The laser cut plastic is tremendous! I've been wondering about windows myself, that's a cool idea.

Nerdfest painted Mantis Warriors.... be still my heart!

He does that. Hes a whore

Keeps people coming back though.

Those extra marble effect shields are excellent.

Also like the shattered glass, where did that come from? Is it better than cut up blister plastic?

Oh alright I'll hunt around the 'ol bits chest and make some Mantis Warriors anything I should adhere to when creating them,& would Gits be interested in one as a gift from 'ol Nerdy? even though he already has Mantii (sic)

and Ruglud the laser cut plastic is much easier to work with than cut up blister pack it's already 'shattered' and you trim it off with scissors and then plastic glue it onto your frames, the sheet I pictured cost me $15- but it will just about do my entire village when I get my other buildings! especially as you don't have to do 'every' window!

Kingcracker! you're calling me a whore! hmmm I believe it was you who Skyped me desperately before your beddy byes the other day? and yes, you're right.... it keeps people interested lol, a Nerd's gotta do what a Nerd's gotta do eh!


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Oh, and let me wax lyrical here for a moment, I scored off ebay 12 old issues of WD for 4 bucks including an old space marine codex in excellent condition! :-) but I digress, I had a flick through the WD's and was choking on my Gweneth Paltrow's at the prices I saw! it's amazing how soon we forget that once apon a time you could buy 20 Imperial guard troops for $29.95! and I saw a voucher that said when you buy a GW Battle force for $125.00 you get a second one for FREE! I mean, that's crazy talk now days! and don't get me started on the cool photo's of battles and terrain they had! pics were poor quality but the ideas and execution was 10x better than now! I wish I could scan and post pages on here 'cos some of it is just so nostalgic!

I absolutely love the marble effect. I may try that out!

Also, I seem to have forgotten, what was the liquid in the tanks made from?

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Oh alright I'll hunt around the 'ol bits chest and make some Mantis Warriors anything I should adhere to when creating them,& would Gits be interested in one as a gift from 'ol Nerdy? even though he already has Mantii (sic)

Looking forward to seeing what you'll do with them Damo. It's going to be a GREAT time watching you do your stuff!

Oh Gits, you are too sweet! ;-) I'll whip one up one day soon and send him to you! any specifics you want? helmet option? weapon? you name it, it shall be done!

@Squig, the 'liquid' is actually a silicone that is 18x clearer than normal silicone I found in the shed in a tube used in a caulking gun, I mixed some green ink into it and it went similar to a stiff sticky jelly if you stir it around, it's hard to manouvre and don't drop it on the carpet! :-0

Oh no Damo... I want YOUR interpretation... not some version of mine. Anything that floats your boat would be delightful.

Consider it done! a researchin' I will go! a researchin; i will go, hi ho the merry Oh a researchin' i will go!

Really nice devs...and they are all mine. Mwahaha
Those will go well with my termies and the rest of the army.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Oh, and let me wax lyrical here for a moment, I scored off ebay 12 old issues of WD for 4 bucks including an old space marine codex in excellent condition! :-) but I digress, I had a flick through the WD's and was choking on my Gweneth Paltrow's at the prices I saw! it's amazing how soon we forget that once apon a time you could buy 20 Imperial guard troops for $29.95! and I saw a voucher that said when you buy a GW Battle force for $125.00 you get a second one for FREE! I mean, that's crazy talk now days! and don't get me started on the cool photo's of battles and terrain they had! pics were poor quality but the ideas and execution was 10x better than now! I wish I could scan and post pages on here 'cos some of it is just so nostalgic!

The main reason I skip pages in my old ones... There was a full page of coupons in one for a store opening. And the Mordheim one complete with that rectangle on the front that says "free miniature".

Yea I used to have some old WD that showed step by step how to build AWESOME terrain and even some vehicles they didnt make yet. It was incredible. Now.....BUY OUR PRODUCT MWAHAHAHAHAHAAA! Also, I still have the very first codex I ever bought, when I was 15, it was an IG dex, and I paid a whopping $13 bucks for it....infact it was $12.95 to be exact. Yikes, considering I have to pick up my sons Chaos dex for $50 But I will admit, current codices, have WAY more content in them so theres that at least.


Oh and Damo, I slept like a baby BTW

O.k I caved..... I wanted marine statues...... and i went and bought 2x honoured imperium boxes! Gah!

so now, I've decided to paint the large statues as bronze and verdigris as suggested by Viktor von domm! but the quandry is now the shattered aquila's? one i will do in a black and gold flecked marble finish but what about the other? should I do another marble colour or convert it into a chaos type objective I can use in game to destroy?

 nerdfest09 wrote:
should I do another marble colour or convert it into a chaos type objective I can use in game to destroy?

Don't you mean worship it in secret? oops I've let the cat out of the bag now....

lol, don't tempt me! although the idea I had was birthed from considering a traitorous force to grace my table! I am still considering it but not before i have a company of FleshEaters!!

Cant wait to see paint meet those!

Wow nerdfest. Just wow. Read through your entire blog....(and by read I mean looked at the pics) and I have to say its all amazing!

Your red and green painting are both incredible with their smoothness, Its made me very jealous and will have to redouble my efforts to get half as good!

Your marble is also stunning, its wierd (having read your blog backwards) seeing how you gradually got worse at it. (that sounds very harsh, but to give it context your latest ones are absolutely 100% perfect in my opinion whereas before they were only 90% perfect.)

You have also inspired me to give some scenery a serious try, the broken glass in particular is brilliant.

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Oh J-Paint! dude, thanks so much! that's one of the nicest positive comments i've got I know what you mean about reading backwards and getting worse lol I love the fact that in a couple of years i've improved a fair bit and really enjoying the process of learning more and more! I gotta say your work is amazing too and I subscribed to see what I could learn from watching you paint ages ago, so i'm sure your influence is in there somewhere!

if you want someone to bounce ideas for doing things off in regards to strange painting ideas or terrain? i'm all ears and that goes for anyone who hangs out here and wants to figure something out!

I'm currently working on a Mantis Warrior for Gitsplitta and should have pics this week of him hopefully finished! i'm going to try something with him that hopefully will look cool!

Aah, missed so much since the last time I checked out your thread!

First off let me say that I have been hunting for a decent marble tutorial for years. My search can finally come to an end.

Second. Love the marines, every single one of them!

And finally, I need those buildings! I am sure you said already but where are they from?

here they are dude no problems! :-) http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Scorched-city-28mm-modular-wargaming-terrain-set-Sci-fi-Historical-1-48-1-56-/251177375051?pt=Games_US&hash=item3a7b56954b I have 6 more sets on the way to play with so keep your eyes peeled!


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O.k last night I bought Gits marine into work with me, it was assembled and just primed with Angel green primer from The Army Painter range I just gave it a couple of coats of Warpstone glow and a wash of thrakka green ink:


Then tonight at work i went from that to this using warpstone glow, Camo green and daemonic yellow


more to come!

Beautiful work Nerdy!

Nice! I like the chainsword in particular.
Blending is the way forward.

Thanks guys, he's getting there, he'll come together next session when I get some yellow on him ;-) blending is indeed the way forward but it's also the way to take years for me to do anything! lol

Looking great! It always confuses me when people use these new fangled GW paint names. I miss my skull white and chaos black!

I know I know! the new names are stupid imo! but in old name circles i used Snot green/Camo green & Bad Moon yellow :-)

Gah! Damn GW and their idiotic name schemes!! *shakes fist*


Mantis Warrior is looking awesome as usual

Oh my, those green marines are so pretty! xxx

Love the blending through to yellow. Lovely work. Have you experimented at all with the glazes?

Thanks guys .... and girl! :-) haven't really experimented with glazes yet, I tried the bloodletter glaze on some of my FleshEaters but the result was negligable so i stuck with the washes instead, I do have an idea or two similar I want to try with the MW :-)

the broken window panes are a killer... i have to try that idea too some day...

the green marines looks verrrrry good.... a truly good looking composition! the wings and skull combo to the chest is my favorite!

More work @ work on Gits' Mantis Warrior the armour is done now and the chest eagle, only the details and weapons to go, oh and the pauldron inserts should have him finished tomorrow & then Pyriel's Dev squad done Tuesday & then my FleshEaters Hammernators Wednesday

here he is so far, Brother Radarus of the Mantis legion!


Damo

Well that i just incredible. Really. The green looks like a golden deamon entry in terms of smoothness. Going right up to yellow like that really works incredibly, will have to give that a try (try).

Thanks J ;-) seriously coming from you that's a big compliment! he's hardly GD! my blending still has room for improvement but it's coming along lol!

give the blending up to yellow a try please ans show me!

Beautiful work Damo. Don't forget to drill out the bolt pistol barrel!!

I'm incredibly impressed with that Marine Nerdy. Just makes me wish I could blend half as well as that- when I try it looks like someone's pinched one off on the miniature. Good work!

*grumble*

lol guys! :-) I hardly think your mini's will ever look like someone's 'pinched one off' on them Elnibbus! they've all been awesome so far, that's why i'm subscribed! and Gits don't fret mate, the barrel will be drilled! I could imagine the flogging i'd get in the thread if i didn't do it!

You haven't seen the mess I made of the Fire Hawk I tried to paint for Yellowbeard's competition. Cocked it up royally! I don't blend, I just do loads of thin layers and blag it

Heaps of stuff today! lots of different little things i have started and some finished! I hope it's not too eclectic and busy for you?

now, where do i start? with w.i.p or finished?..... let's go w.i.p but I suggest you hang around until the end of the post

My mate Tyraneil has a Nid army and wanted a Broodlord for his 38 Genestealers honestly, who has that many bloody Genestealers! really! so he asked if I would whip him up something he can use as one that looks a bit different to his other Genies, I obliged by using a Chapterhouse studio alien head on a current Genestealer body with old school arms which I cut and shut onto the body to give him a different pose, not a huge job but looks pretty mean so far! next is paint tomorrow


Gross little fether isn't he!

Remember ages ago when I painted up my flamer template like roiling flames? well, I liked it and wanted to do something similar for my blast template, I figured a stage by stage would be cool in case anyone wanted to have a crack at it

firstly I primed white and gave it a generous coating of water to help the paint flow easily, then a few drops around of yellow ink:

next I dropped a drop of red at various places around the edge of the circle:

sort of mixed it in together starting from the edges so it's lighter in the centre (it is...really):

I then used a scrunched tissue and very lightly let the edges soak up some paint, then i dropped some red around the edges and followed the same method as before:

now a teeny tiny bit of black stippled around again:

then I took the black around again and added more red as well as white and yellow in the centre and ended up with this


Gitsplitta's mantis warrior totally pleased with him, except for the lenses on his helmet not my best work but I hope it's acceptable I tried a bit of fancy work on the shoulder pads! still yellow just decorative, even wrote gits hidden in the scroll on the other side!




and now my statues.... yes, plural! I bought 2 Honored imperium kits! and bronzed the statues up nicely, I have to get some clearer shots of them but here's a taste!



Lights painted on my speeders! breaks up the red a bit now


aaaaand lastly, I got a book!.... a thick one....... that apparently is good?


hope you like todays venture into moistbrushville!

For some reason the statue on the right... looks like he's got to pee!

MW looks amazing Nerdy! Love what you did with the pads!

Thanks Gits ;-) glad you like him! I hope he stands up to scrutiny when you get him! the pads were great fun to do! I used them as practice as I have a Death Co. drop pod to do in a similar fashion! I did even consider painting over all his armour the same but green!

and I can see the need to pee statue too lol :-) I had read people don't like them as they are knock kneed, but needing to pee is a new one for me!

First, Mantis Warrior. Man those shoulder pads just fething set that whole model. What did you do to get that effect exactly? It just looks awesome.

Bronze statues are bronze. So good infact, that I didnt realize it was painted I thought to myself "Man they mold them that way?!?"

