Daniel36's Log - Vindar 136th and other stuff

[Daniel36]

Teehee, yeah he looks like something is bothering him, no?

I seriously haven't painted a single Eldar thing, bar a VERY ugly flything (Ugh, can't ever remember their names), which I chose as my test model (dumb me). Trust me, it looks like an F-Zero thing, way too colorful!

[Daniel36]

Man, I am seriously starting to doubt my sanity...

I was happily working at my Warhammer Quest models, when suddenly Ezekiel Celes warped my mind to dust off my extremely old Chaos Chariot, spraypaint it black, place an old school Plaguebearer on it, slightly converted, so that I can participate in the Chariot Races we are going to hold in several weeks at our local club.


This is what I have painted up so far today...

Why am I not working on my Warhammer Quest miniatures? Don't ask me, I'm just a raving lunatic!

I can't stop raving, I can't stop raving! WHOOM WHOOM WHOOM WHOOM!

[Daniel36]

So, in the past months I hadn't bought a lot of stuff, because I wanted to finish my running projects...

Now it seems that approach doesn't really work in motivating me, so in the past few weeks I started buying stuff again and man am I happy!

So you already saw my Dwarf character for Warhammer Quest, and I probably mentioned a box of Skaven as well (also for WHQ), and uhh... My fiancee bought me a Dark Elf Cold One Knights set.... And I couldn't resist buying Harry the Hammer, which I found somewhere... All this fun motivated me enough to even revamp some old models (the Chariot), so I am happy with this new approach hahah!

So last Friday I bought something else!!

I am working on a wizard for Warhammer Quest, but this one is based on a character by a good friend of mine. Here's the rundown.

Years ago, me and my group of friends decided we wanted to start up a comic,and we called it Vindaria. The basis was that everyone invented a character to be placed into this comic, and I would try to wrap everyone's ideas into a cool story, and draw the whole thing as well.

Now I am not the greatest of artists, plus none of us are very motivated (hehehhh), so it never got that far. We tried turning it into a videogame as well, and I even tried to write some stuff as in a novel form, but oh well... At least it left me with a cool name for my 40K army!

Anyhoo, I'm digressing. The stories and characters never really left my mind, nor my friend's mind, so it's still somewhere! Now his character was called Yufer, and he wanted him to be a young wizard in the academy of Air Magic. Around that time I also met 2 Canadian girls online who were very good artists. After forging a friendship with them, they drew our characters for us. Yufer quickly became one of my firm favourites and I guess they liked him a lot too, as a lot of art was drawn for him.

Now I really liked that Wizard set, so I bought it and decided to build a wizard for my friend, if he ever wanted to try out Warhammer Quest, so the idea for building Yufer was born.

First I will show you the art that was drawn by my good friend Kerry. I haven't spoken to her in years now, as her life went into different directions. I still see her best friend quite often, as she migrated to Holland. I'm sure Kerry wouldn't mind that I am posting this picture here, though.



And this is a very blurry picture of the Wizard I am building based on this art. It also has some elements in it from earlier concept art, which isn't on her (never to be updated again) webpage.



I will show more as progress is being made. I will loosely recreate the staff from plasticard.



And this is the other wizard that I am building for the heck of it!

And since I still have one picture left to post in this here reply, I will show one other piece of artwork by Kerry Rowzivitch, that was intended to be in the Vindaria Project. This is actually a character by Kerry herself, which I loved so much I wanted to include her into the project as well, and Kerry agreed. I eventually want to turn this here chick into a model as well!

The ghost was called Dan in my honour!



Art by Kerry Rowzivitch.

[Daniel36]

Well, seeing as I am in a nostalgic fashion, here is some more fun art from the old Project Vindaria.

This was done by my other friend, Flora Rowzivitch, who drew MY character for the project!! Ark is his name, and he's uhmm... Possessed by a Daemon, that made him go nuts every once in a while, so he might eventually be turned into the Barbarian character, seeing as his Rage skill kind of fits the profile!



Cool ain't he?

My version of Ark:





Cute ain't he?

Note, these pictures are ancient!! This was during a time when I actually drew something every once in a while... Years ago....

First pic by Flora Rowzivitch. The rest by me.

[Daniel36]

And since I am posting up artwork, I might as well add these couple of pictures!!

First up, my attempt at recreating Kerry's Yufer art:



And next up, my only ever attempt at starting the "comic" Vindaria:



I never got further than this! Flora actually drew a whole page, but I guess that got lost...

And this next character, that I drew and is completely my own design (Kind of proud of this), could easily be turned into a Warhammer Quest character as well!



