Beautiful work Damo... Fantastic work on the eye which is such a good counter to the red. A+ mate!

Love it! The writing is uniform and neat, and the highlights on the model itself are really smooth and fluent. Great as always Nerdfest!

That guy is awesome. Man, I wish I can do eye lens like those.

One day nerdy, you will have to get your ass over here and stay at my place for a week or so.
We´ll play rpg and 40k all days long and we´ll both use our very best looking minis and make lots of high quality battle reports showing of all kinds of minis, builds and strategies.

I just have to convince you to take the trip, preferably sometime before we get old and senile since that would severely affect the quality of the batreps.

Oh wow, that would be incredible!

One day nerdy, you will have to get your ass over here and stay at my place for a week or so.
We´ll play rpg and 40k all days long and we´ll both use our very best looking minis and make lots of high quality battle reports showing of all kinds of minis, builds and strategies.

I just have to convince you to take the trip, preferably sometime before we get old and senile since that would severely affect the quality of the batreps.

That sounds amazingly cool! Once I get my trip to America done with Kristy then I'll use my powers of Nerd charm to basically tell her i'm off to Goblinburg for a week! lol and don't worry it will be before we're old and senile! I couldn't think of anything cooler than playing a game with out armies and producing IA quality photo's and bat reps! and just imagine how huuuge our forces will be in 12 months or so! now i just need to get my painting mojo on again and keep painting! i've ransacked a box I found and hiding inside was 10 Necron warriors,3 scarab swarms, 1 destroyer and a Necron lord so it looks like I'll be doing a small Necron force now as well! not a bad start for nothing!

then I'll use my powers of Nerd charm to basically tell her i'm off to Goblinburg for a week!

Or you could simply try to just be a man and simply go

Anyway, dont take to long, preferably this year

LOL!

Ah Nerdy... skewered on the poignard of Pyriel's "wit".

That is some GREAT Airbrush work there Nerd!!

Thanks Dave, coming from you that's big praise! :-) your terrain just looks perfect when you whip out the 'ol airbrush! whereas I kinda go 'a bit of dark ... here,.....aaaaand a bit more here.....presto!....' I haven't done any more work on the pods since those pics! it feels like ages ago now! I really need to stop enjoying the feeling of buying models and actually get back to painting them lol!

It can get annoying cleaning the AB between colors...but I have found that the gravity feed cup makes it much easier to change colors without stopping. WIndex in a spray bottle really helps, but I find that my spray regulator gets caked, when that happens, you really have to stop and clean. I'm going to order one of those little ab cleaning bubble things, see if that helps speed up the cleaning any.

I really need to stop enjoying the feeling of buying models and actually get back to painting them lol!

Then you are in luck since you have a big shipment of minis, vehicles and um, tubes coming your way. Got you a small army to paint up for your red marines.

Then you are in luck since you have a big shipment of minis, vehicles and um, tubes coming your way. Got you a small army to paint up for your red marines.

You just became my favorite person in the whole wide world! imagine a big virtual hug coming your way and i'm wearing my shower cap!



...... Oh god that sounds weird........ even for me!

Too.... much..... information....

And yet he didnt even mention any bubbly bathtubs...

or bath salts

I can if you want? perhaps when I skype you I'll be in the bath? whatever you feel's appropriate? :-)

i think that kinda action in the us costs money and im poor

:| I thought this thread cannot be anymore awkward. But I am looking forward to IA-level pictures of your army NF.

...or sponges.

sponges and cheese cake...

Hi everyone! So sorry for the hiatus lately, as some know my work has been crazy lately and hasn't given me any time to do anything I want to, so no painting time and miserable weather hasn't helped either

But, I have been 'collecting' models just obtaining things i want to paint up and show you all soon! I'm waiting on a few to arrive in the mail but i have assembled a few and got them ready so here's some pics of some without paint for you, it'd be nice to see what you all would like to see painted first?

Relic Contemptor Dreadnought






Assembled my Sternguard squad finally after receiving my bolters from FW, i'm happy with the simplicity of them still conveying their standing within the force, I think the FW boarding helmets and the box magazine scoped bolters coupled with them all having matching studded pads looks veteran enough?



And lastly today some shots of my fledgling Necron force I was given these models by jirc a while ago and only recently found them again and considered another army, I wanted to add to the whole undead in space theme and i removed the Necron heads and replaced them with skulls I found on ebay at the same scale! it really gives the models some needed dynamism and silent undead robots with screaming leering faces is even more scary imo i'm still contemplating a scheme but i've been inspired by leohart and am thinking a bone colour for the main colour with black and metal spot colour and red lenses!





That's it atm, I'll really try and paint again soon! don't forget me I'm still Dakka-ing at work so I'm not entirely out of the loop yet!

catch you soon.

Lemme just say Nerdfest, that that Relic Contemptor is KICK
A$$$$$$$$$$$$!
I almost always invisage dreadnoughts being hulky and slow, then the comtemptors made them seem a wee bit quicker, and this is a fantastic dynamic pose that shows the true deadliness of thesse war machines, fantastic! Great work as always Nerdfest ;P

Thanks LDP! good to see you, you're right these models really give them some speed and great scope for modeling sweet poses :-) it was bloody tricky to assemble though with no instructions and super glue that sets when you're trying to pose him!

I can't wait to paint him up, but I'll see what everyone thinks i should do first! :-)

I love the skulls on those necrons Damo... fantastic idea!

They work quite well don't they Gits! just something a little different to the norm :-) at first i thought they were just a fraction small, but on the warriors they look good! the paint will be the real test though to see how it comes together!

what do you reckon I paint first from the assembled collection?

Consider how much "marine fatigue" you've got. If you need a big mental break, paint the 'crons. If you need a smaller one, the dread. If you're "in the zone" for painting marines... do the sternguard.

Make your creativity and/or fatigue work for you rather than trying to force it. You'll get better results that way.

Well, since i've been on an unintentional break I might use the Crons to get my brush on! and ease myself back into it! who knows i might get inspired and start buying more! :-) lol

Nice work, nerdfest. I like the pose on the Contemptor very much. I think the skulls on the Necrons are interesting. How do you plan to paint them?

I need an airbrush, anyone wanna donate? On to more serious matters, as always your work is friggin awesome. Ill admit, I see your painting skills, and it makes me want to improve my Orks by leaps and bounds. Which obviously sucks because I dont have to repaint 20 or so and call it good, I get to repaint 80 boyz........and THEN the rest of the army Oh well, thanks for stealing my free time ya jerk

Just read 41 pages of awesomeness, I'll keep following this in the future. Keep up the good work!

The Relic Contemptor Dreadnought has an awesome running pose. I like it quite a bit.

RE: sternguard, as far as I know, if you buy the finecast sternguard box it is just that: some older marks of armour pieces with a ferrox pattern bolter. I think you are set there.

It must be me but when I see that laughing Necron with a gauss rifles. I think of the skull puppet in this skid and he says: "I glance you. I glance you!!!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go

Love the dreadnought looks dynamic and ready to mess some one up. the cron heads look crazy.sternguard look great too.

personally i would love to see either the sterngaurd or the dread painted up but thats just me. If ya need a break from your marines deff paint the rons up. looking for more goodness.

Woah, great models, mate!

Necrons now? I love the skull faces, nice touch!

Do you happen to have a few spare Necron heads?
I think we could set up a bits trade as I'm missing a couple Necron heads...

Mr Pooo, I have an abundance of Necron heads! they're yours if you want them? and yes, Necrons now :-) I found them and assembled them as they were given to me by a mate a little while ago, and when i saw a squad a HQ and a destroyer complete i thought why not? I can collect it slowly and just do a fairly basic paint on them for fun! so now i'm bidding on a triarch stalker, 40 warriors and 6 wraiths and have just bought 30+ 'robot beetles' so yep,....... taking it slooooooowly!

:( The unending cycles of wargaming, you are never done until you have collected them all (TM). Hmm, wait, wrong game.

I'm new to Nerd Fests marine blog, but I have to say, I'm glad I clicked on the link he added to another thread. Some of the best painting and modeling I've seen on this site. I'll be using his skills to inspire me when I begin painting my army. Nerd fest, you should try doing some tutorials on some of your techniques on painting and modeling. I would like to see how you do some of this stuff.

Hey DarkKnight! i'm glad you have joined us here :-) feel free to PM me if you want a tute or run down of anyhting I've done! i'm pretty friendly and passionate about the hobby i'd be only too happy to help!

Its odd that simply sticking skulls on a Necron changes the over all look to them. But I friggin love it. Nice idear there

Cheers KC i'm in a paint funk at the moment so I'm building all the models i have to go! there'll be some pics soon of a bucket load of grey plastic marines and some more dreadnoughts and Necrons :-) I may even base coat the Crons to see how the skulls look with paint!.... Ooooh exciting times eh!

Can't wait to see that Contemptor painted up - I love that kit and how flexible it is, very nicely posed Nerd

Spray paint is the next step in lazyness. Eventually though, you get some paint on them puppies..........or dead skeleton guys, whatevs

Yo Damo,

Just got myself up to date with the thread and everything for the new marines looks great! I loved the bat-rep as well.

Keep up the goow work bloke.

Jacko

Thanks jacko! Glad you like the progress! it certainly has been a while since you've had a look around! I'm thrilled you're back though ;-)

and having you back has now given me the shove to paint up my contemptor to honor your return! lol so that's what i'll work on next week, keep an eye out everyone for updates... or hassle me to do something ...please!

I hereby hassle you to show us WIP Contemptor pics

Woah Dave! quick off the mark there buddy ;-)

don't stop there the more hassling the better = the more guilty i feel about not painting for a month lol!

Consider this another prod for Contemptor pics with paint

guilt guilt guilt (hey im catholic i can wield guilt like a weapon)

nerdfest09 wrote:Woah Dave! quick off the mark there buddy ;-)

don't stop there the more hassling the better = the more guilty i feel about not painting for a month lol!