Aaaaaaand your wearing my wife's shirt! YOU BASTARD!!! Saying that, I should mention now that her name is Pam, and as a nic name from years ago, we all call her Puma. Crisis of bro banging bros wife, diverted

Good work man! You'll enjoy eisenhorn, its a good book.

the mantis warrior is beautifully done, I cant say that enough.

The broodlord is truly horrible, just as it should be

Holy , that template is awesome! You make it look so easy... "Stir around a little yellow, stipple in some black, and voila...!"

I love the Mantis Warrior, too. Beautiful blending and the shoulder pad is cool.

Many thanks my friends! I had a fun day just working on a bunch of stuff yesterday and today is shaping up to be just as good lol!

today I shall mostly be working on Pyriel's Sallies as well as the Broodlord and maybe some FleshEaters and a little bit of terrain?

and randomly it looks like Big Willy will be a permanent addition to the pack of Nerd Hounds here at Nerdington Manor! his breeder told us he is bottom the 'pack' at home with the other 14 samoyeds and when he gets shown the local judges don't mark him highly due to him being too big! so he gets a bit picked on :-( she offered him to us as long she may use him for breeding early next year! so of course we said if it works out we'll take the big fella and give him a good home! :-)

anyway I gotta fly and get my brush moist now....

May your brush stay forever moist!

That Mantis Warrior is the bees knees mate! Really liking the template too!

G'day again everyone! I've nearly finished the Sallies dev squad! only the flames to go on them here's an update for ya!




and i got inspired by Dsteingass again started the bare bones work on a factory




But what kind of factory is it i hear you all cry? well, of course it's the 'only' kind of factory you need in the grim darkness of the far future, the hint is on the billboard....... what billboard you ask?...... the one if you juuuust scroll down a bit!









...... Rivets!


The most riveting rivets since MK5 armour!

enjoy! still loads more work to do on the billboard and factory but I'm open for hints and tips anyone!

Beautiful work on those Devs Nerdy... even if they aren't quite the right green!

Thanks Gits! :-) yeah not quite as bright as the 'ol mantis Warriors eh! what's the plan for him when he gets sent to you? games? or shelf?

Games for sure. I'll use him in my post-crusade army since that's where all the Mk 7 & 8 armor will be. However, in-between games he'll have a place of honor on the shelf!

nerdfest09 wrote:
...... Rivets!


The most riveting rivets since MK5 armour!

HAHAHA! OMG! That is Hillarious!



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That's awesome dood! As for suggestions: Factories have additions, sheds, pipes, moar pipes, and metal stuff sticking out, no one knows what they do, so the rule of cool always wins Look at some of those Urban Explorer sites when you've got time to surf, but beware- they suck you in!

Why do you have to live on the other side of the world Damo?! Id love to play on a table full of your terrain. And there would be much giggling. What an odd word giggling......

That green.... I'm turning green with envy.

I can't believe I did that.

i feel like a kind of jerk... inbetween all this awesomeness i want to comment on the one thing that is not awesome...

the fan you added to the wall... i think it is too big for those inbetween sections... sorry dude... i have that OCD it seems... imagine myself with a pointy poining finger screaminng and yelling... poor creature that i am...

oh... and again... the green men and the bilboard for rivet factory are heading for history in awesomeness

lol, Vik yeah yeah I know the fan is too big! :-) I was just grabbing what i could to stick on and i couldn't be arsed making a panel yet for behind it! hopefully i'll get it to look o.k laters!

and remember!

Steingass Rivets, the most riveting rivets since MK5 armour! ;-)

Build a box slightly bigger than the fan, then mount the fan on the box. add rivets and wires and you have A/C

How has it taken me so long to look at this blog!?

Nerd- you absolutely STUN me! I LOVE the Salamanders, and i cant believe the detail on Gits' GMS marine! The shoulders are gorgeous!

That blast template too... At first I didnt see where it was going, then you pull out that last step and boom! a blast template!

Im sure ill find something else to drool over soon enough... I've a lot of catching up to do!

 Ramos Asura wrote:
How has it taken me so long to look at this blog!?

Nerd- you absolutely STUN me! I LOVE the Salamanders, and i cant believe the detail on Gits' GMS marine! The shoulders are gorgeous!

That blast template too... At first I didnt see where it was going, then you pull out that last step and boom! a blast template!

Im sure ill find something else to drool over soon enough... I've a lot of catching up to do!

Ramos I'm glad you like my blog it keeps me happy if you go back through from the start I hope you enjoy the progress i've made! heaps of random stuff and fun and frivolity abounds lol! more to come next week planned for me and my brush!

Mmmm, my sallies look awesome. Just the flames left.
You rock man and they will fit neatly in with the rest of their brothers once I base them.

Love that green you conjured up as well

dsteingass wrote:Build a box slightly bigger than the fan, then mount the fan on the box. add rivets and wires and you have A/C

solution!


also... i am saving that idea for my own later needs

Sallies are looking great, love the lens work. Quality job on the comedy signage, too!

Quick ask of you all, I'm not sure what to work on on my days off! (I know, first world problems right!)

I have 3 options, paint my 5 Hammernators? paint my 7 Tac marines to finish that squad, or I can do some more work on my Realm of Battle board?

so, what should i focus on guys?

lol I'd say if you have a game coming up then the RoB board, if not then hmm Hammer time?

EVARYFING!!!

Do you have a pressing need for one project over another?

Nope no pressing need but I may crack on and get the termies done and have a go at the board?

what say you bottom?.....

5 points if you guess the above quote? :-)

Shakespeare?

 nerdfest09 wrote:


5 points if you guess the above quote? :-)

Shakespeare?

I say work on that Realm of Battle Board. You will be so glad when its finished, I know I was when I finished mine!

E: dang, beat my post by 2 minutes

A middsummers nights dream. (I knew those drama classes would pay off )

Proto! you're spot on dude! A midsummer night's dream! Happy be theseus, my renown duke, full of vexation come I with complaint against my child, my daughter Hermia!

anyway enough frolicking with the Bard, lets get updating! I wanted to finish at least the armour on my Hammernators, and I did finish the armour so a good day for me!

here they are when I sat down at the table this morning:


and here they are 3.5 hours later:





and I scored a very late birthday present yesterday from my best mate! like about 15 months late! but he made up for it with an awesome pressie! which i had to open and assemble last night! sometimes it's nice to have a 'toy' that actually takes you 4 hours to assemble (mind you I did tip all the parts together and mix them up) and then it turns out this awesome! please ignore the upside down panel, it has since been corrected


keep it moist people!!!!

Cool, it's a robotic cat truck! Just like whalemusic360's avatar!

pretty snazzy damo.

I had a buddy that had a CRAZY Optimus Prime fetish. On the top of his TV stand, was probably every Prime toy ever made. It was cool to look at, specially seeing all the different styles of Prime.

And your Nators are spot fething on man, very nice so far! Also, Ive turned my oldest brother onto your blog. Hes a SM player (for like 16 years.....ouch) and we were talking about something he was wanting to try and I said "Hey! A buddy of mine paints stormshields....so apparently we were talking storm sheilds...... frigging awesomely!" So who knows, maybe Ive given DAKKA a new member, but at least youll have yet another Marine player shedding tears at your blog

Ooooh shiny Termies! They look great!
And Im always a sucker for old transformers stuff. Used to have all the toys when I was a kid Love it!

Cool kit Nerd! ..but you chose marines over terrain....

Loving the termies so far! Is that a chapterhouse pad I spot? Been looking like some in that style for a while now.

Lol thanks guys! just a quick one this morning before i hopefully finish the termies so I can get back to some terrain (for you Dave!) they should be done today and hopefully for KC's Bro to see and he'll join up and become a new Dakkaite! Whoo hoo! and Commander you are right that is a CH Termie size pad on the sarge :-) for the price I love all their stuff (if you hadn't realized)

well, Nerd signing off to paint!

Damn it Nerdfest! Why are you so good at painting everything!!

Lol LDP! thanks mate but i'm not that good! have you had a proper look at your mini's lately? c'mon man they are really something special and I can't believe how much you've progressed since i first started following your work!

speaking of painting, I suppose we want some Termies then? sadly I didn't get them finished as I went to the gym and thrashed my body doing drop sets so I actually had the shakes up too bad when i got home but I started on some base colours and metals before i stopped





That's where I'm at with them, no more pics until they're finished next week! I might be updating a bit later too next week as i'm just about to go onto a 7 night stretch at work so hang in there!

Damo

Looking mighty fine there son!

Pink-O termies?

Did you eat that shower cap of yours by the way? I´m still looking for pics of that one lol



Nice job dude, keep up the good work
Maybe they can meet my two full newly painted squads of paladins sometime in the future
Just 25 more paladins to do...

 Pyriel- wrote:
Pink-O termies?

Did you eat that shower cap of yours by the way? I´m still looking for pics of that one lol



Nice job dude, keep up the good work
Maybe they can meet my two full newly painted squads of paladins sometime in the future
Just 25 more paladins to do...

Ah yes, they maybe do appear to be pink perhaps i'll re-paint your sallies to match them?

Oh, the shower cap! I haven't forgotten nor have i had a chance to ingest one for your pleasure! I may be slow on some things but i always do what i say i will, so I'll get my gak together and skype you while i have a meal of cap!!

And you betta believe it my termies will meet your army on the table one day! this i swear!

I'd direct you to albinoork's Knights of Flaming Cheddar for proper pink grey knights...
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/441831.page#4128179

The ammount of attention your miniatures get is making my miniatures jealous...

But good job... I guess.

Great thread Nerdfest! Have only read first 3 pages and last 3 but will return for the rest.

Loved the blast template. Anything plastic is fair game.

Aurora & Casey! glad you dropped by for a cuppa and a biscuit Aurora try not to go insane when reading through my blog! it bounces around like a squash ball sometimes when I get the urge to paint another army that i no doubt get sick of and sell or give away and casey, seriously dude, i could pay so much more attention to details if i wanted too! but i'd never finish anything if i did that! my ocd wouldn't let me stop until it was all done! I think i've found a happy medium for good tt

speaking of models and painting (nice segway....right?) I have been sort of thinking of something new again but knowing my history of never finishing these new and usually grand ideas I've worked out what i hope is something I can and will stick too as well as something i believe others will want to watch? I want to do a HH era army using the old tanks and armour etc. originally my army of choice for them was going to be Imperial Fists, but i just can't drag myself away from the red! so, would anyone object to me doing Blood Angles in Heresy era armour? that way I can include Cataphractii Termies, Tartaros Termies and all the early mk's of PA! what made me decide on this route was my Contemptor, I love the model and how i finished him off but he just doesn't look right in my FleshEaters force but he's work a treat as the start of a HH BA army now I need to decide on if to update them here or start a dedicated HH BA thread? as well as try and find an army list for them to build to? (hint hint everyone...)

I think the finishing of my FE force and my HH BA army will be the focus for 2013 (providing the Mayans aren't right) I can start small and really get pumped and excited about it as i go, and the bonus will be if I decide to mix the 2 forces together it will work

next Thursday the Hammernators will be finished and photographed and i'm working on a stand in for Lemartes in my FE's just writing up a small description of him to give him some character and collecting parts to build him with just need to decide on a name now?

hey damo,
I think a hh era blood angels would look cool never seen that done yet so sounds good to me. Well if you have looked at my blog within the last few pages i bounce around to different projects all the time eventually i will get them all done. And since this is another marine project i think it ties nicely in with your flesh eaters. my two cents on the matter.

 nerdfest09 wrote:


speaking of models and painting (nice segway....right?) I have been sort of thinking of something new again but knowing my history of never finishing these new and usually grand ideas I've worked out what i hope is something I can and will stick too as well as something i believe others will want to watch? I want to do a HH era army using the old tanks and armour etc. originally my army of choice for them was going to be Imperial Fists, but i just can't drag myself away from the red! so, would anyone object to me doing Blood Angles in Heresy era armour? that way I can include Cataphractii Termies, Tartaros Termies and all the early mk's of PA! what made me decide on this route was my Contemptor, I love the model and how i finished him off but he just doesn't look right in my FleshEaters force but he's work a treat as the start of a HH BA army now I need to decide on if to update them here or start a dedicated HH BA thread? as well as try and find an army list for them to build to? (hint hint everyone...)

