Thanks fellas, I really like how Kantor turned out, I've painted the purity seal I missed pointed out by Whaley and I've started Lysander but the casting is pretty crappy in parts didn't look so bad before priming but there's a lot of slippage and a few rather rough patches that I'll have to use some shading to disguise, but I'll still make him look pretty cool!
Now the next thing I'm going to ask is again about my GK army I'm looking to sell can you guys ask around and see if anyone is interested for the whole lot including codex and spare parts for $350 Aus? (plus postage) I need to sell it rather quickly now as I didn't realise i'd get a bill from ebay for selling my BA army that's be quite so high I was under the impression I had my first three listings for free but it seems I didn't and I really want to reach my goals this year of saving enough to renovate our kitchen in the new house
thanks guys, appreciate your help and I'll get some Lysander updates up soon for you.
Great work on Kantor. The work on the head is amazing as well. I think it still looks a little big, but that might be because he's shouting. The shading on the Yellow looks great.
I know, I'm trying to remember what I have as Whaley's built half of it for me over yonder I think I've got these models for the GK's but I can check when I'm home tonight what I actually have and then pair it with what Whaley's sending me down
That's what I think I've got at home, i'll have a look tonight though and write it up, then combine with what Mr W has
Automatically Appended Next Post: Just thinking about Devs for my IF's would it be a good move to have 2 Lascannons and 2 Missile Launchers with extra Marines so I can split it into two squads with dual heavy weapons in each? or just have a squad with 4 Missile Launchers?
I'm really enjoying this whole painting yellow lark Lysander is now done and finished and looks good next to his brothers it's going to be a shame now I've run out of special characters to paint for the Fists but until I figure out how to get some more cool ornate models you'll have to settle for some pics of Lysander
Thanks GFX! and to reward you for your tenacity and staying around you win random work in progress pics of a Tyranid
I found him/her in my cupboard from a mate who wanted me to paint it but he ended up selling his force so I thought i'd try painting something I haven't don before!
Looks fantastic Nerdfest! Love the way you've built the yellow up. The face is fantastic (as always) and the red cords really work well. Very nice mate!
Honestly thank you all so much! again and again I always love the feedback and just the fact that you took the time to comment on what ever i've been fiddling with I appreciate it each and every time! I've had a look at Whaley's suggestions! and I may just have to get those two models to paint up myself! Pollux is awesome! and I also listened to Whaley again (why do I keep doing that!) and assembled a Tac squad, a Sternguard squad and a Dev squad for my fists using all random models I've not used yet and were lazing around in my bits! now I'll see when I've some spare money and might just make a purchase of a Land Raider, a Predator and a couple of rhino's (Whaley, you helping me on this dude? )
You know it. Obviously you are going to have to pick up Dorn when he eventually comes out too. If you wanted to make it a 30k switch hitter force, picked up BaC would be a massive boost too.
whalemusic360 wrote: You know it. Obviously you are going to have to pick up Dorn when he eventually comes out too. If you wanted to make it a 30k switch hitter force, picked up BaC would be a massive boost too.
Well then, lets get me a cost on a Land raider 2x rhino's and a Predator then! and I'll be looking at BaC a bit later, it's on my wish list for sure! and Dorn will be a awesome model I have a good feeling about him I'm guessing I'll get to paint yours? in fact you've been a bit quiet on the Primarch front Whaley? when am I getting a new one to play with?
Made a little progress on my Terminator Chaplain today I think he works? I like the bare head even though the skull helm is their signature having a bare head really sums up their faith in the Emperor protecting them!
He's actually a really big model too when I put him near Lysander he dwarfs him!
It works. The head is stunning and a great job on the metals. Love the work on the folds in the robe too. He doesn't look very chaplain-like though. Still, a beautiful job so far.
Crikey Nerdy - he's stunning. The skinwork alone is worthy of awards. You really gotta (please) put a wee tut up about you techniques on that one. I'm alreay nabbing your plasma mortar effect
A great reference tool, once you get past the realisation that Damo is some kind of face painting demigod and us mortals can never dream of doing it quite as well!
I got to see your stuff in-person for the first time at AdeptiCon (Whalemusic's AdMech) and you have such an awesome gritty style! Really love Lysander from last page, too
The IF looks great nerdy! I'm sad to see you give up on the BAs but I think you've done a even better job on the yellows in this new army. As others have said, your bare heads are fantastic and give a lot of "character" to the models. Keep it up!
Thanks guys, I can agree with Gits that he doesn't look very chaplain and I attribute that to not having a skull helmet I was going to use the plumed Enkomi head but I think I lost in the vacuum cleaner and I'm yet to find any other heads that spur my creativity at this stage.
Glad you got to see Whaley's Admech RiTides and glad you liked it! it was a more gritty style than I usually paint but I really liked how it came together on those models, it just felt very 30K
Eggy don't fret mate, it just means you need to lift your game and continue the Red tide! I gotta say the yellow on my Fists is really enjoyable to paint, totally different in application to my BA models, this is a much more blended style but is easier due to the staining qualities of each successive lighter yellow
Face painting hey guys!? honestly I would love to do a proper tute, but I really need to actually show you but I am having no luck finding a way to video close work and pop it on the computer with my limited knowledge a step by step would be a bit too subtle for you I think as the whole process isn't a hard one it's just a base, a wash, and lighter highlights up to a final one with darker colours mixed into the skin tone to represent stubble and hair but if you can point me in the direction of a small video camera i'll buy one.
Re: Video camera, hmmm... if your phone contract is up honestly the iPhone does pretty well . I know Ramos uses a separate camera (unfortunately not video) but it's becoming less and less common these days...
My camera can apparently do video, too. Very nicely at that! Thats actually an experiment for later this year... But yeah, most people use their phones nowadays for stills as well as videos.
Usually where people run into problems is uploading them. Takes a wee bit of data to do so. Or time... Depends on what your situation is.
I started LittleH's Orcs and wanted to use a style or colours that were reminiscent of what the models reminded me of, which was the early copies of white dwarf magazine! the muted browns and earthy greens just seemed to fit with the old sculpts, so far i've been working on the skin, it doesn't look much but it's a subtle blend of desert brown, olive green and rust red, the chainmail will be rust brown and cloth will be dirty leathers at this stage
it's a break away from my usually brighter style, even more muted than the last models I did for LittleH but we'll just keep going and see what becomes!
Thanks Cam, I do indeed follow Weety's work always a great source for inspiration and techniques especially on her old skool mini's! I like these guys skin too, i'm glad you think it's a good choice I was a little tentative as I usually do my normal green on Orkish models but this just looks right to me. lets hope I can continue in the same vein with them.
any colour I can't master? hmmm lets see I haven't painted white/bone before? and I don't like blues at all, even my Libby's are crappy compared to my other models I did toy with the thought of a bone coloured jungle Tau force a while ago.......
Lovely work! To be honest, that's much closer to what I reckon Fantasy Orcs should look like, the bright and 'loud' green is fine for 40k, but in most fantasy settings I like my orcs nice and muted,
I also applaud the fact you can so competently switch painting styles at the drop of a hat, going from the bright. colourful IF to these old-school Orcs so quickly and maintaining the same quality on both!
Its an interesting start, I guess the problem I see with the Pic's is the skin tone very closely matches the rest of the model so at this point I can't clearly see your genius at work. Perhaps once the other colours are blocked in that'll happen.
