@ Lucifer
Nice red Don't forget that you can leave the right pad off for inquisitorial reasons

Oh yes, thanks for reminding me, I will be removing the pad.
And its just straight up blood red (it will look better after the badab black wash, I hope)

hmm, guess it's the photo then that made it look a little fancier .

Well, I did highlight it, and give it a grphon... sepia ink wash, so it is a little fancy

Ok few updated pics ( under flash I'm afraid)

Sage



Needs a bit of stuff on the tracks, right arm and weapon and some wiring. And the base. And some little things I just noticed

schank



Bit of tidying on the back ball, rokkits and tubes.
Now, I didn't think that any way I attached mini to base would stand up all that well to travel, all seemed a bit fragile to me, so I decided to magnetise it for ease of transport. It seems pretty good, but you may decide you want to glue it when you get it First attempt I switched the whole back ball for a spherical magnet, then had to try and remove it next day when I remembered why I didn't use those ones on anything before - as it picked up tweezers, chain and a couple of smaller magnets

amazing models!

Those are off-the-hook MT... great job converting and painting!

@monkeytroll That looks fantastic. Let me know when your ready. To swap. I have some detail work to do but thats about it.

I wasn't completely sold on them before, but the paint job really brings them to life! Well done sir!

These are just so preposterously... ORKY! I love them. I'm going to raid my Ork buddies' bits boxes so I can do something orkinatory.

So I haven't fallen completely off the face of the earth! Here are some pictures of an finished marine for brother_zach :





EDIT: Gitsplitta helped with tweeking the first photo, looks alot more natural and the yellow light is now gone

Hey.... that's lookin good Gretar. Man your painting has really improved by leaps and bounds since this started. As has most of ours now that I think of it...

Great Job Gretar. I second Gits observation of your improving skills. Keep it up.

I concur with the above 2 warbosses One of the great things about threads like this is watching various peeps improve over a fairly short period of time, adds extra interest to the whole thing.

Agreed, and when you get to golden demon level, I want a trade!

Lol =) Thank you all for the comments

Finally got some painting in. Thanks to the wind and rain gods

GIt's MW space Hulk Objective marker - done



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all that is left to do is Dull coat him to get rid of all the shine.


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Can anyone tell me how to resize a picture in my gallery and well as how to post her items in my gallery... yes I don't post alot of pics...

I start work on whalemusic360 space marine.... Only thing is the wife has the camera.... stupid camera stealing wife.... But here what I've got so far. I'm using a set of assault marine legs to make look as if he is charging into battle, the torso with the wings and skull, the left arm is a power sword swept down and back behind, and a plasma pistol aimed straight ahead, used an old metal assault marine head with no helmet, gonna use a veteran sgt shoulder pad and deck it out with seals. Once I get the camera back I'll post a pic. My description might not do it justice. I really like how the pose turned out. Still in the beginning phase so still alot of detail work to be done. Not even primed yet. Will have more later after I get muy hands on that camera stealing succubus....... Oh Hi sweetie. I didn't realize you where.Hey what are you doing with that knife..No! Stop! I didn't mean it....Aaaaarrrggghhaaa....................................

LOL, guess thats one marine I can kiss goodbye now that poor schank got shanked

Seriously though that sounds great! I think I may have to do a second ork to make it more even, mine is a lame 'ol Black reacher. I've kinda wanted to try a not-green ork anyways.


Looks good SL, very un-BA. I assume you figured out the picture delema then?

WM almost done. I need to do some armor damage clean up (and fix the hand paint job), finish the weapon detailing and add some accessories to the marine for effect, dull coat and add some folage for the basing. Whew other than that it almost done.I call it the "leap". I'm hoping to be done tonight and in the mail on by the weekend. The model look better than the super close up picture.

on another note I am almost finished with Gits DW sargeant and I added another tropper for the squad as well. ( these are my test schemes for my Adepticon Lamentors army) .

I'll get a better pictures. All I have is my phone camera. Both can be seen in my Gallery. Thou they look better as thumbnails... hummmm.


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Looks good SL, very un-BA. I assume you figured out the picture delema then?

Thanks.. Yours is now in my gallery...I have some accessorizing and some details to sort out. Over all I'm pretty happy with it. I wish My whites were overall better.
Nope: Way too close and detailed. They look great at normal close up. I have to get more pic. and practice with the blackberry phone camera.

Thanks for being patient.

Really nice job brother... be a perfect addition to my Mantis Warriors who as yet don't have any serious objectives! The Lamenters look really good too. Your yellow is coming along nicely. What color are you priming them?

BTW that assault cannon terminator is sweet.

Boooooo! Marines! MORE ORKS!!!!!

schank23 wrote:Boooooo! Marines! MORE ORKS!!!!!

That's what all my marines say when they still have ammo left over.

As soon as I get these done I'm on to a squad of Kommando's for thing 2. My first Orks in 12 years..

@ SL - That guy really looks like hes jumping into the $#!* to mess some folks up. No worries on the speed, I'm rather slow as well.

@ Schank - Arent you supposed to be wife-murdered?

Does that mean I get to keep his Trukk?

Pretty sure he left it to me in his will.......

Sage - Just realised I need to do a bit more work on the face, but there's a chance it might get sealed over the weekend

schank - if your ghost can read this, same applies to yours, if you could get in contact and let me know who you want to get in in your place. Then get in contact as I believe there's some money waiting if we can prove survival after death

an00bis - sorry to be such a tease, but yours just decided to do it's own thing, still is for that matter So you just get a slighly different pile of bits

score, im happy it will take longer, cuz yours i hope to get done by this weekend!

I've gone and finished Porkuslime's Assault Marine and An00bis' Space marine. I'll get pics up either tonight or tomorrow and get them in the mail by Friday.

More Orks!

oooooOOOOOOOOoooooo!!!!!! <In spooky ghost voice> Schank's ghost want to show you some pics of whalemusic360 marine wip. He took the pics with his new ghost camera. He says its a ruff wip right now but this is the general pose he is going for. <Hears something coming> Tina? You cant be here. This place is for dead people...... Whats that on your back?..... What where the hell did you get a photon pack.... wait..... stop.... I have 5 more min...Aaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhaaaaaa!!!!!!

Nice work Arakasi... you start putting a functional steering gear into your truck models and I'm going to have to send the men in white suits for you...

Not *this* time, but I have thought about it (as well as functional suspension). Just for added realism of course. Not because I am mad Bwahahahhhahahahahahhhaaaaaa... ahem.

They make plenty of cheap little toy trucks and cars with functional stearing gears... find one of those and hijack the design... at least it may give you some ideas.

He looks very cool Schank's now busted ghost. Never used that style are in that aggressive of a pose, and I like it! I for sure am doing a second ork, the first is just to plain.

Great pose Schank! Man, You've really taken off on this swap thing since I lured you to the Dark Side! LOL. Arakasi, Your Ork looks awesome as does the Trukk.

Sooo, anyone know the address of the nearest containment centre to schank's home town?

LOL! Great work Ghost-of-Shank! Just in time for Halloween too!

Just realised I confused schank23 for Artsolider35 - apologies all!

Like there avatars are close?

Funny you mention that... I keep toying with the idea of switching mine to a profile of my aged Telion model as that's how I feel most days. But then the whole Gitsplitta thing falls apart so I never do it.

