#DeathGuard #KillTeam Plague Marines - TO DONE!

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer, honest! I know it's been a while but I've changed jobs and had a number of real life situations that have kept me preoccupied. I'll get to those eventually but for now I've a backlog of finished figures to showcase that I need to get through, some progress on others and then when I'm ready I'll share what's up. Until then lets look at my Death Guard.

So, again I had issues with Camera360 with these, I won't need to keep offering the excuse as I've mostly binned it off now. Even the white pics started to get too illustrated with some arbitrary filter. 

It's such a shame as it used to be great. It'd get me the high contrast saturated Fuji Velvia pics here and help make the white background actually white. So I've switched to Ektacam for Velvia pics, although that's far from perfect and using the straight OnePlus camera app for the white pics.

All the Ektacam pics are after the divider below. Not quite as red but as close as I can get to these pics. At least the detail is there, it's never about colour fidelity, that's more for the white background shots. I'm just after rich images for the red background shots 

Anyway, that's the Lord of Contagion

And the Tallyman

I genuinely wasn't sure about the damned verdigris. I had wanted to keep that just for the blessed Dark Angels but there's a bit more variety in it and I really like it in the end, even if it is far from realistic.

The 6 models I did in one go, really chuffed with them.

Here are the shots from Ektacam. It's not built for my later version of Android so it's a bit buggy. However, I managed to get the quality I'm after, some of the vibrancy and if I'm careful some decent pics.

Enjoy the res of the pics.

All the Death Guard.

Joined with the Foetid Bloat Drone.

Here's a GREAT Big RUSTY Stamp of Approval for the lot.

#DeathGuard #KillTeam Plague Marines - session 3

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer Death Guard Kill Team. Technically my #NewYearNewArmy for #ArmiesOnParade. These are from the end of September, when #DreadTober took over all my attention. They're completed now, but at this stage I'd added my Colvin & Co Burnt Umber Art Acrylic to get the grime. Now it was on to moar washes! 

Sepia, Strong, Red, Purple and even Green tone in places. I genuinely didn't think I could get these 6 done at the same time, given the 2 characters were bigger, had details that required different approaches and perhaps deserved a little more attention. But, they were coming along OK and I wasn't hating the process.

Having chosen filthy purple for cloaks and hoods I had to try and replicate my previous effort, which had mostly been by accident.

But it somehow worked really well on the Lord of Contagion. I loved how we got the purples and browns to both be apparent. If I'm honest the rest of it lacks some focus, it all seems to blend together, although I'm not much fan of the helmet, a bare head might have looked cooler, but I don't have anything instead.

Nevermind, it's just for fun. TO DONE! pics next, but I have to take new ones for clarity as the originals are Camera360 illustration effect ones...

#DeathGuard #KillTeam Poxwalkers washes

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer Death Guard Kill Team. Technically my #NewYearNewArmy for #ArmiesOnParade. These are from the end of September, when #DreadTober took over all my attention. They're completed now, but at this stage I was adding some washes. Again, basecoated with AP Skeleton Bone, washed with Vallejo Game Extra Opaque Heavy Red.

These four -  basecoated with AP Skeleton Bone, washed with AP Green Tone Quick Shade.

These four -  basecoated with VGC Stonewall Grey, washed with AP Green Tone Quick Shade.

These four -  basecoated with VGC Stonewall Grey, washed with Vallejo Game Extra Opaque Heavy Red. This would give me a subtle variety among all 16. The one on the far right has also had some highlights on the flesh - 1 thin coat to let some of the underpainting show through.

The next session was even more shading and griming up with some highlights on the skin

That trench coat looking absolutely filthy and disgusting. Camera360 is once again making these images look like illustrations when seen at the right size. It's a cool effect but for these purposes I need clarity not effects.

It's great for making the background white and the Fuji Velvia high contrast film effect but I really need to come up with a better solution.

I had real concerns about these and not keeping the aesthetic from the Marines but I think despite cleaner highlights on the pants they still fit.

And the colours have come out really well too. Using the same highlight on skin means it's just the shading that different.

That way I can see enough to split them into groups, if need be or as one big mass there will be diversity in their finish when all mixed up.

Really pleased with the results, just need to take the TO DONE! pics in a way that doesn't look unnatural.

I enjoy the effect, but it's not what I need for my showcase. So I have to do all the pics again.

Luckily, I've got a few more things to photograph too, so at least I've got some new content to share. Finally finished some long term projects - Adeptus Titanicus I mean you. I can't wait to share them with you, move onto some of the other items on my palette.

#DeathGuard #KillTeam Poxwalkers basecoats

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer Death Guard Kill Team. Technically my #NewYearNewArmy for #ArmiesOnParade. OK, I did take some pics of my Poxwalkers. Basecoat stage with some Vallejo Extra Opaque Heavy Red washes. The big bloater guy has had a set of highlights added to the Stonewall Grey base.

I've 16 Poxwalkers and although I'm not following my completely diverse skintones there is some subtle differences in this group. Half of them are Stonewall Grey flesh coloured, with half of them red washes.

The other 4 are green washes. I'm also trying to replicate my Free Radical Collective Genestealer Cult uniform scheme. 

These guys are being infected from the same population, in fact the second from the right has an almost Tyranid arm [maybe with a bit of Kroot thrown in]. I like the idea that Nurgle is trying to find some way to use the Tyranid DNA [I know they retconned them not having DNA, but whatever] as a viral infection -hence these mutants.

The other half of the group is basecoated with Army Painter Skeleton Bone. Split again with half shaded green and half shaded red. 

Obviously there is red here also but it's the underlying shading. I've then added a bit of Skeleton Bone as highlights to a couple of them [see if you can work out which ones] to see how that's going to work.

Here's my red shaded four, lots of beatsticks/hammers between them, which I hadn't noticed before.

That coat may prove challenging.

So, significant progress of some of the simple and necessary basic elements. I think it's the orange stuff next. Get all the uniforms done and move these along.