Salamanders & Other Models

[flimmyyip]

Hello! To kick off my first post on BoLS i decided to show you some examples of my work:

First off, A salamander-ish captain, and Venerable Dred (I do know he needs a backpack, just wanted to display the cape more before i put it on)

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/flimmyyip/113.jpg
http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/flimmyyip/118-1.jpg

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/flimmyyip/127.jpg

[flimmyyip]

Next up is a Doom Legion Marine, and some other guy i recently painted

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/flimmyyip/100.jpg
http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/flimmyyip/098.jpg

Finally, a Reaper Miniatures Frog

http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz114/flimmyyip/116-1.jpg

[miteyheroes]

Oh, I love the green on the Salamanders! Really pops out. An army of that will look amazing!

[flimmyyip]

For anyone who shows interest in commisioning me email me at [email protected]

also please follow my blog at http://robedstudios.blogspot.com

[Kawauso]

Not to be picky, but aren't all Salamanders super dark-skinned (like, coal black)?

I don't mean to say your paint job isn't superb, though. The green is really vibrant and your highlighting and shading is, for lack of a better word, immaculate. :3

[Lerra]

In 3rd ed they were coal-black skinned. GW has since moved away from that - there have been pale-skinned Salamanders in White Dwarf recently. I think the "official" fluff at the moment is that only some of the Salamanders are black-skinned.

[HorusReborn]

umm Salamanders are still "officially" coal black skinned. It's in all of the recent fluff. There are no whities on Promethius LOL

[Dooley]

I think you would have "White guys" in a Salamander army. If one were to be recruited off world or wasnt on the planet for much of their life, they wouldnt have absorbed as much radiation form the planet. In fact didnt they make mention of that fact in one of the Salamander books. They ran into some folks on another planet hiding from some Dark Eldar, who were from Nocturne (long ago) but still white (or what ever their natural skin pigment may have been.) The young boy who first made contact with them was freaked out of his head because he had never seen anyone with coal black skin and red eyes. So yeah, judge not on the color of their skin, but on the content of their Geenseed!

[wittdooley]

Yeah, they're definitely all coal-skinned now. And the Sallies don't recruit off Nocturne.

With that being said, I really like how the models look!

[Sister Rosette Soulknyt]

What prime colour did you use to paint in that colour, it looks really bright, i love it.

[flimmyyip]

Thanks for all of the replies, even though this thread got a little off topic, i do love a good debate. and my answer to is it is: FLUFF DOESNT DICTATE. i dont normally go exactly by fluff, because, i like to change things up a bit, and i kept the name becasue the scheme is the same basic idea.

To answer some questions:
I prime Black then Airbrush my green on

To everyone else:
thank you for the support.

check out my blog here http://robedstudios.blogspot.com for more updates!

[Firebird]

I really like the brighter color Sally's

[FastEd]

It looks like some of the brightness is due to color saturation settings on the camera used and/or the light the models were photographed in, though it would still be a fantastically bright green.