Loving that Helbrute conversions, those pics with the zombies look great too, very atmospheric.

EDC

I'll look into it.

I love that helbrute, and the batrep shots are wonderful!

Good additions indeed.

evildrcheese wrote:Loving that Helbrute conversions, those pics with the zombies look great too, very atmospheric.


EDC

Thanks mate , I really couldn't live with it as it was such a badly posed model. I like the zombies but will have to build an entire new set with space hulk themed bases !

Gitsplitta wrote:I'll look into it.

Arnie voice " Doooooo iiiiiittttt !! "

ThunderFury 2575 wrote:I love that helbrute, and the batrep shots are wonderful!

Hi mate, thanks for commenting, as above, I hated the Hellbrute as it was!

Dr H wrote:Good additions indeed.

Thanks Dr !

I bit the bullet and set to masking the dumb ass hazard lines I thought would look nice on the pods.

Two and a half hours later I've managed one pod and needing a good bottle of red


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AND it's not even any where near symmetrical and stressing me !

Totally un-related, has anyone thought about converting an ork dakkajet or similar into an imperial guard jet ?

I feel you with the hazard stripes.

When I got to doing my pod I agonised over the stripes for days trying to come up with a way to get them even. I ended up using a very small metal ruler on the inside and outside area and having the same distance between each stripe. It was a NIGHTMARE.

As I have two more pods to paint I am eagerly awaiting other peoples suggestions.

Something you can do, if you didn't, is to start with the first piece of tape, then position another next to it, aligned edge to edge.
Then add a third piece, aligned to that one.
Then remove the 2nd piece and you have have aligned and spaced masking tape. Much more accurate than doing them by eye.

I usually find myself freehanding hazard stripes though. For small areas, large areas, I would probably do the above.

Knightley wrote:I feel you with the hazard stripes.

When I got to doing my pod I agonised over the stripes for days trying to come up with a way to get them even. I ended up using a very small metal ruler on the inside and outside area and having the same distance between each stripe. It was a NIGHTMARE.

As I have two more pods to paint I am eagerly awaiting other peoples suggestions.

I have some more to do, and I'm not looking forward to it , they are deceptively complex to paint !
Measuring sounds like a lot of hard work, respect my friend !

Dr H wrote:Something you can do, if you didn't, is to start with the first piece of tape, then position another next to it, aligned edge to edge.
Then add a third piece, aligned to that one.
Then remove the 2nd piece and you have have aligned and spaced masking tape. Much more accurate than doing them by eye.

I usually find myself freehanding hazard stripes though. For small areas, large areas, I would probably do the above.

Hey Dr, that's a great tip ! Wish I tried that , I just did it all by eye !

Love the hellbrute conversion.

 Dr H wrote:
Something you can do, if you didn't, is to start with the first piece of tape, then position another next to it, aligned edge to edge.
Then add a third piece, aligned to that one.
Then remove the 2nd piece and you have have aligned and spaced masking tape. Much more accurate than doing them by eye.

I usually find myself freehanding hazard stripes though. For small areas, large areas, I would probably do the above.

Ding Ding Ding we have a winner, will be doing this on my next two pods! Thank you very much!

Small update on the pods, I masked both up , one thin stripes and as that nearly killed me one with larger stripes!
They need a bit of cleaning up where paint has bled under the masking tape. I not completely happy, I think the angles are wrong but anyhow it's on and should blend in a bit with a bit of chipping and weathering.
Comments welcome !

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Glad to hear you like the idea chaps. I should probably add that to the "daily tips" thread...

It's worth the pain, Big'. They look good.

I think I prefer the thicker stripes, they seem more "in scale" to the application.

To avoid bleeding of the paint with masking tape it's best to use a hard (but not sharp) object to push the edges down firmly, and don't paint on too much or too thin a paint (this is expecially important for solvent-based paints, but should also help for water-based)... I should probably add that to the "painters" thread.

Good job.

 Dr H wrote:
Glad to hear you like the idea chaps. I should probably add that to the "daily tips" thread...

It's worth the pain, Big'. They look good.

I think I prefer the thicker stripes, they seem more "in scale" to the application.

To avoid bleeding of the paint with masking tape it's best to use a hard (but not sharp) object to push the edges down firmly, and don't paint on too much or too thin a paint (this is expecially important for solvent-based paints, but should also help for water-based)... I should probably add that to the "painters" thread.

Good job.

Thanks Dr ! I origionally thought the thinner stripes would be more "inscale " but as it turns out the thicker , and infinitely easier thicker ones look better

All good solid tips there too matey, and incidentally ones that I knew from a short time when I worked in a spray bay on cars and trucks, but red wine made me ignore it !

Pulled this bad boy out of the attic, and incorporated it into a 40k game as a counts as "dread knight"
It's gotta be the best part of 25 to 30 years since I made and painted this kit.
So ladies and gentlemen, should I leave it in all it 1980's Rogue trader glory, or jazz it up with new bitz and gubbinz and re-spray for the new modern age ?

Better pic !

Looks like you stated adding bits at some point. I would have said leave it, but now you might as well commit.

Forget the giant robot! is that a ruined chapel of sanctity behind him? :-) love that terrain!

