jesse
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Post by jesse on Feb 15, 2018 16:07:23 GMT -6
There's a skink chief with a feathered cloak, yes? You beautiful genius. I think the Skink chief's cloak is sculpted to him. Also, it's kind of small.
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mike
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Post by mike on Feb 16, 2018 14:18:09 GMT -6
I dunno if your tzeentch buddies hate space wolves or not but there's gotta be a wolf pelt from their line that'd work.
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Post by Nick P on Feb 16, 2018 16:23:35 GMT -6
Oh they hate them SO MUCH mike, its not even funny. They'd wear their skins in a heartbeat, I'll look for some!
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Post by Nick P on Feb 27, 2018 15:40:31 GMT -6
Had some time last night to paint, started in on the demon prince. Should be able to finish him tonight, then I'll post pics some pics.
Also hoping to get a test tzaangor, test tzeentch disc, and test cultist done tonight so I know the direction I'll be going in for those - I'm trying to get them done quick, so trying to see what the best color combo is going to be for using a singular wash across the whole model before highlights, so I can do basecoats - wash all over - highlights and be done, but that might be wishful thinking.
Also making good progress on the floating island display base for the team tourney as well - I'll get some pics tonight. All 4 of the platforms are now cut out, with hills/level details added (though 2 of them are just flat) as well as some rocks from woodland scenics to add detail. Now I need to just add 3-4 layers of foam beneath the main display layer, lock them down with some liquid nails, and get to carving the detail into the rock faces.
The 1/2" diameter acrylic rods I ordered to be the supports for the display arrived yesterday, and I think I'm going to use some 1/2" thick MDF as the base boards for each display. The plan right now is to have all 4 be separate pieces, at different heights, so that whoever gets paired up each round can just take their display base and go rather than having all 4 armies on one singular base. Plus, after the tourney, I can use each display piece as a terrain feature in games, putting objectives on floating islands or putting them in deployment zones, etc. to create some interest and play vertically as well as horizontally.
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Post by Nick P on Feb 28, 2018 9:24:34 GMT -6
Didn't get pics of the display piece yet, stuff was gluing up last night so I didn't want to risk positioning it for pics and ruin the foam. I'll get pics tonight after my game at the Dojo. But here's my demon prince - let me know your thoughts. I told CJ, Dan and Kyle that I'm not sure I like the overall feel of the model - I think there's too many different colors, and they're not quite working together. I tried to make his magical wings mirror the color scheme of Magnus' wings, transitioning from red to pink to blue to teal, and I like the effect overall but it didn't come off the way I thought it would, so I'm debating redoing them with the nihilakh oxide wash over ulthuan grey that I did for the eyes, the fireball, and the skulls inside his ribcage/thigh bones to carry more of a simpler palette across the model. I'm also going to try to add gold and blue/green to the legs somehow to draw more of the armor colors down the model, since right now the legs and torso feel like 2 parts of 2 different models almost with how drastically different he color schemes of both are. It makes the legs feel incomplete. So I'll add some knee pads based off chaos marauder shoulder pads to add a splash of gold, and I might just paint the shin bones blue/green and pretend their armor plates, or find a suitable bit in my bits box that can give a similar armor plat effect. If that doesn't work to make the model feel unified, I'll probably redo the magic effect on the wings, but not until I have the rest of the army painted up for adepticon.
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Post by Russell on Feb 28, 2018 10:32:20 GMT -6
🍆🍆🍆🍆
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doubleback
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I rock harder than most, yet less hard than some.
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Post by doubleback on Feb 28, 2018 11:20:14 GMT -6
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Post by Russell on Feb 28, 2018 11:39:11 GMT -6
I hear that a lot.
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Post by Eric formerly Eric on Feb 28, 2018 14:47:58 GMT -6
Dude that's dope
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Post by Nick P on Feb 28, 2018 15:15:21 GMT -6
Thanks dudes! Also noticing that the eyes are coming out derpy in the pics - its ulthuan grey washed with nihialh oxide and then highlighted white - they look awesome in person I promise, just shitty in the pics.
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Post by Nick P on Mar 1, 2018 9:05:17 GMT -6
After playing with the demon prince yesterday, I decided I like the overall feel and look of the model. I'm still going to paint some fold and blue armor into the legs somehow to draw the eye, but I'm leaving the wings, when he's on the board with magnus the color scheme ties them together nicely.
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Post by Nick P on Mar 2, 2018 16:43:52 GMT -6
UPDATE - here's the current WIP of the display boards for myself, cj , daniel, why, and Ah crap it's him: Tzeentch display with unit placement marked out and small rocky outcrop for magnus to stand on: The largest base, CJ's khorne, with a large hill in the back for his skull cannons and sweeping lava slopes for his cavalry to run down. I'll be adding cork pieces to the top and painting lava flows beneath the cork to match his bases: Daniels slaanesh - since his theme is based around a slaaneshi meadow, I kept it mostly flat with a few outcroppings of rocks. We're thinking about adding in a yellow brick road to make it "field of poppies" themed as well: And finally kyle's nurgle board - its flat, because I'm going to be adding styrene sheet cobblestones to the surface to match his basing, digging out pockets for water effects and green goup to represent putrescent puddles of poxy perturbations: So far all of the displays (what will eventually be floating islands of rock torn free from various planets by the chaos gods) have 2 layers of foam, with a 3rd layer ready to be applied. I'm using liquid nails to glue the sheets together then carving into them with a hot wire cutter to get some semblance of texture and shape. I'll probably do 4-5 layers in total - 3 full layers and then a 4th or 5th layer just to add detail like stalactites and the like. Then I'll be using spackle to fill gaps, smooth out transitions between layers, and add texture before gluing down sand and rocks and grit using PVA, and then I'll be giving them all a good coating of primer from my airbrush before getting stuck in with matching each surface to each armies' basing scheme. Lots of drybrushing in my future! I've got 1/2" thick acrylic rods that will be supporting each floating island, cut down to length depending on the overall shape of each piece, but I'm aiming for 2 supports per piece to prevent any army-tumbling mishaps. They'll then be secured to some 1/2" thick MDF hardboard I have, with the edges tapered off and painted...something. Warpy? Galaxy? Just...earthy like the rocks are rising out of a planet they're attacking and changing to the will of each god? In the end I want these to also work as terrain features for my board at home, to add some vertical interest to any games in which they come into play. Putting some objectives on top of these and having units teleport between them or only having them be reachable by jetbikes or flying units would be interesting as well. Or they become impassable and act as line of sight blocking - who knows.
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Post by Russell on Mar 2, 2018 18:16:38 GMT -6
T is for "the best unit ever", right?
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Post by daniel, why on Mar 3, 2018 11:16:17 GMT -6
Wow, that's great! That looks like a ton of work Nick P and it'll be grand when it's all together. RAD.
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mike
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Post by mike on Mar 3, 2018 21:10:51 GMT -6
I really like the fade into color on the demon princes actually. It's a cool way to show this animating power/locus of magic that I see in your models.
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