I hate to say how long it took me to paint up that squad and you go and do it in a day... lovely work Damo as always. Give up the secret sauce to the webs I want it too.

NIce work on all the new stuff damo! Wow i LOVE those bases on the custodes, they are perfect ...I will never paint one of those things though, too much like final fantasy for my aesthetic. Is it fantasy? is it scifi?? Too baroque for me ill take landmates anyday, but!, youve done exactly what they need. Grimy, coppery, marble-y....stellar work there sir,

I feel my name was mentioned a number of times in your last post, I mean closely but still summon-able.

So your looking for some knightly heads, tabbards etc, I may be able to assist here. Got any specifics your after?

Looks great, save for that mess you did on the horns with the plastic glue,

Seriously now, awesome job. And in one day? How many of you are actually there?

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.Until my excitement crashes down to depressing levels as soon as I start trying to learn how to play them or even learn the rules again.

Last night I wanted to get more of a feel for the Eldar I'm starting, So I went researching and very quickly became overcome with the fact I didn't really understand the fine points and that i'd been there many times before and felt the same thing, I didn't know how to differentiate the weapons and had no idea what the statements on each were telling me, I didn't have the foggiest idea what a 2+3++ is and even how to attempt the equation? my mind fogged over when discussing modifiers and many other essential aspects of the squads and how to use them to your advantage, I read the blurb about the Wraithseer and how they can be great at HQ hunting and very strong, and then I started to read how and I felt stupid, frankly stupid for not understanding what was written, I've got the rules and have done every edition since 4th and I still look at the numbers and feel sick I can't see how they work. I know how I want them to work and I know the models strengths and weaknesses but that doesn't help me, I may as well be putting them on the table and making pew pew noises while I smack them together.

or is there a simple way I can help learn the fundamentals and enjoy both my Minotaurs army and continue with the Eldar?

This is what I do:

Ignore points and min/maxing.
Use Power levels instead and tell anyone who has an issue with it to go feth themselves with a rusty barge pole.

these two points lead to:

Buy and paint whatever you think looks coolest. If it's not "optimal", remind yourself you're playing (when you get to play) for fun and not to WAAC.

When you play, start simple. Use whichever missions you like, but use the "beginner" stratagems from the BRB. There's plenty in that alone to have a fun game without any extra stuff.Have small games for your first couple of "relearning" the rules. I did this with 2 squads +1 hero of Minotaurs vs 2 squads + 1 hero of Iron Warriors - then we swapped sides for the next game. Slowly expand from there. Add a second hero for each side and a dread, then another squad and a vehicle. Don't even worry about adding Psykers and Flyers and Chapter tactics until you're happy enough with the rest of it all.

If you have super-cool models you really want to use but they have complex rules, use them as counts-as other similar stuff for the time being - so use a Spartan as a Land Raider. Use the Wraithseer as a bog-standard Eldar Wraithlord for the time being.

Thanks so much guys, it's great to see a bit more movement on the blog as you may have noticed i'm struggling a bit mentally lately since work has been so busy and I feel i'm losing a bit of myself and my identity because i'm not on here as much with my blog and reading comments and generally just hanging with you guys

But I have to say the strength of your words has helped me no end! and I'll be here if it's once a week or once a month i'm not going anywhere

now, first things first, I am sure i've a rusty barge pole around in the shed somewhere?..........

and second thing the webs? it's UHU clear glue just put between my fingertips and pulled apart and back a few times until it starts to dry then wind it on where you want, it dries fairly durable, not amazingly hard but if you put it somewhere where it's not getting knocked around too much then you should be right

Knightly! I did indeed in part mention you three times while looking in a mirror at midnight eating an apple and drawing occult symbols on my scrotum! and boom here you are! my idea is for tabards for my Howling Griffon models i'll be doing, i'm in the collecting parts stage and want to add some Knightly bits to sit with the fluff i've read so far, So long tabards would be ideal for Termies and some troops like sarge's etc. I think a few swords and laurel heads would also suit? but i'm open to ideas

For us non-educated people, what's UHU glue?

Well nerdy, I can say that you probably don't miss us as much as we miss you when mundane life requires your attention. I find your work a constant source of inspiration and your friendship is far more important than that. Blogs wax and wane... that's just the natural order of things. Just remember we're here for you when you need us.

Those DG really suit your style, you leverage dry-brushing quite a bit usually yes? It works super well, you got a lot of volume out of everything! And you picked a really good tone of rust to complement with -

Good stuff dude!

Your work is so amazing!

And don't feel bad about having a hard time getting what everything in the game means. I've been in the hobby for 15 years and I can't even put together a competent force let alone have a game with anyone...that and I have no one to learn with and I feel too stupid going to meet strangers and hobby store to learn to play. Having said that I've never had a huge desire to play the game but if the opportunity should arise where someone would be willing to hold my hand and walk me through it all, I will accept. Otherwise I will forever continue the way I started; collecting and painting what I like.

Thanks again! I know i'm repeating myself but I mean it! I am so pleased your confidence in me hasn't waned with the sporadic nature recently here. Tom, thanks again from you any compliment is wonderful, your mastery of the palette is mind blowing (seriously!) and it may suprise you but I don't really use drybrushing on things hardly at all, I lay a base colour, wash then base colour and highlight up before bringing it all back down with washes and glazes then if needed I'll swing back in deftly and line highlight. :-) easy!

Someone else saw the Nurgle and now after his next project wants me to paint up a nurgle army like i've just done :-) so I guess i'm doing something right. I keep forgetting that my mantra from when I started was to find quick and easy ways to make a model look good that anybody can do! and I've always done that, i've never chased the Crystal brush, NMM pure artwork model style of painting, I want to evoke a feeling when you look at them, an instant story if you will that's eye catching and impressive but you still want to play with them :-)

lets see how I go with that mission statement on the Bloat Drones......


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Swap shop thread to my Mino's if anyone is keen?

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Thanks again! I know i'm repeating myself but I mean it! I am so pleased your confidence in me hasn't waned with the sporadic nature recently here. Tom, thanks again from you any compliment is wonderful, your mastery of the palette is mind blowing (seriously!) and it may suprise you but I don't really use drybrushing on things hardly at all, I lay a base colour, wash then base colour and highlight up before bringing it all back down with washes and glazes then if needed I'll swing back in deftly and line highlight. :-) easy!

Interesting, mind, when I say drybrush I don't mean the basic way, just kinda all over. I mean in 2-3 layers, strategically applied, with a very soft brush and high pigment grind paint. In fact, I would actually recommend you try it, in these steps - prime, basecoat green and wash as you are already doing, then drybrush, but targetting the same areas you are currently glazing (using modulation etc), soft brush, then final brush work detailing. I think you would be able to get a very similar result with a lot less time.

I used to think drybrushing was a sin for anything but the most basic painting, but a few pros have relieved me of my bias. I think it would fit your nurgle style because the end result is luminous and velvety at the same time, so you are getting a good contrast traverse but the final look is not shiny or meant to be shiny, and the parts that are appear more wet than inherently glossy. Could work!

Thank you for the very undeserved compliments too

@Tom: Good point on the scheming aspect of the hobby. Official GW sales training would call it "collecting" and it is one of the three hobby pillars along with playing and painting modelling. But really, a great deal of this hobby is staring at little dudes or pictures of little dudes and daydreaming. My "planning" phase goes on a very long time with a lot of projects.

@Nerdfest: I hear what you are saying(see what you typed). I get it. I think a big part of your problem with negativity on the playing aspect of the hobby is that you are on the rules blogs aspect of forums. That stuff seems to get toxic super fast-either toxic or just so mathy not fun garbage. For example, I am head over heels about Necromunda being re-released. I get on the internets to share with other "like-minded" people on YakTribe about it. They want to complain and be negative and ridiculous. I talk with IceAngel or play a game with him or the guys at Adepticon and it's a whole different animal.

I don't know what the gaming store scene is where you are at. Here is Indianapolis it is absurd. I think there are 5 game stores in 10 miles of my place. So, you be jealous of that, while I continue to screw up your techniques on my own models. One store just moved next to my favorite fried chicken place. There has to be someone to play with on that weird little island.

Playing the game and talking about playing the game are two different animals. Luckily, the game really seems to have gotten simpler in this edition. You'll suck at first, and, if you are like me, that sucking just won't end but at least you'll get the muscle memory for it.

I look forward to seeing Howling Griffons from you. That'll make my quartered marines look great...(rollingeyeorkface)

Moonpie, dude you are right on the money about a few things you mentioned the speed at which a simple question can turn into a clash of nerds is staggering! I asked a simple (well, I thought it simple) question about the best weapons to have on Wraithguard if I am against Nurgle or marines? the answer turns out is Ghost Axes. The follow on was a massive argument about magnets and the level of stupidity of those who don't take the '5 seconds' to magnetize models for any eventuality

as for gaming i've only one GW store on my crazy little island and it's only been here a year or two, so my majority of inspiration and excitement comes from online forums and white dwarf, like you I get a real buzz when I start thinking about a new release like Necromunda or Killteams and of course want to talk and continue to grow my excitement with others who may have more knowledge and help guide me and keep me from making modeling mistakes but so often dissuades me and gives me reason to not follow through on an idea so i'll keep asking my questions here

So I wanted to think while I painted the Bloat Drones about my mission statement and I can honestly say these three guys I did without any tricky techniques or special products at all, just a fine brush, a wash brush and a rough brush for some stippling. it's all about the washes and the build up of two to three highlight on each part and some nice fine scratches before the final wash and a nuln oil in the
recesses.

