Thanks for he link they got some really neat things on there.

I've been a bit under the pump at the 'ol Nerdington Manor so haven't done much, but I did get a start on putting some veins on my Sak! got the first lot of 3 inks down and a wash some more wash and a neaten up and the lower part will be finished, he really shouldn't take all that long to do from here on, although I must ask what colour I should do his googly little eyes? originally I was thinking black shiny? but he may need something as a spot colour? thoughts?

second little thing I did was just for kicks I got inspired by J-paint and his D.A.M.O servitor so I had a crack at making one myself, he's just about done all I need to do is tidy him up and re glue some cable, but he's looking cool imo I gave him a laser cutter arm and a spot light hand so he can see what he's doing when he grabs things with his clamp servo arm thanks for the cool idead J!

first up here's some Sak action!






and my servitor who shall probably be doing maintenance on my Zone Mortalis board!






until next time!..... Nerd up dudes!

Ah... a glowing sak, I'm so surprised...

Oh god, those veins have actually made me feel quite sick. Mission accomplished methinks, it doesn't get much more complimentary than that.

Excellent servitor , and the hell sak should see a doctor, or you should see a doctor...."Paging Dr. H to Casa De La Nerd stat!" well it's funny to me

Hello, what?
Take plenty of rest and gently massage it until something comes up...


Nice sak NF. Good job.
and good work on the servitor. Like the robo-arm.

Daawwww Damo made us all a serving of some Sac soup That made me out loud say "OoooOO!" Nice nice nice. Get feeling better there Damo

That's a really sneaky use of the servo skull, and now we know where they all come from also Sak is excellent, reminds me of that line from Rocky Horror - "heavy, dark and pendulous"

Thats some nice veining on your sak Damo

The servitor guy looks cool so far as well.

Servitor looks ace, Damo! Those elysian drop trooper jump suits work so well!

Linz just saw your veiny sack. Her response?

"That's disgusting!!"

Goal achieved pal, goal achieved

nf09 - you need to get that sak looked at Model looks awesome and looking forward to seeing the finished work. One suggestion is to try adding a bit of blue into the veins for a bit more contrast and realism.

nice Sak Nerd!
the model looks good too

The veins look great so far - it's looking so wrong it's right! - but nothing says 'Stretched To Capacity' than some blue veins!

I like the idea of black shiny eyes too, but you may be right about needing a spot colour. How about white eyes because it's gone blind from doing... er... 'naughty things' /nudge nudge

would need hairy palms too then...

Oh yeah. For the eyes, maybe do them black but have a tiny dot of yellow in the centre?

Hey that might look really good. Maybe not totally black though, like rotted flesh Grey or similar. With all the little blood vessels to but in a dark color.

Or a pallid white/grey like it's blind.

Such a superb veiny sack there. You flaunt it so well.

My god, this just sounds bad from the word go.

 Ovion wrote:
Or a pallid white/grey like it's blind.

Aww crap....thats a cool idea too......1 dead black eye and 1 white blind eye? No that would just look bad

Just look through this log in its entirety, and damn this stuff is so good!

Love everything so far, and I'm looking forward to whats next!

(P.s Cute Dogs )

Damn Nerd! That's some great stuff! And your veins look very vericose too!

Well, what can i say? but THANKS guys! glad you all recieved my Sak so well! I'll be taking some advice and adding some more blue into the veiny goodness soon as well as doing some 'sperimentin' on the eyes, I like the milky white blind idea but a black and yellow fish eye could be cool to? although it may then look too fishy? maybe I can do them black blending into a milk white pupil? or even hypnotoad eyes!

I got something in the post today for my ZM board build I was really stuck about making so many bulkhead lights and getting them all the same, so I went ebaying to see if there was something i could use to represent them from a dollhouse or similar? but, as luck would have it I was browsing my subscribed threads and clicked a link from Machinator's thread to his store, what did I find? only the perfect set of lights so I emailed him and we worked out he would cast me a hundred of the larger ones for my project he even threw in a few little ones I can add next to doors etc.


I have a really good feeling about this project now, it's coming together nicely, Galorn is helping me out with some floor designs I can cast and then it'll be all systems go! but in the meantime I tidied my Nerd lair again and discovered a pile of sprues with leftovers on them, should find something fun on here?


and i even primed GFX's Celestial Lions Termies


In two weeks time i have some holidays coming up and plan on knocking out a lot of painting! I even bought 12 CD's from ebay to keep me motivated with new tunes I really want to finish my Sak, Gits Dread, Celestial Termies and my Hell-Bitches but we'll see how much other stuff lets me do eh!

I'm voting for one functional Hypnotoad eye and one creepy blind one!

Those are great lights! good find!

One blind and one hypno could work if i'm careful? should have a crack at it on Friday if I'm organized! and Dave, yep, I'm pretty happy with them, every single one is perfectly cast and so crisp! plenty of uses for them :-)

Exciting to see the Lions with all their limbs on

Emperors Spears marines for 2014


Captain/Master choice?

this model?
http://hitechminiatures.com/2/product/info/86

or this one?
http://sciborminiatures.com/en_,shop.php?art=1158

keep in mind I'll be converting him to be holding a Trident too! :-)

You know I read that "veins on my sak" title and really didn't know wgat to think. Then I opened the thread and said, "oh, wow." That looks really amazing. It definitely evokes a creepy, veiny sack. I showed it to my wife. She was equal parts impressed and aghast. Kudos, good job, that's a tough combination to evoke.

The hitech one, with a trident and stormbolter, would be pretty ace.

I'm not a huge fan if the hitechminiatures stuff, but you've made the oblits look great, so I'd go with their leader, but I might loose the wings. I like the scibor dude better, but I don't like mixing styles in the same army.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Well, what can i say? but THANKS guys! glad you all recieved my Sak so well! I'll be taking some advice and adding some more blue into the veiny goodness soon as well as doing some 'sperimentin' on the eyes, I like the milky white blind idea but a black and yellow fish eye could be cool to? although it may then look too fishy? maybe I can do them black blending into a milk white pupil? or even hypnotoad eyes!

I got something in the post today for my ZM board build I was really stuck about making so many bulkhead lights and getting them all the same, so I went ebaying to see if there was something i could use to represent them from a dollhouse or similar? but, as luck would have it I was browsing my subscribed threads and clicked a link from Machinator's thread to his store, what did I find? only the perfect set of lights so I emailed him and we worked out he would cast me a hundred of the larger ones for my project he even threw in a few little ones I can add next to doors etc.


I have a really good feeling about this project now, it's coming together nicely, Galorn is helping me out with some floor designs I can cast and then it'll be all systems go! but in the meantime I tidied my Nerd lair again and discovered a pile of sprues with leftovers on them, should find something fun on here?


and i even primed GFX's Celestial Lions Termies


In two weeks time i have some holidays coming up and plan on knocking out a lot of painting! I even bought 12 CD's from ebay to keep me motivated with new tunes I really want to finish my Sak, Gits Dread, Celestial Termies and my Hell-Bitches but we'll see how much other stuff lets me do eh!

Hmm Got a link to that store?

Hey I've been thinking, for ur zone mortalis board, you could make a central area with lots of corridors around it with four entry points into the central area. So players could either move their units to the central area for a huge showdown or hunt each other down around the 'corridors'

Galorn here's the link buddy! enjoy http://stores.ebay.com.au/bloodandskullsindustry

Theo, I would totally scrap the wings don't do anything for me anyway as well as not fitting my theme I already have mixed the 2 brands in my Slaanesh army, the Lord Azreema is Scibor and my Oblits are Hitech, i'm leaning towards the Scibor guy but I do really like the quality of Hitech, Scibor's details can be quite faint the feel I want is sort of Poseidon Greek-esque marines! i'm even contemplating having all the marine helmets with the roman style crest on them? what do you think? I also need to figure out how to make the damn tridents?

Senortaco! you sound tasty mate! I could totally go a Taco right now mmmmmmm! aaaaaanywayyyy. I like your thinking, I was planning on making one or two or even three central themed open areas to use like you suggested, so have a medical facility/xenos operating room, a engine room, a command centre flight deck, and a ammo and parts storage room? i'd love any ideas for these types of rooms? what to add how to paint etc.

I really like the idea if the horse hair roman crests very cool idea along with the trident concept would be wicked cool. I think especially since your doing slaanesh you can make ones similar to the dark eldar trident....quick searchy.


Also there's a Lego trident, two different sizes, ones for bionicle which would be too large, the other is mini fig sized, which you might be able to easily convert.

These ones?

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/281141659280?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_415wt_1170

could work nicely if the size works! :-)

"These ones?"

Really Nerdy? That's the best English you can muster???

 Gitsplitta wrote:
"These ones?"

Really Nerdy? That's the best English you can muster???

My aplogies master Gits, my enunciation and choice of words hath offended thee? your vexation is unfounded good sir, I hereby proclaim a detracion of said language and hope to appease you thusly by a reiteration of my quote?

Good day master Theophony, I hope this day finds you well? I was wondering if you could concur with me on the appropriateness of these tridents i found whilst scouring the internet? are they in fact the tridents you referred to earlier in this glorious day? I await eagerly your response in this matter.

regards

Mr N Eerdfest

Those are the ones I found also, I did a quick div through my Lego to try and find one of those or I think there's also a black version (they say they're bigger ), but couldn't find either quickly. I had an appointment to get to so ill look again later. All I could find were these

Put next to a chaos marine and terminator so you could see size. The spear should be about the same size height wise. Nothing else cut the top and put on a smaller shaft .