Don't do it Git! People still miss my posts since I changed mine to the DKoK from the Carnifex...

You don't fool us, you're not that tony who had some bugs going

Yeah, Gits. You guys keep bothering me for changing mine.
It would seem so different if you changed yours!

See git, told ya!

Yeah... guess I've grown accustomed to his old mug anyway...

If I changed mine, how much would that screw you up? Would be like a whole new person!

I still like your last Avatar the best tony.

Hmm... You should just switch to a decepticon Like an evil twin!


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Better WM?

Woo hoo!

If I had the energy to photoshop the Con logo with some sort of crappy disguise I sooo would

OH, that's much better tony... that other one was never you.


WM: no switching! You ARE the cat version of Wilferd Brimly!

Cat? Wha?

That thing of yours looks like a robot cat Wilferd Brimley...
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.philebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/mustache-_0008_wilford-brimley.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.philebrity.com/2008/12/02/this-just-in-philadelphians-have-a-sense-of-decency/&usg=__-5xfOh_IXLLwYTpJsVEfccsPoAQ=&h=320&w=320&sz=55&hl=en&start=0&sig2=3C7APSx4jrwIQmbYZLdyzA&zoom=1&tbnid=JqK013FAoDZCAM:&tbnh=127&tbnw=127&ei=f_PJTJjQHsL88AbI8MScAQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwilford%2Bbrimley%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D653%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=705&vpy=198&dur=2423&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=117&ty=125&oei=f_PJTJjQHsL88AbI8MScAQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=21&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0

Yeah I got the Wilferd Brimley part. But a cat?!? Imma disappoint.

What? You want me to say it's a Transformer Wilfred Brimley?? "robots in disguise" and all that?

Actually, put a cigar in his mouth and flip the mustache upside down and put it over the eyes and you'd have Groucho.

... which would be cool...


... just sayin'

Maybe for the con symbol if I ever get around to it. I was thinking a monocle though.

Hey, Tony's back! Man, you wouldn't believe it, there was some guy on here claiming to be you, doing something with Space marines or something, it was far out!

Yeah and he was going to swap me a Baneblade for a rhino.....

monkeytroll wrote:Hey, Tony's back! Man, you wouldn't believe it, there was some guy on here claiming to be you, doing something with Space marines or something, it was far out!

whalemusic360 wrote:Yeah and he was going to swap me a Baneblade for a rhino.....

Hey whale you want me to paint him in my custom chapter colors or in your army colors. Let me know which ya want and I'll get started on it.


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OOooooOOOOOOOooooo! Disregard that last comment. For schank is no more. Just his ghost remains. So leave any comments for schanks ghost after the beep.......BEEEEEEP!

*beep* Uhh, hi Schank's ghost, its whale. Go head and paint it up in whatever colors you want. If its an actual chapter just run it by me to make sure it isn't a double. Talk to ya later *click*

++++Start Transmission++++
Whale......W##le....Can #ou hea# me....
I don# #ave much ti##..... #m be### held
ca##ive by ##il spir##s.... Was #ble to sen#
you ##is....Ru###ng out #f ##im....No.....
#et aw## fro#....Kkkkrrrrrriiiiisssshhhhhkkkkkk....
++++ Transmission Terminated++++

That's an awesome Ghost painted commander.

BTW, Porkuslime: your Assault Marine is in the mail. An00bis: Yours should go out early next week due to me noticing I forgot to do the shoulder pads, OOOPS!

*Busts out Wegi board* L-o-o-k-s-g-o-o-d-I-d-e-f-d-o-n-t-h-a-v-e-o-n-e-t-h-a-t-c-o-l-o-r-s-c-h-e-m-e.

Not sure what that spells, maybe it makes sense to ghosts?

Damn, you got one o'them new-fangled Wegi-boards! Still using those old ouija boards back in Blighty Anyone know an astropath? Might be a faster way of communicating, if he can escape the clutches of those evil spirits, that is.

Thats how you spell it. I actually dont have any of them, and never had.

two thumbs up.... :-)

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two thumbs up.... :-)

nice, excellent effect with the sword

Sage & schank - sealed today - unfortunately the matt needed 2 sprays, so they got 3 coats, has dulled the colours a bit. Also got a touch of frosting on part of the tracks on yours Sage I've re-touched it with gloss to se if that fixes it if not I'll edo the tracks.





(sorry, think that last pic was auto-adjusted)

they both look beautiful!

Hey all,

I have recently done a Brazen Claw marine for WM and from that have been asked by Porkuslime to do an Assault Marine in the Brazen Claw color scheme for his Army. He sent me an outstanding model full of detail and I have finished it. I tried, unsuccessfully, to paint words on the scroll on hic chainsword. Oh well, i tried,..Hope you like it Porkuslime.

I hate to say this art but I see many things wrong with this model.

1. It isnt an ork.

2. It hasnt been killed by an ork.

3. The work ork has not been mentioned at all in your last post.

4. Ork

I hope you dont get offended but The Great Marine Swap was note made for trading marines. The Title is just a cruel joke masterminded by whale.
So I apologize for the miss communication.

I see something wrong with your comment, for the following here are some examples:

1)It is not an Ork

2)It hasn't been kiled by an ork, at least yet.

3) The work ork was not mentioned correctly in your last post

4)ork ork! and again ork.


I hope you understand that this thread is all about orks, and due to this you must make sure your post fits the simple requirements in order to be an ork.

such as
this post is an ork

btw: i love the Brazen Claw marine. Great work!

MAAAARINES!!! MARINES!!

Hey I thought I sounded pretty good for just escaping from evil spirits. And please dont ask how. I am in a middle of a movie contract from the the whole ordeal. But really the marine does look great like sage said. And I love the use of the space puppies shoulder pad for the Brazen Claws.

Awesome marine Art... really nice!

Well, I did get an ORK in return, does that count? Thanks for the compliments. It was hard to paint him as he was shaking alot being surrounded by all my Orks waiting to be painted.

Well, for both of you ORK guys, they have hit the primer as of this morning. Art, yours has 2 sluggas, so not quite WYSIWYG but I doubt any will care. Casper....errr.....Schank, yours (the second one after I decided the 1st wasnt worthy of the trade) is a shoota boy that will have a bit of Tau mixed in for fun. Pics once I start painting.

First off I just have to say ORK!. Now that thats out of my way I may continue on with this post. Here is about I think 75% done Knights of Guilliman marine for Whalemusic360. Hope ya like it if ya want anything changed let me know. I may be painting it but you have to live with it. And I just can across some old Death Watch Kill Team shoulder pads and bolters so if anyone if one want some I'm trading with I'll toss a few in the box with the model.

PICTURE TIME!!!

Looks awesome! The only thing I ask is that you paint the black spot for a barrel, or better yet drill it. Looking great though, and thats a very minor thing (and only cuz you asked ). As for the DW stuff, I'll trade you a few bits that could be orkified for some.

Sweet just let me know how many you need. And yes I'll drill out the gun just wanted to make sure I have the right drill bit first. The only one I can find at the moment is the one I use on my ork barrels and that one is to big.

So that would be one of those pink-skinned skinny orks schank

Good job on the face, and I like the pose with the sword behind.

Oh, good job escaping from those spirits too, we had a plan to help you, just couldn't get hold of that little old lady from Poltergeist.

