Orange and blue give a nice contrast, not too striking. The key is to make the blue the same saturation of the orange. Using as a base the appropriate foundation paints you should have a good starting point.
Toschenko
Orange and blue give a nice contrast, not too striking. The key is to make the blue the same saturation of the orange. Using as a base the appropriate foundation paints you should have a good starting point.
Toschenko
My "to do" list. Last completed mini: IF Sternguard veteran Currently working on: IF Librarian and Sternguard squad
My painting log, now totally devoted to the Imperial Fists 4th company - battleworn style!Originally Posted by Shadowheart
A tale of two dwarf slayers - top level painting exercise with Avatars of War minis
Woah, awesome work guys, im really impressed.
Also feel very motivated to do my orcs n goblins now.
As for the star dragon.... White underbelly and maybe Dark blue starting at the spine shading to lighter blue where it meets the underbelly? Orange might be interesting but Id say a little 2 much in the end, although another thought, how about yellow scales? It will work with the orange without over doing it I think.
Not this yellow --
But more this --
- Lotho
Oh and, just to add something more, make a search on google on "colour theory". It is a source for useful suggestions on how to choose colour schemes and how to pair off nearby colours (provided that you don't already know all on the subject, if this is the case, then kudos to you).
You'll find that my choice of blue/orange can be proven scientifically
Toschenko
My "to do" list. Last completed mini: IF Sternguard veteran Currently working on: IF Librarian and Sternguard squad
My painting log, now totally devoted to the Imperial Fists 4th company - battleworn style!
A tale of two dwarf slayers - top level painting exercise with Avatars of War minis
Ok, time for an update!
Ive put a few highlights on my Warboss riding Wyvern, looks a lot better than before but is then let down by the quality of the pic. The pics taken at my house never seem to come out, even though they are on the same camera used at the Princes place!
Here is my finished unit of night gobbo's with Skarsnik at the head (second pic slightly blurry).
finally, One of my many Big Bosses riding a boar.
next im working on some more snotling bases, a few trolls and then onto some orcs! seeing as its an orc army i thought it about time!
Warboss looking much better, even in that picture.... nice one
Im really liking the gobbo's Truthsayer! Keep up the good work. I myself finished painting my first skink priest, and he's actually turned out to be the best model ive painted thus far!.
"Waking up to the view of a Dwarf's badly-sewn long johns crotch revealed secrets
to the young adventurer that lesser men had died for merely talking about in casual conversation."
Man that is a crapload of infantry lol!
I really like the ork spearmen, they look so well ordered and disciplined, much more so than the 7th edition rabble of a bunch, the monkey soldiers of the Empire...
Great stuff fellaz, do the lazy bunch (like moi) proud!
sj
The chariots are made, sprayed, and awaiting paint. Also waiting for me though is work
Heres Teclis, or just my level 4 mage, sorry about the angle, it's included here as it's one of the only close-ups wev'e taken so far that has worked!!
Keep the comments coming guys! It's always good to get feedback.
Last edited by Prince Sairion; 07-11-2007 at 19:28.
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Well in that case ...
I really like the redness of the high elves. It's got an oriental feel to it, whilst being relatively 'elfish' if that means anything lol.
Change the photo bro... it's a little difficult imagining the wizard climbing up a wall like that.
sj
Amazing so far i really lik ur idea of WHFB APOCALYP.... I mean CATACLYSM!!!!!!!! lol anyway great painting keep it up. Hope u write up an awesome battle report for this, anyway good luck and u guys are awesome!
I usually dont care much for highelves, but theese look great! I also love seeing such massive forces of foot soldiers, infantry blocks is what warhammer should be all about!
Looking great still..
Some constructive criticism if you dont mind... and that's the metal on the top of the head, and the sword appears a little thick...
Other than that...keep it up
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Those two armies are beautiful, and awfully numerous ...
I really like the elven banners tough, simple and effective, and your "orange" paint scheme is stunning ... clean, neat, "elven" and totally different from what an Elven Host usually looks like !
I agree with Toschenko, I've learned a bit about "complimentary" and "contrasting" colours at the "art workshop" recently, and a nice blue dragon would strengthen the orange on the rider (the reverse being true too), but that would be a "classical" elven dragon ...