Edit, you posted twenty seconds before I did. You'd understand why it took me so long if you saw the pile I swam through, I actually busted a sweat, and not because I'm out of shape. It's a lot of digging.

Much better.

Lol, thanks Gits glad we've fixed that up. :-)

Nerd, the veins on your Sak are revolting.....ly awesome! Great paint work!

Got home and I'd some more digging, unfortunately no luck on finding any tridents, sorry.

Thanks for looking Theo :-) I went ahead and bought the set of 5 of them from ebay, I think they'll count as the thunder hammers on my Termies and I'll see if I can find one of the Ninjago lego trident weapons for my Captain as it's a little different and looks cool!

and just think, without your input I would have tried to make dodgy plastic ones! cheers dude! I shall name one of my Termies 'Theo'

Im sure you could look at Dr. H's tutorial and make sprue tridents, but ordering them is probably cheaper. the larger one I had in the picture could work for a dreadnought ccw, or a titan ccw.

Security is taken VERY seriously at my workplace!

Cool helmet!! If it yours, you should work on it and give a cool weathered look!!!

No, not my helmet Taco, but the guy who owns it is talking to the creator to make me a Space marine one!!!! then I'll paint the hell outta it!

I would like to show you all my Sak! yes, I have finished painting my Hell-Sak and I like him I took some advice and added some darker blue veins on the bloated body which look suitably varicose and nasty! I wanted to give him a 'bit more' when it came to details so I decided to paint part of the armour plating as if you could see the glow from an engine powered by warp spawned means I think it suits with the milky blind eyes. All the Sak pics are linked to the gallery if you wanted to vote on any? and thanks to Gits for teaching me how to do that!









I also managed to get a fair bit of progress done on Gitsplitta's Ork Deff Dread lots of weathering and a few glazes as well as his eye lenses and some engine work and oil stains, coming along looking good I think so far I want to paint him like I see well used excavators and forestry trucks.

Actually damo, your pics AREN'T linked to the gallery... would love to vote on them. It is an extraordinary miniature. From concept to painting... very well done. I love the subdued OSL (most people overdo it), the filigree on the plates and the way the shading gives an unearthly glow to the wings.

Just love it.


Excellent progress on the dread too. I love your comment about excavators and forestry trucks. I work with (though not in) the US Forest Service so I know exactly what you mean. He's coming along swimmingly!

Holy crap, now that's what the Heldrake should have looked like.

Love it and the helmet.

Sacky looks quite chaosy! very awesome work! Also, having played the video game "Space Marine" thru, the glow reminds me of the power source from the warp which was in the game.

I always thought blue balls are meant to look blue not pink... I am proven wrong now...

what a good looking...er...flyer...

and that board will be awesome...it has no other options...

For some reason I felt like I should stop by in here and check this thread out - and I'm glad I did!

Nice stuff in here.

Anyway, carry on...just remember:



And even when I'm not, I am, because...We Are Legion!



(Nerdfest09 asked for this!!! )

Didn't realize alpha routs and the alpha legion were based on the Chinese....interesting....

Anyway I love the blue exhaust flames and the eyes are fantastic change.

Astonishing work on the Hel-Sak...

Sadly, as Gits pointed out, you missed linking them

I absolutely love that Hel-Sak. So awesomely chaos. Well played, Damo.

Deff Dread looks solid too. Look forward to seeing him and the rest of your WIPs come together.

Amazing sak Damo! Def Dread is also looking fantastic!

That looks absolutely glorious. The gilding on your sak really sets the the colors off, and is beautifully Slaanesh-y.

I'm quite enjoying the work on Gits' Dread, too. Very cool weathering. What are your stages so far as the yellow's concerned?

I like the hell-sak one of the best heldrake conversions I have seen.

We are coming to expect great things here, you excel yourself with each passing piece of art. Amazing work. Looks incredible.

I would love to know how you link up your pics as I have no votes at all on mine.

KILL IT BEFORE IT LAYS EGGS!

Damian, seriously man, this Slaanesh kick is showing just how talented your brush work is. My wife was even floored, and she could care less about Sacs and other manly things

Mate your sak is truly inspiring I think you've set a new painting level there once again

It's just win in so many ways the OSL, the filigree, the veins the gold and so on

The dread is looking great as well although not as pink or veiny but I'm sure you could fix that quick for Git's

On a serious note it does look fantastic and is good experience for your up and coming Imperial Fisting project

Boringstuff wrote:
I like the hell-sak one of the best heldrake conversions I have seen.

This. I dont have a massive issue with the normal dragon, but the are very monopose. This is something totally out of the box.

Seriously dammit! don't i feel the fool anyway guys I've fixed it now an they're linked for voting now! I'll be back in a day or so to reply properly to you all but in the meantime!


THANKS GUYS!

Voted!

Good job on the sak. Looks great and creepy. Lovely little details and the osl is good too.
Good work on the Dread too.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Voted!

Same, gave everyone the ol KC treatment

Voted...twice, just like in the u.s. election, ole fully this will count more

Of course we vote. We must conquer the gallery front page.

Lol, thanks guys, if anyone ever needed a reason to continue doing something they love (not that they'd need an excuse!) comments like you all left about my Sak have been truly heart warming! thanks so much, and I'm glad you liked what I ended up with at the end. only a few short days until I get a good couple of weeks of near pure paint time! I scored a box of Bezerkers to paint for my mate Mitchy and i have a heap of stuff still half done on the desk as well as hopefully a little peek into the other 2014 project of my Emperors Spears space marines

I also get a pretty sweet gift from Mitchy for painting his Bezerkers too! a PS3 & Fallout & Fallout (something....vegas??) should be fun i hope even though i can't play games to save myself

So now I have a rather nifty finished veiny Sak! I shall continue on with Gits Dread for him and some Hell-Bitches and Termies? I think ramos asked about the yellow so far? it's kind of an experiment at the moment, I primed it Desert yellow from army painter and then airbrushed dark yellow from below to shade and a couple of various yellows from above and in bits to add some contrast (the names escape me at the moment of the paints but they are Vallejo) then I washed it with Sepia and started bringing the yellow back up before dry brushing, and that's where I'm at at the moment with it

sorry for just dribbling crap tonight I'm just winding down readying myself for my holidays! and enjoying watching Alpharius drop by and remind everyone he's monitoring my thread! those pics crack me up!

"Fallout New Vegas"

Wonderful game. You'll get addicted and we'll never hear from you again! LOL! The downed satellite side-quest is my absolute favorite. Too funny!

Yea Fallout is a fantastic franchise. You'll get the addiction if you like games at all. And holy crap that's some serious commission pay

Well I suppose this will be the last time we're all gunna be hearing from Nerdfest, since he just got his hands on fallout.

it's been a nice read when you were still posting

Nerdfest, that looks amazing mate. Just top work! Love the lighter gold on top, really contrast well along with the osl. Inspired build.

The dredd is looking great as well.

Nerdy has a play console and fallout games??? see you in a few months Nerdy!

Yeah, down satellite to Big Mt. with voices from Venture Bros and othe4r animated faves.

As always I'm astounded. The heldrake is really wonderful, a nice tinge of gothic horror running through it.

I have them for PS3, but I can't learn to aim with the stick. However, I am fluent in the mouse &WSAD method, so put my hundreds of hours into it on pc

Awesome job, you must be a proud owner

Keep up amazing us !!

I don't think you'll have anything to worry about guys :-) I'm probably the worlds worst gamer! I have a PS2 and the only game I can play on it for longer than 15 minutes is the Atari 2600 compilation and the Sega Megadrive Compilation! anything else just confounds me, I tried to play Hitman many years ago and spent about 20 minutes running into a wall and spinning around until i had to stop and vomit as i got motion sickness :-( true story! even the old school Wolfenstein game gave me a headache and a sick tummy, yet I can happily watch someone else play for ages as if it was a movie? strange but that's me I suppose! :-)

You should pick up Mirrors Edge then Fallout 3 is one of the better games to hit the scene in the current gen of games. Vegas is technically more sound, but the story and world are not as compelling.







Note: DONT DO THAT YOU WILL THROW UP.

I'm not usually one to compliment another guys Sak... But this is simply beautiful work! The Ork def dred is phenomenal as well Nerd. You've got some amazing talent behind those brushes of yours. Can't wait to see more.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
I don't think you'll have anything to worry about guys :-) I'm probably the worlds worst gamer! I have a PS2 and the only game I can play on it for longer than 15 minutes is the Atari 2600 compilation and the Sega Megadrive Compilation! anything else just confounds me, I tried to play Hitman many years ago and spent about 20 minutes running into a wall and spinning around until i had to stop and vomit as i got motion sickness :-( true story! even the old school Wolfenstein game gave me a headache and a sick tummy, yet I can happily watch someone else play for ages as if it was a movie? strange but that's me I suppose! :-)

Thats actually a pretty funny story Damo Apparently I like laughing at others misfortunes. Although I get the same way with every single Half Life game Ive tried to play. They make me super nauseous and once I too puked from playing them. Dunno what it is with HalfLife, but it just does that everytime

I think he's giving me Fallour 3 as well :-) so plenty of spew time for me! yay...... I'm looking forward to seeing the worlds and details in them as I can sense a lot of inspiration contained within? if Dave's blog is anything to go by i'm gonna be in heaven!

