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Post subject: What are you working on? (Vol. VI),  Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:19 am |
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I finally came to my senses on the subject of exams. The conclusion was three words: **** the exams!  Seriously, though, I cannot hope to succeed in all this turn, so I'll skip on the oral Polish - and thus I'll have another go at this one in January. The rest I'll try to beat now.
Painting - two of my Dark Angels got their Chapter badges right (freehand  ).
The Rhino gunner is also progressing with more GS work. Also, 30 minutes of filing and carving with various types of files resulted in his left hand changing from a normal Tactical marine hand into a badass skeleton-like bionic.
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Post subject: What are you working on? (Vol. VI), Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:22 am |
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Sorry, forgot the conversion concept. Here it goes:
Diorama. Split in half.
One part - Space Marine kneeling before the Commander (or Chaplain), receiving honors. Can also be a Commander kneeling before the Chaplain. Bright, live colors. The marines can be Blood Ravens or Blood Angels (red).
Second part - Squad of nine Space Marines standing on guard. Sergeant has skull instead of head, same for a few of the squadmembers. Some have exposed bones in place of hands and whole arms. Armor rusted, in a state of decay, with the paint flaking of here and there. Unearthly palette - faded colors, grey, black and dark blue dominating in that part. Muted colors, _blue_ light.
Keep the kneeling marine as the center of the setting. Have the "ghostly" part of the diorama behind his back.
Basing for the "live" side would be standard desert, for the "dead" it will be barren, black rock to further accentuate the contrast.
Motto: "For every hero praised, a hundred lie dead and unsung"
Optional: If the Commander option for the central Marine is used, make it look like the parts in the "spooky" part belong to a basic Tactical trooper who just got elevated from the Scout status.
Optional: Have a guard of five Marines on the "live" part of the diorama. This will provide extra contrast.[QUOTE]
The attached image is a rough pixel-sketch of how is it supposed to look.
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Post subject: What are you working on? (Vol. VI), Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 2:50 pm |
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Post subject: What are you working on? (Vol. VI), Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:28 pm |
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Post subject: What are you working on? (Vol. VI), Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 4:52 am |
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T5H, I like the concept ! Look forward to seeing it ! And W/N do you sleep ?!  Great work, again ! (even if it ain't Epic !)
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Post subject: What are you working on? (Vol. VI), Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:49 am |
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WM Nice, have you thought about using a light diffusion box? Heard that they work very well for controlled lighting enviroment...
Could not anymore stand the fact that Chaos Gate doesn't run under XP. Went and installed Microsoft Virtual PC. Created some virtual HDD, then installed Win98 and Chaos Gate. It works perfectly.  Today, the enemies of the Emperor shall know fear...
Fraid though that I'll have to scrap the current virtual HDD's and redo the install. Piece of cake.
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Post subject: What are you working on? (Vol. VI), Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 9:41 am |
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Some painting. Sisters of Battle progressed a bit, plus began another freehand Chapter badge on on of my DA... seems that this one will be the best so far (and hardest to do ).
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Post subject: What are you working on? (Vol. VI), Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:58 am |
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Jeebers, that axe is massive, even if it doesn't penetrate the armour think of the concussion effect!!!
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Post subject: What are you working on? (Vol. VI), Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:19 pm |
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Fantastic.
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Warmaster Nice
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Post subject: What are you working on? (Vol. VI), Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:38 pm |
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?Seems like only a month or two since the last one was started!