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 whalemusic360 wrote:
You know it. Obviously you are going to have to pick up Dorn when he eventually comes out too. If you wanted to make it a 30k switch hitter force, picked up BaC would be a massive boost too.

Well then, lets get me a cost on a Land raider 2x rhino's and a Predator then! and I'll be looking at BaC a bit later, it's on my wish list for sure! and Dorn will be a awesome model I have a good feeling about him I'm guessing I'll get to paint yours? in fact you've been a bit quiet on the Primarch front Whaley? when am I getting a new one to play with?

Haha, probably later this year when I order the big plasma, whenever that comes out.

Cool idea with the wings on the Tyranid. The veins look great!

EDC

Made a little progress on my Terminator Chaplain today I think he works? I like the bare head even though the skull helm is their signature having a bare head really sums up their faith in the Emperor protecting them!

He's actually a really big model too when I put him near Lysander he dwarfs him!





and more of Daisy May

Coming along really nicely, love the metallic black as much as ever and the face is of course great!

It works. The head is stunning and a great job on the metals. Love the work on the folds in the robe too. He doesn't look very chaplain-like though. Still, a beautiful job so far.

Crikey Nerdy - he's stunning. The skinwork alone is worthy of awards. You really gotta (please) put a wee tut up about you techniques on that one. I'm alreay nabbing your plasma mortar effect

Here's one he did a while back:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/4800/356350.page#6918317

A great reference tool, once you get past the realisation that Damo is some kind of face painting demigod and us mortals can never dream of doing it quite as well!

I got to see your stuff in-person for the first time at AdeptiCon (Whalemusic's AdMech) and you have such an awesome gritty style! Really love Lysander from last page, too

Lysander looks awesome. the white hair and skin contrast is astounding.

The Chaplin looks great Damo, not as nice as Daisy May though

The IF looks great nerdy! I'm sad to see you give up on the BAs but I think you've done a even better job on the yellows in this new army. As others have said, your bare heads are fantastic and give a lot of "character" to the models. Keep it up!

Thanks guys, I can agree with Gits that he doesn't look very chaplain and I attribute that to not having a skull helmet I was going to use the plumed Enkomi head but I think I lost in the vacuum cleaner and I'm yet to find any other heads that spur my creativity at this stage.

Glad you got to see Whaley's Admech RiTides and glad you liked it! it was a more gritty style than I usually paint but I really liked how it came together on those models, it just felt very 30K

Eggy don't fret mate, it just means you need to lift your game and continue the Red tide! I gotta say the yellow on my Fists is really enjoyable to paint, totally different in application to my BA models, this is a much more blended style but is easier due to the staining qualities of each successive lighter yellow

Face painting hey guys!? honestly I would love to do a proper tute, but I really need to actually show you but I am having no luck finding a way to video close work and pop it on the computer with my limited knowledge a step by step would be a bit too subtle for you I think as the whole process isn't a hard one it's just a base, a wash, and lighter highlights up to a final one with darker colours mixed into the skin tone to represent stubble and hair but if you can point me in the direction of a small video camera i'll buy one.

Re: Video camera, hmmm... if your phone contract is up honestly the iPhone does pretty well . I know Ramos uses a separate camera (unfortunately not video) but it's becoming less and less common these days...

My camera can apparently do video, too. Very nicely at that! Thats actually an experiment for later this year... But yeah, most people use their phones nowadays for stills as well as videos.

Usually where people run into problems is uploading them. Takes a wee bit of data to do so. Or time... Depends on what your situation is.


Chaplain looks great, nerd. Love that yellow!

I started LittleH's Orcs and wanted to use a style or colours that were reminiscent of what the models reminded me of, which was the early copies of white dwarf magazine! the muted browns and earthy greens just seemed to fit with the old sculpts, so far i've been working on the skin, it doesn't look much but it's a subtle blend of desert brown, olive green and rust red, the chainmail will be rust brown and cloth will be dirty leathers at this stage








it's a break away from my usually brighter style, even more muted than the last models I did for LittleH but we'll just keep going and see what becomes!

Fantastic start, skin tone is perfect for them.

For old school, have you checked out weetyskemian44 her orks are truly old school excellence heres a link to a page with some of these boys on.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/6570/315548.page

Love the IF work, beautiful yellow, is there a colour you can't master?

Thanks Cam, I do indeed follow Weety's work always a great source for inspiration and techniques especially on her old skool mini's! I like these guys skin too, i'm glad you think it's a good choice I was a little tentative as I usually do my normal green on Orkish models but this just looks right to me. lets hope I can continue in the same vein with them.

any colour I can't master? hmmm lets see I haven't painted white/bone before? and I don't like blues at all, even my Libby's are crappy compared to my other models I did toy with the thought of a bone coloured jungle Tau force a while ago.......

Lovely work! To be honest, that's much closer to what I reckon Fantasy Orcs should look like, the bright and 'loud' green is fine for 40k, but in most fantasy settings I like my orcs nice and muted,

I also applaud the fact you can so competently switch painting styles at the drop of a hat, going from the bright. colourful IF to these old-school Orcs so quickly and maintaining the same quality on both!

Can't wait to see these guys done!

Lovely... very Nerdfestian work on the skin tones and I love the palette you've chosen.

Sweet work Nerdy. Love those skin tones and the boozey noses are perfect

Thanks guys, a few more days until i can paint again but the praise is making me want to do more :-) and Gits 'Nerdfestian' LOL

Oh mate. You have taken Nerdfestian to new heights.....

Its an interesting start, I guess the problem I see with the Pic's is the skin tone very closely matches the rest of the model so at this point I can't clearly see your genius at work. Perhaps once the other colours are blocked in that'll happen.

I need a little bit of advice guys, I want to make a neat little command squad so I can do some cut & paste converting on some cool models :-)

So, if they're in a Rhino with Kantor how should I arm them? likewise they may see some action with Lysander too. The only two I know I want to make is a Company Champion & the Apothecary but the others i'm not confident on how to gun them up!

You can toss some combiweapons in there if you want some shooty support. Or go real hardcore combat with storm shields and power weapons.

Either way they are very useful in actual games!

I think I'll make an Apothecary, Champion and 3 Combi Plasma marines? does that sound o.k for a command squad?

Sounds good enough to me.

That works.