Can I ask a little question about my HH army? I have been planning for it to be IF's but lately i've been tempted to do them instead as Sons of Horus? as they were also loyal until they were wiped out on Istvaan v? so, which would you prefer me to paint them as? I will use the same list that GiraffeX kindly made me but i'm just wanting a bit of input at this stage? :-)

Just tell us how you feel the moment you walk out of Vault 101 in Fallout 3 The story will take over from there. Because War...War never changes....

I get that sick sensation on some games as well, the best way around is to sit father away from the screen. That way you dont have to move your head/eyes round so much which reduces the feeling to puke

Sons of Horus what be this? Your turning traitor Nerdy, I think thats the penalty for flashing your sak round too much in public places/forums

Oh if you do go for the Sons I do think a new list might be required as they can have these



and these, note they can have a multi-melta on their terminators



or you could just add them to the army list

Oh and I trust you have seen Sheep's thread http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/457003.page

For consoles you get Fallout-3 and Fallout: New Vegas, each helps you as they are a mix of RPG, open worlds so no linear stuff , even parts of quests you can walk away, and the shooting is helped with the V.A.T.S. which you will learn about and how it helps the user do stuff Pip-Boy 3000 is a handy wrist computer not only has what is stated above, but is a radio/rad counter/supply inventory, wardrobe helper, and medicine dispenser all in one!

Oh i'm no traitor! the only divergence is my Slaanesh guys and that's only because of the perverse nature of them, I feel we 'connect' :-) i'm thinking loyalist Sons of Horus, but I'm a bit iffy about the colour? it's pretty varied as far as the green goes, I've got a whole new can of Army Painter Primer in Army Green but if thatdoesn't look close enough then ???

I thought the Sons of Horus had a grey scheme? Or was that Luna Wolves before they changed names?

Luna wolves was the grey scheme

For the Sons I would use the same painting scheme as Sheep did, they look lovely.

Well thats what I had planned when I get round to doing them....

Yep, Luna wolves was a greyish color, the sons were the greenish color of the sea. I've seen lots of attempts at it, but none that have really wowed me.

When you say loyalist, do you mean ones that didn't follow Horus during the Hersey, or ones from earlier in the crusade?

Probably before Horus went nutty

The flying sac looks amazing, Damo. The dread is looking bloody nice as well. Extremely well done on both.

Damo, Fallout: New Vegas has a robot named F.I.S.T.O

^ Hot damn, looks like my kind of robot lol! any chance i can get Slaanesh ideas from Fallout?

and thanks Az, haven't seen you around lately glad you're still kicking and enjoying my Sak (not kicking my Sak!) I'm looking forward to getting some progress on the dread soon, i think I need to brighten him up a bit more and then re weather him?

The games are all about the nature of humans..so maybe However, probably not too graphical

More so in new vegas than FO3.

 dsteingass wrote:
The games are all about the nature of humans..so maybe However, probably not too graphical

For a good example of that; go and have a chat with Nova in the saloon in megaton.
(it's perhaps more amusing if you're playing as a female character)

Not only that, but the downloadable content makes for more ideas!

Assembled my IF Tartaros terminators today had to make a little custom made assault cannon for the list I had written, i think it looks o.k? I'll add a box drum of ammo later but so far not bad!




and I played around a bit with a wall section and started adding pipes I also gave it a little furry rat friend scurrying across the pipe, just need to add some rivets I think it's an alright start to add some character to the board sections? any ideas you offer shall be stored and perused

Nice work on the termies, and the rat on the pipe is a nice touch!

Termies look excellent. Loving the big gun.

Nice touches on the board section too.

Looking good mate! Make sure you get Deus Ex if your still considering Infinity btw. It's basically Infinity in FPS.

I am jealous Nerdy... I have two bags of those lying around that have been needing to be built for a long time. Nice job on the assault cannon!

The assault cannon looks great.

I'd not seen these before, they look pretty decent.

Good work on the assault cannon, looks the part.

The rat is a nice touch.
Needs some little gnawed holes in the walls at each end, otherwise how did it get there and where is it going?

Thanks guys! I like the Tartaros Termies now i've actually got some i'm looking forward to painting them this fortnight! in fact I organised the Nerd Lair so i can see what I want to get finished hopefully in the next two weeks on my holidays I got a package this morning which kind of pushed me to clean up and get working on some more things I will be doing a bunch more detailing on the ZM bits so rat holes are on the list! I like those sort of little touches that give you something to look at!

remember last time they drew me a picture of a carrot on my box? well, this time i asked if the would draw me a stick man riding a chicken not as good aesthetically as the carrot but I can tell they tried which i appreciate!


so, what else am i playing with? firstly this is all I want to paint while i've the chance, only things not there are 5 termies so we'll have quite a full on few days eh!


I started the Termies today too, primed and washed with casandora yellow & then Sepia washes and painted the sarge's helmet to get a feel for them



one of the things that arrived was my HQ for my Emperors Spears marines as well as some primer and paints and a neat little mold from Micro Art Studios, I had to start converting him as well, I wanted to see how i liked him I added a trident and new custom helmet with the crest as well as some lower leg scales on his armour to give him a maritime theme when painted,I have a lot of little tidying up to do when it dries, and I'm actually not sold on the trident on him though as I shall be building the force from the newly released Codex I want to use him as a counts as Marneus Calgar so i may scrap the trident and give him some of those gauntlets that look so tough! I'll be giving the tridents to my CC Termies as Thunder hammers

Neat figure. Those scales turned out pretty darn well...

Always love updates full of random stuff!

I love that your modeling bench has hazard stripes!

Glad your keeping with the Fists Nerdy, I think they will look really good.

Oh and I found something scaly you might be interested in.

Check out the Salamader bits on this page, not used them before but they look good.

http://www.spellcrow.com/space-knights-c-9_38.html

Oh and my marine codex is on pre-order, very excited for this one.

thanks guys, yeah I decided to stick with my fists! something about them calls to me :-) will be interesting to see what happens in the new codex? I'm just about to check my bank and then pre order some stuff too! I've tried following the thread about it but the guys on there are like mega mathhammer nerds, i'm more about the fun :-)

Hazard stripes! for the WIN! wait until i get my table built Dave it'll be a shrine to hazard!

Gits, the scales turned out o.k for my first attempt as the mold doesn't come with any tips or instructions :-( hardest part is it being sticky to push into the detail even with lube and then trying to get it positioned on the model without stretching! i'll sort it out for the Termie team later though :-)

I'm gonna scrap the trident on the HQ, think I'll whip him into a Marneus Calgar stand in? anyone have any ideas for gauntley mounted bolters to use?

Aaaawwwee. I liked the trident.

For a marnus bolter I'd try cutting own older version bolt pistols and use zinge strips for the bullets.

Really like the yellow of the fists , trying my hand at yellow as well.

Keep in mind even as Calgar, he has need of a power sword. Or a power trident.

Progress! I kept looking at Gits' Dread and thinking it just doesn't look quite right to me, it needed to have some areas painted in my style that I feel comfortable doing, so i had a go at trying to give the yellow a bit of punch in places without overpowering the weathered slapped together feel of the construct I like the main parts much better now, and next i'll start working on all the weapons and connections etc. and finally the little details like lenses, gauges weathering and chipping.





I was in a juggling mood today so i wanted to do some sort of small progress on a lot of different models today next under my moist brush was my Hell-Bitches, I am loving these girls, they are some seriously sweet looking models for use as Demonettes and today I did the first highlight on the pale flesh coloured parts, gave me many excuses to google bikini clad models to see where the toned stomach and ass caught the light then I promptly forgot what i was doing and just painted wherever I thought suited





the last model I wanted to work on was my HQ again, I decided to clip off the Trident sorry Theo, but the normal Termies will get 'em so don't sweat I cut down some storm bolters to fit under his fists and added a ammo box to his back so logically you could almost believe where his bullets come from until I get hold of some Zinge belts then I primed him and started a little base coating, just wanted to wash him and start the green blend on his legs.





then, as I was getting ready to pack up and go and watch some movies with the furry kids I heard a noise above me? a static hiss & crackle? I looked up at the ceiling to see my light which was switched off flicker then turn on and make a loud fizzing noise before it went BANG and smoke started pouring across the ceiling while the fitting crackled and fizzed like a jar of bees!! I raced out and switched off the power and found this.

wtf! it's an outside light globe according to the electrician! not used in homes heated the wires up and shorted it out spectacularly, so while I was waiting for the electrician to turn up and do his thing I had no power and kept blocking in some colur on HQ so this is where he is now, any suggestions, thoughts? the brown parts will be gold too.




Cool, hope that's enough fun for ya guys! see ya tomorrow when I do some more painting, i've got a good day tomorrow with painting and sunshine and tomorrow after dinner i'm heading into town to get some more Ink work on my body! and then on Friday! OMG! I am actually picking up a new car that Orkmoticon doesn't have a grin big enough to convey how happy I am to finally get a decent and usable car again that I can enjoy and play with! was also a good find for the price and all the features this baby's got...... but I'll tell you and show you when i get her eh!

Congrats on the new car, I had one of those twelve years ago . The babes look
Great, as does calgar. I really can't see any spot that needs more color or work. I really like how you have the green on the legs, I just hope he doesn't trip on the seaweed.