Sage - I'm going to re-paint the track-unit on yours, re-glossing didn't seem to help much

Thanks monkey.I thinks its one of the best human faces I have ever done. Bad news though. The movie deal was a bust. Apparently Bill Clinton has some crazy disclosure where is he helps you escape evil spirits and you summon Greater Deamon in the process that all legal rights to the event in question belong solely to him. Damn you Bill Clinton. Could have made millions off that deal.......

Got some good ol painting time in today (odd for a weekday). Decided to paint some purple. So I got Gravens duder done short of the base. Cant remember if you wanted me to do one or not, just lemme know.




And as I said, was painting purple. So I started on Lenny's dude as well (and a personal project). Heres a blurry ass WIP teaser for ya. Also need you to remind me on the basing for him.

Lookin' good! Nice to see the beakie helmet so prominently displayed!

I love the beakie helmet. Its one of my favorite from the space marine spur. Digging the studded shoulder pad also. You dont see alot of purple marines. I think the damn Emperors Children ruined it for everyone.

Smashing stuff mate! I'll base him myself on a d-style ta, thinking of putting a broken Mentor pad on it or similar. Cheers bud!

WM the marines are looking great, he'll definitely be fit to join the 'Feast of Blades' squad. With that death mask he may even need to be the Sgt, great stuff I'll try to get everyone's marines pushed along. At the moment I have so much work on my final research project I'm slowly losing the will to live let alone paint.

Alrighty then.....ORKS! Ok, now that that is out of the way. I finished An00bis' Brazen Claw Marine. YAY! I'm done with Marines. I can get back to my Orks. Anyway, here he is.

Im starting to like the Brazen Claws more. I have known about them for a long time but just seen pic in WD or codexes. But seeing Arts Im really liking the color scheme. Nice work Art.................ORK!!!!

No rush Lenny, just was feeling the purple. I wanted to ask you, do you want full battle damage like Gravens or more of a clean look. If hes the champion I though he may be cleaned up. Or he could be like many sports players that wear their beat up gear as it is for "luck".

I'll leave the base off all together for ya graven, should make it easier to do.

TiB wrote:@ Yggdrasil
Your Nurgle officer with Powerfist WIP. What do you think?

Sorry TiB, I've had difficulties in following this thread as I have a mostly passive role (some would say, utt-ork-erly passive )...

Yeah he looks really nice, I can't wait to see him painted in your so special kind of way!!! The power fist looks really organic, do you plan on covering it with rust, or in a more fleshy way?!?

edit : after looking again at it, I think I can see some mold lines on the bolt pistol... Or am I nitpicking?

@ Schank: Yeah...they look really good and if I ever go soft and do a marine Army....i may have to make them BC. Problem is they take so long. Anyway, glad you like them..............................ORK!

Yea I can see why they take so long. That pattern has to be a pain in the arse to make the line look straight......Wait a minute a Brazen Klawz army.... ORKs dont care about straight lines.. Problem solved I win.

HAHAHA! Yes, go with that!

Bah! A challenge. Now I have another project to work on. Ship out monkeys ork, which I'll do tomorrow. Finish whales marine. And now 'Da Brazen Klawz. I'll have to do up a test model for it. But I will need some help. Art what are the exact colors you used painting your Brazen Claws? I would like to get them as close as your color scheme as possible.

I would like to send a marine. But I have horrible horrible painting...

It doesnt matter how good you can paint. As far as I can tell all are welcome to play. Besides my orks dont care what they kill looks like as long as it puts up a good fight. Toss a line out there and see if you get a bite. I might help to post a pick or some fluff of what you are working on.

hmmm. Well I could throw one of these badasses in

flamer-bolter = fail I know. I ran out of parts. I will put greenstuff on it.

Look like your on the right track AC. I am unfortunately closed for the winter for new trades (no way to prime anything).

Just to make sure I've got all of them in some form of progress, lemme run through em in no particular order. I kinda do them as I get the bug up my bum, but I'll try to get those of you who are speedy ****s done first. Figure if I get one a week done I'll be set to go.

Graven: SD. All but done (gotta do the chapter logo)
Lenny: SD. Purple done
Art: Ork. Green skin. Idea well under way
Schank: Ork. Primed. Have a good idea of what I'm doing.
Hemmingway: Mentor (always fun to try something new I guess) Primed and planned.
Git: DA. Robes started
Vent: DA. Robes started
Arakasi: Ork. Looted Dread. Painting started. It'll take awhile to do this one.

Hey Whale, yeah go for the battle damaged look, I personally don't do enough work on my battle damage so it'll be helpful to have a physical example to inspire me. Besides the way I see it he's going to be in the middle of the thickest fighting so a few dings and scratches are too be expected, lol.

Cheers again, oh and for the base just leave it as he'll be coming off that base and going on to a resin one.

Schank: Colors are as follows:

Red: Mechrite base, Badab Wash, Mechrite again, Then final Mechrite/Iyanden highlight.

Blue: Regal Blue, Badab Wash, Regal Blue again, then Regal Blue/Ultramarine Blue, finally Ultramarine Blue highlight.

Just out of curiosity, has anyone started making shoulder pads for "Da Deffwatch"? Why should the ORKs be left out

lol, look forward to seeing some Brazen Klaws schank Yours is ready to ship, let me have your address and I should get it off in the next few days.

LOL Tony.

Go ahead man... I've got enough to do. *tag*

HEY! I never said that Git! Though that does sound like a fun little side job

tony_nids_10 wrote:Just out of curiosity, has anyone started making shoulder pads for "Da Deffwatch"? Why should the ORKs be left out

Wow. If someone makes a deffwatch, I'll join in

I may or may not be working on a shoulderpad

I may or may not already have an ork ready to be painted for da deffwatch

Deffwatch, Brazen Klaws, 'Bug Boyz', Da Dark Angels....Da Orkses is taking over see.... 'ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go...WAAAAAAGH

Da Blood Angelz


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Damn it guys

Da Deff Company for the Da Blood Angels

Now I may actually have to do this. Hmm, maybe one stormboy squad, and a squad of 'deff company'

monkeytrolls 'ard boy got some paint on it finally!! got a couple more layers to do but at least its getting somewhere!!

My DC marine for ice angel, the marine i wrote fluff for his story is assembled and primed.

I received a marine from hemingway but unluckily haven't sent his yet, I have it packaged and will send it morrow!

Alright. Well as you all know Art can paint a killer looking Brazen Claw space marine. I just happened to bring up 'Da Brazen Klaws and then Art issued a challenge. Well no really but thats how my version goes. I was digging threw my orks to see what would work as a good test model....... Found nothing. But then I went threw what little orc models I had...... Hurray for Black Orcs! This is what I came up with so far for the armor. I got the arm and head picked out just have to do alot of converting on the arms so all you get is the body. More will come later. This should tide you over for a bit Art...... well at least I hope. Oh yea I used Arts recipe for the color scheme. thanks Art.

Freakin' Awesome! BLACK ORKS ROCK! Yes, do a whole army that way.

This is my next big project. I will convert my 'Ard Boyz to Brazen Claws also. Thanks for throwing this up Schank.

I love all the Marine themed orks, rather ironic most came to life because of the MARINE swap.

