Tuesday 14 June 2011

Duke Conversion complete

It seems my mood is back onto the Dark Eldar again and with it a conversion attempt of the greatest in my opinion of all the HQ characters in the book, Duke Silicus.



With no picture in the book and only a vague description that didn't sound too easy to convert, I was one model I never really fancied making my own version of, however after a brief look around the internet I wandered across this conversion here at yetanotherdarkeldar.  I liked it so much that I decided to make my own especially considering how many spare corsairs I have after a flurry a few months ago into dark elves.

So here is how they turned out.  One thing that bothered me was the eyes, that I just couldn’t get right this time, it seems hit and miss, I can get the while but never get the pupil right, anyone have any advice on those?  Would be appreciated. 





The plan, if I can manage it is to have a small squad of warriors painted in the same paint scheme as silicus so they stand out from the rest of the army (green as apposed to blue like the rest).


3 comments:

  1. for the eyes try

    1) paint entire eye area black
    2) paint eye shape white/offwhite leaving a thin black rim
    3)paint a dark: blue/green/brown as a pupil
    4) put a TINY white spot on the eye

    that is the method i use as generally the whites of the eyes get lost with the light flesh tones!

    -fuzz

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  2. my trick for eyes is pretty simple:

    1. paint the eye area black or any dark color
    2. put a dot of the white of your choice in the corners of the eye area.
    3. done

    this gives a more realistic eye than trying to hand paint pupils and is much easier. the problem with trying to put a dot of pupil in the middle is that you get just that- a dot. This will make all your models look bugged out like they have been smoking meth for a month straight.

    look in a mirror at your own eyes. you'll notice that your pupil isn't really a perfect dot in the middle of your eye. your lids cover the top and bottom just a little bit- and this is the exact look you'll get with the above painting method.

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  3. Thanks for the tips guys, will have to try them out on the next thing I paint with eyes showing!

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