That thing is a beast!

whalemusic360 wrote:Looks like you stated adding bits at some point. I would have said leave it, but now you might as well commit.

True enough mate, but I think the last time I tinkered with this model must've been 20 years ago!

nerdfest09 wrote:Forget the giant robot! is that a ruined chapel of sanctity behind him? :-) love that terrain!

It is the Sanctity joby, my attic is full of all kinds of 40k crap like that !

Gitsplitta wrote:That thing is a beast!

Lol, thanks Gits ! It is somewhere between a dread night and an imperial knight !

So, tonight resulted in some more random tinkering , I raided the depths of the bitz skip and came out with a very incomplete demon prince to serve as a base for Little H's newly bought (actual) Dreadknight.

What do you think ?

That base is mad cool! love the way you've done the leg additions and the pose as he's fallen, going to look even better painted up like you do :-)

I agree with Nerdy, you've nailed it!

nerdfest09 wrote:That base is mad cool! love the way you've done the leg additions and the pose as he's fallen, going to look even better painted up like you do :-)

Gitsplitta wrote:I agree with Nerdy, you've nailed it!

Thanks guys ! He's posed like that specifically because I didn't have a torso back , any legs or a left arm so made some out of bits and putty !

So, I can't get my paint mojo on but I did a bit of asembly, so i present to you some semi finished grey Knights and the Dreadknight base .
Let me know what you think.

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Dreadknight legs .

All models need to be both built and painted at some point, and building generally comes first... Progress is progress.

And cool looking progress it is! they are some sweet looking Knights! love the Russian astronaut heads from PW?

Nice work on the grey knights, some great kit bashing skills.

Cool basing too.

EDC

Very nice builds Big H. I'm with Nerdy on the heads... nice touch.

Dr H wrote:All models need to be both built and painted at some point, and building generally comes first... Progress is progress.

Wise words Doc !

nerdfest09 wrote:And cool looking progress it is! they are some sweet looking Knights! love the Russian astronaut heads from PW?

Thanks Nerdy , yes the heads a from Puppets war .

evildrcheese wrote:Nice work on the grey knights, some great kit bashing skills.

Cool basing too.

EDC

Gitsplitta wrote:Very nice builds Big H. I'm with Nerdy on the heads... nice touch.

Thanks guys, really just a case of sitting on the floor surrounded by bits and throwing enough parts around that it looks ok !

Some minor work done on the pods, mostly chipping and some oils in the interiors, planning to scorch up the outside with the airbrush, but not entirely sure how to go about it, might need to build a mock up eg coke can.

As an aside , if anyone asks you to paint pre built drop pods , poke their eyes out and run away. Seriously these are deceptively a pain it the ass.

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Huh, from left field comes two of the best painted drop pods i've seen in a looooong time! :-) you've absolutely nailed the balance of light and dark chipping with the weathering it looks brilliant!

Have to agree mate nice paint work great use of weathering and shading techniques

nerdfest09 wrote:Huh, from left field comes two of the best painted drop pods i've seen in a looooong time! :-) you've absolutely nailed the balance of light and dark chipping with the weathering it looks brilliant!

Crikey mate, high praise indeed ! Or you need glasses !

lone dirty dog wrote:Have to agree mate nice paint work great use of weathering and shading techniques

Yeah, probably you should be next in the optometrist queue after Nerdy ! But thanks mate, means a lot !

So today I worked from home which meant I obviously did glueing and painting inbetween emails.

Comments welcome !

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Dude seriously it looks great deal with it

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Dude seriously it looks great deal with it

Haha fair one mate, what do you reckon to the pinkish to brown scorching ? I'm not too sure at the minute, maybe a light tint of some dark red or brown to calm it down ?

Yes it is a different approach but I like it it doesn't look out of place or wrong so works, you could always add an overspray of brown to maybe blend it a little more to add that scorched look.

On the whole I like it plus I ain't normally a fan of marine tech so double winner mate

Love the build on the marines.

The pinkish tone seems a bit out of place on the paint. When I see it, I think “heat stressed metal” which is fine on the metallic parts (love it at the top of the pod) but on the tan paint it seems odd.

IMHO, YMMV, Etc.

So jealous. I really need to go back and work on my drop pods. They're "factory new" and it just doesn't look right.

lone dirty dog wrote:Yes it is a different approach but I like it it doesn't look out of place or wrong so works, you could always add an overspray of brown to maybe blend it a little more to add that scorched look.

On the whole I like it plus I ain't normally a fan of marine tech so double winner mate

Well that's praise indeed then ! Thanks matey !

Nevelon wrote:Love the build on the marines.

The pinkish tone seems a bit out of place on the paint. When I see it, I think “heat stressed metal” which is fine on the metallic parts (love it at the top of the pod) but on the tan paint it seems odd.

IMHO, YMMV, Etc.

Thanks mate, the reasoning behind the burnt paint on the bottom of the pod is its where I'm assuming heat builds up on it entering whatever planets it drops onto's atmosphere, just like space shuttles etc get all burnt up underneath today. Pink was a colour I e seen a lot when non shiny metal gets hot, see pics below. If it's shiny and clean you get yellows, blues and deep red, if it's rusty or in this case painted it goes pink.
Thanks for the comments mate !

