Light-up Warphead
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jamsessionein
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Thanks for the encouragement 
Painted some dings and scratches onto it, and I\'m content leaving it as-is.
I think tomorrow\'s task is seeing if I can\'t paint the ropes and chains holding him down, as well as the fanatics and the base.
I wonder if I\'ll even have the nerve to try painting the light coming out of the cracks in the base by the time I get to that point. It\'d be a shame to screw it all up that far in.
Ah well. We\'ll see.
Painted some dings and scratches onto it, and I\'m content leaving it as-is.
I think tomorrow\'s task is seeing if I can\'t paint the ropes and chains holding him down, as well as the fanatics and the base.
I wonder if I\'ll even have the nerve to try painting the light coming out of the cracks in the base by the time I get to that point. It\'d be a shame to screw it all up that far in.
Ah well. We\'ll see.
Necroghast
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Could you post a picture in the dark so that we can see just how bright the leds are?
jamsessionein
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Next time I shoot it, I will do one like that for you.
Alright, this is a bit of a mixed bag.
I washed the shield drone down to a decent, dingy greyish color and I think I like it.
I\'ve been painting the rest of the model and it\'s looking okay. The fanatics are about 3/4 done - I need to pick out some details on them and the likes, and I\'d like to put some checkers on their robes if I can figure out a nice way of doing it. These night goblin fanatics are such a giant pain to paint, though, because they\'re modelled terribly - there\'s no gap between the arms and the body, just big hunks of plastic, and the chains are one-piece molded rubbish in some places. I\'m lucky I picked a dark color for their robes, because anything other than black or dark grey would look terrible with how these models are made.
The base, however, is proving problematic. I thought I could just use the new washes over a khaki color to achieve a nice little desert effect on it, but they\'ve proven a bit unreliable as far as that goes. I think part of it is that there\'s very little surface detail on the rocks for the washes to grab onto, and partly because they\'re positioned at angles, so the wash pools in an unusual manner in unusual places.
Basically, the base is one big ugly mess, but the good thing is that since it\'s pretty simple, I can continue to paint over it until I get something satisfactory. I don\'t think washes are going to be much help with it, though. I\'mma let all of this crap dry and then do a reasonably heavy drybrush of khaki to see what it does to things.
jamsessionein
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I improved the base to my liking, so I\'m like 90% done with this model, I think.
Also, I took this photo primarily because Necro asked, but I have to post it because I love how it came out. I basically dimmed all of the lights around where I was shooting, and set the camera for something absurd like a 30 second exposure, and walked away. The shot that came out was actually truer colors than most of my others, which shocked the hell out of me. Not to mention it looked awesome cause the eyes glowed hard in the dark.
Untouched, aside from scaling and watermarking. I may start taking pictures in a slightly dimmer light.
All that aside, though, there\'s only a couple things needing to be done. There\'s a few details on the grots (like knives sheathed in little spots around their belts) that need to be picked out in a different color, and I wouldn\'t mind putting some checkered lines across their robes...
... Not to mention the OSL which I was considering. The whole \'green glow from the cracks\' thing. I\'m at the point now where I am afraid of doing that because I\'ve both never done it before and I really don\'t want to screw the model up any! I may work up the nerve for it later - right now, I\'m painting the old base I made for this model up in the hopes that I can use it as a test piece and try to figure out how it should all work. We\'ll see, though...
Also, I took this photo primarily because Necro asked, but I have to post it because I love how it came out. I basically dimmed all of the lights around where I was shooting, and set the camera for something absurd like a 30 second exposure, and walked away. The shot that came out was actually truer colors than most of my others, which shocked the hell out of me. Not to mention it looked awesome cause the eyes glowed hard in the dark.
Untouched, aside from scaling and watermarking.
I may start taking pictures in a slightly dimmer light. All that aside, though, there\'s only a couple things needing to be done. There\'s a few details on the grots (like knives sheathed in little spots around their belts) that need to be picked out in a different color, and I wouldn\'t mind putting some checkered lines across their robes...
... Not to mention the OSL which I was considering. The whole \'green glow from the cracks\' thing. I\'m at the point now where I am afraid of doing that because I\'ve both never done it before and I really don\'t want to screw the model up any! I may work up the nerve for it later - right now, I\'m painting the old base I made for this model up in the hopes that I can use it as a test piece and try to figure out how it should all work. We\'ll see, though...
jamsessionein
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Well, I was experimenting a little bit before mangling the actual piece. I painted up Wurrzag\'s \'old\' base and just experimented a big with painting the lighting effect for about twenty minutes with a fair amount of drybrushing and washing just to see what would happen. The results below are a bit hasty, but they\'re just a preliminary test:
It\'s a little messy, of course, because I wasn\'t putting full-blown effort into it, but it\'s enough to maybe get a handle on things. It\'s particularly messy in the crack itself, where the brighter colors are coming from, but I actually think it might look better on Wurrzag\'s real base, because the space between the cracks is much smaller, so you can have a more concentrated bright green/white coming from it. I\'ll probably have to paint the inside of those crevasses with a syringe, though!
Anyway, wish me luck. I think I\'m going to give it a go, though I\'d appreciate any pointers before I start.
It\'s a little messy, of course, because I wasn\'t putting full-blown effort into it, but it\'s enough to maybe get a handle on things. It\'s particularly messy in the crack itself, where the brighter colors are coming from, but I actually think it might look better on Wurrzag\'s real base, because the space between the cracks is much smaller, so you can have a more concentrated bright green/white coming from it. I\'ll probably have to paint the inside of those crevasses with a syringe, though!
Anyway, wish me luck. I think I\'m going to give it a go, though I\'d appreciate any pointers before I start.
Shawn R. L.
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This thread has really inspired me to so the LED thing. I\'ve been thinking about them for some time now and seeing what you have done, I\'ll have to take the plunge. Very cool work!!
Dragonsreach
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I\'ve enjoyed looking at this thread as you\'ve worked on it. The end result is rather tasty.
If I might make one suggestion the base you have is a little too clean, try a highly diluted wash of a dark brown, Vallejo German Camoflage Black Brown into any depressions in the surface.
You might find that gives the base that extra touch of realism.
If I might make one suggestion the base you have is a little too clean, try a highly diluted wash of a dark brown, Vallejo German Camoflage Black Brown into any depressions in the surface.
You might find that gives the base that extra touch of realism.
jamsessionein
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I\'ve spent a good long while fiddling with Wurrzag, even to the point where I was trying to paint the cracks in the base with a syringe. (It\'s impossible!) However, I\'m reasonably satisfied with the effect, so I thought I\'d share some pictures. It\'s the sort of thing that looks okay in person, but I think comes out better through photography.
The next few shots were taking with a longer exposure setting, so they\'re a bit darker, but they show the colors a bit better as well.
I\'m spotting a few areas that need some touchups, but I think overall Wurrzag is done, unless something huge is missing that I haven\'t noticed.
The next few shots were taking with a longer exposure setting, so they\'re a bit darker, but they show the colors a bit better as well.
I\'m spotting a few areas that need some touchups, but I think overall Wurrzag is done, unless something huge is missing that I haven\'t noticed.
Shawn R. L.
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I\'ve been thinking of using LED\'s and some fiber optic cables pinpoints of light. Whole lotta possibilities there.