Sweet baby jesus a month?! Even Ive been painting lately ya bum

I am in the middle of the longest paintjob of mah life.

I hear ya, I just batch painted 20some boyz and 10ish lootas in one go. It nearly killed me

This page is sorely missing any pics of...anything. Cmon man, we expect better of you

Brilliant! that's exactly what I needed to hear lol!

Contemptor is now primed and washed ready for paint. I will be back..... Oh yes..... I WILL be back... Mwahahahahahaha!


.... Oh and it'll look freaking sweet as!

It better man, or your getting the hose again

Righto, I need some input tonight if i may ask politely?

I'm starting to feel the painting urge wash over me and i want to get some things organised, tomorrow i need to order some paints and in the batch i want to order the main colour fro my Necron force, I was going to paint them up in a bone theme and make SkeleCrons with this colour primer http://www.thecombatcompany.com.au/cp3012-army-painter-colour-primer-spray-skeleton-bone-undercoat.asp but I've seen a few armies that scheme now and while it looks good i'd like to be a bit different and am seriously leaning towards this colour http://www.thecombatcompany.com.au/cp3013-army-painter-colour-primer-spray-necrotic-flesh-undercoat.asp keeping in mind that the accents would be done in a dark metal and black theme (have a little look at the smaller pics to see the shade proper)

In the meantime i will (I promise) be working on my contemptor the next couple of days and popping pics up :-) as well as my Accord wagon model I got! a bit left field i admit but I will use some of my Nerd skills to 'cool' it up some!

so please let me know your opinion on what shade to necronise my army!

Between those two, I think necrotic flesh will look more awesome. I demand more pictures of contemptor dread.

Contemptor! Contemptor! Contemptor!

Meph, Leo, thanks guys! I'm pleased you're both still around considering my severe lack of painting lately (you can thank my work!) I shall really put in an effort on Contemptor this week I plan on having all his colours based and started shading the red :-)

so, one vote for Necrotic flesh then!

Accord wagon? Like a honda? Why do they even make a model for that?

Yep a Honda Accord wagon! the freakin sexiest mode of large dog transport i can think of! I am of course a Honda man :-)

Inspiration: http://ekhatch.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/accord-wagon158.jpg
http://www.japanesesportcars.com/galleries/data/media/192/accord-wagon.jpg
http://acurazine.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=2613&pictureid=39378

Aaaaanyway, yes i love my Honda and i'm probably a closet wagonist, but! what colour for my crons? I'm seriously thinking Necrotic flesh guys, but what colour ink/wash to shade them? brown/black/green?

I think that for the plates with a green/brown wash, and bronze underpinnings would look interesting.

Bronze you say! I hadn't thought of that :-) like a dark gold perhaps? then I can time save and wash the lot with an umber vallejo wash? and as the army painter now make paints in droppers 100% colour match with the primers i can highlight the edges back up easily!

Dont be ashamed of liking wagons man. Im an Astrovan man myself. Just LURVE those things

Oh KC! a fellow wagonist, looks like we need to gush over them via PM or Skype so as not to derail my own thread lol! :-)

what do you think of my Skelecrons scheme?

Well let me know when you want to skype it ma man. But I said before when you showed a couple pics of your skelecrons, that it was a badass idea. Its odd how a small thing like swapping the heads makes Crons SOoooo much cooler

heh..Astro Van...I used to have one as a service van....As soon as it got within 500 yards of a patch of ice it just immediately slid into the ditch

Not to sway too far off topic, but I used to drift both mine in the snow and ice. Total blast

I used to drift my Nissan 180SX with a finely boosted and tuned SR20DET, it was by far juuuuust a tad quicker than what your van would be :-)


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And it appears Whalemusic isn't talking to me anymore since he found out i drive a Honda! :-)

I really like the idea of SkeleCrons. I liked the black. & white scheme that was WD a couple months ago, but now that you mention Necrotic Flesh, I think that's the way to go. A green wash make them look truly rotten. And I like the bronze idea very much. Add some verdigris through a turquoise wash, and you might be able to tie the two together. Make 'em realy decrepit and run down.

Agreed, "rotting" Necrons would look very much the gak

Meh, Honda. All I can say.

I like the dark metal to offset the bright armor. To much of one or the other is, well, to much.

Oh KC! a fellow wagonist, looks like we need to gush over them via PM or Skype so as not to derail my own thread lol! :-)

Actually Nerd has just got his "mic-and-speakers" to use with skype, it took a while to arrive to his eh, dusty village but finally he has one.

What I would like to know however are two things:
How much the postal service charged for such a big and heavy package and...
How did they fit an usb device onto a brass trumpet horn?

Maybe in nerds village they got the slim "modern" version?
Nerd: I suggest you go for the stereo "mic-speakers" seen here in your village catalogue:
http://www.puretonehearing.com/antique_hearing_equipment.htm


lol
LOL
L O L


You may retaliate when we meet over skype the next centu...time

Finally an update! I managed to start and finish my Contemptor Dreadnought yesterday! so lets get started on the process eh! first I went to bed thinking about how i was going to paint him which got me right in the paint mode for my Nerd cave! so i woke up with the hunger of needing a brush in my hand which i haven't had for a month or so now! and boy did it feel good to paint again!

i started by undercoating him as usual with the army painter dragon red primer (no pic sorry) then went on to do the base coat of each colour he was going to have on him, so boltgun metal, snakebite leather, denheb stone, and snakebite/burnished gold:




Next I worked on the gold by washing with devlan mud and then applying pure burnished gold, and the bone parts i mixed the army painter leather brown with bleached bone and started working it up:





I then added mithril silver to burnished gold and worked it to a soft gold on all parts, careful when adding mithril though as it can overpower the gold with very little paint


after I had done all the details i worked on the armour treating it like a big marine spending a little more time on the metal parts to make them stand out:


And finally here he is all finished in a day! about 6 hours on and off and i am quite happy with the result, I'd love to know what you all think? it's felt like years since I've painted and i actually had to remind myself of my method!








I'm now working on my drop pods!

Looking good Nerd, way better then on the webcam

Beautiful model Damo and an excellent step-by-step to go along with it. Very impressed that you can make a model look that good, that quickly. I just love the way the ribbon and the heads of the double-eagle stand out. Really gives a good central focal point to draw the eye.

Loving your contemptor, nerd! Fantastic reds as always!

Ha, forgot to comment. Looks very cool Damo. They can have such dynamic poses!

Is it me or:

Pix: Ok
Pix: Ok
Pix: Ok
Last pix: BAM, so good.

I think the lighting on the table didn't do the red justice until the black backdrop pix comes in. I like the gold parts. Shiny.

Absolutely outstanding details,love the red, but ribbons, shield and all the extra armor parts are magnificent.

That looks great nerd!

Very nice indeed NF09

So whats the next project, Crons?

Damn, Nerdfest, that's one sexy beast you've got there!

Thanks so much guys! I know i've been a bit quiet lately so I really wanted to finish something to get myself back in the groove and also show you i'm not dead yet! and I was pretty happy with him when he was finished, I really just wish that red was easier to photograph! It's so hard to show what the actual colour is like but it's nice I promise

I was so inspired by doing something that i also managed to finish my 3 drop pods! they're not as good as i would like but they're passable for playing with, i realised I need to do a bit of work on the bolters inside the pods but I'm sure you'll forgive me! I also didn't add the restraints inside as i just don't like them in there and i can imagine the central guidance system telescoping down to allow a dread to fit this way!






Hmmm, three drop pods and three dreadnoughts! coincidence? i don't think so! next up i think it's sternguard time and then onto the FW Chappy dread!

Damo

Contemptor looks fantastic NF! You've done a great job highlighting up to the yellow on the edges. I can see you put in more effort than the normal hard edge lining. Might want to give the bad boy a name on the front of his scroll

Thanks Eggy, I haven't thought of a suitably epic or friend/family related name for him yet :-) my other characters have names of my mates and my chaplain is named after my dad, it makes the games more fun when my dad beats the snot out of a couple of sang guard!

nerdfest09 wrote:Thanks Eggy, I haven't thought of a suitably epic or friend/family related name for him yet :-) my other characters have names of my mates and my chaplain is named after my dad, it makes the games more fun when my dad beats the snot out of a couple of sang guard!

Imagine how much more fun it would be if your chaplain dad and contemptor eggroll were beating the snot out of a couple of sang guards? I'd settle for naming your first newborn Eggroll too

Imagine how much more fun it would be if your chaplain dad and contemptor eggroll were beating the snot out of a couple of sang guards? I'd settle for naming your first newborn Eggroll too

lol Contemptor Eggroll! doesn't exactkly strike fear into the hearts of the heretic though does it! mind you it's definitely a suitable name for my first born, I will put it to the Nerd wench when it happens


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Hey guys i just need a bit of input from you yet again! :-)

since painting my Contemptor and using my pale gold in my force a bit lately I've grown quite fond of it, would you think it will look good as the 'metal' parts of my necron force? i'd do the main plates and armour in the necrotic flesh colour, so nice and ceramic looking but all the joints etc. in the light gold? otherwise i'll just stick to the age old 'boltgun' shades ;-)

should be able to start them monday.....

Necrotic Flesh is greenish, yellow might not come off well. Perhaps red gold?

I do belive I'd have the brown trouser syndrome if those three (beautifully paint-chipped btw) pods dropped on the opposite side of the table and those big bastards came out..yessir!

Contemptor's are epic, especially nerd'y ones! I really love the ;pose, and the paint is awesome =) Good job mate.

