Warhammer 40k

I've been learning my airbrush and after doing some 3D printed rhinos as tests I decided to try out my warhound lower. Personally I'm happy with how it's looking and am thinking of starting in on my warlord (it is, after all, the whole reason I bought the airbrush in the first place). The only thing I think might need changing is the piston bodies could be a different color, I just don't know what.

Thoughts? Critiques?
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JBSchroeds said:
I've been learning my airbrush and after doing some 3D printed rhinos as tests I decided to try out my warhound lower. Personally I'm happy with how it's looking and am thinking of starting in on my warlord (it is, after all, the whole reason I bought the airbrush in the first place). The only thing I think might need changing is the piston bodies could be a different color, I just don't know what.

Thoughts? Critiques?
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Pretty cool dude
 
JBSchroeds said:
I've been learning my airbrush and after doing some 3D printed rhinos as tests I decided to try out my warhound lower. Personally I'm happy with how it's looking and am thinking of starting in on my warlord (it is, after all, the whole reason I bought the airbrush in the first place). The only thing I think might need changing is the piston bodies could be a different color, I just don't know what.

Thoughts? Critiques?
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I like what I am seeing.
 
JBSchroeds said:
I've been learning my airbrush and after doing some 3D printed rhinos as tests I decided to try out my warhound lower. Personally I'm happy with how it's looking and am thinking of starting in on my warlord (it is, after all, the whole reason I bought the airbrush in the first place). The only thing I think might need changing is the piston bodies could be a different color, I just don't know what.

Thoughts? Critiques?
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Looks great. The grey areas might look better with a bit of nuance to highlight details. Like, make the toes a different hue of grey to the central part of the feet, maybe paint some minor areas blue/yellow et cetera. Just enough to break the monotony, but not so much that it blurs the distinction between the outer armor plates and the inner armature. Or maybe just up the contrast, so the dark areas are darker and the brighter areas are brighter.
I'm horrible when it comes to painting though, so take any advice of mine with a grain of salt.
 
Halge said:
Looks great. The grey areas might look better with a bit of nuance to highlight details. Like, make the toes a different hue of grey to the central part of the feet, maybe paint some minor areas blue/yellow et cetera. Just enough to break the monotony, but not so much that it blurs the distinction between the outer armor plates and the inner armature. Or maybe just up the contrast, so the dark areas are darker and the brighter areas are brighter.
I'm horrible when it comes to painting though, so take any advice of mine with a grain of salt.
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I was thinking of doing the toes in blue but thought it might look to much like nail-polish.

I didn't do it on this one since the quality of the print was too rough to bother, but on the warlord I plan on picking out rivets with silver, doing cabling with other colors like black/yellow/red/blue, and putting warning labels on panels. A lot of stuff is also bigger so it should be easier to get a good gradient going.

Don't worry about giving advice, nothing says I have to use it if I don't agree :p. And I'm a strong believer that people can be good critics of art without being a master at the medium themselves. I despise the "oh yeah, lets see you do better" mentality.
 
Warlord is primed. Loots of parts and lots of surface area so it took forever. Thankfully I've got a good steel grey color mixed up (5 parts grey, 1 part black, vellejo brand acrylic primer) so all of those parts are good to go for gradients. The rest of the stuff that was sprayed in white now needs a black gradient for the blues and a brown gradient for the yellows, so that's two more coats for all those parts. Plus a bunch of them also have steel areas that will need to be painted over by hand.

The most annoying thing I've encountered so far: for some reason the white primer didn't want to spray. The black and grey don't have any issues but the white would clog like a bastard when taken straight from the bottle. I ended up with a 14:5:1 mix of primer to airbrush medium to diluted flow-aid. The white also needed two coats to get the coverage that I wanted, doubling the frustration.
 
JBSchroeds said:
Warlord is primed. Loots of parts and lots of surface area so it took forever. Thankfully I've got a good steel grey color mixed up (5 parts grey, 1 part black, vellejo brand acrylic primer) so all of those parts are good to go for gradients. The rest of the stuff that was sprayed in white now needs a black gradient for the blues and a brown gradient for the yellows, so that's two more coats for all those parts. Plus a bunch of them also have steel areas that will need to be painted over by hand.

