Ty, yeah I got the tank commander head from a friend of mine. I haven't heard of that black line between armor and flesh so thx. I'll try it out on the rest of my 100 man army, and I'll try watering down a bit more.
Ty, yeah I got the tank commander head from a friend of mine. I haven't heard of that black line between armor and flesh so thx. I'll try it out on the rest of my 100 man army, and I'll try watering down a bit more.
The black line technique is called "blacklining" I think. A good tip I read was to instead of painting it in, using a very fine graphics pen. Something like that.
Originally Posted by LokkoRex
I tried the black lining, although I did it with chaos black with a small drop of water to get it to go between the flesh and metal. Here are some PIP pics of my armored fist and 3 vets.
You've chosen a very difficult way of painting infantry there. I guess you want them to look dirty, but it's very difficult to paint 28 mm miniatures as dirty without making them look like they've been shot with a paintball shotgun. I recommend trying a more simple colour scheme. For example, if you want them to have skin covered in mud, then paint it all brown and highlight it with a brighter brown or beige. Don't paint the skin brown, green, black, skin-colour and red, because then it just looks messy and unrealistic. The same goes for armour and uniforms. If you make it too "dirty" then it doesn't look realistic.
Some nice conversions here though, for the infantry. The vehicle looks a bit too boxy for my tastes.
Hope that helps.
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Sure mate,
I try to please everyone on this project, but when making a infantry heavy IG army I don't really have the guts to make each model the best and the way I do it now is fast, Though as you said not so realistic.
Re: Deathworld veteran renegades
I've been working on my infantry platoons. Here is a heavy bolter dude.
Is he meant to be firing the HB? It looks more like he's holding on to it. The Catachan / Cadian hybrids look promising.
Well I know it seems stupid that the firer is not actually firing but since it would be even more stupid for the loader to be carrying the heavy weapon and that really is a cool pose IMO, this is the best option.
I don't necessarily think that the firer not using the gun is stupid, however personally I'd try to make the dude interact more with the HB (just my take on things), or one person loading / firing the gun and the other one observing / pointing / shooting.
Have you seen / used the HW boxed sets? They come with plenty of heavy weapons and it's possible to create more than the 3 HW teams that GW suggest.
Yes I have but I see them pointless when I already have so much heavy weapons,(you only get 6 models in a box) My other HB team is made using parts from that box
Last edited by Colonel Haizelhoff; 17-01-2008 at 16:48.
Yeah but that's an extra three Missile Launchers and Mortars to give to other infantry. That's cool, and now you have to get everything painted up!
Well I do see your point, but I don't think the box is next on the buy list. When you get 6 cadian/catachan models (yes plenty of heavy weps) and with the same money you get 20 models. But, most importantly I need a sentinel!
Last edited by Colonel Haizelhoff; 17-01-2008 at 19:04.
Ah Sentinels are awesome. Why I don't have any yet I don't know. I got my last set of HW teams with the Cadian Battleforce so I saved a bit of cash. The HW set seems to be more useful in conjuction with the normal sets.
Thats true.
Here are pictures of my WIP rough rider sergeant
Maybe this will please you more here are pics of the almost finished roughrider. He's got the base, highlights and cleaning to do
I like the concept, it's different to the normal Cold One conversions that people do. However I think it would look better if the rider interacted more with his mount, perhaps some reins or something similar? Nice Hunting Lance though, very barbaric.
mmhmm reins... yeah... that would be easy with greenstuff... but wait I think I'll make chains. Very chaotic.
Even better, chains would be nice and easy to do.
Hmm, intersting ideas here....
I like how you've mixed the kits together, really does give it a rag tag look. I now want to do more on my Chaoschans now!
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