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beautiful painting Goblin King. I love the way you painted the Marine Stats Bar thing! I imagine it is a combination of drybrushing and inks????

I love the way you have made the bases as well; it makes all the difference. What you need to do is get a print out of the HD base I put up a link to in another thread. Also there are rules for Tyranids...I will fish them out, upload them and plonk a link up

slev wrote:Blood Angels.
Paint in red, highlight with orange, shade with light brown.
Pads trimmed in company colour
Black or red weapons, black or gold or red aquilia

Imperial Fists
Painted in yellow, highlighted with bright yellow, shade with seppia.
Pads untrimmed except for command.
Black weapons, red aquilia

Ultramarines
Painted in blue, highlight with light blue, shade with dark blue.
Pads trimmed in compnay colours
red or black weapons, White or gold aquilia

Thank you for the info Slev, much appreciated

Hey Goblin King here are the old official White Dwarf articles. It introduces Tyranids, Orks, Space Marine Scouts and Terminators among other things This should give you a good start introducing your Tyranids

Think page is not in English but the scans are in English

http://spacecrusade.free.fr/regles_scans.htm

In regards to miniature painting in general, I'll add one piece of wisdom:
It's outrageously satisfying to paint something black without using any black paint.

knightkrawler wrote:In regards to miniature painting in general, I'll add one piece of wisdom:
It's outrageously satisfying to paint something black without using any black paint.

Would I be right in thinking you make it like Artists Brown. A little of all three primary colours?

Basically, yes, but I simplify it by using a dark brown and a dark blue.
The mix-in color for highlights depends on material, texture, and other factors.
I'll put in a tad of dark green for black used leather in the base mix, for example, and use a khaki to lighten it up. And I'll stipple the highlights for this.

Here's some of my Blood Angels (which I also use for 2nd ed 40K)...they are painted as a tactical squad







and some other stuff

some Gretchin (metal, Rogue Trader era ones- can't bring myself to use the good looking yet way oversized SC plastics)


Orks




Chaos Marines


Chaos Android


Chaos Dreadnought

Jackyboy wrote:beautiful painting Goblin King. I love the way you painted the Marine Stats Bar thing! I imagine it is a combination of drybrushing and inks????

Indeed. Basecoat of Bleached Bone (or whatever GW calls it these days), a wash of Agrax Earthshade/Devlan Mud. Then ANOTHER wash of AE/DM! Finally a drybrush of Bleached Bone.[/quote]

Also some nice looking sets Bruno. Very retro with the green sand/flock

Right now I'm stuck with the Gretchen. I can't stand painting 14 of the same model... What a chore!

Your stuff looks totally ace GK, really love the player counters in particular...so Gieger!
As for the Goblin Green bases, I couldn't help it- I mostly play (2nd ed) 40K and while it was very tempting to go for grey, space hulk bases I also weighed up the fact that I would most often be using these minis in 40K on a green table rather than in Space Crusade.
I sort of regret my cartoony style seeing how good minis like yours are.

I got carried away with posting pics and forgot my Blood Angel color scheme:

*undercoat white
*basecoat evil sunz scarlet
*wash with watered down agrax earthshade (devlan mud)
*touch up with evil sunz scarlet
*highlight with blazing/trollslayer orange




also, some Stealers




etc