I need a little bit of advice guys, I want to make a neat little command squad so I can do some cut & paste converting on some cool models :-)
So, if they're in a Rhino with Kantor how should I arm them? likewise they may see some action with Lysander too. The only two I know I want to make is a Company Champion & the Apothecary but the others i'm not confident on how to gun them up!
LittleH has now got some Orcs finished and ready to pounce and plunder his games! I kept them subdued on purpose and used only browns and earthy tones with a grey rocky base with moss for contrast, they turned out o.k I reckon and while some of the individual pics are a bit in need of focus hopefully you can still get the vibe
I might do the Hobbit next along with my entry into Gits Mantis maker comp
Damn man, time keeps getting away from me lately so it's a while since I've checked but feth me do I love seeing your work! The colours and blends that you produce are so natural, each bringing the respective model to life in a way that I can only dream of right now! Keep it up buddy, it's easy to see how much you enjoy painting, which is truly reflected in your excellent work
Thanks so much as always! They do look pretty cool all bunched up together :-) I started Bilbo and I was really looking forward to doing his face but one side has a large (for the model size) metal ridge :-( I've tried to clean it up as best I could but the positive thing is it's sort of hidden behind his little sword :-) I also started the two SH Termies and accidentally started them in metallic Red/gold thanks to not watching where I was putting my paint! Lol, s'o.k though I'll fixy :-)
I am going to put some feelers out there to do some commission painting of any character models if anyone has any they need done? I'm trying to earn a little extra money and if I do some smaller jobs of between 1-10 miniatures I can do them fairly fast. if you know anyone then shoot me a PM and we'll work out a price etc.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh and the lichen was I think dried glue that sort of roughed up a bit, it was already on the bases from BigH so maybe he can shed some light? I just thought it looked lichen-y so painted it as such :-)
Got me a Hobbit painted today tricksy little Hobbitses this one!
turned out o.k and he was good fun to paint being so small, makes me want to paint more and see how good I can get them maybe skin tones on Epic models......?
I'm also entering Gits' Mantis Maker competition again this year and have made a start with building the models and base, it's gonna be a really cool model for the theme
I do find it quite amusing you've painted a Frodo model with Bilbo's trademark jacket and waistcoat, but frankly you've done such an awesome job it doesn't matter, especially as part of a generic fantasy model collection. Lovely work on what I know is a very tiny and quite fiddly model!
got a little more work on the Mantis comp entry today, it's got a lot of washing and shading to go for the base until I start on the main event of the Mantis Warrior!
The orcs and hobbit look lovely. Nice understated earth tones. The diorama also looks wonderfully evocative even in it's WIP form. I think its going to look amazing when done!
Thanks Az! :-) the Orcs were fun to do in those sort of colours and the comp entry is really fun for me to do, it's lit a little fire of inspiration once I got an image of the theme in my head!
The Diorama is coming along really well, I've done the base now and only need to paint the Marine Errant and the Mantis Warrior now, so shouldn't be much longer!
Even if it IS a great looking little piece and I love the idea (very gritty whites, love em!), This is a tragedy and utter fiction!
We'll need to have words on how real history ended, nerd. A few choice words.
My people will contact your people.
(Seriously, though, nerdo... Great work on the diorama. Love how quickly you got your idea fleshed out. Very gritty, grimdark style, as we've come to expect from you. Im looking forward to seeing this finished... Looks like I'll have my work cut out for me in this competition =)
Oh that's hilarious . We were talking at AdeptiCon how nerdfest (whose models were on display courtesy of whalemusic) is Ramos' Aussie rival (in friendliest terms, of course!) and this just confirms it! The question is, was Gits in on this??
I had nothing to do with it. I've been very circumspect about not giving any contestants ideas. I'd rather see what everyone comes up with on their own.
Nope, it was all me! as soon as I had my idea I just knew I had to get in with a swift jab at Ramos and his Errant Marines and keep in mind that the Marines Errant have the word 'Err' in their name.......
ERR
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verbformal
verb: err;
be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake.
"the judge had erred in ruling that the evidence was inadmissible"
synonyms: make a mistake, be wrong, be in error, be mistaken, mistake, make a blunder, blunder, be incorrect, be inaccurate, misjudge, miscalculate, get things/something/it wrong, bark up the wrong tree, get the wrong end of the stick, be wide of the mark
Finished the Mantis Maker entry, I wanted a moody atmosphere for it so went with a quiet almost slow composition with the mantis walking slowly away from the Errant marine as if in thought about his actions and what it means to be a mantis Warrior.
Painting is excellent as always, and your composition is excellent. Its sparse, but every detail matters.
I hadnt noticed before, but the cape trails blood! Thats some brilliant attention to detail. The freehand on the cloak is fantastic, too
The MW has a perfect expression for your title as well. Not proud of what hes done, but he had to do it. Resigned to the fact that his "brothers" were to be his enemy. Its deeply moving.
Gonna be a top contender, I can already see that...
I'm so happy to hear those comments (well, read them) I really wanted to get more of a 'feel' into this piece with the models and where they were situated so to keep reading that it conveys the sense exactly as i wanted it really makes me happy! my favorite pic is the second last one with the deeper shadows it's the shot I saw in my head
the 'fancy' shoulder was a simplified version of my usual swirly things I do, I used white paint to trace the design elements and then washed with cassandora yellow!
Just spent a while going through your blog man, so many great pieces. You've really moved up through the painting ranks man...as the freehand on that mantis shows!
I have an idea and I'm just spit balling here, it may or may not come to fruition one day but it keeps intriguing me to want to do it, the suprising part is it's not a loyalist force or faction, it's those nasty old Khorne guys and demons! I know they're nothing new and everyone's done some great conversions and forces but I have an urge to Nerdify them in my own special way, I've got this thing for Khornate hounds.....
The Barghesi ones from PuppetsWar and the ones with the Ogryn handler from FW all I want to do is paint them really really pale with veins under the skin and their extremities fading into a darker red flesh, black eyes and gums with aged bone teeth, creepy and nasty looking!
Daemon Prince kitbash using the FW Fire elemental head as a base, body perhaps loosely based on a Tyranid model with additions of armour and smoothed out musculature positioned to be crouching as if he's just hit the ground from falling through a warp rift!
Bloodletters, just painted different, pale like the hounds with black gums/tongues and the limbs painted as if they're charred getting hotter towards the fingers and feet where they'll be red or flame painted
Terminators based on the FW Butcher models just with added Damo! arm and head swaps to give the poses more flair, sounds simple but would probably be one of my faves to do (look at my Lysander, just a head and arm swap and it's a new model!)
Bezerkers FW upgrade kits on different bodies than normal, just not sure which ones?
Any other ideas you guys could think would be good? I'd love to play around with some gory bases too.......
but while we discuss my hobby ocd, even if I do eventually follow the dark path for a while i've got some more pressing painting matters to attend to first which may take a little bit of time, but be well worth the effort Whaley is sending me his 30k Salamanders army to paint up for him in the candy green I did Vulkan in I think the words '65 marines' and '20 terminators' were mentioned......
and I have some more Admech to paint this time for Gitsplitta a chicken walker, a crab walker and a bunch of the tracked guys as well as something that may be amazing and that i've wanted to paint for a few years now, I believe I've now got enough skills and know how to do this model justice for him. I won't say what it is just yet and leave you guessing but if Gits wants to drop a hint I'm cool with that
Automatically Appended Next Post: Ooooh double post! that's tricky how the hell?....
