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The car model is 1/24 scale and i'm going out on a limb here and saying that an S2000 IS an adult car Whaley! :-) at least it's a step up from my Daihatsu! 2 seats means I won't be able to put the furry kids in it unless it's one at a time!

If you don't paint it like the one from 2F2F I'll be sad.

I support this idea

Well round here it is a hairdressers car, so baby pink would be about right!

Well until I get a pink car you'll have to settle for some more wip and banter from me

lets see, where to start? how about Armies on parade! a little bit of progress along the lines of priming and a squirt of black but now it looks more like a board and less like bits and pieces of random foam and pipes I added some bits of busted chipboard from my kitchen demolition as slabs of floor (yes i'm also in the middle of a full kitchen renovation at home) so now I have a decent amount of depth to play with as well as some areas for models to stand.






So I also played around with some Terminator models for my Fists I want them to stand out and look pretty impressive especially when they'll be hanging with Lysander I used some BA arms I had left over and some newly acquired casts of Tyberos, Lugft, and Cull'n to dummy up some poses, looks o.k but now I need two more individual Termi bodies so the squad looks cohesive any suggestions guys?






And the Shields for the Termies are underway as well!



and a little more on the Sternguard! slow and steady here boys



So, what else is going on!? well I have a list of what I'm hoping to finish before years end!

* Whaley's 30K Salamanders army (there is progress just not exciting stuff )
* Armies on Parade board and Imperial Fists army for it.
* 20 Grey Knights for Big & LittleH
* 4 Kastelan Robots for a local player
* 2 Imperial Knights for a local player
* 4 kastelan Robots for Whaley
* magos for both lots of robots
* Reaver titan for Gits!

Wow.....I haven't visited this thread in a while and that was clearly a mistake, I thought I'd have a leisurely read, catch up on a few bits I missed. I misjudged your productivity! I have not only missed models, I've missed several complete armies! The painting on that herald though is astounding. Truly revolting! The idea of the big guy painted makes my stomach feel quite nervous!

I was thinking about other Termie bodies, then I scrolled down and saw those shields, and my mind was too blown to come up with anything, they're stunning!

The board should be epic as well, looking forward to that!

J-paint wrote:Wow.....I haven't visited this thread in a while and that was clearly a mistake, I thought I'd have a leisurely read, catch up on a few bits I missed. I misjudged your productivity! I have not only missed models, I've missed several complete armies! The painting on that herald though is astounding. Truly revolting! The idea of the big guy painted makes my stomach feel quite nervous!

Hey man! good to 'see' you again yes i've been painting a little bit this year and a lot of random things to create some interest for myself, Nurgle is my latest inspiration and the big guy is gonna be great fun to paint, just still waiting on the wings

Paradigm wrote:I was thinking about other Termie bodies, then I scrolled down and saw those shields, and my mind was too blown to come up with anything, they're stunning!

The board should be epic as well, looking forward to that!

Oh Para, too kind dude! I wanted to make the shields look like they've taken them from the walls of the armoury and they are battle worn and used to actually block things now back to thinking bout the Termi bodies for me!

Those shields look completely awesome mate, Stunning how the black on the fist is shaded, and the worn chipped look is spot on !

Still jealous of your yellows. Great addition to your IF army.

Hey guys, I'm going to be doing a little project for Ritdes and painting up a Iron Warriors Knight Atropos from FW i've already started planning the scheme out and sketching up where the colours are going on, the overall look is going to be really gritty and weathered, battle worn and destructive.

I'm pretty excited about painting this model and can really see myself sinking my teeth into it here's a look at how he'll be attacked with my brush!

crikey Nerdy, that sketch alone is worth coin!! gorgeous looking

wait.....just got it......i'm an idiot. still gonna look well tidy

Very exciting Nerdy!

 nerdfest09 wrote:
The car self portrait is just a bit of fun :-) i picked the driver models up for nothing and thought i'd have some fun with making myself and nerdwench cruising in an S2000. might make her want to buy me one for reals?

