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Holy Crap! A painting update!!

Base coats of shadow grey has gone down for my Stormtrooper squad.

My website has been relaunched. Should be able to keep it updated rather easily now that I've decided to stop building my own site in favor of an easy to use program ^_^. Link is in my sig!

The stormtroopers will be getting faces sometime today btw. ^_-.

Stay tuned!

Faces finished. Took a while since I wanted variation. Here's a quick collage of them all ^_^.

They all have expressions like they are witnessing the horrors of 4Chan made flesh. Not really what I expected from Storm Troopers... hmmm.
Props on making them varied though. I like seeing the small variations in armies. Even though you don't notice it en masse, when you peak closer it adds a nice "Real people/hideous monsters, not assembly line robots." touch.

Wehrkind wrote:They all have expressions like they are witnessing the horrors of 4Chan made flesh. Not really what I expected from Storm Troopers... hmmm.

For the record, these are quite possibly the worst face sculpts I've had the dis-pleasure of painting.

I was wondering about that - I've seen a variety of your other models and know that faces are not generally a weakness of yours. Too bad they're kludgy sculpts.

Some slower progress. Been working on another...special...model a bit ^_-.

But some progress has been made. Only 2 more troopers to finish the cloth bits on which really doesn't take long so I think I'll knock that out tomorrow. Anyways, here's where they sit right now.

ARRRRGGGGHHH!!!
Enough of the poor face sculpts! Where's the rest of that Nurgle Demon Prince? You horrible, horrible tease!


Ghidorah

Demon prince is on the shelf for now! He will see light some day, just not soon!

As for horrible face sculpts, here's my first face sculpt ever that I worked up today in about 45 minutes.



the neck is connected to a paint pot to give you some scale. It's big, but it was just an exercise for me. Nothing serious or even permanent really, this probably will get smashed into it's original sculpey to be used for something else ^_-. It was fun to try my hand at a face for the first time though.


Some issue I have with it:

The eyes - I'm definitely not happy with how they came out but it's going to take some effort on my part to really learn to sculpt them.

The ears - they look like cinnamon buns. which makes me hungry. but doesn't make me happy with how I sculpted them. that was mainly because I was too lazy to go looking for a bit of reference.

Alrighty people, I'm at a crossroads. I'm stuck on what models to get back to work on since finishing my challenge entry.

I need your help!!

Here's what we're looking at:



So? What do you think?? What's first!?!

Hey GD, great to see you flexing your artistic side!

As far as completing models, I would suggest the space marine as you already have a sizable grouping of them done already. Couldn't hurt to add to them by any means.

A bit of constructive criticism on the head (even though it pertains to 2 dimensions):

Try to remember to keep everything in proportion. The easiest way I have found is to break a face down into sections. what I mean by this is, take the eyes for instance. both eyes are more or less the same size (depending on your perspective!) and when viewed from head on they will be spaced apart by 1 full eye width. When I do draw faces I use eye widths and heights to measure the overall width and height of a face.

Hope that helps, it might seem over complicated but it's pretty simple.

The marines!! I love them, esp that veteran. Plus they don't have screwey faces and your great simple scheme is a real inspiration for me for planning a marine force soon.
Yeah, i agree with vermgost, from my days studying art faces are all about proportion, just google it and there will be useful guides on dimensions.

nice blog btw

Finished.

That sniper looks ace! Great work there!

Got anything that isn't Imperial Trashcans?

Agreed, love the camo pattern you've gone with.

Good job

Great job, the digital camo has worked out really well, as has the beard. Gnarly

Spaze Mareenz HURR!!!



>.>...

Was cleaning out a case to bring to work tomorrow so I can get some painting done in my downtime and as I was putting them on the table I started to wonder just how many GDL models I had >.>. I've got a lot of marines (another armies worth of Space Pups), but these were specifically designated for the GDL (painted or not).

didn't think it was that many...

Some of you might know this terrain. Some might not. Anyways, I got some more work done on my Cityfight mini-table. I got a wild hair last night while drinking to start painting it up again. So I pulled everything out and got to it. So far, all I've gotten done is the exterior of the 3 story building. And even then it's not 100% complete just yet. Still more detail to go, but it's a hell of a good start.