Gitsplitta wrote:So jealous. I really need to go back and work on my drop pods. They're "factory new" and it just doesn't look right.

Maybe yours are just pre-drop ?

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So, whatever colour you like your burnt bits, I'm calling these pods done, really fellas, I got these for a song, the pair for less than a new kit, but pre -badly - assembled pods randomly painted blue and silver are a living nightmare to work on. I'm firmly of the option drop pods can be done at least twice as fast by being painted in sub-assblies and put together when you are happily done without trying to get paint round corners etc !

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Absolutely stunning Big H. Bloody fantastic!

Those pods are damn sexy. Good job man.

This pods look fantastic. Love the burn scarring.

Totally kick ass pods dude.

Nice work on the hammer/shield dude, he looks totally rad.

EDC

Gitsplitta wrote:Absolutely stunning Big H. Bloody fantastic!

Thanks Gits !

whalemusic360 wrote:Those pods are damn sexy. Good job man.

Thanks Whaley !

insaniak wrote:This pods look fantastic. Love the burn scarring.

Thanks Insaniak, it didn't quite turn out like I envisaged it in my head, but actually they arn't so bad !!

evildrcheese wrote:Totally kick ass pods dude.

Nice work on the hammer/shield dude, he looks totally rad.

EDC

Thanks Evilcheese, I'm pretty happy with the Hammer Knight, I suspect he will be a tricky model for me to paint !

A million years ago I built some Nurgle Nazi Zombie Storm Troopers, well I got a bit of paint on them, still very much WIP, but what do you good people reckon ?
Comments and critisisms welcome !

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Love those guys. The bluish and greenish greys really work fantastically well together. Those are really interesting models, are they standard or something you cooked up yourself?

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Love those guys. The bluish and greenish greys really work fantastically well together. Those are really interesting models, are they standard or something you cooked up yourself?

Hey Gits ! They have come out quite well, reasonably happy so far !
They are a fairly simple kit bash : heads - kromlech.
Legs and backpacks - Anvil Industries.
Bodies - GW Cadian with some greenstuff to cover the cloth and look more like armour.
Arms / weapons- GW storm troopers .

The hard part is getting the arms to line up as the Cadian body must be a bit narrower than the storm trooper torso. I only had the arms so had to improvise. I also put some plastic card between the legs and torsos as they looked too short in the bodies without it.

Thanks for looking in mate !

Fantastic kitbash man... really unique and interesting figures and you paint job just suits them perfectly. My pleasure to hang with you. Very inspirational work you're producing.

Love these guys especially the fact that you didn't go for the usual rotten flesh approach but rather reflected the connection via colour scheme.

Nice combo of parts as well good job mate

Gitsplitta wrote:Fantastic kitbash man... really unique and interesting figures and you paint job just suits them perfectly. My pleasure to hang with you. Very inspirational work you're producing.

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Just happy not to be boring you to death mate ! Thanks for the compliment, I genuinely just throw gak together tho !

lone dirty dog wrote:Love these guys especially the fact that you didn't go for the usual rotten flesh approach but rather reflected the connection via colour scheme.

Nice combo of parts as well good job mate

Thanks dude, I don't have too many full on zombies just yet, in my fluff they are not yet fully turned, but not sure what the fack they are. I'm imagining a turned to Nurgle imperial stores guy poisoned a huge amount of respirators with nurgles rot or something and now this once loyal Guard regiment are slowly descending into paranoia, crazyness and Zombiedom by breathing it directly into there lungs thru fear of removing there respirators.

Tonight work, pretty much finished these dudes, I had some dramas with the varnish removing all the really good looking powders I applied on the heat damaged metal exhausts on the backpacks and weapon and now it's not so good as it was. Also not too happy with the red lenses , need more depth really , but they will do for now .

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And these guys potential ride, no sure whether they get the Valkyrie done earlier in the year or some Hanomag counts as Chimera's
Thoughts ?

Love the icon bearer. That vehicle looks very appropriate for them... though it needs to be chewed on a bit to look the part.

Convert that into some bad ass ride and maybe add some kind of gas tanks to the side as if it's pumping out gas as it progresses, maybe something along the lines of this could work.

http://www.hayaltd.co.uk/21st_Century_118_Scale_WWII_German_Sdkfz_2511_Stuka_Zu_Fuss_Halftrack/p191100_4717887.aspx

Gitsplitta wrote:Love the icon bearer. That vehicle looks very appropriate for them... though it needs to be chewed on a bit to look the part.

Thanks mate , the icon bearer is probably one of the better ones ! Yep, the vehicle will definately get a Dremelling !

lone dirty dog wrote:Convert that into some bad ass ride and maybe add some kind of gas tanks to the side as if it's pumping out gas as it progresses, maybe something along the lines of this could work.

http://www.hayaltd.co.uk/21st_Century_118_Scale_WWII_German_Sdkfz_2511_Stuka_Zu_Fuss_Halftrack/p191100_4717887.aspx

Good idea LDD ! I got three on a whim , so a conversion like that will be on the cards I think ! Thanks for the link buddy !


Got some WIP today on the counts as Basilisk i started with the horror Drop pods, I was very heavy handed with the chipping but I suppose it will work out .....

