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I really like the fact that the guy with the bare head, has a head that looks more skull like than fleshed out. Neat effect. Wonderful blending on the cloak and the scroll-work on the helmet is subtle, but perfect that way. Nicely done.

Yup, those are some cool looking marines. Those swirls go well on the helmet.

Pretty awesome looking detail added to his helmet, although not totally sold on the hand and the shaft of the crozius being the same colour, kind of blends together.

They look great! Going to have to run them at some point for no reason other then that.

Since the Chappies are done I felt a little strange...... a little.......thirsty.........something of a RED thirst!

I started again on big Damo. so far i've primed him red and washed him with Agrax shade, at this stage I have only used Vallejo Bloody red to highlight the first layer by watering it down and starting to blend it into the darker washed red it's amazing how one colour, a wash and one colour can so dramatically change the look of a model!

I have a feeling you'll be seeing more boring red updates over the next week







and whilst I painted I was watched by my mate! he is quality control!

Yeah... but your reds are *so good*. I never tire of them!

Great that you've got a painting buddy to keep you company. I have my cats... which also love to hang around, there just isn't much curl-up room near my painting desk!

Thanks Gits, :-) I do really enjoy painting reds now, it's almost second nature to me now! I'm usually not as patient with it as I find it very forgiving to work with, but as this is a larger model I am still using my normal method just being more careful in application.

once big Damo is done I've got GiraffeX's Termies and a 10 man chunk of Sternguard to paint up as much as I can before I head off to Hawaii for a while ;-)

Ooooooo..... Hawaii!!

Yep :-) Hawaii mate! first overseas trip for us so it's pretty exciting for us. looking forward to getting my man boobs out all pasty white for them over there! should be fun times we've already googled a cool comic collectors store and lots of discount shopping! even have a Lego store close by! Oooooh nice

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Yeah... but your reds are *so good*. I never tire of them!

Agreed.

It's hard not to love reds that vibrant.



How long you in Hawaii for? Any particular destinations? How long you going for? What's your address so I can steal yo gak while you're gone?

Oh sure thing snrub. I'll pm you so no-one else nicks my gak before you do o.k? :-)

we're going for a little over a week and having 10 local guys from the muay Thai, MMA stay to watch the place lol ;-) have fun getting past the H train!

but seriously, we are going for a little over a week to Waikiki beach just to unwind and celebrate Nerdwench' birthday and shop and get some new experiences under our belt!

Enjoy that tropical weather. oh and have some native pineapple. it's truely amazing!

@ Nerdfest this is the 4th time I had to ask,

Where did the sharks pads come from?

Wow what a Nerdnado today has been! finishing up the Nerdcademy award and also getting some painting under my belt I wanted to finish the red parts of the big Damo and I did that in an enjoyable session today with music pumped and black coffee next to me for stimulus

I was going to step by step my work again but I couldn't stop painting when I started and by the time I was done the light was bad for taking pics but that aside I hope you like his progress and look forward to more?











sort of sorry for so many images! but I wanted you to check it out as much as I could in different parts

He's really grouse looking. And that head.

It's like a miniature you.


I for one am looking forward to seeing more.

Looks fantastic Damo, but you need to touch up the left eye-socket of the skull on his chest. There's a bit too much red in there I think.

Amazing Red if I say so myself Damo

Now that is one damn fine mini!

As always, your reds are gorgeous. Im really surprised just how much detail is on that figure. The head in particular is just dripping with character (well, I hope thats character....)

Damo, looking at your blog, has once again sparked the inspiration bug. I havent held a brush in months but the time is coming.... had to post to say hey and that you are painting your a$$ off as usual. Sometime soon ill be painting again, i just dont know what to paint. If i should try and finish the ogre or what....

Nice work Nerdy. Looking good there.

Thanks everyone, that was just the reds, I've done the rest of the details now today :-) so the chest skull etc is all good and the power sword looks better than i'd hoped! really nice effect if I do say so lol! only have his head to paint now. at the moment it's just base coated and washed with a base shade highlight and that's it!

but because I'm so close but ran out of time you'll have to wait until tomorrow when I finish him :-D

One can never have enough red! And yours looks gorgeous!

FINISHED!!!! Big Damo is done and looking like he's having a really bad day on his way to kick some serious ass!

I really don't know what to say about him! a bigger model meant more effort in blending the armour and lots more checking and double checking from different distances to make sure it looks good from any angle. his face is cool as, so much emotion and anger displayed which made it fun to do!

I didn't change much of him just filed off his hair and any markings so I could turn him into a Flesh Eater and paint him to resemble myself

I hope you guys like him!










Well, now he's sorted it' finally I get to finish GiraffeX's Celestial Lions Termies I'm sure he'll be happy to hear that


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And here's the link for the thread for voting on him!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/620226.page#7300240

The painting of the face is amazing! Inspiring work.

He's come up rather well, if I don't say.

Enjoy your vacation duder! For realz. And big Damo looks incredibly clean to boot. If only they made an ork like that. Cheers

Stunning work on the big guy Damo. You'd have made a good space marine!

He looks incredible Damo! Very jealous. He should be a primarch

That's awesome Damo. That bend in the sword is bit of a worry though. not sure if i'd trust that blade in battle.

Any chance we could get a comparison shot of him next to a regular marine? And/or a Primarch.

 Snrub wrote:
That's awesome Damo. That bend in the sword is bit of a worry though. not sure if i'd trust that blade in battle.

Any chance we could get a comparison shot of him next to a regular marine? And/or a Primarch.

I heard the Sisters of battle like a bend in the sword'?

I did straighten it when I got it but it went back bendy and then I did it again before painting but it went a little bendy again but it's not too bad I'll try and get a comparison shot for you soon.