Actually Schank's boy I'm making is going to be Tau themed.

i have a bunch of orc models since my parents brought up my old warhammer army which im trading and kitbashing now. I could repaint some and trade them out, hopefully i can cut them off the square bases!

Thinking on my last statement. instead of a whole army or even a 'Ard boyz squad.....i might go with a NOBZ squad and give them all PKs.....then they would truly be Brazen Klaws!

Nice work on the Brazen Klaw... Hopefully he'll be 40k-ified!?!

You ask and you shall receive. 'Da Brazen Klaws 40k style. Not done yet as you can tell. Just have the first coat of red and blue done so far. I do about 3 coats thined down before the wash to make it look even. So here it is. Might have to do a squad also Art. Diggin the colors.

I have a deranged idea for a Mental Leejun gretchin if anyone's up for it...?

Love that ork shank... are those fanasy parts?

Yep, I used a Black Orc Model. The arms are from the black orc spur also just cut the fist of the left arm and added a power klaw and cut the ax off the right arm and added a shoota. Fairly easy to do. Just a bit of cutting and shaping on the arms. But I like it.

Yeah, I've seen other black ork conversions into 40k and I have yet to see a bad one... just works really well.

Excellent with the Klaw!

Lenny's guy is DUN! Its really hard to do these without boltgun metal Hit me up with your address (Graven, need the same) and I'll get em out beginning of next week. 2 UK shipments is gunna be a bummer.

BTW, got your guy Graven. Backpack fell off, but that was an easy fix.

I also realized I'm really slow. Took me 2 hours to do everything from the last pic. ugh.

Well why not send it as one parcel to one of us and the we can dispatch it internally, should save you a hell of lot.

If thats cool with you guys I can do that. Any preference on who gets the package from me? I can throw in some extra bits for whoever it is.

"Oi! Grot! Wot's dis Mental Leejun den?"
"Well Boss, dey is dis Leejun of grots see, an' dey is, well..."
"Mental?"
"Oh! so you does know 'em den?!"

hahahhhahahahaha i love that grot!

Nice Job on the grot!

*smirk*

That's priceless graven...

Grots ftw

Lol. How many armies will this madness spawn?!

tonss!!

Love the Grot!

Well, I'm happy to trade with anyone for an Ork or a marine; I have enough bits (ie goblin heads/arms) to make 2 more just now.

Well, I could be interested, if you're not in a hurry...

Will he be painted in the colours of the Mentors?

Naturally though a little :censored: up.

I don't know, you go on vacation, lose Internet for a week, and the next thing you know *everyone* is doing SM flavoured Orks...

Da Dark Angelz - Da Orig'nal 'an da best!

Of course, it will make trading easier when I get back, and finish Gitsplitta's and Artsolider35's swaps...

Keep up the excellent work everyone!

I'm actually kinda slacking on yours while your away to try to get through some of the other more, well, normal swaps done.

I figured as much - and thought it was too obvious to specifically mention At my current rate, even without being away, you will probably finish before I get to your place in my queue!

No worries. Ive had few bad dealings on dakka, and none of them with anyone on this thread.

model for monkeytroll is almost done, doyou want basing?


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I agree with whalemusic above comment, thou I do know I have been bad and been a bit late on things!!! its always just schoolwork getting in the way!! and stupid paychecks, they never come in when you want, and always disappear wayyyyy too fasttttt

Yeah sure, go ahead and base it sage If you want a theme you could go desert to fit in with schank's, but I'm not really bothered, do what you want with it. I haven't played in a LONG time, so no need for everything to fit in with mine, any trades I get are for me to put on display and occassionally go 'Hey see those dudes, some guys in America/London/Transylvania made those for me, is that cool or what?'
At which point no doubt my friends will roll their eyes and go' oh, they play with toy soldiers over there too do they?'

edit:
gravenimage - my servo-grots were wondering if perhaps the Mental Leejun were in need of some mekkanikus assistance? (may be a little slow...)

an00bis - apologies I just seemed to hit a real block with your guy, think I'm through it now and hopefully you'll see some actual in progress shots now rather than a pic of another pile of bits Just need to figure out how to make a tiny winch reel now...

Sage - still need to re-paint the base on yours

schank - just need to find some better packing for yours, should be on it's way before the weekend.

Monkeytroll: some of your patented brand of orkiness would be top! You want the power-grot above, or another?

Mass updates (for me anyways, lol) from the past weekend.

1st is Lenny's Soul Drinker Champion (he can expound upon this). Tried a new style for the power weapon. I'll be trying different colors on other trades with power weapons, hope no one minds. Do let me know what you think when you get it Lens




2nd is Art's Ork. I decided to make it all Matrix-ey, complete with some matrix symbols on his shoulder pad. The red dots are supposed to be lasers. I tried some GS sunglasses but it looked stupid.



Finally is Schank's ork in WIP format. Its going to be a Taork (Tau ork).

Ooooh, a matrix ork! Neat idea! So.. that one's Kate Moss right?

Awesome Matrix Ork. And he shall be called..."KNEE-OH"

Lol, glad you approve. Do you want me to base him or are you doing that?

Either or works for me. If you're burned out...send him and I'll base him. Thanks again.

I'll try a granite floor look ala the bank shoot out scene. If its meh you can cover it up

Also, guys, I'm open for one, count em one, ork trade of a shoota boy, and probably a couple choppa+slugga boyz
Since most of you are busy, I won't ask one of you for a trade, but pm me if you want one

'For da greater gree..err, blue'

If it's from the shoot-up scene you'll need some shell cases

Like 'em

Graven - either that one or another, not fussy my end
Tell you what, why don't you do that and another one and not tell me which one you send, It'll be a surprise when I open it

Haven't been working on much lately. Been really busy with all the family that came to town. Got monkeys ork mailed out finally. Need to finish up whales still. And then there is 'Da Brazen Klawz got him to finish up to. But I'll have some updates by the weekend I hope.
P.s. That grot is sick.

BBL, I got a bunch of orks now, so am down to start trading some more! i Have a bunch to send out but i think i can take up a new crew of orks and marines to do!

I have one bolter marine, one Power sword marine that need families thou they arent painted yet, i wanted to see what colors people wanted.

I also have a few orks to trade, but i am using orks from here to fulfill my 'ard boy squad!

anyone down for some trades!
I am also down for anyone wanting to trade IG, I was thinkingof starting to do that soon!

Hmm, Sage, I'll pm you about trading IG and possibly an ork tomorrow

cool!

@WM - Sorry I've not been in contact, the marine looks great, a nice dark feel to the livery which suits him well. No need to base him, I got some resins for my marines. I've got you guy base coated but have a ways to go on him and at the minute its all stop on the painting front due to essays left, right and centre. Will hopefully get him done over the Christmas break when the work has died down.

I want in on this, who ever want a night lords marine PM me.

Probally want to post some pics of past (or current) work up Stalker. There are a few CSM folks, and I'd love to see an ork scale influx of more.

@ Lenny, gaven - Is it cool if I send to one of ya and have the other one forwarded from there? I'd offer to throw in a few bucks, but it wouldnt do ya much good. I can put some bits in there for whichever is willing to do it. I can send separately, but it costs like $7-10 to send anything to the UK, so if I dont have to.

Yeah that's fine, though I warn you if I get another charge of $20 from HM customs for bringing in a $3 mini I'll have to, to... well I'll grumble a bit then pay the fine but that's not the point.

