Unit Discussion/Previews

[Stormrage]

Plasma cannon or twin-linked lascannons, your choice, mate. I think it will look great, the pelts were just a random thought

 

[Quinzy]

I would go with the Lascannons as every Venerable equipped with Plasma cannons seems a bit daft

 

[aaglo]

Well, I already started making the plasma weapon before I saw your post, Quinzy.

If this looks just silly, I could put it on a chaos dread instead ... because that plasma blaster is a bit chaotic in nature

What do you think of this? Suggestions are welcome

 

[Kyriakos]

Looks excellent

 

[Quinzy]

Hey, that doesn't look that daft after all! Infact it looks great!

Perhaps whiten up those purity seals so they stand out a bit better?

 

[Dark Crusader]

Looks great! Your work is top notch! (as always).... I was a little worried when Quinzy said it would be daft. But you pulled it off.

 

[Dark Crusader]

Aalgo, have you considered putting a shield on the right shoulder panel and maybe some gernade toobs on top? Or I've seen some with the sighting senors on the leftside with a search light on top? Just thowing some ideas ur way. The model already looks good, and its clean and not cluttered so.....
Just some ideas.

 

[aaglo]

I'm not sure what you mean with the shield and gernades (do you mean smoke launchers like in the furioso?)... could you show an image of them? But I understood about the sighting tool and whiter parchments on the purity seals - like this.

 

[Dark Crusader]

Example of the search light. Yes I did mean the smoke launchers.

The shield probably wouldn't work it's more of a Balck Templars theme, or Grey Knight.

 

[Stormrage]

Yeah, a shield wouldn`t work well with a Space Wolf Vendread. Unless its a viking shield

Anyhoo, I love what you did with the thing, I think its ready to be used. The only thing I would suggest is making it in full Civ-color so we can use this unit as a generic VenDread in scenarios etc.

 

[aaglo]

Hmmm... fully civ coloured.

I think I could do that - but with one "ill" - I'll have to work a bit with the purity shields - that red mixed with blue spells disaster

But Maybe I'll just but a brown ring around the red seal... or something like that.

Here's a preview of the civ-coloured venerable.

 

[Stormrage]

Its awesome! You are awesome! Plasma coils shine bright blue (altho some insist that its green), can you make that special effect?

 

[Kyriakos]

This could be your best unit yet, Aaglo. Congratulations

 

[aaglo]

Its awesome! You are awesome! Plasma coils shine bright blue (altho some insist that its green), can you make that special effect?

Since blue is civ-colour, I'm thinking: no, I think I can't make them shine bright blue. I could try somethign cyan though.

 

[Yoda Power]

Couldn't you just make another civ colour than blue? Any colour can be used, it's just a matter of pallette.

 

[Stormrage]

Yah, I`m pretty sure there are other units with blue parts? But it could be green if its easier. The point is the plasma coils should be bright, its like a blast in a container

 

[Quinzy]

Perhaps ave green as the civcolour, that'll leave blue available for the plasma coils

 

[aaglo]

The most useful civ-colours are blue, cyan and red - others tend to be used a lot in other parts of the unit. Like in this unit:
- yellow is out of the question, because of lot of the golden colours used.
- blue is out of the question, because the plasma coil colour gets mixed up with the civ-colour
- green is out of the question, because that's one of the transparency colours
- red is out of the question, because it does not work well with blue. Really.
- cyan is in the borderline of usable, because it's closely related to blue.
- I really wouldn't go on using any mixed colours, because they are very hard to keep in check.

And palette-magic is a bit difficult to do, since I render these units as whole - I cannot determine the exact palette colours on units, since pigment textures of the unit may have strange effects. So I cannot pre-determine certain areas to use colours only from certain palettes.

So screw you very much - it seems like this plasma is going to be glowing yellow

 

[Yoda Power]

What about just having a civ coloured blast. Wouldn't that be kinda cool?

 

[aaglo]

I think that while the civ-coloured blast could look cool, it propably would not that much - according to my experiences, transparencies with civ-colour are impossible (since I always use transparencies in my blasts). Besides, darker civ-colours could look ugly.

Well, this is the best I could do right now - cyan glow .