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Post by 3ff3ct on Jul 17, 2012 4:36:10 GMT -5
3ff3ct: I always find with pale colours, especially whites or light bone / tan colours that it's easier to shade down than highlight up. You'll find with lighter colours that your shade colour doesn't need to be as dark as usual either, as once you add highlights the contrast will be too much. Plus it makes like a lot easier sometimes shading down, as these guys have only had 3 layers of paint, they will get a further highlight and that's it. When I highlighted up my Cadians they had 7 layers, which for a Guard army is too time consuming. Thanks, I'll definately try this as I feel my guard army is definately my worst painted (although I haven't touched them for around a year now...  ) The few units that I have left to paint will recieve the benefit of my gleaned wisdom! ;D |
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Post by straightsilver on Jul 19, 2012 4:12:09 GMT -5
No worries 3ff3ct, glad I can help. Well a tiny update unfortunately as I didn't get any painting done over the weekend. I have had to experiment with some new flesh recipes as GW have discontinued the colours I was using so i am having to try to replace them with other ranges. These guys have been painted up with Coat D'Arms paints, and although the colours looked exactly the same I am finding their version of bronzed flesh to be too yellow. However they look ok but I might have to play around a bit more. So here's 3 of the vets with the flesh almost finished, obviously the rest is still WIP.         |
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Post by majorspeirs on Jul 19, 2012 7:05:38 GMT -5
You have a very impressive and characterful army straightsilver. I've been following your work over on Work in Progress over the past few years, and it's great to see further progress.
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Post by 3ff3ct on Jul 19, 2012 13:22:49 GMT -5
Love the guy with the ciggie  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2012 13:28:46 GMT -5
OMG... that powerfist...OMG...jizzed pants
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Post by straightsilver on Jul 20, 2012 3:51:10 GMT -5
Cheers guys, I must admit I am very happy with the ciggie, it's a little bit too big but I thought if it was any smaller people wouldn't notice it. Plus it fits the theme of the squad nicely too, as these guys are supposed to be walking back after a mission behind enemy lines after their transport was destroyed, so I think they would need a cigarette after that. And the power fist is an expensive conversion (it's been sawed off a metal Catachan officer), but it's the only power fist in the GW range that I like, and is the right size too. I have 2 of them left so will be giving them to my UM Scout sergeants next. Another tiny update:       I still have to paint the bandages on the first guy, and have had some issues with the guy with the respirator but that's more the FW sculpt than anything. That's all the faces done on the guys without helmets, so I can now go back and start painting the armour and fatigues so hopefully should have this squad finished next week. |
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Post by straightsilver on Jan 15, 2013 10:15:26 GMT -5
I just wanted to say that this plog isn't dead, I have just been out of the hobby for a few months but should have some updates soon. Although they will be quite small.... But I have got my paints out again. |
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Post by syphon on Jan 15, 2013 11:06:08 GMT -5
Sweet baby jesus, straightsilver. These are awesome. GET BACK IN THE FIGHT, SOLDIER!
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Post by Ponen19 on Jan 15, 2013 12:36:04 GMT -5
Awesome, looking forward to more!
