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Re: Vespid crisis suit -update 9/20
« Reply #80 on: September 22, 2007, 01:07:31 AM »
The vespid CS looks great. It´s been worth to wait that long for its completion. ;)

Now, I`m anxious for some furious painting. ;)
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Re: Vespid crisis suit -update (painting begins)
« Reply #81 on: April 23, 2008, 02:16:29 PM »
Alrighty then.  Stated painting.  Have some base coats down.  Initially I wanted to do the whole thing red in a sort of Invid type scheme.  But I'm not sure now.  Might be a bit bland.  What do you think?  The purple of the body is simply the basecoat for the red.  I could do the body in the secondary color of the stealth suits.  Or all red.  Or something entirely different.  Sorry about the fuzzy pictures.  I'm rusty with my camera.





here's what i mean on the secondary color:


and here is what my vespid look like:


I'm not sure that I want to do the purpley thing of the Vespid.  Perhaps grey?

thoughts?

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Re: Vespid crisis suit -update (painting begins)
« Reply #82 on: April 25, 2008, 01:11:22 PM »
I think Codex Grey gives a nice visual counterweight to the red.  That said, I think you need to be spare with it.  The purple is excellent, and creates visual harmony between your existing vespids and your crisis suit.  I worry that if you paint it Codex Grey, or some similar color, you may find yourself feeling like this project is never really 'done.' 

As an aside, I've recently assembled my first eight Fire Warriors, and my Tau Empires Codex is arriving (hopefully!) later today.  Do you have a link to pics of your entire Tau force?  Or any other Tau conversions you've done?

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Re: Vespid crisis suit -update (painting begins)
« Reply #83 on: April 25, 2008, 01:42:51 PM »

Woah, I thought this thread was dead.

YAY for the fact that it isn't.

I remember last year someone was mentioning how comparable this project is to one of Keith Thompson's works, Sub Hunter. Well anyway, I managed to dig out a photo of it if anyone is bothered anymore: (And why wouldn't you be?!)



And there is a similarity, but hey, that can only be a good thing.

I really don't know what to say about the colour. I like the purple, and with a little highlighting etc it would be great, and it would fit with the rest of your Vespid's, but then again, maybe it should be differentiated from the rest. Dilemma.

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Re: Vespid crisis suit -update (painting begins)
« Reply #84 on: April 25, 2008, 02:32:03 PM »
Looking good, Web Ghost. The sculpting worked out well.

For colours this is what I would do:
'Mechanical': Weapon Red (the lighter red for the parts that are already red.)
Hard carapace: Stealth Red (the red of your stealth suits for the 'fists,' feet and other raised bits.)
Soft carapace: Vespid Purple (anything that isn't one of the other two, really).

I would avoid the grey.

This makes it fairly similar to your Vespid in terms of colours, which I feel is appropriate here and would look pretty good.

That's my take on it, at least. Keep it up!

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Re: Vespid crisis suit -update (painting begins)
« Reply #85 on: April 30, 2008, 08:54:30 AM »
Wow that thing looks cool. Are you basing a whole army of the vespids or just one model?
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Re: Vespid crisis suit -update (painting begins)
« Reply #86 on: April 30, 2008, 12:38:00 PM »
Woo, can't wait til everything's done !!

Or maybe see them in person some day...

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Re: Vespid crisis suit -update (painting begins)
« Reply #87 on: April 30, 2008, 07:50:25 PM »
thanks for the responses folks.  The day after I posted painting begins! he, she, it (I haven't decided yet) took a serious nose dive off of a table and suffered some serious damage.  Weapons broke off, antennae broke off and arms jarred loose.  Its OK though as I've used this opportunity to magnetise the weapons so the load out is changeable. 

I'm currently working on a way to magnetize the neutron cannon so that it can be carried in the right claw (I've listened all along to all of you who thought the cannon was too high on the model.)  I would want if to fit into the claw in a similar fashion to that of a tyranid bio weapon; in that the fingers, or in this case, claws, fit snuggly into the weapon.  The weapon would not be mounted on the outside of the arm like a crisis suit but on the inside with the three claws integrated into it.  So basically all you would see would be the outside of the claw, the carapace part, flush with the neutron cannon.

Ways to do this?  I think the best idea I've had so far is to make a sort of claw plate.  A flat piece with the three claws attached to it with a magnet on the other side.  Lose the three claws that are currently model on there and put in a magnet.  Lastly put a magnet on the the side of the neutron cannon.  When the cannon is mounted on the shoulder I would put on the claw plate and put the plasma or whatever other weapon on the outside as it looks now.  So it would look the same. If I wanted the cannon in its claw, I would remove the claw plate thing and magnetize the weapon directly to the hand.  So it would look like the claws are gripped into the gun.  Shouldn't be too hard.  I've had great luck and great fun with magnetizing Tau weaponry so far.  Most of my crisis suits are done.

Any way.  Back to the painting.  I like your ideas Rudkin and I'm leaning in this direction though I wonder if the three different colors would be too much.  I've though of doing all the 'hard carapace' areas, as you put it, in the red but I worry about too much of a boxer look with its big hands.  Having those areas in the softer stealth color could work.  I didn't really see it until right now but having some areas in the vespid purple would make for some decent contrast and a bit of an organic look.  Can't decide! 

Here are the three (arrgh! four) main options I'm considering:

All red.  My original idea.  Very Invid looking.  Could be very cool.  Could be boring. 

Red areas as is and everything else painted in the stealth suit maroon.  A bit of a safe option which could be a bit boring.  Although I think it works well on the stealth suits.

Red areas as is, hard carapace maroon stealth and under parts like the the thighs and arms vespid purple.

Read areas as is plus the hard carapace areas in red (fists, feetsky's) in the red.  Under areas in vespid purple (I'm thinking lightish vespid purple) or stealth maroon.  I'm liking this option right now as it has the most contrast.   

-thanks for the pic Bournstar.  That thing is dope.  -Kezzerdrix:  I aspire to someday have a whole army of Tau auxiliaries including tons of Vespid, kroot and other races with more of these suits, sort of the upper echelon of a Vespid society, but for now it is just the one and a squad of 8 vespid with six unassembled (still can't decide if I want to make the stealths.)  -Sanctjud:  Helios pattern with vespid escort so keep those CSMs away.  heh heh.  -Arkion:  thanks for the thoughts.  yeah I'm staying away from the grey.  As for other pics there are links in my signature to other threads that have tons of pics but they seem to be broken for me. If they don't work I'll add new links. 

later 

-oh and one more thought.  I realized that the carapace on the suit doesn't have the space for integrated wires and circuitry for the weapons as Tau crisis suits do.  So I'll be adding a wire tube thing from the back of the right hand to the back of the body somewhere similar to Jes Goodwins' original crisis suit concept art where there are tubes on the exterior of the suit.

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Damage update:  I noticed when I started painting (going with option 4) that all three claws on the left hand are gone.  It must have stuck out this hand to stop the fall.  Very strange angle.     
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