Good responses always seem to spur me on to more painting! and seeing as how everyone seems to like what I'm jumping back into I better show you some w.i.p photo's right?

thought I better make a start on my Flesh Eaters assault squad and primed/washed and laid down the first red highlight on all of them, I used agrax earthshade for the first time too, it's not bad and goes on very smoothly from the pot, I found i had to make my coverage a bit thicker to shade it as I like but it's nice so far:



Next up is a little bit of necron love I made me some scarab bases using Puppetswar robotic beetles, they are so cute! and not bad quality either, a few broken legs but for the use of them it doesn't matter much at all, I wanted to give them differing heights and angles to appear as if they were swarming along the board:






And i also made a start on my Necron Lord of the Silent Scream! looking good so far he is slightly more green irl but you can clearly see the route i plan to take with them, something quick and easy that looks good and a bit different than usual, I will only probably paint the gold on larger or more regal models and leave the main force with boltgun shades:







That's all today I'll try and get at least all the armour on my assault squad painted tomorrow and finish the Lord too!

Love the work on your lord Nerdy. My son and I discussed the ceramic look before deciding on our current scheme (I think I nixed it for being not conducive to mass-production painting.)

Yours is lovely though.

Like Git says, ceramic necs are the s**t. Keep up the great work Nerd.
And remember, if you sell them in the future I get the first pick...or else!

Like Git says, ceramic necs are the s**t. Keep up the great work Nerd.
And remember, if you sell them in the future I get the first pick...or else!

Of course you'll get first pick! which means I need to do a decent job in case you get them one day! I better go finish the Lord now so i can update laters today!

That contemptor and the drop pods are fantastic! I will probably find myself coming back to your blog for the occasional bit of inspiration and a good kick to get myself back to work on my own marine army!

Lord finished! not quite how I wanted the dilapidated vestments of aeons past to look, but I had to use what paint i had for it and it turned out o.k imo now i've done him I know how to approach the rest of the Necron force i have, I can say i'm really looking forward to buying some Wraiths to do! I think 6 will suffice with 4 coils? should look pretty good with the scheme! so will a couple of doom Scythes and Spyders!







Love to know what you think?

Beautiful work Damo, very dynamic.

Agreed, those Crons are going to be the tits. Too bad you live in the middle of no where and have to rely on pygmies to get your internet transmissions out, other wise my Boyz would love to add some more trophies to their banners. And that Contemptor looks the gak, I wasnt sure if I liked that mini or not, but the way you posed and painted it, I think you gave me that nudge into liking them.

Cron Lord looks great NF. Crons are so good on table top now.

Great work on both the contemptor an the lord, nerd! Really liking your color choice on the necron!

MrMerlin

Great work on both the contemptor an the lord, nerd! Really liking your color choice on the necron!

leohart

Cron Lord looks great NF. Crons are so good on table top now.

Gitsplitta

Beautiful work Damo, very dynamic.

Thank you guys, I do have to concur now i've painted one, Ceramic Necrons do look the tits! they will offset my Flesh eaters well with the scheme on the table one day! next it's onto the warriors! about 40 of them to do

KingCracker

Agreed, those Crons are going to be the tits. Too bad you live in the middle of no where and have to rely on pygmies to get your internet transmissions out, other wise my Boyz would love to add some more trophies to their banners. And that Contemptor looks the gak, I wasnt sure if I liked that mini or not, but the way you posed and painted it, I think you gave me that nudge into liking them.

Oh lordy not you too! so now i have you AND Pyriel picking on me about my village and how it runs on Hamster power, I prefer to call it quaint check this out for excitement every year! http://www.evandalevillagefair.com/

And thank you for the compliment on my Contemptor KC! if my hobby can turn one green and of Orkish nature into a fan of imperial might then i've done my job here!

Next on the table is finishing my Assault squad, they're nearly done just two more layers of highlights and details then i move onto the Skelecrons!

Wow NF. You made me look up your town on Google Map. A small little town on a small island next to a small continent. Sounds like an awesome place for a vacation?

Hmm, maybe I should take my lady on a vacation to Australia and just casually put Evan Dale Village on the itinerary. Then I will bag lots of NoS plastics to sell to you NF so I can make back my trip money.

Lol, i'd be glad to show you around :-) if you google Tasmania you can check out how pituresque the place is, very tranquil and beautiful, not overly exciting but that's why i have hobbies!

Cool blog dude! Epic painting, and yet so simple at times
A true sorce of inspiration (at least for me)

Consider me subbed!

Cheers from Norway!

The Necron Lord is looking very nice NF09, I like the way you faded the metallics to make it look worn.

hemmis92

Cool blog dude! Epic painting, and yet so simple at times
A true sorce of inspiration (at least for me)

Consider me subbed!

Cheers from Norway!

Welcome aboard the nerd train! the drink cart will be around promptly at 12:00! seriously I am glad you find some of my techniques inspiring and worth noting! lets hope i continue to entertain!

and G'day from Australia!

GiraffeX

The Necron Lord is looking very nice NF09, I like the way you faded the metallics to make it look worn.

Ah GiraffeX, good to see you again, I also (without trying to toot my own horn) like the metallic on him, I was considering doing all the warriors and characters the same but it would be too time consuming for what i want so he was a good test piece and still looks the goods by himself I may try and get a squad or 4 done of my warriors soon and see how they line up with the lord!



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Hey, another question for you all, I seem to have misplaced the assembly instructions I had for my Canoptek Spyders :-( does anyone know where i can download a copy of them? or perhaps have some emailed to me? I know they're not exactly daunting to assemble i just don't want to make any mistakes ;-) cheers!

Hey again guys! just a little random thinking from me! I have pretty much got my Flesh eaters army sorted and i am well on the way with my SkeleCrons, whilst ransacking my bitz box I have a 'spare' 10 marines now, what to do?..... whaaaaaat to do?....... Oh, i know! start 'another' marine army! codex marines this time and slowly done as far as collecting goes but painting in my usual quick fashion but who? after much gnashing of teeth and searching through the web about various battles and past triumphs to find a chapter that appealed to me as much in theme as in colour scheme, something a little different, something a little nerdfest.... I decided on doing an army of.....[+] vox report terminated+........ unautherized user[+]...... [+]scrapcode recognised attempting to filter[+]....shutting terminal down........ 0523 hours......[+]

Alpha Legion?

Nope :-) I can't seem to break away from being a loyalist!

lol looks like we need to send some lovely ladies of Slannesh round to do some seducing, claws included.

If he can't bring himself round to saying it, it can only be one chapter.... The most loyal of the loyal, the bravest of the brave, the cheesiest of the cheese, Ultramarines!

If he can't bring himself round to saying it, it can only be one chapter.... The most loyal of the loyal, the bravest of the brave, the cheesiest of the cheese, Ultramarines!

EGADS! wash your mouth out this instance Proto!.... ptooey! nope, definitely not Ultras remember I have a penchant for not oft seen chapters

Opinions please guys just quickly :-) if, for instance i was painting a 'ye olde' knight and had to paint his tabard over the armour, what 2 contrasting colours would look good together? i'm thinking green/blue or red/blue at the moment but open to other suggestions at this stage?

If in doubt, goes with white or black.

It would look striking on him but I was wanting to add a little splash of colour to an otherwise sombre model :-)

How about golden yellow + black?
or Blue with White?

I am pretty sure Bretonnian have plenty of such colour combo.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/278767?browseid=2209253

Man, do i feel stupid 'Bretonians' why oh why didn't I think of looking at those models!

Maybe some coffee? :-) I am drinking mine.

Damn you leo *shakes fist* :-) coffee would be fantastic right about now! i'd love a 'Gweneth' (white with none) it's currently 6:14am here and I'm on the tail end of an 11 hour night shift! number 7 in a row! i'm a bit over it and want my days off so i can paint and update and go and finally see Batman!

Of the options you give, I think red/blue is closer to optimal on the color wheel (red/green).

Blue yellow man. Or whatever, I'm sure it'll be sweet.

Thanks for the input guys :-) I was thinking of colours i don't paint much, so blue/green came into it but i also like the brightness of having a yellow? but now I'm thinking that white and green would be cool? still bright and different to what i'm doing lots of and will suit the miniature i'm painting, thoughts?

Check out the Eldar Craftworld colors, maybe some help there.

I'm surprised you haven't considered yellow and green

Ha Arakasi! ;-) maybe i would have considered it if we were doing a bit better in the olympics! ...... still might?


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Update w.i.p pics I didn't have as much time as i wanted today to paint but i managed to assemble another 20 SkeleCrons as well as started to put the base layers on my Death Co. Dread and got the armour on my 10 man assault squad done, just the details and lenses etc to do, I popped the bare heads i painted a while ago in the marines and they look pretty good only need to do a little more to the bearded guy (hmmm, red suit, big white beard, comes out of the sky.... Santa?)

Well, lets start with the Crons, nothing much to show just some assembling and heads!





Here's the beginning of my DC Dread, i used the new GW Nuln Oil and I actually like it it flows much smoother and covers nicely!




And lastly for today my Assault squad, ten men ready to rain down righteous fury! i should have them finished tomorrow I hope!








thoughts? or just keen to get me to finish them

Interested to see the finished dread. I typically am not a fan of them with red wing things. Make me a believer!

The assault squad is looking super sweet.

All of your offensive Space Marinist views regarded towards Ultramarines offend me!

The Assault squad are looking excellent, your faces are top notch.

Ultramarinist and marinists in general offend me

Generally i offend most people! so i'm on track then :-)

all finished though, just haven't the light (or patience) to take some shots of the Assault squad, so next week it's the DC Dread! and i will make WM360 a believer! I promise!

Assault squad finished, I present to you the famous 'Jaws of Doom' assault squad there's a few little things i'll get back to and finish later like exhaust glow etc. but for now they're complete and ready to do battle! I will try and get some better shots (as usual) later as I find red sooo hard to photograph right so it doesn't appear washed out, these guys are a little different in shades than my Tac troops, i used the Vallejo equivalents and some new GW washes again (i'm quite pleased with the new ones!) finally washed with Baal red (I bought up about 7 pots ) so they're just a little more orange/red than my others but not out of place which is a relief when you see the whole force together (which is coming along nicely!) next up will be my DC. Dread which i really want to make something special as i've named him close to my heart

Here's a few of individuals:





And a sort of group-ish shot!




