Pate's Death Guard
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cassar
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ehemmm! (cough) i think i prefered it the way it was..................................na just joking mate looks complete not disjointed with too many different colourd small details, i guess its true what they say sometimes less is more. re the eyes i think aluna's avatar would look cool if you ever take the notion, best check with skell though first lol. 10 from me all the same..
SkelettetS
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beer yeah right, i know youre only drinking HB!
isnt drunkiness a good thing when painting nurgle?
isnt drunkiness a good thing when painting nurgle?
I've found some time to paint and I'm about half way done with my regular chaos marine squad. Actually the icon bearer is missing, going to paint him when I paint my fw marines.
So what's left is some tyding up and edge highlights. I've painted them "assembly line" and there are a couple of stages missing on most of the skulls. For some reason I keep forgetting to do them
They feel a bit "meh" right now. Not happy at all. Hoping that once I'm done with edge highlighting I'll feel ok about them.
Also there have been some changes to my army list. It has, for one thing, jumped to 2000p. If anyone's interested you can view it below Appriciate any thougts on it, except "more rhinos", I'm not building and painting any more rhinos
HQ
Daemon prince 145p - Mark of Nurgle, Nurgle's Rot
Chaos Lord 150p - Daemon Weapon, Mark of Nurgle
Troops
7 Plague Marines, Squad 1 206p - plasma gun, Plague Champion, Power Weapon
7 Plague Marines, Squad 2 206p - plasma gun, Plague Champion, Power Weapon
6 Plague Marines, Squad 3 208p (The Lords retuine) - Plague Champion, Plasmagun, Powerfist, Plasma Pistol
Chaos Rhino 35p (Plague Marines, Squad 3 dedicated Transport)
7 CSM 220p - Mark of Nurgle, Meltagun, Aspiring Champion, Power Fist, Plasma Pistol
Elite
5 Terminators 280 - Mark of Nurgle, 5 Terminator Champions, Heavy Flamer, Chain Fist, 2 Power Fists
Land Raider 220p (Terminator dedicated transport)
Chaos Dreadnaught 105 - Extra dread CCW,Heavy Flamer
Heavy Support
3 Obliterators 225
Total: 2000p
So what's left is some tyding up and edge highlights. I've painted them "assembly line" and there are a couple of stages missing on most of the skulls. For some reason I keep forgetting to do them
They feel a bit "meh" right now. Not happy at all. Hoping that once I'm done with edge highlighting I'll feel ok about them.
Also there have been some changes to my army list. It has, for one thing, jumped to 2000p. If anyone's interested you can view it below
Appriciate any thougts on it, except "more rhinos", I'm not building and painting any more rhinosHQ
Daemon prince 145p - Mark of Nurgle, Nurgle's Rot
Chaos Lord 150p - Daemon Weapon, Mark of Nurgle
Troops
7 Plague Marines, Squad 1 206p - plasma gun, Plague Champion, Power Weapon
7 Plague Marines, Squad 2 206p - plasma gun, Plague Champion, Power Weapon
6 Plague Marines, Squad 3 208p (The Lords retuine) - Plague Champion, Plasmagun, Powerfist, Plasma Pistol
Chaos Rhino 35p (Plague Marines, Squad 3 dedicated Transport)
7 CSM 220p - Mark of Nurgle, Meltagun, Aspiring Champion, Power Fist, Plasma Pistol
Elite
5 Terminators 280 - Mark of Nurgle, 5 Terminator Champions, Heavy Flamer, Chain Fist, 2 Power Fists
Land Raider 220p (Terminator dedicated transport)
Chaos Dreadnaught 105 - Extra dread CCW,Heavy Flamer
Heavy Support
3 Obliterators 225
Total: 2000p
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SkelettetS
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nice to see youre still into it! mean, green and on the scene. seriously looking good, i look forward to see some badass terminators now!
mean, green and on the scene. seriously looking good, i look forward to see some badass terminators now!nice to see youre still into it!
^^ First I'll finish these guys, then my lord and then I'm going to finish the conversionwork I've started on the land raider, and slap paint on it. THEN I'm going to start with the terminators. Do not consider this order of work of any significance though, considering how true I've stayed to my previous statements about "this being finished then. Doing this, then that."
I've made some other progress aswell that's no less significant than painting mini's. I've finally been allowed to display my mini's in the apartment
It's in a hid away corner in the bedroom, still though!
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Just a teeny weeny update. I started to highlight my marines but after the champ it felt too unispiring. Instead I started to paint on my lord. I started with the cloth and it feels like I made quite a lot of progress. I've basically I've applied shades mapping how I want the light to fall on the cloth. Once I've began with the lighter areas I think there'll be a nice contrast to it. I want it to be purple but not "purple". Can probably go a bit darker on the shades aswell, but I'll wait and see until i'm done with the highlights
Feedback, tips etc more than welcome.
And as with all the fw stuff I've got the detail is insane, it's a 28mm sculpt, christ.
Feedback, tips etc more than welcome.
And as with all the fw stuff I've got the detail is insane, it's a 28mm sculpt, christ.
Tee999
New member
Pate your work keeps me wanting more and more to do something Nurgle.
