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Thank you for the links! I know my local hobby shop is looking into more varied basing options, so I will certainly share with the owner. I usually try to give him my business even though online shopping is generally faster. You're absolutely right - I'd need to use them sparingly. 

So the eye lenses aren't translating terribly well in the pictures. The closest to their actual color is the avatar picture I use. They're pretty bright in reality, I'm just a godawful photographer with my cell phone. Got to charge the batteries of the "good" family camera.

I'm a fellow rambler, so you're in good company... plus everything you said was extremely helpful and well considered.

12 hours ago, Necca34 said:

There's nothing about this entry that's not fantastic. The lore is so fun, the Saturnine is used beautifully as an obliterator proxy, but the real stars are those Servitors! I love armies where the centerpieces have character, and the Keeper of Ledgers is flanked by two of the most characterful models I've seen in ages.

 

Paint-wise, I really admire the dried and crumbly sense of age you've been able to convey. I feel like dirty models are often heavily washed and feel "wet." Yours seem as if they've weathered the millennia like an ancient Egyptian crypt.

Wow, I really appreciate the comment and kind words. Thank you.

One of my joys is building the fluff models around the units. It helps me think of them more as characters than unit proxies, and so I consider what kind of infrastructure might surround that marine. For the Keeper, the Librarian sort of took on his own personality.

Be assured, there will likely be lots of little models like this that serve no practical purpose built as the Warband expands!

And thank you around the painting as well, I was aiming for ancient, yet well preserved. I tend to have to aim for atmosphere of the overall model as I find painting small detail or freehand quite challenging.

Looking good - loving the crew of the Russ and the Dorn.

They turned out nicely - great stuff.

The base compliments the model and doesn’t overwhelm the charcoal at all, and I like the blue ties the base into the colour on the model.

I really like using the orange as plasma and power weapons, and when you have squads/the army together these will pop out. I think they also do what we were talking about with lava bases and draw the eye to the model. I like it!

In your last post we spoke about adding a splash of colour on the bases with something like an orange or deep purple tuft which continue to tie the base to the army colour scheme. Something like these:

- Orange tuft: https://gamersgrass.com/product/alien-fire-tuft-6mm/

- Purple tuft: https://gamersgrass.com/product/alien-purple-6mm/

If you did go for something like this I would suggest you use very sparingly on only a few bases per squad. Not sure it would work, but just a thought.

one final thought. You might want to think about making the eye lenses brighter - if you do this the brighter colour there against the dark charcoal and mostly muted palette will draw the eye naturally towards the models head. That said, if you are anything like me and painting any eye is a bit of a shaky handed lottery of dread, I can see why you might leave that.

Also, a bit of a caveat, I can’t guarantee that what I’ve said is right - just my thoughts.

Overall looking great and I think as squads/army they’ll look great. Looking forward to seeing a squad!

Sorry for the long post… I tend to ramble when I get going.

11 hours ago, Necca34 said:

Reading and enjoying, good Sir! I love mixing your army lore into the entries, too!

Thank you so much and I’m glad you are enjoying it.

I really enjoy writing the fluff to accompany the posts. I hadn’t intended to really do very many, however I wrote the first one and things sort of spiralled (as they do).