03655: Iron Cobra and Chest

[TaleSpinner 42566]

For my ReaperCon entry this year, I painted my Iron Cobra and a chest that I sculpted for one of the Bones KS's.  I'm not entirely happy with these pictures, as the blue seems to be diminished in them (the background and steel colors are actually light blue; maybe it is my monitor?).  I may adjust them later and re-post, but for now, they're pretty close (as close as I can get when photographing metallic paint).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, and I placed a Gold Medal with this in the Open Category. 

 

[Glitterwolf 162737]

It's an awesome piece!

Love it!

[Loim 16453]

Excellent.

 

[TaleSpinner 42566]

I have to send a big thank you as well to Erin (@Corporea) and Brice for their advice and critique on this on Thursday at the Con.  You guys are great!

[Iridil 3369]

Well deserved gold - great concept executed very well - I love the metallic look of the snake and how it works with the sandstone floor

[Warlady 4187]

That turned out really well.  I love how your colors all tied together.

[Kuroneko 6193]

Congratulations on the medal!

 

I just ordered an Iron Cobra after being inspired by your paint job 

[Metalchaos 10018]

It's splendid, knowing you also sculpted it makes it even more remarkable. I need to paint mine now. I bought one probably four years ago and never took time to paint it. I think I will paint it as a cooper cobra with red shading.

You're right about the warm colors of the pictures, it's probably due to the red base that saturates this part of the color specter. Maybe you can try to have color cardboards in the picture when you take your shots. You can then crop your pictures and have the color cardboards removed from the final cut. I don't know if it would change anything, but it doesn’t hurt to try.

Congrats for the medal.

[Chaoswolf 106170]

Excellent paint job, and congratulations!