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Post by straightsilver on Jan 17, 2014 9:00:17 GMT -5
Hey everybody, well it’s been a while….. I have to admit I have been neglecting my hobby for a very long time. Life in general got in the way, plus a house move which has pretty much disrupted everything! In the last month or so however I have picked up the brushes again but after over a year (maybe even 2?) I have struggled a bit to get back on form. This has partly because I am still getting used to using Vallejo Game Colour. That might sound strange but I have used Citadel paints for over 20 years and hate change. I have had to start using Vallejo as I am still working on 2 armies that have the same colour scheme and there is no longer a paint in the new Citadel Range that matches their old Ultramarines Blue, but the Vallejo equivalent matches perfectly. So here is my first mini of 2014, still WIP but almost finished.   I have an absolute ton of marines lying around and needed to upgrade my Tactical Squads so this was a practice piece. If I’m really honest I’m not 100% happy with it but it has taught me a lot. VGC needs a lot more thinning than Citadel paint, and if you get the mix wrong it’s too fluid for edge highlighting. After using Citadel for so long I found it instinctive to know exactly how much to thin my paints and now I am learning all over again… The colour is a perfect match but the highlights are pretty sloppy, again this may be the new paint or maybe because I am very out of practice. I must admit my new painting area isn’t ideal in the new house either as the light is pretty poor, but the new house has 3 cats so I am limited as to where I can paint… I also painted up a couple of heavy weapons marines and these seem to have come out better, think I am getting the hang of it now, but obviously they will get arms and weapons added at some point….  I have had to replace a lot of paints, and this has meant trying out new flesh recipes which again has been a learning experience. Once again this is due to GW replacing their paint range and if I’m honest I do not like the new paints, although again that might be because I haven’t used them enough yet. So far I have struggled to find a flesh recipe I am happy with and I think this is because I have been using a black undercoat. It’s difficult to tell from the awful photos (really need to get a new camera and sort out my set up) but I haven’t been getting results like I used to using the new paints. The face on the sergeant is quite sloppy, and this is because he has had way too many layers put on. So I have gone right back to basics and started doing something I haven’t done for a long time, which is use a white undercoat. This has meant painting the heads separately but it has been soooo much easier and I don’t know why I didn’t do it like this sooner…    So these two are no way near finished. These have had a white undercoat, a very thinned coat of Cadian Flesh Tone, an Ogryn Flesh Wash (very diluted), followed by a layer of Dwarf Flesh. They both should really just need a couple more highlights and be done. The thing is to get to this stage before would have taken ages, a lot of paint and obscured a lot of detail. These have taken no more than a couple of hours and I can still see all the detail so I am very happy with them (they look better IRL, the photos really are bad..). I am also finding the new marine plastics have some great bare heads and I have a lot to practice on. I have also been adding a bit of air support to the army. This is a Storm Talon I am working on. Still very WIP but tbh not much more to do on it. Need to do some final edge highlighting and a bit of weathering but it’ll do for table top for the time being.   This was actually a really fun model to build and paint. It looks ridiculous in terms of design but was really easy to assemble and paint and it’s kind of growing on me… And then a much nicer model but still early days yet. A Vulture for the PDF. Love this model, this one is actually one I have had sitting in a box in my “magic cupboard” for a looong time so is the all resin one. It was a right bugger to put together and needed a lot of work but is a lovely kit so am excited about getting this finished.   And finally some models I posted a long time ago, my Psyker Battle Squad, again still very WIP but you can see the conversions better now they have a bit of paint on some of them.     I didn’t want to use the metal / finecast GW ones simply because there are so few poses so build these and am pretty happy with them so far. These are the plastic tank sprue torsos on max Mini great coat legs which I think works nicely. I am now not sure about the Grey Knight staffs, they are too big but it’s hard to say for definite as they are held on with blu tak for the photos, and they were a bugger to get hold of so reckon they’ll stay. Anyway, thanks for looking, hopefully I will have more finished stuff to show next time, and will have better photos. And hopefully I will post more regularly too. |
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Post by straightsilver on Jan 28, 2014 5:15:17 GMT -5
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Post by macknight on Jan 28, 2014 9:28:11 GMT -5
Very well executed, especially in ultramarine blue, a hard color to make models good.
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Post by gearboxx on Jan 28, 2014 15:52:42 GMT -5
how in sweet baby Jesus's name do you get he light blue lines around the shoulder pads and the arm-armor? I've been trying but it keeps coming up sloppy.. and yours looks like the model is 20cm bug and you just air-brushed it on....but you've got every plate with a nice finish.. i'm trying my luck on white scars but still.. it should be similar...
