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Wow, just stumbled across this blog. WIll ahve to admit i've just skimmed thru at the moment but I am really impressed. I've hit the subscribe button so i'm able to go thru it at length when i'm more awake and aint pandering to a sick girlfriend. The immediate thing that grabbed me in the quality battle damage on the dreadnought. Am definately gonna be taking inspiration from that when working on my own big box of death

I could've sworn I commented on here a while ago about your new guys.... Anyways, everything is looking awesome! Love the Librarian. Kudos for going all plastic.

My thanks to you all! glad i'm still doing something vaguely interesting for you! I am pleased with my salamander as like I mentioned I haven't painted green before! not sure what to paint for the other parts edges etc.. any suggestions, I may let him sit for a day or so to give me fresh eyes when i start him again, and i'm talking about the *ahem* Stolen penguin! although i heard a rumor that his bionic cousin will make an appearance as Tomas the Librarian's familiar!

Hi Axlbush I hope you enjoy what's here when you get a chance to browse with any length of time! it's all done ridiculously simple, all with plastic and a few resin parts although the Libby's pad is metal but that's all. I hope you get a bit more time to finish your 'box of death' when your gf gets better! (nothing too bad I hope?)

Yep, you sure did comment before on my new guys Mr.Malevolent but now there's new stuff and more progress! and today i'm hoping to get 90% done on my second Tac squad and maybe make a start building my 2 landspeeders I cut off the sprue the other night! How are your marines going? do you have enough to join the slowly evolving Eye of terror campaign we're trying to whip up? I also like your new Avatar! lookin' cool

Well, I have a week and a bit before the Marines Exemplar have their first battle: Against the forces of Chaos! papa Nurgle has encroached on planet Evandalus Prime threatening global plagues and destruction, the Marines Exemplar are en route in battle barge 'Harmony of Calm' the halls and sleeping cells ringing with the clattering of preparations as astartes readied themselves for war, this is what they train for, this is what they live for, hardened faces and focussed eyes concentrating on maintaning the holy bolters and weapons they would soon be wielding to smite those that oppose the will of the Emperor, Captain Naimad prowls the walkways in full Battle dress, armor polished to a menacing obsidian sheen while his pauldrons and arms glow under the lights a deep blood red as if he bathes in the blood of those they destroy, and destruction is all he will accept.

Chapter Master Raoul stood on the command deck, grim faced and alert to everything around him, the whir of servitors tracks as they carry loads of data to depositories, the constant ticking of fingers and plugs upon data slate screens updating defense positions making ready for planet fall, a pneumatic hiss sounded behind him, without turning he spoke, his voice a juxtaposition of an echo of rolling gravel, impossible to ignore and almost as hard not to shudder when hearing, Chapter master Raoul addressed Captain Naimad as the doors shut softly behind him, "Destroy them all Naimad, send them back to the warp cursed storm they came from, we are the Wardens of this sector and we shall do our duty to the Emperor, planetfall in 14 Terran days make ready for war!" at this a curt nod at master Raoul's direction as Captain Naimad left the deck to re address his troops and make sure everything was ready for what they had to do......

O.k sorry about that I got carried away telling you I'm having my first game in years soon! and speaking of, i need to go and paint more of those glorious servants of the almighty Emperor! it's currently 9am here so i've got all day to get stuck in, who knows I may finish everything?.....probably not though


Thanks again everyone for following my Blog it's honestly appreciated and keeps me inspired by all your kind words and help!


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The brush was steady in the hand today no amount of caffeine could sway my passion for painting! managed to do more on the Salamander, I have done all the highlights now and just need to go back over him and paint in the darker recesses of the armour, being such an intricate armoured model I have missed some small bits I can't get too with the brush but you can only see them if you turn him upside down and look and I also did a little bit of the yet to be named Chaplain model, and he's looking good! i'm hanging to keep going with him, i've given him a green tabbard as they are the 4th company, I did lots of other work on my Tac squad but i can't put pics up because I have been timing each step i'm doing for a ten man squad and taking pics so I can see how long from start to finish it takes me to do, my guess was under 4 hours to have them from grey plastic to based and ready to play!

not many shots today just the update on 'Sally' and 'Chappie'




There we go guys (and girls) let me know what you think?

Nerdfest09


Whoa! sorry didn't realise I hadn't re sized that pic!

Kinda late update, but i've finished the salamander for Pyriel! i'm so happy with how he turned out but my camera doesn't take the best shots of him, i'll post something tomorrow and give you all a look :-)

may the emperor protect

Nerdfest09

I look forward to seeing it

Nerdfest loving your legion the MK III and the chappie I like the shadowing on the Salamander and your Chappie looks really venerable like. Great job!! .