Catch you all tonight fellow Nerds!

Excellent job Damo... they really look terrific together! Love the way the bases have the same warm tone yet still set off the red really well. Just works brilliantly.

Stunning as usual nerdfest, just brilliant.

Thanks gentlemen! I'm glad I finally got back to painting, it's felt like way too long since i got really stuck in again! I'm still a bit rusty with my blending on these guys but the more i do the better I'll get up to speed :-) and Gits I'm pretty happy with the base colour too, not bad for calthan brown rim and pure blended cork on top! not even a drybrush in sight, they do say the simple things in life....
Vitruvian, thank you, hardly stunning but I really enjoy these guys and i hope the love shines through a bit! :-) i'm counting down until my next days off to get into that DC. Dread!

I agree with you regarding nun oil, the new washes aren't half bad. Beautiful models as always.

As ever, your m4d skillz make me weep with joy

Seriously nice colours man, bravo.

So what have you called the DC Dread and whats the inspiration if you dont mind me asking

Astonishing as always, Damo!
I love the way you do your reds, I can't explain what it is...but I love it!

The thing I love about your models, every single one looks like they have just stepped off a battlefield. They look real! I absolutely love everything you do. Please, never stop.

Gorgeous. I love the necrons with actual skull faces as well. They look cool. How are you planning to do their eyes then?

Gorgeous. I love the necrons with actual skull faces as well. They look cool. How are you planning to do their eyes then?

I assume you think the models are gorgeous and not referring to me Imperial Monkey? and that you like the SkeleCrons? I hope they look a bit different than what you usually see around the traps, the skulls really make them much more animated but still gives them that sense of relentless silent malice that we know and love from these bad boys! I have just finished priming 40 warriors three Destroyers and sixteen Scarab bases, now they're all one colour they really look good together, as for the eyes, I'm not sure how i'll approach them yet, my gut is telling me to leave them quite dark and recessed but my exhuberant side wants me to do the very centre like a softly lit green globe? but boy that would take some time to do!

The thing I love about your models, every single one looks like they have just stepped off a battlefield. They look real! I absolutely love everything you do. Please, never stop.

Proto, thanks mate! I do try and put some personality in every marine i do, i believe they each have a story to tell, i prefer my armour to be fairly clean but the faces to tell a story, that's why my force has an abundance of bare heads in it, I feel it gives the force and marines some character whether tacticaly it's sound advice or not! and if you seriously like everything I do? you're mad! but don't stress I won't stop for a good many.... many ..... many years yet!

Astonishing as always, Damo!
I love the way you do your reds, I can't explain what it is...but I love it!

LDP you've got over your percieved slight against the Ultramarines and come back to say hi then and as always I appreciate every kind word of encouragement! it's strange y'know I have been collecting and painting on and off since i was 15 and because my friend wanted Blood Angels I thought it meant I couldn't have an army of them but I really loved the look of the blood red/orange armour and it's taken me nearly 16 years to finally paint some red marines up! and it's awesome, i enjoy painting reds and I find it pretty simple and i wish i had of started years ago!

As ever, your m4d skillz make me weep with joy

Seriously nice colours man, bravo.

So what have you called the DC Dread and whats the inspiration if you dont mind me asking

lol Thanks Kitch! m4d skillz eh! .... hardly! just years of banging my head against a desk and talking to as many great artists as i could, I'm still learning but only in the last 12 months have i really been happy with my painting, and it's all you guys that stuck with me in the start that have kept me going without losing faith, so if i can do it anyone can, sheesh dude you should have seen some of my early stuff omg.... terrible!

And about my DC Dread, I don't mind you asking, I won't go into emotional detail as the internet is a dangerous place for baring your soul, but when i was born I was a premature baby.... very premature, 12 weeks prem and to complicate things i was one half of twin boys, myself and my brother, sadly we spent our time after birth in intensive care and my brother didn't make it past 8 weeks due to complications and lack of strength so as i've always felt him near me and wondered what we would do together I thought it would be fitting to honor him with naming my DC dread after him as i'm 100% sure he's be as nerdy as I am and he'd enjoy being an unstoppable machine! so that's the short story but from hence forth my Dread shall be named 'Brother Byron' and i plan on really trying to make the model as good as i can!

I agree with you regarding nun oil, the new washes aren't half bad. Beautiful models as always.

Hi there LOD! I've only used a couple of the new washes/shades so far but I like them a lot, they flow much easier and really stick to the recesses while leaving panels quite clean with no tide marks that i've seen to date!

Thanks again everyone for hanging out with me and perservering through these last couple of months of painting funk in a few short weeks hopefully I will be back on my normal roster at work and won't be doing a sould depleting 77 hours of graveyard shifts in a row! I'll be painting on friday so look out over the weekend for an update with pics

cheers again!

Damian

nerdfest09 wrote:And about my DC Dread, I don't mind you asking, I won't go into emotional detail as the internet is a dangerous place for baring your soul, but when i was born I was a premature baby.... very premature, 12 weeks prem and to complicate things i was one half of twin boys, myself and my brother, sadly we spent our time after birth in intensive care and my brother didn't make it past 8 weeks due to complications and lack of strength so as i've always felt him near me and wondered what we would do together I thought it would be fitting to honor him with naming my DC dread after him as i'm 100% sure he's be as nerdy as I am and he'd enjoy being an unstoppable machine! so that's the short story but from hence forth my Dread shall be named 'Brother Byron' and i plan on really trying to make the model as good as i can!

That's amazing man, if anyone can do it justice, you can

Amazing! My only real nitpick would be the new flesh eaters chapter symbol- I prefer the old one. This is a matter of taste, however, and I think that they're incredible, regardless. I will have to take some pictures of my flesh eaters, which are currently on the painting table, thanks to you

Excellent *rubs hands together* my plan is working perfectly! Mwahahahah! feel free to show them here as well if you like, kind of a Flesh eaters meeting place to bring the blood soaked glory!


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Oh, and I changed the symbol as the new one was easier to paint and get the same on all the models :-) originally I had the normal one but there was too many slight discrepancies for my liking!

I see what you mean by discrepancies- I have the same problem. I'm just too stubborn to change it.
Anyway, here they are:

Looks like you were trying to paint your fingers and the model got in the way!

Lol, that marine on a segway is ridiculously awesome! and nothing beats an old skool rhino! but how on earth did you get so damn dirty painting though? do you paint in a bath? :-)

I see Chaos Black and Boltgun Metal on your thumb

I use my hands as a paper towel when drybrushing/cleaning my brushes.
@dave: technically, it's mars black and leadbelcher

Got a few different pics at the mo for ya i needed to seriously re organize and clean my Nerd lair desperately! so i did and I can now find my bitz/brushes/models here's how she now stands (in case you were ever wondering)




I hijacked a pair of drawers and re assigned them to be my containers for magazines terrain and gaming accessories



Also primed the Crons! couple of shots of them and the last one actually shows the proper colour of them they're not bone or white but a lovely rotting flesh green!



here's one of the shelf of things that aren't painted this is what you all have to look forward to over the next few months!


and another couple of the army so far charging across the shelf of death! Raaaaaaah!



and here's the start of my Deathwatch marine for InmyGravenimage's Deathwatch comp doesn't look like much at the moment but he gets primed and started tomorrow!


and one more thing! a little bit of a teaser for 2 things! the first is the 'addition' a beautiful new Cyclone launcher from my good friends at Chapterhouse it'll be available soon but i managed to sweet talk my way into getting one early! and second, he's on a termie, nothing new there, except i'm not painting him up in the FleshEaters colour he'll be done in my new armies chapter scheme!.... which no one has figured out yet! (or even pestered me for that matter )...... (probably because i'm toying with 2 ideas and don't know what to do!)







Cheers everyone! love to know what you think of my clean workstation! I've got an update of my DC. Dread ready for tomorrow so i don't clutter it up tonight

Damo

Wow. Awesome mancave. I love it.

The nerd cave is looking very nice and tidy.

Still have no idea on the chapter though, looks very imperial with the cyclone.

I feel much more organized and ready for war with a clean nerd lair! but i do have something for you today! i've done some work on the DC dread and as I wanted to work on him and make him something special I tried something new and I like how it's turning out so far! I'd like to know what you think? I plan on washing him to make the design subtle but still have him look black more work on him later today!

Love the logo! LOL!

Very nice free-form work there Damo. Do it in burgundy and gold and it'd look like the inside of a New York taxicab!

I love the swirly.

Cheers guys :-) glad you like it! It's all done now but our laptop ate itself tonight with a trojan thing :-( so no updates until early this week when i get it back, so ill just have to browse on my phone! (lucky it's a good phone eh!) i'm really happy with how the DC is coming along and to be honest i'm looking forward to showing you my progress,:-)

Cool freehand, your stuff is evolving/improving

I made my chaplain dread into a deathwatch one by sculpting those letters on the shoulder. Should take some pics when I´m not so lazy.

Been away a bunch and not on the board but am slowly getting back.

Holy crap man, that's beautiful

Thanks guys ! actually Pyriel you are the inspiration behind the bone colours and the style of the wings! and Finnan encouraged me to try the freehand it's nearly finished and I am happy with how he's turning out, some of my best work imo :-) I will try and get him up on here as soon as possible! i'm actually excited about this guy, I really put some effort into him without taking him too far from my normal paintjobs :-)

Wow, nice freehand work on that dred man. And your desk... its only a third of the size of mine, yet you have three times as much working-space on yours.... maybe I should tidy mine up.... lol

the free hand looks great. Can I make a suggestion? Go with a brighter colour and "highlight" the tops of the loops etc. to really bring them out (try it first to see if you like the effect)

You've given me a great idea on how to do the terminators i was planning now with that CH bit. I really like the gothic look of it. How's the casting quality on them?

the free hand looks great. Can I make a suggestion? Go with a brighter colour and "highlight" the tops of the loops etc. to really bring them out (try it first to see if you like the effect)

You've given me a great idea on how to do the terminators i was planning now with that CH bit. I really like the gothic look of it. How's the casting quality on them?

