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| I don't know how he eats either. Or shoots with any accuracy, for that matter |
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| Again, not great photos. I need a better camer and the time to use it! It gives you a feel at least. |
I can't say I'm all that happy. He's missing something. Something to make him pop. Or I could be trying too hard for something that he doesn't need, him being nothing more than a low-level cultist. I think I'll put him aside for a while and see what comes to me. Suggestions welcome.
I think he's missing greebles - pouches, grenades, knife scabbards, little devotionals to chaos . . . he's not accessorised.
ReplyDeleteWhen you said accessorise I though maybe a hand bag, but I can see now that you mean something diffrent.
DeleteHow about some free-hand on his leading thigh? Perhaps a yellow bad moon or a chaos star or something. Or greebles/gubbins. Don't know. I'm going to leave it for a time. The dark red is part of the problem too. The eye slides off it.
Yeah, for a 40k figure he needs something. tube. vent on his back... something.
ReplyDeleteHe is a bit too Warhammer Fantasy. I'd hoped that the las gun would be enough. I'll see what I've got in my bitz box. Looks like greebles it is :-)
DeleteHmm, I think the paintjob already does a great job in bringing together the very disparate bitz you've used for the conversion! My gut feeling is that some shoulder pads (Kroot shoulder pads, preferrably) would help, complete with some Jeff Vader-style embellishments (small runes, stylised arrows of chaos, or what have you).
ReplyDeleteI'll have a look and see what I have (I did a tau army many moons ago, so I should have plenty of pads)
DeleteThe problem with this fellow is making him look regal. Like he could be part of a governor's honour guard. Bulky, imperial guard-type gear, therefore, doesn't look right. Maybe some stuff from the scions would be the ticket.
Some further thoughts:
ReplyDeleteMore contrast between the colour of the sash and the colour of the trousers.
The trousers and sash look a little glossy for cloth - perhaps a drybrush will help?
Hey, great minds think alike!
DeleteWould black work better for the pants? Maybe. However, it would leave me with the problem for the other cultists. If did them the same then they have no colour on them and I'd loose the regal feel that I'm aiming. One option would be to do one leg black and one red, soldiers of the empire style. This would reenforce the heraldic/regal thing too. I'm pleased with the limited palette so there ain't many options colour-wise.
No, stick with red for the trousers. I'd start by just drybrushing a lighter shade of red over the trousers - and a lighter still one for the sash - maybe even Kindleflame.
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