If you do Khorne and paint them the way you are talking I say go with the AOS bloodguys and just nerdify their armor as their chapter is more likely to just wear half the armor to a gunfight.
What can I say guys!? I'm a little bit crazy :-) an entire Sallies force in candy green, a Admech force in candy red? and another candy project that may well be what you think Ramos......
Automatically Appended Next Post: Little work on LittleH's models nothing too earth shattering but they won't take much more once I get a bit more time on them, the metal armour i'm trying a more glazed approach which is subtle but will come to life with some more shading and highlights.
first is a couple of 'boring' progress shots where it's not that exciting
LittleH's stuff is looking nice!
I'm liking the colors of the brownish-red armored guy. Care to elaborate on your new glazing experiment?
I really admire how you've really developed your own style. Between the gritty colors of these minis and your orks, the beaten look of the metals and Admech (which I finally got to see in person... really like the orange!), and the candy colors, it just really screams "Nerd painted this". I admire how you developed your own sort of distinctive style, and you just make it look so effortless! Im really jealous, you know that?
(Excitement intensifies for the "other" candy project =D )
jirc wrote: gak son, this all looks amazing, I am in awe!
Please tell me you didn't read through the blog from when you were last on here Jirc? that would have taken you ages!! nearly as long as you've been gone from Dakka glad to have you back though mate, and can't wait to see you post some progress!
Love what you're doing with these old minis, I have a whole box of a similar vintage (some of the same minis, even) back home and you're definitely inspiring me to see about renovating a few of them!
Damo that chaos warrior is awesome...I love the grit and vibe its got because of your choice of colors. Also I really like the redhead sword master. Dang, those old minis had some much appeal. Like blank a canvas. Now so many models force you paint a certain way....anyways..cheers man, great work as usual.
O.K thanks to Bebop and bloody AMAZING painting I'm really really keen to push my own work and do some more different styles or techniques, this has led me to be very excited about my next two or three projects which I will tell you guys about now
PROJECT#1 So, I have two commission jobs to do in the next couple months, first up is for Whalemusic and it's his troops heavy 30k Salamanders army done in the candy green that I painted Vulkan in previously this also includes a couple of dreadnoughts one of which I believe is Ashmantle! as well as a bunch of Terminators
This army is large and a rather scary prospect when you consider the amount of models, the good thing is the majority will be all of the same colour so the main part shouldn't take too long and then i can go squad by squad and blend in the flames and trims, gold trims I'm thinking? and instead of stylized flames I'll blend the flame colours into the actual armour plates, should look pretty sweet.
PROJECT#2 This one's for Gitsplitta, it's two linked projects, the first being a small Admech force consisting of (correct me if i'm wrong Gits) 1 magos, 3 breachers, 3 destroyers, 1 ironstrider walker & 1 Onager. The second part is a much larger endeavor but along the same lines as the admech and will be following the same theme. Yes, that's right I will be painting a REAVER TITAN! I got tired of waiting for Ramos to build a titan so I had to take matters into my own hands all these models will be done again in the candy style paint which I think will look stunning on the Titan in the same red as I painted Kiera
These two projects will be my main focus for the foreseeable future and leading up to them I'll finish LittleH's models and clean up my workspace ready for the painting onslaught
PROJECT#3
Not so much as a project but an experiment, after seeing Bebop's latest work I realised I need to try and move forward with my own painting, he has some amazing skills and the latest models he's done have made me feel somewhat lagging behind in the painting stakes so I've decided to paint some models that are different than I've ever done which should hopefully push me to do different things, I've always loved fantasy models but never like the idea of the game and now with AoS I still don't feel inclined to pick it up and have decided to try my hand at HORDES models particularly Circle Orboros the models for the most part I am drawn to, the warp wolves etc make me want to paint them as my own furry wolf pack and the griffons I just have always loved in any form or mythology and hopefully one day I can use them in a game. I won't be rushing them but will be using more of a wash method to get smoother colours and try some things out.
Very exciting plan for the near future nerdy... even excepting my own part in it. Can't wait to see what "next level" Nerdmagic looks like.
OH, there will be one addition (which I'm waiting to show up, which is why I haven't sent you anything yet)... and additional magos and two of the cult mech robots.
Hey guys, I haven't read the replies to my last post about upcoming projects yet but I'll get to them tonight! just wanted to quickly drop in some finished models for my mate LittleH only two more to go and then I'll send them away to play!
some more cool old school style sculpts, I definitely prefer cleaner stuff like the LoTR but I still enjoyed painting them as I could imagine them and their uses in a game and tried to make them individual as characters with a playable paint job
here they are guys, I'll be back online tonight (night shift again) and I'll see what's happening and what you have to say about my future endeavors!
Beautiful work especially taking in to account the scale, these are considerably smaller than the usual suspect around here. Love the subtle details, that gem on the green knights chest is stunning.
Thanks guys, glad they're o.k, that gem on the green knight photographed better than it is really but I'll take it :-)
The guy with sword is really cool, probably my favorite from the bunch, he looks like you know who he is from the movie but because I've done different colours it throws you a bit!
Raaaaargh! suprise, I finished a flying Hive Tyrant! don't really know how I did it I was only going to put a wash on the body and then I thought I'd just pop a little highlight on there then another wash just to get some shading and then before I knew it...... she was done
I wanted to focus on some real life creepy crawlies and the fact that a lot use bright colours to show a warning and danger to other animals , so that's the background for this model (her name is Bianca Bone-Chomp, after Bianca Beauchamp....... don't google that at work guys..... )
I'm not sure if I could copy the theme across more, I think if I did any more i'd paint them each on their own merit and what they said to me when I looked at them, but I really hope you like her
Incredible work Damo. Jesus that thing looks beautiful. The veins and all the little details which are tough to pull off and keep the thing looking organic and alive, are just wonderful. I'm jealous. And also the use of gloss coats in perfect spots....really great!!
Great work on the Flyrant, Damo. I approve of the name. Or the origin of the name, at the very least. The model ain't too shabby, either. You've achieved a really nice organic touch on it with things like the veins and slightly mottled colouration.
Beautiful! In gross sort of way!
I have just finished going through Bebop's blog and now seeing this, I, too really want to up my game. Maybe I need something different to paint.
Cheers guys, the Flyrant Bianca was a slow process since I really didn't know how to tackle her all I knew to start with was I wanted to have a crack at those Monarch wings, then it just went from them to the reddish brown ladybug-ish chitin and finding a colour that worked with the main body, so I kind of just picked her up every nowand then and did a little more, the drool is quite a bit but I had the image in my mind of her landing with her wings wrapped around her and slowly straightening up stretching them out and hissing as she raises her head, a thick slow dollop of gelatinous drool rolling from her darkened maw! her size and standing in the horde lending her the laconic arrogance of Alpha Nid!
