Bryan Blaire Posted April 22, 2021 Share Posted April 22, 2021 The Wraithblade looks great! The white helm and rear vanes look really good with your orange, and the green power effects are cool. Are the gems black? They look really good, a really nice, deep shine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urkh Posted April 22, 2021 Author Share Posted April 22, 2021 Thank you Bryan! Yes, the gems are black. I normally do blue gems and cloth, but I figured for these guys I would go dark. I feel like I want to hit a few areas that should have shadows with a red wash to bring the contrast in the orange a bit more ranged. I also wondered if the power weapons draw too much attention from the body of the mini. The blank face does nothing to attract attention, but maybe I want my opponent to go, "shoot, big green axes", and get distracted? I thought about painting the rune in the middle of the chest green to make give a bit more balance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Blaire Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 I’m not sure they are that distracting, at least not to me - they sort of bookend the mini, and draw my eye in a line across it, but the. Green chest rune might be good to make sure the eye lingers there some? It also is in a line with the other two elements, so it sort of reinforces that line idea. I’m not sure on the red, for shadows on the orange,I think I’d lean more toward a light brown, personally. Maybe a reddish-brown tone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urkh Posted April 27, 2021 Author Share Posted April 27, 2021 (edited) Well, the red wash is what I used for my farseer to get his shadows deeper, and I feel it works very well. I might go over the area with the base orange first since that's the layer I usually wash to make shadows, then layer on top of that. If I were to use one of my brown washes, I have agrax earthshade, seraphim sepia, and riekland fleshshade to choose from. Which would you recommend. I have 9 more of these guys and it never hurts to try different things! I also just picked up a pot of the black crackle medium GWS has, so I can hopefully get some basing done of the army! Thank you for all the feedback! Edited April 27, 2021 by Urkh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Yncarne Posted April 27, 2021 Share Posted April 27, 2021 I second the brown wash on orange for depth. I can't recommend a specific wash on your models, but suggest starting with the lightest. Earthshade is very dark on orange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Blaire Posted April 29, 2021 Share Posted April 29, 2021 I think I’d probably use something like Reikland, but in this instance I would try a 1:1 mix of Reikland Fleshshade:Fuegan Orange and see how you like that color. Sepia is more yellow toned, and Agrax is too dark to shade orange, IMO (I usually use it, green, and purple to shade reds). I believe I was actually using pure Fuegan Orange on mine originally, so I will caveat the above with “I haven’t tried it” - if you enjoy the red shade results, then definitely use that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urkh Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 It's been a while, as I have been working on my Black Templars a bit, but I have some progress with the craftworld! I've managed to get the rest of the wraithblades' and the wraithlord's colors blocked out with base paints. MithrilForge, The Yncarne, Wrath of Bruinen and 6 others 9 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Blaire Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 They are looking great, Urkh! Did you decide on what you were going to use for the shading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urkh Posted October 19, 2021 Author Share Posted October 19, 2021 Thanks Bryan! I am going to get all the guys to the same point as the first one (for consistency sake), then try out the red, maybe riekland flesh shade, and one of my other more yellow washes. I'll see what I like best at that point, then make them all that. Bryan Blaire 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearson73 Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 Those Wraiths look great together, the green weapon effects go really nicely with the armour colours. Urkh 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urkh Posted October 24, 2021 Author Share Posted October 24, 2021 Thank you pearson! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urkh Posted March 20, 2022 Author Share Posted March 20, 2022 My book finally arrived today, along with the tau codex I got my cousin for his birthday. Now that we both have our new books, hopefully we can start thinking about getting a crusade going! MithrilForge 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithrilForge Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 Great Orange army you have here, Glad i found it! I would suggest Reikland wash or ... Cassandora yellow wash (it's actually more Orange than yellow! what was your desired effect from this wash your going to do?... are you trying to do a straight recess wash or all over wash to change the base colour tone?... You really have made the Orange colour work with this army without it being crazy garish or wrong .... Cheers, Mithril P.S. Good luck with the Crusading!! Urkh 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urkh Posted March 21, 2022 Author Share Posted March 21, 2022 Thank you mithril! For the wash, I was more going for some shading around the armpits and other areas that light doesn't naturally hit as much. I have to pick up a few paints, so I'll definitely check out Cassandra yellow! MithrilForge 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithrilForge Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 This is the cassandora wash over Averland Sunset, in the recesses you can tell it's orange...sorry for the large pic (it's so you can see the wash) Cheers, Mithril Urkh and Prot 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urkh Posted March 21, 2022 Author Share Posted March 21, 2022 Oh that does look nice. I like having lots of variations between the squad, and a "solid color scheme" isn't something eldar are exactly known for, haha. Having a plethora of different washes i can use is always a good thing! MithrilForge 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urkh Posted March 25, 2022 Author Share Posted March 25, 2022 Ok, progress report on the warwalkers. I have their colors blocked out. Next steps are some washes and then layering begins! I have to say though, I am still debating how I want to do the lines for panels and such. My wave serpent has blue, so I was thinking that. A dark red like my fire prism is my other choice, but doing normal orange highlights instead of the yellow ones the prism has. The Yncarne, MithrilForge, Bryan Blaire and 2 others 5 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrawlingCleaner Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 Oh man, I'm loving the orange so far! I'm looking forward to seeing more! Urkh 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urkh Posted April 5, 2022 Author Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) Ok, I got one of the three warwalkers done for my vow. These guys are a bit of a pain, and after I am done with them, will probably not paint another warwalker for a good long while. Luckily, the starcannons are magnetized! Here is an overhead of the base And because I love to torture myself, I also painted the inside of the window! The idea here is that the planet is under terraforming, hence the volcanism. There is no plant life to create the O2 molecule, so much like ancient earth, the sky is purple. With so much volcanic ash being poured into the atmosphere, it is high is sulfer, hence the yellow clouds. Be careful on this planet, it is dangerous! Onto the next two... Edited April 5, 2022 by Urkh MithrilForge, Bryan Blaire, TrawlingCleaner and 4 others 7 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Looks great! I really like the mural in the canopy. Great thinking. The base looks hot, pun intended. Keep at it. Urkh 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urkh Posted April 16, 2022 Author Share Posted April 16, 2022 Doing my best! 2/3 warwalkers done! I think the base on the first one turned out better, but oh well. MithrilForge, Dwango, TrawlingCleaner and 3 others 6 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dwango Posted April 19, 2022 Share Posted April 19, 2022 Nice orange and kudos on doing the interior if the window! Urkh 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MithrilForge Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 Doing my best! 2/3 warwalkers done! I think the base on the first one turned out better, but oh well. They call that Burnout ... I'd probably be the same- first base awesome....2nd base "fine" 3rd base "ugh enough!" well done on your work there, loving the orange!! Those War walkers are very cool models though Mithril Urkh 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urkh Posted April 20, 2022 Author Share Posted April 20, 2022 Thanks guys! The second base was more of how I did it. The first base was a lot more wet paint for the lava effect, where as I did a lot of drybrush stipling on the second one. I think I'll go back to the original way for the third. TrawlingCleaner 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrawlingCleaner Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 Amazing job, Urkh! Those gems really pop! Urkh 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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