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I've been really busy lately, but I have time to work on this again. I've also obtained a nice camera and a better knowledge of model photography, so hopefully my pictures will give my models a little more justice.


Well hello Dakkadakk members. I've always thought about making a painting blog to keep myself motivated.... But now that I have a rather hefty task on my hands, its finally time.

I consider my paint to be a fair bit above tabletop, but its defiantly not much more than that.

I got my airbrush.







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First off, my work space




Current "Needs Work" Table.

Grey Knights


Grey Knights (11/17/11)


Lord Kaldor Dragio


Justicar


Warding Stave and Falchions


Incinerator


Callidus Assassin


Culexus Assassin


Vindicare Assassin


WIP Ordos Malleus Inquisitor
-Waiting for some shouldpads from Maxmini to come in.


WIP Grey Knight Techmarine.
-Waiting for my warding stave bit to come, and I still need to find a full servo harness.


Blood Angels



Blood Angels "Army" (11/17/11)


Master of the Forge on bike, with Conversion Beamer.
-This was a really fun model to kit together. My first custom model.


Kit-bashed Librarian
-Kit-bashed some Grey knight, Vanilla marine and Blood Angel bits to make a librarian. Force sword, plasma pistol. I decided to paint him in a white and blue scheme because I liked it.


Chaplain is Terminator Armour
-This was the first model I painted using the techniques I learned on dakka, like washing, drybrushing and basing.

* Accidentally deleted these pictures off of photobucket *

Okay boys and girls, I'm back. Not that anyone missed me, but anyway, here's what I've been working on.

I've been working on my highlighting and general workmanship. I realize nothing is completely done, I just wanted to feel like I accomplished something.

Assault trooper and two devestators-


Dante-



DC dread converted from an AOBR dread-


Rhino, first vehicle I airbrushed. I've got to say, they're lovely-



And a couple of sisters I painted because I got bored of red-

Looking good, a lot more work to go though. Keep it up!

Nice hand

Not a huge amount of progress today. I had an airbrush/paint consistency problem plaguing me all day.

I asked my little sister, she's 7, if she wanted to paint a model. I was babysitting her and wanted to get some work done, so I was delighted that she spent about an hour and a half painting her mini. I'm slightly disappointed she painted it as a smurf. She had originally wanted to paint him as a Hawk Lord, but I didn't have any purple. Whatta ya gonna do.



I realized I was out of red, and that's a problem when I'm trying to paint blood angels. When I ran out to my FLGS, I must've been blessed by the paint fairy. I found this:



I've decided that the only way I'll finish my project is to be completely sure I only work on one thing at a time. So my first assignment is a 5 man assault squad.


As you can see, I didn't get a great deal of stuff done, but at least I got some paint on the models.

And lastly, I started looking at basing ideas. I might stick a little flock on it, but, here's the first 100% finished model of my Blood Angels army:




Thanks for reading. I'll try to get some stuff done tomorrow.
As always, goodnight, and good luck.
-duff.

NEVER repaint that model your sister did, you hear?

Life Update

I have been pretty busy lady with my winterline, which is competitive indoor drumline, but I've gotten some stuff done.



Hobby Update

I'm hoping I get my replacement airbrush parts and that shiny new airbrush I've been wanting, so I can get some real progress done. I accidentally soaked the whole brush in airbrush cleaner, which ruined the O ring on the nozzle

I went to check on the stuff I had soaking in the garage and this is what I discovered-

I had no idea that Simple Green froze. Well, the more you know.

I took this as a chance to clean up my work space, and after a little while-


Ta-da! I was pretty proud of this.

Around Christmas I bought this beauty-


So now I have this nice pile of stripped models to paint-


And I won this little guy off of Ebay-




Painting

Painted up three Sisters-


And started on some more and some warrior acolytes-


And have plenty more stuff to keep me busy-




Modeling

Just messing around with some poses and stuff. I want a champion-esque feel-

Lookin good dude. Keep that workspace clean and organized. Lovin the Chapplin dred and this last picture of the commander/important dude I dont know the name of.

It all looks good!!! This is Zach BTW. I think some space wolves would really complete ur collection lol

I've been doing a lot of work but I don't have much to show.

Work area update



Current Stuff







To be done

Ready for paint-



Need modeling stuff done-


Need to be stripped/sold-


Unbuilt-



I did have a pretty fun Apocalypse game though
20k vs. 20k


(More pictures upon request. I have a lot)



I'm going to try to update this regularly now.

Cheers.

I actually felt like I was pretty productive today. I would've gotten more done if I didn't have to wait a whole day for the primer to dry.

I went out and primed the missing arms for my assault marine squad-


Woooooh progress-



I almost finished up the two Deathwatch marines I've been working on. The picture really doesn't show the drybrushing-


I also picked up this lot of old figures for just $5. Pretty good deal if you ask me. I'm going to be painting one of these every once and a while to break up the monotony of marines-


I picked this guy first. His tag says 'Ganger' and the year is 1995-


I only had time to get most of the base colors down, will probably finish him tomorrow-



And that's all folks. Good day.

subbed, keep up the good work, and get some BA's done _b

Wow, a subscriber! Thanks a lot mate I feel a little bad that I hardly got anything done today now, but twas a busy day.

I got the arms all base coated, will finish them tomorrow and glue to the assault marines, that should be my first squad done!-


And I slapped a couple more colors on this guy-



I'll be productive tomorrow, I promise.

Cheers.

Yeaaaaah, I maybe forgot about a saxophone practice I had today so I wasn't as productive as I wish I couldve been. But on the bright side, this is the most frequent I've updated this blog in, well, ever.

Just a quick phone pic today. I glued the arms on and got everything base coated. The sergeant is missing his weapon because I forgot to magnatize it-


First squad *almooooost* done.

Cheers.

Yaaay, finally. The reason the sergeant doesn't have a weapon is because I haven't decided what to give him yet



I need to find a better color for chipped armor than Boltgun.


Space Wolves Deathwatch marine for a buddy. I didn't do a shoulder pad because he wanted to.


Blood Angels Deathwatch. Pretty WIP.


I think I'll be doing my Storm Raven next, exciting.

-Anthony