Gross and awesome! The green is particularly virulent.

The rust is a bit heavy I think. Might be worth hitting with a metal drybrush or hightlight to bring it back to looking like worn metal and not so orange.

Really awesome Custodes and Nurgly stuff, Nerdy! Glad to hear that you're back on track. We all have our moments and it's important to talk, because quite often those around us are thinking the same things.

Keep up the awesome work!

I have to agree with Whaley on the rust, on the back view of the drone the drum/cable just looks more orange than rust, Although the fronts are on point!

I disagree on the rust. I think you did it right. Yay arguing.

"5 seconds to magnetize". Sure thing. I'd buy that for a dollar.

 moonpie wrote:
I disagree on the rust. I think you did it right. Yay arguing.

I RESPECT YOUR OPINION AND POINT OF VIEW EVEN THOUGH IT IS DIFFERENT FROM MINE!

We'll bully for you, K. I was looking for a fight and imma have me a fight.
You're tastes differ from mine ergo you are bad. You are a bad person.
How bow dat?

But seriously rust is really very orange. I know because I see it on my car every day. Also my old boss at gw painted his rust very orange and he was an art school grad and a metallurgist.

Or I'm wrong and I see colors wrong. First time for everything:eyerollork:

Ah you guys, yep, the rust is bright and I would have actually toned it down if I had the models for a bit longer but Cam was coming to get them and I was still painting them so it was a rush tidy up and a photo shoot! I also would have liked to work on the backs of them more with red swollen flesh around the connections and a bit more shading and bruising added but sadly he needed them for a game that night

I also just obtained a suitcase, an old suitcase and in that suitcase is a heap of models and bits from about 20 years ago! so if there's any collectors out there who love a bit of metal hit me up and i'll see what's there! I have already spotted an old Yarrick and an original Ghaz and his little banner gretchin!

Bloaty is on point. But where is my drones nerd? Cam gwts them but not me... sad panda.

Metal? I put that in the furnace. I hope others care more.

 cormadepanda wrote:
Bloaty is on point. But where is my drones nerd? Cam gwts them but not me... sad panda.

Cam is why YOU can't have nice things, Panda!

The DG really do suit your style. Much inspiration for all of us. And those custodes are genuinely some of the best on the net.

the rotted over lens is an especially nice touch! I have no opinion about the rust, artistically speaking, but id imagine, fluff dictates that nurgle sh_t rusts to like a demonic level. Like crazy demon rust. so its all good!

Great stuff dude as usual

re: the rust - I think the color is perfect, it plays off the green flawlessly. However, I think you flooded a few zones, and there is a hard line between the rust and the metal. In those few areas, a quick drybrush with steel or tin bitz will blend it back in just on the edge. Very few areas to be concerned with though, really liking it.

If I could recommend to you (and everyone) Secret Weapon makes an absolutely sick set of rust and rubber acrylics (and many more besides). Those two sets are staples of pretty much everything I work on 40k wise at the moment, really great paints.

Hang about! I don't have them, why don't I have them. I would have popped over to get them.

Love them. They look brilliant. I think maybe the colours are accentuated by your photography. You always get such rich colours.

Oh and I love me old metal, especially Grots, they had proper Grots back in the day. Actually looking forward to seeing you do some of the old characters.

I have a little progress to show you on my Eldar I've just finished the main colours on the armour of both my Fire Dragons and Striking Scorpions they're bright, they're bold and they shall be fun fun fun when I have a small game my mate who i'm painting the nurgle for has got behind my learning curve and wants to take me from novice, to not novice but someone who still loses to him

and I also am painting another FW Ferrus Manus for a bloke in the south of the state who likes my work

Those eldar are literally on fire ! Cool work Damo !

I'm liking the eldar. It's like you are doing a gem technique on each armor plate. Should look pretty cool when done.

Looks like Ferris is going a different way then the one you did for me. Interested to see how he comes out.

Those Eldar are coming along very nicely! The almost impressionist styling to the armour really sells the alien, otherwordly feel and keeps the eye-catching contrast even with the monochromatic schemes. The Scorpions are the highlight, that softer green is super, but the whole lot together are going to be a beautiful and unique army!

And Ferrus just means more pics of your top-class metallic work, so hell yes!

Best of luck taking the steps back into gaming, having someone willing to help you out should make a world of difference.

They look great man. Congrats on the Ferrus commission too. Love the metal effect you use on him

The color on those Eldar is just radiant. Fantastic tones.

I felt like bringing a start to my Howling Griffons so what better place to start than my Captain, so I got some advice and built up a fine impression of a captain sporting a jump pack, a power sword and a plasma pistol standing regally on a rock as he should be.

I used a mix of bits, sternguard legs, a palantine blade, DC jump pack BA torso and while it may look a bit gak at the moment especially with a stand in bare head



I also started to build him in his revered Terminator armour, thinking of the name Howling Griffons and the knightly feel to the history of the chapter I used a spare Huron arm and trimmed the blades off and then filed the lion head and started the basic re sculpting of a beak to make it into a Griffon head yes I know it's a stellar idea

Yeah, that's the stuff, right there. That is an EPIC power claw! Perfect.

Excellent job so far Nerdy.

Genius shoulder pad idea.

Thanks dudes! I am myself pretty please with how the Termie version is shaping up, I think in the Chapter Scheme it will look really cool! that fist works so well and resembles a Griffon's Talon ( Huh!, aaaand there's it's name! lol) and hopefully I can sharpen the beak up a bit but it's a bit fiddly at the moment and I don't want to ruin it!

I ordered a left handed storm bolter off a DA command terminator to use with him so I'm pretty keen to get it and start painting him :-)

and on a random note, I had a discussion with my best mate about how many many many years ago ( about 20 to be exact) when we had a heated debate about Eldar and we were arguing about the shape of their helmets if it meant that they had heads like the Coneheads or if it was to secure their hair in a topknot :-)


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And I need guidance on the colour of the tabards, my original thought was black or bone, but i'm really considering a nice red as well? personally i'm between the red and bone?

Your reds are so good nerdy... hard to argue with them.

In regards to the Eldar question its all to do with the hair

I have just spent the last couple of days painting up Ferrus manus! and he's done, I tried a few different washes and even used brown paint as a wash in between layers to see what happened, turns out it works well and mutes the metals without making them flat. Still the final result is similar to the original one I painted up and recognisable as black iron armour

I still really like this FW model even if he's a bitch to assemble! he has a regal face and in my opinion looks exactly like he should!

He looks awesome, really like the hands. I have yet to get to Ferrus, but am definitely looking forward to having a go myself. Although all those small bits....

I love the color palette Nerdy. Brilliant!

I dont post much here but I look all the time, Ferrus is so so good Nerdy had to go back and forth over the model to see all those well painted bitz.

Great work on Manus, and the Eldar are looking very cool.

Manus looks fantastic! That’s a lot of metal, and yet you’ve kept it from looking monotonous. Love the muted purples as well, and as always you’ve painted the face so well!

Can't wait to see the Eldar finished up.

Thanks fellas, I finished the Mino's Deredeo this morning, not great pics but I just struggled to get the reds to show up correctly now just the assault guys to go!

Nailed it! Lovely work.

Very striking work nerdy. Reds are vibrant, metals very ancient looking. Nicely done.

Sweet baby cats, your scratched up metals + rich af red continue to amaze <3

- Salvage

Lovely. Well, terrifying...but you know what I mean. Specially like the red on the top plates

After spending the last hour admiring these stunning, jaw-dropping pieces of art, I can safely say this is the kind of stuff the belongs in a museum. the coating, detailing, weathering, shading, and all other parts of your art portray what a true mastery of the craft looks like. in other words: hot DAUM those look good.

Beautiful work.

What the hell am I meant to do? now postimage.org is having issues and I have once again find myself losing all my images and ruining another blog. I can't afford the ridiculous amount some ask per month to host them :-( I struggle with the more technical aspects on some sites and only wanted a basic upload and then copy paste onto Dakka.

I have only ever used Dakka itself, never had an issue, dead easy. But not sure about it for other sites. Hope someone can help you out here.

I don't understand why you don't use dakka's own gallery. It's never failed me.

Dakka's gallery is just too long winded to work quickly for me, if you could just upload and not have to go through the checking of boxes and sorting into galleries etc I would use it as all I'm after is a simple site to upload into one gallery then link to my blog.

I'm now going to have to re do my entire blog from scratch which will once again put people off and lose some who may miss it. yes I sound annoyed and I am, i'm already having trouble feeling like i'm giving Dakka what I believe it deserves and especially considering I use it as my special place where I always feel like i'm home among friends.


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Just trying another site.

To be honest, if you're just going to use the Dakka gallery to host images, you can skip a lot of that. Having stuff in its own gallery folder is nice, but if you're mainly looking for a place to dump pics so you can post them here (rather than actually caring about the votes or anything, which is something of an exercise in futility at times), you don't really need to worry about folders or disabling voting or ticking all the right boxes.

Heck, you can just upload directly to a post and Dakka will shove the pics into the gallery for you, though they can get a bit compressed if you do it that way (though clicking the image gives you the uncompressed version).

Yeah Damo... there's really very little you need to fill in each time.

And how much time does it cost you when you lose your full photo inventory??

How do you upload straight into a reply? i'll try Dakka gallery again next time and see how I go.

At the bottom of the reply window, there's an option to add attachments. Any pics you attach like that are automatically shoved into the gallery.