I think the finishing of my FE force and my HH BA army will be the focus for 2013

guess what?

yes, I changed my mind again!

I saw a model and it wasn't for SM's and I got the 'I must have it' feeling which was the catalyst for a gelling in my brain that has so far not been spoken about in my thread (at least not at length)! so instead of doing a HH BA force I am going to play with a little bit of Nurgle love! i've been wanting the final push for a while and already have a few ideas with modeling which will be nicely epic! anyone who can PM me about helping work out a list? please do!

but in order to start the ball rolling I need to finance the new project with the sale of one of my own models I do love the mini but I just don't feel it works with my FE force and it would be great in someone's BA or successor chapter army, which one you ask?......

this one:



Should i put him up in swap shop? and do you think $70- is too much inc shipping? (or too litte?)

These are looking mighty fine

Honestly Id ask a little more. Especially if youre including shipping. The base model is something like 60 bucks for the body alone, right? Let alone a body, 2 arms, AND a great paint job. Id go for nothing less than $100

I don't want to ask too much or appear I think my work is of a standard that high? so I thought roughly around purchase price may encourage someone to pick him up :-) but you're right as i'm inc shipping I should ask a bit more? I don't know where (or if) he'll fly off to! i'll wait and see what others say and then I'll pop him in the swap shop (unless someone wants him now)

Thanks for the input Ramos! :-)

Too little, unless you're selling him to ME of course!

Yeah in general I'd say the total of the parts and then double it, Its a great paint job so will most likely sell.

I just did the same with my Thousand Sons Raptor squad, worked out nicely.


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Edit: Forget to say welcome to the dark side

Plague Marines squads with two Plasma Guns each is the way forward. 2 squads of these as your base and a twin melta squad as your third squad for anti vehicle..

Points to ponder! total in parts and double makes him about $140 Aus, which I think is heaps too much! I reckon i'll pop him in swap shop on my days off for $100- Aus and see if anyone bites so i can start my Nurgle army :-)

GiraffeX would you mind if we PM back and forth to help me work out a list I like? I have some things i want to include and build a force around fun games :-)

Sure go for it CSM's is the one army I know really well.

Thanks dude! :-) I've gotta shoot out to the airport for a transfer in a minute so when I get back in half hour I'll send you a msg!

No probs you have two pm's

Ah yes, they maybe do appear to be pink perhaps i'll re-paint your sallies to match them?

You wouldnt. Really...you wouldnt.

I know where you live, I even have a sattelite picture of exactly what rooftop to drop it on

Oh, the shower cap! I haven't forgotten nor have i had a chance to ingest one for your pleasure! I may be slow on some things but i always do what i say i will, so I'll get my gak together and skype you while i have a meal of cap!!

Of course you didnt forgot you chicken, you hoped I would forget. What do you take me for...on secodn thought, dont answer that one

And you betta believe it my termies will meet your army on the table one day! this i swear!

They:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/322144-.html?m=2

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/256263-Grey%20Knight%20paladin%20apotechary.html?m=2

...are waiting.
And they have 32 and growing more friends to join them.

 Pyriel- wrote:

Ah yes, they maybe do appear to be pink perhaps i'll re-paint your sallies to match them?

You wouldnt. Really...you wouldnt.

I know where you live, I even have a sattelite picture of exactly what rooftop to drop it on

Oh, the shower cap! I haven't forgotten nor have i had a chance to ingest one for your pleasure! I may be slow on some things but i always do what i say i will, so I'll get my gak together and skype you while i have a meal of cap!!

Of course you didnt forgot you chicken, you hoped I would forget. What do you take me for...on secodn thought, dont answer that one

And you betta believe it my termies will meet your army on the table one day! this i swear!

They:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/322144-.html?m=2

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/256263-Grey%20Knight%20paladin%20apotechary.html?m=2

...are waiting.
And they have 32 and growing more friends to join them.

Lol yeah, you're gonna need that apothecary my friend to patch up all your Knights after my boys get the scent of blood!

Hmmm what do i take you for?...... lets see....... ......... maybe i won't answer that one!

Hmmm what do i take you for?...... lets see....... ......... maybe i won't answer that one!

Ah, you are learning. Finally!

 Pyriel- wrote:

Hmmm what do i take you for?...... lets see....... ......... maybe i won't answer that one!

Ah, you are learning. Finally!

Yeah, well, I have a pretty good teacher!

Why thankyou

So, I have nearly finished my Hammernators! about 95% finished in fact but i still have to show you my progress because,....well,...... it's my blog and that's what i do

I need to just tidy some bits up and finish painting a bare head and then it's game over for another bunch of termies! i'll show you how they're shaping up before i get onto the heads.....






Well I spent all morning for about 4 hours doing some yard work to get the 'ol Nerdington Manor looking fantastic while I was trimming the roses in the front yard I saw a black car with black tinted windows roll slowly down my street veering onto the wrong side of the road as it slowly approached my abode fearing an attempt on my life i made myself really thin by sucking in my gut and standing behind a rose bush but I needn't have worried! it was just my friendly postal package lady (who i think i opened the door to one day after night shift with no pants on.....at all) .... anyway she handed me a box and then went slowly back down the street with dope smoke billowing from the cracked windows and the boom of subwoofers blasting out from the back with Ice Cube!...... o.k maybe not that last sentence I took my little box inside hurriedly to open and was happy to see it was from MadRobot miniatures I ordered two sets of heads to see what they're like!

here's the box!


inside was a couple of small zip bags hand wrapped lovingly by Steve and placed carefully as if he was putting a baby to sleep in a crib!


close up of the bald heads in their clear transport pod!


and here they are washed and out in the sunshine! really nicely done I may add! no flashing, crisp details with no soft looking areas and arrived undamaged!


Well, I simply couldn't wait to get a moist brush onto these baldy's so i started them and i was pleased to notice as i painted that they are all pretty standard bare heads but they each have subtle differences in expression and appearance which is nice, i may have liked to see a grimace, shout or sneer in the mix but i'm not complaining as it just means Steve can do the expression heads later for me to buy..... right Steve?

here's the start of my painting of them, i'll post a finished shot when they're all done next week for you.


and that's it for today!

if i don't get a chance to update before next week:

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

The start of painting them...
They almost look done already.

Re: n0t_u: I know, right, that's about as far as I go with my faces...I need a lot more practice, I suppose. I usually screw up the eyes so they look like maniacs, so I just gave up on it years ago.

Also, I want to say thanks to Nerdfest for the marble tutorial (and those shields look amaaazzzing), I have been trying it out on my War Altar conversion (shameless plug):

 hdbbstephen wrote:
Re: n0t_u: I know, right, that's about as far as I go with my faces...I need a lot more practice, I suppose. I usually screw up the eyes so they look like maniacs, so I just gave up on it years ago.

Also, I want to say thanks to Nerdfest for the marble tutorial (and those shields look amaaazzzing), I have been trying it out on my War Altar conversion (shameless plug):

Spoiler:

I am planning on painting those blue panels to look like the altar is lit from within by some eldritch power, kinda like this:

Wow Dude! that looks awesome seriously good work on the marble! it's a great technique and once you've done it a couple of times you kinda wonder why you thought it was going to be so difficult lol yours looks like marble!! which is an excellent result i'd say i'm really glad it helped you out, now I need to see if i can figure out some other tricky paint things and make them easier

Whaddya mean the faces look finished? still more highlighting and a couple of washes away from done you guys should know me well enough by now to see me try and do them nicely so far it's tallarn flesh base then a wash of Ogryn flesh and agrax earthshade just down the middle of the facial features, and tallarn bleached bone highlight on the raised areas so far

So, what do i do next? what does peoples want to see me do?

Wow, I REALLY like how you painted the eyes on those termies. It makes them look ALMOST gentle......till the hammer crushes your face

 nerdfest09 wrote:


Wow Dude! that looks awesome seriously good work on the marble! it's a great technique and once you've done it a couple of times you kinda wonder why you thought it was going to be so difficult lol yours looks like marble!! which is an excellent result i'd say i'm really glad it helped you out, now I need to see if i can figure out some other tricky paint things and make them easier

Thank you so much, I'll share another pic when the top is done, I added a little dark green...

Whaddya mean the faces look finished? still more highlighting and a couple of washes away from done you guys should know me well enough by now to see me try and do them nicely so far it's tallarn flesh base then a wash of Ogryn flesh and agrax earthshade just down the middle of the facial features, and tallarn bleached bone highlight on the raised areas so far

That's about as far as I go for faces, though I am going to spend a little more time with the Grand Theogonist, since his face is so exposed. Also, the sacrificial lamb that goes on top of the altar has a lot of exposed skin, so I am taking my time with her too. I am planning on investing in expanding my paint/wash inventory this weekend at the FLGS.

Nothing much today with it being Boxing day and all! just thought i'd share a couple of gifts I scored yesterday that some of you may find cool!

got my very first ever NERF gun! it's cool as, just wish it was more powerful


and without even a hint or suggestion from myself, my beautiful nerd Wench bought me this!!


I hope everyone had an epic and relaxing day of family, fun, food & frivolity!

Tomorrow sees a Nerd chillaxin' at Nerdington Manor by his lonesome which gives me perfect time to do some painting (and weights and tidy my clotthes cupboard )

With the Nerf gun, you can mod them to get some serious power, look on the net!

Enough power to punch through a double brick wall? :-) .....


...... No?...........


...........................Damn! :-)

You won't get the power to punch through a wall no...
But I can give you advice on Nerf modding if you like.
Meandmyfianceeonlyhaveoneortwoguns.

That's quite a few guns you have there Ovion!

Ovion: clearly needs more dakka.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Nothing much today with it being Boxing day and all! just thought i'd share a couple of gifts I scored yesterday that some of you may find cool!

got my very first ever NERF gun! it's cool as, just wish it was more powerful


and without even a hint or suggestion from myself, my beautiful nerd Wench bought me this!!


I hope everyone had an epic and relaxing day of family, fun, food & frivolity!

Tomorrow sees a Nerd chillaxin' at Nerdington Manor by his lonesome which gives me perfect time to do some painting (and weights and tidy my clotthes cupboard )

Thats awesome man! I remember for my birthday a couple years ago the wife bought me a Nerf Vulcan gun. Its a fething blast!

I can just see you running round the house with your Nerf gun doing combat rolls through the door ways

Marvel is always a winner, that looks like a seriously big book.

Well, firstly, thanks guys! Ovion you are now my Nerf GOD! Oh my that is an awful lot of foam you can lay down on any unsuspecting paper targets that break into your home! :-) I hope to be able to do the same soon! and yes, I would like to mod this gun to be a bit more powerful and accurate if you know any tips? and is that Nerf Sai's I see?

GX the Marvel book is...... wait for it............ Marvelous :-) and I have been pretending to be Bruce Willis bursting through doorways and talking smack to the dogs in the next room before I kick in the door and blast them with foam bullets! they're not very impressed with me about it either! but Willy got me back by running at me and landing his considerable weight nose first into my crotch :-(........... so i shot him again :-)




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Finished my MadRobot miniatures bare heads today I really like them and can't wait for the sneering yelling heads to get released! I also painted one up for my Hammernator squad to resemble myself which I added and must say he looks damn cool!





And here he is! the Nerdinator!




and started some area terrain with some barrels i have on it's way and still drying but should be sweet scattered around!


Not very exciting but I'm still glad I got something done today next time i get a chance to paint I'll finish off Pyriels Sallies completely (not enough to show today) and then I dunno what to do? maybe some Rhino's

Keep your brush moist my friends! hope you all had a great Christmas!

Nice Haul!..and that is some badass painting too man! The highlights are just fantastic!

Those heads are really well done.

Wow.... did I miss a face painting tutorial? because you should really do one! consider this a followed thread! I scanned through all 65 pages and love every model!

