Justin1
Well-Known Member
Well... I think at this point if I've got any sort of reputation on here, it's "that dude who takes forever to finish anything," lol I don't really know what to say about the kit that hasn't been said before. Narin's got some unreal talent. Everyone was really encouraging and really supportive throughout the build, and I thank every one of you for that, but especially medorik, John Hircock and especially King Joe, and for all the great inspiration!
I wanted to treat this piece differently than my first, The Death Warrior, and although I initially set out to do the same sort of thing I already had, I decided I wanted to make it totally different, so I tried to achieve a skin and patterning that I hadn't seen before. I'm very happy with the results. I also wanted him to appear more opulent than the average predator, and portrayed that through his armor the best I could, by using grander and gaudier tones such as the bronze and gold, as well as various bits of leathers he's added, to show he feels he stands out from the silver and steel tones adorning most other preds. Beyond that, not much else to say. I'm very unhappy with the pred on the base as I had to repaint him 3 times and finally said "screw it," then to make it worse the transparent paint pooled all over his abs. The head on the spear also took me a long time to get to a point I was happy. I found it VERY difficult to get him looking appropriately "elderish," like he was old and aged. In retrospect, I also think doing ONLY silver for the beads is pretty boring looking. Oh, well. Lesson for next time!
Comments and especially criticisms always welcome! Thanks for looking! And check the accompanying link to my flickr page if you want to see higher resolution pics.
My flickr page
UPDATE!: I've been getting a lot of compliments on the "blue color" I used for the skin, despite the fact that there is NO BLUE on the Bad Blood himself! The bluish tone comes from one of the lamps I used to light the piece having a white/bluish bulb while all the others had yellow bulbs. Here's a picture I had originally posted lower, but decided to include up here to try and eliminate any more confusion! Thanks, guys!
There's no blue!
I wanted to treat this piece differently than my first, The Death Warrior, and although I initially set out to do the same sort of thing I already had, I decided I wanted to make it totally different, so I tried to achieve a skin and patterning that I hadn't seen before. I'm very happy with the results. I also wanted him to appear more opulent than the average predator, and portrayed that through his armor the best I could, by using grander and gaudier tones such as the bronze and gold, as well as various bits of leathers he's added, to show he feels he stands out from the silver and steel tones adorning most other preds. Beyond that, not much else to say. I'm very unhappy with the pred on the base as I had to repaint him 3 times and finally said "screw it," then to make it worse the transparent paint pooled all over his abs. The head on the spear also took me a long time to get to a point I was happy. I found it VERY difficult to get him looking appropriately "elderish," like he was old and aged. In retrospect, I also think doing ONLY silver for the beads is pretty boring looking. Oh, well. Lesson for next time!
Comments and especially criticisms always welcome! Thanks for looking! And check the accompanying link to my flickr page if you want to see higher resolution pics.
My flickr page
UPDATE!: I've been getting a lot of compliments on the "blue color" I used for the skin, despite the fact that there is NO BLUE on the Bad Blood himself! The bluish tone comes from one of the lamps I used to light the piece having a white/bluish bulb while all the others had yellow bulbs. Here's a picture I had originally posted lower, but decided to include up here to try and eliminate any more confusion! Thanks, guys!
There's no blue!
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So... yeah. Just whitish/pale, no blue...