I'll shoot you a PM with my addy, think I already have gravens from some stuff I sent him a while back, but I double check when I get the package.

So I should take the spare Glock out of the package then?

Whale your knight is on his way after so much time. now i have to catch up on so much stuff to paint.

whalemusic360 wrote:So I should take the spare Glock out of the package then?

No need I'll use that to get the original $20 back off HM government, lol.

The Night Stalker wrote:I want in on this, who ever want a night lords marine PM me.

Any pics?

Update : (on a much smaller scale than whalemusic360 though )

Done some work on Gitsplitta's Reaver of Tears battle-brother :





I'll be updating the progress on my Various WIPs thread.

@TiB : your Marine is on the conception stage ; I'm delving into my bitz boxes to find the parts that will match, then will get to it! I'll be away for 2 weeks from Monday on, so don't expect any major advance until the end of November!

Man that's beautiful Yggs.... I am most unworthy.

Yggdrasil: looking good!
It's ok that it'll take a while, I just started a little bit of painting your nurglite but I have plenty of other stuff that needs my attention.

So I started painting Schank's Ork, and I hate it. Tried white armor. Looks stupid on an ork. So I tried light green. That doesnt work either. Now Im worried. Helps me!

Pics?

grab some this weekend.

I'm going to do White for the mental Leejun; i've done a test drybrushing White over Chestnut brown which gives it a crusty, weathered, orgy look.

"orgy look"?

"crusty orgy look"??

Yech...

Yeah thats nasty. Not sure I want a crusty white orgy look. Maybe ogre-y, but really not orge orgy


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Just realized I never commented on Ygg's guy. I really like the idea of using the blood drops as "tears" instead. I like the colors as well. Looking forward to end result.

It's all gone a bit ...

So I (evidently) let my parents take my camera on vacation with them, so no pics atm, but I "fixed" the tau-ork for schank. It's now part tau, part Catachan Jungle Fighter, Part Cyb-ork with a dash of Dark Angel I think he'd make a good loota.

Do you want a base on him Schank or leave it blank (and off)?

Gitsplitta wrote:"orgy look"?

"crusty orgy look"??

Yech...

whalemusic360 wrote:Yeah thats nasty. Not sure I want a crusty white orgy look. Maybe ogre-y, but really not orge orgy

Maybe "gore-y" as well? Or was it "Orky" the whole time

whalemusic360 wrote:
Just realized I never commented on Ygg's guy. I really like the idea of using the blood drops as "tears" instead. I like the colors as well. Looking forward to end result.

Thanks for the comment... Actually I really wanted to use the Blood Angels kits, but without the red tone, so I figured the drops could as well be tears...

By the way, the Chapter symbol will be three drops, as in here :

There is one per Sanguinary Guard box, and one per Death Company box... Quite hard to find uh!

If any of you Dakkaites isn't using them, I'd gladly swap a few other bitz for them (IG, CSM, Blood Angels, etc...)

@WM360 : too bad for the pics... I'll have to wait until next weekend to see some white Orks!!


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Finished the first Reaver of Tear for Gitsplitta, Brother Tanaerum :



You can find some more pics here .

Now off with TiB's swap!!!

Now that's a sweet reaver!
If mine'll be anything like that I better step up my painting

Getting back to some marines...

Solar_Lion made these for my Deathwatch squad... a sergeant and a trooper. These are the prototypes for his Lamenters as he sorts through the wonders of painting yellow. Nice job though... I like them and they'll be a great compliment to the squad!

great looking models! I will be getting some models out tonight (as in packaged, stamped, and ready for me to post morrow when i get to the post office on my way to stock the fridge up!) mostly Git.. and iceangel. Then MonkeyTroll, yours is done, save the base which will be done tonight, PM me your addie, I will have it ready to be out tonight. Hemmingway should be getting his marine soon as well!

Git, no basing on your model, for somereason i never based it and I'm pretty sure its cuz you told me not to but maybe i am wrong about that...

so I am going to try to limit my trading now cuz i end up grabbing too many and then never can get them out in the mail in time!! that's the hardest part for me!!
Will be trying to do one at a time

On that note anyone want to make another trade haha, i have a bolter marine, and a power sword marine, both with robes getting ready to have new owners!

@Yggdrasil: I may have some, not on me, or in my room, but at a friend's house, so when i end up getting in contact with him ill see if i have those pads. Either way at some point I would love to trade a marine with you!

Guess who finally finished something my GMS'ing friends (get it? )
ME!

Here is Art soldiers Ork 'Ard Boy. Be warned though Art, he is equiped with the most sacred war gear item available to orks. The Gob shoulder pad.
This item costs 50 points, and confers these two rules: The ork equipped with the Gob Shoulder pad is now T 10, and is immune to ID. Also, he may never be removed until only he and the Nob remain. If there is ever a point which removing him would be more efficient, remove a different model and place him in its place. ( )

Ok, that's cool! I never even thought of that before. I might have to make some of my own.

He needs a bit more ink wash on his shoulder, and he'll be set.
Pm me your address and I'll reply with mine


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Here is TiB's Blood Angel



I hope you don't mind the freehand BA emblem. I tried

Lookin' good! Don't worry about the freehand, you can clean it up if you want or I'll do it if it bothers me when I get it.
I'll try to finish your Warpcrafter one of these days (pretty much only needs basing)

Come up with a name for him yet?

Name for the Blood Angel? Hmm, Brother Gallen sound good?
And I'd love to see pics of the Warpcrafter

Schanks Ta-ork, as previously described:




And, as not to be defeated by the color white (though still was a bit on the face. grrr) I did Hemingway's Mentor. I'm pretty happy with it over all. It is a custom robe that I got from a fellow GMS'er Porkuslime. I thought it would be most appropriate for it to be used in trade. 1st pic is really blurry, sorry.

whalemusic360 wrote:
And, as not to be defeated by the color white (though still was a bit on the face. grrr) I did Hemingway's Mentor. I'm pretty happy with it over all. It is a custom robe that I got from a fellow GMS'er Porkuslime. I thought it would be most appropriate for it to be used in trade. 1st pic is really blurry, sorry.

Are we getting into the holiday mood, because he looks a bit like an angry Santa with axes and a helmet.

Lol. Didnt even think about it

I think we may have a new chapter in the making! The Santa Slayers!

They deliver either gifts or DEATH!

"The Emperor's Klaus"

Is that 'The List' on his backpack, does it say whether I've been naughty or nice this year?

@whale go ahead and base him. I like everything to be done by the creator of the model. Makes it more unique. Yours is almost done. Have been away for the past 2 weeks but back now. Just got the Power Sword to finish and the base and your all set. I'm thinking about mailing him unatached to the base cause I dont think it will make it while being shipped. Live the Ta-ork. The skin is beautiful.


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IceAngel wrote:I think we may have a new chapter in the making! The Santa Slayers!

They deliver either gifts or DEATH!

I lke Santa's Klaws.

Oops, I mailed him this morning, and for some reason Im pretty sure I left the base completely out of the package. I can do one and send it to ya, I think I was just pissed at the guy for ruining my white idea. I dont think white will work well for orks, you need more hard surfaces, like on Tau or SMs.