Good decision on the dread Damo. You've got to make it your own... besides, it's a lot more fun that way!

I think you need to bring the highlights up on the demonettes... that girls back-side needs to shine!

Calgar is looking very impressive. I think what was wrong with the trident wasn't the concept, it was just that the trident itself was way out of proportion and cartoony looking.

Whohooo new car! That's always good, we are getting a new... er car come tax time next year, Walt is kinda pooping on himself lol.


And man can you get some paint down! I'm loving what I'm seeing, and that dread! Holy cow that is coming out nice nice nice. It makes me glad to see greenskins on your blog! You should do one at least every now and then, they are full of character and can be an excellent painting tool because of that. Not to mention my obsession for the Orks

While you're on vacation we should chat duder, it's been too long.

Hey guy! thanks for the input Gits, I'm glad you don't mind how the dread looks so far, still a fair way to go i'm trying to have most look rusted or aged and certain brighter parts look more recently painted or touched up and draw the eye to the details, probably do more tomorrow for you

I also like the concept of the trident to bring the theme out in my ES force and i do agree the ones i got while they look good, they don't quite mesh with the 40k models, so back to the trident drawing board we go (notice I said 'we' )

the Hell-girls have a loooong way yet that is only the first re highlight of the base colour so far and if my ocd serves me correct then i have at least 5 more to go

Oh yeah the new car (new 2nd hand car) is playing on my mind a bit, i'm quite excited and itching to get her on the highway soon! even though this is a gaming and hobby place I just want to tell you guys about it! but I'll try and refrain, although I will say it's big enough for the 3 furry kids and when it was new it cost over $100,000 and the year is 2001, if anyone can actually guess what it is I'll personally paint them a marine!

and KC, you bet dude, i'll organize a time for a beard date soon eh!

Land rover with import fees .

Lol, no not a rover, I wouldn't touch one with a pole! after 13 years of driving nearly everything by many manufacturers I can see how things have aged and hold up to everyday use, the new Landies are nice but seem redundant being so large :-) so no win for you Theo!

On a side note i bought the new space marine codex along with a Vanguard and Sternguard box and the Libby :-)

Good work on the Dred, girls and the HQ guy. Look forward to more.

For the trident, could you carve away some of it to make it more 40k-like. Maybe more angular and pointy?

Big and for that price, I'm thinking a big Merc' possibly an estate?

Lotus Elise S

I love how you painted the teef on the Dread, he's looking fantastic !!

Beware with the lamps though ! We need to see more of your work !!

Im glad you were there when the light blew... The Marneus counts as looks really good.

as does the dread. I think part of whats going on is that its too uniformly tinted. maybe add some black checks or bare metal to break it up?

Yay a beard date! SQUEEEEE!!

Close call on the light! Could've been a fire. A pipe burst on me last year, I just happened to be standing above it and heard it when it happened. Saved a lot of potential damage!

Damo's Rid'in High! Enjoy it bro!

Speaking of close calls, we had a pretty scarey one just the other day. We ate dinner then went out to do some scout outing for my son. We come back several hours later, and as soon as I open the door, the smell of gas pours out the door. I run inside and some how, while leaving Im guessing, someone must of hit the burner on the stove and it didnt ignite. So for the few hours, it just leaked and leaked and leaked. It was so strong it gave me a headache a few minutes later. So we had all the windows open, and fans like crazy


Thought I was going to crap my pants....my Orks were in the house no less!

You've got to keep your Lootas in their case, otherwise they'll scavenge all your household appliance bitz!

It's the meks I'd be worried about

Lotus Elise S dammit you got it! nothing like a car the size of a matchbox to transport myself, the Nerdwench & a combined weight of dogs over 100kg only 2 days until I get her!!! already started planning my automobile conversions! need to fix one cloudy headlight and then colour code the bumpers and chuck a set of rims on and she'll be sweeeeeet! & FAST! I already have my original copy of the Fast & the Furious soundtrack from 2001 to listen to!

I did do some more work on the DreadSplitta i'm sure Galorn may be linked to me telepathically? and now I'm feeling it coming together! I started the weathering and painted the flamer conversion along with the engines core and I LOVE it! I think it really looks a hot and old school powerplant! not much to do now, some teef, some cables, some oil, some dust, some lenses, some rust! I took a bunch of pics of him so I hope you don't mind but I couldn't decide which ones to show you today but I DO hope you like the progress?












Phew! that's a lotta Dread right there!

I'm a little torn with my HQ for the Emperors Spears? I'm getting a bit of a superhero vibe from my paint scheme which I don't like perhaps if I leave the chest & body armour blue? I sat him aside to contemplate while i worked on the Contemptor for the force you guys know what i'm like when i get a idea stuck in my head so I used the scaled molds and added detail to the greaves of the Dread! looks sweet but makes me want to do Alpha legion now




My Imperial Fists got their first layer of highlight yellow! not really much of an impressive shot, and when painting them I realised the casting wasn't as great as i'd hoped, useable but a lot of areas where I need to use it as battle damage




And finally I'll leave you with a picture i took this morning that will make you all go AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! ....................

Love the progress Nerdy. He practically jumps off the computer screen!


Awwwww, they're like little snow man... dogs.

Beautiful dogs mate, must be a bear to keep them clean though.

Loving the OSL on the flamed and engine glow I hope to be able to pull that off someday.

Looking very awesome, good work.

Lovely work, Nerdy!

And I want your dogs.

Awww cute dogs!

Dread is amazing dood!

Dawwwww.... Your dogs are adorable. They're so fluffy!

Dread effects look incredible as well. Very cool osl, and the weathering is top notch.

The scale armor press molds you're using are pretty neat. My only complaint would be that on the dread plates, the "rim" of the scale armor plates runs right through the middle of the pad. Would you be able to shave that bit off so it appears as one continuous area of scales, then surrounded by that rim.

Dude The alphas are theoretially still loyal to the emperor personally... Read Legion... I'd say do up a "loyalist" set of AL (maybe 500-1k points) and have fun with em.

Yeah, the dogs are cute ones, and having washed dogs like that, I can tell ya, when Damo has to bathe them, it is a project based on my memories of working vet clinics and bathing such dogs.

Like the dready a LOT.

Yes the dogs win the post again! damn their cute fluffy adorable faces!

I am really enjoying painting Gits dread at the moment it's a great challenge to get it to look Orkish and still discern the details, the flame and the engine glow were just a way to try something special and a little different than i usually paint I hope it fits with his army well enough and causes untold damage and pain to his enemies!!?

Ramos, I plan on filing the join flat and adding a plasticard and riveted band to tie it together as i can't get the scales to match enough against each other using just the mold, I also think I may turn my Emperor's Spears into Alpha Legion so any advice and direction on them would be welcome I'm just not loving my HQ guy which is sad but at least i haven't started a whole squad, are there any particular things i should include or avoid when painting AL? I think the scales can be used to good effect on them?

The kids get washed and groomed next week so then they'll be white again (and oscar a nice shiny black!) then you'll see how much they glow and look like snowmen-dogs!

well, last night I had an appointment at 7pm for some more ink work but he was running late so I sat in the car reading white Dwarf until 8:30 then in i went and 5 hours later came out with some ink on my chest and some pure Nerd love on my wrist i had my right arm half sleeve finished off with some shading and around the wrist got "The Emperor protects" Lol there's no hope for me is there!

nice ink...your puppys are awesome taht dred is pretty slick too..

onoly thing is your ink needs maor color! eh im a color kinda guy...

Alpha legion eh? Good choice, because I think they look cool, and their fluff is the tits. If you want some serious mind bending Alpha Legion, look up Misgula (I think thats how he spells his name) he did some true scale Alpha Legion and man oh man....they are simply incredible. Definitely something to aspire to anyways


Also nice tats Damo, that reminds me I need to go see my buddy James and see about getting some ink done. Its been WAY to long since Ive had a tattoo

Ow! That looks PAINFUL!

Dredd looks amazing dude. Incredible look to it.

Cute dogs, guy around here breeds them, got a little herd of fluff he walks by every now and then.

Can't wait for the IF, they are looking nice. And the mould work on the other is great. No idea on lore about SM, to much. But I got to say your gut is serving you well at the moment so go with it, the stuff you have been cranking out is of a whole new level, so go with your gut dude.

I shall indeed follow my gut instinct and whip up a new space marine force in the Alpha Legion theme & colours but I'll be using the new Space Marine codex as my list and base, I have an exemplary and very helpful friend in GiraffeX who without complaint takes all my ideas and multiple mind changes and creates lists for me that are usable and i can build to! and since there's a lot of conjecture about Alpha Legion being chaos followers or secretly still loyal? i'm gonna go with loyal and follow the codex astartes :-)

Also, I bought the new Codex, Librarian, Sternguard & Vanguard kits :-) and I am going to use them to resurrect my FleshEaters army! so keep the eyes peeled soon for lots of awesome bare heads and those new kits joining the sons of Sanguinius!

Errrrhclent!

FLESH EATERS!!!

Hey Nerdy, I've been wondering something that you probably have the answer to. Is the BA Codex still legal or does the new C:SM replace it as well?

