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I figured rather than spraying projects around in separate posts like a dog with too many fire hydrants that I should put the stuff I'm working on in one place.

So here it is!

OK - to start with, I've set myself the task of painting the stuff that I have bought recently before buying anything else (unless of course I happen to win those ebay auctions I'm sniping....)



I bought these guys last year, before learning that they were no longer that good for an Eldar battleforce.

They have also been a major PITA to put together and prep...

They look nice, I like the posing of those figures.

I must say I don't like the pooping- swooping, I said swooping-hawks that much...they seem pretty useless to me overall. However, when they actually manage to do something in a game then you get the pleasure of watching your opponent break down and cry at his (or her) own futility. They're really good-looking models though, so perhaps you'll be one of the first I've seen in quite a while to take them regularly in an army list?

Alexiosis wrote:They look nice, I like the posing of those figures.

Yeah - nice looking figures. I'm going to experiment with army painting effects with the undercoat and my airbrush...

Plan is to spray upward from underneath with black undercoat, cover with grey undercoat and then give a highlight from the top with a light white undercoat.

I will then use thin hawk turquoise with the airbrush to coat them, and graduate/blend the wings up to yellow.

Not sure how it will turn out, but should at least mean not too much work!

Nightwatch wrote:I must say I don't like the pooping- swooping, I said swooping-hawks that much...they seem pretty useless to me overall. However, when they actually manage to do something in a game then you get the pleasure of watching your opponent break down and cry at his (or her) own futility. They're really good-looking models though, so perhaps you'll be one of the first I've seen in quite a while to take them regularly in an army list?

Yeah - I have read a bit on them and while people agree that they're OK, they are not awesome in any particular role - and the roles they can do can be done better by more effective and efficient troops.

I don't actually play much at all however, so it's not a big deal anyway!

On that one occasion they do manage to hold their own, your opponent will break down and cry, and lose all hope in himself. He will then send his landraider off the table edge and deep strike his termies into impassable terrain, all because of that one lucky roll. I've seen it. It is not a pretty sight, so be careful when you use them and if you're feeling really lucky, just don't shoot at them. The mental institutes are full enough already, we don't need to work the caregivers overtime.

Hi...

Well, undercoated them now trying out black, grey and white undercoating...

Hi

Working on a plague bearer spawed from a space marine at the moment.

Overall OK, but the head is too big!

Hi

Got my new airbrush and it worked wonderfully with propper airbrush thinner!

Very nice and smooth for a sub US$30 airbrush (including shipping from Honkers!)

Base coated them - next is an Asurmen blue wash over it (with a brush), followed by an airbrush highlight, then yellowing the tips of the wings:

The plague-bearer looks pretty cool. For some reason it reminds me of star-wars.

Alright finished airbrushing the hawks - they look nice with just airbrushing although the photo washes them out in a big way:

Looking very nice on the swooping hawks.

The Plague-bearer looks okay, because Nurgle things are always kind of lumpy/rotting.

Sorry for the double post.

Thanks Voldemort.

I'm quite pleased with the airbrush - it is fun to use (I didn't once get bored or peeved with doing the airbrushing as I have before with batch painting/base coating) and works well at creating nicely blended colours.

Next to actually attack them with a brush!

Looks good, I hope to see some more airbrushing in the future. The blending looks really good on the Exarch.

Thanks Wrex.

Trying out NMM for the first time on the sword...

Hi

Finished all the pinning required for the great unclean one today, greenstuffed the gaps, based and got some paint on...

Looking to have a couple of skin hues on it as you can see from the basecoat.

Wrexasaur wrote:The plague-bearer looks pretty cool. For some reason it reminds me of star-wars.

back on topic, cant wait to see them once theyve been detailed.

Its all looking good
keep it up

Cheers
ABH

Cheers

trying a new head on the plague bearer.

Relly nice Job!

NMM looks amazing!!!

