Well I tried to get the painting ball rolling again. Firstly I chose a character, repetitive batch painting is the devil if your hobby mojo is on life support, I wanted to have fun with sometheing, also the rule was to put it down and go away the second it started to become dull or achey or whatever, just put it down and walk away, the less sick of it you are the easier to pick it up again it is!
I did bits and pieces in different sessions often with hours or a day in between, net result I think I think I enjoyed this, you can tell I have become rusty, and cant get a decent picture of his face either my photography is a touch rusty too but I imagine it’ll pick up as I start doing more and taking more pictures, not for a painting contest or anything anyway, I always paint for me, I think me is ok with this, I usually have to step back for a couple of days, right now all I can see is the things I don’t like rather than the piece as a whole.
I’m round a friends tomorrow for a painting day as moral support, He’s polishing off his GK list (boo hiss) for a tournament next week and I though I would finish modeling the basing and crew for the Tantalus, and getting some spray on, also I’ll look at the first batch of hellions so I can see how the Baron looks in a squad too.
I’m liking the idea of all female crew on the Tantalus, I have not used any of the Wyche crew supplied with the Venoms so far …..
Watch this space …
Looking good as always Matt. Good to see you’ve managed to get some more painting done.
looks good bud… the purple contrasts really nicely with the army theme….. think he’ll look great with a squad around him…..
Looks so sick!
Just awesome! He looks amazing, especially the cloak, would make an amazing HQ/Centre piece for an army.
The elongated blades on his board are a good touch as well.
/looks at my own converted+painted ‘baroness’ and cries
Hello, chaps, nice to see some of ya are still here.
I haz a model of the Duke to do at some point….
Been sorting out a scenic base for the Tantalus today, also started throwing paint at the first batch of escort Hellions so there may be updates in a few days .
TTFN
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Can’t wait to see what you do with Hellions, I have a heap on my desk because originally I wanted a Hellion themed army.
Venoms are so much easier to paint though, and trying to build a list around Hellions proved…. difficult.
How did you build your Duke? Also I’m building an ‘exodite’ DE army so I’m avoiding the Coven models because they just don’t fit, any ideas for what to use as my Haemy? (Going the cheap and nasty HQ route)
Well we got all the base colours down on some hellions plus some weathering and a little highlighting/detail, should have five hellions done before end of the week wirh any luck.
Hellions are great, I actually ran a big unit for about six months, the army does need to be built around them, I think my list for any tourneys I do this year will contain some. I’m going fourth to prove you don’t need to spam to win this year.
My duke is posted back in th blog somewhere, a mash up of DE and DElf parts, he’ll see some paint soon enough.
Dunno on the heam, some kinda exodite shamen type ? Thats prob how I would go about it
GODDAMMIT WHY CAN’T I LEAVE A COMMENT?!?!
stupid internet.
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I’m not logged in.
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Well, as usual, you show up and drop the hotness.
The Baron looks amazing.
Stupid Brent had to go and tell me that ‘purple is the color of royalty,’ so the cape just…fits so very nicely in my mind.
Great sense of motion, imposing pose- you nailed it.
There’s that and….
Ozzy is god.
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Yeah, I have that logged in thingy from time to time too….
I’m glad you like him, yah the purple thing is a throwback to Rome if I remember correctly, twas only worn by the emperors ( somehting to do with the cost of the purple dye ingredients) which was kinda picked up/ripped off by europes royalty later on.
Lol , I only picked it because it luked priitee ,hur hur
Also it’s an army spot colour and I’m trying to keep to a limited palette, I’m just changing the ratios it’s used in from unit to unit(type) so the Hellion will feature a bit more brown leather and purple than the units I have shown thus far.
Thankee
Beautiful. He’s amazing. Even better painted.
As an aside: in your opinion, which wych/ kabalite warrior head is the most appropriate for a Corsair princess called Mierin?
Uhh, would maybe look at that plastic witch elf/ DElf sorceress ?
Your Baron is up on GW Flikr Pool today (20/2/12) – I guess that using Flikr Pool is okay until someone rolls a “1”.
nah flikr fields are only a five up :oP
I like to keep my oar in on the flikr pool hopefully one day the big G or little K will consent to an interview for rant.
Awesome, awesome painting again chief! Your paint scheme is beautiful and well executed, well done sir!
The hardest part for me is painting the pale skin, how do you do that so well?
Erm, subtle transitions is the key don’t make huge leaps from one highlight tone to the next , use suitably watered paints and, deneb stone, its amazing for pale skin and bone and goes over black nice and fast.
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