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Wow Damo... they all look great but the marble is phenomenal.

Im going to wait until the Iron Warriors is out

Very excellent nerdy, what a lot of primarchs. You are making them look good. Primarch-tastic.

How are you doing this? Tell me your secrets!

I wish...

Thank everyone! Hmmmm fave so far? Oh lordy that's a tough question Whaley! probably Fulgrim i'd say at this stage but Morty I've got a soft spot for and Lorgar may technically end up being another close call just on painting methods alone?

Morty so far is only a sepia wash over the white with a tiny green wash on parts and agrax shadows! and the marble on Horus' base is the same as I tackled the ruined aquila :-)

my goal as I've spoken to Whaley about is to get every Primarch I paint to feature at some point on the Dakka gallery front page! so I'm going to bloody well make sure I keep pushing and doing my best effort! :-)

I've officially gone from liking you to hating you . Seriously I mean "I only had three hours so I knocked out three primarchs to a level so far beyond theo's comprehension its funny "

nerd rage almost makes me made enough to come down there and teach you a lesson.....if it wasn't for your native fauna

Great work, jealousy got the best of me there.....sorry

 Theophony wrote:
I've officially gone from liking you to hating you . Seriously I mean "I only had three hours so I knocked out three primarchs to a level so far beyond theo's comprehension its funny "

nerd rage almost makes me made enough to come down there and teach you a lesson.....if it wasn't for your native fauna

Great work, jealousy got the best of me there.....sorry

Ah no bother Theo i'd be glad to have any Nerds come visit me! but seriously there's not much done yet to the Pimarchs, just base colours and washes mate and I know you can do that

dude the primarchs look sick. i really dig logar. mortian looks great as well...i wanna eee like a school girl after seeing them.. i havent been doing much of any thing but i think you may have tipped the balance in the back to do stuff category.

Hey guys it's scale tipping time for Bama! did some brushy brushy on Lorgar today and think he's looking just as cool as I hoped! try and check out the face so far it's only roughed in with shading but I tried my idea for his trademark golden skin after playing with Kiera's Candy armour! and lo and behold it bloody works! gives him a wet golden look without obscuring his face and making it appear pure gold which was a concern a few more highlights and shadows and his face will be done! his armour is going well too, the gold is done and the iron parts are nearly there, i'm contemplating some washes to add subtle colours through it? thoughts?

His base I'm chugging along with too, I'm not going crazy as it's a large chunk of earth and I want your eye to be drawn towards him and the steps I added some little energy swirls coalescing in the symbols at his feet conductive of the power of his oratory!










More tomorrow! I reckon i'll be nearly done with him hopefully and i'll be done adding the base colours on the other two boyz!

O.O holy crap man...thats really impressive...very jealous of him right now. keep up the good work on them.

looks awesome Nerdy. love the subtle OSL on the base and the whole pallette has that "lit by fire light" look.

very nice. how you get so much done still escapes me.

Ouch, one of his mace spikes break off?

Head looks good, golden but not overwhelmingly so. I think the armor could use some more something. Maybe the same type of energies on the ground in the runes on his armor?

Damo, I think you're making the leap to the "elite" level of painting. That's really phenomenal work my friend.

Gold Devil, I mean Daemon, ahead!

Oh wow... very impressive and moody. Great job!

Very nice, I'm really interested in your technique of washes over zenithal primer, the effect you have got on Mortarian and Horus' armour in particular, just from a wash, looks spectacular. Lorgar is coming on really well although something about the model still feels a little off to me, I think it is the rounded abdomen. He also reminds me of Lex Luthor

Just damn... Again.

Wow.... just wow.... You seriously need to set your sights on a Daemon, man, cause your skill is THERE!

Glad to see that you learned a little something from our knight-off

Does look like you lost a point on his mace, though. Upper right on the top picture... The rest of him looks great though.
I do agree with WM about the armor needing a little something more, though Im hesitant to say put some of the glow on it... mostly cause I dont want to muck up the excellent work thus far! Really though, if anyone could pull it off, itd be you!

As to the rest, damn it they look great!
I really must learn your Marble technique... Looks absolutely perfect!

What wash products do you use? All GW or is there something a bit more secretive to your technique?

Thanks Ramos nothing secret I just use GW washes and at times I just use a really watered paint if I want it translucent but still the same colour as i'm using.

Lorgar is a tough model only for the reason you guys are alluding to, his pose is static and therefore it feels like the armour needs some more pop I have been playing with a little bit more energy on his thigh and it works even though the image makes it blurry, his mace is missing that spike but I cannot find it anywhere nor anything close to match it.

he's also close to done.







and a touch more colour on Horus, just beginning the green on his pads and the fur of his cloak.




Morty, yep, I'm really going to love getting into this one! I was just going to see what a little pale washing would do and have nearly finished the white parts of the armour panels, once some more streaks and metals its gonna rock!







So much fun! Ive got tomorrow to paint then I'll be sporadic for a couple of weeks due to crappy rosters but I'll try and get Lorgar finished and photoed so we can see if he's good enough for the gallery


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With Morty I'm thinking of parts of a house that don't see much sunlight so they get moss/mould, hence the front is cleaner while his rear which if he face the sun is in shadow and damper!

Very nice mate. I really like the tones on lorgar. Can't wAit for them to release more and see what you come up with!

Hey Ad, thanks dude :-) I'm enjoying these three at the moment and can foresee Horus being the trickiest but I'm already planning Vulkan I think he'll be exciting

Morty appears to have dropped something.

Looks really great all around. Whats the plan for the green on Horus? It's a bit too green at this point (they are more of a seafoam color).

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Morty appears to have dropped something.

His head, right? Betcha its his head



You know, i think that the armor could look pretty damn awesome done up in glowy recesses.
I dont know if you added another wash between pics, but the metal is discernibly more brownish-red I very much like the shift in color!


Horus' wolfskin looks crazy as well... How exactly did you paint that? It has awesome tonal shifts that really makes it lifelike.

That Morty pose as-is would make a great start to have him fold someone by the collar and pound his face into pulp.

I always liked Mortarion... cool idea. Nice execution Damo.

 whalemusic360 wrote:

. Whats the plan for the green on Horus? It's a bit too green at this point (they are more of a seafoam color).

What happened to 'In Nerd we trust'?

Just cuz I trust doesn't mean I don't want to know what goes on in that painting head of yours. Wait, I don't want to know that. Gross, quit it! Eeeeewwwwwe.

A stern figure, fatherly in countenance yet lurking beneath the surface was the passion and determination of a single minded warrior, Lorgar's deep resonant voice gave all those who heard him pause as his oratory was both stirring and manipulative......

I now finished another Primarch! Lorgar, if you didn't guess

my thoughts? I like him! as you'd expect but it's the fact he looks like he's holding himself in check ready to unleash that frackin' great big mace that gets me! I wanted him to sort of look like the whole models been dipped in tea like when you made fake pirate maps as a kid! I want each model to be noticeably different in regards to depth of colour and shades of gold/bronze so Lorgars a very warm model for me.

Lorgars face was a favorite part to do, having a challenge is something I like to tackle when painting! and trying to get a golden skin without being too much was fun! I think it worked well, Whaley can tell you better what it's like when he gets him in hand.

and here he is!










and I am pretty sure I added the pictures so you can finally just click and vote for him in the gallery? (please) I'm trying to smother the front page in Primarchs! so if it's not any trouble would you mind going galley hunting and vote or me?