Can't wait to see this stuff done.

Hi

Just got home from work and my son surprised me with this gem he created below.

I've asked him if I can have him to paint for my army and he's said yes! Cool!

Oh - and he said I should post the back - by the way he is 12...

AMAZING

Hi - finished ogryn flesh wash, basecoat of details, and some highlights - thin purple wash coming over the top of the lot next.

Batteries out, so having to take without flash...

LOVE IT

Thanks for the comments Person Person.

Have nearly completed the painting of the figure itself tonight whilst enjoying watching the Cricket test from Leeds. Good to see Australia finally hit some form!

You can see the general look on the first one and a closer view of the metalwork that I've tried to give a used rusty pattina to.

Cheers


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Working on the base at the moment. The white is PVA that will set to give a base for the water look.

Nearly finished now - just have to flock once gloss is dry...

You have some very interesting work Tallmantim.

I like what you are doing with the hot-glue gun, the base of your GUO looks very cool, and I particularly like the water effect you have done.

The piece that your son made looks quite good. I can see him making some really fantastic stuff with a bit more practice. I would recommend working with fimo/sculpey and a bit of milliput if you have access to them. Practicing with GS can get a bit frustrating, but sculpey is a really friendly material to work with in general.

Nice work .

Thanks Wrex - yeah I'm a big fan of hot glue! ;-)

Anyway, got home from a conference and put the final work on him so 100% complete now.

Nice to see a Nurgle model that isn't a cliche green.

Attempted more NMM - I really need to get the blending moving more evenly. It looked smoother when I was doing it but the camera really shows up the lack of smoothness...

Great start.

I was DMing a game of D&D for my son and his friends today and used these that I painted about 16 years ago and thought I'd put them up.

It's been a LONG time since doing any figures, but here it 'tis...

Bought a pack of Blood Letters, and wanted them to fit into my swampy nurgle army - so nurgle-ised this one as a test piece.

Pretty happy with it, so am continuing. Easy and quick conversion.





Not too much problem with these guys either counting as Plague Bearers or as nurgle-ified Blood Letters.

A wash is very go to smooth out the airbrush paint!

Your Nurgly Bloodletter is very fine, I was actually wavering about buying some for my army but couldn't make my mind on having red-flashy Khornate demons in my army...

Maybe I'll steal your idea, it's very nice!!!
And definitely identifiable as Nurglesque!

aromasin wrote:A wash is very go to smooth out the airbrush paint!

Cheers - what sort of wash? thinned gryphone sepia?

Yggdrasil wrote:Your Nurgly Bloodletter is very fine, I was actually wavering about buying some for my army but couldn't make my mind on having red-flashy Khornate demons in my army...

Maybe I'll steal your idea, it's very nice!!!
And definitely identifiable as Nurglesque!

Yeah - not a huge fan of the horns and back spines.

Will fit in well with the other plague bearers anyway!

awesome work! i mean that, however those new letters are defiantly not blood letters... the previous ones were

TyraelVladinhurst wrote:awesome work! i mean that, however those new letters are defiantly not blood letters... the previous ones were

Hi do you mean the previous version of the blood letters or my previous picture?

Well, got my other Blood Letters of Nurgle going (perhaps I should call them Leaches of Nurgle? ;-)

All prepped up:

the previous one's are the one's i am referring to. however yours look good

Your corrupted Bloodletters are the best Plaguebearers I've seen.
Great!
Pity the GW plaguebearer(sculpt) is so poor.

Evilgnome wrote:Your corrupted Bloodletters are the best Plaguebearers I've seen.
Great!
Pity the GW plaguebearer(sculpt) is so poor.

Cool! Thanks very much.

Pretty happy with them, as they are now reasonable for either Blood Letters OR Plague Bearers.

Yeah, they are awesome. But "corrupted Bloodletters"? Is that even possible?!

Hi - just a couple of updates...

