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My banchee exarch

I am quite pleased with this mine as I have always found yellow a difficult color to work with. My ordinary banchees are the biel-tan variation of bleached bone and red hair. I wanted this one to supplement that color and still stand out on its own. The head at her feet is a minion of the great enemy - An emperors children CSM

Posted: 12 Jan 2006

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uglyamericanV1.5

ohhhhhh i can help you! first, dont feel to bad about the score, the painters on here blow both of us away, so it high standards. second, your "problems" are fixable. first, you need to clean the model up before you prime it. Use metal files you can find on ebay to clean up mold lines because they stand out when you paint (if it is plastic use a hobby knife or 1000 grade sandpaper you can find at professional home painting stores). an example would be the helmet mold line on the base. Second, when you prime a model, make sure it isnt hot OR humid outside. I have to prime inside because it is both hot and humid in louisiana..and shake that can for about a minute. third, thin your paints. it will look alot smoother when you do. go to my gallery and look at my first banshees. now look at my second ones, then third, and finally my exarch. you will see the progression as my paints get thinner and it makes a difference. also, you very thined down paints to shade joints the mouth piece, inside the helmet. like 10:1 paint:water mix with a darker color will do nicely. you would take your brush and put a portion of the mix around areas with shadow. like 10:1 brown ink (not chesnut) under the boob, arm plates, the gems on the helmet. also add a red line on the eye at the bottom of the eye piece....add contrast to things like that when you can. the white helmet you could use ice blue to shade, or chesnut ink but remmeber thin thin thin paints. the hair you could use royal purple.......and for metal, use brown for dirty metal, or black ink, or even blue (blue would be best with eldar....good luck bro, write me a message if you have any questions.....

1 May 2006

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Modderrhu

Yes, yellow is a hard colour, but mostly when it is to be correctly highlighted and shaded. Unfortunately, thre is no highlighting, and very little shading to be seen here. The colours are just far too pure. That, and the mould lines, do the score no good, I'm afraid. However, your work is very neat, and with shading and highlighting, it has definate potential. Good luck with that. :)

15 Jan 2006 • Vote: 4

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