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Colonel Voss · Post by **Colonel Voss** » Tue May 08, 2012 1:21 pm

For some strange reason, no matter how hard I try, the focus won't stay on the cron. I'll try tomorrow in a better lighted area since I have the afternoon off.

Colonel Voss · Post by **Colonel Voss** » Wed May 09, 2012 6:51 am

That's the best I can get

Tenorikuma · Post by **Tenorikuma** » Wed May 09, 2012 7:32 am

Much better photo.

If I were to throw my opinion on basing into the ring, I would say go with a beige sand/desert theme, similar to the colour you're using on the weapon.

me_in_japan · Post by **me_in_japan** » Wed May 09, 2012 7:56 am

Agreed - brighten up the base to match the weapon. The green is looking a bit lonely - it could do with another spot of the same green somewhere to balance it out. The eyes would be where I would put it, but if there's somewhere else you reckon would look ok in green, by all means.

Ps - I am certain you can get brighter pics than that. Try getting a desk lamp and moving it so the light is shining directly at the mini (from the front). That'll help a lot. Failing that, wait for daytime and sit the mini in front of a window then photograph it, with the camera between the window and the mini, of course.)

Colonel Voss · Post by **Colonel Voss** » Wed May 09, 2012 9:28 am

remember the gun isn't fully assembled. there is a green plastic part that will compliment the little green I added. As for the base, I'm going to need more browns I think

me_in_japan · Post by **me_in_japan** » Wed May 09, 2012 2:29 pm

fair enoughski. I still think his eyes need something to draw the viewer's eyes to the face. Green glow would be bonza. (I've been painting green glow myself, this evening - on a Cryx warjack. There's a rather cunning technique in teh cryx book about how to do this.)

For a glow de green, first...

1) paint your mini (you already did this, in case you hadnt noticed

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2) get some white paint and thin it so its just a tad runnier than normal. You want it to flow into crevasses, rather than blob.
3) using a brush with a nice tip, apply said white to the eye AND the socket around the eye. Let it flow into the crevasse around the eye (that you'd normally do black to outline the eye.)
4) repeat step 3 as necessary to get a nice clean white. 3 or 4 times should do it. You dont need porcelain, just not grey-ish.
5) mix up some yellow and green inks. If you aint got inks, paint will do, but thin it reaaaal good. You want a similar shade of green to that on your wires.
6) apply said wash to the white bit. Do this a couple of times (let it dry between coats) and by all means encourage it to flow into the eye socket. You should end up with a still-pretty-whitish-green eye, and a significantly greener socket.
7) muck about a bit with adding more green to the mix, and generally add definition to the socket.
8) paint the eye (only the eye this time) white again, and once it's dry, give it one more wash.

Yon 8 steps seems like a lot, but what it boils down to it: paint the eye and socket white, then slap a greenish wash on it.

It totally works. I did two warjacks worth of it today (and thats a lot of green glow, if you consider the amount of glowy bits on a helljack...)

AndrewGPaul · Post by **AndrewGPaul** » Wed May 09, 2012 4:52 pm

I'd cut it down to a heck of a lot less than 8 steps - depending on how good the new Base white is, you could get away with two or three. After all, he's got a lot of Necrons to paint.

In addition, I'd do that bit on the gun that you've got in pinkish-red in green, to tie the whole thing together, but that's just me.

Colonel Voss · Post by **Colonel Voss** » Thu May 10, 2012 12:14 am

I'm actually trying to avoid too much green. Green is a nice color but to me when I see the GW necrons and their green eyes I don't get a sense of foreboding, I get a strange feeling of glow in the dark stickers gone wild.

Green energy makes more sense so I am keeping the main gauss guns green, but I want something more foreboding for the eyes. Redish-pink with the bronze just seems right to me. There is something about redwith the bronze that works for me. Now if the mix of green and red-pink is too much, I can paint the guns the same color and try to find a way to highlight the eyes and guns more.

me_in_japan · Post by **me_in_japan** » Thu May 10, 2012 1:57 am

Fair do's - if you want red, then red it shall be

it's your model, after all. You could paint it pastel pink, if you wanted to

Artistically speaking, red and green together is a bit dodgy, unless you want to have Christmas crons. If you do the eyes red, you can use the same technique I suggested for the green, just with red ink. Maybe a tough of black in the red to darken it up in the socket. however, if you do go for red, do te pipes etc red, too. You may have troubles with the clear green rod, but you could always just paint it red (over a white base coat). It doesn't need to be clear.

*edit* ahah! I just zoomed in a lot more on the iPhone and saw that there are in fact already red bits on the model. This tells me two things:

1) the green really needs to go.
2) the red needs to be much brighter, esp if it's intended to suggest energy. For a nice bright red, a white base coat is a must. if I can't see it on my iPhone, we won't be able to see it on the table top. Most of the cron is dark, so anything you want to draw attention to (eyes, gun) should be markedly brighter. That means white (or at least pale) base coat.

Colonel Voss · Post by **Colonel Voss** » Thu May 10, 2012 9:08 pm

little color tweeking. I need to work on layering a bit better but I think it turned out well for a first try. also base is a lighter color

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