Getting through the Bloodletters (Pusletters?, corrupted Bloodletters? diseased Bloodletters?) and have nearly finished the Champion of Nurgle.

Have ordered another pack of 'letters and a couple of elven chariots - planning to create some Blood Crushers of Nurgle by making mounts out of the White Lions (x4) and mounting converted bloodletters on there.

Those Hawks looked pretty enthralling with just the Airbrushing done; which Colours did you use, and what Airbrush Model did you buy? I hope there's an equivalent in the United Kingdom, as I may just need to pick one up!

Cheers,

Popsicle

Popsicle wrote:Those Hawks looked pretty enthralling with just the Airbrushing done; which Colours did you use, and what Airbrush Model did you buy? I hope there's an equivalent in the United Kingdom, as I may just need to pick one up!

Cheers,

Popsicle

Hi

The good news is that I bought just a cheap one off ebay - but I do have a good industrial quality compressor which helps make things easy.

Pretty much the same as this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/New-Gravity-Feed-Dual-Action-Air-Brush-Kit-Spray-Gun-/390219207276?cmd=ViewItem&pt=AU_Car_Parts_Accessories&hash=item5adae0926c

Finally finished the Swooping Hawk Phoenix lord, did the swords for the Plague Letters (I think I like that name!) and experimenting with my excess airbrush paint on shading - have put some wash over that guy now.

What mini did you use for the Nurgle Champion?!

I bet he's no GW... Rackham Zombie maybe? And it doesn't look much like it, IMHO...
Still, I like the "yummy pus" hanging from the scythe, but I don't think the head screams "Nurgle" that much... Rather Orks or Ogres to me...

Anyway, I love your Plagueletters, and I'm eager to see the PlagueCrushers!!!

Yggdrasil wrote:What mini did you use for the Nurgle Champion?!

I bet he's no GW... Rackham Zombie maybe? And it doesn't look much like it, IMHO...
Still, I like the "yummy pus" hanging from the scythe, but I don't think the head screams "Nurgle" that much... Rather Orks or Ogres to me...

Anyway, I love your Plagueletters, and I'm eager to see the PlagueCrushers!!!

Hi - he's a bona fide Citadel mini - probably one I picked up circa 1991-92. Can't find it on Stuff of Legends however.

Still waiting on Gifts for Geeks to ship my kit! Can't start the plague letters until I get the bits (1.5 weeks wait so far...)

This is kind of what I am thinking of for the Plague Crushers...

Decided that I wanted to have a go at painting a tank with some different techniques.

So this one was done with:

Airbrush

Hairspray

Alcohol

Weathering kit

Regular paints

The figure was undercoated gray, the dozer blade sprayed with silver paint, the whole figure airbrushed with Tamaya brown rusty colour with the exception of the front of the blade, coated with hairspray, airbrushed with catachan green and painted the front of the dozer blade with yellow/black stripes.

Following that, I used water, a toothpick, alcohol and a brush to weather the tank down.

Used the weathering kit after that to do up the rust etc and finished painting.

Started on the Plague Crushers the other day.

Using a high elf chariot lion, not putting the head on and chopping down the main etc, removing the tail.

The two tentacles are going to have teeth on them and there will be matching ones on the top. There will be an asymetric number of eyes either side.

The Plague Crusher is finished, working on the rider now, and have finally put the rust base colour on the Stormlord (or whichever variant it is!) and should be up to the next stage soon.

Your work is so awesome! Great stuff. Especially love the Great Unclean One and the Swooping Hawks. You work magic with an airbrush and regular brush my friend.

Possibly stupid question. What does hairspray do when used on a model?

That thing is disgusting. In the Nurgley-awesome way.

bunnygurl wrote:Your work is so awesome! Great stuff. Especially love the Great Unclean One and the Swooping Hawks. You work magic with an airbrush and regular brush my friend.

Possibly stupid question. What does hairspray do when used on a model?