For a while you couldn’t but throw a stone without seeing someone making or painting death guard or Nurgle.
But your work is top notch in my opinion and has inspired me.
So I ordered something from FW. It came last weekend. I started clean up and work on it.
I still am amazed at how your dread came out.
Keep up the amazing work!
I will keep watching and being inspired.
Tee
For a while you couldn’t but throw a stone without seeing someone making or painting death guard or Nurgle.
But your work is top notch in my opinion and has inspired me.
So I ordered something from FW. It came last weekend. I started clean up and work on it.
I still am amazed at how your dread came out.
Keep up the amazing work!
I will keep watching and being inspired.
Tee
BPI
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Hi Pate, for a fancy mini like this let's see some smooth even basecoats. That green looks to have gone on a bit patchily!
For the purple I'd suggest getting in there with the shade & catching all those unpainted little spots that photos so helpfully blow up They'll be a pain to get to once there are highlights you don't want to spoil in place.
What colours are you going to bring up the purple with? I've been using Kommando Khaki, Rotting Flesh, Bleached Bone & the like of late. I had a horrible experience with Warlock Purple & White a while back & painted a Beastman's sword hilt that looked like a candy cane
I hope you do justice to that boil on his nostril!
Cheers, B.
For the purple I'd suggest getting in there with the shade & catching all those unpainted little spots that photos so helpfully blow up
They'll be a pain to get to once there are highlights you don't want to spoil in place.What colours are you going to bring up the purple with? I've been using Kommando Khaki, Rotting Flesh, Bleached Bone & the like of late. I had a horrible experience with Warlock Purple & White a while back & painted a Beastman's sword hilt that looked like a candy cane
I hope you do justice to that boil on his nostril!
Cheers, B.
devoncodain
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Looking great man. I love how the just pop.
Thanks folks
Tee999, thanks man I'm getting more pleased with the dread as time passes, usually it's the other way around. Going to be fun to see what you've bought If it's the Plague Hulk... I want that>,< Got no room for it in my army though, and i still got lots of stuff to finish
BPI, the green base coat will be "completed" for each specific area I work on. What's a real bitch though is that I'm colorblind to a certain degree, where green and grey are my... grey areas. So It can be a bitch spotting areas I've missed at times. Blowing the mini up like this helps though What's awesome about this mini is that it actually costs less than your average gw-metal character mini! I wont be using white, I think hawk turqoise, I've mixed it in the shadows. It's not very appearent but it's there. I have no idea really, I'm just painting as I go
Tee999, thanks man
I'm getting more pleased with the dread as time passes, usually it's the other way around. Going to be fun to see what you've bought If it's the Plague Hulk... I want that>,< Got no room for it in my army though, and i still got lots of stuff to finishBPI, the green base coat will be "completed" for each specific area I work on. What's a real bitch though is that I'm colorblind to a certain degree, where green and grey are my... grey areas. So It can be a bitch spotting areas I've missed at times. Blowing the mini up like this helps though
What's awesome about this mini is that it actually costs less than your average gw-metal character mini! I wont be using white, I think hawk turqoise, I've mixed it in the shadows. It's not very appearent but it's there. I have no idea really, I'm just painting as I goSkelettetS
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Another very small update. It's a quite important one though, I want your feedback before I move on. Personally I like it, but I don't think that's much to go by. I've started to bring up the cloth with desert yellow. I've also "highlighted" the shadows with blue in some areas. As I said it's a very small update, I don't think you'd notice much difference if you just had a quick glance at this picture and the last one. But if you look, it's there Unfortunatly there's quite a bit of glare, especially around the left knee area. I'll push the highlights further in order to create contrast, all the way to bleached bone for the extreme highlighs, but before I go there, yeah, like I said; feedback You should know that the armor is going to be green. The armor, just like the cloth, is going have subtly blue/turqoise shaded shadows. I'm going to paint the entire mini heavily shadowed, I think it's going to turn out nice. I'm wanting to experiment with minimal lighting. I want him to look like he's reeking of evil!
Here's the pic
And about blendings etc, please keep in mind that this picture is magnified atleast x10 (on 1366*768).
Unfortunatly there's quite a bit of glare, especially around the left knee area. I'll push the highlights further in order to create contrast, all the way to bleached bone for the extreme highlighs, but before I go there, yeah, like I said; feedback You should know that the armor is going to be green. The armor, just like the cloth, is going have subtly blue/turqoise shaded shadows. I'm going to paint the entire mini heavily shadowed, I think it's going to turn out nice. I'm wanting to experiment with minimal lighting. I want him to look like he's reeking of evil!Here's the pic
And about blendings etc, please keep in mind that this picture is magnified atleast x10 (on 1366*768).
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SkelettetS
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i think i see it, i think i see it... no wait, i dont see it...:monkey:
...but, for your own sake i suggest you start out with a darker green colour if you head for extreme darkness, and work with more extreme highlights, why settle with bleaced bone? i almose ever end up with my pure white acrylic at the top.
...but, for your own sake i suggest you start out with a darker green colour if you head for extreme darkness, and work with more extreme highlights, why settle with bleaced bone? i almose ever end up with my pure white acrylic at the top.