I got a little package in the post today and it contained the primers and brand new brushes for the model i'm doing for Gits so now ive enough to do the Titan and the Admech without worry but we do have to do ONE thing if I may ask? we ALL need to go around to Git's place and help him look for the Reaver he seems to have misplace a TITAN! only a man who obviously has too much hobby to bury a model of that magnitude! but he has managed to send the Admech on the way so I'll be able to make a start on that while I bide my time.
also bought two Circle Orboros models with my paint so I'd reach free shipping nice little guys I've started assembling and begun some base coating which I'll show you progress tomorrow, I got a Gorax, and a Rotterhorn Griffon so I can play with some different styles and colours
it's a Gorax from Hordes, I wanted to see how I did with a fantasy style model and I must say I don't mind this not armour rage beast! lots of skin and the main body is nicely cast the head had some issues but I tried to hide them and it turned out o.k I had Panthra from Thundercats in mind as well as Oscar my black Lab so it's not how they're normally painted (from what I can see)
hope you guys like him
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh and yes, I am aware my matte varnish isn't quite as matte as I want :-)
It's like painting ADHD and there is only so much amazing painting I can take in for a month, first it was LittleH's admech baby stroller and chaos warriors? next was completed old sculpts (probably from LoTR but with all the amazing that's been posted I blame you for me not being able to place it)
Follow that up with Bianca (also I googled that at work... thank you again) who blows the water out of the pool when I was just getting settled. Now you post this hordes model...
Cracking stuff! That model is everything I hate about Warmahordes (top heavy, cartoony face, massive hands and arms, weird pose) but under your brush it still looks superb!
It's like painting ADHD and there is only so much amazing painting I can take in for a month, first it was LittleH's admech baby stroller and chaos warriors? next was completed old sculpts (probably from LoTR but with all the amazing that's been posted I blame you for me not being able to place it)
Follow that up with Bianca (also I googled that at work... thank you again) who blows the water out of the pool when I was just getting settled. Now you post this hordes model...
I want it to stop, but I don't want it to stop.
Oh Knightley! stop it.........no...don't stop it thanks mate appreciate the kindness, not quite as chuffed you googled Bianca at work you fool I've got another Hordes mini and two termies left for LittleH, so you may see more progress tomorrow, not sure about finished models but I'll try!
evildrcheese wrote:Impressive work on the big beastie. The bloody knuckles are a nice touch.
EDC
Thanks EDC, I figured a very angry beast who barely controls his rage may, just may have lashed out and grazed his knuckles on something or someone
Azazelx wrote:Great work on the bog guy. I really like the different tonal qualities on his skin, as well as the nice touched on his knuckles. It looks a treat.
I also got a little package today... many thanks for that, Damo. Very much appreciated.
Hey Az, thank you very much! it was the skin or rather large expanse of skin that drew me to that one, I wanted to do some blending and see how I went and i'm glad your little package arrived safely, hope you like them, you've had a rough time lately and just wanted you to know others are thinking of you
Paradigm wrote:Cracking stuff! That model is everything I hate about Warmahordes (top heavy, cartoony face, massive hands and arms, weird pose) but under your brush it still looks superb!
O.K I suppose then that i've done a good thing? taken a crappy model and made it somewhat decent to look at with an appraising eye? was my first foray into Hordes models and I can certainly see your grievances with the sculpt it is rather top heavy and certainly cartoony, but I wanted to try and de cartoon it a little bit with the colours and while it's still bright I hope you can bear seeing a few more
Yeah, I meant no offence, your paintjob is up to scratch as usual (by which I mean stunning!), I just really don't get on with the WMH aesthetic. The skin and metal work on that model looks spectacular, and I definitely look forward to seeing you take on some more... That sculpt kind of has everything I don't like, I get a feeling plenty of the others are a little more to my taste.
I took no offense Para don't worry mate! I get a kick out of taking a usually awkward model or face and seeing if I can at least get it to look half decent!
Azazelx wrote:Great work on the bog guy. I really like the different tonal qualities on his skin, as well as the nice touched on his knuckles. It looks a treat.
I also got a little package today... many thanks for that, Damo. Very much appreciated.
Hey Az, thank you very much! it was the skin or rather large expanse of skin that drew me to that one, I wanted to do some blending and see how I went and i'm glad your little package arrived safely, hope you like them, you've had a rough time lately and just wanted you to know others are thinking of you
Thanks mate - I hope you won't be offended if I do a little bit of touching up to make them fit in with the other Minotaurs I have been working on? Just little touches, very much in line with when I redo bits of my own older models while trying to leave the "heart" of the original paintjob plain to see. And of course, 32mm bases.
More w.i.p today on the second Hordes model, a Rotterhorn griffon, not heaps done but I just wanted to show you the model and what style i'm attempting with it
and Az, mate you can touch them up however you like, they are yours now, just put them to good use
now back to the flying humanoid eagle cat thing......
Looking very good. Is that a Hordes mini? Because I actually rather like that sculpt, much better proportioned and more menacing, no giant arms or silly grin!
I did some more work on the Griffon and the Termies today I know where I'm heading with the Hordes model and am well into the swing of him I want to try and do each feather separately when i get to the wings which will be fun!
did a wee bit on the last two guys for LittleH red armour is done and details to follow!
Really nice work on those Dark Angels, and the Hordes Eagle-Griffon-Manbearpig looks great as well. Again the colour gradients are looking very, very nice.
Your reds are impeccable as always Nerdy. Griffon is looking really tight too. Can't imagine what you're going to do with the feathers individually, but I also can't wait to find out!
Azazelx wrote: Really nice work on those Dark Angels, and the Hordes Eagle-Griffon-Manbearpig looks great as well. Again the colour gradients are looking very, very nice.
Think you mean Blood Angels mate... Ain't no 1st Legion stuff around here.
Awesome painting as usual Nerdy. Love the red on those terminators.
More work on the Griffon today, pretty much got his body done, just the armour, feet, talons, eyes and tongue to do then it's wings and finished I do really like this model but I know I'll never use it, I must have some kind of mental psychological block that lets me paint models but the rules just escape me so I can never get into another system, which is sad as I do enjoy looking at the fantasy models maybe i'll just do a random model every now and again to give away or something?
If you're wanting to just branch out model wise without investing in games, then you're painting at a standard where even on a slow day you'd be selling for 2-3 times the price of the model in the first place, so it would essentially fund itself. Or just do what I do, paint all kinds of random stuff and embark on a 5 year mission to seek out new shelves to put it on...
Thanks for the advice guys, I might even look at doing my painting more like Ramos, doing some commissions to sate my interest and try new things, plus I can use it to acquire funds to buy myself some toys if I do indeed find something I want to do :-)
I have some more Orboros models to paint now thanks to Gits, he was sending them as a gift as i'm doing some work for him but I had beaten him to the punch by telling him I was going to gift him the models I painted for Orboros lol! so now I get to have the fun of painting them up and also the fun of returning them to a young man who can use them to crush his foes!
as well as the Orboros, I got a bunch of boxes of Admech to assemble and paint, so stage 1 is under way, we'll be going with the candy red armour and tarnished metals and I should have them all done in a few weeks then on to the Reaver when it arrives :-)
Gorgeous Damo, really fantastic work. Whenever you paint I wanna paint lol.....I will say I'm not huge with warmahordes because I don't really love the fluff or the sculpts. I love the game though, it's really fun. I do have some troll kin lying about that someday I'll get to if I ever get full on into the game. Cheers bud, love the new pics..
beautiful little model to paint, the proportions are much better than some others, he did give me much more scope to try different colours and a little more blending which turned out quite decent, love to see what you think of this one I didn't have any liquid greenstuff so please my apologies for the small neck gap!
not much coming up for the next few days apart from assembling Admech like there's no tomorrow
Thanks guys, he looks pretty decent next to the Gorax from before, makes me keen to do some more and see what i can come up with ;-) I know there's a line on his arm, I did miss that until the pics but it's not too bad in hand so I won't scrape any paint and re do it at this stage. I really enjoyed the wings, they were a bit of fun and if I was to paint them again i'd go deeper into detail and spend much more time on them but as they are I think they add a nice bit of colour :-)
no paint at the moment, just assembling some stuff........
