Images of Ios, a Retribution of Scyrah Showcase

[CT GAMER]

That is some top-notch choreography...

[Yeti's Yell]

Just one done to use as a proxy for Eiryss but I'm thinking about an elfy force.

[Loveless]

@ CT Gamer - reminds me of the dance numbers in Burton's Charlie & the Chocolate Factory

@ Yeti's Yell - I love the skin tone and really the attention to the the backdrop for the picture of Narn. Great stuff.

[PG_Golfballfred]

I posted this model in its own thread for C&C but I figured it would be appropriate to put here to show the scheme.

[jordanscott]

Here's some of my Ret-drow-bution

Darn, I was thinking of doing the same thing and thought I was pretty clever for thinking of it.

lol

Great work.

Drizzt would be proud.

[jordanscott]

Phoenix a.k.a. Prometheus (just basecoated, not finished):

I know it's not done, but I think that looks pretty cool as is.

Night ops Phoenix or some such theme.

[Joroth]

Darn, I was thinking of doing the same thing and thought I was pretty clever for thinking of it.

lol

Great work.

Drizzt would be proud.

Do you mean...



....this guy?

[jordanscott]

Do you mean...



....this guy?

exactly!

[PG_hendybadger]

More and more stunning schemes and models!
They all look amazing!

[AJB2K3]

Not up to my usuall standered of photography but

40 thin layers of white drybrused over white primer and a thin black wash every 10 layers. Never doing that again but I not posting the current scheme and can't decide how to finish Kaylissa.

[Joasht]

40 thin layers of white drybrused over white primer and a thin black wash every 10 layers. Never doing that again

I mean no offense in any way and its good that you never intend to do it again, but seriously you could have gotten the same effect in only like...I don't know, I'd reckon three coats of paint, instead of 44 coats.

Just thought I'd let you know, because I can only imagine the amount of time 44 coats of paint would take. While people always say thin your paints (and in many cases please do thin your paints), over-thinning your paints is generally a bad idea unless you are using techniques like glazing. In fact, in some circumstances people even use undiluted paints, e.g. on very small areas.

Just a thought, if you want easy good whites, assuming you want a solid white color, you could go with:
1) Undercoat in white.

2) Paint over with Morrow White. This mainly "brightens" the white and makes sure that the whole model is properly white as often the undercoat doesn't cover the whole model properly.

3) Simple shading with a light grey on areas you figure there would be shadows. E.g. Fortress Grey or Cryx Bane Highlight.

If you want to make it a little more complex, you could do some quick wetblending between the grey and the white, but its probably not necessary for a basic paintjob.

4) Blackline the joints etc. Blacklining doesn't NEED to literally be black, you could use a darker grey too. Black lines would give the model a very anime feel to it though, which given the designs of the Retribution, might be a good idea.

All in all its very very few coats; for the most part the whites, greys etc you can do it all in one single coat so its more or less three steps of painting and one step of spraying.

[PG_Chris Cuevas]

There is some really gorgeous stuff up in here. Banging job, Moz.

[PG_Devilsquid]

It's PINK!!



And GREEN!!

[Gladius]

It's PINK!!

I knew those elves were a bunch of pansies!!

[AJB2K3]

I mean no offense in any way and its good that you never intend to do it again, but seriously you could have gotten the same effect in only like...I don't know, I'd reckon three coats of paint, instead of 44 coats.

Just thought I'd let you know, because I can only imagine the amount of time 44 coats of paint would take. While people always say thin your paints (and in many cases please do thin your paints), over-thinning your paints is generally a bad idea unless you are using techniques like glazing. In fact, in some circumstances people even use undiluted paints, e.g. on very small areas.

Just a thought, if you want easy good whites, assuming you want a solid white color, you could go with:
1) Undercoat in white.

2) Paint over with Morrow White. This mainly "brightens" the white and makes sure that the whole model is properly white as often the undercoat doesn't cover the whole model properly.

3) Simple shading with a light grey on areas you figure there would be shadows. E.g. Fortress Grey or Cryx Bane Highlight.

If you want to make it a little more complex, you could do some quick wetblending between the grey and the white, but its probably not necessary for a basic paintjob.

4) Blackline the joints etc. Blacklining doesn't NEED to literally be black, you could use a darker grey too. Black lines would give the model a very anime feel to it though, which given the designs of the Retribution, might be a good idea.

All in all its very very few coats; for the most part the whites, greys etc you can do it all in one single coat so its more or less three steps of painting and one step of spraying.

No offence taken !
My current method uses 2 coats of white (the primer). but it took 40 drybrushed coats as my *I swear to much* paint kept filling the fine detail.
Rahn had been striped and cleaned twice (in 1 week) before I painted it that colour !
Here's my WIP Kaylissa modelling her simple pearlescent white armour

I don't think its visible, but ..... Still can't get the hang of Photographing matallic painted models in macro.
@PG_Devilsquid - Loving the green painting.

