Big Ned's hobby thread

[zFiend]

How did you do the leather coat on Abuela? It looks fantastic.

[Barbagianni]

You're too good. I hate you *wink*

[Big Ned]

Thanks very much for the comments guys

How did you do the leather coat on Abuela? It looks fantastic.

The coat was GW scorched brown and dark flesh (3:1) base. I progressively added black for the creases and highlighted by adding progressively more vermin brown to the mix.

[Viruk]

Very nice paintjob on Mei, I really like the way the colors you've chosen work together.

[Wings]

Her top is beautifully painted. The shading looks spot on.

[Big Ned]

Here's Kang

Trying to make his coal shovel was interesting as these tended to be comepletely black with soot.

I decided to rust up the spade head a bit and have the paint/soot chipped off on the edge.

[nagash13]

your clothwork looks great. if the shovel bothers you, you could always paint the handle and lighter color wood, like pine. then do the shovel blade in silver. when dry you can stipple some brown followed by stippled orange near the top of the shovel where the rust could be. then drybrush or stipple a matte black covering a lot of the silver for the coal dust. then take a bit of silver and hit some edges to look like nicks or scratches where the dust might have worn off from the most recent scrape.

otherwise i say its a brilliant paintjob.

[Big Ned]

My latest WIP

Rail worker #1

[Big Ned]

Here's my first finished rail worker.

I've tried to be a bit artistic here, for the rail worker himself and his clothes I've stuck to a very natural colour palette.

I've done this deliberately to contrast with the industrial colours I've used for his augmetic limb. Another bit of storutelling I've tried to get across is his pickaxe is old rusty and notched, like he's had it for years whereas the augmetic is polished and new, as it's just been grafted on recently.

As always please tell be what you think.

[Sybarite]

Kang and the rail workers look great The muted greens work well with them.

[Big Ned]

Next up is the Emberling.

I'm not 100% happy with this one but, I don't think I ever would be. A model of this nature I think is a real challenge to get right in plastic and I had to get creative around some of the undefined borders.

Nevermind it's done, if not to the standard I expect from myself.

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Kang and the rail workers look great The muted greens work well with them.

Thank you. BTW I'm thinkkng of totally ripping off your african-american rail worker idea. That model really suits the darker skin tone.

[ttsgosadow]

I like how the model turned out. It's a nice contrast. Maybe the face could use a little more highlight, as it's all very dark. But that might just be the picture.

[Big Ned]

Thanks.

The highlights are a bit brighter IRL but are still quite toned down to stay realistic for coal.

[Big Ned]

I'm back on form with another Rail worker.

[Big Ned]

Willie!!!

This is one of the most fun models I have painted for a long time. I'm really happy with the result.

[Viruk]

Excellent paintjob, I think you've managed to capture the character of this one perfectly.

[Big Ned]

Thanks.

Here's the last of the Rail workers.

Next up will be my new Raspy crew.

[Mako]

Awesome work on the skin there, what did you use?

[Big Ned]

Awesome work on the skin there, what did you use?

Thanks.

It was a GW Dark flesh/scorched brown base. Adding progreesively more vermin brown for each highlight layer.

[Mako]

Huh, wouldn't have guessed vermin brown, that's quite orange normally but doesn't come out that way on him! Sweet, something to experiment with *grin*

[Big Ned]

Yeah, the base colour seems to really 'mellow out' the orange tint of the vermin brown, and leave you with a nice warm highlight.

[nagash13]

i've never been able to make darker skin tones look good. thanks for the color tip. i'll have to test that out.

[Big Ned]

Here's a nice no-frills Ice Golem for my new demo crew.

[KevinJohnWaite]

I am loving the work on that Ice Golem, looks epic man!

[Big Ned]

Thanks. Here's the Ice Gamin to go with him.

These were all painted with the same drybrush technique that I use for my bronze (i.e. softer brush and thinned paints). I took this approach to give the models a frosty texture on the highlights.

A fortunate consequence of this was that I produced rather nice looking models in about 4 hours from start to finish of all 4 of them. Win-win in my book.