it down.
Mix is too subtle. I'd go pure Dawnstone.
Another one for dawnstone!
:tu: Thanks gents!
Agreed, pure Dawnstone seems to be the way to go here.
DawnStone for me as well
Keep it as simple as possible, it will go faster :)
Thanks everyone, looks like I’m painting some Dawnstone tonight! :D
I prefer the mix.
I would then do a very thin edge highlight of pure dawnstone at the very highest points
Thanks Dantay!
So I promised that I'd stop trying to paint to a basic competition level and actually get some stuff done - buuuut I had to give a 2:1 Dawnstone:Mechanicus Standard Grey mix a shot - pure Dawnstone just seemed too stark on its own, and the 1:1 mix was too subtle. I'll get some pics up later and edit the above scheme, but I think overall I like this better (and luckily it mixes quite a bit of paint up, so I'll be able to do more highlighting in one go), and it should hopefully blend the highlights better as I go up the brightness scale.
Picture time! Unfortunately the last painting I'll get to do for a week and a half-ish.
These primary edge highlights were done with the 2:1 Dawnstone:Mech Standard Grey:
And a little closer View of the aged gold Aquila:
Going to call the Aquila and belt as done as they will get. I'm looking at adding small touches of Wolf-iness to them - pouches with runes, pauldrons, tilting shields/rondels, a tail or two, and I'm looking at maybe swapping a pack or two for a Wulfen one, but I'll need to figure something out for them if I do. The bits for the Wulfen fit so well it will be hard not to use them, and it has the secondary effect of not making the Wulfen quite so-Wolfy over the top (you'd think that straight up werewolves would be as far down that path as GW would have felt the need to go).
Not sure if I'll bother with the pure Dawnstone at this point - I don't want to make a ton of mixes each time I paint these, but if it makes them look better, I'll do what's needed. :lol:
At this point I'm looking forward to adding these guys to my Drakeslayers. I have three Ashen Stalker (Intercessors) packs, two Star Fang (Inceptors) packs, one Howl Reaper (Reivers) pack, one Hammer Jaw (Aggressors) pack, and the various command guys, plus all the classic Space Wolves I have slated to do.
Looking good!
- 2 weeks later...
So finally managed to get some motivation and got the base color on my Stalker bolt rifle squad for the Drakeslayers (considering changing that name as well) - bodies all have two thin coats of Mechanicus Stamdard Grey on them:
(Clicking the image should take you to the larger image, but it isn't really exciting)
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