Monday, January 3, 2011

Getting Started on Resolution #3


I got a chance to stop in at the local Games Workshop to spend one of my gift cards and I noticed a Crimson Fist army on display. It, quite honestly, blew me away. I forgot how cool a fully painted Crimson First collection looks on display. The hobbyist (whoever he/she was) had a nice mix of plastic marines, metal veterans and some of the newer Forgeworld stuff throughout the force along with some cool conversions. I also really liked the shade of blue on the armor. I inquired and as luck would have it, the staff there had the color combinations used.

I ran home a painted up a test model. I was much happier with the way the test model looked as opposed to previous attempts at painting the army. So, I decided to begin keeping my resolution and got to work on my first unit of Tactical Marines. So stay tuned for more Crimson Fists stuff.

3 comments:

  1. Rock on, look forward to seeing them.

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  2. Hi Mate. Really looking forward to seeing how you go with yours.
    A scheme I found on the WargamerAU forums led me to my version of the Crimson fists that I like look of. Its a bit darker and uses a hard highlight to make it pop.

    Here is a link to some of my stuff from a while ago... its not super fancy but it does the job I think.

    http://dakka-dakka-daz.blogspot.com/2009/10/crimson-fist-update.html

    And some more recent figures:
    http://dakka-dakka-daz.blogspot.com/2010/02/sergeant-grimm-sergeant-segala.html

    I will see if I can find the original forum post if your interested in the scheme.

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  3. I can't wait to see them!

    @Agama, I think I found that same scheme, but when I tried it my figure came out super dark and not very blue at all. How did you do it?

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