Thanks as usual guys! I am pretty pleased with how the heads look myself, and no Brok, you didn't miss a tute on these guys although i think i did one on a head or 2 waaaaaay many pages ago lol! but if anyone wants me to re visit them I can do that? they are by no means brilliant close up but they end up really nice on the table top :-)

hahah Well they look brilliant in all the pictures, love how the short hair is done and such!

I say tutes are always a good thing! And your Nerdinator is brilliant! He will obviously be the last one to die.....or first, depends on the epicness of stupid you want to go with. So either last man standing to an onslaught of genestealers... OR the first to die from a lowly Grot pistol

 KingCracker wrote:
I say tutes are always a good thing! And your Nerdinator is brilliant! He will obviously be the last one to die.....or first, depends on the epicness of stupid you want to go with. So either last man standing to an onslaught of genestealers... OR the first to die from a lowly Grot pistol

Well, seeing as i only play for silly fun times! I am guessing he'll be the first to die! right next to Librarian Tomas! I have a tendancy to launch my named characters into battles that if they win will go down in history, but in truth they really don't have much of a chance! last game i played with Librarian Tomas he single handedly took on a 10 man Death Company squad in hand to hand! ........ he didn't make it

and I'll whip up another tute when I get some more bare heads for you!

your nerdinator is just awesome, they are some very lovely head sculpts that have been painted to perfection!

You may well have twisted my arm into making purchases i cant afford....it is a state of affairs that seems to happen alot lately.

 J-paint wrote:
your nerdinator is just awesome, they are some very lovely head sculpts that have been painted to perfection!

You may well have twisted my arm into making purchases i cant afford....it is a state of affairs that seems to happen alot lately.

Lol thanks J-Paint! i'm glad I twisted your arm! but you won't be dissaponted at all, I also believe if Steve gets hassled enough he'll be doing a similar set of scale heads but with awesome grimacing and yelling faces for some much needed action on our mini's! so you may want to keep an eye on his thread and wait and buy a bunch when they get done?

I also got a set of the goggled guard heads but i don't have any cadians to use them on! but when i get a couple i'll paint them up too!

 nerdfest09 wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
I say tutes are always a good thing! And your Nerdinator is brilliant! He will obviously be the last one to die.....or first, depends on the epicness of stupid you want to go with. So either last man standing to an onslaught of genestealers... OR the first to die from a lowly Grot pistol

Well, seeing as i only play for silly fun times! I am guessing he'll be the first to die! right next to Librarian Tomas! I have a tendancy to launch my named characters into battles that if they win will go down in history, but in truth they really don't have much of a chance! last game i played with Librarian Tomas he single handedly took on a 10 man Death Company squad in hand to hand! ........ he didn't make it

and I'll whip up another tute when I get some more bare heads for you!

Really though, I think thats how one is supposed to play with a named mini. Ever since "Da Boy dat gets fings done" popped up on my radar and got that name, I do the same. Whatever squad is unlucky enough to have him plop into, is in for a real bad day, because he only does the impossible once his mates have been flayed Its some kind of Ork WAAAGH! magic I think

It's things like that that just make the game that much more fun.

Agreed. When the impossible happen, and after youve wiped the tears of laughter from your face, that match is forever remembered

A Mini for a mate and a bit of Foam dart goodness today!

I've been talking a bit with GiraffeX about lists and armies and I offered to paint him a mini as a thanks for being patient with me! I was going to do a nurgle daemon but funds haven't allowed that mini yet so, it's choice number 2! a counts as Ragnar Blackmane for his Celestial Lions marines I went rummaging to see what i could use and lo and behold I found a terminator I was going painting up as a chapter master for my FleshEaters! with only the armour worked on it was the absolute perfect start! so i found some arms/weapons and a new head and started dummying it up see





The other thing that's been occupying my mind is NERF! I have never thought of those guns as cool or fun, just underpowered kids toys until i got mine that is I think i mentioned that as soon as i got it and looked up stuff about it on the web I ordered a OrangeModWorks Massacre kit for it for more power! while I new the performance was going to be sorted nice it had to look the part now! so i put my hobby skills to work and pulled the gun apart, using a print out and double sided tape i won't lose where the screws go and then I sanded it all back ready for priming.



Once it was all sanded and cleaned with no dust (or very little) I primed it with a left over can of The Army painter primer 'Necrotic Flesh' it was so close to actual necrotic flesh it attracted flies


When it all dried I roughly assembled it back together with no screws so I can start the next step which was airbrushing!

I used Vallejo air paints and read through a couple of imperial guard blogs for ideas for camo pattern! then just winged it lol



More tomorrow dudes!




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Hey guys, you know how i'm trying to sell of my Contemptor right? well, since i'm not gonna use it and no one seems to want it what do you think about me stripping him and painting him up as an imperial fist one? thoughts?

Might as well. Though I can't believe no one wants to buy it.

Neat bit with the Nerf gun.

I couldn't find a pic of the contemptor in your gallery, where have you been advertising him?

The termi is looking cool but thats a FW mini oh great Nerdmister I'm truly not worthy

As he's in terminator armour he will need to be a Wolf/Cat Lord so we need to work on his weapon load out a bit

Storm Shield is cool, the other weapon needs to be from one of the below though.

Combi Plasma, Flamer or Melta
Wolf Claw
Powerfist
Thunder Hammer
Chainfist

The choice is yours.......

You do realise as this will be the initial mini for my Celestial Lions I will need to copy that gold across the army

Some destructions on how you accomplished it would be most useful as its lovely

Edit: I cant believe no one is interested in your Contemptor though, here he is for Git's



Look at the pose on him, he really is outstanding NF09.

Wicked work on the Nerf gun! I got a Longshot a few years ago (very similar to yours, but with an extending stock) and did my fair bit of modding to it. Mostly putting a dart tag gun on the front of it so its kinda like a grenade launcher setup. Sadly its showing its age, and the internals are pretty chewed up... Was fun running around campus with em though!

Its surprising to see the amount of support people give these "kids toys". Stuff like that mod pack you got, and the fact you even painted it! I keep meaning to mess with mine some more- it's still rocking its factory blues xD

Overall great work!!

You can mod and gain a significant amount of power for practically nothing.

The Longshot is a fantastic gun with a MASSIVE airtank, and once the air restrictor is removed, is quite ridiculous.

Oh yeah... beautiful dread. Problem is (I think) that BA are on the low end of the power curve now. Still, you'd think some current BA player would love to add that to their collection!

Yeah the 'ol Nerf blaster has crazy support and love out there from what seems to be people with a similar mindset as us 40K hobbyists! the thing that got me was down under we have as most know MEGA strict gun laws and as you should also know, most guys love shooting targets etc. so this way i can shoot targets and have some fun battles without having a firearm license, the fact that you can mod them so easily and actually get quite good performance is just a bonus! painting it up to look better was a bonus bit of fun for me! I'll update some pics when i install my OMW kit and re assemble it completely (I hope it works!) I actually am glad i left the smaller parts orange I think it offsets the shade of green well and it still is obviously a 'toy' gun but just a wicked looking one lol! I also just bought a bipod for it, and an 18 shot extended clip as well as a tactical light

Ramos, you need to have a look around man! you already have the dart gun so you only need to outlay minimal cost to paint her up and get her firing hard! then we can talk NERF!

GiraffeX yes dude that's a FW Lufgt Huron model as the basis of him and for weapon, it's no contest, looks like he'll have a wolf/lion claw as well as a nifty marble storm shield, I chose the most regal jawline from the MadRobot heads i have for him, I think it's pretty lion esque without going ott hairy and if I go back a few pages that actual model was what i used to do a tute on how I do my gold i'll try and hunt it up for you but it's really easy to do man, you'll bust it out easy as pie!

I also can't believe no one wants my Contemptor not that i'm trying to be pompous but he's pretty nice Oh well, I'll see how he goes and if no one wants him I'll strip him down and paint him as an imperial fist in a couple of weeks

No real updates from me today or for about a week as I've only got one day off then 2 on then 1 off for my 5 year anniversary with Kristy the Nerdwench then 4 on again!

but I'll be still Dakka-ing and hanging out here, it's just so relaxing and the weather's always good in dak-ville

Nerf started making a line called VORTEX that instead of darts, shoots discs. And MAN do those things go. My nephew has the pistol variation and I friggin love that thing, it shoots twice as far as a dart blaster. So if youre serious about shooting targets and such, you might want to check into one of those. Its basic ballistics....put spin on your projectile and it shoots farther/more accurate. Your blaster looks the gak as well, kindda looks like an IG Lasgun

Also has to get a Maverick if he hasn't yet. It's like the standard of dart blasters and, by the looks of it, most commonly modified. Shouldn't be too hard to give it a little more of a punch.

 KingCracker wrote:
Nerf started making a line called VORTEX that instead of darts, shoots discs. And MAN do those things go. My nephew has the pistol variation and I friggin love that thing, it shoots twice as far as a dart blaster. So if youre serious about shooting targets and such, you might want to check into one of those. Its basic ballistics....put spin on your projectile and it shoots farther/more accurate. Your blaster looks the gak as well, kindda looks like an IG Lasgun

The Vortex line are more accurate at low distances, and quite powerful - but at range the tend to curve, and if there's any wind it'll pick it up.
You also get interesting things on windy days where it'll follow the air stream breaking around a person, curving around them to miss when fired straight at them...

For target shooting, I recommend the Buzz Bee Range Master - It's a Nerf Sniper Rifle 'proper'. Single shot, bolt action, unmodded it's accurate to 40-60 feet.

Define "accurate".

Can hit a target roughly the size of an apple / orange fairly reliably.
Under 30 feet, it's my go to gun for an almost completely reliable nerfing. up to 60 feet, well, people can move out of the way, but I've still sniped my way through a few wars at about 50, with a 1 in 3 hit rate.

Generally these days I carry my Barrel Break, Maverick, and Rangemaster. (and a sword and 'knives')
Has me covered at all ranges quite comfortably.

Sometimes my Longstrike without stock/barrel too... my fiancee has claimed my Longshot though. -_-

Though soon, I'll be getting one of THESE:

And I think that'll become a staple of my standard loadout.

That's pretty cool Ovion (all of it). I had no idea people fought nerf wars... kind of like paint ball then?

Sort of... it's generally a lot shorter range, and light hearted than paintball.

It's good fun though, a lot of combat takes place at under 50 feet, the darts are slightly slower moving so you can dodge them, with a lot of cool guns it results in a kind of matrix-y sort of game.
And with practice there's some cool things you can do if you feel like being silly, such as deflecting darts with swords like lightsabers, curving darts like the bullets in Wanted...
The Rules we use in standard wars can be found here if you're interested, though I know that most places use slightly different variations.
I also know there's a reasonably organised nerfing community in the US.

Thanks Ovion, sounds like fun!

"We now return you to your regularly scheduled Nerdfest...."

Just a heads up on the painting of the Nerf gun, you may want to check your local laws regarding "replica" guns, there are places in the US where carrying a toy gun in public without distinctive identifying marks can get you arrested...stupid, yes, but whatchagonnado?

 hdbbstephen wrote:
Just a heads up on the painting of the Nerf gun, you may want to check your local laws regarding "replica" guns, there are places in the US where carrying a toy gun in public without distinctive identifying marks can get you arrested...stupid, yes, but whatchagonnado?

Hmmm yep, I though of that too and that's why i'm leaving parts the orange like the ammo clips, small sliders, breach cover etc. so while it looks like a cool painted rifle, it still has that subtle ovious toy-ness to it and also since i'm the only one i know with a Nerf gun, I will only be playing in my backyard .... by myself...... Oh well.....