Also got the bases done on these Dust Tactics walkers, these bad boys really suit the look of my Nurgle Nazis.
Really must do some marines soon tho.....

Glad to help mate three on a whim no that was forward thinking just a thought you could also add a trooper in the open back section getting his pack refilled with the gas, like a mobile nurgle refuelling vehicle.

The basilisk does look like it has taken a beating for sure, but it is war after all and will you be adding a rust wash to it maybe to dirty the paint work up a little ?
Maybe add some rust runs around some bolts and raised sections, plus reflects the nurgle decay theme a bit more.

Those walkers fit the nazi theme perfectly, will you be 40King them up any ?

 lone dirty dog wrote:
Glad to help mate three on a whim no that was forward thinking just a thought you could also add a trooper in the open back section getting his pack refilled with the gas, like a mobile nurgle refuelling vehicle.

The basilisk does look like it has taken a beating for sure, but it is war after all and will you be adding a rust wash to it maybe to dirty the paint work up a little ?
Maybe add some rust runs around some bolts and raised sections, plus reflects the nurgle decay theme a bit more.

Those walkers fit the nazi theme perfectly, will you be 40King them up any ?

Again, another cracking idea mate ! I think one of the Hanomag variants was a flamethrower vehicle so some big nurgle gas tanks and a couple of heavy flames might be easily do-able !

Oh yeah, I'm gonna weather the feth out of it , or it'll not fit with my over over the top rusting !

I'm not sure about the walkers , they are super little models in there own right , I might put a crew member in an open hatch or something like that tho.
What do you people in Dakkaland think ?

Today was an easy work from home day, manage to get the Basilisk up to the point where it gets the oils.

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It really has had a bashing, I like the fact that the metal actually looks distorted and bent out of shap now for the rust wash.

As for the walkers maybe some damaged sections with added patch work, maybe a nurgle icon here and there would be cool.

Maybe adding some sentinel exhausts to help tie in the 40k styling also some stowage maybe coms pack that kind of thing, have you considered adding some extra armour to the leg sections to beef them up a little ?

Can I ask where is the standard bearers standard from ?

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It really has had a bashing, I like the fact that the metal actually looks distorted and bent out of shap now for the rust wash.

As for the walkers maybe some damaged sections with added patch work, maybe a nurgle icon here and there would be cool.

Maybe adding some sentinel exhausts to help tie in the 40k styling also some stowage maybe coms pack that kind of thing, have you considered adding some extra armour to the leg sections to beef them up a little ?

Can I ask where is the standard bearers standard from ?

Yeah it has ! And the rust / grime wash hasn't improved its looks any !!!

I heated up the plastic with a blue flame lighter and a screw driver to create all the dents and shell strikes before I started the paint.

I think some Nurgle icons and maybe exhausts would be ideal for the walkers. The big chunky dumb ass 40k weapons and stuff really wouldn't suit the DUST stuff in my opinion, they look too good to my eye.

The icon bearer's arms and banner pole are from the GW stormtroopers kit, I clipped the flag off along the line of the pole so it was left full length , the Nurgle icon was from eBay, search "nurgle icon" , that's all I know about that bit !

So I did get a bit of oil paint on the Basilisk, one of the things I really like about oils is this palette has had paint in it about 10 days and it's still good to go with some thinners, can't do that with acrylic ! plus I think it's shades way better that acrylic washes/ tints.

Anyhow, enjoy and let's hear some comments on the direction these traitor guard are going !

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Cool Chaos army!

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Cool Chaos army!

Thanks Shas !

Tank's looking great. Keep doing what you're doing.

 Dr H wrote:
Tank's looking great. Keep doing what you're doing.

Thanks for the vote of confidence Doc !

Got a coat of Matt varnish on the Basilisk so some tidying up, detail shading and some lenses and it's done , hopefully finish that Sunday , however today I knocked up a base for my Valkyrie as Little H robbed mine for his Stormtalon.

And that's about all I'll get done today as I'm off down the pub !
Let me know what you think guys ! Critisisms welcome !

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Good idea on the crew driver technique have to remember that one for the future, definitely griping up but still room for more IMHO I mean it's nurgle so dirt and grime is a must.

Yes I see your point on the walkers all though a few repair plates and straps would tie in the nurgle theme a bit more, as for oil paints they do have a great time usage but on the same hand can be a real pain to dry.

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Good idea on the crew driver technique have to remember that one for the future, definitely griping up but still room for more IMHO I mean it's nurgle so dirt and grime is a must.

Yes I see your point on the walkers all though a few repair plates and straps would tie in the nurgle theme a bit more, as for oil paints they do have a great time usage but on the same hand can be a real pain to dry.

I take your point about them being Nurgle and needing more gunk. I my homemade fluff they are only just turned, so not full dribbley yet, but perhaps I'll go a bit further.

Good point ref. Oils, if you paint with oils it takes forever to dry, but when diluted with thinners to make washes and tints, it's reasonably quick to work with, once the thinners have evaporated the paint tint will still be soft but give it an hour and spray with varnish to seal it in and your back to working with acrylics !

I'm calling the Basilisk done for now, I'll do the final glue together once I work out what I'm doing with the crew.
What do you reckon Dakka ?

