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Thanks guys 
Thanks, practice is the only way to get better! What I can tell you is that the right tools go a long way to get great results, and do not try to make everything at once! Making a smaller section and letting it cure before doing another will save you a lot of troubles and frustrations
Tawg said::Vampire1:
I don't even..
Your greenstuff work is so.. clean and.. fine, detailed. The little band to hold the armor plates around his leg. I am constantly surprised what people can do with GS. I really need to work on that skill :zombie:
Very great work though!
At least I have a project to practice on (And hopefully not flubb to high-hells), of a similar natureA poor Empire guy falling to his knees, clasping his ears on the base of my TG, ya know, with the scream thing and all
Thanks, practice is the only way to get better! What I can tell you is that the right tools go a long way to get great results, and do not try to make everything at once! Making a smaller section and letting it cure before doing another will save you a lot of troubles and frustrations
Mioum said:Thanks guys
Tawg said::Vampire1:
I don't even..
Your greenstuff work is so.. clean and.. fine, detailed. The little band to hold the armor plates around his leg. I am constantly surprised what people can do with GS. I really need to work on that skill :zombie:
Very great work though!
At least I have a project to practice on (And hopefully not flubb to high-hells), of a similar nature
Thanks, practice is the only way to get better! What I can tell you is that the right tools go a long way to get great results, and do not try to make everything at once! Making a smaller section and letting it cure before doing another will save you a lot of troubles and frustrations
I have heard, and I've seen a rather impressive range of various tools people use :ghost: I'll need to look into getting a handful to start with, I currently just have one metal tool that is vaguely useful, but certainly not everything I ever wanted. And the layering/building up thing is kinda, I dunno, I'll definitely have to work on it; Plus I feel like I already make way too much greenstuff every time I do it to fill gaps, I have a feeling I will constantly have waste with this :skull:
Do you happen to use the rubber sculpting tools yourself? I have just recently seen those, they look quite useful.
Mixing greenstuff will always result in excess, at least that's how I do it 
That's why I always have a bunch of projects lying around now, I can use some of that excess on them if I feel like it, or I just splat it on a big base (like the Mourngul who received his fair share of extra greenstuff!).
Building in layers is always better on more complex project. Too many times I have tried to make too much, only to have a part messed by a finger or too hard to work on everything at once (correct something, that deform another, try correcting it without messing the rest, etc). For my Outrider above, the leg armor was made with the tights plate first (and one side at a time due to how I had to hold him), then I added the knee bits, then the strap, then the little round part on the side of the knee armor (no good angle for that in the pics). That seems a lot but each parts aren't very long by themselves, the curing is the longest one.
The rubber tools (clay shaper) I definitely use. They work wonder to smooth out surfaces and are much less sticky tha metal tools (they rarely stick, but it can happen, especially if you mix a softer greenstuff with more yellow). I also have a metal tool (like the GW one) that is as useful, they are pretty much all I use, so far I haven't needed more!
That's why I always have a bunch of projects lying around now, I can use some of that excess on them if I feel like it, or I just splat it on a big base (like the Mourngul who received his fair share of extra greenstuff!).Building in layers is always better on more complex project. Too many times I have tried to make too much, only to have a part messed by a finger or too hard to work on everything at once (correct something, that deform another, try correcting it without messing the rest, etc). For my Outrider above, the leg armor was made with the tights plate first (and one side at a time due to how I had to hold him), then I added the knee bits, then the strap, then the little round part on the side of the knee armor (no good angle for that in the pics). That seems a lot but each parts aren't very long by themselves, the curing is the longest one.
The rubber tools (clay shaper) I definitely use. They work wonder to smooth out surfaces and are much less sticky tha metal tools (they rarely stick, but it can happen, especially if you mix a softer greenstuff with more yellow). I also have a metal tool (like the GW one) that is as useful, they are pretty much all I use, so far I haven't needed more!
Oh the base is just brilliant! Very cool idea with the fallen soldier! I think I'll reward myself with the mournghoul model when I finished my army...I still believe this day will come!
Thanks
As a preparation to painting the Mourngul, how about some ghost?
I painted some of my Spirit Hosts to go along the test model I did a while ago, so now I have a good number of them ready;
That's only 1/3 of all my hosts ( I have a big horde of 18 of them, oh how I wish they worked like monstrous infantry), but that should be enough for games for a while The bases edge aren't painted (as small as they are), I want to find some magnetic sheet before painting them.
