@jodain Very good work for doing the photots to show off the minis. A much better way to see it. My only recommendation for more photos is to diffuse the light. Shining the light through a white tshirt will do wonders to cut down on the glare on your metallics. I’d suggest just hit to the raised areas a bit, like the folds and the bandanna, with some highlights and you’re golden. I’ll always keep in mind from a local group the phrase “If you think you’re done with highlighting do it three more time”. Thinking about how we try and grab attention from 2 feet away to draw in to the 2 inch zone for exploring detail this is a mantra that can’t be beat.
Watch the black pants with straight black. Its a tricky color to get right so I’ll suggest looking a couple of tutorials from Vince Venturella. The one for hair really makes a good case for how to do most black in just highlighting and dropping it down with washes.
@evilstu I’m going to be putting in a lot of work in order to get the actual models painted in a manner I think best suite them. The dirigible will be lots of work just for assembly. I got the tanks cleaned up and the tracks pinned to subassemble onto the hulls today at work.
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The further plans for them is to magnetize the turret and allow it to spin free and magnetize the 6 weapon options up front. Soon enough I’ll have a few painted pieces to show aside from all the building.
Keen to see your work coming along on those siege engines. The only ones I recall ever seeing for GW play pieces were for the LoTR orc forces.
@woldenspoons I’ll keep my links for nautical nonsense to myself for the moment as you might want to avoid the wrath of your great power of “She Who Must Be Obeyed”.
@dawfydd Its crazy to watch how much work you’re putting into the killteam plan but definitely interesting at the same time. I’ve looked at 40K before and thought it might be cool to get into but there was just so much backstory and force management that it was daunting. The Dark Angels looked like a cool faction of Space Marines with plenty of options to play with in figure mods. The fluff for the Star Phantoms seems to be the group I’d play Kill team with. Overpowered firepower to achieve one’s ends.. yes kill the fly with a cannon. Sun Tzu be damned. Also, sweet deal on the cleanup. It’s always a good thing when minis give up the paint without needing too much work.
I’ve heard a bit about the Biostrip and it reminded me about the spot stripping of heads for figures while leaving the rest alone. I might need to look into this product.
@onlyonepinman That transport reminds me of the transport in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Good stuff
@mage Keep on keeping on. I’ll be right behind you with work here soon.
