My GDUK entry, Captain Barbogre!

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OrkyDave

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Hiya, here are some photo\'s of my Warhammer monster entry this year, Captain Barbogre. He got me a finalist certificate and pin badge combination.

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Sorry no voting link yet as I have no idea how to link images together in photoshop yet!

Was great to meet everyone I did, but I am afraid its only the open for me next year(I can hear the design studio team quaking in their boots lol ) as I start work in the Coventry store soon, Yaaay!

Any comments and critics would be greatly appreciated
 
Avelorn

Avelorn

Sven Jonsson
Wow! Sweet work!

The face is really good as is the work on the skin. Maybe the feather could have gotten some more attention?
 
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Darkmessiah

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making a collage is easy enough, resize all ur pics to the same width (my pics tend to be huge so i use a high setting and then reduce down to forum regs of 700pix)

then open a new document and set the width to the same as the pics (if the pics are 700 wide, make the new thing 700 wide) and make the height figure, higher then the total height of all the pics, that way u got some room to play with.

then using the square marque tool select the whole of a pic, and one at a time copy paste them across. then crop the new collage pic.

quick tip, save the file as .tiff, it may make the file bigger but it keeps the quality high

great mini by the way, the rust is very good
 
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demonherald

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I liked him and was a pleasure seeing the WIP..The face is just great and love the Gnoblar...and all round he came out great.. maybe a few more coins on the base to integrate the model a bit more but all round great stuff....

If your struggling with PS send me the pics and I\'ll stick em together for ya if you like mate..
great meeting ya and thanks for your input on my stuff chief..
 
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matty1001

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:) very nice!

Looks a little shiny on there though, definately didn\'t in real life.

Still loving the water, and the foam.
 
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Bill

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Hey Dave :D Great to meet you there, and see this - it\'s awesome! The base is great, and I love how you\'ve painted all the little details. The tattoo is really nice. The way you painted the trousers is cool, too; and of course, great skin ;)
 
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OrkyDave

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Amateur, Wow, I am flattered Roger, thats the nicest thing anyone has said about my painting!

Thanks for all the feedback people. Fearthers are just something that always knacker my minis, and TBH when I paint them they are still a bit hit and miss. Gonna try to paint more though and get good at them.

More coins scattered about! Seems such an obvious (and easy) way to improve the piece (although I doubt it would have had much of an outcome on the placing!lol)

I am kicking myself now as I had to make and add more coins to disgiuse the gap between the treasure and the sand. Oh well, gonna take him off my shelf and stick some more on now.

Thanks again for all the feedback, I really had a great day and it was cool to meet you all too.
 
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OrkyDave

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@ thecadian

This is the stuff I used for the water, its a clear resin. You use 2 parts resin to 1 parts hardener, and they even give you the syringes to measure the stuff out with!

IIRC it cost about £8 from Ancetonnis workshop.
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wilks

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thats some funky lookin solid water stuff :)

Model looks great dave, i like the skull under the water ^_^
 
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Darkmessiah

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cheers dave, nice little site that, ill pick some up now along with some water effects (hmm looks remarkably similar to Woodlands scenics but half the price :D)
 
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Roger Bunting

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Orkydave, that comment was once said to me at art college. I thought it\'s about time I passed on the torch to someone worthy of it. :D To expand on it more I\'d say the face is my favourite part, and the gnoblar \"parrot\" is hilarious.
 
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ikim

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Very nice.
Though, I think we are going to see a lot of pirate ogre maneaters at the next GD... this is the third already.

keep it up.

cheers
 
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OrkyDave

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Thanks for the feedback guys, Barbogre is now in the window of GW coventry, so if you are in the area, pop in and see him!

@Ikim- no plans for Elizabeth swan! HE was initially going to be part of a squad entry of ogre pirates (including a Whack Sparrer!) but my sculpting skills were not up to the task just yet. Sculpting is something I am going to have a serious go at doing in the new year though, so watch this space!

Thanks also for the offers to do the photoshop bits. It really is appreciated, but it really is something I need to learn to do for myself.

When I paste the photos to the work area, rather than stacking niceley in a vertical tower ready for submission, they sit on top of the previous one, like a deck of cards, and I can\'t work out how to move them to where I need them.

Any suggestions?
 
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manikmunky

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This tutorial shows how to do it using a free image tool
If using photoshop or similar, work with pixels, so if you have 4 images that are 400 wide and 600 high, make a new one that\'s 400 wide, 2400 high, or crop photos accordingly.

When you copy and paste each one into the new picture, they\'ll stack on top of each other, they\'ll be in seperate layers though, to one side you should be able to see the layers in mini-thumbnails. Click on each one and use the move tool (shortcut in photoshop is \"V\") to position them accordingly, you can turn on rulers and grids to make positioning easier.

There is also an option in photoshop at the top of the screen (it\'s there when using the move tool) that allows \"auto-select layer\" which means if you click on a layer it will select it, allow it to be moved etc. Just make sure it\'s not on when you\'re doing something fiddly :p

hope that helps, if it\'s not that clear, post what software you\'re using, if it\'s photoshop I can email you pics of step by step if you\'re stuck ;)



(edit: first post, long time lurker ;) )
(edit 2: that tutorial in the first link has a photoshop section on pages 2/4)
 
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