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Yep, it's awesome to be able to paint again! I feel so much more relaxed now, it's kind of like withdrawals when I can't paint, that's why i did heaps of smaller stuff today to sate my thirst! :-) now I'm waiting for you two guys to post more stuff!...I went first!

and the Ork skin is simply a thin watered down covering of GW Camo green, but it's the sort of look i'm heading for, something a bit more 'real' and can allow me to add some darker shades and pink tones around bionics and so forth!

Now i'm looking forward to my next paint session! I should hopefully get just as much done for you all!

Glad you like what's there!


Nerdfest09

*adjusts underpants to the outside*

Hurray more Ork!, and those goggles turned out pretty good if you asked me.

And holy cow, the Imperial Fist is looking NOICE. Ive been painting yellows lately seeing as Im playing a BadMoonz army and I can get it down fine enough, but I sure as hell done get it to look like that

Wah thank you mr Cracker sir! glad you like the fist! that ink is awesome dude, get it now and feel the love happen! makes things very much easier! and you approve of the goggles then! phew! that's a relief, I was hoping they turned out o.k, I like them but had trouble with my super glue....and my fingers.....and then my models....and then the glue tube...and then the model again...... so yeah it was touch and go, or rather touch and not let go! I like the skin colour so far too! and i'll make sure there's some yellow on him to a match your guys


Nerdfest09

I have to say I am loving that Ork Warboss with the goggles. Also the Salamanders are coming along very nicely . Keep it up my friend.

Nice fist man!

Nerdfest09 all of your work is looking great man and like everyones opinion Da Boss lens look amazing as usual ! I had to catch up on your thread. I took a holiday from it all to recharge my creative juices and now that I been playing Space Marine on Xbox man I am fully charged up .
Brother keep up the good work. and I noticed you picked up some new techniques I see

Ahh yes, superglue. The funnest more annoying tool in our arsenal. I remember when I was building my now, Mekaniak, that while gluing one of the arms to its body, I hadnt realized that I applied to much super glue, and it ran from the arm, down my finger, which obviously coated another finger, and then seeped down onto the plastic board I work on. So I was listening to music and just resting my hands on the table letting it dry, and spaced listening to some song. After a couple minutes it ended and when I went to let go of the mini to check how its drying, I glued the Ork to my finger, which was glued to another funger, which was glued to the plastic board


That was an interesting turn of events

Allo allo allo everyone! I've finally found time in the madness of my life to do some painting! but first, I needed sustenance to succeed in my endeavors, and what better way to sustain myself and also give my beautiful gf kristy props? well, it was my birthday yesterday and she made me a delicious baked cheesecake! baileys irish cream and white chocolate with a choc ripple base! omg! soooo nice I'd love to share it with you all my friends but I can't so i'll suffice with teasing you with a pic of it instead!



Now that i'm full of energy (and fattening cheesecake) I thought i'd paint some of the fist and the Warboss! let's start with the Imperial fist marine, I started detailing some...well,...details, and painted the shoulder rims and tubes on the armour, as well as layering some more coats of sunburst yellow over the panels, it's slowly starting to cover the colour used to line the armour and smooth out the colour, it's very hard to not get lazy and whack on heaps of paint but to get it looking good this is taking time! he's a slow job but i can see him taking shape slowly, I also dummied up his head and bolter to see how he looks and I must say i like it! another thing I noticed when painting is the quality of the casting, or lack of, which leads me to believe that these marines are copies of the forgeworld ones, never mind i've got them now and they didn't cost too much! on with the photo's of the emperor's finest!





Righto fellow Nerds, here's my Warboss progress, I'm really getting into him at the moment, I plan on entering him in the Coolminiornot painting comp later this month so I am trying hard to make him decent, and it's good for me as it means I am forced to finish him today i nearly finished his shoota and managed to get most of the base coats on each part of him to see where to head, I needed to add some kind of bright colour so yellow it is, but when I finish the metal areas there won't be too much yellow left to show or distract from the rest of him, I am hoping to really make his face the focus with those lenses, to weather him i'm using the same method i used on my landraider a few pages ago.