Well balls.....I saw I was a few pages behind and everything was boxed out! Friggin image sharing sites. Im with everyone else dude, use DAKKAs hosting. You can upload in batches and it takes very little time once you get used to the options on there. Infact it might be even easier now because I havnt uploaded a pic to my gallery in a LOOOOOOooong time.


Either way, dude, fix this !! I need paint porn bad!! Ive got the shakes over here

I agree. Can't check your paint at my work when you remote host!

When I upload, I just use the Upload more images thing in the gallery options. You can just select a bunch at a time from your folder. And I usually tick the box for Closely related at the bottom. Then I tick disable voting at the top once for all the images. All I have to pick for each image as I scroll down is the I created this box and process the lot. Really easy. Then once they are in the Gallery you can just copy and paste the links to your posts in the blog, but you can also link the images elsewhere like Facebook.

Anyways, be nice to see my fix of Nerdy goodness soon.

O.k guys I tried Dakka gallery this time for my finished Farseer not as bad as I remember but still a little awkward with multiple images due to having to open each image and select the linking code, where the other sites had the option on each image so I could keep track of where I was. but we'll talk about that later

My first HQ for the Eldar, my Farseer






and for something I haven't done in a while, I'm going to post some WIP on my Howling Griffon Captain, I wanted to show you how not perfect my work starts and how easy it is to pull together a really sweet job in a simple way, firstly i've assembled my Captain and primed him with The Army Painter Desert Yellow. then I have used Mechrite red to quarter his armour and base coated other colours like metal and robes etc.

Next I've just washed the entire model over all colours with Agrax earthshade.

so that's where he is at the moment and tomorrow I'll be doing the red and yellow armour so I thought i'd also show you what I use for each colour. For my reds I use these paints over a Mechrite red or scab red base washed with Agrax.

and yellow's are these paints over desert yellow washed with Agrax or you could use Iyanden or Tausept Ochre as a base.

Farseer is looking very neat! Lovely colour fades on the robe.

Looking forward to more Griffons, you always make that scheme look so damn crisp. Red and yellow are colours I use a fair bit, so it'll be interesting to see your methods.

Thanks Para, I've got the next step in the HG Captain i've now done the reds on him, tomorrow is yellow and then....... everything else so as you can see by the pics (they're all very similar but pics at night are a bitch to show you the red) sorry, as I was saying, as you can see that just doing the reds from such a basic start can already make the model stand out.

I'm really enjoying the format of how you're covering this HG cap. It's satisfying to trace your experience and gives a really cool insight into how you get the model done - so often the product of your work looks unattainable to the lesser trained painter. Any chance we can get a tease of the head/helm choice you'll be using?
This makes me really excited for the vanguard vets and JP cap I have in the pipeline. Just need those pesky bits to arrive

Nice job on the Farseer, great gems!

Boy I love the pruple to red transition in the cloak! Beautiful model Nerdy.

Farseer is great, those gems and spearhead, WOW!

Thanks guys, I do want to try and show everyone's able to paint a really nice tt model. to do the reds I used the colours noted above like this:

*Bloody red over 90% of the panels
*50/50 Bloody red/Hot orange from the top of panels to about 50% down
*pure Hot orange from the top about 30% down
*50/50 Hot Orange, Filthy Brown 15% down
*Pure Filthy Brown edge highlight
*Wash all over panels with Carroburg Crimson

if you've got the paints in front of you and a good clean paint water this doesn't take too long.

Now onto the yellow, I have done the yellows and tomorrow I'll run through how I did them. This model was a great choice as I made a bad choice with shoulder pad using the studded one which made painting the smooth transition really hard and thus you can see a few areas looking a little ordinary but that's the painting game eh! I told you i'm not amazing but love a good tt model, well here's proof

Either way he's looking good for what he is, it's suprising how dirty my bright colours can look on a marine like this!

And I do need advice with his head but we'll get to that in a minute.






Now the head, I found this head and I really want to use it as I think it gives him a really nice sense of dynamism and character as a Knightly leader but it doesn't sit great in the gorget so I'll have to gs a neck on him which might not look great? but I do like the wind swept hair and visage.




And lastly for today I went through my bits and whipped up a Terminator Sarge, thoughts? the shield where it's been filed will hopefully have the Griffon front on it from the flats i'm getting or if it deson't fit then i'll just add a large gem.

I really like the wind-swept hair, and think he looks great. More importantly, I can now get my Nerd-fix at work! Yay!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I really like the wind-swept hair, and think he looks great. More importantly, I can now get my Nerd-fix at work! Yay!

Shouldnt you be workin at work?

Your assault sarge captain guy looks great! And at the very first picture I thought "yeah!! I can paint like that too!!"
Then you showed it covered in wash and I thought "YEAH!! I can paint like that too!!!"

Then you showed a pile of different shades of paints and went on about shading and highlighting and possibly eatting muffins....I dunno my eyes glazed over and I realized I wanted a muffin....... Great stuff Damo!

Oooh Muffins! i'd love a muffin. and stop being a sook! get yer brush out and have a go dude! no point thinking you can't do it just do it and if I think you've nailed it then I'll send you a muffin in the post!

Windswept hair for the win . Looks like he’d been jet packing so long his hair stuck in place. Like bedhead

Actually, the setting of the head on the second option is much more realistic than the first. Think of how long that first head's neck must have to be in order to get his shoulders down in the armor. He's a human/giraffe hybrid!

The reds on that Farseer are just gorgeous...

Great job on the farseer.

Nice to see wip too. Good job.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Oooh Muffins! i'd love a muffin. and stop being a sook! get yer brush out and have a go dude! no point thinking you can't do it just do it and if I think you've nailed it then I'll send you a muffin in the post!

Pfff by the time I get a muffin itd be hard as a rock! But I agree, I know the rust on my brushing hand is my fault and Im sure I can do a decent enough job simply because Ive painted a couple things that I thought were pretty decent.




But dem muffins tho

I honestly feel the 'windswept' head is EXACTLY where it needs to be, in regards to placement and the gorget. No need to modify.

--B.

Really like (and appreciate) the work in progress shots. I like to see the development of the model as you work on it.

The blending from purple to red on the Farseers robes are really nice. I think the purple into red is a really nice choice.

Well, windswept hair it is then I'll certainly finish the head and see how it looks all done properly. I have put him on a temp hold due to breaking his sword and now I don't have one spare *sigh* so i've got to find a gladius or short sword to fit with his knightly theme.

I did work a fair bit on the Terminator versions base I wasn't sure what to do with him to rival the jump pack version on his Lion King rock but looking through my bits box I found a left over arm from the Artel Miniatures Cybork warboss and it looked like a broken arm by itself and I was hit with inspiration to bring a bit of their history into it since they are massive oath swearers and avenge any wrongs to them brutally and without preamble, I figured a bested foe is appropriate and since all the images I've seen or read of their home world of Mancora makes it a frozen tundra type planet with snow and ice so I wanted to have a grey/light brown rock and tiny suggestions of snow (not full Fenris). The arm by itself could have been simply laying on the ground but I didn't want it to dominate the base and be a focal point I wanted it to be more of a suprise addition that helps bring the model and his standing in the chapter out and tell a story. So I carved some of the main base away and I will be filling it with resin to look like a frozen lake!

so here's where I am with the base and the Captain, I also found a suitable shoulder pad for him.







And I also started mucking around with another base for a model.....

So i'm going to guess those that saw the base were wondering what could be going on it? well, I can now show you a bloody amazing model, something I really want to paint up and I think will also be a great fire magnet if he ever sees battle




Still need to work on the base details a bit more but the main basis for his stance is there

Big Eldar robot is always a win , better than tau every day of the week.

Also I love that Huron clawed arm, I’d buy dozens if they had made a mirrored one for the other arm.

Lovely Farseer Nerdy I especially like the shaded bone-white colour

Thanks guys, the dirty white was an accident as I was blending the white on from the top down and just liked the brown tinge towards the base so I went with it!

Is it just me or is Dakka a bit quiet lately? is there something going on or is just the ebb and flow of the world?

i'll do my best to continue to post stuff so today is pretty much a bit of wip on a few things, i've started the painting of my Wraithknight and am going to actually take this model slowly for myself so I can do a really good job on it, my plan is to blend my reds up to a really bright glowy red since I enjoy painting the reds so much and I want it to be a centerpiece fire magnet! so far just the two arms have been worked on, they just have the first red blended in and one arm has the first brighter mix applied.

first layer

second layer


next up is the basis for some deathshroud terminators for my friends Nurgle force, I've given them a rough base and dirty up and we'll see how I go with them I don't have a set plan for them at the moment but I can say the scythes are super delicate..........Yep I broke one, lucky it's Nurgle and I gs'd muck around it to keep it in place




Then I started the final silver on the Mino Ass squad to get them up and flying!



and finally today it's my big boy, the leader of my Howling Griffons force. I have done the two halves of his armour and it's looking sweet!

Hey bud, lovely lovely stuff. SUPER cool chapter as well, cannot wait to see this finished. TRULY, dont stress about those rules and all that ish, just get a good buddy to hang and play with and play practice games that illuminate rules. Shoot ive found the best way to learn new games is just ot have friends teach you, and visit the rule book later! Either way, youll soon be enjoying your models on the table top!. The eldar walker looks huge, cant wait to see what you do with this. ALL that lovely damo red is going be very very attractive at the end of the day! As per dakka being quiet....i dunno, ive always thought it to be a little quiet after my initial experience with it back in 2010/11. Alot of the guys very active in the blog seem to not be around as much. Or maybe its me. If youre not already, get on instagram! your models are going to reach alot more people there and since its mainly JUST photos, your whole feed, if you want it to be, will be all bad ass mini photos of your favorite painters. Its pretty inspiring. If you already are, add me. @beboppaints. Itll be good to see you "IRL" .

