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Published: 2011-02-19 00:36:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 9536; Favourites: 180; Downloads: 269
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A sudden meeting engagement at point blank range - an imperial navy patrol runs onto a chaos vessel that has just emerged from a warp jump on the outskirts of the system. As one of the cruisers suffers a critical hull penetration, the other manages to align its batteries against the heretic...Brace for impact! Give 'em hell!! Fire the broadsideeee!!...
Oh i just love the naval combat
Speedpaint in CS4, Wacom, round 3hrs.
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Point blank broadside is best greeting for traitors.
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Battlefleet Gothic engagements are usually conducted at such distances that an entire battle could be conducted without anyone on both sides ever seeing the other vessel, except only via sensors. Considering the audacious excesses of 40K this is surprisingly realistic.
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Well, until you get to duels over low orbital superiority to provide air support for the sides involved. Then it becomes more like this picture. Which is awesome and must look ultra epic from the ground (if you aren't busy being shot at or eaten by some night-terror-spawned horror).
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Thank you. I tend to view 40k as a sci-fi version of age of sail, where side to side salvos are centerpiece, and on the other hand, its hard to draw battles where the only thing you could see is a vast emptiness of space.
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Damn those foul scum, Retribution shall be at hand....
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By the emperors grace, it certainly will!
That unfortunate vessel's fate was due to composition... and some overwhelming firepower issues 
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Wow, now that is great! 
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hah, thanks
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Thanks a lot, i like the "rough" look too much
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Agreed - I do like the 'traditional' looking in digital painting. I always think my own artwork looks too digital, not painterly enough.
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I dumped the standard round PS brushes for the very same reason! What you should go for is painting with hard edged, polygonal brushes (i think square and "long and thin" rectangle work best) and always use opacity pen control instead of soft edged brushes! Only one thing they're good for is nebulae stars' glow
Once i read that its good to learn to paint only with kind of a "chisel" brush, the rectangular one i mentioned above. I try to do that and i already see the effects.
but i really like your land raider and battle barge indeed, i think you should just get some texture brushes (splatters, scratches, etc) and mess it up a bit!
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Thanks for your tips sir.
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Youre welcome
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That would be greatly appreciated if ya could mate!
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