@Greydeathone: thanks dude! as always, it means a lot to me if you like my work, I really enjoyed painting the mkIII armour but i would assemble after painting some parts as i couldn't get my brush up in some tricky bits but i want to paint that bane of painters everywhere!....Yellow! and i'd like to do another early mk of armour except the imperial fist will be for another great artist Bullyboy76, looks like i may need to dark angels it up for you too dude? it'd be fun for me...if you want?

@LDP: And see it you shall!

Well, here's the finished Salamander I did, MkIII armour heresy style Oh Yeah! I enjoyed painting him immensely something different for me, i have never painted green armour before so it was trial by error and next time i'll know what approach to take, i really hope Pyriel likes him? can't wait to get nice photo's taken of all my stuff, i think i've got enough to get a good gallery started!

Well, here he is finished






There he is! I put on my first decal and painted over it to get it to look more in line with the model, but in the pic it's still a little damp and shiny, I don't imagine it'll be played with so it won't matter about it being delicate.
All I need to paint now is my tac squad, Dev squad, dread and 2 speeders! I hope that shall be enough to entertain you for the next 2 weeks? because that's all it'll take me and my lightning fast methods

Your pal.....Nerdfest09

Beautiful job mate. Really clean and elegant; would love to see the FW exclusive MkIII done up like this (hint, hint)...

Coming along nicely NF, very nicely indeed

I know it's a little unusual to post pics of your mini in someone else's thread, but a few weeks ago Nerdfest provided me with a copy of IA8 as inspiration for my Raven Guard army, he didn't ask for anything in return but I couldn't let such a generous gesture go without offering a little something in return:



This fella will be in the mail shortly to join the rest of NF's Exemplars, I think he'll fit in quite nicely

He'll be in the mail this week mate, hope you like him!

WOWZERS! Holy gak Chris! that looks amazing! thank you so much for painting him and sending him to me! it means a lot to me to have you do it! I wasn't asking for anything in return as I like to perpetuate the hobby and give out as much goodwill as I can especially to those who are passionate about painting and modeling and aren't shy about offering help and support and to have you with your phenomenal skills do that plus send me a bag of bits and pieces and spare parts! I swear I'd send you another book if I had it
He will be a formidable force on the board as i'm only learning how to play now after all these years! and every options I can get hold of will help me enjoy the world of 40k just that little bit more!
hopefully we can bounce ideas and modeling prospects off each other in the future? as I will ( I usually do) check your threads with reckless abandon looking to glean hints,tips, and inspiration which I find is never lacking from your work!

seriously thank you!


Nerdfest09 (Damian)

Really excellent work guys. Love the Salamander Nerdfest, and that chappy is very well executed too.

Damn Nerd, that is one awesome Salamander, I´l have to try out your recipee for green colour in the future.

SCC:
Hi, nice seeing you here.

Yes nerdfest what is the recipe for that green, I'm thinking of doing a darker green for my Salamanders and this could help alot.

This is all rather impressive stuff.

And NF - the Salamander works! Though that armour would've made fine Marines Errant stuff too!

C´mmon Nerd, stop hiding

Hi everyone! i'm not hiding just doing the 'spending time with gf thing' I haven't forgotten you all, i'll reply and tomorrow night to everyone when i'm at work and strangely enough have more time! glad he lives up to expectations! phew!


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Good evening/morning dudes! hope everyone's been painting? I'm stoked you like my salamander especially the green! I will admit i'm kinda proud of my effort and only using 3 colours and a wash for the armour! I undercoated black then gave it a shot of skull white from the can from above the model to guide the highlights and shadows for me! I started by using GW Ork flesh for the darkest parts (i'm not sure if they still make it?) then i mixed snot green into the mix and started to bring the highlighlights up the armour plates until i was using pure snot green, next step was adding a small amount of golden yellow to the snot green and slowly blending it in to the highest points to get a nice highlight, all of these steps were with quite watered down paints just thicker than a wash and used multiple times to get it to blend right, I then used a thrakka green wash to tie the lot together and give it some depth, lastly I just re applied the final highlights sparingly on the armour and he's done!

only hint I can give is to paint the eye lenses first so it doesn't matter if you get paint on the helmet, the recesses on the mkIII are quite deep

then it was only the bolter done the usual way, boltgun metal, badab black wash then just some gold highlights and a touch of mithril silver.

The model itself was gifted to me from SCC who I gave a copy of IA8 to and he very genorously gave me some spare parts and is painting up the amazing chaplain a few posts up for me! I am a VERY lucky man! thank you again SCC!

Well, i hope I didn't ramble on to much and you can understand my method? if you need to ask me anyhing that i've missed or want me to slow down a bit and do it literally step by step then just ask! I'm on here mon/tue/wed nights for a long time each session!


