Jump to content

Pre-heresey Emperor's Children Dread and Rhinos


elfatto

Recommended Posts

Update June 9: Pics of the full army on this post.

 

Here's some stuff I finished in preparation for an upcoming tournament that I wanted to share. I have around 1700-1800 points of pre-heresey Emperor's Children painted up now. Here are 2 rhinos and an ironclad dread. I still need to start a drop pod for the dread, and finish about 4-5 infantry for the list I plan to take.

 

Rhino 1:

http://i.imgur.com/vaEWB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/7CxRf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/eNuIH.jpg

 

Rhino 2:

http://i.imgur.com/4HISS.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NH4EU.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tsVZk.jpg

 

Ironclad dread: I tried something new with this guy, with the shading on the purple areas, to make him stand out and be a centerpiece for my army display. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, though looking at the photos I realize I could have been neater with the steel NMM areas, but I can tell myself that it looks better in person. Transporting this guy is going to be a pain, considering how the seismic hammer sticks out like that.

http://i.imgur.com/mKBld.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YKTWu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Tnwxi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8qqNc.jpg

Link to comment
Share on other sites

http://i.imgur.com/mKBld.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YKTWu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Tnwxi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8qqNc.jpg

 

Ancient Rylanor?! :)

 

P.S. That purple is breathtaking, seriously, how the heck did you manage that?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Thanks for the kind words guys. I'll post up a picture of the display board with the army when it's finished. It's my first time making one, so don't expect anything very fancy :P .

 

Quick recipe for the purple on the rhinos:

- Base of liche purple over black primer

- Blackline shadowed areas of the armour with chaos black

- Hilight by blending up to (discontinued) tentacle pink. So approx. 3/4 purple 1/4 pink -> 1/2 purple 1/2 pink -> 1/4 purple 3/4 pink -> fine hilight of pure pink.

 

The gold on both models is snakebite leather base up to golden yellow up to pure white with about a million layers. Honestly, I didn't count how many I did but it was a lot.

 

The purple on the dreadnaught was done with a base of liche purple up to warlock purple and then to tentacle pink, similar number of layers as with the gold.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

i think i fainted look at them :jaw:

 

no words describe how well they are painted! you should be working of 'Eavy Metal! i'm serious!

 

those are the most impressive models i have ever seen - those purples have made me fall in love.

 

just outstanding!

 

Athiair :D

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Holy mother of awesome sauce :jaw: Excellent, as everyone else has said. Just one tiiiiiny thing: the dreadnought's left shoulder guard, the gold doesn't seem to blend nearly as well as the rest of it, rather more like clearly distinct lines of progressively lightening shades. Simply eye popping work all the same though :D
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Great work – pure awesome sauce. I don't think I've ever seen painted plastic models made to look less like painted plastic models and more like gaming graphics. The style suits the EC down to the ground.

 

Cheers

I

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I really must applaud the paintjobs here. Excellent shading, highlighting and NMM on the models shown. The freehand is also exemplary. However, the tracks on the Rhinos appear to still be black and not painted and the piping on the dreadnought is also black and apparently unpainted. Those are my only hang ups on these otherwise impressive pieces of art. ^_^
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Rhino 1:

http://i.imgur.com/vaEWB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/7CxRf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/eNuIH.jpg

 

Anyone else get the Tron vibe here? It look awesome on these! Each line is defined in pure perfection. ^_^

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I love the colours they are just so eye-catching! Makes your models really stand out! Your purple & yellow/gold contrast is really great - in fact it is so great all I can do is priase it rather that constructively critique it! Very nicely done sir, most definately looking forward to following this thread!!!!!!!
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use.