The most annoying thing I've encountered so far: for some reason the white primer didn't want to spray. The black and grey don't have any issues but the white would clog like a bastard when taken straight from the bottle. I ended up with a 14:5:1 mix of primer to airbrush medium to diluted flow-aid. The white also needed two coats to get the coverage that I wanted, doubling the frustration.
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That is a lot of progress
 
I decided to do an exploded layout on the floor to show off all the parts. Head, knees, crotch, weapons, ankles, and rib will be yellow and the rest of the white primed parts (shoulders, chest, neck, thighs, shins) will be blue. I'm planning on doing white stripes on the shin and arm weapon plates. I also want to do flames on the lower half of the shoulder armor, but that will probably be one of the very last things I do because it will require templates and a lot of practice to get it looking right (I'm not remotely good enough to freehand a flame job).
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Bump.
Haven't done anything tabletop-related since April, but I've been meaning to get back into it for a while now. Might be a few weeks still to go, but figured I'd get into the habit of checking this thread regularly in the meantime.
Apparently AngryJoeShow is going to start streaming sessions of him and his crew playing the new 9th edition of 40k. Don't know if the name means anything to you guys, or if you are interested in that kind of content. I watch the channel from time to time though, and their previous attempts at streaming rpgs and tabletop games have been quite enjoyable. Think it might be fun. About as competitive as a couple of 5-year olds playing with spinning tops, but fun.
 
I'm still plugging away at my Warlord painting. God, I hate painting sooooo muuuuuuuuuuch. I'm about 70% on the blue/yellow pieces. They've got their gradients and color shot and I've been filling in all the steel colored portions by hand and am almost done with that step. After that is shooting the gradient on the steel bands, picking out some rivets with silver, and a couple wash steps (sepia for the colors, oil for the steel, and black for the accent channels). I think I'll then give everything a varnish and worry about iconography later (including stripes).

I'm dreading having to figure out iconography. It's absolutely necessary to have a good quality finished look, but it's going to have to be almost entirely freehand. GW used to sell a decal sheet for Legio Astorum titans but it was discontinued years ago and getting one on the secondary market would probably be $100+ if you could even find it at all.
 
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JBSchroeds said:
I'm still plugging away at my Warlord painting. God, I hate painting sooooo muuuuuuuuuuch. I'm about 70% on the blue/yellow pieces. They've got their gradients and color shot and I've been filling in all the steel colored portions by hand and am almost done with that step. After that is shooting the gradient on the steel bands, picking out some rivets with silver, and a couple wash steps (sepia for the colors, oil for the steel, and black for the accent channels). I think I'll then give everything a varnish and worry about iconography later (including stripes).

I'm dreading having to figure out iconography. It's absolutely necessary to have a good quality finished look, but it's going to have to be almost entirely freehand. GW used to sell a decal sheet for Legio Astorum titans but it was discontinued years ago and getting one on the secondary market would probably be $100+ if you could even find it at all.
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I can't wait to see it finished
 
Rozko said:
I can't wait to see it finished
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Well, here's a quick layout on the floor. Nothing's glued and it's obviously not all there, but this should give a pretty good idea of the color layout and where I'm at. Also, the flash is making the colors brighter than they are IRL and I'm too lazy to try and color correct a WIP shot.
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JBSchroeds said:
Well, here's a quick layout on the floor. Nothing's glued and it's obviously not all there, but this should give a pretty good idea of the color layout and where I'm at. Also, the flash is making the colors brighter than they are IRL and I'm too lazy to try and color correct a WIP shot.
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Legio Svennebananus.

No, I won't explain the joke.

On-topic: Really like the gradient effect.
 
Looks really cool!

On another topic, new necrons are looking pretty nice. Space undead instead of space terminators are pretty fresh.
 
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