Take a look here - painting my cold ones!
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Take a look here - painting my cold ones!
I just spent a hulluva lot of time painting a cold one (like an hour and a half) and I think i made the color scheme a bit .... not good....
I painted the skin in shadow gray then inked majorly with black ink. I then painted the scales in shadow gray. If ANYONE can mentally picture this I need your advice - should i stick with this theme?
Overall, it looks black with gray scales from a distance (looks like someone painted chaos black and highlighted a lot). I just think it looks a bit bleak from a distance.
Maybe I'm just paranoid about painted such an important unit
My stomache hurts, I think i may go to bed after reading a couple more threads.
I painted the skin in shadow gray then inked majorly with black ink. I then painted the scales in shadow gray. If ANYONE can mentally picture this I need your advice - should i stick with this theme?
Overall, it looks black with gray scales from a distance (looks like someone painted chaos black and highlighted a lot). I just think it looks a bit bleak from a distance.
Maybe I'm just paranoid about painted such an important unit
My stomache hurts, I think i may go to bed after reading a couple more threads.
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- Ragerunner
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does it look anything like this:
http://druchii.net/gallery/albums/Units ... nights.jpg
because if it does, I'd say keep it....
even if it doesnt, you might want to try this scheme, it looks very good, IMHO.
-rage
PS it's kinda hard to help without seeing any pictures or even knowing what your army colours are....what are they, btw?
http://druchii.net/gallery/albums/Units ... nights.jpg
because if it does, I'd say keep it....
even if it doesnt, you might want to try this scheme, it looks very good, IMHO.
-rage
PS it's kinda hard to help without seeing any pictures or even knowing what your army colours are....what are they, btw?
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umm, out of interest, how was that executioner converted to ride a cold one, cos i mite just do the same....
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Re: Take a look here - painting my cold ones!
RyuKing22 wrote:I painted the skin in shadow gray then inked majorly with black ink. I then painted the scales in shadow gray. If ANYONE can mentally picture this I need your advice - should i stick with this theme?
Overall, it looks black with gray scales from a distance (looks like someone painted chaos black and highlighted a lot). I just think it looks a bit bleak from a distance.
Not a real lizard like colour scheme. I'd try to do a green or posisbly a blue colour scheme. Grey and black not only dull the unit, but it doesn't exactly appear realistic to some people. I'd suggest a repaint.
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Re: Take a look here - painting my cold ones!
Pierre wrote: Not a real lizard like colour scheme...it doesn't exactly appear realistic to some people. I'd suggest a repaint.
hmmm...my Spite is scaly green with flourescent orange scales...
I'd say, whatever works for you...realistic or not.
Just my 2 cents.
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Re: Take a look here - painting my cold ones!
Pierre wrote:... but it doesn't exactly appear realistic to some people.
well, as realistic as a unit of hideous, slavering stupidity-suffering monsters left over from the jurassic can be....
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Re: Take a look here - painting my cold ones!
Ragerunner wrote:Pierre wrote:... but it doesn't exactly appear realistic to some people.
well, as realistic as a unit of hideous, slavering stupidity-suffering monsters left over from the jurassic can be....
Well, they are still lizards. I did my mounted sorceress yellow and black, came out well. But I can't imagine a whole unit like that... my eyes would hurt.
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Tiz my conversion model pictured,
I used exicutioner top half and malakiths bottom half.
Then the parts left were used in a chariot.
The cold ones were painted black under coat then highlighted up by adding codex grey then light grey think it was space wolves grey? then white then inked down with black. some were inked down with dark green black mix to look different.
phil
I used exicutioner top half and malakiths bottom half.
Then the parts left were used in a chariot.
The cold ones were painted black under coat then highlighted up by adding codex grey then light grey think it was space wolves grey? then white then inked down with black. some were inked down with dark green black mix to look different.
phil
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i painted two put some fungus on one also i made it partly a blue color on its scales and i a large arrow through it to make it look like in war. Also i used chaos black on the serperations of the scales. Another thing i diid was ink wash the middle of it making it look like metal armor. It took me about 2 1/2 hours.Myy second was kind off crapy compared to the fiirsst oone.
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Lol when i started my cold ones i did this:
black undercoat
midnight blue for skin
grey on the scales
then white on main stripe of scales down the middle of the body
it came out so crap i couldn't believe it! The black undercoat had made the midnight blue come out looking purple and the overall effect of the purple didn't help at all!!!! i got a headache just looking at it! believe me dont try it, i gave up on them and went back to my warriors but soon i'm gonna try a whiteundercoat with the midnight blue! i'll tell u if it comes out good!
Burner
black undercoat
midnight blue for skin
grey on the scales
then white on main stripe of scales down the middle of the body
it came out so crap i couldn't believe it! The black undercoat had made the midnight blue come out looking purple and the overall effect of the purple didn't help at all!!!! i got a headache just looking at it! believe me dont try it, i gave up on them and went back to my warriors but soon i'm gonna try a whiteundercoat with the midnight blue! i'll tell u if it comes out good!
Burner
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you have to wach out with midnight blue because it changes the originall color of every thing that it touches. I would scrap the idea, unless you use lighting bolt blue (enchanted blur works nicle too) as a undercote and then use a watered down midnight blue, but in this case the scales have to be the same color or black, because the blue will come out and ruin it all.
Midnight blue is just crappy in quallity. I dont use it for If I can avoid it. unless I use a lot of blue on a modle and scally green, other colors just get ruined, especially white.
Midnight blue is just crappy in quallity. I dont use it for If I can avoid it. unless I use a lot of blue on a modle and scally green, other colors just get ruined, especially white.
Yeah i now know what you mean, i'll try that idea of yours next time thought to be honest I might just think up a whole new colour scheme as I'm not too big on blue as it is!
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He felt intense pleasure as his dagger sank silently into his victims neck and the hot blood flooded out over his hands.