new drop troops

[Deleted]

i started to make a new drop troop army, i was wonderin what you thought about the models, all feedback is encouraged.






also, i was wonderin if GW will be making plastic valkeries and vulchures

[aeonian]

Try taking some better pictures. Also, I like the Pig Iron helmeted heads, they remind of the Master Chief from Halo...but they're pretty cool! How did you do the chest armor?

[RedsandRoyals]

Oct 27, 2008 9:52:48 GMT -5 @aeonian said:

I like the Pig Iron helmeted heads, they remind of the Master Chief from Halo...but they're pretty cool! How did you do the chest armor?

Seconded! ;D
And where did the backpacks come from?

[Deleted]

the chest is just a cadian torso with the chest part scraped off, and replaced with green stuff. i got the back pack at rattleheadgames.com/catalog/masterindex.html

[3ff3ct]

The green stuff looks kinda crappy on its own, although with the guns attatched it really works. Great head swap, nice use of the backpacks too!

The painting is sloppy though. With a bit more time spent on them, these could very easily go from 'good' to 'awesome'

[zumbaz]

I like the models very much, I never thought of making your own bodies actually.
hmmm you've got my imagination rolling
However, I thought they still had to be painted, until I saw 3ff3ct's post. Then I realized that they were painted!
my tips and thoughts:
you shouldn't use ink for the clothing it looks to messy.
An idea: use a chaos black base coat followed by a codex grey layer(water down for the smoothness of the paint), then shade with chaos black and highlighted with fortress grey.
and maybe you could try to add some fortress grey highlights on the armour?

Just my thoughts though

zumbaz

[Deleted]

hmmm, im not too good at painting, but i might give that a shot. it definatly could use some work...

[zumbaz]

Time and practice does improve it all, I just had a view on my first guadsman I I was glad to notice th at I had much progress so far

[3ff3ct]

Oct 27, 2008 17:13:10 GMT -5 zumbaz said:

An idea: use a chaos black base coat followed by a codex grey layer(water down for the smoothness of the paint), then shade with chaos black and highlighted with fortress grey.
and maybe you could try to add some fortress grey highlights on the armour?

A good suggestion, although if you're 'not very good at painting' (your words, not mine!) or you're just lazy like me, I suggest you get a pot of the Badab Black wash. I didn't believe how good it was when I used it.

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I used some in my painting tutorial (I love sayin' that), there's a link in my sig for it. If you don't like the look of it, do what Zumbaz said, it might just take a little longer IMO

[zumbaz]

I used to use inks too, all to find out that it's well worth the time not using it and paint it properly, even if you're not a fine painter. the fact is that you'll learn to use some techniques by just trying them a few times, you'll see improvement very fast!