Pic of my first Skaven...

VorTeX · Post by **VorTeX** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:57 pm

Here is a first pic of my new Skaven team....comments welcome.
Its the first time i tried ti use white as a team color.

Jimmy_pop · Post by **Jimmy_pop** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:23 pm

It looks really nice, and white is a really hard coulor to get nice I think. Where is that ratogre from?

/Jimmy

Abator · Post by **Abator** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:27 pm

Awesome Rat Ogre.

and that's a great looking pitch they're on. How did you make it?

Ravage · Post by **Ravage** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:09 pm

they look very nice, GJ

I concur about the pitch too, that looks very sweet

hoomin_erra · Post by **hoomin_erra** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:04 pm

From the picture, i would judge that the rat ogre is actually a wolfen from the Rackham Confrontation Collection

Evil Git · Post by **Evil Git** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:10 pm

i think you may be right hoomin. good looking team so far. my only problem is the face on the rat ogre. not quite my cup of tea but overall looks good.

Snew · Post by **Snew** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:22 pm

Very nice. The red and white looks great! It was the pitch, though, that caught my eye. Really very nice. How's that static grass hold up? I've always thought it too fragile for a playing surface.

VorTeX · Post by **VorTeX** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:39 pm

Yep its a confrontation mini...but not a wolfen but a devourer.

The gras is a simple static grass matt. Cutted into right pieces and glued on the board.

http://www.dbb-liga.de/bloodbowl/sf.htm

Here you can see more pics of our stads.....

kithor2002 · Post by **kithor2002** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 4:42 pm

Great team Vortex

Ravage · Post by **Ravage** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 6:43 pm

hahahahaha

was this a TTM that went past the endzone? splat on the post and stains on the field, I love it

I quite like the other pitch you have on there as well, both are well-done jobs

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:45 pm

The team looks great. The Devourer makes a great rat ogre!

Dark Lord (retired) · Post by **Dark Lord (retired)** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:00 pm

Your skaven look pretty good but with that said I'm going to pass on some Skaven painting advice that I received that I really liked.

I painted a few Skaven players I had in prep for a team and a fellow painter saw then and said what I am about to say about yours, "They look too clen."

I thought about what he said and how I could make them look messier without looking like a 10 year old painter.

I experiemented and finally came up with an idea to drybrush everything.
Now over drybrushing is something that rookies often do after they learn the technique so I wasn't sure but it worked!

I drybrushed everything, including armor, skin and clothing. I used several different brush sizes and shapes, as well as thicknesses of paint just like normal. I used a dark brownundercoat and I also varied the amount of "dry" in my dry brush and it gave them a very scratchy and dirty sort of feel but I also painted them very slowly and carefully so they didn't look sloppy. (That's the key!!)
One coach said that they reminded him of Pigpen from the Peanuts strip, but in a way he couldn't define.

Don't know if it would work for you but you might want to give it a shot.
I should also mention that I used several several several layers of color to build up from the base and shadows to the highlights.

Indigo · Post by **Indigo** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:08 pm

Got any pics of your efforts DL? I've always heard the term "Controlled drybrushing" but all it brings to mind are shoddy effects that look good from afar but naff close up.

Sallacious · Post by **Sallacious** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 3:34 pm

I really like the colours you chose. Same colours I chose for my humans. Cool Rat Ogre idea. Anyways... you did a really good job on the painting.

longfang · Post by **longfang** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 4:25 pm

Drybrushing?

Yea I think I remember that technique!