That I can't answer sorry casey as i haven't actually received my Codex yet :-( but I'm sure the changes needed are more along the lines of the skyfire rules as the rest of the BA codex I think is pretty good?

now another bit of AL thinking, I'm trying to decide how i will approach the painting, I really don't like the style painted in the Chaos Codex, and I've been browsing a few i know who do them well, namely Migsula and STC and i kind of want something between the two? I like how Migsula has more of a blue armour and STC has quite blended green into the base darker colour, so I'm thinking this: base and prime with TAP Ultramarine blue, wash with black and blue washes, then blend up to the bright green leaving it near black/blue at the bottom of each armour panel?

Color for the legion sounds great

BA codex should remain valid, so will space pups and closet angels

On your chest you need the new marine anti air tanks taking pot shots at the other tats, which are obviously hell drakes of slaanesh disguised as cute little birdies.

My my Nerd, I only didn't have the internets for a couple of weeks, you churn stuff out at a prodigious rate, I am staggered!

Cant wait to see what the new kits are like and what you do with them, no doubt it will be beautiful!

Loving the wrist tat-too.

Glad you went with loyalist Alpha Legion I think they will be more interesting.

I have a few ideas building up for an army list for you, just need to wait for the new codex to check points etc.

Something stealthy sound good to you?

I'm quite fond of the FW scheme below for them and we know you can do a nice green sheen from your Tau model.

Thanks Damo and Theo! I'm glad I don't have to buy any more stuff I don't really want.

I have only just caught on that your doing Alpha legion, Now I have been hovering around thinking of doing exactly the same as you and counting them as normal space marines, but seeing you do this is likely to kick me into gear, I cannot wait!

Coolness! thanks dudes, I'm a lot happier now that I've got a new focus in doing loyal Alpha legion! I think I will be able to really do some Damo-esque conversions and things with them, the armour will be a challenge but once I get my recipe down I'll be sorted, they will be 'normal' marines as they're loyalists so no chaos spikes or skulls. I like GFX's stealthy idea for the army I'm a bit excited about getting my new toys! I can say toys as i'm with friends right?....right!?

speaking of Alpha Legion stuff again, my HQ model I gave a bath in Simple Green and a good scrub, the primer pretty much stayed but it's only thin so no problems I ripped his head off as the helmet was throwing my conversion-fu and I added my much favored bare head (bald of course!)



Hey, if i said to you, "guys, you wanna come over and watch 10 naked chicks chase us around" you'd probably say "sure Damo i'll be there in under an hour!" well, as nice as that sounds you probably don't want these chicks after you

I did the next layer of highlighting on the skin of my Hell-Bitches (or Hell-Chicks for the sensitive?) and I think I can really nail these girls (not like THAT you fiends!) but with the painting! they shall be finished next week for sure!

OH MY GOD IS THAT JUSTIN BEIBER?!!!??...... AHHHHHHH!




Would you like to see more?.....

would you like to see something different?......

would you like to see the start of an Ork?.....

Oh, you would! that's great 'cos i started one today






I have to say I really think this model is probably my favorite GW sculpt of all time! nor being an Ork warlord I have been in the shadows about how nice some are!

Now that ork skin is the most beautiful I think I have ever seen! Honestly Nerd that looks almost identical to the eavy metal style of ork painting, Its puuurfect!

As for the hell bitches, they are simply lovely, If i ever do daemonettes I will be purchasing some of them!

Hurray ORKSES!! that please me greatly.

Girls are looking good and that Ork, awesome skin tones.

man, that Ork looks awesome. that face is just....well...pro level.

cant wait to see him finished.

That's the best ork skin I've ever seen Damo. I've been struggling to try and get the lower lip on my orks right, but it never really turns out. That sir... is amazing!

Someone's been busy! Everything looks really awesome mate.

Wow Damo that Ork flesh is amazing I keep going back to have another look it's just spot on.

The hell bitches are looking great skin tones are looking nice so far.

The tats are looking great as well love the Emperor protects around the wrist very cool

You could have Slaanesh protects around er ......................

, nerdfest, that Mek face is astonishing !!

You should make it your avatar !!

It's worth an award all by itself !!

That Ork flesh is amazing dood!

Woooooow.... Absolutely jawdropping!
Pure amazing on that ork skin, nerd

I like the Ork skin as it is close to the paler look I go for with my Fifth element Mangal-Orks.

Wow, so glad I sent that ork. Worth the price of admission 100 fold.

Ok now your just showing off.

That is just out of the ballpark. Outstanding work.

Oh wow, thanks guys, I will say the Mek skin took me by suprise too! I wasn't expecting it to turn out as nice as it did but I really like it, lets hope all of him turns out as nice as the skin and if it does I'll paint more..... I always liked the paler skinned examples i've seen around and wanted to try it!

The Hell-girls I'm happy are working how I wanted them too, they'll be my focus next session as well as Gits dread shouldn't be long before I call him done either, I don't want to get carried away and ruin him

Now for some news!

I'm hoping to launch the second annual 'Golden Nerdfest' competition within the next couple of days, this time it shall be called the 'Nerdcademy award' I have just finished the trophy which is very appropriate to my current frame of mind! but I am now in need of some willing sacrifices....... or judges if you will, I would like 3 people other than myself to follow closely to the same judging criteria as i used last year with some minor changes:

Build (100 points)
- quality of build (i.e, neatness) (30 points)
-adherence to theme (30 points)
-conversions/kitbashing (20 points)
-appropriate posing (20 points)

Painting (100 points)
-neatness (25 points)
-use of advanced techniques (25 points)
-overall effect & look (50 points)

Basing (30 points)
-theme/appropriateness to figure (10 points)
-build/customization (10 points)
-painting (10 points)

Overall impression of miniature (50 points)

So, that's it for now I'm hoping some will approach me for the role of judges and as soon as they are confirmed I shall create the official Nerdcademy award thread and reveal the trophy and prizes for 2nd place while the 3rd place is going to be revealed later in the comp

PM sent !

Great work Damo. I've been slack on the thread lately, but:

1) Lucky on the light. That could have been some seriously bad juju.
2) Flying sac-fish looks amazing. Really creative top-notch work!
3) That Ork dread is fething awesome.
4) The Ork skin is coming along brilliantly.
5) Nice tits! er,, tats! Actually.. both. - no, I'm talking about the Daemonettes', not your chest.
6) I liked the look of the trident on that guy (before you cut it off). The scaley look really did make me think Alpha Legion, though.

What will the theme of the Nerd-comp be ? I wonder if I can participate. :-P



Your blog is amazing, I think that you constantly improve your skills. I particularly appreciate all those slaanesh things you're painting thes days.
And yes, that mek face looks great.

thanks for the input guys! quick response and i've scored two worthy judges already! and Minus of course you can enter! I should be right to unleash the trophy and theme tomorrow :-)

I'll judge if you need one still?

I keep misreading Alpha as Alfalfa.

And now I want salad.

That Ork is so, err, Orky. His skin tone is interstellar, the lower lip, well all I can say to that is ... I also agree that he is one of GWs finest sculpts and must be a pleasure to paint, especially when you are so good at it

A comp sounds exciting and I'll happily judge if someone drops out.

You guys don't even know what you're signing up for! -He could have you play Australian Roulette or something!

I'm assuming it's too late to sign up as a judge Damo? O:

Is Australian Roulette where you throw a boomerang and have to stand still......

I will probably enter, when we find out what exactly everyone want's to Judge.

Thanks lads Judges are organized now and i can say we are in safe painted hands!

I'm just about to go and launch the competition thread very soon but i'd like to introduce our worthy judges !

Nerdfest09 (duh!)
Yggdrasil
Kingcracker
Whalemusic360

I think they shall bring a wealth of knowledge and fun to the comp!

now, on a personal note I got a new Nerd-mobile today I know it's not model related but damn i'm happy to have this finally! I shall introduce you all to my German beauty Helga! she's a 2001 Audi Allroad, 2.7 liters of twin turbo fun and luxury





Now if you'll excuse me I need to go and tuck my car in for the night.....

Ooo, and I was so close when I said a big Merc...
Good choice on an Audi though.

Nerdy... I never realized Tasmania had red-necks! I thought they were an American thing!?

(parking your car in your lawn... very red-neck like behavior)

Helga looks lovely! Excited to see what the competition will bring.

Wait no longer!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/550772.page#6027450

Hey hey !!! Can't wait to see the awesome results !!

Yay! *chaseslink*

Awwwwwww Damian! The wife and I are in love with all things Audi. My race car on Forza online is an Audi. Nice ride duder

Oh yeah, forgot to comment upon that too..

I own an A3 Audi since 2011, and I've never regretted my purchase !!!

I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy it !!

Thought everyone in your part of the world drove a ute?

A "ute" ?!?

A specific type of utility vehicle that's fairly specific to the greater Oz region.

Ooooh, ok, a "UTE"??? I knew it... or not

Can't wait to get stuck in to comp.

Nice car. Drive an Audi A4 2.4 V6 Exec. Saloon. 2nd nicest car I ever owned. And on my local roads, brings a smile to my face every time.

The problem with Audi in the States, is its immediately more money just cause. It sucks.

 KingCracker wrote:
The problem with Audi, is its immediately more money just cause. It sucks.

That's better

lol, yeah the costing of the Audi in servicing and maintenance is a bit pricey but for the price I paid for the Allroad it won't be too bad for us as it's in brilliant condition and I have a father with a few contacts as he's got two Audi's in his driveway :-)

wanna see something cool? I don't know if you've seen this before but I only just stumbled across it and it screams 40K to me I can totally see inmygravenimage drooling and using the images as inspiration!
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/kris-kuksi-church-tank


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Oh and our 'Ute's' are just what we call your American Pickup trucks! and if my memory serves me correctly the utility vehicle was created in Australia?

