An "Evil?" project log. 6/21 Don't call it a comeback!

Very sharp, and likewise a very cool camo pattern

The other two rangers have been on hold because of the holidays and finishing my Secret Santa gift. Can't post a pic until he is received, but I can say that my giftee should be very pleased with his new Corsair Prince

Just went through this entire thread (again). Still blows me away and inspires me. Also makes me want to give up painting a bit, but I'm stubborn so I'm going to just get better instead. I need to get back to painting regularly.

Thanks for the continued advice and inspiration.

Also, do you still thin paints when you use a wet palette?

Bearded Dan wrote:

Thanks for the continued advice and inspiration.

Also, do you still thin paints when you use a wet palette?

Glad that I can help! I don't thin paints much when I use the wet palette unless I am doing wet blending(which I don't do much of anyways )

My giftee received his Secret Santa Gift giving me free reign to post pics


I was pretty happy with the overall effect, though I truly wish that the Yriel model didn't take 3 weeks to arrive. I truly would have liked more time for the banner with the outcast rune. Overall I would say that I really had fun with it.

Now on to my own Corsair prince...

Very nice colour scheme mate, and I like the blade effect. Impressive

Oh very nice indeed! excellent paint job!

Excuse me while i collect my jaw off the floor, wow that is a beautiful mini!

Oh wow, whoever got that gift must be absolutely stoked! That corsair prince is astonishing, really well done!

That is a stunning paint job on a stunning model. Shadow's Revenge is one very lucky git!

ESE: Like I said with Mort, long time lurker, now 2nd time poster...

You have an AWESOME DE army, love the custom hellions and well... custom everything else you have done pretty much! Paint jobs are CRAZY GOOD!

Thanks for all of the great inspiration for my DE. Mind if I pick your brain if/when I go to make my Baron leader?

Awesome work once again!

Insanity+ wrote:

Mind if I pick your brain if/when I go to make my Baron leader?!

Any time, I'd be more than happy to. Oh, and thanks for the kind words!

Painted up one of my gifts from Eye of Error today. I tweaked a few things(weapon and banner swaps) and decided that he would be used as a Succubus. Perhaps a disgraced Incubi forced to fight in the arenas? Don't really give a hoot how, just had fun painting the model



Sadly, I realized tonight that this is one of the first DE models that I have painted and posted in a LONG time. My vow for this year is to get the rest of my DE stuff done

We'll be holding you to that ESE... I'm pretty sure we all, or at least I do, hang out for your updates. You've definitely made EOE model even more awesome then before, and that's saying something!

I'll be lurling around, and I do hope you stay true to your words... Who knows, there might be Mandrakes hanging around to strike when you're not posting pictures.

He looks nice though! Really well paintjob as usual~
Anyhow... how's it going with that prince of yours?

Nice! He looks great!

Def looks like a fallen incubi, maybe the prize arena champion

ESE,

once a again a really nice looking model and conversion.

My thoughts, critial and otherwise.

Colors are spot on, they work well together and no single color dominates the others. The white helmet is just strong enough that the eye is drawn to the helmet.

2 things that jump out at me with a little time to look it over is the highlighting I think could be a little stronger, or darken the shading, but I think really a little more highlighting would accentuate the shading really well.

The other is that the base needs a little more something on the large open area right under his feet. Maybe a small piece/tuft of dead grass or a rock or another skull right under his right foot and about halfway between the edge of the base and the tip of the prow his is jumping off of. its a small thing really, but it would add visual interest to the entire model and remove a large open area from the entire model at the same time.

I give it 2 thumbs up and a toe.

GAR wrote:

2 things that jump out at me with a little time to look it over is the highlighting I think could be a little stronger, or darken the shading, but I think really a little more highlighting would accentuate the shading really well.

The other is that the base needs a little more something on the large open area right under his feet. Maybe a small piece/tuft of dead grass or a rock or another skull right under his right foot and about halfway between the edge of the base and the tip of the prow his is jumping off of. its a small thing really, but it would add visual interest to the entire model and remove a large open area from the entire model at the same time.

You're spot on with both of these observations. I sort of motored my way through painting that one. Looking at it now I can see your point about the highlights not being as pronounced as they should be. The lighting in the photo (I had the lamp to close when I took the photo) does wash them a out a tad, but the overall highlighting is less developed than what I normally apply to a character model. The static grass is something that I've done with other armies that I've used this basing method with. (Cryx, Ogre Kingdoms, CSM's) I'm holding off until I have time to do a large chunk of them at once, such as for a tournament. Static grass highlighted with Bubonic Brown/Bleached bone would complement the purple pretty well. (I have the same color scheme more or less for my Cryx army)

Onto today's offering:

This is the second of three minis that Eye of Error gave me in the Secret Santa Raid. I repositioned the model on the base a bit, switched out the blast pistol and agonizer for a splinter pistol and venom blade. I've been looking to paint up a couple of Hekatrix models with this combo (including PGL)for my Wyche units. Those Dragon Prince Torso's are pretty boss for Dark Eldar conversions.

On to the third of the minis that Eye of Error converted for me: The Action Archon!

Looks awesome!

Maybe I should have asked in advance what armament you want these guys to have

The Eye of Error wrote:

Looks awesome!
Maybe I should have asked in advance what armament you want these guys to have

Makes me look ungrateful, right?
I recently ordered a stockpile of venom blades. Long live the cult of Mushkilla!

[quote="Makes me look ungrateful, right? [/quote]

If you swapped every piece except the torso, yeah Maybe

Back to business.
I took inventory tonight of my unpainted DE collection. I'd really like to hammer this stuff out before any new Eldar stuff distracts me from finishing this army. At last count my painted 6th edition stuff weighed in around 3800. The owner of the LFGS is looking for a 5,000pt game, 3 force organization charts, no Apoc stuff to play against his various SM armies. I like to do this without dipping into my old painted 3rd edition DE. It's going to be a hell of a grind to get these pounded out, but with a plan in mind it is doable. I think that I'm going to knock the coven stuff out first, and then on to a column here and there.

Got some assembly to do.

Loving your little reward system.

Kinnay wrote:

Loving your little reward system.

Not sure exactly how I earn those rewards though... finishing a column in one of the categories perhaps? Whenever I feel like it?

Started tackling that list this weekend. I've started assembling parts of the lists that I want to tackle first. I've gone pretty Wyche Cult/Coven heavy for a while and figured that I should get around to painting some of the stuff from the Kabalite units. I've never played with the 3-man Lanceborn unit and figured that an 86pt unit with two lances probably will make their points back most games. These guys still have a bit of work ahead of them, but should get finished by tomorrow night.

I usually don't assemble things until I have time to base them. As a result, I don't play with units that I haven't painted yet. It dawned on me that this practice does a couple of things: 1. I don't tend to experiment with new units very often. 2. I lose momentum with my painting. Because I have to assemble/base/prime models before painting, I lose that post-painting high momentum after finishing a unit. To combat this I am trying to have multiple batches of 3 models(my magic number)

It also looks like I'm going to be bringing 5-6,000 points to an Apoc game at the end of February. If that doesn't motivate me to paint new units, I don't know what will