Tried to do a Rottweiler scheme on Macula with a lighter brown underbelly and muzzle, but it's all washed out in the photos. Probably ought to go one tone lighter and re-shoot 'em... Slate is a beast as well with a plasma pistol and a thunder hammer, ready to squish the enemies of the House!
Went with a dirty, greasy biker look with the gangers, with blue jeans, grubby white t-shirts and oily metal armor. The loin cloths got a hit of yellow to give 'em a little pop. I've been picking up two boxes of gangs for each house, but have held off on building the second ten until I can get my hands on some of the FW weapon upgrade kits.
Speaking of Forge World, I'd pulled the trigger on some bits and kits for the next Heresy project this past weekend which proved to be rather timely following the news about the 20+% price hike across the board as they moved to local currency stateside. Glad I did as the order would have cost me and additional $120 for no good reason. I can understand their desire to not be tied to the occasionally volatile exchange rate, but a 20% rise seems egregious. Definitely going to be far more circumspect about what I order from FW going forward, and start relying more on third-party bits providers like Shapeways, Anvil Industries, Victoria Lamb, etc...
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Nice work as always man! .. Yeah I'm a little miffed about that FW increase.. BS for sure.
ReplyDeleteCheers bud! Trying to get a small gang of each house done up to facilitate a campaign locally - Planning on lending them out to let people get a taste of the game and hopefully get a community going!
DeleteNice!.. very cool reason to paint them all man!
DeletePuppy! Yeah, yeah, the gangers look good as well, but the dog is really the selling point here for me :) The yellow spot colour works nicely here, especially along with the blue jeans.
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, I'm bummed about the FW pricing, too. I figured it was going to go up, but I thought it'd be more or less a wash with not having to pay international shipping. Nope :(
Aye! It's a great sculpt, I was considering buying another one but with the price hike perhaps not...
DeleteThey do look good.
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Thanks bud!
DeleteWow, these look great. Love the yellow cloths as spot colour.
ReplyDeletePup looks cool too. Reminds me that I still have that flippin FW Arbites Enforcer and his Mastiff to paint somewhere...
Love the cyber mastif. And the pound is particularly weak at the moment so 20% seems a lot, however if you take the exchange rate over last six months I’m sure it is no where near 20%. If FW/GW import raw materials from abroad I can understand their desire to sell as foreign currency rates too. But yes, as people on forums have been very vocal about, it seems to suck a$$! Glad you got in early!
ReplyDeleteGreat painting, they look suitably hard-as-nails.
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