Thanks king88, I plan on doing a highlight on the top edges of the designs and shading with black on the undersides, I want a kind of wallpaper or fancy curtain look to it and the Chapterhouse stuff i've gotten over the years has always been really really good! this launcher is no exception I'll recommend them any day!

Oh, and here's a little more work in progress just a hint of what he looks like

Ah Nerdy, you inspire me to pull my own chaplain dread out of the bag n paint it up!

Damn. Thats the word to describe your progress. And your current dread looks the tits MrMan. Seriously though, I love the swirly badassness of death on there

Thanks Gits and KC! I finally got my Laptop back so once I get it sorted I'll be posting up on friday night a finished DC Dread! woo hoo!

Like king88 says, highlite the curves of the freehand.

At first I wasn't sold on the swirls but the highlight on them really adds a dynamic to it.

And the wings look really good.

That's looking epic mate. Beautiful, edgy work.

Thanks Graven :-) only a couple days before i can unveil him finished! I can't wait to see what everyone thinks!

also only a couple more days until i can paint up the Deathwatch marine! some of the others look outstandingly good and will most probably beat my attempt hands down but I love a bit of fun painting :-)

Death inside! LOL that's great! The freehand is awesome man!!

really liking the pattern on the dread!
I was watching Thor on tv last week, and really like some of the patterning on their costumes and sets, this reminds me of that. I like the spacing on it, that's it's all pretty equal between the positive and negative spaces : )
thumbs up! : )

Cheers Finnan, I was initially inspired by the Chaplains helmet in the Ultramarines movie, the silver with swirls through it really looked good and I had thought about doing something similar for a while now :-) but the examples you mention in Thor caught my eye too!

I plan on finishing him and hopefully posting him up tomorrow night! any other suggestions you can make for the patterns? I am going to add a brighter highlight on the very top edges and i'm thinking pure black under? thoughts?

I guess it depends on what you want to achieve:
if you highlight the pattern itself, it'll make it look like an engraved/embossed pattern on the surface of the armour, which would be cool. But you could also just do a flat highlight on the armour and the pattern so it looks as if it's been painted on. I think either would look great, it's a lovely design, and unusual to have those soft curves on the flat, straight planes of the armour...
... soft curves on Marine armour...? almost Slaaneshi... heresy!!! ; ) lol

soft curves on Marine armour...? almost Slaaneshi... heresy!!! ; )

wash your mouth out!

; ) lol

my mistake - I mistook grand, baroque detailing for Slaaneshi corruption ; )

Very nice work you've produced over the last month! : )

Loving the DC Dread, Damo. You're really doing it justice.

Finished my Death Company Dreadnought! I wanted to do him justice as i have named him Byron after my twin brother (r.i.p) I tried some things i haven't done before and took time to get it as good as I could paint him! I am happy with the freehand design although it could be neater but my hand got the shakes I attempted to make the bone parts a similar style to Pyriel's bone he paints as I really like the look of it, and over all I am super pleased with him and can't wait for him to wreak havoc on the tabletop I hope everyone likes him and now i need to think about what to paint next! I'm toying up between a land speeder or a flamestorm Baal? or more marines?.... or Terminators?

Anyway, without further adieu her for hopefully your viewing pleasure Venerable Brother Byron of the Death Co.










Talk to you all soon!

Very nicely done Damo! I can see pyriel-'s influence at work.

Lovely work Nerd : ) I'm loving the dark greys, makes it look really slick. Nice balance between black/grey, red and white too, make the model as a whole really very strong. Excellent little spots of gold and green too.
I'm not worthy!
/bows

Stunning work mate. It's very rare for me to rate a paintjob as 10 - this however, is a shoe-in. Love it - balance, contrast, great freehand - can't fault it.

Incredible! Are you going to paint DC with those squigles? If so... Good luck!

Wow thanks gentlemen! that was some pretty massive praise from some seriously good painters! thank you again! I'm glad you like him, he looks pretty nice next to his pod and the other dreads! I agree that I got the balance pretty good with the colours used, i didn't want the freehand or the red wings to dominate but blend together to give you something to look at that was pleasing to the eye! I don't think i'll attempt the freehand on all my DC models but if I give them a rhino i'll do it for sure!

I'm looking forward to playing another game and using the models i painted recently for another epic photo bat rep

is there any constructive criticism on him? or is he really some of my best work? i'm not fishing for compliments as I love him anyway but if there's something I can improve on for next time I'd like to learn

Thanks again guys!

Hes looking excellent NF09, the freehand is stunning I really like how you've done it and its not overpowering. I'd say you've nailed it spot on.

That really looks fantastic. Something to be truely proud of. The highlighting on the freehand is just right and very very clean.

Very nice, you are getting better.

Only thing I could think of regarding improvement is using nmm metals but that´s a matter of taste.

Looks good, and the red wings came out nice, a bit lifter than most.

wow. That dead looks phenomenal! The freehand pattern is ace, and the skull..... just wow!

Many, many thanks guys! after seeing my whole force sitting there together with the dreads ready for war I have decided to shelve the idea of another marine force and focus on turning my FleshEaters into an entire company Apoc force! so, more dreads/pods/troops/termies/tanks and everything in between! I'll be painting up my Rhino's this week as they haven't been looked at for a while and then I shall see what's next!

speaking of more FE's can someone help me with how to arm a 10 man Death Co, squad with no jp's and riding in a pod or Rhino? just need a load for use in most situations? cc or bolters?

until laters!

Damo

I'm not much of a gamer, but when I played Knightley my DC had all the upgrades, and they wiped out 2 squads. They really can take a pounding so assault would be best IMO. But as I said, I'm not much of a gamer. So take what I said with a pinch of salt.

Basically run a hammer and power fist, maybe a few power swords, mix the Bolters and ccw guys in front.

So I should sort of have 5 close combat guys with a power fist/hammer/swords etc. (any infernus or hand flamers?) and 5 with bolters? if I have 5 and 5 will the 5 with bolters get relentless?


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Ooh I also chucked my DC dread in the gallery if anyone cares to vote for the big bruiser
http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-viewimage.jsp?i=403150&m=2&w=800

Lovely work there Damo, stunning freehand. Did you say this guy has his own drop pod? Will you be giving 0htat the same freehand? You know how awesome that'll look right...?!

Holy hell that dread is fantastic! Very nicely done

Holy hell that dread is fantastic! Very nicely done

Thanks KC! haven't seen you round much lately dude! I thought perhaps your beard had eaten you finally

Lovely work there Damo, stunning freehand. Did you say this guy has his own drop pod? Will you be giving 0htat the same freehand? You know how awesome that'll look right...?!

Thanks Kitch! and yes I did mebtion he will be getting his own drop pod of glorious death! and I didn't even think of repeating the same pattern, repeating the same pattern, repeating the same pattern... on it, but that's an awesome idea!

now i'm onto assembling my Sang Guard models! hellishly excited about those guys paint jobs too!

You realise of course that you have to now do a blue Libby dread with red and white accents (and a shield) and a red contemptor with yellow accents. Dunno how or why you'd do a green one though. Maybe an allied Titan? Hulk smash...

Lol, Avenger dreads in drop pods! how can that be anything but awesome? I might have to visit that idea one day! ..... or do my own painting comp?

speaking of which, I started the DeathWatch marine today, got most of the armour done and started his pads and face is nearly done as well, this is where he stands:



I also assembled and started my Sanguinary Guard models Primed them with The Army Painter Leather brown spray, then mixed 50/50 Snakebite leather and Burnished gold and over brushed the whole model, then washed them with Agrax Earthshade (which is still wet in the pics) next I started working on my banner bearer for the squad, I didn't like the one that came with the kit and I wanted to paint a similar method as to my other banner guy, so in order to keep the banner a bit smaller and combat oriented I used a fantasy banner that was torn and shorter, but to fit it I had to clip off the original banner and make sure the new one covered the hand holding the banner pole, anyway this is how the guys look so far.









the colour could work well for a Minotaurs too I think? I should get a fair whack more done tomorrow

Those are turning out very well. I like your take on the gold.

digging the gold - just really nice and matte, and really good coverage. it would never have occurred to me to mix gold with brown.
Is Agrax the new Devlan Mud?

Awesome Job! I really love the dread.

Cool, i'll keep working on them today. yep agrax is the new devlan mud and imo much nicer to use! I was planning on highlighting right up to mithril to make them look almost silvery? Which would look good when i do the wings in red!

Stunning work pal I love the banner most of all, it never made sense how this tough as you like ceramite armour that deflects bullets gets really worn and weathered, yet the banners that get singed as soon as you fart on them always look pristine, cracking stuff

Did some more work on the Sanguinary Guard and pretty much finished the armour on all of them I highlighted up to pure Mithril silver as I am wont to do! sadly the pics i just took were under poor room lighting but I'll grab some more as soon as i can, I like the look of the gold fading right out to look worn and nearly silver, i think it will look ace when the wings get done and popped on!

I also dummied in some bare heads on the one with no helmet, the heads aren't finished either but they have the basic colours on enough to see which head you guys want to see in the armour? once I know which one I'll use I'll finish it up properly and glue him in











And now for bad news i'm about to go on a 7 night graveyard shift roster so I won't have any time for anything until at least next friday! but I will be able to catch up on the work computer with everyone so i'll talk to you all soon eh!

Holy crud those models are beatiful!
Wish I could paint gold that well D:

Cool, bearded space wolf sang guards


As for kitting out your DC. Depends (are they characters or just infantry...to lazy to check up).
They get expensive so keep the cost down, gear them out for one purpose and make sure they are able to do what they are geared up to do.
Anti horde = flame weapons and the occasional power weapon.
Anti MEQ = more power weapons and the occasional fist and no flame weapons.
If you start mixing and want it all they will end up costing to much.

