Blacknexion's Underworld (Tongue and some armour 24.5.)

[Sir-Skofis]

I love those gobbos, really nice conversions and excellent painting job.

[siggyllama]

How did you shade the underside of the hood on #8? Almost looks like you blended up from gray.

[blacknexion]

How did you shade the underside of the hood on #8? Almost looks like you blended up from gray.

That part needs some work still. It's blended in to grey and black on top of the yellow base.

[siggyllama]

Never heard of blending from light to dark, it is a common technique? I like the way it looks now.

[Stout Youngblood]

Never heard of blending from light to dark, it is a common technique? I like the way it looks now.

Check out Jim Wappel's blog. He talks about blending from light to dark.

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/

[Aino]

Amazing goblins!
Just WOoW!

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[Pitch Invader]

Nice teams Love the bright purple on the skaven and the goblins are very cool- nice colors and cool poses- Gamezone goblins (think most of them are those?) are really nice and the impact shoulder pads worked perfect for them.

[blacknexion]

Here’s my new Chaos Dwarf team, Gorgoth Crimson Gears.
This is a pretty complicated situation These were commission painted by another Finn to an excellent standard. I got them and was very pleased, however, I started doing little modifications to them, and that got really out of hand. I ended up “Finishing” them for around 15-20 hours plus basing. I’m not sure how much time he spent on them, so I’m not sure if I should call it a collaboration instead of a commission now.
Because of this I have listed below everything (unless I forgot something) I did to them, just to make it clear who did what.

All the conversions were done by me (earlier in this thread)

Here’s a list of what I did (…It’s a boring read) :

-Two different washes on the orange beards, followed by four highlights on every piece.
-Painted the eyes on everything else except the dwarf blockers
-Painted the tongues on the bulls and the big chaos dwarf
-Two highlights on teeth all around
-One highlight on the red hobgoblin armour
-2-3 highlights on some leather and cloth parts
-3 different shadow washes on the tentacles on the CD and 3 highlights on the suckers on him plus on the tail of the mino
-Wash and three highlights on the woodpieces of the Dwarves
-Added white highlights on the dwarf blockers eyes
-Added more scratches on dwarves armour, painted white primer around every scratch
-Re painted the dwarves loincloths off-white (two or three dark blends and 4-5 highlight blends (they were brownish to begin with)
-3 highlight blends on the dwarves red armour
-Picked out details, like the fine threads on the hobgoblins hands and on the dwarves horns, bags, piping, stitches, etc.
-Added two layers of rust pigments on plain metal armour
-Several black and brown washes and two highlights on plain metal parts
-Some extra shading washes on skin parts here and there
-3 highlight blends on the skin and bone parts of the minotaur and the bull centaurs
-Added blood details on the minotaur and the bull centaurs
-Changed one of the shoulder pads on the mino to red. Weathering (rust & scratches on both shoulder pads)
-Added shading on the underside of the dwarves "eyes" (broken lenses)
-Shading and highlights on the strings in the bull centaurs' hair
-All the basing


And finally here are the pictures.

















And now I have to run and lift some things, I'll be back later to check on typos and whatnot

[Norse]

They look finished now, feel free to ship them to me as previously agreed...












Seriously though, you guys should collaborate more often, this is one of the finest painjobs I have ever seen! I'm not 100% sold on the mix of different Rackham figs, but that aside - wow! Just, WOW!

[Lard]

WOW! That is a stunning paintjob. And the minis are great to. One of the best teams I have seen.

[blacknexion]

Thanks, Norse & Lard. And all the others who commented on the Goblin entry.

@Norse: Sure, you can have them... For a lot of money I think I'll play with them for a while though. We have the weakest league in existence. Since there's only one other guy playing besides me, we both have to play 4 teams. Good times!

I had in mind to get him to paint the Nurgle team, but then I was thinking of converting a dark elf team as well... This time do a very very basic job, only the base colours and the washes (he's excellent at this, I didn't add anything to the hobgoblin skin), I would do all the more intricate stuff. That would speed up my painting and getting teams done by about 80%. His style is very monochromatic and mine is almost the opposite.

It would be nice to do stuff like this with other painters as well.

Next up: Display base for this lot, including actual crimson gears.

[pressie]

Love the painting style, the contrast from light to dark is amazing. How do you get so much colour without going to white.

[Lunchab1es]

Not all of the figs are my favorite (although I really like the hobs) but paintjob-wise? These are absolutely incredible. Just...wow. Amazing. Seriously amazing work.

[Heff]

these are brilliant. You can paint...I hate you.

[Shteve0]

{gawp}

Team shot, please. Un-be-freakin-credible.