Alright gents, I am going to do a project log here of my Thousand Sons chaos army as it slowly progresses. I am currently finishing off a few more models in the Tau army I have and then I am devoting myself to Chaos once more. I am not going to post a list with it as I tend to use varied lists based on the same theme quite often. Instead, this will just be the space where I take pics and show off what I am doing for those who are interested. I will focus on a single model or single unit at a time so that there will be a visible and easily followed progressing to the log (not to mention keeping me focused on the task at hand and not going off on tangents all the time lol). Pics to come tomorrow of my wip daemon prince.
Looking very sweet thus far. I tend to leave very little of the base coat showing in my figs but think that I need to change that tendency, and I really like the look of yours.
Q: Do you black-line or leave the primer coat showing in the recesses?
I leave the primer showing. Blacklining to me is just another step that is completely unneeded when painting a model. Just taking a little more time and leaving a bit of basecoat showing does the trick just as well if not better imho.
Looking very good Wraith. it is just blue but it still has so much depth. Only tackled blue once before and it was an extreme learning experience, so my respect!
lookin great wraith, very nice blue, quick tip, the areas u have left black lined are a bit too bold, try mixing some CB with regal blue watering it down and use it like a glaze in the shadows of the mini.
Ok guys, while I am finishing up a few Tau models and working on Be'lakor here do me the favour of taking a look at this Thousand Son model I have done from before and tell me what you think it needs. I like the silvery blue and plan on keeping that but something about the models paint job is lacking too me. Maybe it is the amount of metallic paint on it, maybe not enough of contrasting colours, I don't know. I am hoping you guys can give some suggestions that I can use or at the very least get ideas of my own from. And don't worry about hurting my feelings or anything. Constructive criticism is exactly what I am looking for
The model is nice, but it seems that there is not much to actually grab hold of a person's attention. How about making the eye lenses really stand out, and taking the gold-tone up a notch, so that it looks a bit brighter?
And, most importantly, paint your base rim a different color. This is actually a big part of getting your actual mini to stand out.
Got a bit more done on the prince. The spikes are fine to me now but I am going to try something different with the horns on his head to try and blend them in with the skin tone more.
agree with hespithe here, painting looking good so far just hard to judge until you complete things to make the model stand out like the sword/face/chainskirt thingy, lookin forward to see'ing those parts done though, the wings might look good with a light blue/almost white fleshy tone to em, but not too sure bout that, my guess play around with it unless you have a image in your head for it already
Just one pointer, you dont want the model to smoothly transition together too much, you still want some contrast to catch the eye, you can do this with the wings pretty easily and then people's eyes will be cought by the look of your model alot more, the key is to not over do the contrast and still have flow to the model, a ballance...well unless your slaanesh... then all that goes down the window and you go crazy with colors... anyways hope that helps wraith
Woow, how did I miss this beauty moving along another stage of painting. Looks great wraith, also fun to finally see this mini in another colourscheme than black. I particulary like how the symbol on his chest fits in and stands out at the same time :wink:
Any thought yet as to what colours you'll be using for the wings?
Right now I am thinking of going with the traditional blue/purple colours of Tzeentch for his wings. I was also thinking of painting the armor plates he has in the same colour as my Tson troop model but I am starting to fell like that would be too much blue really.
i would go with a silver for the plates, maybe a rustic bronze you just need to have something in the model to pop out, or else your going to have alot of blue and purple that just looks like it almost smears together, and as for the wings, look at some dragons wings. somtimes you'll find that the underside of the wings are much lighter then the outerside, dunno to me the wings really should stand out on this model, and unless its like a lighter color, seems like it really would just be too much blue or blue/purple shade
Very nice stuff Wraith - I like the silver blue idea - be very nice link to the rest of the army - especially seeing as he's not very 'techy'. You get what I mean?
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