I took your advice and just kept them simple, gave them the banner for the extra attack and I threw in a power fist because I couldn't get one set of arms to line up properly :-) lol, next week I should finish them in a sitting hopefully!

LDP, thanks for the compliment on the gold, I WILL get a nicer shot to show, it looks pretty cool irl and makes me want to hurry up and work on the wings and get them together!

That gold looks phenomenal! I now want "bearded space wolf sang guards"

Naw the Beard hasnt eaten me yet, Ive just been busy with life and such, and I WAS hooked on the DCM forums, but my membership lapsed and although I REALLY want to resub, itll just have to wait for now. But Im always here


On to your blog though. feth balls, those Sang guards look awesome, thats some of the best gold work Ive ever seen painted on a mini. Definitely need better pics of those

On to your blog though. feth balls, those Sang guards look awesome, thats some of the best gold work Ive ever seen painted on a mini. Definitely need better pics of those

Hey KC, thanks man, that's a nice compliment to get! I put off a White Minatour army as i couldn't paint gold! and now..... I really gotta try and get some better pics, they should be done by next friday!... actually they WILL be done!

That gold looks phenomenal! I now want "bearded space wolf sang guards"

Thanks Styro so I'm guessing the bearded heads look o.k? any one in particular I should use? I quite like the second bare head with the black beard but I'm open to suggestions

Great job NF09! The sang guard models are turning out quite well though I'm really interested in seeing the death watch models. Thinking about doing some of my own for awhile now.

I haven't got any further on the DW model, it's just not as good as I want it :-( and the calibre of others entries to date is outstanding, so unless I get really inspired I don't think he'll be anywhere near as nice as my Sang Guard, which i have to say I am stoked at how nice they're looking, the silvery gold is different and looks great so far ;-)

Your DW guy looks awesome man, the paint is crisp, the detail on his face is really nicely picked out, it's like someone froze and shrunk a real guy!

If you want to make him more eye catching, why not drill the bolt gun barrels, add a gak load of icky gooey blood trails coming off his sword and put him on a diorama base a top a hill surrounded by cleaved xenos and or traitors?!

Great models as usual!
I love gold, it's such and epic colour (both due to it being difficult to paint properly, and 'cause...well... it shiny!)

Anyways, keep 'em coming, can't wait for more epicness

 nerdfest09 wrote:

On to your blog though. feth balls, those Sang guards look awesome, thats some of the best gold work Ive ever seen painted on a mini. Definitely need better pics of those

Hey KC, thanks man, that's a nice compliment to get! I put off a White Minatour army as i couldn't paint gold! and now..... I really gotta try and get some better pics, they should be done by next friday!... actually they WILL be done!

That gold looks phenomenal! I now want "bearded space wolf sang guards"

Thanks Styro so I'm guessing the bearded heads look o.k? any one in particular I should use? I quite like the second bare head with the black beard but I'm open to suggestions

Yanno what, Ive wanted to see someone attempt that army for years. Although admittedly, I cant stand the color of gold in person, but I think gold is such a PITA to paint well, Ive been wanting to see someone try and pull it off. Much like Squats, I think. I do not like Squats at all, but when someone makes a Squat IG army, and its done well, I REALLY enjoy it. And a nicely Painted Ultra Marines force. Though I wont say that to loudly

Yanno what, Ive wanted to see someone attempt that army for years. Although admittedly, I cant stand the color of gold in person, but I think gold is such a PITA to paint well, Ive been wanting to see someone try and pull it off. Much like Squats, I think. I do not like Squats at all, but when someone makes a Squat IG army, and its done well, I REALLY enjoy it. And a nicely Painted Ultra Marines force. Though I wont say that to loudly

Mister Cracker, so good of you to join us here at Nerdington Manor my friends and I are delighted you have made an appearance with us this evening, I must say 'ol chap that beard is coming along swimingly! such lush growth i could only dream of, well done sir!

Aaaaand now back to normality! thanks KC, the sang's were actually really easy to paint gold once I figured out a method for it and if you batch painted marines using it, you could churn out a decent White Minatours force really fast and to a pretty good level imo, I can agree with you on some armies as well, you love to look at a really well done force but would cringe trying to do one yourself! for me, chaos springs to mind, too many fiddly little pointy bits and clutter, but I always look if someone's doing something special

And a nicely Painted Ultra Marines force. Though I wont say that to loudly

I know what you mean, but whisper it quietly o.k! or Lipsdapips will hear you and come in all spouting Ultra love and get blue all over the place! and i can't have blue all over my Red marines!


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Oh, one last thing everyone, I'm still looking for a good loadout for a 10 man DC squad? what sort of cc weapons should I have mixed through them? or will bolt pistols chainswords and the occasional power fist be good?

A Chainsword is no more powerful than a fist in 6ED, which sucks, because it's my favorite Grimdark CC weapon.

Interesting! so either would suffice in a squad depending on points? I like the idea of giving them just the 'ol trusty bp & cs and pointing them at the bad guys, but I think I may need to add a melta or something a bit more punchier? then again, I've heard about 6th using the closest model to take wounds? so it may be tricky to position some hard hitting stuff? thoughts? enough questionmarks?

Hey everyone, I need your help finding something please! :-) I have been searching the net and Dakka for the last few hours and now i'm getting frustrated! I want to build a Dreadnought with tl Autocannon arms, I can remember seeing some companies do alternate ones I can use, I've been to the site once ages ago and i think it was polish? not Puppetswar though, the ones i can remember looked 'similar' to the FW ones and were reasonably priced, but I can't even find any other companies now! my Google-Fu is weak as hell today! can someone please... pretty please help me track some down? :-)

This? http://store.forgeplanet.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=50

Also, there is bitspudlo.

My god Leo I love you! :-) that's the one i was thinking about! thanks so much dude! ..... legend!

beaten to it! Darnit

How about these...?
http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=60_78

Lol, only just got beaten Finnan! those Anvil ones look damn cool too! I can't believe i missed them when i read through the thread! :-( I just ordered some from Forgeplanet, so we'll have to see what they're like? I've not seen anyone use their stuff yet!

and on a modeling note: I now have 4 hours until I finish work and start 2.5 days off! so look out for some finished Sang Guard my friends..... Oh yes, there will be finished Sang Guard....... yessssss

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Thanks Styro so I'm guessing the bearded heads look o.k? any one in particular I should use? I quite like the second bare head with the black beard but I'm open to suggestions

I like the one with the face chops

This one:

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Theres also puppetwars:

http://puppetswar.eu/product.php?id_product=55

Cheers Vit :-) I had checked them out but while i like the sculpting and the guns, the aesthetic of those arms on the Dreadnought just seems wrong to me :-( have you seen any painted examples that look decent I can have a squiz at? might sway me to add some down the track :-)

They seem to fit best on contemptors imo, have a looksie at this:



compared to this

Um,.....Wow, that actually looks freakin' fantastic on the Contemptor! :-) great! now you know i'm tempted to get another Contemptor and use those arms! thanks Vit, I love seeing things like that that i may not have thought of!

I know! It just feels 'right' with all the curves of a contemptor. I think i need a third just so i can use those arms.

Good day fellow Nerds got some work in progress pics for you!

I have a good mate who's just starting to start 40K (50shadesofgiggity) he has decided on Chaos marines, a good choice considering they're rumored for a release soon! he just likes the imagery and wants to be a 'bad' guy for once as he usually errs on the side of good! so we jumped on Ebay and snapped him up some models to start with, I will be helping him learn to paint and assemble what he gets in the mail and as a starting gift to him I decided to make him a Chaos Termie Lord to lead his force, using mainly bitz from my bits box I have him mostly built I wanted to Chaos-ify the set of normal Termie legs I had so i utilized some of the skulls i was using for my Necrons and cut the faces off them, glued them onto the leg of armour and brown stuffed them to blend into it better, I like how it looks together now and with a storm bolter and axe that i hear is quite good this edition he should be good for him!

anyway this is as far as i have got with him






Got assembling my Terminator Sanguinary Priest too, I think i may need another one down the track but we'll see how he goes!


And now onto the Sanguinary guard models! these guys will be finished tomorrow and i love how they're turning out! love to know what you think!

Looking good - the burnished/white gold is great, a little colder and just meaner than a full, rich gold. Good choice!

Loving the skullz on Chaos dude - just looks really creepy, which is the point I suppose lol

Thanks fin, I thought the same about the armour, cold and mean sort of burnished and polished to it's changed colour somewhat? and I like the way it sits in with the rest of the army now, plus when the wings go on tomorrow they'll look even better! :-)

And Chaos Lord is kinda creepy which is good, i hope I can smooth it a bit more and when I paint it doesn't look like they are just stuck onto him? I'm just waiting on his head from Puppetswar but I should prime him tomorrow as well and make a start :-)

Wow, these are some of the best sanguinary guard I've seen so far! Love the palette, nerd!

As ever, mind... Blown.

Just loving it all man, beautiful work

no, not at all, the skulls look as if they're pushing out of the leg armour - lost souls trapped in the armour?

The chaos lord is looking very nice I guess with all the Skulls he will be a devote to khorne?

The Sang guard are beautiful though I really like how weathered they look showing their base metal. Which is very nice and shiny by the way. Makes me want to paint a unit like that.

Is the apoth arm for the termi recast, or just painted white already? Most GK players have spare, you don't need 1 per 5 in any list.

Anyways, the lord is looking sharp. Always liked the souls trying to escape look, fits a non-specific lord very well.