Lovely stuff! Like other's have said, the feathers look beautiful. Love the other subtle details like the lighter skin on the palms, the dirty nails and muddied feet. Great job.
Really love how you've painted this guy. the skin tones are lush and the blue effect you've done on the wings.....absolutely stunning. lovely work as ever Nerdy
Not miniature related but I'm guessing a few of you guys would appreciate this
I've recently bought a Nintendo64 console which my mates and I used to play a LOT when we were in our early 20's and i'm really loving the level of fun that's so easily migrated to present day! my best mate and I started our rivalry as soon as we got back onto those controllers first we played Mario Kart and I whooped him every time, races, battles you name it I beat him which only added fuel to the smack talkin' fire he plays Princess Peach and i'm always Wario, so i trawled the web for memes on Peach and Wario then proceeded to flood him with message after message one night until about 2am then I went online and bought a Princess peach T-shirt which I hid at home under the couch until the race he beat me, there was much jumping from the couch and pointing at me while screaming 'Finally, got you you prick' I then casually reached under the couch and threw the 'prize' at him...... needless to say our rivalry is still strong.
next up we started the amazingly fun and addictive Perfect Dark a-thon Oh boy this is where it gets serious! since we can save our battles and increase in ranking it's a very serious game now so much cursing and laughter just because I killed my best mate with multiple head shots from a tranquilizer gun last time he arrived to play some PD I dressed in combat gear and a balaclava mimicking the clothes you can wear in game then ran out my front door and spun in circles ran into the wall a few times and slapped him like a novice playing the game with no gun (trust me that was funnier in person)
So, next time I've got 4 bunches of bananas i'll peel and lay banana peels all down my driveway and down the street Ala Mario kart
But the best one is under construction! I've a friend making me a custom pair of purple overalls and i've bought a Wario hat/shirt/gloves/shoes to make a sweet costume (thanks China), I also bought two large plush 'Red Shells' as you know these are potent weapons in the game! , Now, Adam works at a bottleshop with a drive through part (you can see where i'm going with this) So the plan is to get dressed up and run through the drive through laughing like Wario and throwing red shells at him before shouting "Imma Gonna Win!!" and running off into the distance!
I do realise this isn't the normal behavior for a 35 year old man but eh!.... it's gonna get a laugh
ah good times . I love good pranks and sight gags .you need to have someone video you doing the wario drive by and then link it here. Also get the window writing paint at your local gift shop and write princess peach on his cars rear window while he is sleeping. When he wakes up in the morning and jumps in the car to go to work he'll see it in the rear view mirror and if he is one of those last minute people he won't have time to clean it off his car before work.
Camkierhi wrote:I want to live in Nerdyville, any houses around there?
Come on down! you'd find a home pretty easy in my state but you can always just stay in my spare room for a while
Theophony wrote: ah good times . I love good pranks and sight gags .you need to have someone video you doing the wario drive by and then link it here. Also get the window writing paint at your local gift shop and write princess peach on his cars rear window while he is sleeping. When he wakes up in the morning and jumps in the car to go to work he'll see it in the rear view mirror and if he is one of those last minute people he won't have time to clean it off his car before work.
I'll see if I can get some video of the pranks as I go, just for his reactions if nothing else I'll also take your idea and pop some princess peach stickers on his car I also just bought a Princess Peach keyring but not sure what to do with it yet?
Stop all this silliness and get painting, naughty Nerdy...
Everyone seems a bit distracted at the moment, and it's weird because there are so many great things to build and paint right now. Seems to be a global thing as well. Got to say though the 64 is a worthy distraction.
Well, I'm not sure how much internet he can get to at the moment, so I'll answer for him. Where Damo lives in Tasmania is getting wrecked by floods at the moment. Like, pretty hardcore. I had a quick chat with him yesterday, just to make sure he and his was ok, and he is. Sounds like he is on high-ground, so not hitting him directly, but it is, not surprisingly, effecting people he is close with.
Thanks for all the thoughts everyone much appreciated but we are all safe at home although some friends and colleagues had to be evacuated and the hotel I work at offered some free rooms for those affected on the worst night so we had a massive afternoon but thankfully there was only a few families that had serious damage or sadly loss of life Whaley picked a pretty accurate newsreel.
I have been grabbing the brush in random spare moments and took a couple of really bad photos to prove it
Gits Admech are well underway and should be finished in a few days time with some proper photo's once all the metal is highlighted i'll add the gold banding and green lenses then add some minor weathering and details .
Glad to hear you're okay! It seems like half of the east coast been hit by this damn storm, and you guys copped some of the worst of it. We (melbournians) have it p lucky in our sheltered little bay.
Great progress on the admech too; even more so given the circumstances. I love the blue/purple weathering on the barrels!
Glad your doing fine, hopefully all the wildlife doesn't head to high ground to join you .
The admech are looking great, the only thing that I find different is the purple on the barrels. Will that stay or is that phase 37 of 73 for the finished look? There's nothing wrong with it, just different looking than what I've seen other places.
I think the color on the barrels isn't really weathering, it's the heat from the gun taking the temper out of the metal. It would go from a deep purple by the muzzle to a light golden yellow before fading into the normal steel color (depending on the intensity of the annealing).
Wow fantastic blog Nerd. The way you do skin tones just makes me want to punch my monitor because you do them so well. Like fantastically well. Your Ferrus Mannus is just beyond epic. The skin on the arms and the face wow...just wow...
I am so peanut butter and jelious of your talents I just want to punch babies and kick kittens....ok maybe not that bad, but damn close
I can't wait to see what comes out of your demented workshop next
Brother Payne wrote:Glad to hear you're okay! It seems like half of the east coast been hit by this damn storm, and you guys copped some of the worst of it. We (melbournians) have it p lucky in our sheltered little bay.
Great progress on the admech too; even more so given the circumstances. I love the blue/purple weathering on the barrels!
Thanks Brother, you're not wrong about the storm being a bit of a prick mate, she really did a number on us down here in the Apple Isle and indeed down the whole coast, I watched the radar as it came down towards us across the straight and we just braced for it and knew it may raise the levels as bad as 100 years ago, which it did even with the flood gates in place! crazy stuff!
Theophony wrote:Glad your doing fine, hopefully all the wildlife doesn't head to high ground to join you .
The admech are looking great, the only thing that I find different is the purple on the barrels. Will that stay or is that phase 37 of 73 for the finished look? There's nothing wrong with it, just different looking than what I've seen other places.
Ha! thanks Theo mostly the affected animals were livestock along the river so we didn't see any Drop Bears or Tassie Tigers come looking for warmth and a dry towel
Don't worry about the barrels, the colour is quite light at this stage and will be darker when finished, Gits is right, I'm going for a burnt heat damaged effect but I'm not following it as closely as real world weapons since these guns are Martian and can have much varied pulses of weaponized energy or solid projectiles.
Gitsplitta wrote:I think the color on the barrels isn't really weathering, it's the heat from the gun taking the temper out of the metal. It would go from a deep purple by the muzzle to a light golden yellow before fading into the normal steel color (depending on the intensity of the annealing).