Just modded my darts by cutting across the top using the little hole as a guide and filled the ends with hot glue just enought weight now to feel better!

and as Gits said "We now return you to your regularly scheduled Nerdfest...." I haven't had much time so far for painting but I have managed to matte varnish my entire army I used a can of Boyle's Matte sealer works great (so far) so we'll see how that goes, it kinda enriches my reds and makes them really look complete now, I moved my entire army into a large cupboard shelf to keep the dust off them, so now my little black Nerd shelf is for 'projects' yet to be completed!

speaking of yet to be completed i'm assembling my parts to make a power armoured Chaplain I have one with a Jump pack and a Termie one so i need to round out the options and this guy's gonna be special! I also have a 9 man DC. to build which he'll be part of and I'll pop them in a drop pod for fun!

Oh, I got a little box in the mail........ Forgeworld......... space marine tank crew!

 nerdfest09 wrote:

 hdbbstephen wrote:
Just a heads up on the painting of the Nerf gun, you may want to check your local laws regarding "replica" guns, there are places in the US where carrying a toy gun in public without distinctive identifying marks can get you arrested...stupid, yes, but whatchagonnado?

Hmmm yep, I though of that too and that's why i'm leaving parts the orange like the ammo clips, small sliders, breach cover etc. so while it looks like a cool painted rifle, it still has that subtle ovious toy-ness to it and also since i'm the only one i know with a Nerf gun, I will only be playing in my backyard .... by myself...... Oh well.....

Just modded my darts by cutting across the top using the little hole as a guide and filled the ends with hot glue just enought weight now to feel better!

Generally, legally, you need an orange tip to the barrel.

Also, I'd actually be a little concerned about the darts safety wise now - you've effectively given them hard plastic tips, and with a modded gun, there's a reasonable chance they'll break the skin due to the power + hardness and potential for sharp edges, and at the very least they're going to bruise.
I wouldn't allow them in a war for safeties sake unless they could be proven safe (Which I don't think they would), and I'd be rather worried about using it with any of my more powerful guns such as my Rangemaster, Longshot or Barrelbreak (which already sting with the soft tip.)

For target shooting... you'll probably get away with it, but don't shoot it at people.

All this nerf gun stuff is very contagious nerd! I have been drawn into this new madness as well, (havn't painted any yet, but now that i've seen yours its just a matter of time!)

By the way was that gold terminator your working on come from your bitsbox? If so why on earth do you have that beautiful, (but more importantly hideously expensive) forgeworld body lying around unused!

 J-paint wrote:
All this nerf gun stuff is very contagious nerd! I have been drawn into this new madness as well, (havn't painted any yet, but now that i've seen yours its just a matter of time!)

By the way was that gold terminator your working on come from your bitsbox? If so why on earth do you have that beautiful, (but more importantly hideously expensive) forgeworld body lying around unused!

Firstly, to Ovion, thanks for your concern dude but you needn't worry as I won't be shooting these at any children or people except for my mate who lives in another state from me and is the only person open to a game of 'adult' Nerf as I would be this will in all likelihood just be used on my days off work banging away at paper targets etc. and if i do ever play a game properly then I will make sure i have my 18 shot clip full of un-modded darts to be safe!

Now, J-Paint, you mean to tell me you don't have random FW bits in your box? I seem to have Huron's body as well as Culln's and you better keep an eye out for the Chaplain i'm building then as that uses yet another random bits body from FW!

and you need to get on this Nerf thing man! i'm not a young child and yet I am finding the modding and painting and tinkering with this blaster very enjoyable, it's nice to have and just pop a few darts every now and then, set up a target and while your paint dries on your mini's see if you can knock some chaos or eldar off the shelf


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Oh I also have found 4 pre heresy shoulder mounted resin lascannons too! I love my bits box!

I think bits box is the wrong term for what you have then nerd, I think thats more of a liquid investment, a pension in disguise.

I am very jealous.

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And I am now googling nerf gun mods...this cant end well.

Bear in mind with mods, simply removing the Air Restrictor is often a reasonable enough boost for regular wars, unless you want to go nuts, learning the science behind them and redoing internals.

All my guns have the basic AR removal and a few minor tweaks here and there, but I just don't see the time and money I'd have to sink into them to get just on average 5-10-20 more feet out of it as worth it...

Most of my guns average 40-60 feet flat, with more work I could probably up that to 60-80 feet across the board, but at that distance - if they see you they can dodge it.
Hell at 40-50 you can dodge it without much trouble, and if you're trying you can reliably dodge at 10 feet.

You also have to remember the payoff between range, accuracy and rate of fire. You can generally only pick 2.


Nerf is a fantastic, addictive and relatively cheap hobby, and almost anyone who picks up a gun enjoys it.
On a side note - what part of the UK are you in J-paint?

i am still trying to convince myself that i have too much already on my hand to bother myself with anything "nerf" related...arghh... also... my kids are way too young to use them with me...i convince myself...yeah...

oh nerd... no not this right now^^

awesome... have been lurking... but i am well ontop of everything you produce... the gun and your fighters.... delicious!!!

I just finished reading through this thread over about four days. Some lovely work here. The only bad thing has been seeing such nice looking armies being sold away...

 scipio.au wrote:
I just finished reading through this thread over about four days. Some lovely work here. The only bad thing has been seeing such nice looking armies being sold away...

Hi Scipio, I know, I do get the odd twinge of regret sometimes but I am happy I finally have settled into an army I really enjoy and i'm in no danger of selling them off! well, all except that one model.....

I should have an update early next week with Pyriels finished Sallies Devs and hopefully my new Chaplain all finished (if the bits arrive in time) and I may start on a couple of rhino's that need painting too!

and maybe my finished Nerf gun and a whole bunch of new furniture I just bought! Woo Hooo!


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Oh and Scipio, the Contemptor is all boxed up and ready to go, I bubbled him and packed him better than I thought able! he's excited about meeting you and killing your friends armies! :-)

No worries. Payday is tomorrow. There's only one problem with your last sentence..

Lol, Ah... yes, those with dirty minds eh! lets try that again shall we?.... "I 'packaged' him better than I thought able"

Dirty minds? I was referring to the fact that I have no friends!
Oh yeah, I've sent the monies through.

 scipio.au wrote:
Dirty minds? I was referring to the fact that I have no friends!
Oh yeah, I've sent the monies through.

LOL Oh well..... that could have been awkward! ...... looks like I'm the one reading into it ......gosh darn dirty mind I have........

One of my favourite things about your blog is the occasional detours. Obviously your painting rocks and that's the bread and butter that keeps me coming back but the caviar that really interests me are things like your current Nerf exploits.
I just thought I'd tell you.

Anyway the Nerf gun is a cool project, it falls into an interest of mine that I like to call toycutting because it doesn't have a name that I've found.

I drew up plans for scratchbuilding an air rifle a few years ago but the project started to turn into building a firearm because I didn't set an upper limit so I kind of abandonned it. I think it's an interest a lot of guys have from a young age. My friends and I used to buy cheap bb guns and spends days shooting each other to bits in the local park as children. Even then I used to dismantle them, rifle the barrels and attempt to extend the clips and such.

Well that was a random but enjoyable trip down memory lane... Keep up the great blogging goodness!

Just been perusing the past couple of pages and saw you lot talking about Nerf guns. I use this within 50ft and up to 100...



BOOM!

Elnibbus are you sure your not getting confused and actually killing people? That looks incredibly real!

Awesome though.

Nice. Looks like an M4A1 with an almost-XM177 moderator on it? That's surely not a nerf weapon, is it?

(A fair few of us would probably have the real thing if they were legal out here.. I had to hand in my guns quite a few years ago now.)

Holy C**P Elnibbus! that looks amazingly amazing! is that a pure 'airsoft' gun? or something you've engineered to look that amazing? and fire so far......

@Casey: dude, i'm stoked the occasional divergences keep you amused :-) I always worry people just skim over the words and wait for models lol! if you haven't been able to tell yet, I'm one of those guys that finds something that interests me then goes totally full on and buys everything i can! usually it's 40k but the Nerf thing is cool, I just bought for my rifle a red dot laser sight, a bipod for the tac rail and a tac light for night Nerfing! :-) as well as some camo rifle tape for the grip and base of the stock and some reflective orange tape for the end of the barrel so it's semi legal! and i'm looking on ebay at the recon C-S6 I can get 2 in box for a really good price......

Haha! It is indeed an airsoft gun! It's an M4A1 SOCOM with a short barrel, an XM177 flash hider and Aimpoint replica red-dot. It's supposed to resemble the armalite from Blood Diamond.

Would love to have a Nerf gun- I can't exactly shoot the girlfriend with this ^^ because I'd never get a sandwich again... I am in the process of building a Kimber Tactical Entry II though!

This is me with all my buddies from a couple weekends ago (I'm the one with the beard in the middle):


ANYWAY: Liking your minis as always Nerdy, very inspiring. I'm in the process of re-assigning my Land Speeder Typhoon to some Fire Hawks instead...

Nerf Guns are nice and cheap (relatively), and not hard to find - if you want I can PM you with details for getting it in the UK - and if you're anywhere near Leicester potentially give you somewhere to Nerf / come try some guns out anyway. (Always need more people for the Wars.)

Firstly..... Yay Elnibbus has a beard! more power to the hirsute! :-)

and second! I just 'discovered' more nerfy goodness! while researching the problem of not being able to one hand prime my Longstrike with the 6kg spring I found the Xplorer overhead shotgun pump grip! and new bolt sled! with both these additions i should be up and Nerfing reliably!

and now for hobby news..... only hours to go until my days off after what has felt like weeks straight! I shall finish Pyriels Sallies completely and also assemble and paint my new chaplain and start some more work on the rhino's how's this sit with everyone? sound good? :-)

Hirstuteness FTW!

 dsteingass wrote:
Hirstuteness FTW!

Yeah! That's what I'm talking about now we need king cracker and we nearly have the whole set next thing I'll be derailing my own thread with beard talk and pictures lol! Not that that's a bad thing, I've found every bearded dude I know is proud of their chin squig whether its sculpted or patchy or a veritable landscape of its own like kc!

My beard is mighty.....my talk is small

I'm actually a member of a sub-team called The Beards. My call sign is Beard-13...

Ahem. Airbrush paints turned up today so I'm hoping to have something to show that I'm not entirely bone-idle and that I don't just derail other peoples threads...

These young guys who shave their entire body are among the sickest people I've ever heard of.

For all us 'Beardies' out there! band together, be strong don't forget to condition your face and sit back relax and listen to the sweet dulcet tones of the beards!

we still need a 'Beardmoticon.......'

http://youtu.be/KlgbKIswpzI
http://youtu.be/RmFnarFSj_U

BEARD ON BRO'S!

Does a chinstrap count?

 Casey's Law wrote:
Does a chinstrap count?

Hell yeah a chin strap counts! as long as it's connected to your hairline and joins at the bottom it's fine by me! I rocked a chin strap for 6 years!

Yay!

What's up dudes! a little more Nerfy goodness and also some model supplies and a little shot of my cupboard shelf! sounds exciting eh!

anyway I went to Kmart and saw a Nerf Maverick for only $10.00 so of course I grabbed it and went about modding it

removed all the air restrictions and gave it the full open barrel trick and shoved 5 coins behind the spring for more power, goes a bit better for sure but it was the painting I wanted to get too! I also found some velcro and stitched myself a couple of straps to hold a led torch as a tactical light!
here she is:



Next up in the what's been happening to Nerdy story, I got some post today, and I was pleased to see it was my table top lightbox studio! awesome value and great quality too, so it's a 40cmx40cm light tent with a camera stand and 2 lights on stands and 3 interchangeable backgrounds, as soon as my Digital SLR arrives I'll try it out! I can't wait, I managed to win an ebay auction for a Canon eos 400D dsrl with lenses and bag and accessories for $208.00


And lastly while i was waiting for all my new furniture to arrive I dusted all my army and popped them in the cupboard to keep them dustless (or not quite as dusty) seems my force is coming along nicely!


So what's y'all been up to?

Nice work on those guns & congrat's on the light box. Had one of those myself... they work really well (especially for the price). The army looks great all laid out like that!

What am I doing?? Same old, same old. Workin' for tha man, marines up the giggie.

Nice loot and the army looks great all set up!

Strange question... What do your cupboard doors look like?