Epic Damo! Talk soon man

Lots to show you today! lots of opinions needed and some models i'm pretty darn proud of!

first up lets take a look at my interpretation of a Flesh eaters chapter master in Termie armour! i'm not entirely sure about how to arm him but my research has led me to believe I can give him a lightning claw and a chainfist to make him aggressively nasty in cc, but my quandary lies with if he is also allowed to have a shooting weapon on his person? I've used the Huron model and changed his fist to incorporate a combi melta work in progress, if he can't have that armament then can you please tell me what he should have? if he's better off with just the chainfist and counts as lightning claw then i'll delete the combi melta and spruce his arms up in other ways

but here's what he's looking like at the moment the head comes from Puppetswar and i've chosen the head with the mechanical lower jaw to fit with my army's theme








Next up is my finished sanguinary Guard! I am totally happy with them and very glad I decided to paint them! only have to drill barrels and finish the actual banner but the models are all done! I chose a different bare head than i thought i'd use, once they were painted and i dry fitted a bunch this one just suited the look of esteemed battle hardened veterans with a long and proud history of war!















That's all I've done guys! next up i'll paint.... ? dunno so much to choose from! I got tanks, speeders more marines, chapter masters, termies?

Please comment as you see fit! I'll be back laters tonight! cheers guys!

And a nicely Painted Ultra Marines force. Though I wont say that to loudly

I know what you mean, but whisper it quietly o.k! or Lipsdapips will hear you and come in all spouting Ultra love and get blue all over the place! and i can't have blue all over my Red marines!

ULTRAS ULTRAS ULTRAS ULTRAS ULTRAS WE ARE THE BEST WE ARE THE BEST
Hahah! You whipsered too loud and my obnoxious Ultramarine friends and I overheard!
Nah, I jest.
Wow you've been up to alot since I last checked in Nerdfest. Let me just say the lot of your stuff is continuing to look flash! I cant wait for more.

Nice work on that sanguinary guard Damo... You're really getting the NMM technique down (even if you are using metallics). The head on your sergeant is outstanding.

Egats! Seriously, you HAVE to do a tut on how to paint that gold. Its fantastic.

Afaik, the only way to have claws and chain fists would be to use typeros the red wake's rules (IA9 or 10). Even then, you'd have to use codex:sm.

As far as painting, I'd like to see some termis for sure. Maybe some tanks too.

By the Emperor!
Ok those Sanguinary Guard are seriously making me jealous of your skills as a painter, while reinforcing my want to actually build a Sanguinary Guard force.
Damn you.......

P.S. I demand a tutorial on how you did that gold.

Thanks guys! :-) I'm pretty happy with the Guard! and I'll do a tute for gold tomorrow! I just love how they turned out, I reckon it'll be Landspeeders next up for me ;-)

So, how best to arm a termie master guys? I've Googled and still confused as 6th edition makes it different!

quicker i can organise his arms then I can paint him up! ;-) maybe Gold and Red? thoughts?

NF09 caught up on your blog and man you was a busy bee! Awsome work and your Sanguinary Guard come out awsome. I too finished up a BA army and loving your FT so far . Keep up the great work.

Great work on those Sangiunary Guards, the gold is just epic! Love the worn down "gold plated" look, just makes them look so much more believable as real warroirs and not just "golden parade boys"

Looking forward to the toturial

In regards to how to arm the termie master, it depends on how you want to use him and the load out of the unit he will accompany into battle.

The other option is to magnetise the arms so you can swap them around until you find the load out you prefer.

Looking cracking as ever. Where are the legs for the master from - scibor?

Hey guys, cheers as always, Graven the body is the FW Lufgt Huron model and i'm going to hack it up for a Nerd spin on it ;-)

as far as arming him goes, I would like him to accompany some termies into battle, either sort I have cc and tac ones, would he be able to hang with each sort od squad reliably? I know cc makes sense but could the tac ones shoot their way through until he gets into range? I only cracked my brand new rule book this morning after my b'day yesterday! :-) so is there anything 6th should fill me in on before i go ahead and glue stuff together?

and I'll be working on a gold tute today, i'll try and get it done but definitely within the next day or two!

Well happy bday then, cheers on getting older

thanks KC i'm older and wiser now! so wise in fact that I now know that i should spend my money on whatever the hell I want :-) so more 40K coming my way! and maybe a new lounge suite.... and a 60 inch plasma..... maybe a new car.. Hmmm

gak, throw some of that cash my way ya? Ill help ya spend it

Howz about we just paaaaartyyyyyyyy! ? :-)


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I have had a few requests about how I painted the armour of my Sanguinary guard models so I thought i'd paint some up to show you how i do it, I chose the Terminator armoured chapter master/captain as I could paint the main body and when I work out how best to arm him I plan on giving him red arms to tie him in with his loyal troops! any more advice on arming him is welcome too

well, firstly I tidied the model up as it was a little rough in places but overall not too bad, then I undercoated it with the Army Painter coloured Primer Leather brown. as shown here with a nice smooth coating:


A quick wash with that beautifully easy to use Agrax Earthshade shade:


o.k, now we start the gold, mix 50/50 Burnished Gold & Snakebite Leather paint (old range) add a little water and overbrush the entire model with it, this will give you a really dark gold base:


Wash this layer with Agrax Earthshade to re confirm the shading and details:


then layer on pure Burnished Gold over the armour plates, leaving the previous layer in the deeper parts etc.:


to start highlighting, mix Burnished Gold with a tiny brush tip of Mithril Silver paint, I can't give exact measure here as the Mithril really overpowers the gold easily but if you mix on the same part of your palette as the gold you will see the original colour on the edge of your mix thus enabling you to see the progression of the colour, you want it just slightly more silver at this stage:


now add slightly more Mithril silver again to the mix on your palette and highlight the edges and top parts of the models armour:


Finally with a fine brush and pure Mithril Silver highlight the final highlights where you have before been highlighting the edges and it should look something like this:




i hope that was clear enough to follow? any questions or more pics just ask me lets hope it works for you guys!

Cheers

Damo

Wow. Stunning effect you've achieved there, mate. Thanks for the tutorial. Glad to see you're still cranking out the goodness? Did you ever receive my little care package?

Great tutorial, Damo! I will definetely use this someday!

Cheers guys! glad you like it! I expect to see it used I almost want another excuse to paint it now! and Moltar, sorry mate i haven't gotten any mail in weeks hopefully it didn't get lost in the warp

today i'm starting on 3 speeders and some more details on my master!

updates laters!

hey nerd good stuff going down as normal! Really liked the tut on your take of gold. man the way you painted them sang gaurd made me want to go buy some now.

good lookin

bama

Hrrmmm, I sent that off in June, I believe. I'll see if I can find the receipt with the tracking number when I get home, but even if it got tangled up, you should have received it by now. The ruinous powers may have plucked it up to stop your forces from growing. That would suck. I'll let you know what I find out. Until then, Nerd on.

Very, very nice. I might play with that on a spare Sanguinary Helm just for tryouts. Great tut buddy!

Hi guys, I had a day home today not feeling 100% but had a bit of a paint I laid down the first coat of red on my 3 speeders after a wash of Agrax and started working on the Chaos Lord for my mate 50shadesofgiggity!

basic boring ol shot of speeders


here's the Lord, worked the armour and gave it a wash to start with, it is basically the same recipe as my FE's but I washed first with Black to make the red a darker shade than my marines.



Now for the cool bits I watched a movie yesterday which inspired me when painting the skulls on his armour..... yeah you can kinda tell I watched ghost Rider 2 I'm stoked with the result I think it turned out nicely!





Comments and general chit chat welcome!

Love the way the skulls emerge from the armor, both in fact and with the use of color.

That's a whole lot of scary win great fade up.

Those skulls look very nice.

Thanks guys, i think I nailed the burning effect on them pretty well, and I wanted to something a bit different than the normal bone skulls I do, since it's for a mate i didn't have to restrict myself to my own painting scheme! he's hoping to start a Chaos force of the Apostles of Minthros, who are dark red with nearly black metal banding and symbols, I'll do this guy up for him and then sit down and teach him a basic method or two to get him up and running with his own blog :-)

today I will try and finish him and the main hulls of my speeders! so look out for me later today! or tonight... wherever you live....


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Did some more to 50shadesofgiggity's Lord he's about 80% done now, I think he looks o.k, I tried to keep the majority of him fairly basic with a few decent touches, I'm pretty pleased with the skulls and his face, although he does need some touching up when all is done i plan on having the binding on his axe/deamon weapon as bloody bandages and I need to finish the dirty Imperial fist helmet etc..



he almost glows coming from the darkness!




Also got my arms for my Dreadnought I'm arming with twin linked Autocannons! the arms are bloody crisp and well made! I love how they look on him!




thanks guys catch ya's soon eh!

Man, that Chaos Lord looks pretty nice, those skulls make the model for sure. Not to mention, as always, the speeders are off to a great start.

And youll love Riflemen Dreds, they just piss out bullets. My oldest brother (not the Giant) has some, and those things seem to KO my Ork leaders like champs and they usually do a number on vehicles or smaller squads like when I run my biker boss with his Kopta crew.

Cheers KC! I'm actually looking forward to using the Rifleman dread (that's the name right?) I was going to have an Ironclad but realised that BA don't have them :-( so I wanted to find something different and these guys sound awesomely fun!

Yea, they are one of those units that "just work" pretty much regardless of what your facing. Ironclads are badass but sadly like you said, you cant use them. That game I told you about where I actually tabled the guy, his IronClad was the only unit I couldnt pop

loving 50shadesofgiggety Lord - the skulls are fantastic, just perfect. Two enthusiastic thumbs up

Damn pics blocked from work ,I need to re-check this thread at home.

Just finished the main bodies on my 3 Landspeeders today, looking o.k so far next is all the fiddly little bits and pilots etc. should have them all done in the next day or two

so, here are some progress pics for your perusal! love to see what you think? are you guys sick of red yet on here?







I also did a little bit, only a little mind you! on my buildings, I'm starting to get the terrain bug again now the weather is getting better and i have the room after cleaning out my small man shed! i'm going to give the doors and accents a dark weathered gold appearance i hope!



