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Offline Malika

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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #135 on: February 17, 2015, 08:29:41 PM »
What makes you doubt the colour?
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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #136 on: February 18, 2015, 12:50:14 AM »
The Death Guard green is a very nebulous green, very hard to pin down. Have ordered the GW Elysian and Castellan green paints that Forge World uses for their DG and will give them a try. What I have on the ship looks OK, but I want to make a couple more attempts at mixing the color with shade, basic color and highlight color.
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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #137 on: February 18, 2015, 11:38:07 AM »
Hmm, I also think some brass would do wonders...
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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #138 on: February 18, 2015, 05:18:37 PM »
Quote from: Malika on February 18, 2015, 11:38:07 AM
Hmm, I also think some brass would do wonders...

Brass or perhaps bronze, although I am going to go very light on "decoration"/bling as it does not go with the DG fluff describing their livery as very plain.
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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #139 on: January 16, 2016, 11:58:46 PM »
Some progress!

Captured Ork ram ships and a corrupted heavy transport. Gun_wun's Boyz ain't gonna like dis!

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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #140 on: January 17, 2016, 05:50:34 PM »
For myself I always wanted to do Death Guard less in obvious green colours and more a sickly white...

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Lords_of_Decay

But the joy of the universe is that you can really do them any way you want!

Really loving those printed ships!
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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #141 on: January 17, 2016, 09:27:53 PM »
Quote from: Stormwind on January 17, 2016, 05:50:34 PM
For myself I always wanted to do Death Guard less in obvious green colours and more a sickly white...

Working on a few cruisers that will be in pre-Heresy colors with only a little plague infection, similar to the Space Marine battle barge on the previous page (post 134). Today I'm working on making ways to make the the white/gray a sickly color, starting with Reaper Vampiric Skin as the base color.
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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #142 on: January 18, 2016, 12:07:08 PM »
That sounds great!

Sorry, I wasn't telling you what to do, just something I'd thought about doing for EPIC. =)
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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #143 on: January 18, 2016, 05:02:37 PM »
Quote from: Stormwind on January 18, 2016, 12:07:08 PM
That sounds great!

Sorry, I wasn't telling you what to do, just something I'd thought about doing for EPIC. =)

No problem, it was something I was already planning/working on.
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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #144 on: January 20, 2016, 04:44:35 AM »
Got the ram ships and heavy transport done (may go back in a do a little more detail on the heavy).

After washes over the base coat. Used Army Painter Plague Shader (green), Red Tone and Purple Tone washes and am very happy with the color gradations between the mixed colors. These pics try to capture this.






And finals. Flash brightened up the off white a bit too much.






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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #145 on: January 20, 2016, 11:12:31 AM »
Man, that transport ship looks amazing! Did you spend a lot of time cleaning up the print lines and such? In my own experience (model painted by Miniatures of the North) the print lines remain pretty present.
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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #146 on: January 20, 2016, 04:21:58 PM »
Really nice Tim (although I've come to expect that from you Boss)
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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #147 on: January 20, 2016, 05:07:28 PM »
Quote from: Malika on January 20, 2016, 11:12:31 AM
Man, that transport ship looks amazing! Did you spend a lot of time cleaning up the print lines and such? In my own experience (model painted by Miniatures of the North) the print lines remain pretty present.

I did do some cleanup on the hull, especially on the curved front surface, but cleanup was pretty minimal. The cargo modules on the other had lines and some of the material was soft, so considerable cleanup was needed.

Most of the lines and planes on the hull are flat and square, so probably print better than curved or angled surfaces (think pixels in images). This ship is cruiser sized, so considerable larger than your ship.

If I were looking at printing masters for resin casting I would be looking for a much higher res printing system.
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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #148 on: January 25, 2016, 03:29:38 AM »
Nice work, but this is my expectation of you.  I love the color and feel. Although I question the green and white of the engine glow.  It feels off some how.  Did you change colors?  It feels to loud, electric or something.  Your prior glow on prior ships looked really good, but these need some thing.  Overall great work and as a gift for yer efforts you can keeps dem "Rotten Boyz" as day leave dis smell dat even da snots don't cares for.
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Re: (BFG) Tim's Plague fleet blog
« Reply #149 on: February 04, 2016, 12:22:13 AM »
Quote from: Gun_wun on January 25, 2016, 03:29:38 AM
Nice work, but this is my expectation of you.  I love the color and feel. Although I question the green and white of the engine glow.  It feels off some how.  Did you change colors?  It feels to loud, electric or something.  Your prior glow on prior ships looked really good, but these need some thing. 

Will take a look and compare to the older ones. Flash was probably too close as well...
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