Cheers Boss
Bebop

It’s been slow here in DD land. Thankfully Damo brings the pics . The Red Eldar is so beautiful, and your Howling Griffons terminator is great.

Thanks Theo i've some more wip on that Eldar model for you to peruse mate! and a little on the Nurgle dudes. I got the reds done on the Eldar arms am i'm trying to decide how to paint the details and gun? shall I attempt to paint every gem as a gem? I think it'll look good but I'd have to watch how I shaded them all to match up with his pose?






and a little on the Nurgle guys, just did some green on the shoulders, washed the feet with Typhus and dirtied up the scythes, it makes a big difference t the overall look and some recess washes and highlights should get them near done.

I feel you on the quiet front Damo, sometimes it feels like i'm shouting into the void when I update my blog. I don't think it's true ultimately, though. My views, though I tend not to really track that on the blog, assuredly go up and a bunch of people are still in touch, so it's inspiring all the same!
The wraithknight looks killer. You've struck a really cool and simple pose on it too and your paintwork applies really well on a big scale as well as a small! Keep up the good work, you're putting out stuff real fast.

Dakka is always quiet on my page ! Perhaps it’s people are actually painting instead of looking at your painting ?

Anyhow , that elder robot thing is gonna be very impressive matey ! You have beautiful smooth colour transitions I’d struggle with, even with an airbrush !
Nice one matey ! Excellent !

 nerdfest09 wrote:
What the hell am I meant to do? now postimage.org is having issues and I have once again find myself losing all my images and ruining another blog. I can't afford the ridiculous amount some ask per month to host them :-( I struggle with the more technical aspects on some sites and only wanted a basic upload and then copy paste onto Dakka.

Use Imgur.

Or even Wordpress.

Thanks guys, i'm sure it's swings and roundabouts and to be honest it's not going to stop me posting when I can and I have something to show you guys! I try and jump in when I can on blogs I follow but sometimes (a lot) recently i'm pressed with time :-(

I am enjoying the Wraithknight though, he's going to look pretty impressive when he's done I hope, still not sure about how many gems to paint? he won't be done for a while though as i'm waiting on a bunch of work to land on my door to paint up! 3 different commissions :-)

I wouldn’t get bummed by a lack of responses. Like ldp said, lots of times people just want to look. I often don’t comment unless I have some sort of feedback.

That red is stunning !

Very inspiring Nurgle stuff. Sticky

nerdfest09 wrote:

nerdfest09 wrote:

Boom! Boss man really came together. Always sweet to see a collection of bits brought to life

- Salvage

I have no idea what you should do gem wise. I’d mess it up, so I remain quiet on that front.

Another reason for the quiet I feel I saw that at least here in the Midwest of the USA spring has just sprung and we had our first decent weekend in ages. I planted a tree yesterday and we did yard work. Lots of people I know got outside and enjoyed the spring weather and outdoors. Just a bit of perspective as you guys are probably entering fall in the land of drop bears and wrong directional swirling toilets .

Lovely work Nerdy.

Lol yes we are heading into autumn here so if you guys are having no snow for a change then I won't hold it against you for not being on Dakka i'd be doing that sort of stuff myself if I had the nice weather (not that it's 'bad' down here though)

Salvage thanks man, I love seeing the pics side by side even at that stage! seeing the idea and random pile of bits actually look like a model is really cool and he'll get some more love soon!

So here's some Nurgle finished, a pretty TT job wanted them dirty and old looking and done fast so here they are, even if one has lost a hand for the moment








would be an interesting scheme to actually take my time with and see what it looks like!

Look great Nerdy, especially for a quick job.

Lovely work on the Eldar bits, and the nurgle chaps.

I don't think every bump has to be a gem on the Eldar. Sometimes it can look a bit too much for every one to be gems.
Maybe start with the few that definitely have to be gems (in your mind), one in each cluster or section of armour, and see how it looks, do a few more until you reach a point where more would be too much... Or search online to see examples of each extreme to decide where you want to fall.

DDakka does have quite a variation in "active" traffic. I've yet to spot a foolproof pattern in any time range, and I have tried to experiment with posting at different times of different days.
I've resigned myself to broadcasting whenever I'm ready and eventually getting replies whenever they occur.

Some amazing progress recently. The Wraith Knight is shaping really well. Can't wait to see the finished result.

The Nurgle Terminators are really unique. They may have been fast, but they certainly look eye catching.

I will second the Doc, if the bubble looks right as a gem, do it, but I wouldn't feel compelled to do them all , in fact it might look overdone if you do.

Try an hour or so on the tinter web, it might show some options.

Holy hell that shading, do you use like... a single fly hair to paint that stuff? Dang dude.

Wow, love that super shiny yellow on the Howling Griffon guy!

Gorgeous brush work as ever - the red transitions on the big Eldar dude is particularly impressive.
Don't worry about lack of comments, personally I've struggled to leave lots of comments recently - I'm perusing DD most days, but just struggle to put actual words down at times... On my own threads, I tend to watch the 'views' more then comments to check if there's interest in what I'm doing...

I'll also add in to the picture question - my preferred is the DD gallery, although for other images I now use imgur, seems to be a pretty stable, reliable host, plus it's still free...

Anyway, just keep posting and your readers will appreciate your work, even they don't always say as much

Churning out some lovely stuff here Nerdy

The nurgle dudes are fantastic for a quick job, but what did I expect

Eldar stuff all looks spot on...I'll weigh in with the others and say not all are gems, so a few see how it looks.


Love that HG leader guy.

I have some finished and some WIP today I finished a trio of Wraithlords for a local guy, he wanted a nice clean bone scheme to do over a whole heap of models I also have some work in progress on the Wraithknight arms, a different take on Garro and a bit of robe work on the HG Captain


I'll start with the finished stuff first, Wraithlords! Zhandri dust primer with reikland fleshshade around nodes and in recesses then highlighted with Ushabti Bone, the dark colour is black mixed with silver.





What else has been languishing on my desk? my Wraithknight arms, I decided to go all out on the gems and paint all of them and also started the Suncannon, taking a slightly different approach I feel i've taken a more mature approach to this model and i've held myself back and taken a little more time to get it right. wanting the focal point of the model to be the centre I painted the base of the cannon barrel blended into the brightest instead of the normal look of the muzzle to keep your eye in the right spot when his arms are on.



and the gems.



I also was asked to paint a model of Nathaniel Garro but the client wanted a purple and glowing scheme with crimson and greens worked in as well as done in nmm and this he tells me after I'd already started the normal scheme *sigh* especially since i've not painted nmm before and don't use an airbrush I thought i'd have a go at just doing a high contrast armour and it looks pretty good so far.



and lastly my Howling Griffons Captain, i've been working on his robes today. still a heap to do but he's a nice model and looks sweeeeet!

Cracking stuff, the WL are superb and the big guy is coming together nicely as well!

Cracking indeed. That suncannon is to die (or be killed) for! From the earliest stages of your blogs I loved your gem work and its characteristically incredible here. Very well done indeed.

All stunning,especially without airbrush! I think the red wraith Knight is gonna be something special

Nerdy! Really outstanding stuff, as always. I love how you've painted the Wraithlords, looks really easy and effective. The Saim-han Wrathknight is gorgeous so far. The nmm Garro looks great in my opinion, and the HG Captain is excellent!

Your skill makes me weep with joy nerdy... just lovely.

Wraithy goodness!

Great job all round.

Yeah, like your idea with the gun. Very swish.

Wonderful work Nerdy on all of it, don’t always drop a line here but I’m always checking out your work.

Your current work is absolutely stunning. It has reached that level where it is both beautiful to look at and inspiring me to not try to cut so many corners. The Wraithknigjt arms are some of the most exceptional work I have seen.

The idea of the "reversed" colours on the cannon are inspired.

Thanks Archer, I'm not really doing anything different but like you mentioned i'm not cutting corners so i'm guessing the effect is stronger and therefore more impressive? i'm having a lot of fun with the Wraithknight but i'm still a bit unsure about how to add any metallic colours on him as i've always thought wraithbone wasn't a shiny product? yet gold or silver chasing is a common look? what do you think?

Howling Griffons look so nice, always enjoyed their color scheme. Good pick.

I always loved the look, took me a few years to 1) learn how to paint red 2) learn how to paint yellow and 3) get decent enough to tackle the quartered scheme! :-) The thought of them as another heraldic chapter akin to the templars is appealing and they do look wickedly cool!

Traditionally, Wraithbone is an organic 'grown' material, yes. But there's plenty of examples of 'shiny metallic' in nature, think bug carapaces, butterfly wings, etc. etc.

You're all good.

--B.

I'm really happy with this guy, my purple version of Nathaniel Garro! I had to work with a guy who wanted a level i'm not used to painting and his examples were all models airbrushed so I had to really push myself to not give up and at least have a go! I think he got a model a much higher level than what I was compensated for, but that's the job eh!