Ooooh.... i need to get one of those light boxes!
Nerf gun looks ace!

 Casey's Law wrote:
Nice loot and the army looks great all set up!

Strange question... What do your cupboard doors look like?

Ummm yep, strange question my friend! but to humor you for whatever strange reason..... here are my doors!


Oh yeah the lightbox set up is great I really like it and you can ALL be sure as soon as my camera arrives I shall be taking pics of every FleshEater in my force and popping a thread in the showcase threads! I can't wait to use it, lets hope i use it well, I've never used a digital SLR before!

The Maverick is the best inter-office sidearm you can have!

Haha, thanks man.

I'll be creating a dedicated hobbyspace in my house this year so I'm gathering ideas right now. I don't have a huge ammount of room so I have to make the most out of it. I was wondering if it was a glass display cabinet type door or something.

Plus I'm gakking mental...

 dsteingass wrote:
The Maverick is the best inter-office sidearm you can have!

Cost to Ammo capacity to Power to Fire Rate, it's pretty much the best Nerf sidearm you can have.
It's reasonably cheap, with 6 rounds, 30-40ft flat range and a decent size.
Personally I've found combining the Maverick with the Barrel Break (which effectively has the power of a Primary) is a great combo of sidearms - gives you the 6 shots of mid-range firepower, with 2 high power long range shots.

But a Longstrike + Maverick is a fairly solid setup anyway.

During the Inter-Office wars, the stock Maverick and a Cubicle wall was the only thing between me and the enemy!

Well, I'll be running the maverick as my main sidearm and the fairly heavy modded Longstrike as my dedicated range weapon! I have really sparked some interest in people that haven't even thought of Nerf wars lately and even my mate James and his wife are getting in on the action and buying Recon's to modify and donating their farmyard as a battleground! :-) should be great with us rocking laser dot sights and tac lights of a night!

I can't wait to get my 2 kits I ordered for the Longstrike and see how they go combined with the modded darts!


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Oh Casey, you are only as crazy as every other Nerd on this thread my man!

Beards, gun talk, and an army shot.......makes me all misty eyed ............................manly misty eyed of course




Damo.......there was something I was going to say but damned if I can remember what the hell it was now. We need to skype

Righto guys, I need your ass.... assistance that is

I've decided to take another plunge into something different! and committed myself to the most manly of forces for 40k! yes, that's right! Imperial Guard these guys are so manly they can weave their beards into their pubes and play them like a harp

my quandry is scheme! as usual I want them to look the tits! and I'm thinking a light brown fatigues with darker brown cardboard armour, pouches etc? but i don't want it to be too boring, any ideas? I was thinking of adding camo pattern but I prefer the solid colour look, i've googled as you would imagine but nothing is really jumping at me (apart from trapdoors in my backyard, but that's another story) so any pics, ideas, hints, tips, free stuff will be appreciated

i'm about to sign off for the evening and i hope to come back tonight to a plethora of inspiration and chit chat! and KC you home monday my time?

My ass is always here to help

The color scheme you describe sounds similar to what Iffy did on one of her latest commissions:


I think a bunch of IG grunts in that sorta paint scheme would look awesome!

I've always loved desert guard, even if its not tallarn. Though they are the pinnacle. The tanks especially look great in just one solid colour, no camo pattern. It's something I've really always wanted to do though I doubt I'll ever ever get around to it. It's been in my head for around 15 years. The rough riders were gonna ride cold ones.



....not mine sadly.

I think that idea would work better if you reversed the colours, so a dark brown fatigue and sand coloured armour.

I think the brown could work well, maybe you'd need a more vibrant spot colour though, all brown minis can sometimes look a bit poorly defined, I doubt you'll have this issue though, your painting is more than up to it. Maybe a blue or green spot colour, (then again i'm biased towards green, seems to be my default when my imagination isn't working.)

(btw im incredibly pleased your starting guard, always nice to steal ideas.)

Thanks for the input so far guys! I really hope i can produce enough ideas for people to steal while my marines are quite clean and don't have much ornamentation these guys are going to be kitted up and gritty! i'm even considering buying the FW masterclass books!

I won't be heavily converting any but I'll be using 3rd party conversion bits throughout to provide a different look, I have some cool ideas that play heavily on my skills i'm happy with, namely muted colours with strong bright lenses and sharp highlights,

Imperial Monkey, I really did consider that option too but I felt the lighter tone as the main colour meant i could follow more detail on the clothes without looking stark, the dark fatigues with the lighter webbing put me in mind of the old WW pics you see with the khaki and olive gear which i liked but felt it too similar to 'normal' cadians!

alanmckenzie, I agree with you too, the tallarn are great models and i wish FW did more than just the sparse few they have, but it's now going to be a pleasant challenge to create a similar theme with the cadians! make sure you keep me on the right track as i go!

Ramos, I'm glad your ass is always there for help! and you'd be right about that mini, I was going through my subs and reading Iffy's blog after i thought about the theme and her paint job sealed the deal for me! it looks great! my main fatigues i think will be a touch darker and more yellow as I'm planning on using The Army Painter desert yellow as a base.

keep the ideas and thought coming dudes! what about tanks and accesories? anybody know any aftermarket places to get some bits? mesh screen bedrolls etc?

This.....is....gonna....be........ EPIC!!! I can totally see myself keeping these guys!....... for longer than a month!

Awww sweet an IG build! The only army that I ALWAYS get excited for to watch!

Mesh screen? Goto the locla hardware store, and buy some window screen. Its super cheap, and is the same shtuff. Youre welcome. Tanks though....they need to at least be slightly dirty, even if youre going to that clean look, I mean tanks are heavy and burn diesel and are just beat to piss, even the ones sitting in front of VFW halls still look used. So at the very least, you need to make them look it!


AND! For one of the leaders of your Guard, you have to have him bearded. Its just the rules. And maybe a cigar.

Oh yes KC the tanks will be showing signs of wear and tear and sand and dust and bodily fluid and leakage and oil and melted cheese and everything that should be there!

Ah, flyscreen mesh! duh! of course, it's all so simple.....

Funny you should mention bearded squad types :-) i' already planned to have a squad seargant Brandon Hammerbush in my force and of course HE shall be bearded, I will of course need you to clip and send me a sample of your beard hair for colour comparisons....... I'm not trying to clone or splice you!..... honest....... *snort*......

Sgt Brandon Hammerbush thats fething hilarious. Just make sure I always die in the dumbest of ways. As a Sgt that shouldnt be too hard. Also, Im going to pretend you didnt just say you DONT want to clone me and that you will now have to have melted cheese on some tank somewhere at some later time in the future perhaps

Perhaps Brandon hammerbush' personal chimera can have a slice draped loving out of the cupola?

For netting and such, check out Cheesecloth, available at most arts and craft stores.

Wow, can't wait to see how you do the guards, Nerd
As a suggestion, how about buying some differently themed helmets from Pig-Iron?
Cool variants with awesome lenses (I personally use them for Tau pathfinders and some IG-veterans I painted for a friend)

Anyways, looking forward to seeing some models!

Cheers ramos and hemmis, Cheesecloth will work! I think i have some too! ideas are bubbling people!

and for heads I am using heads mainly from Mad Robot miniatures, the soudakadi heads in fact and the beret heads for storm troopers? :-)


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Oh can anyone who's not at work give me an idea of what size plastic tube to use for alternate lasgun barrels? about the same sze as a bolter muzzle? so i can grab some online and get ready!

According to the dial calipers over here a bolter muzzle is .08 inch (~2 mm) which is roughly about the same for the lasgun muzzle. The barrel behind the muzzle is about .06 inch (~1.5 mm)

 Ramos Asura wrote:
According to the dial calipers over here a bolter muzzle is .08 inch (~2 mm) which is roughly about the same for the lasgun muzzle. The barrel behind the muzzle is about .06 inch (~1.5 mm)

Thanks dude! now i can buy more stuff Bwahahahahahaha!

Looking forwards to seeing your desert dogs.

Also a nice local source for guard parts (in Australia) if your not aware of Vic http://victoriaminiatures.highwire.com/

Genuinely considering withdrawing my subscription to your thread nerd. I just cant allow myself to become inspired to start another project when I'm really struggling to find time for my current one haven't even started my planned foray into infinity and now I can't stop thinking about desert guard. I'd pushed it right to the back of my head for years and since your post, those guardsmen won't leave me alone. I certainly don't need to be seeing your new army coming together. Maybe it can be my 2014 plan.

I figure that if I use the mantic games corporation line and build my tanks like this guy http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/496680.page (which I actually really really like), then I should be able to get an army of around 1500-2000 pts for under £200. It all seems so reasonable.... ok, still 2014.... maybe. And, I'll stay subscribed, just to be polite.... not because i want ideas to steal.

 alanmckenzie wrote:
Genuinely considering withdrawing my subscription to your thread nerd. I just cant allow myself to become inspired to start another project when I'm really struggling to find time for my current one haven't even started my planned foray into infinity and now I can't stop thinking about desert guard. I'd pushed it right to the back of my head for years and since your post, those guardsmen won't leave me alone. I certainly don't need to be seeing your new army coming together. Maybe it can be my 2014 plan.

I figure that if I use the mantic games corporation line and build my tanks like this guy http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/496680.page (which I actually really really like), then I should be able to get an army of around 1500-2000 pts for under £200. It all seems so reasonable.... ok, still 2014.... maybe. And, I'll stay subscribed, just to be polite.... not because i want ideas to steal.

Lol that's terribad you even CONSIDERED leaving us! just for that transgression I shall make sure I produce something truly awesome (hopefully!) I have ideas coming out of my ass! heaps of conversion parts and things on way too! I really need all you guys to keep me correct though as I haven't the slightest idea of what is correct in squads and lists and such! so I'd hate to paint stuff and have it be wrong for playing!

and today I shall actually be painting! the final touches to Pyriels Sallies and also some work on GiraffeX's Celestial Lion! hopefully pics this arvo!

I've just posted a potential 2000pt list in the army list section

I need to stop.

No stopping now dude! I 'like you' had this idea rolling around in my head for years and now I can finally do it! you may as well plan the force and scheme and list and then work slowly to achieve your dream! I was just lucky I scored all the army in one swoop!

Yeh maybe. Next sizeable purchase is my infinity rulebook and selection of haqqislam models. 100 quid. They should hopefully go together reasonably quickly. That'll get me playing something while I get my space marines up and running. I'll just try to keep the imperial guard cogs rolling in the background at least til August ish. By that time the Angels should be almost done and you'll have posted lots of nice pictures for me to look at.

Sounds good! I'll have to see what you do with the Infinity models :-0 never tried them but always loved the sculpts of nearly all of them!

what should I lean towards for a name for my regiment? they are going to be the Evandalus 9th .... something?

It was the sculpts that first attracted me to infinity. Still don't know how I'll find the game. Got my first demo games on Tuesday.

As for the name of your regiment? Something like what youve got. Probably not the best person to ask. My space marine chapter still don't have a home world... or a chapter master... none of the characters have names. It's all pretty impersonal at the moment. I'll need to look at that again actually.

First Update with pics for 2013! slowly getting into routine now and i should be churning through models and paint this year! so many great things on the list i am itching to do!

well, firstly I have finished Tom's Salamanders Devs finally! taken me far too long to do and i am apologetic for not finishing them sooner! you'll notice some pads missing but that's because he's adding his own sculpted ones to finish them off as well as his own bases, pics aren't great I was meant to get my new DSLR today but it didn't turn up and i was forced to use the phone again! *sigh* oh well maybe tomorrow?





and i did a little more for GiraffeX's Celestial Lion Chapter master/wolf lord! just got his pads and wolf claw sorted and based, he's rocking this season's latest fashion of a shaved down Red Scorpion left pad and a Chapterhouse Studios right one as well as a modified Lufgt Huron claw! I plan on finishing all the models i need to finish for other people before i start my own models this year, so now all I have to do is GraffeX's Marine and finish the banner on the Sons of Orar terminator for Kitch102 then it's my time!



not a bad day really, i managed to finish the sallies and get myself at least well organised for the Celestial lion and tidy the nerd lair hopefully the camera arrives tomorrow morning! i did get a package of a s.o.g Seal pup Elite fixed blade knife which is so sharp i actually shaved with it but that's not anything Nerd related.... that's just cool

aaaaanyway dudes til tomoz!


