Red corsairs WIP

[steamius]

Hey there. I dont remember did I post my red corsairs on this forum, or not. But, since I couldent find the topic in search, I am making it ^^)



























And now, it is time for the chaos lord!

[JarkAira]

Had to say that I luv the painting scheme of Red Corsairs and you have captivated the actual colours quite nice. Also those eerie glowing eyes are great focus point that will make people start gazing and pay attention to the models. Skin tone of heads is actually throbbing chaos to the spectator. In conclusion you could very well even use your style and colour scheme on loyalist models too and people would still reason alignment of the models without all those fancy chaos bits.

I'm not usually very fond of using metallic colours by covering whole metallic part with it since I tend to make nearly every metal bit except golden ones to have a texture of a worn cast iron which means that there are plenty of black showing behind the metallic colour, but with your colour scheme that very opaque, solid and shiny look works well.

Keep it coming and try to get a stand for your camera more crisp photos.

[steamius]

My lord is ready to behead some one 8)

[Routasydän]

I really dig your painting :)
Only the spawns are in my opinion a bit too plain with all that flesh. They could use some shading or some more colour or something.
Have you thought about using some Space Wolf bitz here and there? I think Ive seen some people use wolf bitz in their Red Corsairs army and least I kinda like it, but then again, if you want your army being totally chaosy then their out of the question.
Anyways, nice looking army youve got there. Keep on painting :)

-Routa

[steamius]

Routasydän, thx for the respond!
I dont want to use wolf bitz on this army. I have a space marine army in whcih I already use space wolves bitz, so I dont want to have familiar armies ^^)

[Routasydän]

Ah, I see :)
Is there something wolfy in the Red Corsair fluff?
Or is it just some sorta luck that Ive stumbled onto wolf corsairs a couple of times :P

-Routa

[steamius]

Routasydän , well. I dont know 40k fluff that well, so I cant say for sure. I think that it just looks cooler with wolf bitz, so people add them ^^)

[Merimetsä]

I have a gripe about the framing of the pictures; Setup is speedy and flashy-cool-middle of the battle, but does not really lend itself to examining the paintwork itself. Overall minis look cool, but I'd put extra light source and some gradient background.

[steamius]

The prince is done!

[CATS]

Neat! The prince looks dope, maybe add a wash or two for the skin?

[steamius]

Glad you like him!
No washes! The way I paint skin is (Paint the main skin color, wash it, go over it with a wash. Go back and do all the muscles with the first skin color. Start high lighting the skin, adding more white t the 1st skin color. I do 3-4 high lights. Done)

[steamius]

Have taken some quick pictures of the heldrake. He is still WIP, still have to do lots of painting on him.

[steamius]

The drake is ready for take off!

[steamius]

So guys. This is my army in its current size! Fully painted! If you are interested, here is a video of it as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiPsjRo_bvg