Nerdfest09

Quickee, verbal update for you all as i'm at work at the moment :-) Just assembled 2 landspeeders ready for priming and painting, been thinking about my dev squad, do i just assemble them for ease and speed and have them all firing? or do i model one to be kneeling with the launcher at rest? Tac squad 2 is going well, only the highlights on the reds to go and bolters to paint! then it'll be a lengthy update with a mostly step by step and time trial of how long it takes from plastic to painted for them all!, Dreadnought is staring me down the last couple of days....and it scares me, he's armed to the teeth you know! :-)
counting down the days until my first game in a looooong time it appears will be a 1000 point one against Tyraneal's Tyranids! looks like they got distracted on the way to the eye of terror to face of against the nurgle marines! (the very next day that is!)

so, i'll be busy painting but I lose a whole day this week :-( i'm getting my Tattoo finished by my dodgy chinese tattooist who runs a restaraunt! he's really very good though and i'm looking forward to seeing what he free hands :-)

catch you soon, keep in touch!

Nerdfest09

nerdfest09 wrote:Quickee, verbal update for you all as i'm at work at the moment :-) Just assembled 2 landspeeders ready for priming and painting, been thinking about my dev squad, do i just assemble them for ease and speed and have them all firing? or do i model one to be kneeling with the launcher at rest? Tac squad 2 is going well, only the highlights on the reds to go and bolters to paint! then it'll be a lengthy update with a mostly step by step and time trial of how long it takes from plastic to painted for them all!, Dreadnought is staring me down the last couple of days....and it scares me, he's armed to the teeth you know! :-)
counting down the days until my first game in a looooong time it appears will be a 1000 point one against Tyraneal's Tyranids! looks like they got distracted on the way to the eye of terror to face of against the nurgle marines! (the very next day that is!)

so, i'll be busy painting but I lose a whole day this week :-( i'm getting my Tattoo finished by my dodgy chinese tattooist who runs a restaraunt! he's really very good though and i'm looking forward to seeing what he free hands :-)

catch you soon, keep in touch!

Nerdfest09

For the dev, I'd mix up the poses as much as possible. The kneeling pose and running legs are something I wish I had in my devs I just finished up. After I had primed and done the AB work on mine, i realized all the poses were in firing and it was really really boring. It bothered me so much that I tried using the hobby knife to pry the legs off 3am in the morning. I just ended up scratching up the paintjob on the test model. The plastic glue bonds are strong!

As for assembling them prior to painting, I would do all of them except the heads unless the helms and bodies are the same colour. The heavy weapons aren't too bad to paint assembled so I'd say go for it.

Also, good luck with the tatoo. Make sure he doesn't tatoo "soup" in chinese or something on your body and tell you it stands for something else you wanted

Thanks Eggroll, I think you're right, i should mix up the poses somewhat, now all I need to do is find some different legs?...hmmm I just need a pair of running legs I think so I better get looking at some bits places! although i think they may have some time to wait (hopefully not too long) as I just started on my two speeders today! and since I love the model they'll be getting the majority of attention from me at the moment

Well, i'm also booked in to get some nice photo's of my models done on monday morning! can't wait to do that, I'll obviously pop them in here and in the gallery incase anyone wishes to vote on them should be up monday night or tuesday as long as there are no delays, I hope they look good!

My dodgy Chinese Tattoist has been working on my piece for a while now and he doesn't do chinese lettering on anyone so i'm safe I hope! he started out strangely though, owning a chinese restaraunt very stereotypically decorated and dated, he was a good artist at school and one day one of the local bikie members who frequent his shop saw his artwork and enquired as to if he could do that on skin? Hayden being cocky said I reckon and the very next week the bikie gang turned up with all the gear to do Tattoo's and said he could practice on them talk about thrown in the deep end! so he learnt the art by just trial and error on some big dudes! and now he's one of the most individual and clean artists i've had the pleasure of seeing!

More proper nerd updates soon!

Nerdfest09

Dude! I mean what can I say? Just...well I don't know. We started out in this hobby at the same time, we had our years in the wilderness as well and to see how phenomenal your skills have become is inspiring! I'm really looking forward to facing this army in a few short weeks!

Keep up the good work my friend

Ahhh Nerdfest11, I believe it shall be 2 short weeks my friend! :-) and i'm really looking forward to it too! it's gonna be an awesomely fun day! and seriously thanks for the words about my painting! it means a lot to me coming from you, especially as you know how i can be with my critisism of my own stuff! and we shall wander the wilderness no more for we shall be eternally painters modellers and gamers of this great hobby!

Nerdfest09

G'day from the land down under! it's time for bad photo update day! yayyyy! I bet you're all pumped by that statement? well then, without any more preamble here's where i'm at now, I assembled and primed my speeders not glueing the tops on so i can get to some details later and painted one front bumper red to see if it would look good? after visual consideration I think i may paint the bumper red and the two small side wings, along with the red arms of the marines it will suit the theme imo.



