Waaagh!, Elegance Vs Armour (E.Y's diary)

E.y · Warlord Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 642 Location: norwich

yepp it is a DE raider

but just coz it's on the desk don't mean it's going to get painted

Samajy_Studios · Champion Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 363 Location: Norwich

lol

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Steve · Squire Joined: 31 Mar 2007 Posts: 40 Location: Norwich

Stu you have gave away your secret painting method you relise!

Ladys and gentlemen boys and girls. Stu mixes HP sauce with his paints to get a unique effect!

You ever going to finish that carnifex. You been doing that for years Laughing

Nice to see a "proper" work area!

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E.y · Warlord Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 642 Location: norwich

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Stu mixes HP sauce with his paints to get a unique effect

curses now everyone will be doing it Wink

That carnifex on the table is as good as done, unfortunatly it is completly the wrong colour scheme for the nid army i want to do as one off my next projects. Doh!!!

On well maybe his time will come

E.y · Warlord Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 642 Location: norwich

here are a few picks of the Imp guard army so far.

Sadly my painting time has taken a beating at the moment with House work, meetings, trips to see Bill Bailey (ain't complaining about that one) and loads of shop work needing to be done.

Hopefully though i will get some more done on my HE spear regiment and the pheonix guard that Sword bought me for my birthday.

so stay tuned Very Happy

Deckard · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:06 pm Post subject:

come on, I want to know about the suace now..

Samajy_Studios · Champion Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 363 Location: Norwich

yeah so do i. although he might be like me-i just drink hp sauce constantly. its a great source of sugur. sometimes it will be on my painting table cos i have been having the munchies for hp suace

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E.y · Warlord Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 642 Location: norwich

Ahhh the HP sauce technique.

It is from an ancient art, passed down from generation to generation since the dawn of time it'self. It has been used by the chinese in the art of caligraphy, As a major part of the magical war paint used by many tribes across the globe, traces have also been found in the odd bacon butty believe it or not.
But now it has been refined for a vital role on the painting table of a select few miniture painters that know it's secret..... "it goes great with chips"

Well you asked Razz

E.y · Warlord Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 642 Location: norwich

Well over the last few weeks i have been rather busy with just about everything possible.
However i have not been completely idal and have been plowing my way through 16 HE spearmen, but as is traditional when it comes to my HE armies the colour scheme has been frustrating me no end and i am have been faffing round with different stuff to try and get something that i like.

At the moment i have:
Silver armour with a touch of green in it
pastal green sleeves and skirt
Dark angles green for the spear shaft, edging and shield.

But with my twisted mind at work im already thinking about changing the silver armour to dark green and the trim to white.

I will post WIP pics soon.

Samajy_Studios · Champion Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 363 Location: Norwich

sounds cool. if ur going for pastel colours another colour that would look nice is a lighter version of ultramarines blue

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E.y · Warlord Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 642 Location: norwich

OMG Colour scheme HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is why i hate painting HE's
This always happens, I can never settle on just one scheme. I always chop and change from and am never satisfied with what they look like Evil or Very Mad

As an example the trim on the bottem of the skirts of my spearmen has gone from: White to Dark angels green to Light green mix back to Dark angels to astronomican grey back to white and then finally settled on Brown of all colours!

There is however a happy ending to this tale of woe
Finally after much spitting, swearing, blood, sweat and tears (all literally) I finally have a colour scheme that i like:

Armour = Dark angels green - Vile green
Cloth = Dark angels green mixed with white
Trim = Scorched Brown - Tanned flesh

Not quiet what i wa going for at the beginning of all this but oh well Cool

Samajy_Studios · Champion Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 363 Location: Norwich

well as long as ur happy. i wouldn't of gone for it but i suppose i haven't seen them. i did come up with a cool one which u may nik if u want.
armour-light silver
main cloaky thing-scaly green (adding scorpian green
trim-bleached bone.
looks well good. the scaly green idea is my favourite colour for jems, it achieves a nice jade colour.

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E.y · Warlord Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 642 Location: norwich

Finally a WIP shot of one of the spearmen.

What do people think?

Samajy_Studios · Champion Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 363 Location: Norwich

yeah they look good. they look quite dark elfish

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E.y · Warlord Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 642 Location: norwich

people have said they look like DE and WE now.
Not a bad thing, I always like doing something different. Cool