On the "green front", I feel your pain mate ... I'm currently working trough a Night Goblin horde, my first ever painting project, and after 133 gobboes I'm going slightly mad, with a sprinkling of nuts ... I even thought about painting dwarves, just to paint something without any hint of green in it !
Still, I would love a closer shot of your Night Goblins, to see how you did yours ...
Truthsayer and myself have decided that as part of our plog we are not only going to chronicle our painting/modelling/army building, but also all of our OnG vs HE battles!
So here goes! I'm afraid we only have two pics of the game, the deployment and the aftermath (mess.)
I'm sure a theme will develop sooner or later, but for now, this is our first game using the new HE book:
Deployment:
The armies (2250 points):
OnG: lv4 NG shaman, BO Big boss on boar (general), goblin bsb on spider, orc shaman lv2, 18 spart 'uns, 25 orcs h/w+shield, 10 arrer boys, 30 NGs w spears (2 fanatics), 20 NG arrers (1 fanatic), 6 snot bases, 2 spear chukkas, 2 boar chariots, 6 squighoppers, 3 stone trolls, pump wagon
HE: Lv3 archmage (high), lv2 mage (hvns), bsb on horse, 2 bolt throwers, 2x10 archers, 6 reavers, chariot, eagle, 5 DPs, 21 spears, 15 white lions, 12 SMs.
Aftermath:
Result: Marginal victory to the High Elves - I'll await the abuse.
I'll let Truthie give his version of events in his own post.
For me the battle was quite fun, I picked an army that I cold have picked in the last edition, with no new stuff, just to see what the difference was. My magic worked well for me (saving the day twice) and it was only the blocks of infantry that really stayed intact.
The best thing to come out of the game was Folariaths Robe (priceless).
As for the painting, I'm battling through my 4 chariots, the chariots themselves should be done today, so just 8 horses and crew to do . . .
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I have three things to say.
1. Monstrously awesome dragon!
2. Spear-elf phalanxes and Spart'uns 4 t3h w1n!1!1!!!!!
3. You are both absolutely off the charts of awesomeness!
Reclamation of Sebranda Majoris Unwanted does 40K general (Imperial Fists & Orks)07.05.13: 'Ere we go! Boyz galore.
My Skaven Painting Log. - At a crawl...
Interesting! Good luck with the chariots.
Would you say the new rules have a huge impact on the game? And would it of gone a lot differently?
I myself have just started my x20 block of saurus and boy do i hate painting saurus... Not trying to steal your thread of anything but here's the skink shaman i did not long ago (Sorry for the bad quality).
"Waking up to the view of a Dwarf's badly-sewn long johns crotch revealed secrets
to the young adventurer that lesser men had died for merely talking about in casual conversation."
Let me just say this..
1. Drain magic is particularly good at what its supposed to do. Shame i couldnt stop it.
2. Elves still die in droves when someone pops a paperbag in their vicinity.. Especially Swordmasters and Dragon Princes!
3. Always strikes first only really makes a difference in the first turn. against ranks and numbers it does diddly squat.
4. Folariath's Robe is gay.
5. Prince Sairion is gay.
6. High elves are gay.
7. take more boar chariots.. arrows, bolts and head on collisions by Tiranoc chariots bounce off them.
8. take more trolls.. make them stone trolls to stop any unfortunate flames of the phoenix getting cast on them.
I must say though that the game was a good one, and that Orcs and Goblins rule!!
disclaimer.. any mentionings of "gay" in the above post do not mean to sound derogatory towards homosexuals..
thankyou
Last edited by truthsayer; 11-11-2007 at 10:33.
By gay i presume you mean happy, good to see the robe is out of the blues.
"Waking up to the view of a Dwarf's badly-sewn long johns crotch revealed secrets
to the young adventurer that lesser men had died for merely talking about in casual conversation."
Cycorax the priest looks good mate, now get to work on the next batch!!
I am very much looking forward to painting just a single model, I remember how it was, back in the day
The ga(y?)me was good, my favourite moment was actually when my
(t)rusty chariot bounced straight off it's boar counterpart. Caused an impressive - for me - 2 impact hits. Then my BSB who tried to assassinate the NG great shaman, only to fight his buddy, flee and get stomped on by Gork. Pity.
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The miniatures stil look great. Love the HE mage
And remember, Orcs never loose
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