Correct Mr Splitta, as I touched on above with Theo i'm just sort of playing with the finish to see what I think feels correct for Martian tech
Big H wrote:The heat burn on the barrels is pretty sweet mate, all paint or some weathering powders thrown in too ?
Hey Andy! just washes for the blue and purple down the barrels and then watered purple paint to strengthen the colour, also LittleH's last two guys are still there nearly done so expect them soon!
Azazelx wrote:Good to hear that you're safe down there mate. The Admech WIP is looking very nice, though that's a distant second.
Thanks Az, appreciate the thoughts, the Admech are a nice distraction even though i've been super busy lately with work, floods, landscaping, work, more work.....
FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:
Wow fantastic blog Nerd. The way you do skin tones just makes me want to punch my monitor because you do them so well. Like fantastically well. Your Ferrus Mannus is just beyond epic. The skin on the arms and the face wow...just wow...
I am so peanut butter and jelious of your talents I just want to punch babies and kick kittens....ok maybe not that bad, but damn close
I can't wait to see what comes out of your demented workshop next
Hey Fab, Demented workshop! I take it you refer to the Slaanesh phase I went through and showed everyone my Hels'ak? punching babies and kicking kittens I probably won't condone, but it does make me want to listen to Psychostick again......
I know i've said it a hundred times but I do really like painting faces and they're not that hard to do, I follow a pretty basic method and could push my technique further like the really good face guys but to be honest I like the way I do them and it's quick and only requires a good brush and a steady hand Ferrus was wicked fun to do in a day and the attempt at blending his metal arms seemed to have worked well if you liked it! and that's all I can ask for
evildrcheese wrote:Sweet looking admech. Great work Nerd.
EDC
Thanks EDC, i'll do more soon for you to check out, I seem to enjoy painting an entire force all at once and just smashing through them.
Welcome to Admech heaven finished Gits army and I hope he loves them! (i'm pretty sure hell be happy) So here they all are, Candy style paint with a few little touches of colour here and there with the shock lances and weapons burn, the missile pods i've given a rougher look as if they've been fired so there's some chipping on edges and a bit more grime around them. The Breachers and Destroyers I thought were going to be too simple with mostly metals constructing them but I was happily proved wrong when they were finished
anyway now I'll just soak you with way to many photo's
Incredible stuff Nerdy! Particularly like the weapon burn and whatever those crackling electric lances are. The metals are simply superb - the weathering provides depth and contrast that keeps the mostly-metal models interesting.
Many thanks everyone! really happy they've been received so well the colour scheme is really striking in person i've made a couple of small changes since the pics, namely just painting the Mechanicum symbols in the halved black & white and the armour plates on the Breachers arms in the red. I'm so excited about sending them off on Monday
next project at this point in time is the Salamanders army which is going to wait until a warmer day before priming so i'll finish up the LittleH models in the meantime
Yesss! I'd love to see how you paint up a Sally army. Have been wanting to start one myself for sometime but like nearly every other hobbyist I have far too many projects to finish first
Well, I need to say sorry for lack of updates the last week or so I'm just about to start on the salamanders for Whaley and the Titan should be en-route to me from Gits shortly and then things will progress in earnest I also may have picked up another small commission for a gaming club down the other end of my state, I was suggested to them via a facebook page and they may need me to paint 40 savage Orc with a command so that's nice that others are interested in me doing some painting for them, i'm really leaning towards doing more commission painting seriously so i'll say again if you know anyone who may want anything painted, be it a character or an army shoot me a msg and we'll talk
Now, i'm not the most cleverest man around, especially with technology, in fact i'm probably one of the most inept people you could meet all my internet workings are done on a old laptop and my internet connection is a postpaid broadband thingy you plug into the side of the computer, which as you may know means it's slow, I only get 15gig a month (I did only have 7) and it's unreliable. In this day and age it seems everything and everyone needs to be connected online more and more, with smart t.v's, ipads, watches, computers. well i got sick of it and decided to grow up and flow with the young kids yep I've signed up for the NBN internet with over 100 gig a month woohoo! and the price was pretty reasonable as well! so...... what do i do with it all? where do i go for cool games and movies to download and programs and all that exciting stuff I'll be able to do? i'll even be able to use the video function on facebook and actually talk to you guys!
I did also order some models for my Imperial fists command squad......
Damo, mate, they are superb and will make excellent objectives / special characters. Little H will gak a brick.
Now I suppose I'll have to finish the Hulk Mortalis board.....
Did you finish yours yet ?
Gorgeous work on those termis damo. The figures are fantastic sculpts and they look really fun to paint. I especially like the 1st...alive...fellow...the blending on the knee especially, my favorite part of a sm...is fantastic. great colors dude. Also, sent you a PM...cheers bro
Thanks guys, now that's more models done I better move onto the next project Just wanted to show you what i'm working with for Whaleys Candy Sallies
Lots and lots of marines! a couple of dreadnoughts and some special characters will be super fun once I get past the boring tedious initial stages my detail plan if agreed too will be the candy green on all the armour and gold banding and trinkets with some greaves and knees and pads blended into flame colours to give them a bit of punch.
and a few guys that had a rough drop pod landing I need to take into the apothecarion
Nothing super surprising broke. I'm surprised any of the stupid assault marines made it. If there are any questions on what goes where, just lemme know.
Brother Payne wrote: Have you (or Whaley) mixed and matched marks of armour or is that just me? I like it
All marks from II-VI are in there at least once. There are lots of "Pure" armor marks, but I also used lots of MKIII pads on MKIV dudes, and did do some full mixes in there. I tried to make it fluffy with weapons as well. Lots of melta, flamers and hammers. Even on the Contemptor.
Brother Payne wrote: Have you (or Whaley) mixed and matched marks of armour or is that just me? I like it
All marks from II-VI are in there at least once. There are lots of "Pure" armor marks, but I also used lots of MKIII pads on MKIV dudes, and did do some full mixes in there. I tried to make it fluffy with weapons as well. Lots of melta, flamers and hammers. Even on the Contemptor.
Nice I do like the aesthetic (and fluff) of piecemeal marine armour
Yo, over the last couple of days I've had a chance to start some work on a couple of projects , Whaley's Sallies are now all primed and i've started washing the first green over them as well as doing a bit of experimenting on the dreadnought's arm using the blue horse blanket I did on LittleH's model a while ago as inspiration with scales painted underneath the washes to give a subtle effect to the armour which looks quite good with the gold over it (it's hard to see though in pics)
And I also did a bit more on my Imperial Fists Gave them the first highlight after the wash of sepia and started the metal bits on the bikes (they'll count as bikes as i just really don't like the current ones) and before anyone says anything, all the IF models i've used have been rescue models so there are and will be some models that are a bit worse for wear under the paint and i've cleaned the up as well as I could.
I used the Grey Knights packs with the antennae cut off the top to give them a sort of look as if the bottom ones are stabilizers.
Thanks guys, it's going to be tedious on the Sallies for a while until they have all been base coated and washed so the updates won't be very exciting! :-(
I'll try and do some on the IF so I have something nicer to show you until I can get into the nitty gritty details on the Sallies!
