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Of the options you give, I think red/blue is closer to optimal on the color wheel (red/green).

Blue yellow man. Or whatever, I'm sure it'll be sweet.

Thanks for the input guys :-) I was thinking of colours i don't paint much, so blue/green came into it but i also like the brightness of having a yellow? but now I'm thinking that white and green would be cool? still bright and different to what i'm doing lots of and will suit the miniature i'm painting, thoughts?

Check out the Eldar Craftworld colors, maybe some help there.

I'm surprised you haven't considered yellow and green

Ha Arakasi! ;-) maybe i would have considered it if we were doing a bit better in the olympics! ...... still might?


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Update w.i.p pics I didn't have as much time as i wanted today to paint but i managed to assemble another 20 SkeleCrons as well as started to put the base layers on my Death Co. Dread and got the armour on my 10 man assault squad done, just the details and lenses etc to do, I popped the bare heads i painted a while ago in the marines and they look pretty good only need to do a little more to the bearded guy (hmmm, red suit, big white beard, comes out of the sky.... Santa?)

Well, lets start with the Crons, nothing much to show just some assembling and heads!





Here's the beginning of my DC Dread, i used the new GW Nuln Oil and I actually like it it flows much smoother and covers nicely!




And lastly for today my Assault squad, ten men ready to rain down righteous fury! i should have them finished tomorrow I hope!








thoughts? or just keen to get me to finish them

Interested to see the finished dread. I typically am not a fan of them with red wing things. Make me a believer!

The assault squad is looking super sweet.

All of your offensive Space Marinist views regarded towards Ultramarines offend me!

The Assault squad are looking excellent, your faces are top notch.

Ultramarinist and marinists in general offend me

Generally i offend most people! so i'm on track then :-)

all finished though, just haven't the light (or patience) to take some shots of the Assault squad, so next week it's the DC Dread! and i will make WM360 a believer! I promise!

Assault squad finished, I present to you the famous 'Jaws of Doom' assault squad there's a few little things i'll get back to and finish later like exhaust glow etc. but for now they're complete and ready to do battle! I will try and get some better shots (as usual) later as I find red sooo hard to photograph right so it doesn't appear washed out, these guys are a little different in shades than my Tac troops, i used the Vallejo equivalents and some new GW washes again (i'm quite pleased with the new ones!) finally washed with Baal red (I bought up about 7 pots ) so they're just a little more orange/red than my others but not out of place which is a relief when you see the whole force together (which is coming along nicely!) next up will be my DC. Dread which i really want to make something special as i've named him close to my heart

Here's a few of individuals:





And a sort of group-ish shot!




Catch you all tonight fellow Nerds!

Excellent job Damo... they really look terrific together! Love the way the bases have the same warm tone yet still set off the red really well. Just works brilliantly.

Stunning as usual nerdfest, just brilliant.

Thanks gentlemen! I'm glad I finally got back to painting, it's felt like way too long since i got really stuck in again! I'm still a bit rusty with my blending on these guys but the more i do the better I'll get up to speed :-) and Gits I'm pretty happy with the base colour too, not bad for calthan brown rim and pure blended cork on top! not even a drybrush in sight, they do say the simple things in life....
Vitruvian, thank you, hardly stunning but I really enjoy these guys and i hope the love shines through a bit! :-) i'm counting down until my next days off to get into that DC. Dread!

I agree with you regarding nun oil, the new washes aren't half bad. Beautiful models as always.

As ever, your m4d skillz make me weep with joy

Seriously nice colours man, bravo.

So what have you called the DC Dread and whats the inspiration if you dont mind me asking

Astonishing as always, Damo!
I love the way you do your reds, I can't explain what it is...but I love it!

The thing I love about your models, every single one looks like they have just stepped off a battlefield. They look real! I absolutely love everything you do. Please, never stop.

Gorgeous. I love the necrons with actual skull faces as well. They look cool. How are you planning to do their eyes then?

Gorgeous. I love the necrons with actual skull faces as well. They look cool. How are you planning to do their eyes then?

I assume you think the models are gorgeous and not referring to me Imperial Monkey? and that you like the SkeleCrons? I hope they look a bit different than what you usually see around the traps, the skulls really make them much more animated but still gives them that sense of relentless silent malice that we know and love from these bad boys! I have just finished priming 40 warriors three Destroyers and sixteen Scarab bases, now they're all one colour they really look good together, as for the eyes, I'm not sure how i'll approach them yet, my gut is telling me to leave them quite dark and recessed but my exhuberant side wants me to do the very centre like a softly lit green globe? but boy that would take some time to do!

