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Oh man, Damo, I don't know whether to hate you or love you!

I've just been planning some Howling Griffons myself, to get back into painting, and they'll never live up to yours!

Captain Venn looks great!

The yellow looks great. Did you start with Army Painter Daemonic Yellow? That was my plan.... (I imagine the red is the same you do for the Flesh Tearers....)

Damn it Damo, nice work! I've got 20 Death Korps waiting to assembled and it's making me shake just thinking about it- how do you get so much done, to such a high standard in such a short space of time? It's bile-inducing! (In a good way obviously...).

Nice work NF. He looks great.

Wow, I just love those halved & quartered schemes, and you achieved it perfectly (surprising, uh?) !!!

Thanks guys, I really love the look! the red is indeed the same as my FleshEaters and the yellow is a base of desert yellow washed with agrax then highlighted up like I usually do with 50/50 mixes gonna be a time consuming process painting them, especially if I take Theo's advice and model spoons up them

but enough of Venn, lets see someone else eh!


finally finished another half done guy! for my FleshEaters I now have a Jumpack Libby,



introducing...... Brother Librarian Atrus










I also whipped this bit of terrain up it's not totally finished around the edges but the large slab of marbled stone is done and looks o.k



YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!

that marble is fantastic.

The librarians robe is also very eye catching, not to mention it looks like he read my post and is about to put that staff in the right place to help you get some more griffons done.

Serious looking Marines Damo!

Nice, gritty, realistic feel to the Marines. Is it a glow effect or scar tissue around the bionic eye? The light makes it hard to tell. Looks great either way.

Libby looks great, though I think he needs the jaws on his red pad as well. Marble looks very good as well, adding that brown grit on top of it really ties it with your basing.

Nice Damo... just nice all-round.

That terrain piece looks so natural, beautifully done.

Fantastic work Damo. The blue on the librarian is a great shade to go with the red. The terrain piece is exceptional.

Stunning model ! And the ruined Aquila is great

Not really an update, more a place to jot down things I need to remember so i don't inadvertantly upset anyone! I have promised some things and done some work I need to send out to a few folks I want to make sure I have it correct and let those know things will happen soon as i can.

Dsteingass= AC/DC Record
Azazelx= Fantasy bits (lots)
Yggs= corpse cart and giant bits
BigH=bare heads
Elnibus=Commissar
Ovion= Nerf rifle (kinda big need to figure post)

I think that's it? if I've missed you or you need something i've promised asap let me know :-)

Lol, I forgot about the nerf gun! I may have cooked mine when i added more battery juice to it....

O.k Nerdwench is traveling interstate for a week next week and my RDO's fall on a couple at the start which means...... pure paint days! not 4 hours or 6 hours but I can paint until my fingers fall off or I go blind!! or I get sick of it anyway I think i'll test myself for one day and see if I can actually finish Ferrus Manus in one sitting! i'm all organized and know my process (I think) and I'll see if I really am a quick painter with this test! i'll grab a shot of the start of him primed tomorrow and then on Tuesday i'll time myself and see what happens, I won't cut corners or do a poor job to get him done, if he doesn't get totally done it doesn't matter it just means he'll be finished the next day but I want to challenge my brush arm!

Forgot that you were sending me something Damo! Quartermaster wasn't it? He'll be the perfect dude to fill for a Tempestor Prime!
Can't wait to see what you do with Ferrus

Man, that's like the marathon of painting. Are you counting the dead dudes on the base? Good luck, looking forward to the end result.

Yes i'm counting the entire model to a finished state! dead dudes included, any chapter preference? probably EC's?

Yeah, EC's. He and Fulgrim kinda go together.

Are you planning on scenic basing them together? or just next to each other :-)


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Been talking to Whaley about Howling Griffons and how to create a good force focussing on more of the painting and modeling aspect of the chapter, I'm sort of stuck on Ultramarines as that is written as they're parent chapter? but the DA codex is tempting too, especially with the veterans in robes and the opportunity for a small powerful army! if I go with Ultras i'd convert a finecast Marneus Calgar model and create my own Howling Griffon Master :-) likewise I want to make a cool HQ model if I go with DA so any suggestions about codex choice and modeling options just shoot away and i'll see what jumps out at me!

You could do a list with each (1500 points or whatever). Some of the guys may very well even carry over from one to the other, like terminators.

Faster pussycat kill kill
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Wait...

At the end of the day, Damo, just paint what you want to paint and let the dex work for you.