Here's the shoota, i wanted him to have weathered beaten weapons with a very matt finish to them, rusty but functional!


And here he is in all his angry and war bitten glory! ready to tear asunder any lesser being! and of course waiting for me to finish painting him!


That's all for now i'm afraid! but the bug has bitten me hard and I'm feeling the rush of learning and painting coming back to me! so bring on days off work for more Orky action!


talk to you all soon!

Nerdfest09

how do you paint yr faces so well??!!! HOLY CRAPOLA!

Everything you just posted looks fantastic!!

Looking good nerdfest. Really liking the warboss - especially the goggle lenses.

I'm not a huge fan of the latest SM face though. The lips are a bit too 'pink lipstick' and feminine looking. Maybe try making them darker purple. Also, are you planning on picking out the service studs?

Hi and thanks guys! glad you all approve for the most part! :-) I don't have any purple to use eggy so I'm doing the best with what I got! and yep, since I took the pics i've done more to his face and picked out the service studs as well!
the Warboss is Fun Fun Fun! don't think I could do an entire force but this guy is really entertaining to paint! if i did do an army I'd have them all with goggles! lol :-)

Huzzah! Finally got to check this after a week or two of realising I can't look at this thread at work cause the photos don't show.

I must say mate that you certainly needed that break from painting red and black and you'd doing a spot on job with it. The Ork is a splendid example of weathering (because, oddly enough I think I've discovered I like it with all that I'd been doing of late) and the Fist is a very nice clean yellow indeed. Keep it up!

Thanks DSS, I thought you'd dropped off the face of the Dakka! good to hear from you again dude! :-) Glad you like Mr Warboss, he's had more done today but i haven't taken pics yet!

Hah. I'm still alive. I just need to update. Needless to say in my absence I've pulled off about 1,000 points of Dark Elves so I guess I am making some progress, eh?

Photos will come today, lighting conditions and patience permitting.

Nerd, those minis look great. The face on that Imp Fist is quite impressive. I'm really liking the direction you've gone with the warboss. The rusty weathering on his shoota looks awesome. Hope you had a good bday. That cake looks mighty tasty.

Thank you Moltar! I'll be popping some pics up of the warboss next friday as I get back into my usual update day routine :-) hopefully I get even closer to finishing him! and you would be correct that cake is mighty tasty! only a small bit left..... might need some more?...... ah what the hell I better go eat it! :-)

Nice progress brada, looking good!

I love that imperial fist model. Looks very dramatic to me.

Holy hell that looks good. My PM jokes aside, your making my army look terrible now Guess Ill just have to become a better painter. Super nice update, good luck on your contest

I really love your painting, nerdfest! That marine dread and new ork warboss are superb. I hope you're getting caught up on your current projects because I have a feeling that a big one is creeping up right around the corner

Thanks Haendas I better finish the boss today so I can focus on my project that will be arriving soon! I have all day today to paint, it's raining and miserable and I have allo allo on the t.v and the heater on in the Nerd lair! updates later this arvo!


Nerdfest09


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Whoa, what a day i've had! and it's been awesome! got myself some new glasses with cash from my birthday last week and I love 'em, nice and stylish, and boy can I see better to paint (which makes them hobby related!) seriously it's been years since i had a eye test and now it's as clear as anything! so to kick off todays post, here's a pic of my new frames and lenses (at least i didn't have to paint these ones!) I can't believe how much better I can see details when painting now!


Well, now you've admired me and my new glasses lets get on with what you really want to see!.... my ass!....no? o.k I'll post pics of my models then!

