The 18-Year X-Wing
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Trash-Hobo of Ishgard
Couple years ago I purchased one of those awesome Kai-Arts figurines of Estinien from FFXIV, and it was pretty gorgeous when it came, but I couldn’t help but notice that the silver detailing was a bit dull and hard to tell apart from the rest of the armour. So I told my dad, who has a variety of metallic silver paints and offered to let me use them, including the Chromiest of Chrome paints (example) which I ended up using for all the bladed parts. The other silver details I used more normal model-car silver paints. With a black wash to bring out details it looks twice as fantastic as before! Click for larger pictures:
Tiny Flairé
Elfin in colour
Whooo! It’s another colour thingy, made with my tablet yesterday! I put up both versions… the one that is plain and then one with a primitive attempt at forest-y lighting. I was going to put stronger shadows on his face but I got sidetracked so you get the same old boring flat lighting. Whatever.
This is a colour version of this picture, and it is of this guy.
Warhammer comic page 10
So. Um. Elfin is cute! Though his horse is a little small.
Flairé: You lost the battle, didn’t you.
Yeah, I think so. But I managed to twist it into a moral victory. Or something. I have the idea I was going to continue it, but I didn’t get around to it. And so I don’t remember what happened after that last frame, if anything.
Still plugging away at Chapter 7 of The Tactician and the Jewel. The opening is starting to take shape. Not sure how to get into the action yet, though I have some good ideas for the action itself.
Warhammer comic page 9
Well, here’s the second last page of the comic, and what a depressing page it is. Oh well.
Check back tomorrow to see the vaguely exciting conclusion to the battle!
Warhammer comic page 8
The ‘two-page spread’? The Bret general charges my general, drawn on two separate sheets of paper and clumsily joined in Paint because I have no Photoshop. Oh well. You can tell what’s going on, can’t you? There’s not much else behind the Bret lord. Just his horse’s tail. So you’re not missing anything. If you really think you are, save the picture and have another look. …unless you have larger screen resolution than I do (1280×800) and then it doesn’t matter. I think there was supposed to be dialogue, too, but I have no idea what it was. Looks like blue-eyes got his helmet knocked off pretty quickly, though. I guess that means he’ll fit ‘Penlod’ in my spearmen a bit better.
Check back tomorrow to see what that last scout from the page before last is doing! 😛
Warhammer comic page 7
So. Yeah. The Silver Helms charge and the men-at-arms run away. Surprising, that. There are five of them, I just didn’t draw two because they wouldn’t fit on my silly road. That isn’t runes on Elfin’s sword, either – it’s blood. I wonder if I actually killed some guys or if they just ran away. I wouldn’t be surprised. : P
And yeah, mages are magey… not much to say there. Damsel’s head is squished. Not a very interesting page. Sorry. Next page is even less interesting!
Check back tomorrow to see what the blue-eyed commander has been up to! : P
I keep playing games against my brother and losing. It’s a little annoying, except when the battles are short. Also I draw faces all the same, which is even more annoying because it seems to take a lot of effort just to get them looking good and all the same. It must be even harder to get them looking right and all different! Whoa… mind-bender. But I drew a lot of faces yesterday, and I’m happy with most of them aside from the ‘all looking the same’ thing.
I’m still addicted to writing my story TTatJ, although it has hit sort of a brick wall in terms of imagination… I keep hammering at the last scenes in Chapter 5 but they all sound stupid. OH WELL CHAPTER 6 HERE I COME. Let’s see if anyone gets killed yet! …Btw, anybody want to volunteer as proofreaders? To give me comments and critique and suggestions on how to make it less stupid? Hey, it has an original plot and 80% original characters!
Warhammer comic page 6
Yeah. One survivor. One scout made it through the Bretonnian phase. Fabulous. Not much you can do with one scout, even with their Ballistic Skill of 4. And yeah, I am terrible at drawing cornfields. Not sure why the crow died in panel one as well as its victim. The building-y thing is that blue-roofed barn that pops up in a lot of Warhammer things, though I think I fancied it up for purposes of this picture. Let’s see if I can find it.
Check back tomorrow to find out… what happens in the next turn. Exciting, I know. But it has a picture of the mage!
Warhammer page 5
And so my brand new Shadow Warrior scouts who are more than half LotR models were discovered, and immediately became the target of all ranged Bretonnian attacks. I was trying to get the Bretonnian damsel to look psychotic in the second frame and sexy-evil in the last frame, but it didn’t work too well. And there’s supposed to be a ton more corn in the first panel. The Bret soldier doesn’t look too bad, actually. All the elves have short legs, though.
Check back tomorrow to see how many casualties I had! (hint – I think I started with 9 Shadow Warriors)