Check it out

That is a GREAT building GD! I like the addition of the posters as well! I'm not familiar with the building though, did you scratch build it? It looks ace though!

The building looks very cool, still clearly 40k universe but not the same old cities of death stuff so good job. I have not got around to doing any city terrain since using the collapsed buildings cardboard cutouts from the 2nd edition box set, but one thing I always thought would be quite cool would be to do some painting with light and rig up some coloured LEDs inside to represent interior lights / creepy underground tunnels leaking through / external lighting shining up the side of a building / etc.

Also your marine scouts are identical in colour scheme to the marine scouts I am painting at the moment must be a dakka mod thing he he. Do you highlight with skull white or do you stop at fortress grey when highlighting the codex grey? I stop at a very light, watered down edging of fortress grey but am not sure it gives it enough impact.

VermGho5t wrote:That is a GREAT building GD! I like the addition of the posters as well! I'm not familiar with the building though, did you scratch build it? It looks ace though!

It is indeed scratch built. And thank you ^_^

legoburner wrote:The building looks very cool, still clearly 40k universe but not the same old cities of death stuff so good job. I have not got around to doing any city terrain since using the collapsed buildings cardboard cutouts from the 2nd edition box set, but one thing I always thought would be quite cool would be to do some painting with light and rig up some coloured LEDs inside to represent interior lights / creepy underground tunnels leaking through / external lighting shining up the side of a building / etc.

Also your marine scouts are identical in colour scheme to the marine scouts I am painting at the moment must be a dakka mod thing he he. Do you highlight with skull white or do you stop at fortress grey when highlighting the codex grey? I stop at a very light, watered down edging of fortress grey but am not sure it gives it enough impact.

I think actual lighting would be a lot of fun for a city board. I just don't think I'll ever get around to it for a gaming board ^_-.

As for my scout, I stop at fortress grey highlights. But it's not a very watered down highlight when I do finish the highlighting. I start watered down though, and build up the color from there.

Awesome stuff grey_death! How did you make that building then? I once set about making a cityfight (as it was) board, but after constructing about 10 buildings from cardboard I got depressed with the crapiness of corrugated cardboard and gave up
I'd love to see some shots of the marine sniper in a window of the new building ... hint hint

Onward!

-DMG-

More Progress Shots. Btw, if anyone has ideas for interior room colors, let me know ^_^

Oh and I'm doing a Hill Tutorial >.>. Should be uploaded tomorrow ^_^.

Ideas for the walls.
Colours, muted greens, off-white (grimy), miserable prison greys.
Also, i thought you could go for that sort of prison corridor half and half look. A little like this...



I love the removable sections and the detail inside, extremely impressive.

What materials do you use for the buildings, and are they based on any articles you've found online/elsewhere?


-DMG-

That's a big freakin' picture.

DaMaGe wrote:Ideas for the walls.
Colours, muted greens, off-white (grimy), miserable prison greys.
Also, i thought you could go for that sort of prison corridor half and half look. A little like this...

I love the removable sections and the detail inside, extremely impressive.

What materials do you use for the buildings, and are they based on any articles you've found online/elsewhere?


-DMG-

Diggin the half and half idea. I'll definitely use that for a corridor/hallway for sure.

For materials: Foamcore and Balsa wood for basic structure. For the floors, I used pre-textured plasticard sheets I found in the Dollhouse section of my hobby store. Works like a charm.

I didn't use any real articles for them, I just sort of designed them on the fly and had a base understanding of what I wanted to create. You definitely want to go into them with a plan before you even start cutting. Especially when creating interiors like I've done here.

What sort of building is it? If it isn't a prison or similar sort of thing (school) but rather a fairly nice admin type building, make sure to put a chair rail of some sort between the two colors on the wall.

Looks great though man. Your buildings are certainly dead sexy.

malfred wrote:That's a big freakin' picture.

True, but I was in a rush and it was the first good one I found. Maybe I'll make it my wallpaper... hmm...

-DMG-