The purple armour was just going to be a nice high contrast armour but ended up being kind of my first go at nmm? not sure how correct it is but hey it looks cool! and the glow from the sword was meant to be subtle but I think I got that right as well? his face sadly gave me issues, there was a tiny miscast on his lip/nose which as you can imagine made for a big issue from such a small problem, the slightest bump or blemish and you can really see it at that scale, but again I feel I've done the best I can with what was there (and this was legit FW)

overall I like the look of the more gritty realistic base style with the polished and clean Garro, it's a nice mash up.

Sublime work! A very unusual take on the model but it really works. The armour is also amazing for a first try at NMM (many people think NMM is only ever the supershiny black-to-white, but this is a great example of a more subdued but still effective approach) and that sword glow is nice and subtle, definitely not overblown.

Most impressive is that you've managed to implement these new techniques while still leaving the hallmark of your unique style very obvious. A triumph, the client should be overjoyed!

Looks like you went Primarch level on him, which is cool since he is a FW character series dude. I really like the model, you will prob get another crack at him some day, but in his black color scheme.

Very nice work nerdy. Model to be proud of.

Thanks guys, he was one of those models where I thought i'd be able to do him fairly fast in his normal scheme but soon realised once i'd started that I had to do a very different job and I got a bit nervous as I went along as he kept wanting to change things and I thought he was expecting a much higher level than what I can do. I really appreciate your comments Para, and knowing how well you yourself paint it certainly eased my mind to read!

Most of the people who have had you paint have either been really open to whatever, like me, or very up front on what they are looking for, like RiTides. But not everyone is like that. It is important that when you take a job that both you and the person you are painting for have a full understanding of what is expected from the get go. If either person feels slighted, then it is hard for you to have repeat customers, which is really the bread and butter of the gig.

Looks stunning! I absolutely love the glow on the rocks

Amazing piece. Be proud of your work.

I think of you as one of the guys at the very top of the game, then you go and raise the bloody bar again, stunning work.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
...but hey it looks cool! ...

and that's what counts for things like this.
Good job, nerdy.

G'day dudes! long time no see sorry i've been lax lately on Dakka stuff, I have been working on some models, mainly groundhog day Eldar Wraithguard and my little palette cleanser a Howling Griffons Contemptor, so I finally have some time to show you a few wip photos just so you know i'm still around

15 Wraithguard that just need the bases done now, so many edges, so many gems.




and now my Contemptor! I nearly gave up on him as the cast was not great in spots and it made me pretty lackluster but I think i've got him to a point where he's passable and the paint will hopefully be the main thing you see? I had to do a fair bit of work on his yellow leg which is why it's back to front to hide any bits I didn't clean up right I still think he's looking impressive as a larger model to go in my force, i'm really loving how they look but still need to find some tabards for terminators if anyone knows where I can score some?





hope you like

Looks like his hood is kinda messed up. I think the wax part of the purity seals could use a bright spot color. Green maybe?

I think you did an admirable job with him Nerdy.

Thanks fellas, the hood has been shaved a bit and haven't started that yet, so hopefully it'll look better when it's done.

you don't think green lenses will look odd with green wax? I was going to stick with my purple?

I like green lens/purple wax. The purple is good against the yellow. Maybe do green wax when it's against the red side?

I really like the Wraithguard, nerdfest, and the Contemptor is superb. Garro turned out really well, too - excellent work!

 nerdfest09 wrote:


you don't think green lenses will look odd with green wax? I was going to stick with my purple?

I think with a multicolored scheme you need to be careful with spot colors or it will be to much. Reusing green in both spots will strengthen eachother.

Eldar are looking beautiful, and the big guy is coming on nicely.

 whalemusic360 wrote:

 nerdfest09 wrote:


you don't think green lenses will look odd with green wax? I was going to stick with my purple?

I think with a multicolored scheme you need to be careful with spot colors or it will be to much. Reusing green in both spots will strengthen eachother.

Although, maybe use a different green for each to differentiate them if you are worried about them looking too similar.

Hey everyone, my apologies for my lack of ....well,......anything lately! I have been working on models, but just haven't felt them worthy of large updates, i've done the 15 Wraithguard and 6 farseers plus i'm working on 6 custodes jetbikes and 2 redemptors and a couple of squads of Primaris marines and aggressors but they aren't top notch work but still very cool and I just didn't think you guys would like them being tt quality? plus dealing with a lot of actual worky work and a few bouts of crippling depression i've felt very out of the loop so fingers crossed i'll have some stuff soon to show you and get back into the land of Dakka!

hope you guys are all doing well! and i'll catch you soon

Hi nerdfest! It's always awesome when you post stuff, so whenever you feel up to it! Take care, and we'll see you soon!

You don't have to save just the gems for us. TT, WIP, doggos, whatever man. Unless its that dumb Honda, then we don't wanna see it.

What he said...

Yeah, but your "tabletop quality" is still extremely pleasing to the eye, dude.

I like seeing wip photos from anyone, it's always interesting to see the process from bits to completed model.

Post something up Nerdy and I might even start painting again !

WIP is where it’s at! Post away i reckon

Well if it's WIP you want then I suppose I can help with that also a few finished TT models.

lets see what i've been keeping from you.........

15 finished Wraithguard, only bases to finish when all the models are finished.




some bases and wip on two Redemptors







And a few HQ choices for the Eldar to go along with the Wraithguard!






A bunch of Primaris marines it almost hurt to paint them





and assembled a few of these.................


So that's what i've been working on

So much pretty it hurts my brain. Well worth waiting for. The eldar champion with wings is Def my favourite.

Mate, it all looks great. Especially those redemptor bases. How do you find the model itself?

That’s what we’re talking about, nerdfest! Really nice to see how it all comes together...

Yes, the Redemptor bases are nothing short of fantastic! Also, those Eldar are looking snazzy! (I love the glowing hands of the Farseer.)

Why do the Primaris Mehrens hurt to paint? I know that you’re joking, but I’ve gotten to the stage where regular Tactical Marines look goofy in comparison. Perhaps Gdubs will do a Deathwatch style revamp? But then there’s the case of how are ten super humans supposed to fit inside a teeny-tiny metal bawks... okay, I’ll stop now

Edit: or is it that there’s so much edge highlighting required?

inmygravenimage wrote:So much pretty it hurts my brain. Well worth waiting for. The eldar champion with wings is Def my favourite.

Thanks dude, I like how the farseers turned out too, I was a little unsure when I started with the style of them but it pulled together and for a TT look it's nice!

San76 wrote:Mate, it all looks great. Especially those redemptor bases. How do you find the model itself?

Cheers San, I quite liked the Redemptors, very imposing, a little skinny in the legs for my taste but i'll save my final appraisal until i've finished painting them

Cosmic wrote:That’s what we’re talking about, nerdfest! Really nice to see how it all comes together...

Yes, the Redemptor bases are nothing short of fantastic! Also, those Eldar are looking snazzy! (I love the glowing hands of the Farseer.)

Why do the Primaris Mehrens hurt to paint? I know that you’re joking, but I’ve gotten to the stage where regular Tactical Marines look goofy in comparison. Perhaps Gdubs will do a Deathwatch style revamp? But then there’s the case of how are ten super humans supposed to fit inside a teeny-tiny metal bawks... okay, I’ll stop now

Edit: or is it that there’s so much edge highlighting required?

Thanks Cosmic, I just don't like the whole point and aesthetic of the Primaris and of course that's purely a personal thing. I can't agree with the movement of the timeline using them the way they have and having them taking over all promotion and pictures in White Dwarf and online and I find the Agressors armour and reavers very 80's cartoon.

Great looking stuff!

Do you air brush, or just brush brush?

I hear you nerdfest, the Primaris lore is a bit on the nose to me as well. I do like the proportions and sense of movement in the regular (non skeletor) models though. /conflicted.

Thanks for your thoughts, nerdfest. I also agree that the lore is a little forced in some ways. Still, I reckon the models more than make up for that.

Perhaps when (or if) Lion el'Jonson returns, we will see a resurgence of our regular and good ol' Marines.

I read something (on reddit/40klore) where someone mused with idea that Guilliman was not one of The Emperor's favourite sons (despite him being arguably the most successful) because Roboute wanted the Space Marines to be more than just a weapon or tool.

I think we all know that The Big E intended to put aside The Legions once their work was done, but Guilliman thought that the Adeptus Astartes should go on to serve a higher purpose in society when the time came.

Not necessarily a good thing, one could argue.

Surely, The Emperor intended for humans to eventually become a psychic race, heirs to the stars and successors to the Eldar, but we all know how that went!

Those Eldar are awesome, especially the Autarch and Farseer!

Here we go again! finally some finished models

The final shots of the Primaris marines and the Redemptors all finished up! and a little one for Whaley, the Mino assault squad also finished (although I did forget to wash the bases before the pics )

While i'm not an advocate for Primaris I do indeed like how these guys look at a really neat tt level, very cohesive and appealing for a game.

Next i've got 15 Shadow Spectres to paint and 6 Custodes Jetbikes so much awesome right there!













And Whaleys Mino's

I'm always so rushed when I stop in here! Glad to see all the pretty painting, Damo! Everything looks ace as usual. Currently loving the army colors on those Eldar. Hope all is well!

Smashing work all round.

You've done well to stomach the primaris marines Damo, and at such a high standard to boot! Nice work as ever, keep on keeping on my friend! All your posts are eagerly anticipated

I like the Green plasma, nice variation that pops well.

Nice work on the marines nerdy. You've got them nailed. Im sure WM is going to love seeing those down on the table.

Genuinely run out of superlatives. ........