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Very nice work on the Basilisk converted from a Pz-IV. Plenty of grimes and rust for a Nurgle Cannon.

Looks like it's been in the wars. Good job. Looks great.

Excellent job.

Dakka says YES! we honestly could learn so much from you Biggy! I know of no other proficient painters who regularly use oil and pin washes on pretty much everything to such great effect, i'm glad we've got you here on Dakka instead of scampering off to show your skills on those 'other' scale model sites!

shasolenzabi wrote:Very nice work on the Basilisk converted from a Pz-IV. Plenty of grimes and rust for a Nurgle Cannon.

Dr H wrote:Looks like it's been in the wars. Good job. Looks great.

Gitsplitta wrote:Excellent job.

Thanks fellas, glad you like it !

nerdfest09 wrote:Dakka says YES! we honestly could learn so much from you Biggy! I know of no other proficient painters who regularly use oil and pin washes on pretty much everything to such great effect, i'm glad we've got you here on Dakka instead of scampering off to show your skills on those 'other' scale model sites!

Well thanks Damo, you crazy kid ! All it takes is a little practise and an airbrush to spray lots of thin coats of varnish !

Today I tinkered a bit with Little H's Dreadknight , I reposed it to look less static , which is more or less done , save for the pilots legs which will need some reposing also.
I had intended to leave it in sub-assemblies to make it easier to paint but I just ended up with a million loose bits and not much actually glued, so now it's one big awkward lump.
Little H want it in our Marines desert camo, either with grey stripes or the pea dot. I kinda like the idea of the pea dot cam , interspersed with some usual bright heraldry and insignia.
What do you reckon Dakka ?

And here he is with some buddies.

And regular terminator for scale.

I just love true-scale stuff.

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I just love true-scale stuff.

Thanks Gits, I'm a tu ally looking forward to painting them, which I don't usually with infantry.

But instead of painting them, today I made a start on my loooooong planned Daemon Prince. It all started when I got a few DP bitz in a bag of stuff from eBay and I've been slowly collecting bits together for this big day !

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Had a casual few hours on the Daemon Prince , I think I have the basic shape done and roughed out now.
Next I'll add some cabling and then start on blending all the plates and limbs into the body in a nasty nurgle way with pure greenstuff.
Comments and critisisms welcome !

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Nice GS work on that demon.

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Nice GS work on that demon.

Thanks Gits ! I got a little bit more done this evening too, plenty more to do tho !

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The Dp is going to be awesome!

How do you do those hoses?

rustproof wrote:The Dp is going to be awesome!

Thanks rustproof ! Might take a while tho !

Gitsplitta wrote:How do you do those hoses?

It's called a greenstuff roller , different sized plates and a little frame you roll the GS in !

Looks like a must-buy!

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Looks like a must-buy!

They are about 15 bucks if memory serves me right, and incredibly useful once you get the hang of it. You can get tutorials on YouTube.

Some slow progress tonight, just about used my own body weight in green stuff so far....

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I roughed up the leg armour with the dremel too, so should be ready for some more overt nurgle greenstuff as well!!!

Where did the dp rib and back bits come from? A helbrute?

kakita wrote:
Where did the dp rib and back bits come from? A helbrute?

Hi mate, thanks for looking in ! The front ( ribs) is from the Demon Prince kit and the back and lower legs are from the Dark Vengence Hellbrute.

I wasn't too happy with the size of the head , so added some larger horns, a bit of hair and plan on adding big green stuff jowls hanging under the helmet .

So Dakkanauts , thoughts now, is the posing about right ? An improvement ? Mostly just blue tac at the moment so I can change for the better quite easily !

Very menacing pose there! He looks ready to tear things apart!

Good job incorporating all the various bits and the putty additions.

Pose seems fine.
Two ways to check any model's pose:
1. Put yourself in the position of the model. Is it a "comfortable" pose, do you naturally place arms, legs, feet, etc. in slightly different positions?

2. Can the model stand up by itself? Not always reliable as a hollow body and solid putty arm, for instance, will unbalance an otherwise balanced pose. But if it can, there can't be much of a complaint.

shasolenzabi wrote:Very menacing pose there! He looks ready to tear things apart!

Thanks mate, that's the look I was going for !

Dr H wrote:Good job incorporating all the various bits and the putty additions.

Pose seems fine.
Two ways to check any model's pose:
1. Put yourself in the position of the model. Is it a "comfortable" pose, do you naturally place arms, legs, feet, etc. in slightly different positions?

2. Can the model stand up by itself? Not always reliable as a hollow body and solid putty arm, for instance, will unbalance an otherwise balanced pose. But if it can, there can't be much of a complaint.

Wise words again Doc ! You truely are a hobby sage !

More greenstuff work tonight, nothing outrageous but getting close to finishing now. I'm planing on adding a few GW details if I can find then, maybe a bell or something to hang on the horns and some heads or skulls on the waist and I think that might do .

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...Wise words again Doc ! You truely are a hobby sage !

*bows*

Nice progress. Keep at it.

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 Big H wrote:
...Wise words again Doc ! You truely are a hobby sage !

*bows*

Nice progress. Keep at it.

Thanks Doc.

