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[Ritual]

@jambot
I\'d say this is definitely cool! I really like the conversion and the idea with using the horrors. I think the flame pattern is quite good as it is. It shouldn\'t be too much of it! Good work!

And don\'t worry, people here only dislike GW as a company (and some don\'t even do that), not the people who work there.

 

[No Such Agency]

No offense to brokenblade (that\'s a great conversion/sculpt and it is very close to the cover art!) but am I the only one here who just doesn\'t like Ogre Kingdoms? They really turn me off for some reason. Of course the funny thing is, with the Paint Aid and all, I\'m constantly amazed by some of the great conversions and paint jobs I see here on those same figures...

I brightened the NMM on my Legionnaire, does it look any more convincing now? It\'s hard for me to tell...

 

[Demon Hunter]

My Dark Elf Noble project. I used thinner to strip the paint of the torso, it worked but the metal has a weird color, but you won\'t see that when it\'s undercoated I guess. Greenstuffing is almost complet, still need to smooth out some things. I\'m very pleased the way the torso came out, alot of filed losts of slaaneshi details away there and resculpt it. I\'m pleased with the trianglur plate armour I added on the torso. I wanted to make a Dark Elf with this, but I have no idea what bits to use for the hands(and weapon) and head. Anybody any ideas? Don\'t have to be a Dark Elf, he could also become something else

 

[TAB Studio]

Got a more to do spike in head washes cleanup but yes indeed NSA ogres are ugly yet still fun for me to paint and the value is good when they are done
I book marked the Northern Europe site that will be fun to watch the zeenth (lol)progression.

 

[No Such Agency]

@TAB - thanks for the improved photo. Your guy looks really primitive and... dirty I like the bloody mouth, pretty gross but appropriate. In general the face has a lot of character. Are you doing a winter/snow base for him? It seems appropriate somehow.

 

[enterfaith]

This is my W.I.P Lysander. It\'s supposed to be set in the late afternoon so I made all the colours alot darker than usual. I\'m planning on putting him in a dual with an Iron Warriors lord. WARNING: baddd picture. Scanner is the only means of photography I have at the moment so, ummm ENJOY!

 

[provoke_me]

fixed

this is the robot minus the huge cannon lazer thingy that will go on his head, and minus the cool legs. my cat destroyed the legs and the body. ive been able to get the body close to what it was before the attack.

and here is an Imperial Guardsmen in Urban Camo. what color would his armour plates be? i dont want to do them camo also since they would blend in to much.

 

[Wolf_Fang]

make em black as if it was swat or something

 

[tidoco2222]

Tracy I like your Ogre Hunter very much I have this one to do and may steal an idea or two from you on this one.

 

[green stuff]

@enterfaith : welcome to the forum. I think it\'s coming along pretty well. You might want to highlight some of the upper edges to make it crisp. Looking forward to see the next WIP. Also, for your final pic, I would suggest a black backgound to fit the time of day you want .

 

[Capt spalding]

@provoke_me:

yup I recon black would be cool, either that or a flat blue grey.

decided to post pics of one of my current wip projects, hope that you like him

cheers
seth

 

[james9487]

That\'s awesome! I love the cigar or cigarette. Great work.

-James

 

[supervike]

Oh yeah Capt. Spalding...

Thats the stuff!!

Good work!!

 

[Wolf_Fang]

COME ERE!..... i got something good for ya! lol nice looking troop!

 

[Brokenblade]

There\'s so much to comment on at the moment in this thread, what can i say, it all looks great,
Seth you\'ve put my sculpting work to shame lol

well, here is the Don, now painted:

He\'s up on cmon HERE, if any of you would be kind enough to look and vote that would be most appreciated,

While i\'ve been photographing and photoshopping the tyrant i\'ve managed to start my next model, most of you will know who it is, (sorry for the small picture),

The armour took a couple of hours to do, simply becaue i wanted to get it smooth, the pic dosent really show this off at all, but hopefully my next set will, i\'ve tried a bit of senmm joshua style, which i really like the look of so far, what do you all think, too bright?

 

[Levdir]

I love the new Marneus scuplt and you\'ve done a great job with it; the SENMM is excellent, as befits the chapter master of the Ultramarines.

Anyway, I have a mini in the works that I was hoping to get some advice/commentary/jeering for. It\'s a \"firsts\" mini; it\'s my first Rackham mini ever, my first attempt at NMM and SENMM, the first time I\'ve ever had to pin a model to get it to stick, first proper greenstuff banner, and, of course, my first post in this thread. Go me. Anyway, I apologize for the somewhat murky photos. I have real trouble getting decent lighting set up in my house and my digicam doesn\'t have a macro setting. The main thing I\'m wondering about is the NMM: how does it look? Am I getting the shading/highlighting in the right places? How can I improve my blending? Thanks!

 

[NetGuru]

Brokenblade, that NMM (or SENMM) on the space marine is awesome! some of the best NMM i\'ve ever seen....

 

[tidoco2222]

I gotta say that Marneus is looking awesome but then so does all the work I have seen of yours. Here is something I am having a little go at as an experiment at the moment just to see if my eyes are still up to painting small minis, it is a Templar of Hod and it is surprisingly difficult,

Hopefully I will be able to do it justice and make the finished model lok presentable.

 

[Capt spalding]

@Brokenblade,

dont be daft, I\'ve just been at it longer than you.

besides, the senmm on marneus pisses all over anything that I could do!!
I guess that we are even.

it\'s a good sculpt, the fabric is\'nt quite there but it\'s harder to get right than people think.

I have a book recomendation for drapery

dynamic wrinkles and drapery by Burne Hogarth, bloody fantastic book, it explains why creases are there and how they form.
And it\'s simple enough for me to understand

I will also be doing a bit of a tutorial on cloth and stuff soon, I will p.m. you when its done

thanks for the comments on the merc bloke, he needs hands, his backpack finishing and the ammo feed needs tidying, might be finished by the end of the week

 

[Brokenblade]

Levdir - Thanks for the comment,
Your Rackham model is looking fine so far, for a camera without macro mode thats a very good photo, the nmm is looking ok, but i think to make it more realistic there should firstly be stonger highlights, (ie more white) and secondly deeper contrasts (more dark grey), which would of course be where no light hits it, its a shame you\'ve already started painting it as there was an article writin recently that involved photographing the model before it was painted and using the actually reflection of light on the models blade while it was still just metal to help paint reallistic nmm, thats a tip for your next one, since it does work very, very well. Your blending on the whole is good so far, a useful techniques is to glaze areas which you feel aren\'t as smooth with that color, using very thin paint (and many glazes if need be) this helps to draw the different shades of colour together ands therefor makes it appear a smoother blend.

NetGuru - Thanks a lot! its a great encouragement to get this guy done, i wouldn\'t go as far as saying its some of the best senmm you\'ve seen (surely it isnt), but it\'s ertainly the best i\'ve done so far.

Tim - Thanks very much, it is an awesome sculpt i have to agree, Your Templar is looking very good so far, it\'s hard to tell at such an early stage but the face seems to have a lot of expression, the green areas are strong and vibrant. The blue areas arent finished yet are they?
If you can get it all to that standard it will be one amazing model.

Seth - we\'ll call it one all then, (a result i\'m happy to walk away with )

I will look out for that book, i\'ll have a quick scoot round on ebay first, as i realise this area does need work,

I\'m looking forward to the article, should prove to be very helpful and if you could pm me that would be great,

Your guy is of course looking excellent, can\'t fault it at all, (apart from he has no hands lol but that\'s not really a fault if they will be added) can\'t wait to see it when its finished.