Really nice! As said, the Plasma Gunner looks really cool!
My only advice to give would be for taking pictures, not their content.
The pictures posted are close so a little blurry (only a little). If you are not already, be sure that you are using the 'Macro' setting (the little flower symbol) on your camera.
I say he stands that way just to show off!
I LOVE HIM (can I have him? Pleeeeaaasee?)!
Or you can give me a guide how you did him so I can get a box of marines and make them all similar to that!
really don't like the grey edged highlights... i prefer the "less is more" approach where you'd just do the grey line on the highest surfaces rather then every single edge.
I like the robes though,
not keen on the plasma gunner, although i like the way you've come up with a never seen before pose, rather then following a trend like most people do.
I thought of cutting up one guy so he leans back and fires a bolter/missile launcher/plasma gun/whatever between his legs, some guys jumping forward/backward/sideways firing weapons (preferably one weapon in each hand), someone wheeling on one hand and firing a weapon with the other one and so on.
I like it except for the highlights on the black. Honestly, I rarely see black highlighted well... either it's too much, or you can't see it (this includes mine as well.) It's just plain hard to work when you don't have a darker shade (unless somebody has come across Ultrablack.) What I've tried doing is using a dark grey (Vallejo German Grey... it's probably about the equivalent of a 50/50 mix of Codex Grey and Chaos black.) and then hitting it with a few black washes. It's still pretty dark, but gives you a lot more range for your colors.
I'm a graphic designer and when we send artwork to the presses and we want it really black we do a mix of cyan (blue) and black (100% of each), gives a real dark black as opposed to 100% black on its own. Dunno how it'll work with acylic paints though...
IMO i also like thick highlight but i think the highlight used is a little to light and it seems to be only one colour of highlight, rather than working up to a fial drybrush of the realy soft colour.
i think the pictures arent very flattering to the mods either. but this is a small critisism on an alround nice looking bunch of models
i also think the plasma gunner shows great skills in converting, although i do peffer to think of him as shooting over cover than being an arrogant show off. i know i sound stuck up but marines to me are always men of great honour and discipline.
Maybe it looks like I only used one highlight coz the pics are a little blurry. I used Codex grey first and then a thinner highlight with Fortress Grey.
Raptors said:
i also think the plasma gunner shows great skills in converting, although i do peffer to think of him as shooting over cover than being an arrogant show off. i know i sound stuck up but marines to me are always men of great honour and discipline.
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