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Lovely job on the Broodlord

EDC, Januine, Para and Angel thank you all for your kind words and thanks for keeping an eye on my little plog

Just bought enough bases from Fenris Games to base the whole of the Space Hulk and Deathwatch: Overkill minis ........ plus about 20 extra Deathwatch that I might make of my own. That was quite an order to make especially after buying DW:O and budgeting my final pledge manager contributions for the Awaken Realms and Shattered Earth Kickstarters!!! I have to refrain from buying anything to do with miniatures for a very long time now!!


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Oh dang! Just remembered I was gonna get the Nurgle's Rot and Typhus Corrosion technical paints - doh!

They're great figs so it'd be remiss of you not to do them the justice of some lovely bases to stand on......that help your quandry???!!!!! I'm still on a fig buying freeze and miraculously sticking to it.....I am going up to Seoul this weekedn to the flgs to pick up some paints I'm nearly out of ........temptation.....wife is ZERO help as she keeps telling me to just buy the DW:O box - ;(

I agree totally. But after I bought them we found out my wife's new job may not pay as well as the old one. It'll be fine and the bases were essential. Glad I've bought them now so that if the range ever came to an end I've got all I need for the games and at least 20 of my own Deathwatch. Do it's all good.

Your wife should be listened to as should all wives. Therefore you must buy DW:O. Yup, yup, yup

Small update today. Have a bunch of work to get done so no painting yet ....... though I am growing concerned that I am now daydreaming of painting glazes on to Deathwing minis. Hmmmmmm.

Anyway.

So I have a plan for the Broodlord base that I am definitely not going to try and explain on here - I'll just post when I have something to show. Otherwise I'll just confuse everyone. I hope it will be understated, but visually interesting and fitting with the aesthetic. I need to hope I get the bases in time now.

Got my bag of skulls today though which I'll use to blend the bases together along with some termie helmets I have lying around, so very pleased. Bought on the weekend and sent yesterday! Great service. Great sculpts (20 in total). Listing was for "100+" and I got 160!!!!!! It would be a huge pain to count out the 100 and guess it's all done on weight and experience. But a great surprise anyway. The seller was cool and think anyone wanting skulls should check out his listing here. Cheapest I could find online too.

Awesome.
Might have to pick myself up a bag of skulls at some point.

EDC

Well it's a start:

So here's how I got on tonight while trying to recover from an evil tension headache.
Base coat is Ungor Flesh
Then an thick (allowed to be a bit gloopy) layer of Agrax Earthshade
Two glaze layers of Ushabti Bone
Drybrush Terminatus Stone (only on one mini so far)

I got a little nervous after the Drybrush layer and thought I should take a step back.

I wanted my Deathwing to not be shiny. I don't do shiny. Partly because I am not good enough to do so, but also it doesn't make sense. The Agrax layer being slightly irregular has brought some variation in shade throughout the minis. To me that allows a look of "rushed paint job" harking back to the origin of the bone armour.

I think another Drybrush layer is needed to deepen the Terminatus Stone a little.

The guns will be black and metal. The eyes red, the Aquila green.

I am very keen to hear people's thoughts. I have been underwhelmed by most tutorial blogs and videos online for the Deathwing and even my painting idol Januine's Deathwing, which I think are superbly painted, are not quite the colours of what I imagine the elite soldiers of the Dark Angels to look like. But then I'm an idiot and my opinion is probably worth ignoring.

But then I'm an idiot and my opinion is probably worth ignoring.

You shut your stupid face! Seriously though, cut that out. You're awesome, and not in the new world touchy feely GenY stupid way that everyone is important horse gak - you actually are awesome.

NOW, onto your death wing - I think that colour is perfect. They are supposed to be white or bone white, and I think you've nailed it just like that. Looking forward to trying to replicate it when I get to mine in the DV box

KB, mate, sorry. I had an awful headache last night (which irritatingly has persisted) and wasn't being careful in what I wrote. I sounded like such a whiney arse. Apologies everyone. I was trying to say that most people like either orange-cream or practically pure white and I just don't fit in to either group. The "ignore me" comment was me trying to placate everyone.I still don't think I'm as good as you say, but I'll accept your kindness and will have a warm glow all day due to it

I think those Deathwing look nice, it's one of those schemes where you can give 10 painters the mini and some fluff/artwork and you'll get 12 different versions of the armour colour at least! Personally, I go for darker (no prizes for guessing that one, folks! ) but this scheme is certainly well within the Deathwing-suitable spectrum. Looking forward to more!

Thanks Para. I've not finished yet, I'm going to dirty up the armour with some weathering powders. These Deathwing wash their armour with xenos blood, not Daz

The broodlord looks great, and the Deathwing are also coming along very nicely. If you've got more to go, I'd suggest grabbing as much Bestigor flesh as you can, since I understand it's been withdrawn from sale?

Still for sale in the web store

Really like that colour sir, great tones.

Didn't use Bestigor actually - Ungor, Ushabti and Terminatus

Thanks Cam

That's... a lot of skulls! Colour progressions are looking loverly, mate.

Loving the armour for the Deathwing, you've got a fantastic bone colour going.

EDC

Oi! I couldn't leave the armour colour alone. It was too cream. But I didn't want it white.

So I took opinion from my wife. We agreed on an Ulthuan Grey drybrush layer. I think it's worked ok (too late if it hasn't). I think I'm going to finish this guy first so I'll know the scheme for the rest. This way if I've got it wrong then only one's affected I suppose. Took the chance to lay down some of the metal base layers.

I like it. I totally get where you're coming from too - imho they shouldn't be white or cream, just an ever so off white to the cream side.

I've just noticed that the last two versions look pretty similar. I think the previous photo had a lot of glare to it because in real life it was far more cream, hence why I added the Ulthuan Grey. The last photo is a lot more like the real thing

The colour looks great. It all comes down to the "Bone White" that each person is happy with. Yours looks great - I'd certainly be happy with it.

So woke up at half 4 this morning with a very low blood sugar. But frightened to go back to sleep even when it was sorted, so went and did some more of my concept Deathwing:

So, I've finished Brother Octavius of Squad Zadakiel. I had to try a thin Nuln Oil wash over to grubby him up - been looking at Para's mini's for too long!!! I'm not gonna get chance to do the other 4 any time soon so if there are strong haters of this finished result I can try again with the others and strip Octavius at some point. There will be a bloody power fist dripping on to the Tarmac at the end, but that's post varnish etc.

So any C&C gratefully received. Thanks in advance

Honestly, I preferred him before the Nuln Oil, but what's most important is whether you're happier with him this way and if he matches the look you're wanting to achieve.

Truly Azazelx, I don't know any more. Thanks for being honest, means a lot

I have to say I'm with Azazelx on this one; maybe take him back up to the white? It was so crispy!

Reckon Az is on the money there. Nuln can be a money maker and/or a heart breaker (feth......"crackers with that cheese Jan?!") You can still crisp him up again with a few thin layers if that's what youre wanting.

I actually like the Nuln Oil, and normally I wouldn't. You are closer to my own vision of the Deathwing colours than most people, but I felt yours did not quite have enough depth in the shadowed areas, and the Nuln Oil dirtied it enough to make up for that. I say keep it!