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oh and I realise the termie looks stunted lol, but i'll be propping his head up more in the armour before he's finished!

Love those Sallies Damo. You have a rare talent my friend. Pyriel's a lucky guy! So... which of the two terminator photos has the most realistic color?

Go for a camo on your guard. Desert Auscam (Desert DPCU) or "Coffee Stain" (DCU) are both relatively easy and look good. I did some on a small Ork Combat Patrol I never finished.

Hm.. I should dig out my IG in regular Auscam and photograph them. They date back to 3rd Edition...

Very nice work, NF09! That's a great shade of green, and I really like the bone aquila. The flames are awesome. Really like th Celestial Lion, too. Looking forward to seeing how he turns out.

The Celestial Lion is looking well ard Nerdy, looks like he's just about to say "I'm going to crush you with my claw scum"

Oh a Vulture for the Desert Guard would look really nice with camo, I hope there will be lost of dust (pigments) going round.

What do you mean 'the pics are not great' Your minis look good!

Nerd!!!
On Behalf of the Fraternal Order of Hirstute Guardsmen
I Welcome you!

Thank you gentlemen i am honored by your words and Dave i may have snorted hot coffee with your welcome of me into the hirsute guardsman! Scipio I'd love to see your Guard dude! throw 'em up in here if you like so we can all see I shall also go and have a look at those camo designations you mentioned, I have already ordered the desert yellow primer from The Army painter so hopefully it will still be usable if i like the camo schemes? I do plan on dusty-ing them up but i don't want to use powders yet, but never fear they'll be grittier than my marines who obviously wash the filth from their armour with the warm blood of their foes

Giraffe, working on him as we speak today! more update this arvo, and i'd say Gits the left shot is more accurate?

I'll see what I can do about IG photos, various bits of life's BS stopped me getting them taken today. I'll also see if I can track down the camoed orks as well.

I'm not 100% sure on the Army Painter spray. Google Images show it looking anywhere from perfect to way too yellowed. Also, be sure and test it out first, as per this thread on Warseer that I found (4th post)
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?322532-Army-painter-desert-yellow-spray

DCU:
Easy to paint in our scale (unlike multicam) and still looks good. LMMV of course, so if you're interested you'd still be best doing a test figure


Desert Auscam (Desert DPCU or DPDU):



This link shows the 4 types, though again at our scale the differences are negligible. We just want it to be cool and/or recognisable
http://iacmc.forumotion.com/t2535-australian-dpdu-my-official-reference

The best thing about my IG was the number of "hey, cool!" comments I used to get when I took them to play at clubs and such, when people saw their camo was our Aussie stuff.



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Checking through the other recent posts - the Salamanders look great. Is that a Boarding marine head on the ML guy? Looks good!

Where did you get that light box? It looks just like what I need for photos.

Finally, it's good to see/hear that so many of you are bearded. Mine is short again right now, though from time to time I let it grow huge.

Finished GiraffeX's Celestial Lion today! took a bit of struggling through when I was tired but I got him done nicely I think! I hope he likes him I quite like the contrast with the gold and blue together all in all i'm pretty pleased with him.

and thanks Scipio! that camo looks great, especially the first design I read the thread about the desert yellow spray and I will admit i'm a little concerned now about how bright yellow it will be, some make it appear a mustard like colour and others more of a yellow bone? looks like i just have to wait and fingers crossed!

Well, here's the celestial lion for GiraffeX




And it's my first shot in my light box! not bad so far, can't wait to get more proficient at it!

Whoa Nerd! Very shiny! Very well done!

Looking good. he's come up very nicely.

Ahhhh light, you tricky vixen!




That looks great Damo

Amazing!


S.

Ok. Now I really have to ask.... How do you do your skin? And the shaved head look you get it amazing!

All great work Nerd!

I have heard this is the blog to follow. I see why! Great work all around!

Wow Damo he looks stunning

He will be the centre piece of my Celestial Lions army for sure and that's even after I paint some marines to follow him round

Found your gold tutorial which I will attempt to copy. Can you let me know what blue you used so I can use the same as it looks rather nice.

Also if you want to talk Guard just send me a PM and we can bash some ideas together and check squad load outs etc

Thanks again

He'd look much better with a beard

Thanks guys! he was fun to paint, I really enjoy doing things like this for people and trying to paint them a model they will enjoy next is the banner for Kitch's termie and then he's done too! that's my next days off work so stay tuned!

faces, skin, tricky tricky stuff but I tend to look at them in a way you might if you were painting a flat painting, using mainly shadows and highlights to give the suggestion of shape and detail, while you don't need to seamlessly blend each colour layer the thinner your brighter highlights are the better it looks as you can add a few coats quickly to get your results, the shaved hair look is pretty easy, it's just your base flesh tone with the hair colour mixed in so you can still see the main flesh tone shaded with the other colour and then painted on in a way to simulate a natural hairline, if you want to add stubble just water the hair colour down a little and sort of wash the cheeks and jaw with it. The main skin tones I use Tallarn flesh mixed with fortress grey as my base then add bleached bone successively after a wash of Ogryn flesh/Agrax earthshade to bring out the details. I'll do another tute if anyone wants? but I do think there's one a bunch of pages back in the blog? just can't remember where

Also just bought some conversion bits for my upcoming Guard army and guard players with any assembly/conversion tips for me?

Hey dude, nice green minis but where did all the rest of the missile launcher marines go?
They were all supposed to be green and not red
lol

Good job on them dude, they rock


All your pestering me to show pics of what I have been doing the last months have paid of at last. Here is the one mini I did for quite some time now:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/455907-coteaz.html?m=2
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/455908-coteaz.html?m=2
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/455909-coteaz.html?m=2

Hey mate, lovely terminator guy with a good combination of FW and regular parts. The Salamanders Devastators look great too. Very smooth painting. (also: That's a pretty cool photo setup with the ruin to place the model on.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
I'll do another tute if anyone wants?

Yes please!!


All I can really say conversion/assembly wise (through my limited experience looting the vehicles ), is that Sentinels can be a pain. They suffer from tiny little ankles thatll break if ya breathe on em too hard! Not as bad as Tau, but still... You do get a TON of poseability with them though.

Cool, I love the look of the sentinels and the ability to pose them easily, I kinda don't care that they're not very good in game as i still like to have them running around (i'm guessing I will)

is there anything in particular you want me to focus on when painting my heads? and did you just want me to PM you a tute or does anyone else want me to do one and throw it up here? I do have a couple spare ones lying around :-) about 30 or so! lol

Oo oo me me!

 Dr H wrote:
Oo oo me me!

lol o.k I will then! might have to gimme a week or so but I'll get onto it as soon as possible

 nerdfest09 wrote:


is there anything in particular you want me to focus on when painting my heads?

Beards

id like something of an overall tut, especially colors and mixes/blending. My faces seem to always hit or miss in this regard.

Eyes would be nice too

O.k sounds good, i can do that, but I don't actually paint eyes on mine! ;-) it's a trick! i'll teach you lol

 Ramos Asura wrote:
id like something of an overall tut, especially colors and mixes/blending. My faces seem to always hit or miss in this regard.

Eyes would be nice too

Indeed! I just picked up some flesh shade this afternoon (literally about 2 hours ago), so I am itchin to get going. I plan to use it on the 3-4 Wood Elf faces I have in the queue for painting (the rest have bone helms...

I don't have a pic of them assembled, but the helms are the old Elk Skull Standard top - I will be working on these for the next two weeks. )

Well the painting itch hit me thanks to you. So I based (rather nicely I think) some Goff Rockers, primed em and now they are sitting with some nice skin tone. Pretty stoked to see these guys finished

I'm still trying to get my scheme down in my mind for the IG and i've almost worked it out I think, so now it's input time from my mates

I was originally going to have plain fatigues on my troops, but after much googling I decided that a subtle camo would still work for me! as i've already ordered 'The Army Painter Desert Yellow Primer' it needed to work in with the yellowish sandy type of colour it is, I thought using the 3 colour desert cam as inspiration would work it's still quite light and gives me option to use some older pots of paint I have at home, i don't intend on making it 'exact' but close to it.


Next question is spot colour? shall I paint the armour/webbing a dark brown or black? and will it look good if i paint the helmets to match or should I paint them a contrasting colour as i sometimes see white or blue helms on peace keepers etc.?




So, as you can see i'm nearly there with my plans for the force, now i just need the force but any input would be appreciated, I am hoping to theme the army around a elite group of soldiers who mainly trained in dusty inhospitable climates and were unsupported for periods of time while they conducted rapid raids and insertions before being pulled out and re deployed.

Personally I would say blaack because it gives off a more elite feel

I agree..black

Or a very dark green or brown. Then you'll be able to use black for shading...

Black. with black helmets. Blue is for pansies, not the Elite Guard!

 nerdfest09 wrote:
I am hoping to theme the army around a elite group of soldiers who mainly trained in dusty inhospitable climates and were unsupported for periods of time while they conducted rapid raids and insertions before being pulled out and re deployed.

Tallarns! If you don't like that, I would go with Dr H's idea. sounds elite, like the angry squig said, but easier to shade and highlight. maybe black webbing, though, because it makes more sense for the materials that webbing is usually made out of.

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is there anything in particular you want me to focus on when painting my heads?
Beards

Beers!

Dudes wasuuuuup!

Hey, remember how a little while ago I got a bunch of those cheap 28mm buildings off ebay from Russia? well, I finally put them together this morning I bought 6 sets and went about creating a variety of different structures with some length and height, it made HEAPS!! crazy enough now for an entire village of sad ruins for my troops to scout through!




I thought i'd also lay down the base colour onto my pile o barrels and i 'was' going to just do my usual trick of a base colour and weathering that's then dabbed with liquid mask and sprayed with another colour so I can pull the main paint off the mask to reveal chips, but as I started I liked the way the colours looked and started trying new things so I wiped a damp finger over the barrels each time I put paint on them and used this to reveal the base metal through heavy rusting until it looked right in my eyes! still a bit more work to do on them as well as the actual base and some shadow shading then it's done.




next one will be another barrel based theme, but i'm hoping to do a fuel pump refuel-er for my Guard!

and on a slightly different note, I was talking in Dave's thread about a boat my dad scratch built about 27 years ago, and it peaked some interest so I went to his place today and interviewed him about it and took a bunch of pics, the more I studied it the more I realised exactly how talented he is and how much effort this would have been to create! I'll put the pics up somewhere when I find an appropriate place for them

Wow.... kind of a Nerdy stream of consciousness there. Projects look great and am looking forward to the boat pics. Given your talent level it makes sense your dad would have some of his own!

Looking good! Those Russian panels are quite useful things.

thanks guys, I need to get them finished in a couple of weeks for a game against Eldar i've organised with a guy from work! should be awesome :-)

Have you seen Skalk's fueling depot?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/blog/403974.page

 nerdfest09 wrote:
I'm still trying to get my scheme down in my mind for the IG and i've almost worked it out I think, so now it's input time from my mates

I was originally going to have plain fatigues on my troops, but after much googling I decided that a subtle camo would still work for me! as i've already ordered 'The Army Painter Desert Yellow Primer' it needed to work in with the yellowish sandy type of colour it is, I thought using the 3 colour desert cam as inspiration would work it's still quite light and gives me option to use some older pots of paint I have at home, i don't intend on making it 'exact' but close to it.


Next question is spot colour? shall I paint the armour/webbing a dark brown or black? and will it look good if i paint the helmets to match or should I paint them a contrasting colour as i sometimes see white or blue helms on peace keepers etc.?




