[Archive] Marauder Mage

Pyro Stick:

I have been trying to get hold of this model for ages and i finally did. I painted it with a blue cloak but now that the cloak is done im not sure it looks that good. I am thinking of changing it to Red or Grey. This model isnt finished so dont bother commenting on the base and i know the thing on his back beside his grenade isnt finished.



Xander:

The blue looks fine, but I am not sure it works with the gold and silver. Red might be really cool. :slight_smile:

hal:

Yeah, Xander’s right; the blue would look perfectly good except that it clashes with the metallics.

Here’s a colour wheel, hopefully it’ll help you with your painting scheme:



Notice that the colours that match are:

opposites

colours next to each other

all primaries

all secondaries

(I’m pretty sure there are some other exceptions, but my knowledge isn’t that indepth)

Good luck.

torn:

nice colour wheel, but i think for artistic purposes a traditional RBG does a bit better, because the colours are less ‘pastel’ and stronger, which is better for miniatures who arent pansy elves.

i think the blue is fine but maybe the gold is too dark

Pyro Stick:

Well im just confused now cause i liked the helmet and not the cloak lol

torn:

theres nowt wrong with the helmet at all, i just thought it would be worth considering. at the end of the day theres nothing stopping you trying many different colours.

hal:

Well im just confused now cause i liked the helmet and not the cloak lol
Haha, you could always try to lighten up the blue, that might work (close to sky/white blue)

Pyro Stick:

Totally repainted this guy. And made a fancy base. Ill get a better pic of the whole thing tomorrow. I never had any good light as i finished it at night.















zagor66:

Looks great.And I love the base might actually borrow it…pinch

Canix:

Looks great ,alot of flaming backdraft (lay off the pork)thats some base.I did like the earlier blue too but he is now a CD that will fit with your excellent collection:hat off

zagor66:

:hat offDid quite like the gold.

Pyro Stick:

The gold looked good but the beard had too think a basecoat, the blue didnt go with the rest of my army or the helmet and the staff also had a bad paint job and it just wasnt that good. Now its awesome.

zagor66:

Much agreed.

Ghrask Dragh:

Didn’t mind the old paint job, but love the new one!!

Great stuff on the colours and base, you have quite a collection there!

zagor66:

Cant wait to see some new editions…to your army:hat off

clam:

WOW! I love your new Mage - Pyro - you did a great job on him!

AGPO:

I’d really love to know how yu made the base… hint…hint…

wallacer:

Have you considered reverse highlighting the flames?

In other words, have the yellow colours in the crevises then dark red/black on the raised areas with various gradations of colours in between?

Khan!:

Yes, this new version looks much better! Cool base, too. I think my favourite part of this model is the grenade (!) that he’s carrying.

Pyro Stick:

The base was made by sticking a 40k base on a cavalry base then adding in some green stuff to make it look a bit more like hes standing on rock. The wasll of fire was just a bad attempt at green stuff. I made th basic shape (which completely folded in on itself casue it was so heavy) then i sculpted the flame detail (badly) on top of that.

@wallacer: I never really thought about reverse highlighting… Since it had a black basecoat the yellow would of looked terrible unless i gave it a massive layer. Or a white basecoat i guess.