So today I played around with some bits, Nurgle Herald anyone ? Or what would it count as??
It's super WIP , but imagine it with a ton of green stuff and maybe some jump pack engines on top ????

Let's heat your ideas / thoughts Dakkanaughts !

Very slowly slogging thru the greenstuff details on the DP.

I've made it really hard for my self by having to sculpt the head and arms on, as there are now lots of hard to reach nooks and crannies ....

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And I got a start on the "Herald", I'm not really happy with the jump pack maybe I'll try cutting the engines off and mounting them on some fleshy arms of some kind???

I have some clawed arms to add to the body once the putty has cured.

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Ok so I think I've probably had enough of greenstuff on Daemon Princes.
I'm gonna call it there, except to maybe change the helmet grills to be more 3 hole nurgly or something. But later....
Not had many comment on the Prince , dakkanauts tell me where it's weak !

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And let's not forgot his WIP little pet .....

The chaos aesthetic is not really my strong suit, so I can't offer much beyond that it all looks like it works/blends together.

Probably not many comments since it's already really good! Only things I could suggest is the left arm that has the cable under it reminds me of the pointing arm from the nurgle herald so a large flap of rotting skin hanging down would add some cool detail and overall look, and second perhaps the addition of some maggots or bugs coming out our around the wounds? Gotta think about he'll look when you paint him up so he catches the eye!

Wow, the big guy is really coming along nicely. Looking really terrifying... just the thing!

Dr H wrote:The chaos aesthetic is not really my strong suit, so I can't offer much beyond that it all looks like it works/blends together.

I'm comfortable with that diagnosis, thanks Doc !

nerdfest09 wrote:Probably not many comments since it's already really good! Only things I could suggest is the left arm that has the cable under it reminds me of the pointing arm from the nurgle herald so a large flap of rotting skin hanging down would add some cool detail and overall look, and second perhaps the addition of some maggots or bugs coming out our around the wounds? Gotta think about he'll look when you paint him up so he catches the eye!

You know what? Thats actually a really good suggestion Damo, I'm having a rest from Greenstuff , but maggots are definitely on and i'll look at how the burst the flabby arm skin out of the armour, sounds easy enough !

Gitsplitta wrote:Wow, the big guy is really coming along nicely. Looking really terrifying... just the thing!

Thanks Gits !

Wicked I'll wait to see it with baited breath! you do have some great skills with the GS

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Wicked I'll wait to see it with baited breath! you do have some great skills with the GS

Thanks dude ! Not so special, sculpting nurgle stuff is child's play compared to smooth panels and flowing cloaks !

Today I skived work pretty majorly and built this bad boy to give me a break from greenstuff. Apparently I didn't learn my lesson with the last lot of drop pods I did, at least this one will come apart to paint the inside !!!

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For your consideration a group of WIP nurgle chaos warriors, comments / critisisms welcome !

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Nice job looks plenty nurgle kind of like some one sneezed over some half rotten Knights, so success

Ah, Nurgle forces! good stuff!

Well aren't they just bloody awesome! Seriously good nurgs you got going on and makes me wonder why the hell you send stuff to me to paint? You can smash out such cool models!

lone dirty dog wrote:Nice job looks plenty nurgle kind of like some one sneezed over some half rotten Knights, so success

Haha thanks LDD !

shasolenzabi wrote:Ah, Nurgle forces! good stuff!

Thanks Shas !

nerdfest09 wrote:Well aren't they just bloody awesome! Seriously good nurgs you got going on and makes me wonder why the hell you send stuff to me to paint? You can smash out such cool models!

Mate , really, my daubings are practically amateur ! Besides you get the stuff I havnt got time for !!!

This lot of nurgle knights are done, little H has more nurgle and a gak ton of Khorne to do but that will happen another day !
Comments and critisisms welcome !

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Coming along really well Big H. Enjoying your progress along this gritty path.

I love them all!, I wouldn't make love to them all, but they do look brilliantly Nurgle and very very nice all together, such a good palette for them.

Oooo excellent work on the Warriors. Proper grotty.

Really like the palette on these guys, you've limited it to a greenish spectrum but still managed to being enough variation to keep it interesting.

EDC

Gitsplitta wrote:Coming along really well Big H. Enjoying your progress along this gritty path.

Thanks Gits !

nerdfest09 wrote:I love them all!, I wouldn't make love to them all, but they do look brilliantly Nurgle and very very nice all together, such a good palette for them.

You'd need antibiotics if you did ! Thanks Nerdy !

evildrcheese wrote:Oooo excellent work on the Warriors. Proper grotty.

Really like the palette on these guys, you've limited it to a greenish spectrum but still managed to being enough variation to keep it interesting.

EDC

Thanks EvilCheese, bizarrely the initial armour colour was an acrylic wash of dark tan on zenithal white primer, but it went progressively greener unintentionally when i started on the oils, i kept the palette to about 4 or 5 colours but each is slightly different due to the oils.
I enjoyed these, will try get some more done once i get Little H's Wulfen done, in Camo !

Those guys are great. Gross, but great.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Those guys are great. Gross, but great.

Haha, thanks Whaley !

