December 1, 2008

Salamanders Tactical Squad

Me playing with my camera again...

These are quite old models of mine, but much loved and many times fielded in battle in my study at home ... against Sigil's perfidious eldar, tyranids and necrons.

2 comments:

Elenaria CĂșthalion ni Aesin said...

I really like how you did the eyes! Much better than the greenish-yellow so many do. It almost makes me want to switch to yellow eyes...

Also, really like that kneepad! Oh, and the freehand for the Salamander heads, I remember we talked about how you made them a bit more square. I must say I really approve of them!

Great to finally get to see them, thank you!

Gobsmasha said...

Thanks for that comment, it's nice to read someone say that.

I've approached the eyes a variety of ways but it adds up to making them as intensely yellow as I can and rimming them with red.

The Salamanders scheme as I have it with Armageddon-themed bases is built on a vein of yellow. By that I mean yellow is in everything: in the green, in the gold, in the browns on the base and in the eyes. Most other things are silver or black or red.

The kneepad is a Bretonnian part. In the new codex there is a showpiece model of a Crimson Fist captain (actually the chapter master when it was first showcased in White Dwarf) which uses these parts on both knees, but cut in a way that they are more integral to the model, whereas mine is just meant to be some retro-armour honour shield.
That's an amazing model just from the point of view of what other things the hobbyist has mixed in.
I'm hoping to have a Salamander of that quality some day.