11th Harakoni Light Recon: "Mad Sparrows"

Right! Almost finished painting my first batch. I'm pretty proud of them. They just need some more highlighting on the cloth and a couple of details here and there (eyes, plasma gun). Note the stubble I gave a couple of them: I really like the unshaven look!

Enjoy!

Edit: Man, these pics suck, haha. I'll try and make some better ones, soon. (:

Incredible work man! Love how you did the beard shadowing... and those white eyes creep me out!

Thanks for sharing... models are AWESOME!

great job....yeah the eyes are pretty creepy...

i like the bionic arm looks great.... and thx for sharing.

Cheers
LGW

Bionic arm? YIKES!!! Cool!!!

They suck!


Nah, you know I love ya. I actually really like them, and knowing you they will get pupils (cause now they look like zombie guard). I absolutly love the tiny map, with the grid on it and a road or river or something. The basing works really well as well.

As for the pictures, they are a bit over exposed/over lighted. It might be easier to controll this by shooting them (in the face...no wait...ehm) with artificial light. That makes it easier to control.

Love the guy with the bionic arm and the front armour. Loads of cool details, the unshaven faces, the weapons - but the bit that caught my eye was the map/data slate that one of the guys is carrying - excellent.

Cheers Laney

i like the five o clock shadow

but the eyes kinda look weird

Alright, alright. Fixed the eyes on several models now. And I learned to make betters pics! Watch:

Captain Aetos:


And Private John Locke:

Arachas! Awesome paintjob. It is great fun playing against you with actually painted models. I do not remember one game we played in which that happened before. I trust the paint is fire proof? Keep it up baby!

"Mad Sparrows"? Crazy as a bat I say!

I'll be seeing you soon my apprentice.

Regards. Major Sturmm

The pupils make them look... human. No more creepy renegades in my mind! HAHAHA!

Excellent job... and amazing pictures. Thanks for sharing. Can we have some more?

Wow! I love these guys and I like the color scheme you used.

Excellent overall look - nice subtle conversions (e.g. the ammo packs on locke). Colour scheme is ace. Keep them going in the campaign they deserve the opportunity to redeem themselves in the eyes of the Emperor!

Keep them coming (eyes really improve the look )

Laney

They look fantastic, the skin looks very realistic how did you do it?

Pics for the faithful commentors! Making some EL-E-VA-TION! for my gaming table.





@Kiwi: Dark Flesh, Dwarf Flesh + Bestial Brown, Dwarf Flesh, Elf Flesh, Chestnut Ink, touch up with Elf Flesh. The '5 o'clock shadow' is Codex Grey + Catachan Green. This is why the models take so long, I am far too picky. I've tried going for less perfectionism, but I find I simply enjoy painting my models as best I can! Thanks for the compliments, though. (:

Do I fight construction workers or them Crazy Bats? You gonna throw bricks at me now?

Keep up the good work Arachas! Aetos feeling a little better already?

The chemical plant is coming along fine too, have no pics yet ...

I'll be roasting you! Sturmm

VERY NICE! Feel free to start a new thread on the terrain section... this way we do not miss a bit of such marvelous building!

Whoa, even if I did have those paints I would take forever and would probably muck it up. Catachan green+ codex grey? I would never have guessed looks fantastic.
The building looks great how are you planning on painting it?

Kiwi wrote:

Whoa, even if I did have those paints I would take forever and would probably muck it up. Catachan green+ codex grey? I would never have guessed looks fantastic.
The building looks great how are you planning on painting it?

Please don't say spray paint please don't say spray paint.

DO NOT SPRAY PAINT!!!

It will melt the foam!

Kiwi wrote:

Whoa, even if I did have those paints I would take forever and would probably muck it up. Catachan green+ codex grey? I would never have guessed looks fantastic.
The building looks great how are you planning on painting it?

The funny part is that I stumbled upon this mix by accident. I was actually contemplating painting my Guard in sort of a 'Feldgrau' theme, a la WW2 Germans. So I Googled for ways to mix a color like that. It didn't work and I ended up buying Vallejo Feldgrau.

But on one forum a guy said, in comment to the above mentioned mix: "I bet that would look good for stubble." So I thought: what the hell, let's try it. And there you go!

LOL @ the spraypainting comments. My friend Toyama actually made a cave that way: added layers of styrofoam on top of each other, then burned in a hole with regular GW spraypaint.

Nah, I'll just grab my tankbrush and do it manually. I'm planning on adding all kinds of details, first. Not to mention sand and debris. It will be a long time before I finish this baby, I think. Lovely project for when I don't feel like painting or converting mini's.

Thanks a bunch for the cool comments, guys! I really appreciate them! My wife always says: "I totally get you painting and playing with those mini's... but why take pictures and post them on a forum?" BECAUSE those guys are so encouraging, WOMAN!

Hehe...

HAHAHAH!!!

Arachas you have some great ideas that I must steal!

Very nice work on the skin tones - I'm going to try that mix - the last guardsmen I did looked awful (I'm blaming the flash for most of it though). And their will definitely be a few stubbly guardsmen joining the Varangians.

As for the building - top notch - the more layers the better!

Cool Thread - keep it up
Laney