Today I had a play with some bits I've been collecting together for a planned "small" force of an Inquisitor and Retinue.
I'm thinking a couple of converted chaos warriors for the Inquisitor and crusaders, a couple of converted chaos cultists, an ogryn and these bad boys, I'm calling these Inquisatorial Stormtroopers, but they are gonna need some work to make them really "fit".
Any thoughts DakkaNaughts ???

They look good. Such a great choice of interesting bits in the Admech range.

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
They look good. Such a great choice of interesting bits in the Admech range.

EDC

Thanks Evilcheese, I agree, the bits are really useful for things like Inquisitors etc. My plan to make "just an inquisitor and a few henchmen" has started to spiral out of control !

Not really an update as such, but I had a bit of a play with some parts and blu-tac again and kinda like this tru-scale Astartes.
I want to build about 10 Death Guard , turned to the dark side but not fully gone all obese and dribbly.

Thoughts ?

Well Happy New Year Dakkanaughts !

I really havnt put much thought to painting lately, but today Little H wanted to start on some Pre Heresy Sons of Horus, that he wants to use as both Chaos Warriors and Loyalists as he chooses. I did the green with the airbrush and he is responsible for filling in the details !

Also I made a start on some models that have been lying around for ages and again , little H 'needs'. I had wanted the blue on Gandalf the White to be much paler. Is it too dark ?

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Wow dude I love that HH Green on the SoH :-) really bloody good mate, and LittleH himself had a hand in detailing! well done again, looking forward to seeing an army of them seriously cool models!

hope you guys had a good holiday season and a great new years!

I like it!

nerdfest09 wrote:Wow dude I love that HH Green on the SoH :-) really bloody good mate, and LittleH himself had a hand in detailing! well done again, looking forward to seeing an army of them seriously cool models!

hope you guys had a good holiday season and a great new years!

Gitsplitta wrote:I like it!

Thanks guys !

Little H has got some more paint on and built two Inquisitors as well ! ( with a bit of help chopping up the Sigmar model ! )

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Good to see Little H making strides!

Little H and I did a fair bit over the weekend. He pretty much finished the first batch of SoH space marines and we assembled some others from spares, bits and a whole load of recycled bits that his brother butchered over 10 years ago.

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I am doing the airbrush work and Little H is doing the details. He has found painting frustrating in the past so a bit of help in the beginning is helping him finish stuff

Oh and he also used a few bits to make a Ragnar Blackmane and a Lukas the Trickster. I helped with some greenstuff on the hair etc.

Well , Little H is still slogging through masses of gold trim, I decided to glue some of the bits I'd been hoarding to make an inquisitor and warband, made some progress on what I'm calling "stormtroopers" . The next few infantry will be based more on empire / cadian/ genestealer cult bits.

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I really like how the guy with the sword turned out. I'm thinking the actual Inquisator model in metal could use some more height however, not to mention an arm !

Awesome work on the 'Storm Troopers' , such great use of kits to create some really interesting minis.

EDC

Very good work Big H. Those should be fun to paint.

Dude awesome! the guy with the plumed helmet is really great! and yes the other guy could use some more height and an arm, then he'll be sweet :-) what scheme are you painting them?

evildrcheese wrote:Awesome work on the 'Storm Troopers' , such great use of kits to create some really interesting minis.

EDC

Gitsplitta wrote:Very good work Big H. Those should be fun to paint.

nerdfest09 wrote:Dude awesome! the guy with the plumed helmet is really great! and yes the other guy could use some more height and an arm, then he'll be sweet :-) what scheme are you painting them?

Thanks for the kind words fellas ! I'm thinking of a grey armour with maybe some dark red stripes on the shoulder pads and the odd bit here and there. Maybe a little. It of white somewhere and copper for the rivets /details.
They will be the most unified as they all had the same armour , for the remainder of the warband I want to make each one as individual as I can.

Those troopers look awesome!! real high level of detail and nice aesthetic!

IMHO.... a strong colour scheme would perhaps work well? Fairly bright colours and metalics.... these guys look like they are proud to be on the battlefield... and almost remind me of a GrimDark Napoleonic type of thing.... lol...

sorry for the waffle... just my thoughts... but they do look REALLY good!

 MagosBiff90 wrote:
Those troopers look awesome!! real high level of detail and nice aesthetic!

IMHO.... a strong colour scheme would perhaps work well? Fairly bright colours and metalics.... these guys look like they are proud to be on the battlefield... and almost remind me of a GrimDark Napoleonic type of thing.... lol...

sorry for the waffle... just my thoughts... but they do look REALLY good!

Hey Magos ! Thanks for stopping by ! Do you recognise the "stormtroopers" ? You sent them to me in that box of bits ! I stripped them of paint and re-used the legs and torsos !
Thanks as well for the paint idea. I'm a bit reluctant to go full bright. Maybe some colourful element on grey armour?

Thoughts any one ?

Ah ha....... now you mention it!! lol.... Glad to see they went to a good home and are proving useful!

I think a colourful "flourish" would work well.... the plumes of the helmets... capes.... sholder armour icons etc..... but do agree that the actual armour itself would look cool in grey!

Looking forward to seeing the results...