I also swapped out arm on my assault sarge! after much deliberation I decided that i didn't really like the way the power sword arm sat on the model, while I love the concept of the bionics attatched it was just slightly too big for it I think, so now he's power fisted up!



Here's also the colours I used to paint the salamander marine I did, I think it worked well for those few colours!


Building time! I started finally painting the buildings I have had tucked away in the cupboard for the last year! I bought them from TheCombatCompany and they're the Amera plastic buildings, not too bad but lacking in any real details and texture, but for the price and size i can live with that, so i blended up some cork tiles in the blender (sorry dear!) and used the small bits as rubble and the large ones as fallen concrete slabs all glued down with a pink hot glue gun! I then used floquil to give them some texture on the walls and undercoated them all black, I used the airbrush today to start painting them with barley grey, this is as far as i've got but i'm waiting on more paint at the moment, any more ideas you guys can gve me? i'm thinking some subtle dried blood spatters on the walls and some loose leaf papers littered about the place, should I now go lighter on the walls? soot marks? fire damage? (I think fire damage works with the current look?) any suggestions will be assimilated into my file of ideas






So there we are for today, hopefully if my Tatt doesn't take too long i'll do more tomorrow and pop up for you all! and I also wanted to say thanks again for all your support with this blog of mine! I honestly appreciate all you have to say and advise me on! i've gleaned some good ideas and worked out some kinks i had trouble with and it's kept me happily painting and more importantly making some good friends on here which means more than any model! so lets keep it up and i'll see you all soon!

Nerdfest09

Great work man! Cant wait to see those speeders finished!

Hiya LDP, Yep, i can't wait to see the speeders done either! :-) should hopefully be done tuesday if not i'll at least have some more models done to update on! Tac squad #2 and Chaplain who has been named 'Adamus' and maybe the other dreadnought! they will all be done by next friday I can promise that as i'm on holidays from monday! and monday morning i'm taking the gallery photographs for Dakka the rest of the week......paint 'o' rama


Nerdfest09

Awesome day today! got some lovely shots done of all my models! I can't get them in the gallery at the moment for some reason maybe too big? so I'll post them up here for your viewing pleasure! I'm really happy with how they turned out and I hope you like them all, i'd love any comments and critiques you have? i've picked up on a few small things to touch up but overall I am very proud of this army to date and am keen to get the other stuff done and photographed next wednesday I have to warn you there is a LOT of pics to post up so I hope it goes smoothly!

as they say in Mario Kart....Ere we go!

First up is the Salamander marine I did for my good friend Pyriel! I don't want to sound like a pompous gakker but I am really impressed and proud of this model! I spent some time and tried to produce something that would/could lead my painting into a higher level of skills and still have fun!




Next up is my Librarian, Tomas (for short! )



Venerable Dreadnought, Maundis




Land Raider Crusader:







Rhino transport with excellent chapterhouse studio doors and hatch!




Assault squad Valan, the whispers






Terminator Assault squad:






Tactical squad: the deathstalkers:

The darker shots are the best representation of actual colors and shades of red I could get, lloks deep and damn sexy!








There we are guys! one very happy nerdfest09 is off to paint more right now!

Nerdfest09

Damn you can paint! That multi melta is epic! Looks burning hot! Nice work Nerdfest, looking like a real sexy army.

Jesus Damo! I'm impressed. I've only ever seen its and pieces of your stuff in the making (apart from my Nid army that is). I look forward to killing these guys with my Hive fleet Milani in 2 days.

Superb matey.

Simply superb.

I literally did almost explode.

Great stuff, yet again, JSYK i'm almost done with my tac squad, freehandis underway, pics sometime soon!

Thanks Guys!

@Darkstarsabre: Why thank you very much, they need to keep sharp roaming that 'ol Eye of Terror!, i'm glad you like how they're coming along, any updates on our master plan for a worldwide wardens V renegade?

@Tyraneil: Glad you're impressed dude, it's always gonna be a fun game when we've both got decent painted armies! shame it'll be on a double bed though i'll need to get a game board asap! can't wait to learn the game! see you wed morning! early

@Jirc: hey dude! good to hear from you again I do think it's turning out quite sexy myself I struggled with the melta to get that result, trying for a glow that represented a set of red hot headers from a turbo car! the photo does make it look just that bit better though! now it's dread #2 and speeder 'o' rama then more photo's next week....ahhh the joy of holidays

May the Emperor protect! (warden chapters )

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Sweet news LDP i'll be along to check up on you shortly! and i'm glad you didn't actually explode, hard to paint when you're all over the room! :-)