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  1. Soulsmith
    Yeah, the whole competition really made the community happy and come together, a whole load of us were sat in painting and watching everoyne unwrap theirs. York GW is awesome. Oh you bloomin' genius!!!! STONE! I'm going to make the staff stone with gold and green gems/jade inlay. That ties the model to the base which is stone steps! Thank you very much for the compliments too.
  2. Soulsmith
    So I know it has been way, way too long since I updated this. I will try to be more active, my thread in the destruction subforum currently is a bit more up to date. Admittedly, painting on the greenskins is slow. But right now that is due to the advent competition I am taking part in, in my local GW. Basically you bought something under £20 and a base or layer paint, that got wrapped, and on the 1st of December everyone who entered got one at random and have to use the paint bundled as the primary colour. Fortunately I got Slaanesh Grey, which I think is a nice colour and I don't own, as my collection is rather orruk-ey (green, red, metallic, brown, bone). I also got something I haven't painted for about a decade - a skink. As slaanesh grey was to be the primary colour, he is now a pink skink. I am really enjoying it however, I am pulling out all the stops and really experimenting and honing my skills. I am happy with the blending on the feathers, and I even freehanded smaller scales from the back scales. I am mulling over ideas for the base, I have shaved down the square base and it's details and glued it to a 32mm round, giving me some more room than the packaged 25mm. I have greenstuffed the border of teh shaved square away, and added stirland mud. I am thinking snowdrifts, building it up on the stairs and creating some strong directionality to it all. Hopefully it will look good, but I could do with feedback considering the scheme, is it too cold considering the slaanesh grey?
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    I would suggest building up waves, maybe even creating a shoreline for some of the larger ones. That ways it will tie with the footsloggers of the force. I imagine filler, or a modelling putty (maybe brown stuff, greenstuff might get expensive) would work. Then paint it and glaze in the water texture. Should make it shine. Check online, there is bound to be some awesome water base guides.
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    Skink starpriest work continues. Actually really enjoying it, though it's tough to find a decent angle to hold it, I need to invest in a drill! Still need to work on all the metallics. The knife blade I went for Jade, though it needs a strong edge highlight. I will also be adding some dark green for gemstones in places, such as the staff, as well as on the base steps. I'm tempted to experiment with green glazes on the staff, to make it shiny and green. All the blending on the feathers I am happy with, though as I did them in a hurry, and didn't care for my brush so well, all the bristles tore off in cleaning! Clean snapped, not even pulled from the ferrule. I am thinking of mixing it up further with the base and maybe using some snow? It still has the steps and the details, I shaved it down and stuck it on a 32mm round. It currently just has greenstuff and stirland mud to cover gaps and build it up.
  5. Soulsmith
    These are awesome! Fantastically original. I can see you taking best army at any competition. All I will say is maybe consider a textured base paint to simulate waves?
  6. Soulsmith
    These are just too great damn you!
  7. Soulsmith
    Also slow but steady ardboy progress.
  8. Soulsmith
    So my local GW is doing an advent competition. You buy anything under £20, and a base/layer paint. It is wrapped, and then given out at random to another entrant. I put in a dark elf sorceress and a dark blue grey, with a message referring to Lolth, goddess of the drow. Fortunately, I met the guy who ended up with her and he's totally up for it! I ended up with a skink starpriest and slaanesh grey. I'm happy, it's a real departure from my natural safety net of green skin, browns, silver, and red. And a paint I didn't already own. I am planning on giving the recesses another wash after I have finished painting all the skin slaanesh grey. The scales I'm thinking of doing black with a purple spine, and the crest purple too. Not too sure on the metal, I think bright gold is a good variant from the cold skin. Not sure on spot colours for the feathers of gems, maybe red? Or a dark emerald green? Help appreciated!
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    Great read Chris. Sounds like a great game. I look forward to your BB team, I am planning myself on magnetising some of the hands so I can replace them with weapons for use as ardboyz - the thrower is getting a boar boy spear, the pose i perfect.
  10. Soulsmith
    I think since it seems like an eye vortex symbol, that it's tzeentch.
  11. Soulsmith
    Ard Boyz still in the works. One test finished, going to now batch paint by 3's instead of all of them, so I don't go mad.
  12. Soulsmith
    That's a really cool conversion, adds a lot of character.
  13. Soulsmith
    Makes sense, it is Blood Bowl's release.
  14. Soulsmith
    Really unique scheme, nice colour.
  15. Soulsmith
    Without seeing the sprues we can't tell they're not yet. But they look easy enough to convert anyway.
  16. Soulsmith
    It's definitely Duardin. I'd say that in the bottom right is 100% a dwarf head decoration, you saw lots of similar pendants designed as such on the plastic dwarfs in 6th/7th.
  17. Soulsmith
    Great little read mate, I will remember that gore grunta strategy!
  18. Soulsmith
    Those will be some super cool bases. My first test ardboy in the works.
  19. Soulsmith
    These are very interesting things, looks like christmas is going be exciting for us all!
  20. Soulsmith
    Can't wait to see some paint on the rider, it's a really neat idea
  21. Soulsmith
    They look ace dude. Whilst I personally would not use the really 40k-ey helmets, they wrk for your theme and scheme. Really want some nob backpoles now, they look awesome.
  22. Soulsmith
    Bit more practice and I hope I'll be at your standard, keep making us green buddy
  23. Soulsmith
    Look forward to reading the reports, best of luck warboss.
  24. Soulsmith
    You should do a masterclass in yellow, because thats a rich colour, nice one!
  25. Soulsmith

    Boar Boyz and Weirdnob

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    Boar Boyz and Weirdnob
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