Great stuff dude! This I can tell is going to be a fantastic army. Whale is a lucky fella. AS far as your ability to mantiain inspiration to beautifully paint another marine army is just beyond human lol. I only could paint one army in my entire live so far
In regards to the scale tech, I can imagine this in my mind that it's going to look killer, but I do wonder if maybe adding those scales when you've got a stronger intial color under it, as maybe you'll end up needing to cover up the scale effect more than you want to which might wash it out and in the end and it'll to be "too subtle" ? Again, just a thought and I know in the end it doesn't matter because it's you and it's gonna look freaking great.
Finally got some time and a hotspot to upload some pics! i'll be brief but I hope you like the progress, I started the banner bearer for the sallies and i'm not real good at flat work but it's coming along o.k
also I often mention how Ian Watsons Space Marine novel is my favorite book every it's so gritty and real even if it does contain things GW don't want you to know like Talking Tyranids and Squats and Ambulls, it's still awesome and gives some real life to the darker realities of being a space marine. In the novel it's described that the Imperial Fists are also artisans who get the itch to scrimshaw the hand bones of their fallen brothers, I wanted to show my unfaltering loyalty to Rogal Dorn by doing as much
Here's what i just posted in the painters thread Hey guys I've started a rundown of my yellow here's part #1 of how I paint them, still a few more steps!
Prime with Army Painter desert brown
wash with sepia.
when dry use very diluted yellow to start highlights.
then vallejo lemon yellow to strengthen the highlights
and a basic of my greens with a candy effect. lol writing was smaller than I expected
green wash over white zenithal style spray
watered gold over pad
green wash over gold
deepen the effect by gold over the pad again
Thanks as usual guys! I think Rogal Dorn's fists are somewhat fluffed by GW as in the current fluff they only found one fist and in the book I read they have his Skeleton and his fists separate as holy icons in the book the chaplain also drinks a mix of the initiates blood and resin scraped from the tomb of Dorn then poops it out into shiny nuggets and reads the portents.
so here's part #2 of the yellow
Vallejo yellow green final highlight
then wash with GW Cassandora Yellow
Gitsplitta wrote: I'm pretty sure he's done one already Red... not sure where in the blog it's located though.
Thought I remembered it but I couldn't find it lol. I will have to skim through at some point.
It probably should get a sticky in the tutorial forum
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nerdfest09 wrote: I am so happy with what I've been mucking around with this week! I painted up 9 bare heads and started on a backdrop for my mini's to just experiment and see how the terrain stuff i got works and looks
so, firstly, what do you usually do when you get a remote control car? throw away the packaging right! not if you're a Nerd you don't a guy from security bought one and had it at work in the box and was going to throw the packaging out but i rescued it seeing potential straight away!
here's the plastic insert the car came on in the box:
I then grabbed some scissors and cut the two long edges off to make a shallow rocky mountain ridge like this:
I then cut some plywood to form a low backdrop which can be painted to resemble a horizon and anything i want to convey the skies of Evandalus Prime and then I used some pre mixed polyfilla or spackle to glue them on, it's still drying so i'm not sure how it'll actually hold them onto the board? I'm going to use more filler to create explosion craters where the models wheels used to sit:
And I tried my hand at making some cheap broken concrete, worked o.k I thin too, it's just plaster mixed with some black paint so when it breaks you don't get the white telltale showing!
Now, onto the head painting! I really tried hard to get work in progress shots but I couldn't get really good pictures so i'll just write as much or as clearly as i can to go with the couple of shots i did manage firstly I undercoated them black and painted a slightly thinned coat of Tallarn Flesh on them all:
then i washed them quite heavily with Ogryn Flesh wash, this toned the skin and shaded the recesses so I can see where to highlight them next:
Next step was to create the first highlight we work with, it's roughly equally mix of shadow grey, dwarf flesh, bleached bone.
then I did the first highlight, don't worry if it appears quite rough, subsiquent highlights will fix it nicely and in the end we should have quite nice tabletop ready heads!
Next add some more bleached bone to the mix and water it a touch more so it blends better.
Next I added some more bleached bone, it's a really subtle method and as these pics show you shouldn't be able to see a really sharp change in colour, Once i'd done with the highlighting i added some black to the flesh mix and painted his shaved head and a little stubble.
I also added a small amount of Mechrite red to the same flesh mix and watered it down and painted the bottom lips on them all and the bared teeth on those that had them on show:
then lastly I just painted another wash of Ogryn Flesh over the skin on the face and did the neck seals metal and any bionics.
finally, here is how they all look when finished, i'd love to see which ones you all like and what you think of them? I have a good collection of different ones now!
Now, what troops should each one go on? who'd look best in Termie armour/assault marine/tac troops?
hope you liked todays update i enjoyed it immensely
until next week, and i'm working on something I haven't done before....
Nerdfest09
Here it is for those interested! Took a bit of time but well worth it!
Yeah I really need to re do that head tute don't I :-) I just can't figure out how to get decent pics with the camera i'm using that show the mix of paint as well.
I could indeed use the hand in a display board Whaley I hadn't thought of that idea, it has a small stand I was just going to put it back on as a display to keep me motivated but would work as a backdrop for my guys.......
KC i'm using a engraving tool to etch into it the dremel I have is a bit wobbly and cumbersome so i bought a little pen style engraver and it's working well, I just do a few lines every now and then when I go past the Nerd cave :-)
Heretic Tom wrote:I may have already told you, but that ad mech army is the most stunning group of miniatures I've ever seen. Ever. You sir, are a master.
Thanks Tom, I really appreciate the boost! it was really a cool force to do it's just arrived to Gitsplitta a day or two ago and he seems happy with them too so there may be more in the future
evildrcheese wrote:Damn that hand is cool, what do you plan on using it for?
EDC
Yo EDC the hand is just a little side project I thought of doing it probably will just end up fully etched and washed on a stand in my Nerd room
I have some finished pics of that IF sarge I was using for the small yellow tutorial and also some WIP of the squadmates he will lead!
Damn nerdy! 230 pages of models now...I really need to step up my game. IF guys look good, looks like you got a good scheme and process down. Now time to start up a big army!
IF looking stunning, thanks for sharing your yellow technique, looks so good, and easy when you do it!
Like to add, you have made the fact that they are Yellow work, what I mean is, I have a thing about the silly Space Marines and their silly mega bright colours standing out like a sore thumb in any environment, (pauses for trolling of how they are so brave they like being stupidly brightly coloured!) HOWEVER, your brilliant yellow looks actually passable in real world, could see that working, not silly garish yellow, instead they are mellow yellow peril. Brilliant work yet again.
Heretic Tom wrote:I may have already told you, but that ad mech army is the most stunning group of miniatures I've ever seen. Ever. You sir, are a master.
Thanks Tom, I really appreciate the boost! it was really a cool force to do it's just arrived to Gitsplitta a day or two ago and he seems happy with them too so there may be more in the future
evildrcheese wrote:Damn that hand is cool, what do you plan on using it for?
EDC
Yo EDC the hand is just a little side project I thought of doing it probably will just end up fully etched and washed on a stand in my Nerd room
I have some finished pics of that IF sarge I was using for the small yellow tutorial and also some WIP of the squadmates he will lead!
his boys......
Damn, that yellow is very sexy. Great job on the fists, I've got the 'yellow blues' right now personally. I look at my Fists on my table and go 'le sigh' then look at another plog on dakka
Is there any chance you could do a step by step for the Fists or a few quick little wip's?