Again, this picture is very very old... I haven't drawn in ages and probably will never pick it up again, as it is too time consuming for me right now.

Well, I wasted enough of my time... I was planning on doing some more work on my Yufer wizard today, but I haven't done a SINGLE thing... Bummer. No time for anything tomorrow either I think... So...

Expect updates somewhere next week!

[Daniel36]

Well... I finally got that picture my friend Isuran took of our characters together...

It doesn't show my character Sabeth from a perfect angle, but that's ok, the colours look nicer than on my pics!!

So anyways, without further ado, here are Sabeth and Isuran, Warhammer Quest Characters!



PS: Isuran (The wizard) is not painted by me but by Isuran of course!

[Daniel36]

Time for a small update on Yufer:





I added a magic book made of plasticard and greenstuff, and I also gave him the trademark hat! I am going to add a gem later on, but it had to dry first.

I actually bought the plasticard strips for his magic staff, but in the end I opted for a modified version of one of the staffs from the wizard set. Yes, all I did was take out the "planets", but it works for the feeling I want to give to this character.

Some of you may have noticed I used two different arm sets. One has the decoration on it (seen on the fire wizard on the box), while the other has that long flowing piece of cloth....

That means the model is far from symetrical in clothing. Now I don't mind the flowing cloth thingy that much, but I am rather bummed about the fact that I only have decoration on one side... Greenstuffing is probably not an option...

I could consider cutting the decorated part of the other cloak, and cut this part of the cloak and greenstuff that on pretty much the way the arms had to be greenstuffed on anyways, but I am afraid that I am going to kill the model...

You might wonder why I opted for these two different arms then... Well, I wanted this model to have details such as the magic book and the water bag (which actually was supposed to be a potion bottle, but hey, this works too), and these arms worked best with it.

I am also stuck with another problem. The swords in the wizard set are probably the biggest flipping swords in the entire Warhammer game!!! Archaon would probably be jealous of these flimsy mages wielding the biggest bastard swords ever... They look fabulous, just not on a wizard... So I am going to need a smaller sword for good ol' Yufer to swing around with...

Any suggestions for nicer swords?

Oh and one last thing. Yufer is of course a character from a manga style story, but I wish to tie it into the Warhammer world nevertheless. Seeing as Yufer is an Air Mage, the closest thing would be the Grey Order, but I found a picture of a Celestial Wizard from the game Warhammer : Age of Reckoning, and by golly it has quite an amount of similarities.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/wa...izard_npcs.jpg

The fourth is a Celestial Wizard. Compare that to the concept art pictures found in my previous post. Even that front cloak thing looks alike!!

Let me know what you guys think of my wizard model! Should I go for Celestial? It doesn't really fit with what the character Yufer is, but it's close!

[Daniel36]

I went Bob Ross on my miniature today!

"Let's be brave now!"

I decided to cut away that long sleeve thing, since it wasn't symmetrical....

I also added a gem to his hat. Looks rather spiffy.

Here's the before pic:


And here's what he looks like now:


It was a rather scary prospect, as his robe is pretty much merged with the staff... I think I did a pretty good job though.

My apologies for the poor quality of the pictures.

[Nightsword]

Looks ok yeah. You've got some fantastic art, you and friends and really talented. My fav is Kerry's Yufer. The gold is excellant. If you can recreate that on your mini, it'd look amazing. It's already got a lot of character.

[Daniel36]

Hey everyone,

Last Friday I began painting our good friend Yufer.

I never really liked blue as a colour for Warhammer models, and I still don't! For some reason, blue looks fake when I paint it. If I place this model next to my other work, such as the Skaven lord or my Wood Elf Spellsinger, it just looks like a really crummy plastic model. Of course, work is far from finished, but it's going to be a tough battle for me!

So, for your enjoyment, here is a picture of what it looks like at the moment, shot with a horrible webcam!



I would reaaaaally appreciate some criticism, but I understand it's hard with the quality of my photography. I probably won't get much work done coming week (as I have a commission), so I will see if I can take a good picture next Friday.

However, if you can give me some good tips already, that would be very much appreciated!

Cheers!

[Nightsword]

Blue:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/...d=27121&page=1

If you scroll down the page, there's a guide for NMM gold and the blue used on this mini. To me, it looks alot like the picture.

[Daniel36]

Thanks pal! That indeed helps! Of course it'll take a couple of eras before I get this good, but the tips he gives will definitly help!

Thank you!