More soon dudes!


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Freakin' sweet, just hit 50 pages of Nerdness! ahhh, today is a good day!

Congratulations on hitting 50 pages! Well deserved. Those LSs look sweet... just love the way you lay down your reds.

Oh wow lovely shading on your reds! And well done, it's great to hit 50, a weird but wonderfully satisfying benchmark (of course, gits is king of the uber-blog, so high praise!)

High praise indeed, especially from two of Dakka's stalwart veterans of the blog world! why thank you gentlemen I hope the images had re sized correctly before your viewing? they look a little naff close up! I can't wait to get back into them in the morning! they'll look much better with the extraneous bits painted, i'm not sure if i should do the bases as i do my marines? or should i leave them clear?

I've got 2 Sanguinary Novitiates to work on as well as my Termie armored Chapter master/captain! i'm still unsure as to the best loadout for him I know even running him will be a drain on competitiveness but i just want to do him, and If i'm going to paint him i may as well make him useful so far he'll have the lufgt Huron arm so it can either be a power fist or lightning claw but the other one? confused! do I give him a chainfist as well? and run him cc style?

thanks again guys, you always buoy me with your praises!

Heavy cc chapter master is a killing machine. Chain fist gives you a tank hunter, and I've experienced first hand that taking out a baneblade. Boo...


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Also, I'm not nearly at gits blogginess but I thank you for your kind words.

Grats on 50! Kepp going for them coveted triple digits!

Gits is not nearly Gits anymore. So it's time for young blood to take up the banner and carry on!

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Heavy cc chapter master is a killing machine. Chain fist gives you a tank hunter, and I've experienced first hand that taking out a baneblade. Boo...


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Also, I'm not nearly at gits blogginess but I thank you for your kind words.

Thank Gork n Mork for 6th edition, and granting us a reason to see the almighty CHAINFIST!!!! Back in action once again. Like Assault cannons, Ive always loved chainfists, but they were just too pricey and not really worth it before. Too bad assault cannons are still meh

Lightning claw and chainfist it is then :-) should be lots of fun, if I can get him with some cc termies and a sang novitiate that combat should be pretty bloody and befitting of the FleshEaters marines! did you guys like the big ass double chainfist from the Chaos Lord? or should i be a tad more subtle and use a normal chainfist?

Subtle? This is the grimdark magic space future...
I like the double chainfist, and flesh tearers always sounded suspiciously chaosy to me anyway.

Update time with some w.i.p's

Subtle? This is the grimdark magic space future...
I like the double chainfist, and flesh tearers always sounded suspiciously chaosy to me anyway.

Phew! I've heard those Flesh Tearers could be nearly chaosy! lucky i'm doing Flesh Eaters then! I kid, i kid, thanks dude, I've gone with the whopper chainfist from Hell! not much done with him today just some base coat and wash on his arms.


I also got a little bit of plastic crack in the mail today! yep, scored myself a Shrine of the Aquila! that kit is bigger than I thought it's wicked and i was inspired by Dsteingass and all the mad crazy Terrainers out there in Dakkaland! and their terrain so i tried my hand at adding some small details like girders and conduit etc.





And still riding the terrain Train I did a little bit on my crashed land speeder, I think it'll go nicely with the others I'm painting! so far it's just dragon red primer and a black around the edges with a white mist over that coat, I'll bust out the Airbrush and blend the board colours into the edges and do some burn detailing etc.




More updates on the morrow!

Ahh terrain, I love nice terrain, and for some reason, I never put the effort into making it

I know how you feel KC, i always imagine these epic landscapes to fight over then i struggle to give birth to my visions! but I've spent the last 12 months or so reading some amazing blogs and getting tips and hints and help from the authors! :-) so this time I hope I can make some nice looking stuff which will be varied and have a few nice little touches etc. I just bought $100 worth of Vallejo Air paints to use just for adding shades and colour to what i build terrain wise!

Good gravy $100 on paint?! I think my entire library of paints, cost in the neighborhood of $30ish? But then again, I use cheap ass paint, so I guess thats a lot


But yea, I need to stop being soo......lazy about terrain. Ill throw some together and its just so damn boring looking. Why isnt there an easy button these?

Flesh Tearers, Flesh Eaters, Potayto, Potahto...

Nice job on the shrine! I also found that you want to add plastruct simply for rigidity, it's a swine of a kit. A good, cheap/free source of interesting beams is the plastic sticks kids' balloons come on. Of course, you need to mug a kid first.

The speeders look really awesome Nerdfest, i like the smoothe highlight effect you done on them. Looking forward to see them done with all the detial work etc.

The building looks man, gonna be a nice terrain piece to have on the gaming board.

That general dude your working on looks plain badass! Nice done on the gold, looks sweet. I like how you make, abit more silver then gold, makes it look more ancient you could say. Cant wait to see him done!

NF09 your terrain pieces looking awesome and love the "land speeder Down" piece especially. Cannot wait to see it completed.

O.k here's something different for you all! I'm hosting my own painting comp for a few laughs and to see what happens yes, you are all invited to join the 'Golden Bathtub' 2012! here's a link to the competition feel free to update any w.i.p's on the thread as you see fit! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/477119.page#4780554 I really wanted start something i could add to each year and I know lots of people enjoy a good project not to mention a good prize! and wow what a prize! yep a hand sculpted trophy of myself in the bath! .... no, seriously

Now todays painting work wasn't much, I primed the Shrine of the Aquila and started laying down the base colours and shading as well as a bit of fire damage etc:



Vallejo air steel, really smooth colour!



Catch you all soon! and get painting y'all!

Loving the stuff on here Nerdfest, I still check all the time but for some reason I haven't been commenting all that often recently. Can't wait for more, and i'm loving the land speeder Terrainorama!

ok... i take a break at page 40! saw lots of cool minis... orcs DE and numerous SM...

and i gotta say... you are a very talented painter nedfest!

and you have some clever ideas around the whole painting process... the pin idea... where you put heads and arms on pins... i will so definatly steal that idea^^

tomorrow i will read on... hopefully then i will be ontop of that thread^^

cheers, vik

 KingCracker wrote:
Good gravy $100 on paint?! I think my entire library of paints, cost in the neighborhood of $30ish? But then again, I use cheap ass paint, so I guess thats a lot


But yea, I need to stop being soo......lazy about terrain. Ill throw some together and its just so damn boring looking. Why isnt there an easy button these?

there is Its a Paypal button... just not cheap... ish...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
ok... i take a break at page 40! saw lots of cool minis... orcs DE and numerous SM...

and i gotta say... you are a very talented painter nedfest!

and you have some clever ideas around the whole painting process... the pin idea... where you put heads and arms on pins... i will so definatly steal that idea^^

tomorrow i will read on... hopefully then i will be ontop of that thread^^

cheers, vik

Hey Vik, you have been busy getting through 40 pages thanks for your patience perusing my progress of my principal painting predicaments! and I appreciate the kind words about my painting 'talents' I just like to figure out the quickest way to make something look pretty decent and it's included some happy suprises like my gold armour, I hated painting gold and so i sat down and thought about it and came up with my recipe and my patented 'Nerdstick' I think i can let you use the concept that came about as my Exemplars had black torso's with red arms and I couldn't be arsed painting everything individually so I primed all the arms red and all the bodies seperately then stuck them together after they'd dried on my patented 'Nerdstick' only tip I can give you if you make one of my patended 'Nerdstick' use plain plastic push pins so you can add a small amount of platic glue to get your bits to attatch to, i could only find shiny girly ones that had a coating on them so i had to resort to Blu Tac!

I'm guessing from now on in my blog, terrain will make a bigger appearance as I just love good terrain! and now i'm hoarding a heap of hints and ideas I'll be excited to make some cool stuff, as well as my normal mini painting antics! still need to finish 3 speeders then i'll put my other models to a poll on which to do next!

just went through the last pages... wow...again...

and

just like to figure out the quickest way to make something look pretty decent

understatement of the day...

and i will definatly use the nerdstick^^... and proper ones at that^^

also...the Shrine of the Aquila looks very cool already... the added details like the girders and conduits looks very cool!

i will be now a regular on this thread... yeah i know... hardship on your part

Lol, well Vik, allow me to oficially welcome you aboard the good ship nerdfest! :-) we will be stopping all ports from terrainville right through to the city of Xenos and many other exciting destinations on the way! keep a lookout on the port side for a huge pod of frolicking marines of the space variety, they're playful little tykes aren't they!

I'm glad the little touches to the shrine work so far! I kept them tucked back so you couldn't tell they don't run the whole length of each walkway :-) I have a few crazy ideas i'm working out that Dave is helping with, perhaps I can rope you in for some conference calls? or at least to see what you think! and even tonight at work I've been inspired to make a terrain piece from a Contemptor dreadnought undergoing battle field repairs or something similar with glowing screens and pipes and water effects and cables and oil and Oh my!

hmmm.... i´d love to help you as a member of the think tank...

sounds like you have a really amount of cool projects planned in the coming weeks!

glowing screens you say... be sure to look at klaus, not santa´s thread... he recently showed some on his big airship´s command centre...

I shall head there in a few minutes! he may be the answer to all my glowing screen needs! :-)

aye

Nice!
Good job on all the painting, be it green or red or black or gold or any colour you like, all good.
I shall be keeping an eye on your work.

Although I should crack on with some of my painting rather than reading and oggling other peoples blogs so much.

Hi DrH Thanks for the kind words! and i can totally sympathise with you about oggling others threads! I see so many awesome blogs and i can't tear myself away from reading them to try my own stuff! then i get frustrated that i'm falling behind

not long until my rdo's so hopefully I can spend my work time getting my fill of good threads and spend my days off painting

Looking really good so far, hard to tell at this scale as to details, but from your level of work on your "normal" guys that is probably not an issue.