I've stumbled upon them before and often thought THAT is what a SoB battletank would look like, its amazing!

Totally awesome !! I had already seen the first one somewhere on the interwebz, but it still looks incredibly 40k-grimdarky

As for the Ute... Couldn't you just say "pickup truck", then ?

Since i've signed up for the Nerdcademy awards i thought i'd also come be a part of the blog that spawned it. I'm 80 pages in so far and have seen some amazing stuff.
I'll echo others and say that the skin on that Big Mek is quite probably the greatest skintone ever. Oh to have your skill mr Nerdfest.

Holden Ute

vs
American pickup (Ford f150 in this case)

Utes are more lake an El Camino... for those of you old enough to remember. A car with a truck bed.

My brother had a pretty sweet looking El Camino. Personally IVe been a Rancharo guy myself.

It appears the conversation has moved on, but I still have to compliment you on the amazing Ork skin - jawdropping. I assume a tutorial is incoming?

It fracking better be coming, or I'm shipping a kick in the nuts to a certain nerdy painter I know

 KingCracker wrote:
It fracking better be coming, or I'm shipping a kick in the nuts to a certain nerdy painter I know

That made me laugh. I can picture someone opening up a big wooden crate and as they take the lid off some random intercontinental boot shod leg comes out and nuts them.

It's kinda like the boxing glove on a spring

Lol, are you guys trying to give me ideas for next years trophy? :-) and you really want a tute on the Ork skin? I hadn't even thought about to be honest with you, but i certainly can buy another Ork and use him as a example if you like? let me know :-)

KingCracker wrote:It's kinda like the boxing glove on a spring

Yeah that'd about do it.

nerdfest09 wrote:Lol, are you guys trying to give me ideas for next years trophy? :-) and you really want a tute on the Ork skin? I hadn't even thought about to be honest with you, but i certainly can buy another Ork and use him as a example if you like? let me know :-)

I'd like to see a tut on how you do it just so i could see how it's done.

 Snrub wrote:

nerdfest09 wrote:Lol, are you guys trying to give me ideas for next years trophy? :-) and you really want a tute on the Ork skin? I hadn't even thought about to be honest with you, but i certainly can buy another Ork and use him as a example if you like? let me know :-)

I'd like to see a tut on how you do it just so i could see how it's done.

Yeah, just that !

 Yggdrasil wrote:

 Snrub wrote:

nerdfest09 wrote:Lol, are you guys trying to give me ideas for next years trophy? :-) and you really want a tute on the Ork skin? I hadn't even thought about to be honest with you, but i certainly can buy another Ork and use him as a example if you like? let me know :-)

I'd like to see a tut on how you do it just so i could see how it's done.

Yeah, just that !

Yes. ..see how it's done and then fail to do it myself and then run off and eat a tub of ice-cream while wearing a sweatsuit crying at my poor poor Orks.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Lol, are you guys trying to give me ideas for next years trophy? :-) and you really want a tute on the Ork skin? I hadn't even thought about to be honest with you, but i certainly can buy another Ork and use him as a example if you like? let me know :-)

You mean another ork...army?

 KingCracker wrote:

 Yggdrasil wrote:

 Snrub wrote:

nerdfest09 wrote:Lol, are you guys trying to give me ideas for next years trophy? :-) and you really want a tute on the Ork skin? I hadn't even thought about to be honest with you, but i certainly can buy another Ork and use him as a example if you like? let me know :-)

I'd like to see a tut on how you do it just so i could see how it's done.

Yeah, just that !

Yes. ..see how it's done and then fail to do it myself and then run off and eat a tub of ice-cream while wearing a sweatsuit crying at my poor poor Orks.

All of this (well, maybe not the last part...)

I for one could definitely go the ice-cream.

I'm not adverse to eating copious amount of ice cream if need be. And knowing that i'll never ever be able to paint ork skin like that would be a need.

Lol, you guys! KC eating ice cream I can imagine..... in kiddy pajamas's with a pouty bottom lip! I'll grab an Ork or two soon and do a tute on the skin, it's not that hard really it's the choice of colours that's the key it's nothing new technique-wise so whoever wants to have a crack should be able to do it I haven't been totally convinced to start an Ork army yet, I've been teetering on the edge a few times but the thought of the force never having an end scared me! if I can get a list that suits me and i can build to, then who know

I have been doing some paint today, I've 90% finished Gits Dread & my Hell-Bitches and done some base coating on the Mek's clothes. I really like one aspect that I tried on the Dread, I wanted the hydraulics to appear Orkish and not quite as good condition as the Imperiums stuff, so I decided to slather grease on and around them, I made it by mixing black drawing ink with water effects and brushing it on, I also tried to do a petrol leak in the rear fuel drum too it's a very scratched and dirty paint scheme but I think when you see it finished tomorrow you'll like it

until tomorrow

So close yet so far...

Orks you say Nerdy.....

You do realise that you dont really need that many if you have a cunning plan, say Blood Axes for example in the same combat scheme as your guard.

You could have a nice 1500 point army with the Guard for the big guns and the Orks for da fighting. It just so happens that I have the Ork codex.......let me know if your interested

Yea he has asked me a couple times in the past about few bodies Ork builds. Bikes, wagon spam or Walker spam are the way to do it. Hell legally you can make an Ork force with zero boyz that's almost completely walkers. Wouldn't be super competitive but it would be few in numbers and hit like a hammer.

Wait until after the new dex comes out to make your decision.

Agreed, its early next year from current rumors. Thats not that far away, specially considering youll need money for it AND youve got other projects rocking at the momentanyways

GiraffeX wrote:Orks you say Nerdy.....

You do realise that you dont really need that many if you have a cunning plan, say Blood Axes for example in the same combat scheme as your guard.

Ok now I'd like to see just THAT !!!

Some MANs from looted centurions in a looted battlewagon land raider? Sounds pretty cool to me!

Ta Daaaaaaa!


Yes, some finished models for your perusal guys! I am actually really happy with the Deff Dread for Gits there's a lot of small scratches you can't really see but I trust Gits can confirm when he gets it lol! it's a break away from my usual methods and as a result it tested me and made me model outside my comfort zone which turned out to be quite enjoyable!

anyway here he is in all his construction machinery styled glory, hope it looks like it! I really like the grease on the hydraulics and the engines!













You want some Hell-Bitches? I got some for ya!

these girls were also a real test for me, they're really quite small and very delicate, the faces were a challenge as they are fairly smooth and of course much smaller than GW faces but the look of them and the poses really are beautiful!










And more! how's about a little work in progress? I got a bit of paint slapped on GFX's Celetial Lions Termies, I think they'll be frackin' sweet when I finish them, they've had the brown/gold coat and a wash of Agrax and the base of the blue down now.


And BigMek Whaley has some base colours down too I've done a little on his apron which is nearly there but he's just a JOY to paint, also guys, I really love the idea of that minimalist list that hits HARD! come on convince me boyz!


Well, that's it dudes! I can't wait to get some feedback on this lot I've been missing you guys all lately and am looking forward to a good catch up and chat in the threads soon!

That deff dread........its so beautiful


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But yea, you could have THAT BigMek and a SAG Mek as your HQs.that would allow you to have 2 troops choices of 1 dread each. Then for HeavySupport you could either fill it out with 3 units of 3 KillaKans, or another dread and 2 units of 3 kans, or 3 dreads, then your army would be really tiny. Hell, you could even use this as an excuse to get your hands on a MegaDread as those can be a heavy support choice in normal 40k. So 1 of those and a random mas up of kans/dreads.

Again, dont expect to take a list like that to a FLGS and wreck face with it, but it could do some pretty impressive damage if you got the swing of things. I mean, I read a blog from a tourny player that made a FlashGits army, and would mess around with other tourny players using it, and once he got it down, he said the build did far better than he expected, and thats FlashGits

Freakin' sweet Damo. Once I get the dread in my hands I'm going to have to study it for a good long time. It's wonderful tone and balance. The power generators in back is something I've never seen anyone else do. The chipping and rust is a very different style than I use and it's very convincing. Wow. It'll be an honor to have that in my collection.

The deamonettes... sign me up! Pierce my nipples and call me Shirley, I'm ready to join Slanesh. I love the dappled transition between the hard carapace parts and the skin. Very subtle and well executed. The faces are, as usual... exceptional.

Love the progress on the mech. I think you'll need something on him decidedly not brownish in tone to make him pop.

Minimalist list that hits hard?? Meganobs, battlewagons, biker nobs. I put together an "expensive" ork list out of just what I had lying around. Meganobs, nobs, regular bikes, mega armored war boss, mega armored big mek, a dread and kans. It was supposed to be an "easy mark" for my youngest to blow up with a combined marine/eldar force. It proved to be anything but. The b-wagons were gone by turn 2, but the infantry and bikes were much more resilient that I'd thought.

Yea its hard to not go with MANz in 6th thats for sure. They suddenly became uber badasses again.

My dream units... two units of grot artillery pieces on a skyshield landing pad. 3 guns surrounded by 13 infantry (BS 3) with 3 re-rolls *per squad*. The whole thing is T7 with a 4+ invul. OH, and it's only 97 points... 127 if you want to upgrade to Zapp Guns.

