Krootox Conversion

This is the GW Krootox for Tau and my first picture on this site. It has som minor conversionwork done to it. Firstly, it's left arm is bent upwards, mainly with brute force. The hand is opened and was a bit severed in the process. I did a futile attempt on correcting this with greenstuff. The rider is also a bit converted. While his legs are the original, the upper body, head and arms are from a plastic carnivore. I cut the big gun to fit the handle of the samll one, wich was attatched to his right arm. A little greenstuff, and there's a leather-strap-something he grabs with his left arm. The rider is painted like the rest of my kroot, basecoat Codex Gray, drybrush Space Wolves. All metals are Mithril with a Flesh Wash on. Quills are Chaos Black and Red Gore. The oxe's skin is painted with succesively lighter dryprushes. Colours are Chaos Black, Codex Gray, and Space Wolves Gray in a mix I can never reproduce. Leathers are different mixes of Dark Flesh, Vermin Brown, Snakebite and Bleached Bone. Also note the Red Gore markings. And yes, Right-Above-Table-Top-Quality-Studios is something I made up while writing it The background of the picture might be coloured strangly on some monitors... I still don't master Photoshop. And because the pic has to be under 100k the quality is poor, it's not my colours that are too dry. The skin of the ox is actually very smooth, even if I drybrushed it. Please comment.

Posted: 21 Nov 2004

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Quareni
My rating is a result of the grainy pictures so I'd love to see a better photo of your paintjob. I really like your conversion job, however, and I'm so inspired by it that I'll whip out my own Krootox and do something similar - good work.
18 Dec 2008 • Vote: 5
Killa
I like the conversion, it's quite subtle and came out quite well in my opinion. And for the slightly damaged leg, who cares? It's a beast of war, after all. They tend to get hurt. I wouldn't have noticed, if you hadn't told it. But you have to improve your painting skills, right now it looks rather like right-below-tt-quality. Maybe it's because I don't like drybrushing very much. If you combine layering and washing with drybrushing, you would achieve much better results. Only drybrushing leaves the minis so crude. A light wash of thinned space wolves grey or shadow grey for the skin of the kroot would have done wonders to make it look more smooth.
22 Nov 2004 • Vote: 4

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