Well if you had to have a car you needed to convince the women folk to allow you to buy, that's a good one to pick. The s2000 is a slick car with tons of performance opportunities

Wow, that coloring on the sketch came out so great!

Really looking forward to seeing you tackle it and then seeing whalemusic's warlord grind it into dust at AdeptiCon . If I've read the rules right, it seems like on a 6 this thing can do some serious damage, so maybe I'll get lucky!

Yeah the knight is going to be fun to do! I've got two more Imperial Knights to paint like i did Kiera earlier in the thread plus some GK's and Gits Admech stuff so the bonus is that they all require a base of metal colour for me to start which means I can get them all primed and base coated in one go and then work on them pretty much all at once 'cos you know i like to do things like that!

now for other stuff! I got some termies from Whaley (plus an awesome early B'day present) so i could finish assembling my squad, which I duly did and think I've got some decent 'heavy swinging' poses with the constraints of the models using the position of the torso's plus BA and Vanilla hammers and the FW shields they look dead 'ard! and you can see i've already scored the bare heads from deathwatch







Also a little more on the Salamanders! I'm going to move through them squad by squad and this is the Assault guys, all silver metals are on and washed and i've browned out the areas I want to do gold. I think I've got enough on each to add that little bit of bling to them without going over the top, next is the left pad done in black on them all.



And i finished the Tyranids for my Armies on parade board! I actually like them a heap more than I thought I would, they were only going to get a basic scheme but the colours just grabbed me and I got carried away they look pretty cool with the poses for placement on the board buildings.

Just love those nids damo. You've really got the groove on wing color patterns.

Wow, those nids really are sharp!! Very impressive, even upside down on bluetac

Lovely job on the nids. Colour scheme works great. I just finihsed another 4 for Space Hulk.......urgghh. Still another 10 or so to go

Excellent work on the Genestealers and the AoP board in general. I love how you've taken the classic cream and purple theme but make it look realistic.

EDC

Love the AoP board, I would love to do one myself but have no idea on how to approach it?
Great work - love the colour scheme on the 'nids

Thanks again guys! those Nids are tempting me to do some more! maybe one day :-) Might grab a Carnifex......


I'm thinking the models for the AoP board should be another Tac squad, a Termie squad and Assault squad to give enough difference and enough models? plus I should be able to get them painted in time! Those Stealers were meant to be bone coloured but I wanted dark purple shading and got carried away so they now are a nice muted purple over desert yellow base coat, seems to work Lol!

A big, dead Molock in the middle of the board might be cool.

More board work! I've started the flow of waste water from a pipe and begun to add some powder and metallics around the place, originally I was going to do marble flooring but the only things I had around at the time weren't really conducive to doing that so it's a boring ruined floor now think I should add some grey or something to change the colour a bit? I've chosen purple Tyranids and Green sludge to go with a brown board as I think those colours will highlight the bright yellow of the Imperial Fists.

still got a few weeks left to finish it and paint the army it's a bit of pressure but I really want to win again especially since there's meant to be a lot more entries!

here it is so far, any ideas to bring it up a level without going ott?

Sternguard are looking awesome. So is everything else

The green liquid is a really nice effect , how did you go about that ?

Floor looks solid to me.
Maybe add some posters and trash on the walls and corners where it might have blown ?
You can use a normal household printer to make posters as long as you spray varnish them so the ink doesn't run !

Got some left over posters from my game board I can use

Is looking good, Nerd'.

As you say, you don't want to go too ott on the base, as it's meant to be the backdrop for the models; they are the star of the show.

But yeah, some rubbish here and there, maybe the odd plant struggling to make a life in a small corner out the way (not yet eaten by the nids... might be good to show the IF protecting "life" from the nids this way).

Is that the final colour of the "water", or is it waiting for the water effects / PVA to cure and be less white?

Wise words Doc!

But maybe the posters could warn of Nid infestation !

I agree with Doc. If you wanna pound more detail in, hit the nid bits and the buildings.