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Sounds good! I'll have to see what you do with the Infinity models :-0 never tried them but always loved the sculpts of nearly all of them!

what should I lean towards for a name for my regiment? they are going to be the Evandalus 9th .... something?

It was the sculpts that first attracted me to infinity. Still don't know how I'll find the game. Got my first demo games on Tuesday.

As for the name of your regiment? Something like what youve got. Probably not the best person to ask. My space marine chapter still don't have a home world... or a chapter master... none of the characters have names. It's all pretty impersonal at the moment. I'll need to look at that again actually.

First Update with pics for 2013! slowly getting into routine now and i should be churning through models and paint this year! so many great things on the list i am itching to do!

well, firstly I have finished Tom's Salamanders Devs finally! taken me far too long to do and i am apologetic for not finishing them sooner! you'll notice some pads missing but that's because he's adding his own sculpted ones to finish them off as well as his own bases, pics aren't great I was meant to get my new DSLR today but it didn't turn up and i was forced to use the phone again! *sigh* oh well maybe tomorrow?





and i did a little more for GiraffeX's Celestial Lion Chapter master/wolf lord! just got his pads and wolf claw sorted and based, he's rocking this season's latest fashion of a shaved down Red Scorpion left pad and a Chapterhouse Studios right one as well as a modified Lufgt Huron claw! I plan on finishing all the models i need to finish for other people before i start my own models this year, so now all I have to do is GraffeX's Marine and finish the banner on the Sons of Orar terminator for Kitch102 then it's my time!



not a bad day really, i managed to finish the sallies and get myself at least well organised for the Celestial lion and tidy the nerd lair hopefully the camera arrives tomorrow morning! i did get a package of a s.o.g Seal pup Elite fixed blade knife which is so sharp i actually shaved with it but that's not anything Nerd related.... that's just cool

aaaaanyway dudes til tomoz!


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oh and I realise the termie looks stunted lol, but i'll be propping his head up more in the armour before he's finished!

Love those Sallies Damo. You have a rare talent my friend. Pyriel's a lucky guy! So... which of the two terminator photos has the most realistic color?

Go for a camo on your guard. Desert Auscam (Desert DPCU) or "Coffee Stain" (DCU) are both relatively easy and look good. I did some on a small Ork Combat Patrol I never finished.

Hm.. I should dig out my IG in regular Auscam and photograph them. They date back to 3rd Edition...

Very nice work, NF09! That's a great shade of green, and I really like the bone aquila. The flames are awesome. Really like th Celestial Lion, too. Looking forward to seeing how he turns out.

The Celestial Lion is looking well ard Nerdy, looks like he's just about to say "I'm going to crush you with my claw scum"

Oh a Vulture for the Desert Guard would look really nice with camo, I hope there will be lost of dust (pigments) going round.

What do you mean 'the pics are not great' Your minis look good!

Nerd!!!
On Behalf of the Fraternal Order of Hirstute Guardsmen
I Welcome you!

Thank you gentlemen i am honored by your words and Dave i may have snorted hot coffee with your welcome of me into the hirsute guardsman! Scipio I'd love to see your Guard dude! throw 'em up in here if you like so we can all see I shall also go and have a look at those camo designations you mentioned, I have already ordered the desert yellow primer from The Army painter so hopefully it will still be usable if i like the camo schemes? I do plan on dusty-ing them up but i don't want to use powders yet, but never fear they'll be grittier than my marines who obviously wash the filth from their armour with the warm blood of their foes

Giraffe, working on him as we speak today! more update this arvo, and i'd say Gits the left shot is more accurate?

I'll see what I can do about IG photos, various bits of life's BS stopped me getting them taken today. I'll also see if I can track down the camoed orks as well.

I'm not 100% sure on the Army Painter spray. Google Images show it looking anywhere from perfect to way too yellowed. Also, be sure and test it out first, as per this thread on Warseer that I found (4th post)
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?322532-Army-painter-desert-yellow-spray

DCU:
Easy to paint in our scale (unlike multicam) and still looks good. LMMV of course, so if you're interested you'd still be best doing a test figure


Desert Auscam (Desert DPCU or DPDU):



This link shows the 4 types, though again at our scale the differences are negligible. We just want it to be cool and/or recognisable
http://iacmc.forumotion.com/t2535-australian-dpdu-my-official-reference

The best thing about my IG was the number of "hey, cool!" comments I used to get when I took them to play at clubs and such, when people saw their camo was our Aussie stuff.