The Griffon looks great. Very nice work on the reds as usual and the yellows also. I missed out on that BA model quite recently. Hopefully the swings and roundabouts will have him turn up again before too long. The Librarian is also very nice. Are you going to add the chapter badge to his shoulder or just keep it on the Jump Pack? The ruined Aquila looks great - it's come up very nicely indeed!

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Not really an update, more a place to jot down things I need to remember so i don't inadvertantly upset anyone! I have promised some things and done some work I need to send out to a few folks I want to make sure I have it correct and let those know things will happen soon as i can.

Dsteingass= AC/DC Record
Azazelx= Fantasy bits (lots)
Yggs= corpse cart and giant bits
BigH=bare heads
Elnibus=Commissar
Ovion= Nerf rifle (kinda big need to figure post)

I think that's it? if I've missed you or you need something i've promised asap let me know :-)

Looks good. I'm in the ...process of ...procuring something that you'll hopefully both like and be able to use.


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Graven has good advice here. Paint and model the figures that appeal to you. DAs and their Ilk hardly have a non-exclusive copyright on robes, after all. Make up your own fluff for your company/task force of the chapter.

Thanks for the input guys, I suppose I'm trying to get my head around the ideas I want to incorporate into the models ideally a small but hard hitting force so the model count isn't huge but has a few special characters or something I can use my cut and paste imagination to it's full extent!? perhaps I can have the robed figures as the squad sergeants? I'd love to convert that Marneus model though :-) but as I don't want a huge points list he'll be pretty pointless and a waste of money if I'm never going to use him! that's why I thought DA as they have some good characters that I can convert and play with but not break the points and wallet scales! or even Space wolves rules? i'm open to ideas and want to see what you guys think as i'm mainly a cool model and paint kinda guy! :-)

Might want to give it a bit of time for folks to digest 7th. Everyone is still figuring out what is and isn't good.

You could do a small elite Sternguard force with a counts as Pedro.

You could bling them up as much as you like then.

Maybe add a dread for support?

Maybe some termies, I believe you have quite a few in your pile of plastic crack.




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edit: With 7th you can now have multiple Detachments, for Space Marines this includes different chapters.

So I'd pick some units from the Space Marine codex that you dont have in the Blood Angels codex then they can go together with your knight.

How is the painting on the knight going by the way???

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Thanks for the input guys, I suppose I'm trying to get my head around the ideas I want to incorporate into the models ideally a small but hard hitting force so the model count isn't huge but has a few special characters or something I can use my cut and paste imagination to it's full extent!? perhaps I can have the robed figures as the squad sergeants? I'd love to convert that Marneus model though :-) but as I don't want a huge points list he'll be pretty pointless and a waste of money if I'm never going to use him! that's why I thought DA as they have some good characters that I can convert and play with but not break the points and wallet scales! or even Space wolves rules? i'm open to ideas and want to see what you guys think as i'm mainly a cool model and paint kinda guy! :-)

I've used robed marines as Sergeants and Corporals (the leader of the other combat squad in a 10-man tac squad). Once you've got some figures built, use whatever ruleset you like.

Yeah, go with your gut bro.
I spent last night doing spot details on tanks, which I'd stopped doing because it was tedious, but on this occasion was methodical and soothing.
Although far be it from me to endorse anyone who agrees with my advice

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Not really an update, more a place to jot down things I need to remember so i don't inadvertantly upset anyone! I have promised some things and done some work I need to send out to a few folks I want to make sure I have it correct and let those know things will happen soon as i can.

Dsteingass= AC/DC Record
Azazelx= Fantasy bits (lots)
Yggs= corpse cart and giant bits
BigH=bare heads
Elnibus=Commissar
Ovion= Nerf rifle (kinda big need to figure post)

I think that's it? if I've missed you or you need something i've promised asap let me know :-)

Yup for me ! Still have to dig in my pile'o'stuff (vacations & field training didn't help !)

I bloody did it!!! I finished another Primarch in a DAY! I know, I can't believe it either one day of sitting down with black coffee a bottle of RedEye and a determined stare.

I got Ferrus Manus all done and I like him, he's a really great model and looks damn powerful with the pose and bare arms, I wanted him to look solid but not boring so did some details in goldish brass colour and others in iron,some of the brighter parts on his chest aren't showing up very well i detail but it's not bad trust a nerd

His face in particular I am very happy with, a little darker skin with some flush to his neck and cheeks to show his exertion and focused hard stare! Oooooh he's tough.

this was yesterday....


and this is today














And there we go! hope you like him more fun to have tomorrow, hopefully some Howling Griffon fun! hopefully some Marneus Calgar cnversion fun!