The hairspray is water permeable, so the idea is that you can put down a base layer (rust in this case) and then use water or isopropyl alcohol to loosen the top layer to expose the "rust" underneath. On this one I will be also putting some salt on that will come off in key areas to show the rust under too.

I am awaiting to see if anyone is interested in trading a painted Shadowsword before putting down the actual paintjob on the outside though (http://www.wargamerau.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=110316).

Tim the Biovore wrote:That thing is disgusting. In the Nurgley-awesome way.

Thanks!

I'm sorry but I didn't get the harspray thing.

Could you break it into steps? For instance :

1. Paint with the rust colour
2. Hairspray whole model
3. etc...

Seems interesting!

Here is the original modeling use for hairspray (Whitewash weathering for WWII tanks):

http://www.network54.com/Forum/527528/message/1176229975/Whitewash

more weathering here:

http://www.chemicalall.com/paint/hairspray-technique.html

and the hairspray and salt technique here:

(from Grey_Death)

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/235327.page

Did some more airbrushing on the Shadowsword...

Great stuff , like your style and technique

neil101 wrote:Great stuff , like your style and technique

Thanks! - although the colour on the Tank looks a lot brighter than it should be - must be the flash.

Have to find time to scrub off the salt tonight...

Added an airbrushed wash to the tank and then took off the salt and scrubbed down the tank to show through the rust:

Need to add unit markings and stenciling - thinking of adding these to the turret area (on top and side of turret).

Any thoughts? Or recommendations of what would looks good (or correct) for the tanks' markings?

Thanks for any replies...

Any feedback? Going to do the markings tonight if I get time.

Put on the unit markings and making some progress...

I really love how this looks. Very freakin' nicely done IMO.

bunnygurl wrote:I really love how this looks. Very freakin' nicely done IMO.

Thanks very much!



For those interested, the unit markings and identification are all done with sponge stenciling - either masking an area off or taping on a cut out work (carefully done with a sharp hobby knife) and sponging on two layers of paint (bleached bone and white for white, mechrite red and blood red for the red).

Used this same method for doing yellow/black warning bit (will show when I next put a photo up).

Hopefully will finish tonight - need to do cables, complete the shrine and complete the weathering.

Impressive work...

Now finished the tank, and looks like I have a trade set up for it now!

(was looking to trade it for a new Baneblade + 1 other 40K unit)

Happy with how it came out.

Tasty.

Yggdrasil wrote:Impressive work...

bunnygurl wrote:Tasty.

Thanks guys - just need to paint over "CADIA" and put "KRIEG" on there for the person who has now bought it tonight and then the dull coat and gloss the lights...

Oh...

Was it a commission all along? I must've missed that part... Or be too amazed by the pics to read the lines

No not a commission, but decided to sell or trade as I have too much gaming stuff!

The guy who bought it plays krieg rather than Cadians, so will redo army name for him.

Have only read the last page but your techniques are great, love the rust and stencilling.

Keep up the good work Tim.

Thanks Blackhand.

Added the KRIEG sign to the side...

Nurgle pus letters nearly completed.

The white on the base is PVA to texture up the water. These need to have a little work done on the base, matt coated, more ink put on the water on the swamp base, flocked and then glossed over the water, tougue, eyes and sword.

Can you give us a tut for that tank weathering?

Imperial Monkey wrote:Can you give us a tut for that tank weathering?

Hi

The tank weathering is following salt+hairspray method - if you look at Grey Death's blog you can see the steps:

http://thepaintingcorps.blogspot.com/2009/04/friday-quick-tip-salt-hairspray.html

I pretty much followed that, but putting multiple layers of paint etc down first and then scrubbing it off. Used isopropyl alcohol to assist in parts and scrubbed it hard with a dish brush (harder to remove the paint because it is more cured and because there are multiple layers).

You need to be careful when it's fresh as it may come off quick.