The thing I love about your models, every single one looks like they have just stepped off a battlefield. They look real! I absolutely love everything you do. Please, never stop.

Proto, thanks mate! I do try and put some personality in every marine i do, i believe they each have a story to tell, i prefer my armour to be fairly clean but the faces to tell a story, that's why my force has an abundance of bare heads in it, I feel it gives the force and marines some character whether tacticaly it's sound advice or not! and if you seriously like everything I do? you're mad! but don't stress I won't stop for a good many.... many ..... many years yet!

Astonishing as always, Damo!
I love the way you do your reds, I can't explain what it is...but I love it!

LDP you've got over your percieved slight against the Ultramarines and come back to say hi then and as always I appreciate every kind word of encouragement! it's strange y'know I have been collecting and painting on and off since i was 15 and because my friend wanted Blood Angels I thought it meant I couldn't have an army of them but I really loved the look of the blood red/orange armour and it's taken me nearly 16 years to finally paint some red marines up! and it's awesome, i enjoy painting reds and I find it pretty simple and i wish i had of started years ago!

As ever, your m4d skillz make me weep with joy

Seriously nice colours man, bravo.

So what have you called the DC Dread and whats the inspiration if you dont mind me asking

lol Thanks Kitch! m4d skillz eh! .... hardly! just years of banging my head against a desk and talking to as many great artists as i could, I'm still learning but only in the last 12 months have i really been happy with my painting, and it's all you guys that stuck with me in the start that have kept me going without losing faith, so if i can do it anyone can, sheesh dude you should have seen some of my early stuff omg.... terrible!

And about my DC Dread, I don't mind you asking, I won't go into emotional detail as the internet is a dangerous place for baring your soul, but when i was born I was a premature baby.... very premature, 12 weeks prem and to complicate things i was one half of twin boys, myself and my brother, sadly we spent our time after birth in intensive care and my brother didn't make it past 8 weeks due to complications and lack of strength so as i've always felt him near me and wondered what we would do together I thought it would be fitting to honor him with naming my DC dread after him as i'm 100% sure he's be as nerdy as I am and he'd enjoy being an unstoppable machine! so that's the short story but from hence forth my Dread shall be named 'Brother Byron' and i plan on really trying to make the model as good as i can!

I agree with you regarding nun oil, the new washes aren't half bad. Beautiful models as always.

Hi there LOD! I've only used a couple of the new washes/shades so far but I like them a lot, they flow much easier and really stick to the recesses while leaving panels quite clean with no tide marks that i've seen to date!

Thanks again everyone for hanging out with me and perservering through these last couple of months of painting funk in a few short weeks hopefully I will be back on my normal roster at work and won't be doing a sould depleting 77 hours of graveyard shifts in a row! I'll be painting on friday so look out over the weekend for an update with pics

cheers again!

Damian

nerdfest09 wrote:And about my DC Dread, I don't mind you asking, I won't go into emotional detail as the internet is a dangerous place for baring your soul, but when i was born I was a premature baby.... very premature, 12 weeks prem and to complicate things i was one half of twin boys, myself and my brother, sadly we spent our time after birth in intensive care and my brother didn't make it past 8 weeks due to complications and lack of strength so as i've always felt him near me and wondered what we would do together I thought it would be fitting to honor him with naming my DC dread after him as i'm 100% sure he's be as nerdy as I am and he'd enjoy being an unstoppable machine! so that's the short story but from hence forth my Dread shall be named 'Brother Byron' and i plan on really trying to make the model as good as i can!

That's amazing man, if anyone can do it justice, you can

Amazing! My only real nitpick would be the new flesh eaters chapter symbol- I prefer the old one. This is a matter of taste, however, and I think that they're incredible, regardless. I will have to take some pictures of my flesh eaters, which are currently on the painting table, thanks to you

Excellent *rubs hands together* my plan is working perfectly! Mwahahahah! feel free to show them here as well if you like, kind of a Flesh eaters meeting place to bring the blood soaked glory!


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Oh, and I changed the symbol as the new one was easier to paint and get the same on all the models :-) originally I had the normal one but there was too many slight discrepancies for my liking!

I see what you mean by discrepancies- I have the same problem. I'm just too stubborn to change it.
Anyway, here they are:

Looks like you were trying to paint your fingers and the model got in the way!

Lol, that marine on a segway is ridiculously awesome! and nothing beats an old skool rhino! but how on earth did you get so damn dirty painting though? do you paint in a bath? :-)

I see Chaos Black and Boltgun Metal on your thumb

I use my hands as a paper towel when drybrushing/cleaning my brushes.
@dave: technically, it's mars black and leadbelcher