Bam! Astounding, unbelievably amazing work Nerdy. Every time I think you've hit the top of your game you raise the bar again. I don't know where to start, it's all wonderful, but the Dread especially so, I can't even comprehend how you painted it. Not a clue where I would start if I were to copy it.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
My dream units... two units of grot artillery pieces on a skyshield landing pad. 3 guns surrounded by 13 infantry (BS 3) with 3 re-rolls *per squad*. The whole thing is T7 with a 4+ invul. OH, and it's only 97 points... 127 if you want to upgrade to Zapp Guns.

Yea that would be brutal.

Amazing work NF.

The dred is awesome. So many little details. Is that a fuel/oil leak at the back?
Gitsplitta is one lucky Git to get that.

The girls also look brilliant, very nice.

Look forward to where the rest goes.

Gorgeous


The dread is beautifully weathered... How did you end up doing it? The details are amazing.
The mottled effect on the Hellbitches arms and legs was a perfect decision. Masterfully done!

And that Mek.... Damn it... Its so beautiful

Where'd KC hide the ice cream?

That's seriously cool!

That dread is beastly looking. Is it on the right sized base though? It looks kinda small.

Well stunning as always, and not much I can add to what has been said already except - nice nipples

I agree with Gits, I think you can spend a huge amount of time going in for the details on the Deff Dread !! One of the best I've seen lately, by far

Daemonettes are smokin' too !!! It'd be hard to resist staring while being cut to pieces
They should deserve an additional init penalty inflicted on their enemies

As for the rest... More than promising !!!

Don't want to just echo everyone, but have too. Just amazing work all around. Amazing.

Can't say more, brain freeze from icecream........AWWWW!!

All nice Nerdy! Luv da Dredd!

That dread is bloody nice looking. Well done!

Careful, you never know when some sneaky Lootas are nicking about!

Nice update Nerdy the dread is looking lovely and weathered, I really love the effect you have done on the power supply as Git's said I've never seen that done before and it looks fantastic.

Now those hell bitches are super sexy lovely skin tone and blending and the mottling effect is out of this world mate

Its cool to see some paint slapped on the lions they are going to look fantastic I'm sure.

The Mek keeps getting better no idea how you had the patience to do the hazard stripes on the cabling.

Everything you touch with your brush seems to come out amazingly well, keep it up

I'll have you an army list shorty for your Alpha Legion a plan is forming

I've been trawling Gits and Dave's threads all night looking for what set up they use for their airbrushes? I want to upgrade and need a good package with a compressor and a gravity fed cup? the googling didn't help as i know not much about it all! :-( anyone else got any advice on a good little set up?

I've always been happy with my Paasche Talon. Its a great multipurpose airbrush- Im pretty sure its the same one Gits uses.
As to a compressor.... well the one I got is crap. I dont recommend it: Paashche D500SR

Talon, Grex compressor.

RiTides has a great thread about it but it's in the DCM section. Seems that MajorTom and many others are saying that the Badger Krome is a great place to start and you won't need to upgrade it for a long time, possibly ever, so it's a solid buy for most people. I found quite a few set ups on ebay with that brush for around £300 I think. I need to check the compressors though.

Best thing to do for advice though is upgrade to DCM and read that thread. There are loads of good videos on YouTube too. AirbrushTutor and WargamersConsortium both have helpful series' on the subject.

Thanks Casey! I've been toying with becoming a DCM for about ......3 years looks like i need to finally bite the bullet and next pay get my DCM on! then I'll do my research and get a new set up.

only a little bit of paint today, I wanted to brighten up the Mek Ork I am painting but didn't want to lavish too much colour to be distracting on him, so I decided to use his backpack to be the spot colour by painting it in tarnished and bright copper tones, what do you think?



got some packages in the post the other day and just had to get a little excited and have a crack with some of them firstly lets see what I got!



and some marine parts incase i need them.....

and some terminator parts incase i need them........

and an Emperor's Children Contemptor dreadnought........ incase i need it

and this.

and this is what i tried? o.k? too dark powder do i need a lighter one?


I also did some painting of my Alpha legion guy! the armour is meant to be a greenish blue right? how does this look? I really want to get some feedback before i continue!

That is one hell of a supply drop.


So ah... Nerdy... You uh... ain't gonna use all them there classy looking FW marines are ya? Why don't you uh.... share the marine love about... by you know.... eh.... sending me a few... for you know... reasons. Yeah. Reasons.

Oh my, that is a treasure trove of pure awesome. Hook that plastic/resin crack to my veins! And you knocked out progress on multiple projects too! I don't know where to start!

Wow... That's pretty amazing all-round!

That is a boat load of things! In case, you know, you need them.

Nice haul

I think The Lord has too much green to him for a regular trooper, but for a hero I think they should stand out more anyway, so it fits him great.

Also I like the dirt effect you did, not all dirt and grim has to be a dark muddy brown. Yours looks more like a desert flats sort of grime.

Ok. too much stuff overload :Wow:
Love the muck - really nice.
That's a lot of marines Going even more purple are we?
And that mek... just awesome. Yowser.
Like your alpha dude but he is suffering a bit from peanut head syndrome?

I think I know why you have no money for DCM-hood...

Well the mek is looking more awesome by the day. The supply drop is just not fair. But I can't wait to see what you do with it all. And the lord looks cool, apart from I kinda agree about the head, can't put my finger on it but.........kinda looks like when a baby is filling it's nappy. I am sure it will look brilliant in the end, and who the heck am I to say anything. It's just slightly off is all, IMO. I will shut up now ...........sorry.

Yep that is roughly the "codex" standard look for AL guys.

Lol, thanks guys for the feedback the AL guy is my first attempt and it was the amount of green I was concerned about, i think perhaps another blue wash should pull it back enough we'll see how it looks, but at least it's not too much to be ott! and his head Oh you guys! I actually like it, it's only marginally smaller than the GW ones and on a Scibor body it does initially look small I won't argue there, but I look at it as being more in proportion if he was actually wearing the armour! I keep thinking Primarch even though that won't be his role in the force

any ideas on his tabard colour? my initial reaction is creamy white or black, green could work but it'd have to be quite bright and it might pull your eyes too much? Hmmm?

Oh I should probably chuck this in swap shop but I figured here would be just as successful as you dudes know me I've put my HH IF on the back burner now as I had too much going on in my head with my models I needed to strip it back a bit so I have as a result got 15 MarkIII Iron armour marines with Phobos pattern bolters up for grabs, I'd like to swap them for Ork models with no paint on them in plastic if possible some StormBoyz would be ace if anyone has some but i'm open to any ideas

Painter, collector, gamer.... plastic crack peddler

The worst kind of crack peddler.

Superb supply drop, I'm green with envy on the books in particular.

Speaking of green, this guy has a definite Hulk vibe going on...

Wow thats a mega supply drop NF09

Oh yea, Damo, I think youre "calgar" needs another coat or two of blue wash, as hes currently a bit green for Alpha legion I think

Hi mate, as always your output is impressive to say the least.

Love the very moody pictures with the black background. Your Marines look snazzy already!

Thanks Siggy! haven't seen you in a while! I've got a fair amount on my table at the moment and i'm trying to juggle all my projects for myself and my friends :-) it's a 1st world problem i'm glad to have though! i've got some serious anticipation for a couple of upcoming commision-ish things (you know who you are) and then i have this other thing......



.... http://whydidibuythat.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/muppet-orange-whatnot-kit.html

Yes, it's a muppet and I bought one from ebay! why you may ask?....duh! so I can turn it into a likeness of myself and then finally create some fun painting tutorial videos for youtube lol! and yep, i'm deadly serious! :-)

Dude thats awesome!

i look forward to watching Muppet-Damo progress

Thanks ramos lol! once he arrives I'll sort out a beard and hair that looks like me and i've got 2 pairs of glasses so he can have a pair and if they don't look right i'll have to get creative! :-) then all I need is to find someone who can edit and produce my vids for me! it's gonna be fun times I tell ya!

Damo is looking to Chaos Incursion his way thru his local games group it seems!

Thanks Nerdfest. I no longer feel bad about having hordes of unpainted SM's after seeing that rabble you just picked up!

You are going to love the FW masterclass books though, some excellent terrain and weathering tips. I also recommend their weathering powders as they work like a treat.

Thanks Commander, I have already been totally inspired by the masterclass books! I have a master plan to use the methods and techniques from the way they paint the interior of the medusa to do the entirety of the walls on my ZM board i'm doing :-) I think the dirty white will really be different if I can pull it off well, still working out the powders at the moment, I've experimented on my Baal pred by fixing them twice and then sealing with varnish but it still is a little powdery and rubs off a bit? not sure if that's normal or not yet?

Well I never varnish my powders anyway but I do find that they have a tendency to rub off a little bit. I find that the less powder you apply the better it sticks.

Oh, if you don't already have a bone coloured powder it is a must! It works really well and stands out more than the muted browns and reds I find.
(shameless plug of my own powder experiments )
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/421247-Floor%20section.html?m=2

Would you recommend the second masterclass book NF? Just wanted to make sure it was not the exact same as the first before I picked it up myself...

 Commander Cain wrote:
Well I never varnish my powders anyway but I do find that they have a tendency to rub off a little bit. I find that the less powder you apply the better it sticks.