[Nightsword]

No probs mate, and thanks for the comments on my log

[Daniel36]

No pictures this time, just a little update of what I have going right now!

- Ordered something from Direct Order last weekend! Soon I will have the:
* Sartosan Vampire
* Sartosan Pirate
* Those adoooorable Epic Valkyries
* Skaven Shields I needed for my Warhammer Quest Skaven (pictures soon)

- Got an Assault on Black Reach box, commissioned to paint for the store I used to work at.
- Painting two AoBR minis that came with the White Dwarf, for a competition. Orange Terminator soon to be shown! O_o

So yeah, as if I needed any more projects...

Also, soon me and some buds might probably open our own Tale of Painters log, but I won't tell you just yet what we have in store! It's a secret! :O

I do use the exclamation mark too often in my sentences... And those three dots pop up way too often as well. It annoys me.

Oh, and for those who were still wondering how I did the rust on my Death Guard Land Raider, I decided to put up a small tutorial.

You can find the tutorial here : http://warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=160686

[Daniel36]

Well, how things can change in a week or so, huh? I never entered the competition, I didn't finish my model in time.

I am now in the process of assembling the Black Reach set. I hate the assembly phase, but the models are still a ton of fun. Only problem is, I promised to get the whole set painted in about three weeks, and I am already halfway week 2, and pretty much the whole Space Marine force still needs to be assembled. The Orks are all assembled, but I will have to go through all of them to check for moldlines.

I don't have anything to show once again, but once I get some models done, I will be sure to have some pictures taken!

Also, me and my buds are almost ready to start our log of awesomeness, of which I will tell nothing. Trust me though, it will hardly be original!!

[Daniel36]

I can hardly contain my enthusiasm, and therefore I will annoy you with yet another batch of pictures of questionable quality!!

Seriously though, today in a flurry of Nurgly inspiration I decided to smack a bunch of Spawn bitz on my Land Raider.

You see, I intend to take this little tank to the National Painting Competition here in the Netherlands. I probably won't win, but what the heck, at least I will push myself that bit harder to actually finish something that is more than just tabletop quality.

So, without further ado, here are my insane stuffs that I put on my Raider just now!


Tentacle out of the back.


Tentacle out of the top.


Tentacle out of the mouth...

I never really liked the face the way it was... Now it's just plain disgusting! Which is good!!


A fly trying to crawl out of the tank!
I wasn't really sure what to do with that thing on the side, but this seems like a suitably horrible solution.

Now, I am not just showing you this pictures for fun, I also need you guys' help!!

You see, I was looking at the new Forgeworld Nurgle Dreadnought, and noticed that pretty much the entire armour plating on that thing is all bashed up, cracked open en full of spiky craziness popping out of it.

I kind of feel this here tank is a bit too clean, especially in comparison. Chopping up the whole thing now, after I took quite a bit of time painting it, may seem like a bad idea. However, if the end result is even WORSE, that will only be a good thing!!

What should I do? Chop it up to make the plating all dented and stuffs, or just leave it as is?

You guys decide. Help me out will ya?

[Daniel36]

The disaster at work!!

Alright guys! Well, noone replied to my plea for help, but that's alright. I decided to go ahead and chop away, and I am glad I did. In fact, I wish I had gone even further and destroy the entire tank, but I was too far ahead with painting to do that, so I kept it to a good amount of chopping.

Anyways, I finally managed to take some quality pics with a friend's camera, so here goes!!


Rusty McNurgle


It WILL keep an eye out!


Fingerlicking good... Or something...

[Daniel36]

Stinkin Pork - Crawlin


Topview (Can't come up with a lame comment here)


A bit farther away


My apologies if some pics seem a bit double... I couldn't be bothered sorting them out...

[Daniel36]

Vrooom!!


The back!!!


Boing!

So anyways, I am bringing this tank to the National Painting Competition here in Holland. Do you guys think I stand a good chance?

[aenimosity]

Hey dude.

Your tank is looking pretty good. And it's nice to get some good pictures too.

As usual your rust looks wicked. It makes the tank look like it's picked up some sort of nasty disease too, which is awesome for nurgle stuff.

I didn't want to give you advice on chopping your tank up at all. Telling someone to take a knife to their $80 model is something that I hesitate to do.

I reckon you should definitely enter it into the competition. Your tentacles might need a bit of work as most of them seem like a flat colour. If it's going to be put in a competition though, you might as well try your very best. Maybe try some blending on them.

Personally though, I have a huge amount of trouble trying to make tubular bits look highlighted so I usually just skip it.

Keep up the good work.