Oh and lenny, your name is on the top of the list.

it's a realy nice paint.

Hey Whale, have you tried going with an Astronomicon Grey base coat and then a dirty wash of badab black? This will give a dirty white.....then you could give a couple of highlight coats where needed with Astro Grey and even white. It wouldn't be a stark white but it would be ok for Orks. It's how I do my white shirts for my army.

Thats what I did for the Tau gun he has (plus a Devlin wash on top, it was to clean). It came out pretty good. The white was just too white.

I build up the white on my Orks from Calthan Brown, gives it a dirtier look - if that helps...

Meh, to late now. I came up with an alternative paint pattern.

And thanks sander. I assume you meant mine as they are the ones on this page. But I'd recommend looking though the other pages. Many of our GM(O)S'ers are much better then I.

And lenny, I need addy still. I put the 2 sets of spare Storm Bolters in there (had to use one I had, forgot I was painting red stuff to now).

This can't die yet!! I still have marines to send!

Plan to send out Gitz, and ICeangels, and MonkeyTrolls, I had a few other things higher up on my list (Swap trades that were late gahh schoolwork and paychecks hurt me so much!)

but I should have them out tonight or morrow before I head back to BK (Brooklyn, NOT burger king, which I can't capialize due to the awfulness which are their commericals, I've seen them way too much last few days, they're killing me slowly!).

so on that note anyone down to trade, got two marines waiting for homes!

I don't think it's dying sage, just hit the point of maturity where those of us left have to take our time with the trades. I'm working on yours now & will continue to work my way through my lists... just going to take a while. The P&M blog updates have been coming very slowly across the board, so I think it's just indicative of the season and that a lot of us have other priorities at the moment.

yeah i agree, its same with my stuff, just dakkadakka is the only thing I use to get through the boring and/or easy classes im stuck with this semester. I was just making a joe that it hadn't be updated in so long

I'm looking forward to your marine!

I kinda blasted through a bunch of mine in one weekend. I need to work on some of my actually army. I still dont have a fieldable army for BA

I did get some work done today on a Thunderfire cannon and tech marine, so expect updates on my pm blog, coming on Wednesday

Heh. Ive been gettin crushed by school. I think ive only managed to get all of one model finished (not even a marine! It was a blasted Cadian!)

Fortunately, things are finally starting to cool down (hooray end of classes!). Wiho knows- I might even get to update my plogs more than once a century!

So Im just putting the finishing touches on an ork squad thats been sitting in limbo since summer, then Ill get back to a marine swap or two. I think I have marines for Git, lenny, and vent on my table.

Finally some progress on Sage's sternguard... have about a shade and a half to go before the yellow is done. Not a typical configuration for me but a really neat figure.

thats a really cool figure! I'm looking forward to it!

can I have your addie again, I can't find it!
IceAngel, I also need your addie as well!

Duuuude Git! Thats an awesome old school fig!

Whats the pistol? I recognize the plasma gun, but not the pistol xD
I do kinda like the Buck Rogers-ness of it

It's an old hand flamer. Apparently being BA, Sage can use him. I couldn't of course... would have to have modified the flamer into a bolt pistol but it seemed like such a waste to corrupt the original sculpt. Great skull head on the shoulder too!

sent out Gitz and iceangel's marines! I'm home now and wanted to do a few more touch ups on MonkeyTroll's 'ad boy and then forgot to mail it before i went home for thanksgiving, so will have to mail it sunday!

I might be able to join in this epicness if the other person lives in the U.S. and if my parents let me. Also my homebrew chapter is pretty much the same as vent except the helmets are a little darker blue and they are called the Sons of Lucifer

Sage's Tranquility Sniper's yellow is complete. Next come the other details on the figure.

Long time no update for me. Been pretty busy as of late. Was in the Congo hunting for snipes when I got lost in a cave. Next thing I know I'm in some kind of underground tropical paradise. Well long story short never try and break a $20 when paying for bus fare.

Well here is what I've got. More done on Whales SM. And some more on 'Da Brazen Klawz.

Loving that Brazen Klaw! Pretty sweet!

Unforunately vent our fluff for our chapters is very similar also, Blood Angels and ultramarines. i am realy sorry if this offends you at all. i did not try to copy you, i got the inspiration from the blood angels devastator squad.

mercurialman wrote:Unforunately vent our fluff for our chapters is very similar also, Blood Angels and ultramarines. i am realy sorry if this offends you at all. i did not try to copy you, i got the inspiration from the blood angels devastator squad.

Is all good. Great minds think alike ^_^




A couple of WiP shots of a Death Watch Marine from the Blood Angel Chapter I'm painting for Gil. I dunno if the blue background was the best to show off the plasma glow, but hey, I always do blue for WiP's... Oh well ^_^

The directional lighting is getting easier to pull off, I was going to go extreme and have it hit more armour, but figured this was good enough... I need to touch up some parts of it, especially the green screen glow over the buttons... I've quickly discovered that what is highly important with lighting is making sure the light only hits what it's meant to...

I'm not that experienced in painting black armor, the highlighting is eluding me right now...

More soon ^_^

Love that pose vent... now did you use an airbrush for the plasma or just normal brush work? I thought I remembered earlier that you were going to try airbrushing your plasma effects...

love that model vent! great work!

Gitsplitta wrote:Love that pose vent... now did you use an airbrush for the plasma or just normal brush work? I thought I remembered earlier that you were going to try airbrushing your plasma effects...

Airbrush for both. It's just so easy to do

Sageheart wrote:love that model vent! great work!

Thanks Sage

how do you do that lighting for the plasma? you use an airbrush but what exactly do you do.

I'm starting to think I should get an airbrush sometime!

Sageheart wrote:how do you do that lighting for the plasma? you use an airbrush but what exactly do you do.

I'm starting to think I should get an airbrush sometime!

It's pretty simple. For the blue I went with an ultramarine base painted over the ridges. Then used the airbrush with Ice Blue in it over the UM blue plus the surrounding areas which I want lit. Then I touch up the ridges with a watered wash before adding the final highlights to the edges of the ridges with a 1:1 mix of Ice Blue and White. For the green I painted the screen white first, then airbrushed everything I wanted green and then highlighted the screen with a 1:1 of sunburst yellow and Scorpion Green. Once that was dry I very carefully applied sigh wash to the lens edges giving it a slightly darker look before adding the red... Which I don't like and will probably do again before completion.

If you get an airbrush the best thing you can do is play with it. You'll make a mess, and you'll wonder if it's worth it, but the ease of doing just these things has imparted it's worth to me already; and I haven't even used it for basecoating yet ^_^

Those are some hot marines Vent and Schank. Very cool good poses both!

Schank and Hemi, did you two get your guys?

Got an00bis's sinner today! Plasma Cannon looks very cool.

vent wrote:

Sageheart wrote:how do you do that lighting for the plasma? you use an airbrush but what exactly do you do.

I'm starting to think I should get an airbrush sometime!

It's pretty simple. For the blue I went with an ultramarine base painted over the ridges. Then used the airbrush with Ice Blue in it over the UM blue plus the surrounding areas which I want lit. Then I touch up the ridges with a watered wash before adding the final highlights to the edges of the ridges with a 1:1 mix of Ice Blue and White. For the green I painted the screen white first, then airbrushed everything I wanted green and then highlighted the screen with a 1:1 of sunburst yellow and Scorpion Green. Once that was dry I very carefully applied sigh wash to the lens edges giving it a slightly darker look before adding the red... Which I don't like and will probably do again before completion.

