catachan and friends

[nix]

I'm the type of person whose hobby attention span works like this: paint for a week, shelve it all for three months or longer, repeat.

So I figured it was high time that I actually made an attempt at consistency, so I thought I would try and keep myself accountable by keeping track of my glacial progress.

What we have here is a guardsman minus an arm. Poor bastard. Anyways, the cheekbone looks hella bright on the screen, but isn't nearly as noticeable in person...that said, I think I'm going to tone the brown line down now that it's screaming at everyone. This is just a test-mini, but I like the classic green and brown look.

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As far as army composition goes, I really have no clue what I'm doing, but I really want to incorporate this guy in there some how:

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I call it the Valkyrie GSX (Gun ship platform). I'm not sure if adding the missile pods is game-legal, but I'd love to have the punisher cannons with rocket pods attached. We'll see.

Slow updates to follow.
Cheers.

 

[Master of fact]

Very good so far. I dont play guard (marines) but you could magnatize the weapons meaning it looks awesome but game legal!

 

[nix]

That's a good point, thanks. It would be simple to magnetize whatever sits on the end of the wing tips without much hassle.

 

[nix]

So I haven't picked up a paintbrush in months, what with moving down to Louisiana from Minnesota so I could start graduate school, but I needed a little play-time so I set up shop in our apartment's spare bedroom. I've got the cab on this side pretty much finished, and a decent start on the back-stacks/engine (not pictured) and the legs. Hopefully try and get a little further with the legs tonight, but I have load of regressions to run (yuck). Would love thoughts on the camo pattern. Is it too busy?

 

[PegaZus]

I see nothing wrong with the camo. If anything, it could use another color, but that may make it too busy.

 

[marjedi]

Looks cool, love catachan.

As for the vulture gunship, adding punisher cannons takes up both wing slots for weapons so no rocket pods aswell.

 

[nix]

Thanks guys.

Just a little bit of progress...have the base layers down on the gun with a bit of highlighting. Sadly the depth of the metal got lost in the picture (still needs a wash and proper highlights), but the ugly hoses sure did not. Not sure what color they need to be. Don't love the brown on them, but with a little more work they might turn out passable I guess. Would black look better?

(oh, and thanks, marjedi, for the tip about the rocket pods.)

 

[marjedi]

Looks good, the metals could be a tad brighter

 

[nix]

Brightened up the metals a bit...but the brightness of the barrel looks a little off from the rest. Hrm. Might need to add a layer to the barrel. Anyways, think this is about done. Wondering if I should highlight up against the black lines (of the camo that is)?

 

[nix]

Early stages. Trying to work on blending on the face (arms only have a basecoat and drybrush). Not that great, but it's a start. Have made a bit more progress, trying to keep the layers thin and not go too bright. I'm not shooting for super realistic, but I think the guardsman I originally practiced on was much to elfish in skin tone. Always appreciate C&C.

 

[marjedi]

Looks good, tanned weathered

 

[Aesu]

Hmmm.. I like the flesh so far, the teeth are very bright though, I would suggest maybe tone them down a bit to make it less Hollywood smile and more notoothpastefor1000miles grimace.

 

[nix]

Hah! Good point. He looks like he's been munching on a barrel of Crest white strips. Thanks.