hyper-acromegaly Posted October 31, 2004 Share Posted October 31, 2004 They look sorta like the "clasic" Death Guard with little imagination added. But then I took a closer look, (my monitor sux so I don't always get the right feel for a model in pics) and they look just way better! They really do kick @ss and take names. Congrats on a really excellent army. BTW Welcome to B&C. Hope you have more excellent models to post, it's always great to have more sweet pics to drool over. :drool: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-629644 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emrys Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 Hyper thanks for your comments - glad you like them - I prefer painting to modelling so I usually make do with the models GW puts out - Im not a great converting fan so the few i do, tend to be subtle (a different arm here and there, shoulder pads etc) although I have converted a unit of possessed with talons and ill have a pic later this week hopefully. Its really a time issue - I like to paint 4 armies a year (wfb 40k etc etc) so i try and do al my conversions in a night or two rather than over a few weeks :drool: here are my 2 forgeworld dreads - almost finished - i will be changing the blue lenses to red, adding rust in places and a little more highlighting. Picture isnt the greatest http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/emrys/P1010213.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-630303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contaminus Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 How did you do that red colour? its quite similar to mine, just a bit darker. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-631659 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crayoneater Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 Old, still to be repainted 'zerkers beating some DH's Why repaint? I'll trade yeah my unpainted ones. :drool: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-632333 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphincter Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 holy :cuss n' :cuss :P Those are great dreadies, how did you do it? the colours? the time? AHHHHHHH! :wub: they are great! *sorry about the "cursing" they are just that good* great job emrys! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-633207 Share on other sites More sharing options...
negativez101 Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 DeathGuard Just a few. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-633528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sphincter Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 they look nice, just wondering, is the banner guy supposed to be very shiny? or is that just the picture? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-633968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyper-acromegaly Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 Those Dreads are pretty yummy "emrys". A lot of people think that Death Guard are really simple to paint and you can be sloppy. These guys really show you why that is not the best way to paint. They are crisp and very clean, but really show of all their Nurgly glory in an even more disgusting and horrifying way then if they were done with less attention to detail. Definite props to you buddy. Keep posting, I can't wait to see what your vechiles look like. :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-634065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
emrys Posted November 4, 2004 Share Posted November 4, 2004 Thanks - When i started this army my biggest concern was trying to get the balance between a dirty messy look and a neat and tidy finish. The FW dreads are amazingingly detailed models. What i did was: a 'wet' dry brush of camo green followed by rotting flesh. Bone was worked up from vomit brown to white and the boils from bleached bone to bad moon yellow. The metal was either painted brazen brass or boltgun metal. Then the whole model got a VERY watered down black ink wash to help the detail stand out a little. All metal bits and bone got a brown ink wash and the boils got a wash of blood red mixed with chestnut ink. Highlights - the trick with the DG is the final highlight - All the edging raised areas of armour on the Dreads and the marines was highlighted with rotting flesh. The brazen brass was highlighted with chainmail to give it a rusty look. Im working on a unit of possessed marines (coverted with Talons) and they will be posted late next week followed by a Rhino for transporting them. I love the boils on the Dreads, Im going to go back over the marines with a little green stuff and give them all boils - the yellow/red finish complments the marines dull colours. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-634292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crayoneater Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 Ack the combined posts kind of messed up the last 16 pages, I was so whitty responding to Angron's post to. Will we be adopting the similar army photo style of the army boards as well, regarding only posting lists and not allowing members to comment on paint jobs? On one hand it would allow us to see photos quicker on the other you wouldn't be able to give constructive critisism or feedback on "how did you pain that?" I really miss the Colors of Khorne, Slaanesh etc. No other forum did that really, you always found yourself surfing thru alot of pictures that didn't always pertain to your peticular favorite. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-652318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muskie Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Though my painting style has been critized in the past on boards such as these I bumbled across yet another Web Board and read through all 16 pages of this thread when I should have been studying. So I'll post a token model. http://nurgle.muschamp.ca/Models/dread.JPG Or three. http://nurgle.muschamp.ca/Models/repaintedPurple.jpg Including my infamously unpopular Purple Plague Marines http://nurgle.muschamp.ca/Models/plagueBearerBlue.jpg And for true non conformity, a blue plague bearer. What can I say after painting 30+ of them you come up with interesting variations. For those not appalled, I have a humble website with scads of Nurgle models I've painted over the years at Nurgle.Muschamp.ca Well back to studying. Muskie Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-655321 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyper-acromegaly Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 People hate those? ::cuss: Those models are super cool looking "Muskie". I really like the almost woodgrain effect especially noticable on your purple Plague Marine. :mellow: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-655380 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muskie Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 You are in a small minority of online webposters. Over at Deathguard.org I was chastised unfairly for being too bright in my oppinion. No one in ten years of playing Nurgle has ever said that in real life. I use a lot of light in the photos and I switch to a higher contrast style so my highlights were more visible yadda yadda yadda. I actually took the critism to heart and the purple and blue guys are painted this year and photographed differently than perhaps the old models people liked less. The people at CoolMiniOrNot also don't seem to appreachiate purple plague marines... The woodgrain effect, I dubbed the "tiny line style" and was encouraged to use it by some of my original gaming group. Other's online call them stirations. I original came up with the idea for using them in highlighting as a variation on the "cross hatching" technique used by comic book artists. I now have many plague marines which I painstakingly painted the tiny lines on. It is also done on the dread though it might not be clear in the picture. On vehicles it is too much work I've tried to lesson the number of layers of lines over the years, perhaps the most extreme version ever is this rhino. http://nurgle.muschamp.ca/Models/rhinoSide.JPG Paul Sawyer picked up this model at a GT and discribed it as "insane". However the official judges at the Calgary GT must not have been fans as I got a below average painting score, which I attributed to them not looking at the majority of my models closely. I was vindicated at the next GT I went to where I tied for 3rd in appearence or something amidst some very well painted armies. Muskie who should be asleep but seems unable to do so... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-655425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandfather Nurgle Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 hey, muskie, who gives a :huh: what they think? your models are one of the best i've ever seen in my very short career, and at leats they have a colour scheme that isnt the green with brown u see every where, people shud adore u for the genius of it :P -Pappa Nurgle Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-655998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muskie Posted November 20, 2004 Share Posted November 20, 2004 Thanks for the kind words. I've had one of the worst weeks of my life. I just put up my website so people could see my painting. And I always said I would and I don't like hypocrites so I had to follow through... I was surprised people would state it was un-Nurgle and wrong and other less than kind words on public forums. You can't please everyone I suppose, but I don't need abuse from random people on the internet over my website... It's just a hobby. Some people forget this at times. Muskie Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-656309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyper-acromegaly Posted November 20, 2004 Share Posted November 20, 2004 Tell people who bitch and moan that your Deathguard are painted wrong, that they in fact have been blessed with a malady so repugnant that most people who even look at them are repelled. :huh: Art has to have a reaction, a strong reaction either good or bad. My stuff gets some oooohs and aaaahs from newbs and poor painters, (usually guys who just won't take the time to do a good job) but I never get comments about how my stuff is super awesome or really crappy. Both are valid responses and in fact each in their own way are a testimate to the skill of an artist. If everyone loved your stuff and nobody hated it, then it would just be a great peice of work. But if you can get a response from both ends of the spectrum, (Love and Hate, but never indifference) then you are a true artist. Nobody who knows 40K will ever say ummmmmm that's OK I guess to your stuff. (It happens to me all the time but I know I'm just a "good" painter and I'm happy with that and don't strive for or even care to be an artist.) But your stuff has the veiwer either loving or hating it! That's the best response you could ever wish for. That's lasting and is art. (Hard to find true art in this little game of Spacemen and Lasertanks but it here.) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-656437 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muskie Posted November 20, 2004 Share Posted November 20, 2004 I do think my stuff benefits from closer inspection and the ability to turn it around in real life. However I don't think I'm quite in the league with the elites, perhaps if I was willing and had the time to put 60+ hours into a single piece. I've actually been striving to paint faster trying to get the majority of the effect with 3 to 5 coats of paint. Though I've set my standards for a rank and file trooper pretty high. Some future army if I ever paint one may have less intricate grunts but time will still be taken on characters and center piece conversions. That seems to be the norm. The level of conversions and dollar and time costs needed to win a GD or a GT painting award appear to be increasing. My army and the vast vast majority of my minis were painted for playing. I try not to forget that. And any chip or broken part can be repaired. Still tired but I'm honestly feeling better now that I've had a nap and my final exams are over for another few days. Muskie Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-656630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimgore Posted November 24, 2004 Share Posted November 24, 2004 Here is Aearn'n Dhanth, Lord Sorcerer of my Emperor's Children army. A lot more to come since I need the army finished by may 1st. Most of the inspiration on this guy is from Commander Y work. Sorry for the picture ... Albatar: I love you'r Emperor children guy... hehe Realy cool convertion! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-659414 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Defiler Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 Another Thousand Sons' AC of mine: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/archipropharque/divers%2040k/ConcoursnovembreChaosAD.jpg (no, the banner is not hand painted... I' m not that good :) ) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-667004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
refuse Posted November 30, 2004 Author Share Posted November 30, 2004 Muskie who should be asleep but seems unable to do so... They look great. I like the effect. I think the major problem may be the change between 2nd edition's primary colors and 3rds darker pallete. I like them and when I look a them I think, man that must have taken some time. Very nice. Hopefully we can see some more pictures. I would like to see your current method of painting to see which direction you are headed in. I am interested in how you changed your painting style. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-667261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
refuse Posted November 30, 2004 Author Share Posted November 30, 2004 Another Thousand Sons' AC of mine: Love the model, and I like the banner more! Well the banner pole. Great idea for the top of the pole. Subtle and soon to be stolen! :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-667262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crayoneater Posted November 30, 2004 Share Posted November 30, 2004 Very nice idea for the banner pole, hmmm my bikes need a banner pole... I would shorten the pole, add a vew ringlets at the bottom. Place the gargoyle head exactly as you have placed it but with a small ribbon like banner coming out from the roof of his mouth. So that's what you do with all those gargoyle heads! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-667904 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Defiler Posted December 1, 2004 Share Posted December 1, 2004 Thanks guys :D My idea is yours, steal it as much as you wish... :P The Def' Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-668529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molgorain Posted December 8, 2004 Share Posted December 8, 2004 Think its time for me to post my DG. This one ain Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-677322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muskie Posted December 24, 2004 Share Posted December 24, 2004 If anyone wants to see them I photographed a bunch more of my plaguemarines. Some of them were painted six or more years ago, some were painted this year, some were painted last week. Well some of the Terminators were. Maybe I should put my website in my sig or something, in the mean time: nurgle.muschamp.ca Muskie Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/34761-colors-of-the-powers/page/16/#findComment-697280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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