Brother Christopher's Purple Marines Project

[gaurdian31]

Missed a bunch of stuff while I have been sick. Great updates on the melta marines! I think you have differentiated the yellow and the tan enough they shouldn't look like they are blending from afar on the one you have painted a stripe on.  Also the brows on the helmetless marine look great! The new project you started on is looking good too! I am not anywhere near expert in painting but I think it looks really good. The higher up purple does look warmer to me so I think that is coming along very well! 

[Brother Christopher]

   

18 hours ago, kabaakaba said:

main boon of this approach you can make simplified version of this with less layers and harsher transition and combined with your standard approach it's give you pretty good result

 

I think you;re right. Even if it's not for the direct application of the technique/approach, trying this out gave me a better understanding of what I want from the hobby. I turns out that I was quite right in the first place: that I kind of want more of the familiar and don't really want to get outside my comfort zone. Especially since the results don't seem to justify the additional time spent.

 

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The last thing I tried yesterday was NMM. And I now know that it's something I don't wan to do. It turned out that it's an even larger effort than I expected. Given my non-hobby obligations, I'm not certain that at this stage of my life I don't want to make this drastic jump in the approach to paining miniatures. I think it's a bit sad, really, but I'd estimate that it's only around 10-15% sad (mostly because I see this giving up as a failure of sorts). But overall, I'm sure it's for the better.

 

Regardless, I'm sorry for oversharing! 

  

14 hours ago, gaurdian31 said:

Missed a bunch of stuff while I have been sick.

 

I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm assuming that you're on the mend and better now! Best wishes!

 

14 hours ago, gaurdian31 said:

Great updates on the melta marines! I think you have differentiated the yellow and the tan enough they shouldn't look like they are blending from afar on the one you have painted a stripe on.  Also the brows on the helmetless marine look great! The new project you started on is looking good too! I am not anywhere near expert in painting but I think it looks really good. The higher up purple does look warmer to me so I think that is coming along very well! 

 

Thanks for watching. As always, I'm thrilled you liked the updates and hope not to disappoint with more of them.

[gaurdian31]

Thank you for the well wishes! Pretty sure it was a flu of some sort but I am feeling better. I always look forward to your updates and I don't think you'll disappoint. Sorry to hear your experiments with NMM didn't turn out but from everything I have seen that it is a very, very involved and time consuming process. You should be proud to have given it a try. Can't wait to see more!

Edited November 21 by gaurdian31
Fixed some grammar

[kabaakaba]

7 hours ago, Brother Christopher said:

The last thing I tried yesterday was NMM. And I now know that it's something I don't wan to do. It turned out that it's an even larger effort than I expected. Given my non-hobby obligations, I'm not certain that at this stage of my life I don't want to make this drastic jump in the approach to paining miniatures. I think it's a bit sad, really, but I'd estimate that it's only around 10-15% sad (mostly because I see this giving up as a failure of sorts). But overall, I'm sure it's for the better.

It's matter of practice. you can get good looking NMM pretty quick and in good batch Issue with NMM and volumetric is a dry time between layers. if you painting batch of 5 for example, first one dried once you finish a 5th.  But mainly if you really like it or not. For myself i decide to invest into volumetric and NMM painting which same thing just representing different materials.

[Brother Christopher]

Here are the three finished melta marines. This time without any grass or tufts yet. At the moment it's quite cold (sub-zero temperatures) and since I'm doing all my varnishing and priming outside, I feel I don't want to risk it and will wait for better weather.

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: As always, with my doubts and indecisiveness, I'm not 100% sure about the silver livery for my support squads. I think it looks okay but can't stop wondering whether I should go for a non-metallic colour for the pads, backpack and helmets. With your positive feedback, I know I haven't made a mistake. But I'll make up my mind about whether to use this scheme for future fire support squads later.

Edited Sunday at 06:08 PM by Brother Christopher

[The Pounder]

Looking good! I really like your line highlights, very neatly done!

[Firedrake Cordova]

They look great. The purple really pops with those highlights, and the snicks-and-scrapes you've added really adds some subtle detail

[kabaakaba]

IMHO you make right choice, this silver don't pop and don't steal attention from markings and main colors.  my only concern is due to metallic background marks on shoulder pads looks a bit dull. I'll suggest add very thin highlight for them. lighter blue to upper line and darker do bottom. It's IMHO as always

[gaurdian31]

These guys came out great! Really like the yellow stipes on the other two's gun as well as the one you originally showed. Highlights look good, really like the rivets in the sergeant's leg. I also think the gunmetal looks nice. Nice job on the purity seals as well.

[W.A.Rorie]

I like how the Metallic heads and shoulder pads pop against the purple armor and the touch of yellow brings it together. 

[space wolf]

Looks great! Reallg like the yellow leg and melta markings. The metallics are dull enough that i dont think it distracts from the rest of the model. I think your choice of metallic color was a really good choice, had it been something brighter I think it would have made the model busier than it needed to be.