Kabal of Hamilcar the Resplendent

hi all!

I am planning on basically completely my army with the christmas megaforce, but I bought on ebay 2 old raiders and a ravager.
I don't really like the old models, but the raiders and ravagers are ok, and it means I only need to add a few warriors and a venom plus the megaforce to round out the 1500 points I planned.

I am using the warriors I got to practice colour schemes before I get the lovely new models, and I want to go for a primarily bone colour scheme.

so without further ado (and apologies for the poor picture quality, it is so dark here atm )

non flash


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I'm really pleased with the bone, but REALLY disappointed with the purple. It looks so flat! I want to try a warmer purple, instead of the foundation purple. But I am wondering what the other GW purples will look like when applied, or if I should try and pick up a different brand's purple.
Or even not use purple at all... someone on another forum suggested black, or red.
I think maybe black would be too flat again and look "unfinished" and red perhaps too big a contrast?

Thanks

Well, they look rather nice, although they could use soem more contrasting parts, like dark bronze details etc.
About the purple: how about "extreme" (meaning: rather strong) highlights? Just mix the base color with Bleached Bone or Elf Flesh and highlight the purple parts in 2- 3 Steps and it should be just fine.

edit: Btw, even if these models are for test painting only, how about some basing? It's always nice to have some idea what your finished miniatures will look like.

I was planning on doing dark bronze on my real models, for knee pads, weapons, runes and so on.
Also, I was pretty lazy in terms of detail for these- ie the gun is only purple and silver, as I was just trying to get the bone and purple sorted.

Thanks for your input.
I might highlight the purple and base them, and put up some new pics.

Test models from my new megaforce (bargain!)

I'm, not convinced so far.

I really dig the bone colored armor with the bronze. I would shade the purple with a darker color (black?) and then highlight it a bit more to create some definition. I think you're off to a smashing start though. This scheme really works for me!

Can only agree with ESE, the bone colour looks great with bronze. The purple might need highlightning, or just a quick brush.

How are you planning to paint your vehicles?

You could try to paint the undersuit in a darker brown(Scorched Brown highlighted with Bestial or Cathlan?) to provide a little depth. The bone colored armor with bronze and purple is looking quite awesome.

undersuit is the bit under their armour plates, on he back of their legs etc?

And you think I should start the purple with black?

Great looking scheme, I definitely think it is worth keeping!

Wyches!












I'm not happy qwith my skin, too similar to the bone armour.

notts wrote:

undersuit is the bit under their armour plates, on he back of their legs etc?

And you think I should start the purple with black?

Yes to the undersuit question. I think that you can just shade the undersuit with a black or black/purple wash and then highlight the purple a little more. It would just give the purple areas some more depth.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but the bone, bronze, purple combo is really working for me

my undersuit recipe is calthan brown, with a black wash. (lazy)

my purple is warlock purple, then 50/50 warlock and liche, then liche, then a tiny bit of 50/50 liche with bleached bone.
I think the photo is taking a bit of the shading away.

notts wrote:

I think the photo is taking a bit of the shading away.

I was going to ask. The camera flash can really brighten things up.

im not convinced by my skin tone, so I did some testing.

elf flesh + leviathan purple


Astronomican grey + leviathan purple


Astronomican grey + badab black


5 based wyches.
The astronomicon grey + badab black is in the middle. Purple boy next to him. The other 's have got watered down leviathan purple.


What does anyone think?

I would vote for the skin tone of the Wyches from the previous post. That scheme really works with the bases/armor/everything else for me.

5 more warriors, with bases


Venom





Reavers

Approve! great progress.

Luv those reavers, very attractive paint job! Well done on all of it.

I must say I wasn't convinced to start with, but the later photos look really good, and that colour scheme works really well on the venom and reavers. That last squad of 5 warriors sold me on it for infantry too, keep up the good work!

Which paint scheme are you going with for the skin tone? I know that you were trying a few out.

Astronomican grey + badab black, best contrast with the armour.