Black Templar Marine Chaplin

Neolis · Post by **Neolis** » 21 Nov 2008, o 19:30

Hey all,
I've been working on him the last few nights. Hes only 2/3 of the way done and I want to get a 2nd, 3rd, ect pair of eyes on him.

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Neolis · Post by **Neolis** » 25 Nov 2008, o 15:07

More work on him spotted a few spots where the battle damage needs to be played with.

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Post by **Skrit** » 25 Nov 2008, o 17:42

Looks good so far. I think that when you do his eyes more darker then the dramatic effect will enhance more. Maybe a soft reddish glow will look nicely too?

arctica · Post by **arctica** » 26 Nov 2008, o 11:03

Looking very nice

i like the battle damage and worn/weathered effects they make the guy look like he actually was in a battle. Im not sure if its the background or the fact he is a black templar but i feel the limited colours makes the mini and the base rather "same-ish" if that makes sense. Maybe more contrast on some of those metals might help? like on his crux mace thingy, some more highlights and shading? But like you said, it isn't finished yet

but i hope this helps a bit.

Neolis · Post by **Neolis** » 26 Nov 2008, o 15:51

any feed back helps. I will flip the back ground around next time I take a picture of him and see if the gray makes any difference. I have to also have to play with my lights, I seem to be getting a lot of hot spots. C+C from my friends here who have seen the mini in person and my pictures. I'll spend tonight picking up the metals and practicing making glowing eyes on a bag of space marines that I have laying around. Will take pictures this evening of any of the results I get.

Neolis · Post by **Neolis** » 15 Dec 2008, o 05:43

These pictures any better?

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I will keep this work in progress thread until this mini is done then I will work only in the one thread.

edit- Ok totally unsure why its in such a small size

Post by **Demi_morgana** » 15 Dec 2008, o 10:17

I like these pictures more

you should ask Kacpero for some advice - he painted lots of black templars click!

ToMaZ · Post by **ToMaZ** » 15 Dec 2008, o 11:39

edit- Ok totally unsure why its in such a small size

Photobucket resizes the pics automatically if it's bigger than a certain size (in kilobyte or megabyte) You can change the maximum size in your accountoptions if I remember correctly. If the pic is still to big, use photoshop to resize. You can even change the size of the file if you use 'save for web' and play around a bit with the quality.

Also IMO if you want to show big pics, it's nicer to put different angles under eachother instead of next to eachother. The topic will be easier to read

The fig looks nice btw. Dark and gritty. It's bit hard to see the highlights and shading though on the smaller pics.

Neolis · Post by **Neolis** » 15 Dec 2008, o 16:20

@ Demi- Those are pretty also shows I really can pick up the edge highlighting.

@ToMaZ- I re-edited the previous pics to make them eye friendlier. I just want to find a happy middle ground between the huge pictures I have been taking and what these turned out to be. You know something where you can see highlights with out standing back and away from the computer.

Eh I will keep practicing the photo stuff too.

Post by **mahon** » 18 Dec 2008, o 11:42

The new pics are better but too small to show quality...