If you get an airbrush the best thing you can do is play with it. You'll make a mess, and you'll wonder if it's worth it, but the ease of doing just these things has imparted it's worth to me already; and I haven't even used it for basecoating yet ^_^

thanks man! I'm going to have to try this out when i get an airbrush. I want to try some lightening effects soon without one just to experiment, would you have any tips for that?

Not a lot of hobby time recently, but it seems I'm not alone there.
Finally got schank's out in the post, hope it reaches you before getting caught in the seasonal rush, still haven't had a chance to highlight the re-done tracks on sage's, and almost no progress on an00bis'

And I've just received schank's ork Awesome job mate, that gun looks even better in rl, love the weathering on it. Very nice skin tone too, was that a light flesh wash over the green?

Vent - cool looking marine, a bit of paint has made me re-consider the plasma being too big for that pose

Ha! Was just about to ask if you got it yet monkey. Yea I use a couple of thinned down washes on the skin. Was trying something new and I like the end result. Glad it made it there ok. But in the same boat havnt had much time for the whole modeling thing. Trying to get Whales done so I can send it out. Then I think I'm done till the new year. These past 2 months have been uber busy. And yes I got your mini Whale. Think I'm gonna do a jungle base to go with the camo. Love the whole Tau concept. I turned out really nice.

Glad you got him, sorry I forgot to even include a base. He should be a pretty open model. Could be a shoota, sluga/choppa (hes got a robo arm!) or even a loota. What did ya think of the random bits in there? Thought some could make some good ork guns. You can throw however many of the DW heads/pads as you feel like.

Seems like all my current stuff is on hold for the moment, managed to flood my boat yesterday, my workroom took the brunt of it, and drying out is my priority at the moment I'm guessing hobby time to be pretty low over the next two weeks (typically, as I had a day off coming that I'd earmarked for just that ). Sage, I'll try and fit yours in so I can get it out before the holiday post nom-noms it.
an00bis & graven, I'm sorry, but I can't see me getting yours built and painted in time, so I have to say it'll be just after Santa's done his rounds that I'll get those out, apologies for that - and especially to an00bis who was already waiting while I kicked ideas around

Its all good monkeytroll ive been way busy to do anything painting wise thanks to the holidays.

Whale: So, you sent me some bits for another go at a Brazen Claw. I substituted a better arm for the one you sent and I am thinking of giving him a banner. take a look at the fig and let me know. Also, Seeing as you already have a Brazen Claw.....do you want a different chapter?





And with a Banner

i really like that model. hey art would you like to trade a marine, i would love a brazen claw!

I like the BC scheme, and you seem to have a good handle on it. But if your feeling like changing it up, by all means. Nice kit bash on the arm btw. The banner is your call as well. He is going to be a Sgt though, so it will work.

@ Sagheart: Sure. It might be awhile though as the weather is turning bad for priming and I have some trades ahead of you. If you want something special, I suggest yousend it to me otherwise I'll just do a normal bolter marine.

Whale: Gotcha. I'll stay with the BC colors and add the Banner.

okay word, well i can trade a reg. bolter marine, or one with a PW, and a while is fine it'll give me time.

I'm trying to make an army of traded marines so I have a few needs, thou a bolter marine is okay, I would rather get an assault marine, honor guard, or a HQ of some sorts. I only have two already assembled models I can trade, one with a bolter, one with a PW, which ever you would want!

I don't play marines so another Ork would suit me better. What I meant is if you wanted me to paint something other than a regular Bolter marine....you'd have to send me the fig or parts. It's up to you.

oh didn;t know that. oh i didn't know that's what you meant! I can paint you an ork boy! I only have aobr boyz left but i can convert one up to look cool

i'll go looking through my parts to see what I could throw you!

Finally got the marine that Sageheart made for me based nicely... he'll get a couple of clumps of grass and his deathwatch shoulder pad, but is otherwise good to go and will join the squad immediately.

incredible glowing effect on the Marine!

Nice hat El...

It suits.

I finally played a game with some of my marines from the swap. Brother Inigo, Jaska, and Walters all survived. However Brother Aquilum and Brother Evrard were killed by 8 warriors shooting deathspitters.

Who said assignment to DW squads was the "fun of our lives"?!?

Lol, dies even in actual combat. Silly Dark Angel.

whalemusic360 wrote:Lol, dies even in actual combat. Silly Dark Angel.

If it makes you feel any better he looked good as he died. Oh, he did kill some gaunts before being obliterated by 8 warriors shooting deathspitters.

Finished the Mantis Warrior Tranquility Campaign Veteran for Sageheart!

That's Awesome Git!

love it!

looking for more trades if anyone is down!

WIP

Gitsplitta's Stormboyz Nob (WIP, GMS)


Artsoldiers35's Trukk (WIP, GMS)


A "little" bit more in my project blog... (link in sig)

that truck looks great!

That truck just keeps getting better and better...

jim

Two new additions...

FITZZ's son's chapter, the Omega Raptors... painted by Fitzz himself.



And a Sons of Ouroboros painted by Battle Brother Lucifer.



I am absolutely delighted with both. Thank you my friends!

Gits, did you do anything to the marine I sent you, or is it just your epic camera?

great models! put up the whole squad?

That's all you BBL! I just took the pic in good light!

With the Plasma Cannon marine that my son is working on, I have a full squad of 10 marines! His is still WIP but I'll include him in the photo for full effect.





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Here is "Inquisitional Tactical Squad Alpha". Ready for battle (nearly, just a few more touch ups on my son's contribution in the right-hand corner). He was so enthusiastic about the project he painted it in one day! I must admit not the neatest job he's ever done... but a good job none-the-less and his excitement was very heartwarming. I still need to add an inquisitional symbol to his one pad and a doom eagle symbol to the other. Sage's mini got kind of buried in the back there... hmmm.... looked OK when I lined up the shot but the camera angle must have changed it.

Wow, nice squad!!!

That looks really cool!

Hey guys I thought I might be able to contribute a little here. The marines I have (all 4 of them lol) are AOBR unfortunatly. But if anyone would like to trade heres some pics. I call them the Blue Enigmas, Though still workin on that name..





Sorry for the mediocre pics. A photographer I am not.
I dont mean to be picky but I dont play SM so would anyone like to trade for an Ork? AOBR is fine.

Those look sweet. I'd swap with you.

That's a pretty awesome looking squad Git! Too bad they're marines.

Thats the worst marine Ive ever seen in my life. Geez you should probably just give up on life!









(Thats my younger brother before I get booted from dakka)

whalemusic360 wrote:Thats the worst marine Ive ever seen in my life. Geez you should probably just give up on life!









(Thats my younger brother before I get booted from dakka)

You are.... Just a Bad person! Like all the way to your core..... Stupid lack of comebacks..

The marine's real question is really if he should use his bolter to smite the Emperors foes or turn it on himself after spending time in the Warp known as your painting table.

<3 you lil brudder.

Touche

HAHAHAH

@sum, i love the marine, would like to trade with you, unluckily i left all my unpainted orks on my campus haha and im on break till jan 28th... so either if you are down we can wait it out, or i can send you an ork I've already painted, can touch it up a bit beforehand as well.

