Awesome.

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ACE

WOW! It's a chocopocalypse!
That looks immensely tasty, but I'd be wary about carving a piece out.

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WAAARGH!!
The Lost & the Dipped

Now That's some real Christmas Goodies !!!!!!!!

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Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

One cake to rule them all and in the darkness feed them!

Working on the new EW aircraft, I thought I'd try a little experiment.

Instead of the usual way of painting cockpit windows I wanted to try something different, that would be vaguely reminescent of the metallic copperish coating you sometimes see on aircraft cokcpits and astronaut vizors.

http://www.usaf.com/photosaircraft/f16.jpg

http://www.newsinfilm.com/wp-content/up ... helmet.jpg

Using metallic colors makes it a bit trickier to photograph but I thought the result was kind of interesting. Basically it isChaos black/tin bitz, Tin bitz, Dwarf Bronze and dwarf bronze mixed with some mithril silver. Finally a white dot for the reflection as usual.

Worth exploring further? Or should I just go with the usual blue glass technique?

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Very cool.

BTW, I suppose you know your website is down?

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I like the coloration very much as an alternative for the blue glass technique, although it depends on the overall color scheme of the model.
Maybe the last layer is a bit too bright? I think the stage on the left picture is almost enough.

Very nice idea!

I agree the last layer is a bit much. You may also want to start with a metallic basecoat, whether tin bitz or 50/50 tin botz/black. Especially in the second pic, the transition between metallic and nonmetallic breaks the illusion.

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Looking at what you've got, I'd say that it needs a bit more pop. maybe try mixing the metallics with your regular colors to add to the tint rather than just using tin bitz? It worked pretty well with my necrons a while back although that wasn't trying to emulate glass.

Another thing would be to treat the entire bank of windows as a single reflective object and do NMM with metallics over them. Might help it read more as glass if you do that.

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Yes, because I can't figure out how to do it and I've been trying for awhile now.

I was looking at my old Tallarn army and considering ways to sexy it up a bit.

I never really liked the Bombard models. Each version - including the FW version has had some things going for it, but there has always been some parts that irked me. I had some bombard conversions made from surplus bombard guns put on chimera chassis, but that never really worked either. Taking a fresh look at the models I decided to try sonething new, but with the criteria that I could do the conversion without having to repaint anything. The result borrows some aspects from all Bombard versions and is very simple to do, but I think it looks a bit more balanced.

On a different note, I think I'm going to give my entire Tallarn army a wash of Devaln Mud. Perhaps my eyesight has deteriorated. Perhaps the paints have faded. Or perhaps it is just my preference for contrast that has changed. But I gotta admit that I like how the wash ties the models better together. Like others have said, it feels a bit like cheating since it is so easy, but then again: It doesn't always have to be difficult to make something look good.

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Sofa General

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Nice Warmaster
is there some blue paint on the barrels and shells?

Afraid it is just the cold blue february light

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Sofa General

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Very Nice !!!!! As always !!!

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