Stealer scheme

[bodizephr]

Evening all,
Returning for a long stint of no modelling, and previously (still am) an owner of atidy Dark angel force, i am venturing into the world of carniverous bugs.

I discovered your site a week or so ago, and am seriously impressed with the schemes, modifications and level of dedication to models you guys are creating.

I got my hands on some Genestealers, original space hulk ones, so the modeling isnt as great as you would hope. Painted one up tonight. Not sure i am a fan of the colour scheme though. Thoughts?

[dirkspair]

they are not bad, if the painting process is working for you, go with it.

[bodizephr]

thinking as an entire horde though, nids, gargoyles etc, the whole lot is going to look to dull.

Maybe nightshade blue and bone........Theres an idea, maybe not a good one, but it is an idea.

[ZergLord]

I think it's cool.

[saranka]

I think is very good and like the color scheme very much. Could you tell what colors you used and how did you paint it (like a quick tutorial)?

Of course an image on the screen can be very different from the real thing, but for me it seems that the color on the head and the joints are almost chitinous, contrasting with the rest of the body and giving the miniature an ant-like feel.

Just imagine an army of the little dino-buggers on a green table... Cool.

If you think it can become visually dull, remember that each type of unit has its typical armor, weapons and biomorphs. You can use that to add a little variance. Like, what color you would use on a gaunt's armor and/or it's weapon? Would they harmonize or contrast with the rest of the miniature? Things like that.

[dumbdrum]

i think it is actually one of the better schemes i have seen on this site. congrats and welcome!

[Helonion]

It's very "Alien" series scheme, it works well for the stealer.

[bodizephr]

Update:
Made a few alterations as a few more layers of red, adn some gold and red....much happier now. Think the issue is two things:
1) never worked with red as a strong influencing colour
2) painting output is limited by the quality of the model.

Much happier now.

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Think this will make a nice bug like appearance to the stealers, and as saranka said, the difference in the models will allow for some serious variance.....
So wha ti am looking at is a black and red theme, some will be more red than black, but all fairly similar.

Changes to teh model since last night....
1) Took the silver off the model, and replaced with bone\white talons, feet and carapace on his back
2) replaced hideous yellow tounge with pink, yes it looks white.
3)relayered the red, and added ruby red/burnished gold highlights, sadly didnt show up in the picture.

[bodizephr]

Ok tutorial on colour scheme (this is something i never thought i would be doing)

1. Base coat chaos black
2. highlight in white
3. Dry brush ruby red
4. Black wash (badab ??)
5. Dry brush rudy red
6. Brush 50:50 Ruby red:burnished gold

Talons/feet/back of carapace:
1. flesh wash
2. brown paint, mix bubonic with black 3 parts brown to 1 part black, almost grey colour
3.Layer using increasing levels of white

Tounge.
Simple, white then tenticle pink

Then just simple skull white, and a fine brush to add the "freckles" on thighs and head, although for variance you would do the back of the talon hands as well.

Hope this helps.....

Will expand this thread as i go if your interested. Have two lictors on the way, next purchases:

Hive tyrant
Tyranid warriors
Gargoyles

Then time to build a harpy (not sure what from)

[Helonion]

First off, use imageshack to host because multiple posting gets annoying. Second, while using imageshack don't make the pics to big or it doesn't look as good.

[jutami]

Turn off the Flash when you take pics, it makes most things look horrible...

Cheers

[Hellbreaker]

Jul 2, 2010 13:32:34 GMT bodizephr said:

new to this forum, and dont seem to be able to work out hwo to post two pictures in one post, so sadly this is a second post.

It's actually in the rules and guides that are announced at the top of every board.
Short way out: use an image hosting site (imageshack/photobucket/flickr/etc) and use these tags: [img][/img]

Cheers!

[bodizephr]

Apologies for multiple posts and pics. Fixed now i hope.

Will post some none flash photos tonight

[bodizephr]

Ok got a hang of this image shack business. 10 stealers painted now, and photos with no flash. What next? Decent painting capability ha ha ha

[kingfisher773]

old school stealers.