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Wow, what an awesome looking piece!

Thanks Zambro, Im really pleased with it myself, I like the story it tells ;-)

Beautifully done Nerdy. I just love the somber feel of the piece... the emotion really comes through.

I predict you are going to win with that. The mood is so good! (Will you write a story to go with it?)

How did you do the fancy shoulder?

it's like the 2 Samurai classic duel feel to me.

Nerdo, I love it!! Its just.... Wow....

Painting is excellent as always, and your composition is excellent. Its sparse, but every detail matters.
I hadnt noticed before, but the cape trails blood! Thats some brilliant attention to detail. The freehand on the cloak is fantastic, too

The MW has a perfect expression for your title as well. Not proud of what hes done, but he had to do it. Resigned to the fact that his "brothers" were to be his enemy. Its deeply moving.

Gonna be a top contender, I can already see that...

Oh yeah thats perfect Damo, really fits the theme.

The painting is outstanding, I love the blood trail from the sword.

Love it! That shoulder pad is incredible and like everyone says, the mood is perfect

I'm so happy to hear those comments (well, read them) I really wanted to get more of a 'feel' into this piece with the models and where they were situated so to keep reading that it conveys the sense exactly as i wanted it really makes me happy! my favorite pic is the second last one with the deeper shadows it's the shot I saw in my head

the 'fancy' shoulder was a simplified version of my usual swirly things I do, I used white paint to trace the design elements and then washed with cassandora yellow!

That "simple" swirly is to die for. Swine lovely job as ever.

Just spent a while going through your blog man, so many great pieces. You've really moved up through the painting ranks man...as the freehand on that mantis shows!

I have an idea and I'm just spit balling here, it may or may not come to fruition one day but it keeps intriguing me to want to do it, the suprising part is it's not a loyalist force or faction, it's those nasty old Khorne guys and demons! I know they're nothing new and everyone's done some great conversions and forces but I have an urge to Nerdify them in my own special way, I've got this thing for Khornate hounds.....

The Barghesi ones from PuppetsWar and the ones with the Ogryn handler from FW all I want to do is paint them really really pale with veins under the skin and their extremities fading into a darker red flesh, black eyes and gums with aged bone teeth, creepy and nasty looking!

Daemon Prince kitbash using the FW Fire elemental head as a base, body perhaps loosely based on a Tyranid model with additions of armour and smoothed out musculature positioned to be crouching as if he's just hit the ground from falling through a warp rift!

Bloodletters, just painted different, pale like the hounds with black gums/tongues and the limbs painted as if they're charred getting hotter towards the fingers and feet where they'll be red or flame painted

Terminators based on the FW Butcher models just with added Damo! arm and head swaps to give the poses more flair, sounds simple but would probably be one of my faves to do (look at my Lysander, just a head and arm swap and it's a new model!)

Bezerkers FW upgrade kits on different bodies than normal, just not sure which ones?

Any other ideas you guys could think would be good? I'd love to play around with some gory bases too.......


but while we discuss my hobby ocd, even if I do eventually follow the dark path for a while i've got some more pressing painting matters to attend to first which may take a little bit of time, but be well worth the effort Whaley is sending me his 30k Salamanders army to paint up for him in the candy green I did Vulkan in I think the words '65 marines' and '20 terminators' were mentioned......

and I have some more Admech to paint this time for Gitsplitta a chicken walker, a crab walker and a bunch of the tracked guys as well as something that may be amazing and that i've wanted to paint for a few years now, I believe I've now got enough skills and know how to do this model justice for him. I won't say what it is just yet and leave you guessing but if Gits wants to drop a hint I'm cool with that


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Ooooh double post! that's tricky how the hell?....

Is the extra thing for Gits that thing we talked about?

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Is the extra thing for Gits that thing we talked about?

... Yep, sure is x

Man, I am as pumped to see that as I am the Manders.

You think you're pumped to see that! i'm PUMPED to do that!

If you do Khorne and paint them the way you are talking I say go with the AOS bloodguys and just nerdify their armor as their chapter is more likely to just wear half the armor to a gunfight.

If you're talking about the project I think you might be talking about.... Im excited


Very much looking forward to the candy green Salamanders. Vulkan was intense, but a whole army!?! Thats gonna be sweet

What can I say guys!? I'm a little bit crazy :-) an entire Sallies force in candy green, a Admech force in candy red? and another candy project that may well be what you think Ramos......