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Checking through the other recent posts - the Salamanders look great. Is that a Boarding marine head on the ML guy? Looks good!

Where did you get that light box? It looks just like what I need for photos.

Finally, it's good to see/hear that so many of you are bearded. Mine is short again right now, though from time to time I let it grow huge.

Finished GiraffeX's Celestial Lion today! took a bit of struggling through when I was tired but I got him done nicely I think! I hope he likes him I quite like the contrast with the gold and blue together all in all i'm pretty pleased with him.

and thanks Scipio! that camo looks great, especially the first design I read the thread about the desert yellow spray and I will admit i'm a little concerned now about how bright yellow it will be, some make it appear a mustard like colour and others more of a yellow bone? looks like i just have to wait and fingers crossed!

Well, here's the celestial lion for GiraffeX




And it's my first shot in my light box! not bad so far, can't wait to get more proficient at it!

Whoa Nerd! Very shiny! Very well done!

Looking good. he's come up very nicely.

Ahhhh light, you tricky vixen!




That looks great Damo

Amazing!


S.

Ok. Now I really have to ask.... How do you do your skin? And the shaved head look you get it amazing!

All great work Nerd!

I have heard this is the blog to follow. I see why! Great work all around!

Wow Damo he looks stunning

He will be the centre piece of my Celestial Lions army for sure and that's even after I paint some marines to follow him round

Found your gold tutorial which I will attempt to copy. Can you let me know what blue you used so I can use the same as it looks rather nice.

Also if you want to talk Guard just send me a PM and we can bash some ideas together and check squad load outs etc

Thanks again

He'd look much better with a beard

Thanks guys! he was fun to paint, I really enjoy doing things like this for people and trying to paint them a model they will enjoy next is the banner for Kitch's termie and then he's done too! that's my next days off work so stay tuned!

faces, skin, tricky tricky stuff but I tend to look at them in a way you might if you were painting a flat painting, using mainly shadows and highlights to give the suggestion of shape and detail, while you don't need to seamlessly blend each colour layer the thinner your brighter highlights are the better it looks as you can add a few coats quickly to get your results, the shaved hair look is pretty easy, it's just your base flesh tone with the hair colour mixed in so you can still see the main flesh tone shaded with the other colour and then painted on in a way to simulate a natural hairline, if you want to add stubble just water the hair colour down a little and sort of wash the cheeks and jaw with it. The main skin tones I use Tallarn flesh mixed with fortress grey as my base then add bleached bone successively after a wash of Ogryn flesh/Agrax earthshade to bring out the details. I'll do another tute if anyone wants? but I do think there's one a bunch of pages back in the blog? just can't remember where

Also just bought some conversion bits for my upcoming Guard army and guard players with any assembly/conversion tips for me?

Hey dude, nice green minis but where did all the rest of the missile launcher marines go?
They were all supposed to be green and not red
lol

Good job on them dude, they rock


All your pestering me to show pics of what I have been doing the last months have paid of at last. Here is the one mini I did for quite some time now:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/455907-coteaz.html?m=2
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/455908-coteaz.html?m=2
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/455909-coteaz.html?m=2

Hey mate, lovely terminator guy with a good combination of FW and regular parts. The Salamanders Devastators look great too. Very smooth painting. (also: That's a pretty cool photo setup with the ruin to place the model on.

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I'll do another tute if anyone wants?

Yes please!!


All I can really say conversion/assembly wise (through my limited experience looting the vehicles ), is that Sentinels can be a pain. They suffer from tiny little ankles thatll break if ya breathe on em too hard! Not as bad as Tau, but still... You do get a TON of poseability with them though.

Cool, I love the look of the sentinels and the ability to pose them easily, I kinda don't care that they're not very good in game as i still like to have them running around (i'm guessing I will)

is there anything in particular you want me to focus on when painting my heads? and did you just want me to PM you a tute or does anyone else want me to do one and throw it up here? I do have a couple spare ones lying around :-) about 30 or so! lol

Oo oo me me!

 Dr H wrote:
Oo oo me me!

lol o.k I will then! might have to gimme a week or so but I'll get onto it as soon as possible

 nerdfest09 wrote:


is there anything in particular you want me to focus on when painting my heads?

Beards

id like something of an overall tut, especially colors and mixes/blending. My faces seem to always hit or miss in this regard.

Eyes would be nice too

O.k sounds good, i can do that, but I don't actually paint eyes on mine! ;-) it's a trick! i'll teach you lol