Also it is good practice for other ethereal thing, like, I don't know, maybe some kind of throne
As a preparation to painting the Mourngul, how about some ghost?
I painted some of my Spirit Hosts to go along the test model I did a while ago, so now I have a good number of them ready;
That's only 1/3 of all my hosts ( I have a big horde of 18 of them, oh how I wish they worked like monstrous infantry
), but that should be enough for games for a while The bases edge aren't painted (as small as they are), I want to find some magnetic sheet before painting them.Also it is good practice for other ethereal thing, like, I don't know, maybe some kind of throne
No love for ethereals it seems!
Fair enough, I'll update this with my Mourngul, wich is only part ethereal (and part shadow)
I painted the hairs and the claw ethereal-like, since he's described as being like a mirage until he grip it's target, so he's a bit halfway between the two mode.
Fair enough, I'll update this with my Mourngul, wich is only part ethereal (and part shadow)
I painted the hairs and the claw ethereal-like, since he's described as being like a mirage until he grip it's target, so he's a bit halfway between the two mode.
Wow :|
That is just perfect. Always loved the Mourngul, and yours make me love the mini even more. The conversion with the hair blends in so incredibly naturally, and the colour of it really bring the model to life. The addition of the fallen rider is great. The paintjob on the rider is probably what I love the most though, as he look truly frightened but at the same time very determinant to try and kill the monster with on last shoot.
That is just perfect. Always loved the Mourngul, and yours make me love the mini even more. The conversion with the hair blends in so incredibly naturally, and the colour of it really bring the model to life. The addition of the fallen rider is great. The paintjob on the rider is probably what I love the most though, as he look truly frightened but at the same time very determinant to try and kill the monster with on last shoot.
Amazing! Speechless I am. Great to see it painted, definitely one of my favourite works I've seen around here. Have some rep!
chiming into the choir here, this is just wow factor.
agreeing with those above but i want to add the eyes on the horse, you get the feel of life slipping of just by looking those eyes.
Well done, and thanks for sharing
agreeing with those above but i want to add the eyes on the horse, you get the feel of life slipping of just by looking those eyes.
Well done, and thanks for sharing
I actually think the horse's eyes looks like saying something like: "Not this again ... why can't you just leave me be ..."
But still very cool eyes yes.
Edit: New avatar Melle, I like.
But still very cool eyes yes.
Edit: New avatar Melle, I like.
Constant Drachenfels
Ghoul
Mad said:I actually think the horse's eyes looks like saying something like: "Not this again ... why can't you just leave me be ..."
But still very cool eyes yes.
Edit: New avatar Melle, I like.
That poor horse, why did you point it out to me
Wow, so many replies already! Looks like this one is a hit
I also think that adding a rider really add something to the mini, the horse alone wasn't doing it for me, same for the hair (artwork was great, mini was too bald)!
@ Raven Torrid ; Many thanks for that :bowdown:
I also think that adding a rider really add something to the mini, the horse alone wasn't doing it for me, same for the hair (artwork was great, mini was too bald
)!@ Raven Torrid ; Many thanks for that :bowdown:
robtion
Vampire Thrall
@Mioum: Nice spirit host but completely overshadowed by the amazing morngul :O
I have nothing new to add to the praise above but I will say I am not surprised you did such a fantastic job on it after following your amazing TK plog. You are easily one of the best painters on this site. Congratulations
I look forward to seeing more of your vamps in the future (especially your Coven Throne).
I have nothing new to add to the praise above but I will say I am not surprised you did such a fantastic job on it after following your amazing TK plog. You are easily one of the best painters on this site. Congratulations
I look forward to seeing more of your vamps in the future (especially your Coven Throne).That is one of the more cartoon-y/unrealistic models; Most GW/FW things tend to be very solid and detailed. It is pretty amazing though, and the hair was certainly a good choice, I imagine without it the smooth lines over the top look very bland. And the rider, let's just not talk about how amazing that came out.
The paint job is cool, I can dig the blended 'Shadow'X'Ethereal' thing, it is fairly cool, though I would have liked it a bit more if it was higher contrast I think? Like extremely dark shadow (Black/dark grey) vs very "Glow-y" ethereal, but it looks good. I'm just not a fan of the more grainy look on the Mourngoul's flesh/body. As others have said the Rider & Horse are spectacular (The riders eyes/face? To diiieee foor (Not even making puns!)), I just like the look of that style of painting better, personally.
Quite spectacular though.