Cheers

Tim

OK - to start with, I have begun cleaning up these guys:



Looking forward to trying some techniques with Space Marines - haven't painted any for a while.

And finally finished my Pus Letters - muted down the veins, glossed the water on the bases and added reeds and grass.

Next Nurgle thing upcoming is to finish the Plague Crusher and then looking to create a nurgling base with a nurgling with a full size dead marine as a puppet.

In this theme:



Here are the pics of the completed Pus Letters:

A prize of 5 Internets to anyone who can guess what I'm trying to do with these guys:



in working out how to paint my current edition Space Hulk termies.

Cheers

Tim

Tank looks great, I am really itching to fire up my airbrush on a vehicle for the first time, and this didnt help!!

Awesome job

Yeah, airbrushing tanks is a heap of fun!


Get to it, you can get some great results and I don't get tired of airbrushing (actually thinking of taking on some commission work on tanks after selling this one!)

Cheers

Hi

Tried out tank weathering techniques on terminators - and it didn't work out very well. Some of the results might be OK if you were doing Chaos, but the layers obscure some detail with some of the base colours (the chrome in particular) and otherwise it just didn't look very good. The black base looked best anyway I think

So - will probably look at just painting on any weathering effects or keeping them pristine. I have an AoBR set on the way now, a unit of assault marines and these termis to build up a BA little army.

This is why I used the test minis anyway! Can drop them in to get cleaned off again to reuse for test colouring.

edit - arghh - auto append! Stupid, as it puts the posted pics at the bottom. Oh well, the post was about this: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/351078.page#2517061

I've just seen your pus letters...amazing conversions!

Thanks - glad you liked the 'letters.

Started doing some work on the Space Hulk termies - and decided that I'll magnetise the bases.

My first one (sorry for the over exposure!)



Here's the tutorial I created on it:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/351078.page#2517061


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Finished up constructing Epidemus.

Putting it together wasn't too bad, just hope all the pins etc hold it together long term!

Got a lot of the base coating done on the figure now, and a little highlighting on the nurglings.

Next is to do a first pass of highlighting on everything, then wash all the different areas appropriately.

The idea if to paint Epi like a big very disturbing baby in a demonic high chair being carried out of the swamp...

A little more progress - got the skin tone looking good - Epi is just a big fun loving baby!

Does anyone think he should have visible veins like on the Pus Letters and Plague Bearers?





Enjoying painting him - he's a good figure!

Nearly finished Epidemus, just needs basing and stuff, but pretty much there.

Sorry for the crappy cell phone photo!




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Hi - a little more on it this morning and some better pics.

Might be taking my son to a GW store for game night tonight, so may bring along my Nurgle guys for their first battle other than against my son.

Epi completely finished now!

That is just nasty... Looks like he got drunk on creme-de-menthe!!!!

That is some nice paintwork though, especially the vomit and the hourglass I've got a feeling the water effects on the base look better in person though, kind of doesn't show up too well on the photos though

Started work on two new Nurgling bases - one will have a nurgling controlling a dead space marine marionette:



and the other will have some nurglings playing skip-rope:



Comments, questions etc welcome!

Awesome looking stuff. I really like the great unclean one. Excellent work.

I'm excited to see the marionette done. That will be fantastic, I can feel it.

Had an idea for another base - a Nurgling juggling 3 space marine helmets.

That should keep in line with the playful demonic tone I think.

Any thoughts or can anyone think on a fun nurgling base to model?
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Work in progress on the Plague Crusher:

That's nasty...but in a good way of course.

Thanks BG.

Happy with the 'letter overall, not sure if I'll make any more crushers though - I don't think in reflection that the design works particularly well.

Also, thought I'd paint it up red to tie back to the Khornate origins of the model - but don't think it goes well overall - should contrast with the letter more I think.

Oh well.

Done some more work on the Marrionette, when it dries I need to sculpt the hands and trim the tendons.

Nearly there!