I do the same as Commander Cain and dont have any issues, I use Vallejo though.

Gah! My previous reply disappeared or was deleted. Or maybe I forgot to hit "post"? Now for the attempted reconstruction.

Alpha guy looks good, though he's a bit more green than they're usually portrayed. They usually seem like dark blue, but with a greenish sheen, yet different to the dark sea green of the Sons of Horus. Perhaps some blue glazing over the top of the model will have the right effect? Weathering on the Baal looks great, and a nice start to the librarian. Nice rich blues you have going there. What did you use? AP blue spray and a glaze?

Nice loot haul there. I'm waiting on a decent sized FW order myself, though I wish I could be as focused as you are. I also need to get the new Marine stuff. Argh! Too much to buy!

That Ork Mek has come up great. Really nice. I can see why you've been inspired to start a force of them. New book is supposed to be soon as well. Though it's a shame to see the Orks are leading to the Fists being retired. If you can't find anyone to Orkify those marines, I know someone who'd be willing to exchange them for money, though many of them would ironically be inducted into the Iron Warriors - arch enemies of the Impy Fists!

If you're still looking at doing a little bit of sculpting and detail press-moulding, the place I got the Oymaru/Instant Mould from in Australia emailed me to say that they've gotten in Procreate, which is supposed to be a great alternative to greenstuff according to various sources. I dunno what it's like firsthand yet, I just ordered some, but I was never any good at sculpting with greenstuff aside from press moulds. I'll be giving it a try to add details from one kit to others before I get all ambitious and try actually sculpting anything again..
Here's the link:
http://merchant.auctivacommerce.com/s29432/ProCreate-Epoxy-Putty-P3255052.aspx

 Commander Cain wrote:
Well I never varnish my powders anyway but I do find that they have a tendency to rub off a little bit. I find that the less powder you apply the better it sticks.

Oh, if you don't already have a bone coloured powder it is a must! It works really well and stands out more than the muted browns and reds I find.
(shameless plug of my own powder experiments )
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/421247-Floor%20section.html?m=2

That's come up really well. I wouldn't have thought of using bone/pale tones to weather steel checkerplate, but it's worked really nicely.

Cheers az and guys! the powders are turning out to be quite fun but reaching the balance between looking good on playable models and looking good on static models is proving tricky at the moment!

I haven't opened the second masterclass book yet Commander but I'll have a look tomorrow for you and let you know if you like? flicking through the pics it seems a bit 'cleaner' than the first with more eldar and painting rather than dirt and grime.

Now, my Alpha Legion guys, I've been doing a whole bunch of research on paint and colours and kind of luckily I've seen such divergence in a standard paint scheme that I feel that my take will be approved when it gets finished with all the details included to tie it together? well, I hope so anyway I do agree the base blue is a bit lighter than usually seen but at least it doesn't look anything like the examples in the Chaos Codex

anyway here's where I'm at with them so far with progress of my Marneus calgar counts as! still a way to go.









Now, I mentioned before I was going to re visit ALL my Flesh Eaters! I got one done-ish today with a test of the white chest eagle and helmet stripe, I think when they all get the treatment it'll make the army jump out at you a bit more?


that's what I did today anyway, hope you like!

Good work NF.
The Alpha Legion dudes look good in a group.
As a thought, to add a little extra to the armour colour have you considered a green interference paint like I used on my Wave Serpent?

The Flesh Eater looks tidy. Good job.

Preying Mantis FTW!!!

Very nice Nerdy. Looking very sharp.

Looking great, loving the tones on the Alpha's.

Thanks for the input guys! I'll keep that in mind Dr Hinternet ;-) I'm not sure if I should break it up yet or wait until I do the eye lenses and metal parts first? I want to make sure the colour looks acceptable before I get working on the Contemptor and Storm raven for them! :-)

Damn yo, Calgar never looked so good. Im excited to see him finished now to be honest

Pics of new alpha legion doors are up in the news and rumor area from games day. Guess you'll have to do another supply drop .

I wanted have a go at finishing one of the Tac squad to his finished stage to see how it all looked before I did the rest of them I like how he turned out but I now know how to do the scales and shading on them better for the next one as this guys are a little blurred but acceptable





My Flesh Eaters upgrades of the details started in earnest today on one squad just got the eagles and helmet stripes base/washed and re base coloured, next will be the 2 highlights up to pure white, seeing them all like this I think really makes them look a bit/lot! more interesting as a force!


Hope you like the AL and he's not too green or too blue? I'll do another single model and see if i can perfect the look

Those flesh tearers , needs om zombie bits on the bases from their victims.

The scale work is amazing Damo

Holy crap! That Alpha Legion marine is beautiful looking.

I would love to field a whole army of them.

Nice work, Damo. I just hope you can retain your sanity with that many scales to paint!

Looks great. Good work on the scales...
...actually, how did you do the scales?

hand painted scales = Nerdsanity!!

Fantastic work brother nerd!!! As usual of course. The red is clean too, but what is really hooking me is the blue to lime green transition on those dudes. A slightly unusual scheme that is just so very well executed. Thanks for the inspiration bro, it's work like yours that pushes me to challenge myself. lookin frwd to the finished Calgary model!
Cheers
Bebop

The scales really sell it for me. Are you going to do the serpent or A logo on them?

Solid effort on that Alpha Legion dude, Damo! And those Flesh Tearers
Gorgeous looking. I'll patiently wait for you to finish the tac squad, because they should look beautiful together as a group.

Ok they are amazing, can't add more. Those scales are bloody out of this world.

Hey guys! so i'm guessing that he looks enough like an Alpha legion to pass muster good news for me then! the scales are pretty rough as I was sort of trying a few styles to see what looked good, I will be hand painting scales on all of them, originally it was just the scale shapes coming from the blending in the same green colour, then i added a bit of bright green then I tried to shade under the scales but it'll do for now

@Moltar: Close.... they're my Flesh Eaters force I have a bucket load of them and now i'm going back to include more details and lavish some more love where they need it before i add weathering powders to all their legs etc. so it looks like all the pics i had of them before!..... you'll see again

@Whalemusic360: I don't know dude, I was going to play these guys as a loyalist splinter of the AL which could be plausible due to the nature of the legion so I thought the 'A' logo would be better? I do like the Hydra symbol though too....

@bebopdrums: Ah thank you brother bebop! yes you would be correct the colour is a little unusual and I would prefer it to be darker in the blue sections, but I have a painting style and methods that I love using to enable me to actually finish models and as I could only find Ultramarine blue in a primer can that's as dark as i could go, otherwise you may have seen these as Crimson Fists instead lol! Calgar should be done next week by Friday!

@Gits: yep! Nerdsanity to the highest degree! wait until I whip them out on the Contemptor Dread!

@Azazelx: Sanity? eh? what's that? .....................

@snrub: Wha thank you snrub

@Theo: thanks Theo, I do love a good orkmoticon and I hadn't actually thought about a few random and well placed body parts to really push the fierce and savage nature of the Eaters! I will go ebaying and see what i can find!




Well, my plans are as such for the next few weeks, I want to finish my Marneus Calgar stand in and GFX's Celestial Lions Terminators. I have two commission (sort of) works to do one of which is a FW Angron model and this model is the first one I really want to do as I've been playing and researching how to do some magic looking brass/gold for his armour and ths Nerdcademy award for faces has inspired me to re-push myself and my skills to do something pretty good for Angron's face! when he's done I'll be diving into the world of Orky goodness again and finishing some more stuff for Gits, 3 Kans, Grot herder & Grots and I believe a Mantis Warriors games day boarding captain? Once they're done i should have my own projects re organised and ready to go! and it will be back to the Slaanesh army with my Terminators and hopefully the FW Kakophony marines will be available?

anyway, thanks again I'm happy he worked and you all liked him! see ya'll soon eh!

Sounds like a full slate! Should be fun to watch!

Wow! Now that's a lotttt of things to do in a few weeks! Will be looking forward to it

The scales on the Alpha guy are really amazing, looking forward to a whole army done like that.

^^X2

How long did it take to do the one marine with all those scales?

Well I got started on Angron today! I just HAD TOO!

such a sweet model and I am really looking forward to doing that face! I mean really, how much character can you get in an angry superhuman almost literally running through space marines!! so good!

I primed black and misted white from above to give me some idea of the shading then started on the man himself by giving him the first coat of copper and a wash of sepia and earthshade (still a little wet) next i'll deepen the shading with inks and start to build the armour up to be bright! and of course have a crack at that face!

here's some pics, nothing really astounding but I really want to document each session on this model so Whaley and you guys can see my process and correct me on any colours or things i may not be privy to.








I did some more to counts as Marneus but i'm not sure if i'm not feeling the models now or if i'm burning out on my projects? so I'll keep going on him and get him finished and if I don't want to keep going I'll give him away to someone and assign the squad to be re painted and join the ranks of the FleshEaters?




and speaking of FleshEaters I finished the white highlights on the chest eagles and helmet stripes, next it's the knee squad markings and helmet grille and weathering I wish i had of done this at the start! looks great in my opinion, much more enticing to look at!

Nice start, you said you'll make the armor brighter, but will it be brighter gold, or brighter red? I could go for either

Hmmm, initially I was thinking a brighter gold but I can still do that and make the recessed areas a bit more red? I thought about adding washes to make it look like he cleans all the blood and viscera from his armour plates but it still congeals in the joins etc?