Edit, saw them in the DakkaDakka Society of Fine Painters thread....very nice tuts and wip's
I got the models and bits for the creation of my Command squad for the IF's 3 Combi plasma guns, an Apothecary and a company champion! I really like the way they look and will be a cool unit when paired with Lysander or Kantor
So lets run through them shall we
Group shot
So the first guy is the Champion, he uses Pollux' head on Garros body with Sigismund's shield arm and a terminator shield, I do need advice with an issue I had with him though my superglue had a little bubble or something and when I went to use it it ran all over his chest which obscured some of the details and I don't know if it can be fixed or if I should just try and paint fix it?
next up is my favorite Vet, using the games day praetor as a base a 30k SoH bare head and sigismund's left hand I think number 3 is combi plasma vet, uses a Palantine Blade body and a IF helmet upgrade with a mix of pads.
number 4 is a giant of an Astartes, an exceptional soldier with a humane streak and a sworn oath to mend his brothers under any circumstance, his bulk and single mindedness has seen him advance to where he is today at an exceptional rate. I still need someparts for him to finish him but I thought I couldn't leave him out.
lucky last Combi Vet uses Palantine Blades body again with IF helmet and cool sneaky pose!
There we go guys hope they're o.k!
whalemusic360 wrote:What's with the not bases?[/quote
Hey Whaley, so far all the IF's are rescue models and I've cobbled together heaps of different bases to use them with that's all
Eggroll wrote:Damn nerdy! 230 pages of models now...I really need to step up my game. IF guys look good, looks like you got a good scheme and process down. Now time to start up a big army!
EGGY! yes mate, 230 pages I know right! it's a lot thanks for the props on the IF's they will certainly end up as a big army but still nowhere near your level of collection
Camkierhi wrote:IF looking stunning, thanks for sharing your yellow technique, looks so good, and easy when you do it!
Like to add, you have made the fact that they are Yellow work, what I mean is, I have a thing about the silly Space Marines and their silly mega bright colours standing out like a sore thumb in any environment, (pauses for trolling of how they are so brave they like being stupidly brightly coloured!) HOWEVER, your brilliant yellow looks actually passable in real world, could see that working, not silly garish yellow, instead they are mellow yellow peril. Brilliant work yet again.
Thanks Cam, the yellow is inspired again from the Space Marine novel where they describe it as Mustard or Pus yellow, it's still bright but a bit deeper.
Heretic Tom wrote:I may have already told you, but that ad mech army is the most stunning group of miniatures I've ever seen. Ever. You sir, are a master.
Thanks Tom, I really appreciate the boost! it was really a cool force to do it's just arrived to Gitsplitta a day or two ago and he seems happy with them too so there may be more in the future
evildrcheese wrote:Damn that hand is cool, what do you plan on using it for?
EDC
Yo EDC the hand is just a little side project I thought of doing it probably will just end up fully etched and washed on a stand in my Nerd room
I have some finished pics of that IF sarge I was using for the small yellow tutorial and also some WIP of the squadmates he will lead!
his boys......
Damn, that yellow is very sexy. Great job on the fists, I've got the 'yellow blues' right now personally. I look at my Fists on my table and go 'le sigh' then look at another plog on dakka
Is there any chance you could do a step by step for the Fists or a few quick little wip's?
Edit, saw them in the DakkaDakka Society of Fine Painters thread....very nice tuts and wip's
Thank dude, I'm loving the yellow too hope the tutes helped a bit with something? anything?
Gitsplitta wrote:Beautiful job on the marine Nerdy. Face is stunning as usual and you've done an excellent job on the yellow.
Thank you Gits that face was earmarked for the Grey Knights when I had them but he looked pretty 'Fisty'
Cool compositions there! If the Champ's chest is an issue, and these are 40k rather than 30k marines, I'd just whack a purity seal or two over the offending area. I can't think of anything that would remove the glue without destroying the resin as well.
Nice minis! The finished yellow is great. Beautiful job on him. Yea id agree with Para, you could probably cover up the offending areas with SM bricabrak, it might err on this side of overly busy though, but maybe not too....you could also try and paint it as some kind of battle damage? Maybe some like bright green plasma melting...could be a nice chance for a spot color...but i think ultimately the fastest way to fix is to cover it up;
I actually tried nail polish remover very carefully then washed the model and it's not perfect but better than before so I'm happy to have a go with it. I was going to paint the chest eagles red like the troops but I might go with black/silver to camouflage any imperfections. I've done a little more on the Sallies dreadnoughts but haven't time to upload yet i'm struggling whether I need to keep layering to get more depth to the colour or if it will be fine once the other colours and details get added and I can shade some more ink in the recesses?
These models are awesome, cant wait to see what you do to them. Sorry to hear about the superglue, if it was a regular marine is would say who cares?! But with the detail and your skills, I can just hope you got most of it.
I have a fine cast Libby that has really bad flash on his face..theres nothing I can do. it's also one reason I haven't worked on my grey knights, don't get discouraged like me lol
Bit extreme maybe, but could try soaking in Dettol for couple days. I have left models soaking for days and it it has broken down super glue and green stuff. Careful work with a sharp pair of tweezers and pop. It is what I would try.
Thanks for the advice and help guys with the glue issue! it's not that bad now so once I get the rest of the bits for the Apothecary i'll hit them up with some primer and see how they look
but for now I have a finished model to show you all, one of Whaley's Sallies, the contemptor dreadnought, I was a little unsure about whether i'd done enough green and gold washing to get the depth I wanted so the only way to see was to actually continue and finish a model to see how it looks all together I'm happy with the way he looks, I think it's a good point to get them done in a timely manner while maintaining a decent tabletop standard of paint that still should turn a head or two ( Whaley to confirm )
So do you think this level across the entire army would look good? any little touches I can/should do?
Boy Damo, your technique really looks phenomenal with the gold on the green. Really love it. I'd caution a light touch with the gold rather than too heavy. You don't want to lose the green in all that gold.
evildrcheese wrote:Very nice work on the Contemptor, that hammer is off limits.
EDC
Kinda an accident when laying some lighter colour down to shade it but it reminded me of another way i'd seen the hammer done so I went for it
whalemusic360 wrote:Looking good! The scale details really come through well. Is that something you are going to replicate throughout?
Thanks dude, if you want me to do some throughout then sure! I mean they're yours after all I should have added a few lighter accents to the scales as the darker parts blend in too much, still looks good though.
Gitsplitta wrote:Boy Damo, your technique really looks phenomenal with the gold on the green. Really love it. I'd caution a light touch with the gold rather than too heavy. You don't want to lose the green in all that gold.
Thanks Gits, it's a funny technique where you think you're going ott but it ends up o.k I find pure gold on the edges gives the impression without covering to much!
Not sure yet Para, depends on what Whaley wants to do? I can do a basic base or leave it grey for him to blend in with his board? it's a lot of bases lol
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didn't look so bad before priming but there's a lot of slippage and a few rather rough patches that I'll have to use some shading to disguise, but I'll still make him look pretty cool! 
can you guys ask around and see if anyone is interested for the whole lot including codex and spare parts for $350 Aus? (plus postage) I need to sell it rather quickly now as I didn't realise i'd get a bill from ebay for selling my 
I think I've got these models for the 
Lysander is now done and finished and looks good next to his brothers 
Shear genius 
I appreciate it each and every time! I've had a look at Whaley's suggestions! and I may just have to get those two models to paint up myself! 
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