Sunday, June 27, 2010
Give in to the Father!!!
Here's some progress with the Genestealer Cult. I tried painting them as GW intended in some old catalog photos I found. Just too bright and didn't work for me. I ended up with the theme, a little purple and blue, then lots of dark greys and browns. The picture shows the evolution of Genestealers. First is the Magus, kind of a worshipped God, hence a Cult. Then each model represents a generation of infected humans until you reach the Genestealer. I plan on changing the browns for each squad to help differentiate them.
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Ha! The Magus is my favored model of the group. Good use of washes and highlights. Otherwise, lest you're aiming for the traditional GW paint schemes, the green base clashes just a little. What kind of bases would a genestealer cult have? Other than that, would be cool to see a diabolical looking Magus that some how towers over the battlefield... maybe a converted Nightbringer?
ReplyDeleteHave to love washes. Everything has a base color then a simple wash for shading. I'm trying to keep highlighting to a minimum. I'm keeping the mentality of quick simple schemes and to see how quickly I can generate an army. Kind of a test for the Dark Eldar. I agree the bases are simple, but I'm keeping them the same as the Tyranids just to jive during an Apocalypse game. The Nightbringer is an interesting idea/conversion possibility. Though fluff wise the Magus is nothing more than a regular human with some psychic abilities. He's patient zero who bangs all the women in his city with his Genestealer infected seed, hence the whole father thing. Not to shoot down your idea or anything of the Nightbringer, but I'll keep that in the back of my mind. The Patriarch (pre Broodlord model) is the big hitter, a big fat Genestealer. The model looks like ass but he's going to get painted and used.
ReplyDeleteVery nice. One thing that is troublesome for me is that I've been painting spirit stones for years and not one of them looks as nice as the gem on the magus. Damn it!
ReplyDeleteThe 3rd edition codex showed you how to paint spirit stones. A base color for the stone, then a lighter highlight on the lower left of the stone, then a darker highlight on the upper right, and finally a white dot in the darker area.
How did you do it?
Same basic process really. Though started all black, then painted red gore just on the half the stone. Then progressed the shades to bright red and then a slight mix of white. Then of course added the white dots to the black area. First time I really tried it, pretty pleased.
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