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Post by aeonian on Apr 15, 2009 21:55:25 GMT -5
Wow, you do nice wood effects on those penal legionnaire lasguns... Oh! And hurray for TEAL FRAGMENTATION GRENADES!!!  |
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Post by mrambo71 on Apr 15, 2009 23:21:13 GMT -5
You clear coated your people are shinny's they are very reflective of the light and what kind of paint are you using. I suggest using Vallejo paint it looks good and paints on smoothly.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Apr 15, 2009 23:41:38 GMT -5
Lol, Aeon... they're not teal -- they're med. to dark green, but I needed the mini bright enough to show you the details. And, crap! I missed the pins on the guy in the picture... Imagine that they're chrome.
There's no coat of any kind yet. I'm cheap (I'd give a date re-heated leftovers {hey, leftovers are awesome}). They aren't that shiny IRL, it's just that the halogen spotlight is only 3 feet from the minis. I'll buy a matte finish coat when I'm done... maybe. I use the artist acrylics and the airbrush enamels I've got lying around in abundance. And this sexy spray lacquer I found on the kasrkin. The camera actually can't capture that paint in all its glory.
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Post by Mighty Muffin on Apr 16, 2009 6:30:41 GMT -5
Really beautiful lasguns. How many of your Guardsmen will have wooden lasguns?
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Apr 16, 2009 10:54:42 GMT -5
That would depend on how the roll for the crime of the penal squads works: one roll per game, or one roll per squad. If it's the latter, then I'll do two squads, and thus the answer to your question is either nine, or 18.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2009 14:25:23 GMT -5
hmmm i dnt like the kasrkin guys they look too splodgy
i like the guardsmen thoe i think you should do some washes on the though because theres not much depth in them
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Post by kellysgrenadier on Apr 16, 2009 14:32:36 GMT -5
You're a better painter than I but... I just question your colour scheme. You say your Kasrkin are stealth troopers but... red and white, with gold details... really?
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Sorry, I'm not going to be a complete thingy about it.
The wood effect on your lasguns is simply amazing. I have never seen anything like it. Would you mind showing us the method of achieving that finish?
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Apr 16, 2009 14:47:25 GMT -5
Camo colors are dictated by the terrain, and on a planet whose surface is red (iron oxide gravel) and white (snow) it's invisibility magic. But the red is too bright, and I've been wondering precisely what I should do about it.
If I can manage to replicate the wood grain that well again (it was a pain) then I'll post a step-by-step. I don't know how well pics taken in the studio room will turn-out, but I'll do my best, as always.
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Post by aeonian on Apr 16, 2009 17:07:37 GMT -5
You could do each step and after each step is done take a picture somewhere else...
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Apr 17, 2009 0:52:32 GMT -5
Or I just move the spotlight in here. You know it's bad/ awesome when you get into the zone, painting and you look up and it's not the same day anymore...
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Post by Ignatius on Apr 17, 2009 17:01:58 GMT -5
wow. I am doing wooden guns on my guys and they dont look 1/500th as good as yours do. Thats got to be one tiny brush....
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Apr 17, 2009 18:59:18 GMT -5
If you look on my How to: Wood Grain thread in the painting and conversions forum, there's a picture of my brushes. And yes, it is a little smaller than a guardsman's finger.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on May 1, 2009 21:13:05 GMT -5
Here's one of the new sentinels. Not quite as pose-able as I'd imagined. The right leg will be standing on something -- I haven't decided what yet. Switching option between plasma cannon and missile launcher.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2009 14:43:11 GMT -5
Ha, didn't realize that the new sentinels came with windshield wipers.
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Oh right forgot, and your army looks pretty cool, I like the close up shot of the face. How did you do the wooden rifles?
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Post by metcalfedan on May 9, 2009 14:55:57 GMT -5
Reichsiege, that was the first thing I noticed  Looking good so far ElegaicRequiem
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on May 9, 2009 15:05:13 GMT -5
Well the Armageddon pattern armor has wipers -- but I wanted to use the other armor. Except, it has no roof... This isn't bad, though. And it gets a pimped-out roof. Here. Almost forgot -- it's been in camera card limbo for a few days:  |
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Post by aeonian on May 10, 2009 0:11:08 GMT -5
Hey Requiem - for the cost of that Valk, you could have gotten into Gamesday two and a half times...
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on May 10, 2009 15:43:43 GMT -5
Hey............ shut-up... Actually not quite twice, but I'd rather have the model. It will amuse me for years to come. And it's going into the painting comp. |
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Post by pupyut on May 10, 2009 17:07:45 GMT -5
Run around going VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM! with the Valk, and I can't wait to see those painted and next to the guardsmen and Karaskin  |
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2009 17:44:58 GMT -5
I do not think anyone missed the fact the Requiem has the sexiest wrist in the Imperium, either. Personally the Guardsmen look really great, but I can't imagine how epic a commissar might look with the red camo. What might make the effect look better would be to add a death korp of krieg or steel legion commissar with the gas mask to give it that added fluff about the harsh weather.
Oh, and is it just me or does anyone else expect a wookie to burst from the top the sentinel?
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on May 10, 2009 18:15:36 GMT -5
Hi, my name is ElegaicRequiem, and I have arm hair...
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2009 21:58:17 GMT -5
Hello, ElegaicRequiem.
I think the color scheme is solid, but I'm curious if you are going to base the colors of your tanks a solid reddish tint or try and keep the same color flow.
And you better build that At-St well, because my Vanquisher is waiting, you scruffy-nerfherder.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on May 13, 2009 16:58:20 GMT -5
Look at the other thread in painting and conversions. It's probably buried deep, though. I'm gonna laugh pretty hard when your silly vanquisher misses, and just because I can, the sentinel charges your tank in cc. S5 to rear armor of 10, it could happen. Beware. Anyway, I finally kicked my own ass into picking up a brush again, and I've finished those last four penal dudes who were giving me sad looks from my desk... My quota of two squads is now done.   |
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Post by Ymmot (M.I.A) on May 13, 2009 17:14:28 GMT -5
that is one manly wrist you got ther Req *thumbs up*
also- sweet looking bunch of fellas you got there, I love the way the shadows fall across their faces, the wood grain ain't half bad either...and is that strange alien terrian they're walking over?
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on May 13, 2009 17:19:46 GMT -5
No, it's a special alloy under development -- cardboardium. If it works, the Imperium may start giving cardboardium armor to guardsmen everywhere, tipping the balance of power in the galaxy back in its favor.
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