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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2007 5:34:58 GMT -5
ive been on this forum fer some time now...giving advice, adding comments and using past xperiences frm my army....but some of you guys (and girls) might be wondering just what trooper249's army actually looks like...anyways...here some are...comments are welcome  my command squad  i used him as my master vox operator...i wanted to make it more dramatic |
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2007 7:17:13 GMT -5
The minis look like TT quality. No doubt. The colors withing the lines and bases are done.
My advice here now are many. I can see that you can do better.
First of all lets start with the yellow areas.
I guess your using a black undercoat (since the colors are thick on the minis).
If you do thats good, but to get a good yellow coat on black you need to work with different layers. Not just one big one.
First of all, my own way of making yellow with normal GW paints, I add a layer of brown. Very important is to use thin layers, add som water to make it thiner.
Once that first layer is done, add another brown layer, but this time a brighter brown.
Finaly take something like Vomit brown and add it.
What you can do also in these steps is to leave some of the old layers visable. This you do in areas where shades would fall. Example is in gaps and next to raised areas.
Now you take golden yellow and add a thin layer. After that add normal yellow and finally white+yellow on the edges for a high light.
For your brown areas, I would do the same. Start with a dark brown color, then add thin thin layers with other brown colors until you reach your desired color.
With the red, yet againthe brown is a good base to work from. Important again is thin layers of color.
For the faces I would recomend flesh wash. Put a thin layer of Elf flesh or some other skin tone, then add flesh was + water on the face/skin. Once the wash is dryed, wirk with skin colors again on the raised areas.
On the base, I would drybrush with bleched bone to get some depth into the base apearance.
Hope you dont think I am an [insert bad word] hole now. Some people usually dont like when I give adive like this. They rather hear that its all great and "keep up the good work" and not hear anything about improvment.
Well as I said in the start, they are within the lines and Table Top quality, but I can see that you are able to do better from how the areas are painted.
Yours Truly
Vash
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2007 8:43:37 GMT -5
Again same as above, i like the scheme, it's different, i have personally never seen yellow guard and i like it
the thing i find odd is you did an amazing job on your Jarren Kell model, but the other models just seem lower quality and i think if u worked a bit more on them they could be as good a quality as your character model.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2007 2:26:30 GMT -5
you see thats the thing...painting ALOT of guardsmen is what gets to you...well maybe me...and painting 'metal' figures to me give them that extra important feel to them...like i did with my storm troopers....but dun wrry vash, can't change the painting now, no harm done    sergeant |
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2007 2:31:26 GMT -5
and do u guys know how to scale down pics?
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2007 6:06:55 GMT -5
These storm troopers look really good. Nice ans smooth layers. Only complaint I might have is the high lights. They seem abit large, but then again, the pictures are pretty large too  . How to scale down the picture size? Well in photoshop you can do it easily. But if you dont have photshop, then the picture upload site www.photobucket.com has a function once you have uploaded your picture. Once your picture is uploaded you can resize it. Shrik it with 25, 50 or 75% at the time. Photobucket is a free upload site so dont worry about that. Hope you will solve it. Keep us posted! Yours Truly Vash |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2007 6:59:54 GMT -5
  one of my squads for bravo platoon |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2007 7:31:19 GMT -5
I like how you changed up skin color, the imperial guard are supposed to be one fo the most diverse races in the universe, i don't see why no one ever has any african americans skin types  |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2007 8:12:45 GMT -5
I would give the uniforms one more layer of the same color, the wash them down with a diluted chestnut ink or similar. Othervice very intresting color set up, and different  Yours Truly Vash |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2007 13:13:56 GMT -5
It looks great, the scheme is different and it is totally you.Thats what makes this game fun, to be able to create an army that is totally your own.Keep up the great work =).
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2007 5:33:16 GMT -5
ok...just got some pics of my heavy weapon teams...they're all autcannons atm...but my guns are interchangeable...i just thought the autocannons looked better in the pic   |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2007 10:45:35 GMT -5
hehe he, love that wounded guy. Now thats a Jar head. Giving it all for his emperor.
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Post by thefishki345 on Jun 2, 2007 4:03:06 GMT -5
haha yeah, nice.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2007 7:19:48 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2007 7:51:39 GMT -5
I see you have real talent of portraying battlefield gore. Your models really look like there were engaged in bloody battle not having picnic in the park. That's a rare thing so keep up the good work |
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Post by Sappmer on Jun 11, 2007 10:23:01 GMT -5
They look great, no doubt, I really love the paint scheme and all the battle field gore, but, just a small but, but you may want to clean up the models before you paint them. The reason is is that you can see the mold lines on them and in most ways it wrecks the model. All in all, that is one striking army.hope to se more pics soon |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2007 3:58:55 GMT -5
yeah thanx night, ile get some pics up soon!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2007 3:27:18 GMT -5
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Post by Turtleboy(AWOL) on Jun 14, 2007 4:02:22 GMT -5
dude, that's awesome!
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Post by thefishki345 on Jun 14, 2007 5:12:53 GMT -5
coool, i like that...uhh ratling??? yeah it looks great, i love scenic bases, they add a whole other dimension to the models.
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Post by majorjav on Jun 14, 2007 8:19:43 GMT -5
Nice army you have here mate!
I do like the paint scheme and the little "gory" touch to your heavy weapon teams!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2007 23:04:07 GMT -5
Thanks hehe i wanted those buggers to look as if they were experts on the field, using what they had around them, rather than looking fresh out of the barracks....so i just decided to make a scening base for one of them looking out from a makeshift emplacement., i think ile get some picks of my rough riders up too...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2007 0:59:35 GMT -5
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Post by Commissar on Jun 21, 2007 13:46:43 GMT -5
Nice, I love the guy missing the arm.
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Post by Commissar on Jun 22, 2007 12:58:45 GMT -5
Whoa, horsemen!
Sorry about my last post, I was taking about the HW team.
I love that ratling! "Mind your head" lol, great!
Very nice rough riders man, but arent those LOTR horses?
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