So, as you can see i'm nearly there with my plans for the force, now i just need the force but any input would be appreciated, I am hoping to theme the army around a elite group of soldiers who mainly trained in dusty inhospitable climates and were unsupported for periods of time while they conducted rapid raids and insertions before being pulled out and re deployed.

By the sound of it, you want to go either Tan or Coyote brown for hard armour and possibly webbing/plate carriers,etc
Ranger green is also a possibility (the colour of some of the pouches, second pic)



Black looks okay, but the pic linked above is a VBSS (Visit, Board, Search, Seizure) - aka naval guys who check out ships - camo not really a factor. I'd go for coyote myself, though. If you're making a LRRP-themed force.



For a nice coyote brown I mixed 50% Vallejo 923 Japanese Uniform WWII and 50% Vallejo 879 Green Brown into a dropper bottle.
For the 3-colour coffee stain uniforms, I've used (Vallejo) Pale Sand/Iraqi Sand, Deck Tan and Saddle Brown. Pretty easy to sub in others, though.

And yes, I need to photograph my IG. If I can find my USMC I'll photograph them, too. Having just bought a house and moved is awesome in many ways, but a pita when it comes to finding things...









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If you want to get excited, you can try to "snakeskin camo" their helmets. I guess you could do it by draping some stocking material over their helmets tightly and giving it a quick blast with your airbrush... real troops tend to use scrim etc with a spraycan or two - even the plastic from a bag of oranges gets you the right kind of pattern, and I've heard of it being used. It also gets used on weapons.

Damn Damo, thats a boat load of terrain you got there

And this is getting me excited for the next project! When you gunna stop teasing and start pleasin?












And yea, that can sound dirty if wanted

Wow, thanks Scipio! that was a great bit of easy to follow info for me! I think I might give the snakeskin helmets a go too, I believe I can get the look as far as the actual camo goes, i don't think I'll be aiming for an exact match to the Coffee stain pattern, more of a homage to the style so my patterns will be similar shades and larger splotches but not visually identical, although I will paint my webbing and armour in a dark yellowish brown sort of like coyote brown

The snakeskin is a great idea! something I personally haven't seen on an IG force yet (unless of course you post some pics ) I should have some ruined stockings at home from my last saturday night with KingCracker ..... I joke....... he kept ALL the stockings!!

speaking of KC, I want to get everyone keen!! including myself so when it all arrives I can get into it and always have something on the go for ya! and the way i've been buying stuff for it lately there's going to be something on the go for a while! so far I've got GW models for the main force to work with and parts for conversions from, Kromlech,Mad Robot, Anvil Industries and Forgeworld!

only thing i'm concerned with is the Army PAinter Desert Yellow primer lets hope it looks good as a base for my main colour on everything!


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Oh and can anyone help me out for a place to find the space hulk rules and mission books? I want to build a coridoor set to play it in and don't want to buy too little or too much for the passages, and i don't need the whole game as I want to make my stuff myself... to a level anyway!

Think eBay is probably your best bet for the rule books.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SPACE-HULK-2009-MISSIONS-BOOK-BRAND-NEW-/370734029583?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item5651785b0f&_uhb=1

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Space-Hulk-Rule-Book-/280960853326?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item416a92654e&_uhb=1




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The full boxed game is pretty expensive now, especially if you're planning on building your own corridors and tiles and using your own models. I was lucky to get one for £60 quid locally. Decided to use the terminators for my BA successors and now get to choose what to use for my SH troops. Thinking about buying a couple of the new death wing boxes, but I've got time to hang about and see if there are any other new boxes on the horizon.


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And don't forget the "sulaco" bases from fenris games for all models space hulky.

Fenris Games also do corridor sections as well on their website.

Fenris games? never heard of them before! hang on i'm going to look now........ this is not going to end well for my wallet is it?


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Love the feel and look of those tiles! hard to tell if they're printed image or painted 3d? the ones I was looking at was buying 2 sets of the Armorcast space coridoor set, but again i'm only going of price and google :-)

I really like the armorcast one's. Kinda costly though. Maybe space hulk is a good place to start trying to construct my own decent terrain. It can't be too hard to make these tiles out of plasticard and things. And the small bite-size nature of it would certainly make it less intimidating.

Economically, a few Hirst Arts molds and a 50lb. box of Dental Plaster would be the cheapest way to build all the corridors you need.

 dsteingass wrote:
Economically, a few Hirst Arts molds and a 50lb. box of Dental Plaster would be the cheapest way to build all the corridors you need.

I know, I know, you're probably right (of course you are!) I just have a strange aversion to using plaster? I don't know whether it's the weight or the fact it's porous? plus I've never used it before so I'm a scaredy cat! and looking at the Armorcast ones i have...... ideas forming.......


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Oh and while i didn't find the SH rules and missions online yet I downloaded and printed the rules for using the zone mortalis set from FW! might be a good place to start for me? a few rules here, a few coridoors there.....

No..forget everything you know about Plaster of Paris-completely different stuff.. Dental stone is not porous at all when cured, it's smooth, but it does have a nice weight to it.

Like, really heavy or more of a hollow heavy feel? if you get my meaning? durable?

much more durable! you can tell by putting both casts in a plastic bag.. Cheap plaster like PoP will leave powder everywhere, Dental plaster will not. You can drop it 3 feet to a concrete floor without them breaking.


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..Its what they make dental impressions with to send off to labs...

The fenris ones are resin casts. I suppose you could make them out of plasticard and wire mesh, I looked into it a while ago but have zero modelling skills so will be most likely going down the fenris route if I ever get that far or there's mdf versions by Warmill and another ebay seller.

I think the zone mort rules will work better or the kill team rules for a good skirmish game.

Oh my god, Oh my god, oh my god!! my army arrived! I'm so excited I started straight away organising it and cleaning it up

well, firstly here's what I scored of the Dakka swap shop (thanks Killjoy00)

3 chimera's

Leman Russ on sprue

a bunch of troops

2 sentinels and a command squad

2 nib valks



What else did I get today?...... Ooooh yes! MadRobot Miniatures heads & Kromlech running legs and backpacks!








So, after I gazed at my haul with a massive smile on my face for a while I chucked on some Molotov cd's and went about cleaning them all up and starting the conversion work! I started by running the scalpel over each mini to get the worst of the mold lines off them, then I cut the end of the lasguns off as well as the las clip and ripped their heads off then cut some rod and made a new barrel for the guns!

a couple of Vox guys had broken backpacks so i also fixed them up too






here's the Vox guys, I left the heads on a couple and used some putty to make goggles for them and I drilled out the spot where the aerial went and replaced them

a few sarges so far, colonial defense heads.... looking good!


Now, enough of the blurry photo's you cry! I shall now show you what else I did today! I nearly finished my barrel pile, just need to give it another dry brush and some more water effects and she'll be sweet!


and I got some more work on the mini for Kitch102, the main model is done and I needed to continue the banner for him, it's coming together I think and i wanted to get a kind of embossed satin look (sort of)


Phew! what a day and I've another day off tomorrow! what else can i possibly do

That freehand is stunning! I have so much respect for folk who can paint in 2-D. Can we hassle you for a tutorial?

Wow, that banner is looking damn fine already!

Thanks guys, the banner so far is pretty easy! just choose 2 similar shades and have the darker as the main colour, water down your lighter colour and trace on your design lightly, when dry go back over the design focusing the stronger colour on the top parts of the squiggles as if you were painting a 3d mini, next shade under the squiggles with a slightly darker tone, keep going over the design with the colours until you're happy with how it looks :-) I used the same technique when I did the sarcophagus on my DC Dreadnought....... just in black

Carbines on the guard and the head and pack swaps are just brilliant Damo! Love them! (and that's saying something because generally I'm pretty disinterested in IG)

That banner is the nuts man... sweet.

Good gravy, the best banner youve ever done, and its not even yours And I really like how much a simple headswap on Guard can really improve the minis. Though ever since someone pointed out just HOW out of scale the IG are, I cant help but see it everytime. Off to a great start

after a long time of lurking i come out into the open...

guard... well it had to happen... i am totally anxious about you doing some guardsmen... the conversion work so far looks very good! what style and for that matter scheme will you aim for these? looks to me a bit nam styled americans? am i right?

and that was a huge sawp haul... what did you trade? money? or what amount of mins could be enough for such a mass of cool stuff???

Oooh yay guard! Good haul, nerd.

And Daaaaaaaamn I love that banner!!!!!!

Nice haul there Damo!- even TWO old-skool (a.k.a. better) Chimeras and the Leman Russ is old-skool too!

Your haul looks even better in pictures

The head swaps and packs look really great, I cant wait to see you paint this army.

The banner is amazing, just blew my mind how fantastic it looks.

I'm glad you think i'm off to a good start! it's a very exciting project for me! the theme i'm sort of hinting at is an arid force, so kind of desert, kind of dry bush soldiers with ochre and greens and browns I bought the lot for $300 inc post! which i think is pretty good considering the Valks are $96 each down here

Dave, what do you mean old skool? I never realised there was an old skool Leman Russ or Chimera's just goes to show how out of the IG loop I am lol! make sure you keep me up to date with any hints or tips! especially when i build the Valks I hear rumors they can prove troublesome?

Gits, I'm with you man! I never had the Guard urge before in all my hobbying life but once I got an idea using something I really like (MadRobot heads) I kind of get a flood of ideas and it just went from there! all i was going to do originally was see if i could get a squad from the swap shop to use the heads on looks like i got more than I bargained for!

I am also pretty suprised about the feedback on the banner it's my first proper freehand banner and I was focused on getting the eagle and SoO logo correct and didn't even think about the actual background or material of the banner until I wanted to do something 'easy' so i didn't have to try and highlight the cloth! turns out doing squiggles looks good eh!

well, today I'll fix up some more Guard and try and figure out what belongs in a vet squad? so far I'm thinking a sarge with 6 lasgun bodies and 3 plasma guns? is that right?

anyway I'll be back this arvo dudes!

Apparently less is more

Tank time! assembled Mr Russ today looks imposing I must say, now I just need to wait for the canvas bags and rolls to turn up so i can add some long range packs etc. then it'll come to life! I can feel it's going to be hard not to go ott adding stuff also another chance to use my heads from MadRobot




I've heard rumors ..... rumors that plasma is good?...... rumors that plasma is good in a vet squad! so fixed a couple up for use! I didn't like the stocks so i changed them out for the ones off the older style bolters.


what do you do when a tube of glue jumps out of the container and slaps you in the face screaming to use him? .... well, you use it!, you don't argue with glue eh! those tubes are hard arse!
so I grabbed some bits to make another throw down barricade, and it appears that in the belly of a war anything is fair game to soak up incoming fire! even dead cows!


and here's the kromlech running legs going to use them for my storm troopers squad to show them sprinting forward to places to give suppressive fire


gotta get some simple green to strip one of the sentinels tonight and then i'll get them sorted!

Plaaaasma is good

Yes,lets hope plasma is gooooood! :-) and I'm even changing the plasma guns for Kromlech ones lol! I think the ones they have currently are just too big for them and the ones I'm buying are sleeker and suit more I think :-)

Yep! What you've got there is an old-skool Alpha-pattern turret (a.k.a. virile, manly)- now look at the new Leman Russ kt you can buy from GW- the turret is a different shape. The onl;y difference you can tell between Chimeras is the thicker side armore plate (and all the road wheels you glue on-older kits)- they changed the tooling to be fewer sprues a few years back, somehow justifying a price increase for less plastic

Honestly, I think it would be hard to add TOO much to your tanks. I mean, have you seen some WW2 pics of tanks? Some of those babies had a trucks weight worth of add ons just to get to the party And honesty, I think plain janes make for boring tanks. All that stuff just adds so much more character

 KingCracker wrote:
Honestly, I think it would be hard to add TOO much to your tanks. I mean, have you seen some WW2 pics of tanks? Some of those babies had a trucks weight worth of add ons just to get to the party And honesty, I think plain janes make for boring tanks. All that stuff just adds so much more character

Hear Hear.

Things looking good so far NF.