Been working on these 6 Custodes Jetbikes today, so far base coated and washed with the first gold highlights on all of them and a little further on 2 at this stage




the couple with a little more highlights.



and the bases for them I also managed to start and they look bloody good so far!



and a slow burn project that may or may not get it's own thread one day but I had an urge to paint a Blood Angels Horus Heresy squad! so I started building them from bits I forgot I had in the box!

Nice progress on the bikes Nerdy. Have 3 of those to do myself that I'm tossing ideas around on.

Great stuff, as always.

Does anyone know if nerdfest09 uses an airbrush, or is it all 'traditional' brushes?

He doesn’t have an airbrush.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
He doesn’t have an airbrush.

It’s all in the Kangaroo bristle brushes he hand makes. It’s difficult and dangerous always looking out for drop bears, but you see the result.

 Theophony wrote:

He doesn’t have an airbrush.

It’s all in the Kangaroo bristle brushes he hand makes. It’s difficult and dangerous always looking out for drop bears, but you see the result.

I can believe it!

And he's an inspiration to all of us non-airbrushers out there!

Superb job on the Primaris, nerfest! The Custodes are certainly coming along...

 Theophony wrote:

 whalemusic360 wrote:
He doesn’t have an airbrush.

It’s all in the Kangaroo bristle brushes he hand makes. It’s difficult and dangerous always looking out for drop bears, but you see the result.

So that's the secret to his powers!

 Cosmic wrote:
Superb job on the Primaris, nerfest! The Custodes are certainly coming along...

 Theophony wrote:

 whalemusic360 wrote:
He doesn’t have an airbrush.

It’s all in the Kangaroo bristle brushes he hand makes. It’s difficult and dangerous always looking out for drop bears, but you see the result.

So that's the secret to his powers!

That and he is a master Yogi, even sleeping on a bed of Echidnas.

I understand his prices are reasonable too as he has made his fortune racing thouroughbred Dingoes in his pants on wagers .

Lots of great stuff on this page. That little Ultramarines army is great (even if it is made of Primaris ) and the highlighted gold on those jetbikes is lovely.

The gold on those bikes is just gorgeous Damo !

Lol thanks guys! that's just what I needed lately a good old dose of Dakka love and absurdity! I don't have Kangaroo bristle brushes but I do store them in a wallaby's pouch so i've always got them at hand the brushes are made from Platypus undercoat, it's delightfully soft and pliable i'm not worried about drop bears the Dingoes sort them out mate!

as for airbrushing, Whaley got it right, I don't use an airbrush at all, I did have one but it just doesn't appeal to me and I prefer the look of painted models. The closest I get is using cans of primer

I am loving the bikes for the Custodes too, they are coming along so well but the updates will have to wait until they're done!

^ Is there anything more Australian than this post?

Always good eye-candy checking your work out Nerdy!

I just started my first Primaris Marine up to paint. Good to know what the level I won't achieve looks like, Nerd!

Cheers!

I dont know how i missed this blog brother! Well done

Cheers guys, glad I can raise some form of emotion in you Moonpie! remember the classic line from Waterboy? "You can do EEEET" have a crack mate and show us!

and I had a crack at those Custodes and finished them off today! there's a few little 'painterly' things I would have liked to spend more time on but then i'd drive myself mad trying to do things that wouldn't matter most importantly they look frickin' sweet as a squad and really frickin' cool! I love painting gold so much! and red! and these guys have gold and red!!!! OMG!!!!

I hope Moods who I painted them for likes them and trusts me soon to do those 3 Custodes Dreadnoughts I know he's got hiding away

Sorry, not sorry for so many pics too!

You are a terrifying paint machine. Most impressive.

Yeah, those really are something special. A real masterclass in simple-yet-effective schemes.

If I were to be incredibly nitpicky, I might suggest the power lances could do with just a bit more brightness right at the edge/tip, but that's possibly just the overall muted tones making them look a little dimmer than they are.

If I were to be nitpicky, that is. Because I'm not, because those are simply awesome!

Really nice nerdy. Lovely paint on impressive models is a good combination.

Those are lovely, great job

As much as I dig on your beat to hell looking metallics you can produce, it certainly is a neat departure to see a "pristine" look on these Custodes. Well done.

I do appreciate the encouragement. I've been pumping out my own stuff. I'm with you on the trying not to drive myself mad bit. I've just been checking to see I didn't miss a part, making it pretty alright and moving on to the next on to the next.

Also, your reds tho...

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I'm not trying to clog up your feed with my business, but you inspired me to paint one of those behemoths:

Not too great, but it'll be the nicest one in the store display.

Very nice work Moonpie!

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Amazing paint work on those Custodes, Nerd. Youve certainly got that gold technique down!. I'll be painting up some Tzaangors soon, and I hope I can get the gold bits on their armor looking half as good.

I checked out your painting contest, interesting topic. I cant unsee the the photo offered for 3rd place though!

Keep up the great work!

Lovely golds you have going there.

Will see if I can get something dome for the Nerdcademy.

Well this should let you know i'm well and truly alive and still kicking! lots of wip to show you on a bunch of really cool stuff.

I'll start with my own Howling Griffons, first up is my renovated Chapter Master, I've used the Termie Chaplain and removed his skull helmet, used the original arms I had planned (they're just tacked on) a nice book to top him off from a Libby and gave him a couple of Griffon bodyguards, i'd love to have them be part of the game so i'm not sure if they should be two extra attacks or two wounds?


Next a bit of prime time priming action! got my vehicles primed and ready to go! you'll notice on the close up that i've added liquid mask under the paint layer so I can have a nicely weathered army of battle hardened Howling Griffon tanks





got a little further on one of the tanks, a juicy little Predator!


and i've started playing around with the cannon and dozer blade for my Vindicator, I wanted to HG them up a bit so converted the demolisher cannon to have the Griffon head on it, it looks good and Griffony





assembled my captain and command squad! and started on the new torso for my Contemptor as well as re basing him with his legs ready for project Space Mortalis.





Got inspired to have a crack at some terrain so I grabbed a container i'd done previously and some Mantic barrels and left over decals and went to work! how do they look?




Got given a few Nurgle guys so I thought i'd try my hand at a Nerdfest style fast paintjob! my sort of plan is to slowly build and paint up enough to give to my dad to try and convince him to join us in a few games.



Got given a heap of GW bases and am going to use them on my HG's so I have clipped and primed them all ready for weathering the hell out of them! they should look great on the CUSTOM 3D PRINTED SPACE HULK/ZONE MORTALIS BOARD IM HAVING DONE!





and last little project is Whalemusic's Space Hulk Termies done as a lovely little Lamenters force! I think they're going to look awesome yellow!

Nice work. Highlights for.me.wre the Plastcraft container and the weathering on the dozer blade. Really atmospheric feeling to both.

Plenty going on there nerdy

That griffon demolisher is looking pretty cool in particular.

I love me a good captain and command squad! Good to see you back buddy. Tanks are looking fab - that vindicator cannon is AWESOME! Eager to see more updates.

Thanks guys, it's been a tough slog finding time and energy to update with a lot going on, but I feel very Zen finally showing you a bit of progress! :-) I'll probably move on the vehicles first so the liquid mask isn't sitting on them for weeks. The ZM/SH board I'll have a bit of a play around with and see what you think! any ideas where I can score a stencil for numbers from?

Nice work damo! That tank dozer looks awesome, and the weathering on both it and the terrain pieces are top notch. Excited to see the final tank!!

Cracking work on all fronts, Nerdy. Glad to see you're still going strong. Love your howling griffons .

 nerdfest09 wrote:
I've used the Termie Chaplain and removed his skull helmet,

You kept the skullmet, yes? Because destroying or throwing that particular skullmet would be heresy of the highest order, you know!

Looking good! Did someone who is into necromunda hook you up with the bases?

That vindicator is going to be glorious...

Damo you crazy fool !
Just when I think you can't get better you blow us out the water with a million bits of awesome !

Really looking forward to how you go about the Mortalis scenary !

Thanks dudes! I got the bases from the guy I did the Eldar for, he spends ridiculous money because he power games and just gave me all the bases he had left over. Score for Damo!

And i'm sad to say the Skull helmet went bye bye! as it was sculpted in position I had to dremel the head out, I know it's a shame but duty calls. I need my barre head fix!

That's a fantastic update Damo. Very excited to see where those terminators go and that Nurgle marine is captivating. I think you got the tones of the yellows, browns and metallics just right.

Love what you did with the metal griffon head. The metallic sheen on it is beautiful. Looks like polished chrome.

Good work on all the various things.
Dozer blade, terrain bits and Nurgle chap stand out.

WIP on my first HG tank hell yeah it's looking good, I wanted a weathered battle worn style with cleaner top half. I really enjoy reds and yellows when they come together and I think it looks striking done in the HG scheme, the whole army shall be getting this treatment







Started laying down paint on the new Chapter master!


I also got work on my test tile for Zone Hulk, I need some input with the wall sections, I've painted them green and washed with Agrax, but I'm trying to work out the best way to paint the details like the alcoves and details? it needs to be fairly fast to do and still look freakin' nuts. I don't want to go too decrepit but i'm keen to see any ideas people can pull up for me!

Fast painting for the wall details would be washes & a little dry brushing IMHO but you could go several ways. The SH figures look interesting, I will be watching those progress as I am a SH fan. The Chapter Master already looks really impressive as does the blade. The chipping/rust is truly excellent but it's easy to forget about the perfect subtle yellow & red gradient changes because the rust demands your attention at first. Can I also ask what shade of gold name/brand you used for the jetbikes? It looks great.