if you read between the lines.. they look great and i wanna be able to do that .. :-P
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Post by straightsilver on Feb 13, 2014 6:08:53 GMT -5
Cheers guys, Gearbox as you will see from the pics I'm about to post it doesn't always go as smoothly. But I will try to knock up a step by step soon. The most important thing is to thin your paints right down so they are of a milky consistency and this helps you get the lines where you want them. Also if the paints are thin it is easier to correct mistakes. Keep another glass of clean water handy and a clean brush, and if the line goes wonky or too thick soak the clean brush in clean water and you can remove the mistake and try again. But I will try to go into more detail in my next post, as I have struggled a bit with power armour on these next two, which is odd as the Librarian came out nice, but he was painted in a different blue... So I have been doing a bit more painting, mainly for practice but also to give my army a bit of oomph. I have a had a break from the Librarian but he will get finished hopefully over the weekend. For now I have been painting up 2 new captains, one for painting practice and the other for the army. Typically the one I was using for practice has come out better than the one for the army, but hey ho. So here is a First Company Captain with Artificer Armour, Power Fist and Shield Eternal (fancy Storm Shield). He is still very WIP and looking at the photos the armour needs a bit of attention as the highlights aren't working right now.      You can't really see it very well in the photos but the about the only thing that has turned out how I wanted it is the white cloak at the back. But he's coming along, he will also have a back banner which should break up all that white and draw the eye back away from the Storm Shield, but I think I need to go back and neaten up his helmet and some of the power armour. Then there is this chap, another of the single sprue plastics which I have to say I am becoming more and more impressed with, so much stuff to paint on them and they seem to just "work". Still don't think the price is necessarily justified but this guy and the Librarian have been fun to paint. Obviously still very WIP like the first guy but think this guy is coming on better, which is a shame as I would probably never use this load out in a game.   This figure was primarily for me to practice on, I am feeling a bit rusty and having to relearn a lot with the new paints but also because it's been a while. The biggest thing was for me to find a new flesh recipe and i think i may have cracked it.   This was very simple and I am happy with the results but will wait and see what it's like on the model, might need one more highlight but will leave it alone for now. Hopefully have these guys and the Librarian finished over the weekend although it's valentines day tomorrow so might get killed if I do any more painting!! Then next week I will start on my Devastator Centurions. |
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Post by KRIEGEIRK on Feb 13, 2014 8:44:48 GMT -5
Wow... that is all. Just wow.
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Post by straightsilver on Sept 8, 2015 5:42:24 GMT -5
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Post by treadiculous on Sept 8, 2015 11:46:28 GMT -5
I really like what you are doing with the text on your tanks, and the overall quality of paintwork is phenomenal!
I am very impressed with the consistency and think the results you are getting with their faces and other details is stunning.
Finally, I really like the idea of the Macragge PDF, and the use of guardsmen in the colours of a marine chapter is genius; significantly helped by the chimera with predator turrets and other subtle links.
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Post by straightsilver on Sept 9, 2015 3:27:35 GMT -5
Cheers Treadiculous, It's been a long slow process but is the closest i have ever got to finishing an army. I didn't realise how much is left though so gonna be going back and revisiting units that still have little bits left on thhem. Hopefully that means more PDf soon. |
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Post by cheminhaler on Sept 9, 2015 14:08:02 GMT -5
I'll echo Tread's sentiments. The Macragge PDF and the marines all look really crisp and finely painted.
What load-out are you giving your devastators?
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Post by straightsilver on Sept 10, 2015 5:34:39 GMT -5
Cheers Cheminhaler, this squad will be basic Sarge with bolt gun and chainsword and then 4 Las cannons. I plan to do another squad with 4 plasma cannon as I have had the old models kicking around for ages. I did succumb and buy some of the new models though so will also do a squad with 4 Grav Cannon at some point. |
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Post by straightsilver on Jan 4, 2016 7:02:23 GMT -5
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Post by cheminhaler on Jan 4, 2016 15:24:45 GMT -5
Superb painting. Great mixture of bits on the guard; the map on the a/c team looks detailed and some interesting Empire heads. Did you use some of those metal GW guard heads that were discontinued?
The lascannon on the marines look brilliant, can't wait to see your grav. They are chunky guns the grav cannons.
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Post by dougeye on Jan 5, 2016 12:28:54 GMT -5
fantastic army, cant believe ive missed this thread till now as I also follow Guilliman! Realy nice quality to your paint work. Puts my batch painted hordes to shame! lol
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Post by straightsilver on Jan 6, 2016 5:20:30 GMT -5
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Post by dougeye on Jan 6, 2016 13:15:30 GMT -5
Fantastic! Loving those chimera conversions!
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) The few units that I have left to paint will recieve the benefit of my gleaned wisdom! ;D
