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Just going to add my voice to the chorus here, Damo - the GKs look fantastic, and so does the WIP base for RT's Knight. I'm also a big fan of that Wolf Priest. Very impressive work on this lot, mate!

The base looks great! Love me some rusty metals

That's so hellishly, brilliantly crusty. Love it.

The rust meister strikes again! that base for the knight is awesome Nerdy.

Fantastic work on that base

Thanks guys, I really like where the whole model is heading including the base, i'm not a huge one for bases but I like to play around with things like this I'm going to add some churned muddy grasses in spots and maybe some more yellow on the IF backpack? but not too much more since it's the Knight that needs to stand proud!

Speaking of Knights, not the Atropos this time, but the other two i'm doing (lots will be carried over to the Atrapos though) I was going to leave them as they were since Brett was happy with them but the perfectionist in me had to just have another play with them and try another 'thing' I wanted to see how it looked and then I ended up re doing both arms

How awesome does the thermal cannon look. Fantastic effect

Did you create that base or buy it.? Fantastic either way.

and yes .. like what you did with the thermal cannon.

Agree with Jan, the flames are a nice contrast to the burnt metals of the gun itself.

Looks great bud.

Yes, well done! Most likely, so are the enemies of that IK ! Those are suitably gritty!

Well done enemies lol! yep certainly going to be crispy when that gun heats up! I like the little spot of brightness on a darker model like this, just adds a little pop of Oooomph.

@ Solar_Lion, I made the base for the Knight from my bits box, a few left over resin basing details from FW models add a lot more character :-)

The redone arms are just awesome!!

Beautiful work on the base, both conceptually and in the execution.

Nice work on the arms.

The internal glow is good. You'll need to carry that over to the gun's barrels too.

Salamanders for 30K! yes please I really like this combination of green/gold and black it suits them so well and the flame motifs i've gone with a more design oriented style which I prefer on them
hope they look good enough for you guys and especially Whaley!








I also have managed to finish the assembly of the rest of RiTides and Gits' models I can say that I am not a fan of mechandrites!!! those fiddly little fragile resin strings of pure evil! but they're together now and I'm happy

Gits got all his 30k Skittari built and some Vanguard and Rust Stalkers for 40k as well as another Dominus model so that'll keep me busy as well! the pics i've got are just assembled but as of now they are all primed! which means I can start painting!




These Rust Stalkers are really really cool! I played around abit with poses to give them a sort of jerky insectoid look and I'm champing at the bit to get brush on them!







Now to the Paint cave!

Oh you gonna have fuuuun! Loved painting those guys. Gorgeous figs. Know what you mean about the bloody mechandrites. Fiddly buggers to bend and place. For some idiotic reason I pinned them. That was a pain in the arse but great figs all the same. Looking forward to seeing them all nerdified!!!
Sallies look glorious btw

You did a fantastic job on the assembly! Allow me to apologize on behalf of Forgeworld

Those Sallies are absolutely lush... Think you nailed the flame details by keeping them to a minimum. Man... Im excited to see these in person


Now the Mechanicus stuff!! Hoooo boy you're gonna have fun with those guys! They're still some of my favorite models to paint, even if GW/FW decided to make them the fiddliest things imaginable!

Great looking work! RiTide's knight is going to be suitably awesome on that base, dancing about with its spindly legs.

What is that little pig thing next to the dominus in the first photo? A mascot?

Well it's a little robo-mule that nerdfest added a flamer to. I'll be using it as a servo-automata with flamer, or just a familiar / cyber-occularis (AKA mascot ) depending on the game!

They're available from Blind Beggar Miniatures here, quite cheap too! Also some other robo-critters on offer although it's easiest to see the full range by looking at the KS that originally funded them here (which is how I got them... like most things )

Looks really cool. Want to see some paint on the little guy now.

Awesome work on the salamanders, love the style of the flames. And those rusts talkers are incredibly dynamic, I can't wait to see them finished. Amazing work as per usual.

Thanks guys! i'm in my element now that they're built I will kindly accept your apology Mr RiTides as they were painful to assemble but they are now all mechandrited up!

I have pretty much painted up a 30k Skittari for Gits as a tester and he looks pretty decent, like I mentioned the sculpt on a few leave a bit to be desired (the gun barrel isn't as obvious in hand) but keeping them dark goes a long way yo hide any minor flaws and an added bonus is they look how we wanted them to look these boys are Dark mechanicus who have just turned to the side of Horus so Gits wanted them to be dark metal and black with a grimy countenance and a little pop of colour with gold and red, so I did red lenses and chest cog and gold around the surround of the helmet lenses and just a small accent on the shoulders.





I also started painting the armour on Asterion Moloc in between washes drying, I wanted to paint the panels and blend in the highlights since he is going on the base of a rather large model with his friend Enkomi! I still need to make him a bit darker then a final highlight before the other details get done. plus I can't have stuff on my painting table and NONE be for Whaley! that's unheard of!

Ooh, I'm looking forward to seeing your take on Asterion Moloc Nerdy! Should look pretty violent! Maybe put a severed Space Marine limb or something on his base for that anti-Astartes kinda vibe.

The paint job on that Skitarii looks like a perfect fit to me! I think you nailed it

Finally able to get on Dakka again. I love the job you've done on the adsecularis covenant Damo. I'm going for a "freshly minted dark mechanicus" feel for the army... so just the beginning of the chaos taint... nothing as advanced as you'd find in later eras. I think they're going to be a beautiful start to my 30k AdMech cybernetica force. Thank you for applying your talents to them and getting me off to such a great start.

The skitarii will indeed complete my 40k AdMech army... well, the normal part of it at least. The rest of my army that you've built and painted previously always gets rave reviews. I'm very excited to have an all-Nerdy army to be able to trot out.

Well after a couple of pretty hard core days of painting I've finished ALL of Gits' models so pleased with them all as well especially considering the time frame! now he will be able to take them to the game in November which is what i wanted to finish them for.

So first up lets take a little look at the rutstalkers, 5 gangly metal assassins.








and here's their mates the Admech Skittari, I like the brassy gold and the shadows in the metal with the red robes it is a simple scheme but just loos bloody good!







And their counterparts the newly turned 30k skittari in their ranks ready to cook!




and here's a little bonus for Gits a set of 4 Servitor automatons! gifted to him from RiTides and painted by me




I managed to get a litle more done on the Asterion Moloc model for Whaley, only bad thing is I kind of got......inspired......and,.....well, I may have bought him for myself to do a Minotaurs force myself




But wait that's not all! I assembled my Space Wolf terminators and have decided on forming Sven Bloodhowls great company! I just did a few little minor conversions for these guys, a slight twist of the arms here and there makes a more volatile presence as if they're swinging or shrugging a challenge to the enemies.







and now I can get into RiTides models soon!

As usual, Nerdy, fantastic stuff. Love the red you've got on the Skitarii.

Asterion Moloc looks awesome and violent. I love the green glow you've got going on the blade.

Look forward to seeing what you do with the Space Furries.