All those bases for free...I hate you:-)

Mmm, those lines on the predator are exceedingly crisp. Do you use painters tape?
What shouty head have you got lined up for your chapter master?

What details are you referring to on the ZM walls?
If it's the white spaces, then i'd be hitting them with a black wash to try and make them look like glass.

Thanks fella's the HG Master I think will be getting a non shouty head! (shock horror!!) I think as a chapter they are more reserved and the stoic professionalism that they just get in and get the job done with the eyes of the Emperor on them, so I think a nice clenched jaw or sneer like head will be the go! :-)

And my gold, it's primed brown then over brushed with the army painter Greedy Gold and washed with Agrax. the gold is then re applied, next I mix in a small bit of silver into the gold and start highlighting, then a tiny bit more silver added for more highlights and finally pure silver on the edges and then washed with sepia.


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Oh and yes, the window parts are what i'm talking about and the two bits I painted on one section just under the windows? does that look o.k as a base? not too basic? there will be some wall sections that have open window parts in them that I'll be adding stained glass in and some flat walls I plan on adding murals too.

I just want to make sure it looks good for the entire board, it'll be a 6x4 interior so lots to do!

Nerd, your painting skills are amazing. Great work all around! Looking forward to seeing more of your Howling Griffons and the ZM board as well.

Beautiful work on the tank damo. That's the best wall set I've seen as well. Nice.

Wow man, you've been putting out gorgeous work. That predator is looking very nice indeed, and I'm a big fan of those purple spear tips on the Custodeseseses.

This blog is always a pleasure.

Custodes are an inspiration, along with everything else really.

To be honest we probably all take a lot of inspiration from the material that you post here

Thanks

I've been telling Damo that we like seeing the WIP stuff up on here as much as the finished products. Glad everyone seems to be backing that!

 whalemusic360 wrote:
I've been telling Damo that we like seeing the WIP stuff up on here as much as the finished products. Glad everyone seems to be backing that!

Certainly do ! Without WIP shots how would we copy it ???

Lol, well here's some WIP a few things again, some more on the HG tank, some good progress on the SH Termies and a finished (I think) tile for the Space Mortalis board

Pred action, guns on and a little tidy up and some lenses,



And some Lamenters Terminators for space hulk! popped them on the Necro bases and they look pretty damn snazzy!







My first tile done, I wanted it to look good and thematic but not too hard or time consuming since it'll be a 6x4 table!





I also painted up some 3d printed terrain for my games! they came out really good I think! and look sweet in the setting.

Lovely work all around.

Think I would go with a metallic. Go all titanium, gold, drybrush silver, purple wash done.

A little more time consuming but what about some nice Blanchesque brown images printed up and cut in to make it look like frescos.

Speed paint it marble maybe? Probably not the best option, but I can do marble fairly quick so I am bias.

All your work is looking fantastic as always sir. Only come here to drool.

Great work Damo, now paint up some Necromunda Orlocks as Guard allies for them.

Cheers guys, I was thinking of printing some murals and gluing them on to other sections as there are other sections with flat walls so you read my mind! :-) i'm also getting some sections with hollow window sections i'm adding stained glass to! I'll maybe add some more stains and wear and tear as I go along creating areas for play, but you'll all be part of that when I get to it :-)

as for Cawdor..... well, I had a real urge to get the models and the puppetswar Clown heads and making some very creepy filthy depraved underhive gang!?

Woof. Loads of nice stuff here Nerdy!

So good it's kinda hard to figure out what to say.

I'm wondering though if you shouldn't paint the cowls on the heavy bolters to match the rest of the tank rather than leaving them silver.

Snazzy predator, Nerdy. I don't know how you managed to paint to of the hardest colours so damn well, but you do it in style.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I'm wondering though if you shouldn't paint the cowls on the heavy bolters to match the rest of the tank rather than leaving them silver.

I was wondering this myself, Gits. But I'm liking the silver more and more the more I look at it. Kind of makes a nice almost anti-colour splash.

Nerdy, really loving the WIP pics. The Howling Griffons are beautiful, and the Space Hulk Termies are gorgeous. The terrain is really nice too, keep up the incredible work!

Dear god almighty that tank is jaw dropping! Well done brother well done. Your shading work is just fantastic. *Looks at own tanks* I'm gonna go cry in shame now

Great work all over nerdy

Definitely continue with the WIP shots....but one tiny request....could you make them look more like WIP and not better than my finished work??

Finally finished up a sweet little Space Hulk batch of Termies for Whaley! I'm loving the yellow on them it really suits them perfectly I think. I do need to paint the base rims as I noticed as I uploaded them don't stress they'll be done! these guys are meant to represent Lamenters Space marines so on some i've added the black and white checks you see on them in the fluff, I think I did o.k as that kind of painting isn't my greatest asset

anyway enough jibba jabba lets have a look at 'em!















and there we have it! I'll be fiddly farting around with my Howling Griffons until another commission lands on my doorstep!

Yup, those are purty!

Yellow is not an easy colour to master, these are truly excellent.

Thanks for the gold info too, much appreciated.

That is a lovely yellow indeed!

You, sir, are a true master.

Excellent!

Terrain bits are looking nice.

And the hulk-smasher's are lovely.

Any chance for a yellow step by step?

I've got some Marines Malevolent in my somewhat near future, and would love some advice!

Just lovely!

Fantastic yellow work there Nerdy. You've hit these out of the park, as per usual. Those nercomunda bases really suit the space hulk theme.

Thanks dudes! i'm pretty pleased you like them, I could have spent many many more hours doing all the details but I think the balance of good looking armour and other details is good for an attractive bunch of miniatures you won't mind playing with and they'll still look rather fetching in any environment

I might do a yellow step by step if you really want? it's not that hard once you get your method down my choice of colours is a little different than some but i'll see how I go since I have to paint literally half (and only half) of my Howling Griffons yellow i'll get a chance no doubt

and that (I think) is all my commission work up to date now and i've only got my HG's to focus on and I have also seen some teaser pics from my mate who is 3d printing me my Space Mortalis board and my oh my does it look completely frickin epic!

 nerdfest09 wrote:


I might do a yellow step by step if you really want? it's not that hard once you get your method down my choice of colours is a little different than some but i'll see how I go since I have to paint literally half (and only half) of my Howling Griffons yellow i'll get a chance no doubt

Yes, please - I would greatly appreciate it!

Hah! That Terminator is looking at his watch! lol

 nerdfest09 wrote:
I might do a yellow step by step if you really want? it's not that hard once you get your method down my choice of colours is a little different than some but i'll see how I go since I have to paint literally half (and only half) of my Howling Griffons yellow i'll get a chance no doubt

At this point you could probably throw cat gak at a wall and we'd still happily read a tutorial on it.


Also forgot to ask, where did you get those barrels and the little stand alone cogitator from?

Nerdy kicking paining-ass again!

Cheers dudes! I don't own a cat but will 5 dogs do if I throw their gak at a wall? hmmmm the colours might be a bit off if I do that!

the barrels and little access computer are 3d printed from thingverse, I'll have to find out the details from the guy who's doing the prints for me!

should have some more WIP and a finished Predator tank tomorrow.....

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls here's some more Howling Griffon work for you! firstly the finished Predator for them. I love the scheme these guys have and the fluff is right up my alley too so i'll be chucking a few purity seals on everything to stand in for the oaths they take, they're (as I read it) space marines with the long memory and grudge holding capability of Dwarves

lets not waste time here with chitty chat, lets see a tanky tank!










And more Howling Griffon stuff is the re do of my gaming table! I wanted to change my Mars style board to now suit the home world of the Howling Griffons which is sort of an icy Fenris style planet with areas of frozen tundra. So far i've got all the base shades on and washed it all a couple times with different washes made from poster paint and them added small tufts of hardy grasses, next I need to find a way to add snow in patches so it looks like soft melting snow and then pour resin into the crevasses and make it look like ice floes a nice learning experience for me and hopefully it'll look good! I want to make a giant wall with a bastion in it to stand in for the proud eyrie which is their monastery!






should have a Chapter Master by the name of Alvaro finished tomorrow too.......

I love it Damo. Beautiful work.

Gotta agree with Gits. Both the predator and the battlefield are fantastic.

I must know though, the predator name plate. How'd you do it? Colours, method, etc. Tell me your secrets.

Stunning as usual, beautiful work. Really nice start on the board, great choice of colours. Like the idea of the escarpment fortress.

Straight from the cavernous halls of the Proud Eyrie, Chapter Master Alvaro of the Howling Griffons dons his mighty Terminator armour bedecked in oaths and seals commemorating past victories and stories yet to pass. this mighty warrior inspires his chapter and speaks with the voice of the billions of Imperial citizens they protect with unwavering loyalty.







I have a sneaky suspicion this army of mine is going to look pretty darn striking

Lovely chapter master. Nice to see I'm not the only one who prefers a more muted palette on Howling Griffons. Look forward to seeing more of yours.

*cough*NotLamenterswithoutcheckeredshoulders*cough*

But very nice yellow!

That guy has got a great face!

Great face, but a very, very long neck... Lovely paintwork as usual, though.