[Gourge]

Just a couple pics so far:

[AngryElf]

YAR!

[PG_hendybadger]

Loving the pink elves. Look great all together as a force

[Mastershake]

No no no, it's all wrong. You need Hello Kitty heads for the jacks

[Lone Monkey]

Loving all the different takes on the Ret forces. I have decided to run with a traditional theme, as I really like the arcane energy look to it. Here's is my first and only painted model, just finished tonight.

[Supergeek]

Some very nice stuff here. Unfortunately my only finished Retribution model to date is Vyros,



but I do have some large base objective markers that I made for steamroller tournaments

[PG_TotalGee]

Nice objective markers, going to steal this Idea...

[PG_TotalGee]

YAR!

wow, awesome...
that looks great.

[Haight]

I know it's not done, but I think that looks pretty cool as is.

Night ops Phoenix or some such theme.

Seconded. That predominantly black phoenix is just utterly bad-***. I can't wait to see it finished up!

-- Haight

[Dais]

[themocaw]

Dais, how did you get that glow effect? That's exactly what I'm trying to do on mine in green and failing at miserably.

[PG_Stevo]

YAR!

I played against these elves at a Steamroller in Minnesota! They were awesome!

[RetributionBomb]

Oh! THats what I want to do with my warjacks! Please tell how you did it!

[PG_Kaptajn Congoboy]

Dais, could we have a shot of the black-and-glowing myrmidon from farther away?

[Dais]

thanks for the interest everyone. let me just quote myself from my original thread.

I will try to describe my heat effect as well as i can and at least list the paints i used. I started with a black primed model and made a wash of p3 morrow white to wash all the areas that would be hot. I took normal painting constancy morrow white and got into the inner shoulders as much as humanly possible, a little black in a shadow can kill the effect. it looked very messy afterward.
Next i used a heavy glaze of reaper phoenix red, this is actually a reddish orange. i glazed twice so no white showed in the deepest parts.
At this point i took a mix of reaper clear red and some darker gw red, i think scab red. the original color was nearly neon so i got it down to a ruby red color, i will refer to this as 'red' from now on. i used a 2/1 mix of this and matte medium and thinned it to normal painting consistency and painted next to the orange try hard to get a good blend.
i blended some p3 sanguine base over the red in the same way and tried to blend into the black basecoat. next i took some pure black and a touch of some oop gw midnight blue to recover my black. i dont know what it is about midnight blue but it is not just blue+black like most dark blues, it has some high pigment concentration or dye added or something. The added blue helps contrast the black from the orange and that particular blue makes black look even darker. -I'm going to cry when i run out of that blue right before epic vyros is announced.- I took my black mix and just painted over the large open areas then after it all dried added matte medium to glaze over the edge of the dark red and help blend it.
The brightest oranges are based on reaper orange highlight and p3 menoth white highlight. I first just painted the pure orange on then made a wash of the two and went into the deepest cervices where i wanted it to pop or where it would be the hottest.
After that i just went back to tidy things up with glazes. I made it a point to never add yellow to keep the effect looking hot, but not on fire.

i dont have any photos from farther away but i do have a few different angles and a prototype i did on a gorgon.


you can see the gorgon didnt come out quite the same but thats the point of a test model.

[RetributionBomb]

Did you do your entire army like this or just the Phoenix/Warjacks? Can we see more? I'm gonna have to grab the mentioned paints next time I'm at my LGS

[stephansolo]

Don`t know why i cannot upload attachments.
So you have to click on my profile to see the pics.
But be warned: Me and a camera is the same as me and dice... they never ever do what i want

[blazepoet]

Here are some pictures of my retribution! Still working on the camera work but I think these turned out ok.

I really dislike the "some of us wear helmets and some of us don't" so I did head swaps. Just have to figure out the basing and how to keep the invictor standard from breaking off.






Sentinels WIP.

[BilesyBelcher]

Very nice Eldribution! They actually look like they came in the same packaging.

[PG_hendybadger]

I wasnt sure on the Eldar heads to start with but now I think they look great.
Infact, everything in this thread is looking great!

[WarcasterKramer]

Very cool glow effect - looks like a cross between the Eldar Avatar and Knightrider.

[WarcasterKramer]

YAR!

very nice paint job!

[PG_hendybadger]

Those pink Retribution are stunning

[PG_Keravin]

Some gorgeous stuff here. Figure I might as well post some of mine which are studio scheme now, but will be adding a bit more green when I do the next batch.






More in my sig. Definitely thinking of getting another Kaelyssa and trying to follow Moz.

[PG_hendybadger]

They look really impressive!