Yeah I'll trade with you Sage. I will pAint up another marine. They are AOBR though, sorry. I'm good with trading for whatever ork you wanna send.

Hey sum.. I'm somebody's little brother as well, don't let him get to ya. I'm liking ya already.

Git will understand... My brother should be glad we were not born 600 years ago...

Whale... your Marine is done and will mail it tomorrow.

Git'' great squad.. take another and move them around a little so we can all be amazed and proud to be included. As well as get to see all the contributions in the squad.. what a great project.

SL

Woo! Looking forward to seeing him, be like a bonus xmas present.

Whale I have not forgot about you. Your marine is just abouot done. Just some touch up to do and basing and I'll send his out. I need your address so PM me when you get the chance.

Hey guys,

TiB's Marine is now complete, for those who want to have a look, here's a link.

Cheers!

I've started work up again on Vent's marine as well, breath some life back into the GMS

That's awesome Ygg!

Also, BBL's marine is done, have taken pictures and everything, it's just that the Dakka gallery won't let me upload stuff anymore :S Anyone know what could be happening? All my pictures are less than 10 mb and are just regular jpegs...

Have you asked the Mods/Admin about it?

i have a marine ready for solar lion


down for more trades

Sage - do you want me to send yours to your White Plains address? I'm assuming you'll be there to get anything that goes out this week?

schank - did you recieve your guy OK?

Here's a long overdue contribution from me... this is Brother Sergeant Inushi of the Mantis Warriors for IceAngel.

Absolutely Gorgeous Gits!

After a successful testing of my airbrush (Pulsa Rokkit is now a lovely shade of RED!), Im gonna see if I cant get the marines I owe to Lenny, vent, and Gits started!

Hopefully the Foundation paints work nicely in the brush!

i am in bk till 24th. send to bk, and if you have to send it after bk, you'll need my school addie which is not in white plains, im not sure if i sent you that yet, i just moved out of white plains onto campus.

can you resend your addie?

Just be sure to thin them... especially foundation paints! (they've got a lot of pigment)

Still moving slowly along with Gitsplitta's and Artsoldier35's - hope to get some more progress on both this week...

TiB wrote:Anyone know what could be happening? All my pictures are less than 10 mb and are just regular jpegs...

I recently (a month ago?) started having the same problem with my iPhone 3GS/Mac - I've had to start copy/pasting them into new files in an image editor I raised a thread then in Nuts and Bolts - but it would be nice to know its not just me!

Hmm, I'm also on my mac. Is there a pattern here? Any other Apple users experiencing problems with the gallery?

No problems here (though Im on my laptop now, I'll test when at my desk)

Brother Fwuapuu of the Ice Angels, built and painted by Ice himself! He had a neat Ice Angel base but I dropped him and the cool bits on the base broke off and disappeared into the mists of my studio floor. So I based him like the rest of the squad (technically 2 squads now!). Sorry Ice.

OH, the bolt pistol is an Ice Angel original, the big bolter is my approximation of the Ice Angel pattern. Not quite right but close...

Man.... Foundation paints are a PAIN to airbrush! At least the pot I had was...
I dunno if it was old or what, but it just did not want to spray at all!

That said, I got the three marines I had based.

One for Gits, painted via brush, before I had the airbrush:


And for vent:


And for Lennysmash:



Eventually Ill figure out this airbrush- but its still a hell of a lot faster than by hand!

An auspiscious beginning Ramos. I think the paint blend for an airbrush is a fairly tricky thing to get right. How much did you thin the foundation paint?

My measurements might have been off a bit, but I think the first time, I tried a 50-50 paint-water mix (with a little flow release and retarder as well) This got a great opacity for the first few passes, but ended up clogging real fast.

Second time was more along the lines of 1 part paint to 3 parts water. This let me spray for longer, though in the end it too, clogged.

The sprayed foundation paint seems weaker than if it were just brushed on, as I can scratch it off with a fingernail. This can probably be remedied with some clear coat. I probably thinned the paint a little too much.

Have you looked to see if there was a Vellejo Air that is remotely close to the foundation color? It's a great line of paints but I wish there was more color variation. Maybe one of their regular colors that was close & could be more easily thinned to work in the airbrush... I'm just thinking that those foundations paints might be formulated in a way that is antithetical to use in an airbrush.

I havent had the chance to look at other paints (hobby store is a bit out of the way from where I live), Ive only been able to Check GW, P3, Vallejo Game Color, and Model color.

Im still on the hunt, but Im not too sure if there is a match to the color and tone of the Foundation ><
All I can do for now is experiment and search. Hopefully I can either make it work or find a match

happy to see this quickly coming back!

Got a bit of work done on one of my remaining trades, Vent's Dark Angel Chaplain. Based off the Asomadi model. Hes missing the one arm, so is instead getting this one....

Gitsplitta wrote:Brother Fwuapuu of the Ice Angels, built and painted by Ice himself! He had a neat Ice Angel base but I dropped him and the cool bits on the base broke off and disappeared into the mists of my studio floor. So I based him like the rest of the squad (technically 2 squads now!). Sorry Ice.

OH, the bolt pistol is an Ice Angel original, the big bolter is my approximation of the Ice Angel pattern. Not quite right but close...

I like the new base! That sucks that he got busted though. Nice job with the bolter and shoulder pad. I look forward to seeing him in one of those awesome group shots, maybe even in a battle rep in the future!

He looks great with the crowd! Can't believe how many guys I've accumulated already... 11 total! I'm not in a rush to get the other 9... but eventually I hope they will come & then boy will I have an awesome tactical section to my army! I keep hoping Yggs will come in (afraid it's lost in the Atlantic somewhere) so I can take another group shot. Will keep my fingers crossed anyway.

Gotta keep this thread alive until I finish at least one!

Artsoldier35's Trukk (WIP)


Hope to get a new one of Gitsplitta's Stormboyz Nob next week...

Oooooo.... the excitement builds! Nice truck Arakasi... really shaping up impressively.

that trukk looks amazing! awesome work!

So I got a marine in the mail yesterday from someone in the UK, and I have no clue who sent it! Its a RT bolter marine with brown paint and green hands. They style it was done in is not pointing me to anyone I can think of tbh, and I feel like a jerk for not knowing who sent it!

Pics or it didn't happen...
(also might help in finding the owner)

haha agree with gitz on this, pics please!

KABLAM!

Maybe my marine mutated under the extreme pressure of aviation. He is a marine after all not airborne.

And developed teleporting skills, as he got here the day after you shipped

If all else fails, I'll ask an Admin to run the name for me, if they can, to find the mystery person. The confusing part is how did they get my address?

Its not teleporting, don't you know they're using THawks for transatlantic mail these days.

Hey WM, just to say I got your dude from Lenny. Should he be in a particular pose? He's a little... disjointed!

Doing my bit to keep the thread alive - my promised WIP of Gitsplitta's Stormboyz Nob:

Sweetness itself! :-)

Happy this is coming back some! I am starting up my new chapter soon and once i have some models fully painted ill be down to trade some!

I will be always looking for more trades. It seems the swaps got a little slow due to the holidays

Every time I see that Stormboy Nob, I am amazed at your skills with plasticard...

I wish I had your patience & skill...