The Black Halo

Foo wrote:

Very smooth transitions. Are you glazing to get that smoothness?

Sorry no. No Glazing, its all wet blending.

Wow, the wings are fantastic alone but the Scourges are awesome! White helms are a great contrast and the gems are beautiful.

Yay scourge love!

GAR wrote:

Foo wrote:

Very smooth transitions. Are you glazing to get that smoothness?

Sorry no. No Glazing, its all wet blending.

I really need to learn wet blending, then!

Howdy.

I have to say I hate the current Haemonculli model. its looks like... I can't even begin to describe what I think it looks like. I get images of Mario from Nintendo fame and a mad Chef from the muppet show.

Still I need one, or two, so I bought one and went about to making it look better.

I submit to you my haemi conversion and still paint in progress.







The lower arms need to be added on so they are not left out, just being done in sub assemblies.

Stock model look like Madonna in 2030 *



I wonder if You could get some Talos leftovers (like "tiny" arms), those would make this model interesting actually. It could even look as awesome as Codex artwork.

* Apology to all Madonna fans.

Howdy.

WIP Venom. Whaddaya think??

I love the halo on the venom! Holy crap that looks snazzy.

Yes, very nice sigil.

Very nice curve! Looks brilliant mate!

Awesome halo it looks perfect on that venom!

Airbrushed the model and then painted on the halo? Thats really sharp. Whats the method on your colors out of curiousity on the troops? Dark something then light something then a wash of sepia and a highlight?

Awesome! That circle idea.... just great!

Tropheus wrote:

Airbrushed the model and then painted on the halo? Thats really sharp. Whats the method on your colors out of curiousity on the troops? Dark something then light something then a wash of sepia and a highlight?

The color selection is Tau sept Ochre mixed with a little P3 Moldy yellow.

other colors are scorched brown, bestial brown and dark flesh mix, and the base color with some skull white mixed in and a mix of modly yellow and bleached bone.

I applied the base color first, then the darker shade colors and then the highlight colors.

No washed, all free hand.

The halo is free hand, but I cheated. I used a pencil and very carefully laid out my curves so I had a line to follow. With such a large surface, it helps to see what I am doing before I apply paint. The pencil was applied very lightly so it was barely visible, but reflected brightly under a bright light.

I still need to go back and do the high lights for the vehicle and the halo, as well as the other details, weapons and crew. But with football season starting my progress is going to slow down. I coach my sons team and it takes up a fair amount of time.

Thanks all for the comments! More is coming soon, I promise!

Looks fantastic, the blending is great. I somehow feel a nod towards egypt. Maybe we will see some kind of mummy wracks..? Or am I completely talking through the hat now?

Are the scourges completed?
If not, I think they might benefit from some blueish veins on their wing-membranes.
As you have painted them, they look like they could be very thin, almost translucent.

I was in awe until I hit the last page and that venom, at which stage I simply fainted.

Really brilliant stuff.

best dark eldar colour scheme out there. the army looks amazing. keeping tabs on this thread.

wow, just wow. amazing GAR, best I've seen in a while.

DY-NO-MITE!. Beautifully done. Love the halo and color scheme. Easily the most original DE scheme. I was wondering if the haywire blasters on the Scourges were conversions. Couldn't tell from the picture. Show us more!

Howdy.

Pictures of my almost complete Bloodbride/wych unit. I went with different hair colors so I can distinguish one unit from another.

I am very pleased with how they are turning out, although I am still havimg some issues with my camera and the right light setting, so some of them are not as good as I would like.

The reddish brown is different from the Warriors, but I am using the gold/dark sand color to tie them all together. And there is a lot of this same red-brown in the vehicles.

I really need to take an overall army shot in progress so you can see them all.

Comments are always welcomed and encouraged. Thanks!

I like it, you seem to have painted the eyes perfectly. The faces in general, really.

Technically these are top-notch (which I am sure you know), but for some reason I'm not fully sold on the palette, it makes them seem a bit harlequin-y... :/

Luv it GAR, great to see such vibrant colours used on DE! They will complement your vehicles beautifully and absolutely pop on the tabletop.

Your attention to detail is amazing, I'm lucky to get a blob of paint in the eye socket! What are you doing to get the leather so shiny? I really wouldn't mind imitating that.

Cheers.

Nepenthe wrote:

Technically these are top-notch (which I am sure you know), but for some reason I'm not fully sold on the palette, it makes them seem a bit harlequin-y... :/

Thanks. The pallette, to me, works much better when paired up with the vehicles. That and I had a hankering to include some more red in the overall army.

It might fit better, in your view, if the body suit was all black, which would be fairly common for DE. However, as I am trying to minimize the black as an accent color, I went with the red-brown.

Its alright if its not working for you right now. Maybe later, maybe not. I'm just glad for the critique. Please keep them coming! It helps me and my army get better.

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Luv it GAR, great to see such vibrant colours used on DE! They will complement your vehicles beautifully and absolutely pop on the tabletop.

Your attention to detail is amazing, I'm lucky to get a blob of paint in the eye socket! What are you doing to get the leather so shiny? I really wouldn't mind imitating that

I'm glad you dig them. The shine I think is from the lights. They are not very shiny in person. However, I did use a touch of white to accent the highlight, so maybe you are picking up on that.

I worked really hard to get the eyes to look right, my eyesight is not what it used to be and sometimes I have to use pictures to see the errors and go back and correct them. Its not perfect, but sometimes the details are too small for me to see with my naked eye. I might have to invest in those optivisor things sooner or later.

My biggest issue is keeping in mind these minis are for playing with and keeping total paint time under 2 hours each. I keep thinking about all the cool extra details I could do, but then I would never get this army done.