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This is going to be a great army, I love the strong green look to them, the basing probably wants to be fairly neutral and desaturated so the models really stand out nicely. Keep up the good work! -
Thanks I've never really been into Chaos or Khorne before, but since I started these guys I've been more and more taken by rage and blood lust, I just feel the need to add as many skulls and as much blood to everything I can. The idea is my mortal warriors start out with GW Pallid Wych Flesh and as they loose their humanity and become more powerful nourished by killing their skintones become darker and based on P3 cryx bane highlight. If I eventually added some daemons they would have very dark skin tones, maybe black. For the pale skin I use a mix of GW Reikland Fleshade and P3 Cryx Bane Highlight to shade the GW Pallid Wych Flesh plus a bit of GW Nuln Oil for the deepest recesses. The darker skintone on the Bloodwarriors and the Khorgorath was based with P3 Cryx Bane Highlight, then drybrushed with GW Pallid Wych Flesh to catch the edges and identify the raised areas, which were then brush layered with thinned GW Pallid Wych Flesh to create nicer blended highlights. The whole lot was then shaded with a 1:1 mix of GW Nuln Oil and GW Lahmian Medium, when this was dry I reapplied to the deepest recesses. Hope that helps. For month 2 of Tale of Gamers, I'm all ready to go with a Bloodstoker and 19 Bloodreavers. Estimated RRP = £45 (£35 Bloodreavers + £10 Bloodstoker). I'll work on the bases first, adding slate and sand then painting, before painting the dudes. When they're done I'll touch up the bases and add skulls for the skull throne, tufts for the tuft god and blood for the blood god.
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Really nice colour scheme on this model. Good work! -
Thanks guys, this image seems to be a bit smaller than it should be, theres a larger version on my Bloodbound - A tale of gamers blog. Theres also a picture of their behinds. -
Great stuff, lovely and vibrant.
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Thanks @Cowboy Boots Matt your comment helped motivate me with my army progress this month. Month 1 completed: I managed to get the Blood Warriors and the Khorgorath finished along with a Blood Reaver Champion. I ended up spending a lot more time on the Blood Warriors and the Blood Reaver Champion as this month coincided with Mengal Miniatures Season of War painting competition, for which I entered those two in the Unit/Large and Single model categories respectively. The Khorgorath was a lot more quickly painted letting the dry brushing and washes to the work for me, I'm not as comfortable with larger models in general but I'm fairly pleased with how he came out, (I've just noticed I forgot to do his red glowing eyes). The Blood Warriors were oh my god time consuming, painting the yellow inside the brass trim and then black lining and cleaning up and repeating, I went insane half way through painting these and painted a Space Marine Tactical Squad just to work on something I could paint quickly. I'm really not looking forward to painting another 10 of these guys! I am however fairly pleased with the contrast of the blood against the yellow armour. The Blood Reaver Champion by contrast was really fun to paint, (less armour and more skin). I hope I enjoy the remaining 19 of them as much, I'll definitely not put as much time into them individually. This army is the first army I've done blood effects on and I've also tried to improve my basing, going all in with the skulls for the skull throne and blood for the blood god. So far I'm fairly pleased with the look but if anyone has any constructive criticism or other feedback I'd love to hear it.
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OscarLars Painting Stuff - Ossiarch Bonereaper Update!
cb_rex replied to Lysandestolpe's topic in Painting and Modelling
This is fantastic, I always wanted to add a Stonehorn to my O+G for 8th, but haven't got round to it. I especially like its horns and the rusted metal work, great job! -
Nice work, the visible flesh parts are a bit meh, but the overall look especially of the blue bits on these models really pushes them up to the next level. Great job! -
Painting styles...and time!
cb_rex commented on Tim the Enchanter's blog entry in The Creeping Tendrils of Chaos
I think if you've found another way of painting things then you have definitely improved as it all add to your skillset... assuming you can remember your older techniques! -
Painting styles...and time!
cb_rex commented on Tim the Enchanter's blog entry in The Creeping Tendrils of Chaos
Lovely model, in what way would you say your style has changed? What things have you learned etc that makes you feel a better painter? -
So this thread is now where I'll log my progress for "a tale of gamers". Month 1: Starting with the Bloodbound models from the AoS starter set, I'm aiming to complete 5 Blood Warriors and the Khorgorath, along with finishing off and touching up the 2 Slaughterpriests from earlier. I've done more assembly that I'd planned, having got the starter set Bloodbound all assembled. Painting however is not going as well. The Blood Warriors are taking me ages, getting a good coat of the gold on all the metal is a pain, but it's nothing compared to building up the yellow colour on the armour panels.
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Thanks! I used Incubi Darkness and Thunderhawk Blue mixed with a bit of white for the very edges. I carefully shaded the recesses with Druchi Violet and I used a bit of Waywatcher Green glaze here and there, to give it a bit more patchy saturated colour, but this doesn't really come across very well in the photo. There's a few more pictures and some comments about him on hobbyhammer. -
These all look like fantastic boxed sets, I don't know the prices but if they're similar to the other Start collecting boxes they're great value. Ahh there we go, I knew bases for silver tower models would be coming soon.
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Probably the coolest looking Stardrake I've seen, great work! I really like the dark silver armour plates. -
This is looking stunning, I much prefer the way you've done the honeycomb bits in a dark orange colour to the GW pale brown scheme. Good work!
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Nice work, the pink isn't quite doing it for me though, its a bit too baby pink, I think a darker acidic Warlock Purple type pink would have worked better, maybe lined with white to really contrast against the black. Some great conversions in there, keep up the good work!
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Bearing that in mind you could go the other way and glaze the blue with Guilliman Blue glaze to saturate that colour that will cause the skin to stand out more also. He is cool as is though, so don't feel you have to change him.
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This guy looks great, although I would suggest you try and get the green of his skin to stand out a bit more by either making it a little brighter or using some Waywatcher Green glaze on it to intensify the green. This will help it stand out against the similar toned armour. Keep up the good work, I'm looking forward to seeing your Iornjawz army take shape.
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Finished this guy, I might give the jade bits a lick of gloss varnish.
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Great job, especially on the skin. -
Although I've not finished the first one I've now painted another Slaughterpriest as I wasn't 100% sure about the blue spot colour with the yellow, and I wanted to try green, (maybe a more foresty green would have been better) but I think I'm leaning towards the original blue now anyways, opinions welcome. Again I still intend to add more blood effects, just want to get the colour scheme down before I do. I highlighted the skin properly on this second one and I'm fairly pleased with it but I'm actually starting to doubt the brass trim, I painted it more gold looking on the second model, maybe I need to try silver trim or even just all yellow on some of the core starter set dudes... Not sure. Side by side:
