Omnipotent
Mongoose
Finally got around to paint my Cylon themed Centauri fleet, here are some ship...The lighting makes em a bit more darker then they really are, they show more "metal" under the darkk coating
What Have You Painted Today??
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Omnipotent
Mongoose
Yup left em out...I didn´t attach the command bridge or the lower wins on the Dargans either, also bent the wings on top towards the insine to give it a more unique look(haven´t painted the Dargans yet but will soon)
...also noticed when I looked at the photos that I didn´t paint the area where I hold on to the Balvarian(front right if u look at the pic)...there is also no engine colours painted or gun ends painted black...just wanted to give u guys a feel of how they look. I really like the Balvarian
I noticed that the front of the maximus really look like an old model cylon, when the front of the Altarian look like a new model cylon...should try to get more brighter pics in daylight today of single sips
...also noticed when I looked at the photos that I didn´t paint the area where I hold on to the Balvarian(front right if u look at the pic)...there is also no engine colours painted or gun ends painted black...just wanted to give u guys a feel of how they look. I really like the Balvarian
I noticed that the front of the maximus really look like an old model cylon, when the front of the Altarian look like a new model cylon...should try to get more brighter pics in daylight today of single sips
M1ndr1d3rs
Mongoose
Cool Cylontauri :lol: The Cylon heavy Raider should have looked like the finless Balvarin.
The Maximus reminds me more of a Goauld Death Glider than a Cylon Raider though. :wink:
The Maximus reminds me more of a Goauld Death Glider than a Cylon Raider though. :wink:
Omnipotent
Mongoose
thx...yeah, it really looks more like a death glider 8)
CheesyRobMan
Mongoose
6 FA-scale Havens.
No idea if I'm ever going to use them... oh well
No idea if I'm ever going to use them... oh well
Not really had the chance to set anything up properly photo wise as the workshop is still a mess after being away so long, but took a quick snap of one of the cabinets which had the Centauri I did last week.
The Narn are the ones I took to the tournament way back, so I decided to match up with a 5 point Raid of Centauri. Wanted to stick with the classic colour scheme, but tone it down to something more muted and ancient looking (in other words less gaudy!)
Started work on Early Years EA now which will show later if I ever get the Starfuries based properly *sucks sore thumb from filing and pinning individual fighters*
The Narn are the ones I took to the tournament way back, so I decided to match up with a 5 point Raid of Centauri. Wanted to stick with the classic colour scheme, but tone it down to something more muted and ancient looking (in other words less gaudy!)
Started work on Early Years EA now which will show later if I ever get the Starfuries based properly *sucks sore thumb from filing and pinning individual fighters*
Thanks for the comments. The EA are underway right now (started work on a trio of Hyperions today). Some of them are done already though, so I thought I would give a sneak peek here before I add them to the site later in the year once it has been restored.
Unlike the one above, these were taken for the site and cropped.
Close ups of the Narn:
G'Karith, G'Quan, Ka'Toc(s) and the T'Loth with a single Sho'Kar scout
Close ups of the Centauri:
5 Raid point fleet, The Primus, Belvarin Carrier and Vorchan escort, Pair of Darkners and a Maximus
... and finally, some EA Early Years work in progress.
Start of the fleet, Two Artemis Frigates, Orestes Systems Monitor and Sag and Olympus with fighter escorts (plus early prototype Thunderbolt)
Enjoy
Best Regards
Carl Woodrow
www.dropship.org.uk (currently being recommissioned)
Unlike the one above, these were taken for the site and cropped.
Close ups of the Narn:
G'Karith, G'Quan, Ka'Toc(s) and the T'Loth with a single Sho'Kar scout
Close ups of the Centauri:
5 Raid point fleet, The Primus, Belvarin Carrier and Vorchan escort, Pair of Darkners and a Maximus
... and finally, some EA Early Years work in progress.
Start of the fleet, Two Artemis Frigates, Orestes Systems Monitor and Sag and Olympus with fighter escorts (plus early prototype Thunderbolt)
Enjoy
Best Regards
Carl Woodrow
www.dropship.org.uk (currently being recommissioned)
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noobdelux
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darn nice
Shadow Queen
Mongoose
I have 4 teythes im trying to get rid of DropChief
DropChief,
I've tried over and over again to get my early EA fleet to look half decent painted up..... no luck yet. How did you build the colours out on the Orestes, Artemis and Sag? I can't get the shading right. Did you build up from a black base? I'd appreciate any feedback, as you've mastered painting your fleets in ways I only dream I could.
Konnoc.
I've tried over and over again to get my early EA fleet to look half decent painted up..... no luck yet. How did you build the colours out on the Orestes, Artemis and Sag? I can't get the shading right. Did you build up from a black base? I'd appreciate any feedback, as you've mastered painting your fleets in ways I only dream I could.
Konnoc.
To Konnoc:
Yes, all of the ships you mentioned started with a black primer base and were worked up. The process I follow varies slightly from model to model depending on what I am trying to achieve, but I will try to give you a couple of examples using two of them so you can see what I mean.
For the Orestes.
Because this ship has a large area of nice clean flat surfaces, it was just a case of starting with the black and then building the colour up slowly stage by stage. As you no doubt know, painting a light colour such as white or even light grey over a dak colour like black doesn't tend to work well. The way around this is to build the colour up stage by stage by layering up intermediary colours and working up to it.
In the case of the Orestes, I started by block painting the main hull in a dark grey (GW codex grey). Once this has dried fully, I selected a lighter grey (Vallejo stonewall grey) and again, simply block painted over this to take the hull up to a lighter shade overall.
From this point on is where I started to build up the shading. To the stonewall grey I still had on my palette, I mixed in a little of the next shade up (Vallejo wolf grey), which not only lightened it, but also added a hint of cold blue. Keeping the paint quite thin, say the consistency of milk, I painted 'almost' all of the areas again, but deliberately concentrated on the hull panel edges and not so much the centre. By adding increasing amounts of the lighter colour to the mix and keeping the mix loose with more water if needed, you can start to increase the density of the paint away from the centre towards the edges. This has the effect of gradually increasing the pigment density from the centre outwards which means the light falling on the model is reflected differently and it is that which makes the graduations appear differently.
You don't have to follow quite so many stages if you don't want to, but for me the next was to add (Vallejo ghost grey) to the mix and really focus on just the edges. A final pure white was then added to pick out the edges and highlights.
Tip: If after all of your blending, it still looks a bit patchy, or you want to just smooth it off a little more, you can give the panels a pure white wash which will sometimes help. For the wash simply mix white with water to the consistency where you can see your palette clearly through the thin paint and 'lightly' apply the wash (in other words don't overload your brush, more thin coats is better than one big one! Its always easier to add more, but not so easy to take it away). When it dries it will help just like an ink smooth the graduation.
For the Artemis:
The Artemis however is slightly different in that unlike the Orestes, it is heavily textured. Applying block painting this way wouldn't work as you would lose all of the panel lines. So I cheated :wink:
With the Artemis, I started by dry-brushing the entire model using the same palette order (codex grey, stonewall, wolf and ghost). Once it was nicely highlighted, I gave the whole model a black wash. This was a mix of watered down black paint with spot of black ink and a paintbrush tip dot of washing up liquid (the soap breaks down the surface tension and makes the ink flow into the gaps in the detail better!).
Let it dry.
The final stage once the wash had dried was to pick the colour out again. I did this by giving the model a 'very' light final dry-brush of ghost grey to soften it up to the eye and then carefully painted the larger of the individual panels in a mix of ghost grey and white. I didn't try to be too precise, I just wanted to give some depth to the panels. In many ways the technique is exactly the reverse of the Orestes in that rather than concentrate on the edges, I simply wanted to deepen the pigment in the centre of each panel in a way dry-brushing will miss. A small dab of paint on each did that.
The end result is then a combination of dry-brushing and block painting which gives you the smooth colour, but still the highlights and black panel lines.
In the case of both there was obviously a lot more detailing to be painted, but hopefully the above answers your question about how I did the primary greys - white.
Hope that helps
Best regards
Carl Woodrow
www.dropship.org.uk
Yes, all of the ships you mentioned started with a black primer base and were worked up. The process I follow varies slightly from model to model depending on what I am trying to achieve, but I will try to give you a couple of examples using two of them so you can see what I mean.
For the Orestes.
Because this ship has a large area of nice clean flat surfaces, it was just a case of starting with the black and then building the colour up slowly stage by stage. As you no doubt know, painting a light colour such as white or even light grey over a dak colour like black doesn't tend to work well. The way around this is to build the colour up stage by stage by layering up intermediary colours and working up to it.
In the case of the Orestes, I started by block painting the main hull in a dark grey (GW codex grey). Once this has dried fully, I selected a lighter grey (Vallejo stonewall grey) and again, simply block painted over this to take the hull up to a lighter shade overall.
From this point on is where I started to build up the shading. To the stonewall grey I still had on my palette, I mixed in a little of the next shade up (Vallejo wolf grey), which not only lightened it, but also added a hint of cold blue. Keeping the paint quite thin, say the consistency of milk, I painted 'almost' all of the areas again, but deliberately concentrated on the hull panel edges and not so much the centre. By adding increasing amounts of the lighter colour to the mix and keeping the mix loose with more water if needed, you can start to increase the density of the paint away from the centre towards the edges. This has the effect of gradually increasing the pigment density from the centre outwards which means the light falling on the model is reflected differently and it is that which makes the graduations appear differently.
You don't have to follow quite so many stages if you don't want to, but for me the next was to add (Vallejo ghost grey) to the mix and really focus on just the edges. A final pure white was then added to pick out the edges and highlights.
Tip: If after all of your blending, it still looks a bit patchy, or you want to just smooth it off a little more, you can give the panels a pure white wash which will sometimes help. For the wash simply mix white with water to the consistency where you can see your palette clearly through the thin paint and 'lightly' apply the wash (in other words don't overload your brush, more thin coats is better than one big one! Its always easier to add more, but not so easy to take it away). When it dries it will help just like an ink smooth the graduation.
For the Artemis:
The Artemis however is slightly different in that unlike the Orestes, it is heavily textured. Applying block painting this way wouldn't work as you would lose all of the panel lines. So I cheated :wink:
With the Artemis, I started by dry-brushing the entire model using the same palette order (codex grey, stonewall, wolf and ghost). Once it was nicely highlighted, I gave the whole model a black wash. This was a mix of watered down black paint with spot of black ink and a paintbrush tip dot of washing up liquid (the soap breaks down the surface tension and makes the ink flow into the gaps in the detail better!).
Let it dry.
The final stage once the wash had dried was to pick the colour out again. I did this by giving the model a 'very' light final dry-brush of ghost grey to soften it up to the eye and then carefully painted the larger of the individual panels in a mix of ghost grey and white. I didn't try to be too precise, I just wanted to give some depth to the panels. In many ways the technique is exactly the reverse of the Orestes in that rather than concentrate on the edges, I simply wanted to deepen the pigment in the centre of each panel in a way dry-brushing will miss. A small dab of paint on each did that.
The end result is then a combination of dry-brushing and block painting which gives you the smooth colour, but still the highlights and black panel lines.
In the case of both there was obviously a lot more detailing to be painted, but hopefully the above answers your question about how I did the primary greys - white.
Hope that helps
Best regards
Carl Woodrow
www.dropship.org.uk
Shadow Queen
Mongoose
DropChief said:
I was going to use them as Bolter Prototypes but i dont do early years any more.
DropChief,
Thank you so much. Your advice is well recieved and I'll be putting it to good use ASAP. I did have one question though... if it's not too much of a bother. When discussing the Orestes... we're talking about alot of falt surface area, while the Artemis is a ship full of detail that needs to be brought out (so to speak). What sort of approach would you suggest for a ship like the Hyperion*. Since it's hull (at least on the older models) is reasonably rounded.... so how would you go about doing that? A combination of the two? Or build out from a black base with progressively lighter highlights? Thanks again.
Konnoc
*Do you have any pics of a Hyperion you've painted?
Thank you so much. Your advice is well recieved and I'll be putting it to good use ASAP. I did have one question though... if it's not too much of a bother. When discussing the Orestes... we're talking about alot of falt surface area, while the Artemis is a ship full of detail that needs to be brought out (so to speak). What sort of approach would you suggest for a ship like the Hyperion*. Since it's hull (at least on the older models) is reasonably rounded.... so how would you go about doing that? A combination of the two? Or build out from a black base with progressively lighter highlights? Thanks again.
Konnoc
*Do you have any pics of a Hyperion you've painted?
Shadow Queen
Mongoose
I need to finish a Command Hyperion and I'll post it but mine are not white
I picked up a bunch of Privateer Press' pirates and mercenaries for next to nothing and I'm painting them up for RuneQuest Pirates demos. Luckily some of the undead Pirates that I picked up were already painted.
I also picked up a whole box of GW skeletons that I plan to paint up for a Pirates of the Caribbean style demo.
James / Nezeray
I also picked up a whole box of GW skeletons that I plan to paint up for a Pirates of the Caribbean style demo.
James / Nezeray
Konnoc,
Funnily enough, I have two Hyperions primed and on my workbench this very weekend. I will make some notes as I do them and post the details here.
To answer your question in short though, I follow exactly the same method as the Orestes; working from black up to ghost grey stage by stage with standard block painting (i.e. not dry brushing). The only difference really is I need to spend a bit more time smoothing out the layering when I get to the last couple of highlight stages to ensure I have good highlights horizontally along the curves of the main hull.
So yes, its as you say building up progressively lighter highlights from a black base.
I'll give more specifics when I have completed them and photographed them. Wont be in the the next day or two though as I have added some detailing to them both so they are going to take me a while :wink:
Best regards
Carl
Funnily enough, I have two Hyperions primed and on my workbench this very weekend. I will make some notes as I do them and post the details here.
To answer your question in short though, I follow exactly the same method as the Orestes; working from black up to ghost grey stage by stage with standard block painting (i.e. not dry brushing). The only difference really is I need to spend a bit more time smoothing out the layering when I get to the last couple of highlight stages to ensure I have good highlights horizontally along the curves of the main hull.
So yes, its as you say building up progressively lighter highlights from a black base.
I'll give more specifics when I have completed them and photographed them. Wont be in the the next day or two though as I have added some detailing to them both so they are going to take me a while :wink:
Best regards
Carl
