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Author:  Dwarf Lord of Ered Luin [ Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:07 am ]
Post subject:  DLoEL's WIP Thread
Almost a year ago I got a blister of giant spiders to complement by goblin army. This is the first of the two. The colour scheme for this one is based upon this picture. I'm quite happy with how it's turned out so far though I'm not quite sure about to do next. There's going to be a lot of black on the model which I was planning to just paint with choas black but I'm thinking of possibly painting it with adeptus battle grey and then adding washes of black so that it doesn't look too flat. There is quite a bit of detail sculpted on the back of the spider though I don't think the yellow patches would look good with all the holes in it. Should I add the yellow in thick layers to give it some smoothness or leave the detail as it is?
Please post your thoughts.
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Author:  Old Chestnut [ Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Spiders WIP
:yay:
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leave the detail as it is?

paint a thin white stripe and paint over it with yellow to see if that works before you try thick paint.
Author:  Dwarf Lord of Ered Luin [ Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Spiders WIP
One week later and the spiders till aren't done. :(
Well now I've finished my "summer job" so hopefully I'll be able to update this thread more often.
Meanwhile, I'm mostly done with the first spider. Thank you for your advice about painting the stripes white first Old Chestnut, I think it helped. Of course I forgot that I didn't have any yellow so I painted the stripes orange instead. What do you guys think?
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I also got started on the second one. I'm went for a more earthly colour scheme with this one.
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Please leave feedback, I'm always looking for ways to improve my painting.

I stripped Balin today and am planning to repaint Dain as well so you may see a couple dwarves here in the near future.
Author:  Old Chestnut [ Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Spiders WIP
They both look good!
Author:  GothmogtheWerewolf [ Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:28 pm ]
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I particularly like the second one although I like the strikingness of the first one too.
Author:  Erunion [ Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Spiders WIP
Great Spiders! Better than the ones on the GW site!
Author:  Legolas6 [ Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:00 pm ]
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I like both of them. Nice colours and nice painting, too.
Keep it up!!
Author:  {aD}??? [ Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:05 pm ]
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Erunion wrote:
Great Spiders! Better than the ones on the GW site!


There is a spiders gallery on GW which has a cool looking bright green one. The orange spider looks cool good work.
Author:  Dwarf Lord of Ered Luin [ Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Spiders WIP
I'm glad you guys like the spiders. Is there anything that I should fix/improve on them?

I've got started on Balin and Dain. Here are pictures of Balin.
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I'm trying to paint some of the projections are Dain's helmet like gems. Does anyone of any advice or links to useful articles?
Please leave comments and criticisms.
Author:  PowerofWill [ Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Spiders WIP
Nice work on Balin so far! The red look really nice, and the silver isn't to bad either.

As for how to paint gems, I like to work from dark to light. So for example I want to paint a gem red. I would start with a 50/50 mix of Scab red and Chaos black. Then, depending on where the light is coming from, I highlight with scab red. Next I work up the highlights until I get to blood red with a little bit of skull white mixed in. And the last thing left to do is add a little dot of white on the darkest area of the gem, and it's done! If you want to you could also varnish it to make it a little bit shinier, and it also seems to even out the highlights. Here's a couple pics of a mini with a gem painted using the same technique I just described.
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=20226
Sorry if the gem's a little hard to see, if you want I could take a better pic and show it to you if you want.

Hope I was somewhat helpful!

-Pow
Author:  Dwarf Lord of Ered Luin [ Tue Jun 28, 2011 9:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Spiders WIP
Thank you, PowerofWill, for your advice. The gem on your Easterling looks great. I tried your method though it didn't turn out anywhere near as well, hopefully they're still recognizable as gems. Well here's Dain.
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While Dain's still got quite a ways to go Balin is almost done, just needs to be based.
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Please leave feedback, it's never too late to fix something.
Author:  Cyndra the Grey [ Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:01 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Spiders WIP
They both look great, the hair on Balin is especially good 8)
The cream fits the red very well, looking forward to seeing them both finished. Are they finecast?

Cyndra the Grey
Author:  Hilbert [ Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: DLoEL's WIP Thread
Great... I love especially Kingdain'scolors... His cape is awesome... :D
Author:  GothmogtheWerewolf [ Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:07 pm ]
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Your painting on those horrible IMO dwarves makes them look superb.
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