Showing posts with label cultists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cultists. Show all posts

Wednesday 26 May 2021

'nids part 320 - Genestealer cult - Aberrants - TO DONE! [White Pics]

Afternoon #warmongers and #warhammercommunity I've been #paintingwarhammer on my Genestealer Cult Aberrants. Here we have the pics on white backgrounds.


I'm not entirely sure if it helps convey the models better but it's the format of the blog now.


The red pics a re usually my favourite but were a little underwhelming. 


Its quite hard to spend so much time on something and be really pleased to finish and then not be able to capture the coolness and satisfaction in those pics.


All those little little details took so long to do, so many changes of paint, last minute decisions that I can't ignore.


It was quite draining in fact.


But I should just be satisified with what I;ve achieved.


The Turqs cam out really well. Subtle differences between the new 4 and the one on the far right. He does not have a red maw and the highlights are more fake muscle texture on the newer ones, as opposed to edge highlights. 


The dark skintoned ones came out OK too. There were variations in how I approached the browns. Some had a sepia tint, while I used purple on other.


And the paler skintones were also mixed up a bit. The fact is we all have different complexions and the whole purpose of this project was to play around. It heavily impacts the uniformity of your army, but that's the price of experimentation.


Luckily though they work in their three groups of five, so I can have some consistency even if there are variations within it.

 

 

Not the best Free Radical Collective symbol but it was very difficult for me to freehand on the ripped banner.


Challenging too, but mainly because I had to do it twice, and the one with the pole running through the symbol didn't help! Considering all those robes are sculpted I don't think I did a bad job on this one.

 

The sign came together at the end on the Hypermorph.

 

Another kitbash, one of these two was supposed to be a another Hypermorph but you only get one improvised weapon and I've painted them both in the same unit!

 

I simplified the power glow, because I was never convinced about the 'lightning' on the original four.

 

Blessed verdigris worked out well too and matches my Sanctum Imperialis.

 

Dark Angel Tactical Squad shoulder pad on the base. Adding the red arrow was yet another detail I hadn't considered.

 

The auspex and scything talon were the stumbling block on this one. All these extra details taking so much time and effort.

 

I wasn't much a fan of the face on this one, luckily I haven't taken a close-up. It's very much an 'elephant man' head and I don;t think I did the features very well.

 

Moar verdigris.

 

The verdigris is always a challenge as I just don't know where it's going to go. But that's the thing, it's natural weathering and I've seen plenty of real-life examples that look weird and unnatural when they're not.

 

I did think about possibly putting Free Radical Collective symbols on their clothes but I hadn't done that on the original 4. Part of me theorised they aren't intelligent enough to go around marking their clothes and no one is going to get near to them and do it.

 


It's only the more advanced hybrids that will take the time to do that, although sticking a banner on the back of one seems a slight contradiction but that's only the same as giving them a big hammer to wield. Anyway, I went without. I can always add on the symbols down the lien if I feel I wimped out... I don't!

Monday 24 May 2021

'nids part 319 - Genestealer cult - Aberrants - TO DONE! [Red Pics]

Afternoon #warmongers and #warhammercommunity I've been #paintingwarhammer on my Genestealer Cult Aberrants. I looked up which chemical causes the high of a sense of achievement and it appears to be dopamine. This is what I'm hooked on I think.


I finally solved the Turqs problem. Seeing hem next to everything else that was completed they made no sense to remain without highlights on the skin.


The Abominant looks pretty cool in the background on his 'hero' base and the original turq Aberrant doesn't stand out too much as different, despite the age difference.


I did refrain from some of the more excessive uses of Tamiya Clear Red X-27 on the join between flesh and Tyranid Chitin, in the way I'd used it on my original 4 Aberrants.


But it was such a relief to get them finished. All those little details and doodads on their bases taking so much additional time once the actual model was complete. That'll teach me to get super fancy resin bases.


With the dopamine high there are also some downers too - I'm not especially pleased about my showcase pics. 


Camera360 is doing its usual smoothing/simplifying effect.


I think part of the problem is I took these during the day, where I had the window open and there was too much natural light.


When I take them in the evening and I have just the man cave's fluorescent tubes and two daylight bulbs the Velvia filter gets much better results. 


I did use a mini tripod in places which helped keep things a little steadier.


But I'm not overly impressed with some of the pics, sadly.


Nevermind, the white pics showcase the models a little better, which is a relief.


It's just usually the colours are super vibrant, which is why I tried a different filter here to try and capture the high contrast rich reds and turquoise.


Not sure it worked but I was having fun.


The pics are also much higher res than I need and I'm close to two thirds of my google drive storage space now, thanks to it kicking out these bigger pictures.


I used to have an option of size output but for some reason they took it out.


Nevermind, these are just for fun.

 

White pics next.


Great Big Granite Stamp of Approval - TO DONE!