The paint job is cool, I can dig the blended 'Shadow'X'Ethereal' thing, it is fairly cool, though I would have liked it a bit more if it was higher contrast I think? Like extremely dark shadow (Black/dark grey) vs very "Glow-y" ethereal, but it looks good. I'm just not a fan of the more grainy look on the Mourngoul's flesh/body. As others have said the Rider & Horse are spectacular (The riders eyes/face? To diiieee foor (Not even making puns!)), I just like the look of that style of painting better, personally.
Quite spectacular though.
robtion said:@Mioum: Nice spirit host but completely overshadowed by the amazing morngul :O
I have nothing new to add to the praise above but I will say I am not surprised you did such a fantastic job on it after following your amazing TK plog. You are easily one of the best painters on this site. Congratulations
Wow, such praise
I'm flattered, but I have to humbly say that I don't believe to be amongst the top painters of the site I've seen some incredible works around here, and I'm not on par with that. I didn't even bothered to participate in the golden bat :tongue: And don't worry about the Throne, it's now on my desk looking at me (finalized some modelling on it), so I'll probably work on it in the near-future @ Twang; Totally agree on a lots of point you bring out. The ethereal hand could have a stronger contrast (I hoped for it to pop a bit more), I just didn't know how it would turn out until the wash was done! And once done, I didn't feel like restarting that part
Mayyyybe later I'll try to rework it a bit ...Also about the texture, there's 2 reasons for that. One is that Forge models are much more detailed that GW. Where GW models have nearly 0 textures (especially plastics), Forge models have some great skin texture on their models, totally different than what we see from GW. Combine this with the drybrush I did on the Mourngul versus the normal painting I did on the horse and Outrider, that makes two totally different result. I very very rarely use drybrush, but for this I wanted to make sure the ethereal effect and dark body match as much as possible my other ethereals (wich are drybrushed too), so that's why it appear more grainy than the rest. But I also prefer the end result of stuff painted by hand, no doubt about it, but this one asked for drybrush!
Wow this one is offically freaky makes me want to get that model now.
well done love the scenic base of him attacking a outrider. well done
well done love the scenic base of him attacking a outrider. well done
A few night ago I stumbled on some forgotten models of mine. Lying there, the unit a bit more than half-done, it just asked for some attention. So on a whim, I decided it was time to finish them!
Some of you might remember them (they can be seen on the first page of this log), so here's the last four of my Gargoyles!
I knocked them all in one night basically, as they were made to be simple to paint, it's just white + black wash (these new one don't really match perfectly with the others, but they are years apart so it was hard to get the same "technique"' on them!). I wasn't sure about the trees color, but I think they came out ok. I wanted to add some leaves too, but can't add anything really with the way they're stored in foam, not much place for anything extra in there.
And it wouldn't be complete with a shot of them all;
Originally they were to be Fell Bats, but now I think I'll devise some fluffs for them to be Vargheists. I won't need more Fell Bats than the 6 I have, and would be a shame to waste those models by not using them
What do you guys think, good enough for Vargeists, or just Fell Bats?
Some of you might remember them (they can be seen on the first page of this log), so here's the last four of my Gargoyles!
I knocked them all in one night basically, as they were made to be simple to paint, it's just white + black wash (these new one don't really match perfectly with the others, but they are years apart so it was hard to get the same "technique"' on them!). I wasn't sure about the trees color, but I think they came out ok. I wanted to add some leaves too, but can't add anything really with the way they're stored in foam, not much place for anything extra in there.
And it wouldn't be complete with a shot of them all;
Originally they were to be Fell Bats, but now I think I'll devise some fluffs for them to be Vargheists. I won't need more Fell Bats than the 6 I have, and would be a shame to waste those models by not using them
What do you guys think, good enough for Vargeists, or just Fell Bats?
Perhaps a bit off for what I'd expect out of a statue (Glass Cannon vs Rock Solid?), but I certainly wouldn't argue if you set those up on the table
I have to say, I like the second & fourth in the front row best, will the full rubble bases; I think the flock makes things seem a bit off with me. Good job though, where did those come from again?
I have to say, I like the second & fourth in the front row best, will the full rubble bases; I think the flock makes things seem a bit off with me. Good job though, where did those come from again?
NoisyAssassin
Ghoul
Very cool gargs. You've almost managed to make some of the worst models GW currently makes passable!
As for what they are, they seem a little small for Vargs, but if I was playing against you I wouldn't complain if that's what you fielded them as.
As for what they are, they seem a little small for Vargs, but if I was playing against you I wouldn't complain if that's what you fielded them as.