Glad you guys like him, I think the neck thing is not as bad as it looks but thanks to GW changing scale left right and center the old Chappy looks a bit awkward. I probably should have made the inside of the armour hood darker to hide it more. but I didn't and he's finished and I still think he looks badass so I don't think i'll bang my head against a wall in sadness :-)

Vehicle number 2! Vindicator 'Griffon's Call' ready to smite the hell out of heretics and xenos alike! I'm really enjoying the army and how it looks so far, I can't wait to get onto the troops and Termies

It's beautiful. The cannon and the weathering on the bladr especially.

Awesome. The dozer blade in particular, I really like your take on the silver elements , is it done with grey and blue or metallic ?

Either way looks the dogs !

Beautiful work Damo. Love the way the weathering contrasts with the bright colors of the tank.

Your Griffons continue to impress! Top stuff.

Love the Vindi, Damo. Nothing adds flair like a giant bird head on your huge facewreacking cannon

Such a great addition putting the griffon on top of the cannon. What an awe-inspiring concept! The heat discolouring on the cannon barrel just adds to the character. Great stuff as always.

Those howling griffons look really great.
I especially like the heated effect on the vindicator weapon. But everything looks good, nice red and yellow, well dosed weathering.
Good job mate.

Thanks guys, i'm on a bit of a roll with the HG's so here's some more

Contemptor dreadnought which was sort of a rescue thanks to a terrible cast, so he's now got the saved legs and the plastic Contemptor torso and arms and looking much better now







I also finished up my jump pack captain or squad leader? I really love the look of the head on this guy, makes the model look so much better than a normal head or helm






Hmmm what else can I work on for them?.....MOAR VEHICLES!!!

You need to do a drop pod , just to see how you would handle the quartered scheme on a five sided object .

I hope the hero doesn’t get his hair stuck in the jump packs intake

Beautiful work there Damo. The scroll work on the dready is just begging for a name.
The jump pack bloke is exceptional. The head gives the pose a lot of flavour. Like he's just had some tyranid monstrosity bellow right in his face. Air and phlegm and half digested guardsman rushing past and getting stuck on his armour.

I hope the hero doesn’t get his hair stuck in the jump packs intake

This is exactly why you need a helmet.

Top work on the JP fellow. Where's that head from? I don't recognise it, so I'm guessing third party?

All I would say is that the power weapon lacks a little contrast. Some pure white/off white at the very edges would just help it pop a bit more, as it is it fades into the rest of the model a little from certain angles.

Thanks fellas, that head is from KF Studio I think, part of a Space wolf style pack, i'll have to check.

Para I am going to blame the pics for the sword effect :-) and my eyes for the pics so therefore it's my fault that the sword looks like that in the images, it's brighter in person I promise.

I wonder what I can get done tomorrow!!?

Fair enough, I thought it might be the pics as it's slightly out of focus in a couple so if the effect was there I wouldn't see it anyway. Great work nonetheless!

On an unrelated note, any plans to paint up some Adeptus Titanicus stuff? I'd love to see your take on a Warlord.

Beautiful work Nerdy! Your HG are going to be amazing as a group.

 Theophony wrote:
You need to do a drop pod , just to see how you would handle the quartered scheme on a five sided object .

I hope the hero doesn’t get his hair stuck in the jump packs intake

Haha yeah I second the huge pain in the ass that is a drop pod, let's see you hand that one Damo !

Some call me crazy, some call me mad, some call me Damo, some call me Nerd, some call me repetitive but I think mad might be most appropriate since i'm attempting to paint 4 Howling Griffon tanks at once yep, 2 Rhino's a Razorback and a Landraider

I've started by quartering them all and have done the first two layers of highlight on the red parts. Only issue I had was when I was quartering the Landraider last I accidentally did the wrong quarters in the wrong colours I can laugh now but at the time I was not a happy man!

so here's the WIP.

Thats a lot of tank. Good luck amigo.

Nice to see these in process.

Glad to see you getting an army for yourself painted up.

Still think you need more drop pods

 Theophony wrote:
Glad to see you getting an army for yourself painted up.

Still think you need more drop pods

I think the reason there's no pods is cos Damo' s scared mate !

 Big H wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
Glad to see you getting an army for yourself painted up.

Still think you need more drop pods

I think the reason there's no pods is cos Damo' s scared mate !

JUST PRETEND ITS AN ECHIDNA

Hot damn those reds! I never tire of seeing you paint red, Damo.

Drop Echidna's that's what we need!

I'm not scared of pods i've just never had any luck with them in the (what is now? 7 games in nearly 20 years?) games i've played having them land on things or even scatter right off the table, all 3 of them against a giggling Eldar player

I didn't get a chance to do heaps today so maybe tomorrow I'll show you more red progress I also really like how the reds turn out, I mean, you can see slight brush strokes and the blending isn't glass smooth but as a whole it hits the eye and looks good enough so i'll continue on i'm really looking forward to doing the troops and Terminators especially as I am going to splash out and get the series 2 collector Japanese release models for the Termies then convert them to have whatever weapons I want!

So, fun story but night before last at 4am my wife's let the dogs out for a wee from our bedroom doors (that go into the yard) then not 5 seconds later she's screaming and telling me to get up! turns out the dogs had raced straight out and nailed themselves one of the biggest brushtail possums i'd seen! so there I was in my undies running across the yard in the dark when it was zero degrees to try and wrench a rather angry large marsupial from the jaws of three large hounds while the Dachshund kept just running in to try and grab a bite I managed quickly to get it and tried to get it over the fence to safety but just my luck it hit the fence and dropped back into the yard to be snatched and dispatched by William and boy is he strong when he want to be i've been off work this week with asthma and a chest infection and trying for 10 minutes to pull a possum from just about killed me, ended up on my back trying to wrestle his jaws open to no avail! it took my wife shaking a container of food to distract him.

so, probably not a fun story but certainly a story.

Drop pods are garbage tier in 8th edition anyways.

I wish we had video of the possum incident. I bet it was fantastic to watch.

You haven't played in a while, have you Damo? Drop pods haven't been able to scatter off the table for a long time now...

Have pods ever been able to scatter off the table? I thought that was pretty much the main reason for taking them?


The smallest of our 3 cats likes to fight with the possum that lives in the gum in our back yard. You can hear the bloody thing doing that weird huffing bark they make when ever the cat has a go at it. I'm just glad the neither of the dogs care enough about it. If they did we'd have dead wild life littering our yard. Bloody terriers.

Yeah, they couldn't scatter into units or impassable terrain, but could go off the edge.

Finished the reds on the vehicles and they look snazzy really keen to get them finished, I think they'll look impressive rolling towards heretics!

Yellows next, which is a bit faster method and then the time consuming details like metals and things

The way your red practically glows is fantastic Damo, absolutely fantastic, nice one

Glows is an apt description. They yellows are much the same once they're done up proper as well.

Gorgeous work as always nerdy. This is going to be a beautifully eye-catching army.

I hope so Monkey! I have not seen a big HG army before or at least not since the 90's where there was a few features on them which may have lodged them in my brain :-)

Moar Howling Griffons! I got the armour all done, the reds and yellows all ready for the details I have a feeling that those parts will take me longer

i'm really loving how they look, nice and bright but at the same time not bright they're not perfectly blended and a close examination may look wonky in spots but i'm thinking that's because I've been looking at them up close for the last couple of days

I hope you guys like the progress so far.

You certainly have mastered the "glow" effect. They are looking incredible bud.

Lovely work Nerdy. Going to be spectacular additions to your force.

Good work, Nerdy. I like how you manage to get both colours equally vibrant, neither overpowering the other.

Thanks guys, I also really like how both colours are so similar in finish but still look great next to each other and speaking of next to each other how about a bunch of tanks all finished? yes? o.k here they are

I finished the Landraider, Razorback and two rhino's today and they all look fanawesomely excellent next to the Vindi and Pred already done but my pics of everything were too blurry to use sorry dudes
you'll just have to be happy with a bunch of other images of the rolling thunder that is my Howling Griffons armoured fist!











So there you go! not a bad day for my Birthday which I also got as a present a new Sanctum Imperialis building AND the Killteam rulebook!!! i'm a lucky Nerd I've just got to wait for a decent little commission to land and do that next so stay tuned into channel N09

HOLY TERRA, nerdfest! Everything is amazing about your HGs - really beautiful red and yellow quartering, and the Terminator Commander’s face is incredibly lifelike.

One of my favourite ever issues of White Dwarf was 309, which featured a Howling Griffons army by John Cadice. I just remembered and went to find it... I’m looking at it now, such fond memories. I used to take this issue with me when I went away (it’s a bit worn out), it’s such a stunning army! Thirteen years younger me wondered just how the hell one was supposed to paint such a monumental force of The Emperor’s finest

One thing that they didn’t do was paint the quartering on the tanks, as they thought it looked a little strange. They instead painted it on the doors. However, I would say that your approach at painting the vehicles is super cool and in your face, just as Space Marines should be!

Keep up The Emperor’s work, nerdfest! These guys deserve a showcase in a future White Dwarf, too


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GOOD GOD those tanks are beautiful, that battle damage is amazing!

Also, Happy Birthday man! Those are some nice goodies

Happy birthday nerdy, they look cracking

Happy Birthday Nerdy!

Great way to celebrate by knocking out such fantastic looking vehicles!

Happy Birthday young man.

Stella work on the tanks bud, really beautiful.

Those are magnificent looking. The fact that you can belt out that many tanks so quickly, to such a high standard is both astounding and outstanding.

To be honest, I was kind of hoping the weapon casings on the landraider and razorback would get painted metal like the predator sponsons, but when they look like that it's hard to niggle at!


And happy birthday, mate. Hope you had a good one.