Sigur Posted April 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 Doop-de-doo...Update... Finished mortar and crew: WIP Warrior Priest, soon to be finished: Hope you like them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted April 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 After some sitting around, thinking of possible colour schemes for the steam tank, I came up with this: I didn't want to go for a metallic hull because nowhere else in the army are large bodies of full metallic colour so I opted to go for a scheme not unlike the one misterjustin (google him if you haven't heard of him yet. He's good at that miniatures painting stuff He runs Secret Weapon too.) but instead of putting a focus on weathering, I'll keep the paintjob cleaner, more classic. I also added that little variation on the colour scheme to make it a bit more diverse instead of just keeping one colour on each side. So that's the thing I'll be working on mostly for the next days. How do you like the colourscheme? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted April 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2011 I did a bit more "outlining" on the Stank so you get a better idea what I'm having in mind: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted April 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Okay, it's taking a little (very little) more shape: ...and a frontal shot: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergoth Posted April 21, 2011 Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 Really cool idea for the steamtank. This is one of my favourite threads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted April 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2011 @Mergoth: Thank you very much; that's nice to hear. So here's yet another picture that shows hardly any progress: I decided to just not do the yellow and black furnance. maybe I'll do the top a bit more colourful (hence why it's still yellow). Hope you like it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted April 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 Okies, Steam Tank is finished (apart from the scripture in the front and a tiny detail in the back I just noticed now): FUN FACT: The parchment lookalike thing in the back sports the letters FF and RW which actually is supposed to mean "Fridolin Feichtinger" and "Ronaldo Wunderlich", the engineers in charge who worked on the tank. Only after finishing the letters, I noticed that the letters look a lot like "Fast Forward" and "Rewind". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted April 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 Alright, as for something not really connected to this Averland commission...what could this be now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted April 24, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2011 Alright, after a lot of guessing and reckoning (cough cough), here's the first proper shot of this little project I'm working on aside of my commission work along with some other minis for scale purposes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted April 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2011 Things have been slow over the Easter holidays. I hope to finish these guys tonight; for now they're still WIP: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvatarForm Posted April 25, 2011 Report Share Posted April 25, 2011 Things have been slow over the Easter holidays. I hope to finish these guys tonight; for now they're still WIP: Beautiful work on the Techpriests... can I please have your paint recipe? Also, if you notice the white mechanicus cog lining on your hoods, please try to edge the fabric in red, just a bit otherwise sometimes, from the wrong angle it looks like Santa's fur-lined cloak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvatarForm Posted April 25, 2011 Report Share Posted April 25, 2011 PS... I keep looking over your Space Wolves and praying that I will one day be that good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted April 25, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2011 Hey AvatarForm, thanks for the feedback. Didn't know you were on the Wyrd forums as well (and quite a senior member too). Thanks for the heads up on the Santa syndrome. I'll try to fix that a little. As for the painting recipe, any specifics you want to know? And concerning Space Wolves: It's likely that I'll be doing another SW army soon; this time in the traditional 'Eavy Metal colours. Righty, I'm sorry but here's just another WIP shot (but there's really only very little left to do ): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvatarForm Posted April 26, 2011 Report Share Posted April 26, 2011 Hey AvatarForm, thanks for the feedback. Didn't know you were on the Wyrd forums as well (and quite a senior member too). Thanks for the heads up on the Santa syndrome. I'll try to fix that a little. As for the painting recipe, any specifics you want to know? And concerning Space Wolves: It's likely that I'll be doing another SW army soon; this time in the traditional 'Eavy Metal colours. Righty, I'm sorry but here's just another WIP shot (but there's really only very little left to do ): Sig, you are most welcome. I recently painted a Dark mechanicus for someone and was given the same advice. As for recipe, Im simply interested in how you achieved the 'dark' metal' and your specific recipe for the reds... as everyone finishes differently. When you do the next batch of SW, could you do a step-by step on this recent recipe? Also, do you do everything by hand, or do you use an airbrush for vehicle blends? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted April 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 @AvatarForm: Thanks. I hope I'll think of the Step-by-Step thing on the new Space Wolves. Still trying to figure out a good way of doing that colour scheme because balancing that blue/grey is quite a task. I do work with my trusty airbrush but sparingly. I use it on vehicles mainly, on monsters and models with a very strong single-tone scheme like Space Marines. Once a model has a scheme of 50% one colour and 50% another colour, I leave the airbrush out of it. I also use it for varnishing a lot. I guess I could use the airbrush more often really. Like the steam tank. That would have been a premier thing to use the airbrush for but I went for regular brushes instead. Anyway, here's some sort of update. Originally I had planned to make this text only but what the hell - let's take some pictures! (brb) So, let's start with the completed stuff. The Steam Tank is fully finished now: Between the Adeptus Mechanicus, steam tank and BA Terminators (see below), there was a little time so I finally tackled (hahaha) this BloodBowl miniature I've meant to paint for a long time because I won him at a painting competition over at GarageGamer's blog. The miniature was made by Gorgon Studios who mostly do ancient historical minis (They good solid ranges on Etruscans and Spartans for instance). I call him Thick McRunfast for obvious reasons. He's not completely finished yet: Last but not least, here's the first WIP of the Space Hulk Terminators who are part of the Hybrids/Adeptus Mechanicus/BA Terminators commission project: The guy in the middle obviously is the test mini. He's quite a bit darker in real life. Things that are up next: .) More Orks! .) Lots of Blood Angels Terminators! .) Malifaux! (The Ortegas, yay!) .) Ironsides Handgunners, General and Battle Standard bearer for the Averland army! .) ....and the Space Wolves of course! So that's that. See you soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted April 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Here's an update on the Terminators. I was told to add freehand stuffs as I please so I added a few bits here and there: The shoulder shield/powerfist combo on the guy in the right looks a bit ...well, terrible in the picture but I'll tone that down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted May 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 Anyhoo, update: The red still is off. It's deeper, less flat and less orange in real life. Sorry about the pictures, no idea what's going wrong all the time. Fixed the overbearing hazard stripe pattern on the bald guy by reversing the pattern on the sholder shield thing and making the fingers of the powerglove red again. Looks much more balanced now. Apart from that, I added the white parts to the rmoud, did some more freehand stuffs, worked on the gold and silver as well. Now thinking wether or not I should use green. Nothing big, just proceeding. Hope everyone's having a nice weekend, happy May Day and congrats to John Paul II. on his quick Beatification. The weather is partly cloudy with chance of rain today so I I'll have to think of taking the laundry in before the rain starts. So much for fluffing out the update. Good Speed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted May 1, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2011 Painting is going painfully slow. The level of detail on these guys... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted May 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2011 Again, tiny update: I actually am just waiting for another little bit of feedback from the client so I know that I'm not totally off his plans. Comments and critique from you guys also is appreciated always of course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted May 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2011 I took some army shots of the second batch of Empire Averlanders today. You can see the (slightly downsized) pictures on my facebook page: Battle Brush Studios on Facebook Still waiting for the BSB/General and Handgunners being delivered. Ironsides conversion bits are here already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoeRender Posted May 2, 2011 Report Share Posted May 2, 2011 Stuff looks amazing as always ! But I feel you owe wyrd at least one mini , to post pictures of work on a very specialized board ( this is a wyrd run board dedicated to malifaux ) . I mean out of all your fantastic work all 17 pages I am yet to notice anything Wyrd . I might be alone but I come to these boards to get away from 40k there are hundreds of boards dedicated to GW games or a mix of all miniature companies . Again I am not here to offend , I just feel if your going to link your painting service you should have some of the websites own minis . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted May 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2011 Thanks for the comment. We had this issue before in this thread (not as friendly worded though ) and I was assured that my thread was O.K. so far. Still, I added a disclaimer in my first post that there was no Malifaux miniatures in this thread so far and that I'll change the note as soon as I add Malifaux miniatures. I completely understand that the lack of these so far can be a little weird for some though. I've been in talks about some Malifaux commissions in the past months and the first one will be happening soon. A Guild warband featuring most of the Ortegas (my favorites amongst the Malifaux ranges really). The miniatures are ordered and should arrive within the next weeks. Until then, I apologize and assure you my complete understanding and how grateful I am to be allowed to post pictures of other miniatures on here as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Alleycat Posted May 2, 2011 Report Share Posted May 2, 2011 The best and easiest solution foerender would be to order a Malifaux mini for him to paint. If I could afford it I know I would lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Posted May 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2011 @Dark Alleycat: Thanks very much. That's probably would I should have replied in the first place but it would have come across as a tiny bit cocky I guess. Update! Things are going a little bit slower these days but I'll try to have this first batch finished by Sunday. C&C welcome as always! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoeRender Posted May 6, 2011 Report Share Posted May 6, 2011 I agree it would have come across cocky , since I shouldn't have to buy anything for anyone . Imo as a professional curtisy to wyrd I would paint a few of there figs to show on the blog hosted on there own site . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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