I finished my Warboss! yep, finished, i can't believe it either! i'll run you through the update progress pics though before the final reveal, started off again by focusing on the details on his body like bandages and straps, teeth etc, I quite like the bandage around his arm with blood on it, fun to try and get right too, googling images of bloody bandages is not that much fun but I got an eye opening lesson on the depth of the reds and browns involved I think i did o.k with what i had to use today as I discovered some of my paints had solidified and I need to re stock! well here's the arm for your pleasure:


But what about his other arm I hear you cry! never fear, I got to work on that too, weathering it within an inch of it's life! I looked at industrial machinery that was also yellow and had massive claws like our log strippers and movers from forestry, they're left outside in the bush for months while they harvest the old and new growth forests in my home state, used most days and kept sharp and oiled, very much like I imagine an Ork Klaw to be? heavily used but working well and bloody sharp! lets see how you think i went?


I like it! but wanted some colour on him now, and I know a lot of people are going to say the next bit is too clean for an Ork but I'll just say he's only acquired this cloth recently from some imperial palace, maybe it's a luxurious curtain? up to your imagination!


Oh just to annoy you further, I almost forgot to tell you how my morning started at the very start! yep, with a knock on the door! a knock on the door i hear you say, that's not exciting, usually means a gang of bikers with bars or someone to read a meter to bill me more! but no! better than that, it was a courier, yep, a courier with a package for me! and in that package was.... heaps of cool stuff! namely a can of army painter primer, a rhino, attack bike and Terminators all for my salamanders army and a swag of MERCS mini's a mercenary squad of sefadu for my gaming pleasure! and i must also say the models are really nicely done and great quality, even if you never intend on playing the game, I encourage you to pick some up to paint! I can't wait to start them next week! with my new paint brushes! I needed them so badly! all army painter ones so we'll see how good they are very soon!...


Now back to the Boss, he's all done now and looking nasty as hell, so here's a few pics of him all done, i'll enter him in the coolminiornot painting comp and i'll chuck a link up if you want top check out mine and others entries to vote, some on there already are staggeringly good!






And here's the coup de grace, I like this shot heaps but I'll take it and get some professional shots done soon so i can then send him off to a lucky someone so he can lead a Waaaaaaaah, hope you all like what i did so far and as usual any nice polite comments are welcome


Until next time, happy painting and keep well!


Nerdfest09

Truly epic journey Nerdfest.... and the payoff in the guise of your warboss is fantastic.

Well done man.

He looks amazing, Damo! Well done, good sir. Good luck in the CMoN comp.

Great job on the ork boss . Great blending,weathering and highlights. And your trademark lens...awsome!!!!
Lol and that mug shot of you now we all know what you look like btw cool glasses kinda looks like my Oakley Boomstand.
Keep up the great work.

Dear god! What a sexy man

Seriously though, that warboss looks fantasitc. Youll have to tell me how you painted the rusty/yellow on there, as that looks great!

Hellooooo! and G'day guys! thanks for checking it all out! glad you approve of him! he actually turned out fairly close to my minds eye, he's one of those mini's that I finished and just looked at and went "ahhhh that looks bloody good!" and got a real sense of pride! even though i'm really happy with him, I did learn heaps from painting and will now be hopefully better on my next model? they do say practice makes perfect! lets keep fingers crossed I find heaps of time to practice! especially as i'm now doing the Imperial Fist and that yellow needs some patience

also, thanks for the support for entering the cmon comp i'll pop a link up to him here if you want to have a look and vote on him or any other of those sweet, sweet mini's people paint! http://www.coolminiornot.com/287651

I'm also glad my new glasses are accepted and a touch scared that Kingcracker thinks i'm a sexy man! ..... I tried to do some more blus steel but ended up looking sad!


thanks again everyone, i'll talk soon and hopefully be updating more regularly now i'm organised and have a box full of new fun stuff!


sincerely..... Nerdfest09

I love your work Nerdfest!! And your orks warboss!! Wild man, just wild!! I can't wait to see more. Nice glasses too man, glasses well worth it I say LOL I'm really hating my blue smurfs now LOL I want to start my Black Templars now, you've inspired me. Black is the new BLUE!!! GO GO GO!!

Awesome work. Your weahtering effect is killer. Love the conversion also. Lets see some more orks.

Wow! That Warboss came out so amazing. Job well done my friend. Oh and great job on the Imperial Fist as well.