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Little work on LittleH's models nothing too earth shattering but they won't take much more once I get a bit more time on them, the metal armour i'm trying a more glazed approach which is subtle but will come to life with some more shading and highlights.

first is a couple of 'boring' progress shots where it's not that exciting

LittleH's stuff is looking nice!
I'm liking the colors of the brownish-red armored guy. Care to elaborate on your new glazing experiment?

I really admire how you've really developed your own style. Between the gritty colors of these minis and your orks, the beaten look of the metals and Admech (which I finally got to see in person... really like the orange!), and the candy colors, it just really screams "Nerd painted this". I admire how you developed your own sort of distinctive style, and you just make it look so effortless! Im really jealous, you know that?



(Excitement intensifies for the "other" candy project =D )

gak son, this all looks amazing, I am in awe!

I wish someone would say something about a possible project that could possibly be reasonable exciting if only said project were confirmed .....

Beautiful looking paint as always matey !

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gak son, this all looks amazing, I am in awe!

Please tell me you didn't read through the blog from when you were last on here Jirc? that would have taken you ages!! nearly as long as you've been gone from Dakka glad to have you back though mate, and can't wait to see you post some progress!

Yo, a little more LittleH work today, nearly done with them for the most part should have them ready to go in a week







I tried to sort of focus on a main colour for each model, green, yellow, reds etc.

Love what you're doing with these old minis, I have a whole box of a similar vintage (some of the same minis, even) back home and you're definitely inspiring me to see about renovating a few of them!

Love those classic sculpts! Paint job is looking very fitting

Damo that chaos warrior is awesome...I love the grit and vibe its got because of your choice of colors. Also I really like the redhead sword master. Dang, those old minis had some much appeal. Like blank a canvas. Now so many models force you paint a certain way....anyways..cheers man, great work as usual.

O.K thanks to Bebop and bloody AMAZING painting I'm really really keen to push my own work and do some more different styles or techniques, this has led me to be very excited about my next two or three projects which I will tell you guys about now


PROJECT#1
So, I have two commission jobs to do in the next couple months, first up is for Whalemusic and it's his troops heavy 30k Salamanders army done in the candy green that I painted Vulkan in previously this also includes a couple of dreadnoughts one of which I believe is Ashmantle! as well as a bunch of Terminators

This army is large and a rather scary prospect when you consider the amount of models, the good thing is the majority will be all of the same colour so the main part shouldn't take too long and then i can go squad by squad and blend in the flames and trims, gold trims I'm thinking? and instead of stylized flames I'll blend the flame colours into the actual armour plates, should look pretty sweet.


PROJECT#2
This one's for Gitsplitta, it's two linked projects, the first being a small Admech force consisting of (correct me if i'm wrong Gits) 1 magos, 3 breachers, 3 destroyers, 1 ironstrider walker & 1 Onager. The second part is a much larger endeavor but along the same lines as the admech and will be following the same theme. Yes, that's right I will be painting a REAVER TITAN! I got tired of waiting for Ramos to build a titan so I had to take matters into my own hands all these models will be done again in the candy style paint which I think will look stunning on the Titan in the same red as I painted Kiera

These two projects will be my main focus for the foreseeable future and leading up to them I'll finish LittleH's models and clean up my workspace ready for the painting onslaught

PROJECT#3

Not so much as a project but an experiment, after seeing Bebop's latest work I realised I need to try and move forward with my own painting, he has some amazing skills and the latest models he's done have made me feel somewhat lagging behind in the painting stakes so I've decided to paint some models that are different than I've ever done which should hopefully push me to do different things, I've always loved fantasy models but never like the idea of the game and now with AoS I still don't feel inclined to pick it up and have decided to try my hand at HORDES models particularly Circle Orboros the models for the most part I am drawn to, the warp wolves etc make me want to paint them as my own furry wolf pack and the griffons I just have always loved in any form or mythology and hopefully one day I can use them in a game. I won't be rushing them but will be using more of a wash method to get smoother colours and try some things out.

Very exciting plan for the near future nerdy... even excepting my own part in it. Can't wait to see what "next level" Nerdmagic looks like.

OH, there will be one addition (which I'm waiting to show up, which is why I haven't sent you anything yet)... and additional magos and two of the cult mech robots.

OMG a REAVER....