Thanks Magos , I'll get some paint on them as soon as there's some space on the hobby desk, Little H has got some bits done this weekend , mainly because I won't get him any space marine bikes till he got something finished !
Anyhow, 2 dreadnoughts and a drop pod done last night, me on the airbrush and Little H doing the rest !

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The doors aren't glued on yet, just blutac. !

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Hell yeah! they look brilliant with the fade and the weathering! so simple but looks so good!

Looks fantastic! Wow! Little H is really getting into the swing of things. Weathering and battle damage really does the trick. Well done, well done indeed.

nerdfest09 wrote:Hell yeah! they look brilliant with the fade and the weathering! so simple but looks so good!

Thanks nerdy ! I'm trying to simplify my processes to still look ok but be much quicker. Before I would have shaded everywhere but with the help of my new airbrush it's now much easier to fade colours then edge and chip areas of light with dark and dark with light, if you see what I mean !
I maybe ought to show the airbrush as a mini review or something. It is a Chinese £15 copy of a £150 airbrush and I really wasn't sure it would work, but from my limited use so far it's been great , certainly for the level that I want to use it at.

Gitsplitta wrote:Looks fantastic! Wow! Little H is really getting into the swing of things. Weathering and battle damage really does the trick. Well done, well done indeed.

Hi Gits! I don't want to play down the work little H has been doing because his output lately has been incredible, but I'm doing the majority of the chipping etc. He is doing the bronze banding, weapons etc. But his patience is growing and he's done a bit of clever stuff.
I didn't realise when we first started how hard it was for him to break it down into "processes" so now we discuss each troop type first , work out the painting list , e.g. Once the base colour is on next all the black, then the silver then the bronze.etc etc. And he's finding it a bit easier.

Very nice love the tanks! Brush does make the stripes more distinct on the minis, losing the blur / fade

Voodoogroves wrote:
Very nice love the tanks! Brush does make the stripes more distinct on the minis, losing the blur / fade

Thanks mate !
And now, hot on the heels of heresy blue , the start of some camo Storm Wolves !

Nice collaborative effort on the turquoise marines, look good.

I see you have viking-santa. Interested to see what you do with it.

 Dr H wrote:
Nice collaborative effort on the turquoise marines, look good.

I see you have viking-santa. Interested to see what you do with it.

Hi Doc ! Thanks for dropping by ! Yeah the sled of doom is properly 40k ridiculous and not even in a good way , but I expect we can weather and chip it somewhat !

Whilst Little H was filling in details, I had a play with some parts for an inquisitor warband , happy !

He looks fun. Nice.

I've been mostly playing around with spares and bits for the Inquisitorial warband. I'm really enjoying the individuality of these guys.

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Excellent work!

Man I love your conversions! every single one is just so cool, and tells such a story about them, even a simple head swap seems to look better when you do it!

Gitsplitta wrote:Excellent work!

Thanks mate !

nerdfest09 wrote:Man I love your conversions! every single one is just so cool, and tells such a story about them, even a simple head swap seems to look better when you do it!

Lol thanks Nerdy, I think your stretching my abilities a bit !!! But it do check out a lot of options with blutac before I finalise a pose, maybe that's it ?

Tonight I actually painted something ! :

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Awesome, old and new. I've got a copy of the old one somewhere... you make me want to break it out and paint it. Really love what you've done to the stock of the (new) gun with the blue... nice.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Awesome, old and new. I've got a copy of the old one somewhere... you make me want to break it out and paint it. Really love what you've done to the stock of the (new) gun with the blue... nice.

Thanks Gits ! Yeah go find the old lead and give it some love !

Little H and I have been busy hobby wise , my boy definitely has the attention span of a very small thing , Marines are out, AoS is in , so he has made up the boxed set he 'needed' ages ago and promptly forgot about !
Anyhow, we set to work in a division of labour way, he did all the details, scrolls, etc etc and I put down the big colours and glowey bits with the airbrush. The colours were chosen by Little H.
I think they look pretty smart all together , pretty damn nice for a 14 year old lad and a shortshighted forty something with a red wine dependancy !

Let's here some comments / critisisms people ! I have trouble motivating the young 'un !

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Gryfhound for the win! I know it's strange out of all of that I pick the pet as my favorite part lol :-) he (she?) looks so cool with those colours. everything else is great too! i'm a fan of the dark metal with purple as a spot colour and a weeny bit o gold. quite a bit done for a short amount of time.

How are we supposed to give comment when it's just a non-stop pile of posts??

I think they look great in both the big colors and the fine detail. Work looks neat and well-imagined. They should look great on the table. Keep up the good work Little H!

Nice work all round. I like the colour choices.

Very nice how the army all comes together using the color scheme, I did not that the leader on that beast , his cloak look like things did not align, or it had a gap, on the left shoulder. may want to double check it. Over all, he picked a decent good scheme.

Thanks guys !
Apologies for the pile of pics, for some reason I cannot upload more than one pic at a time from my iPhone or the pics all become duplicates of the first.
My own lack of camo is disturbing, but Little H got some Harlequins nearly finished, so work on the base and some static grass and they're done. I'm very proud of how he went about the diamonds , highlights etc by researching it on YouTube first. I think he is really coming on now for a 14 yr old.

Also sprayed up these "cavalry" for Little H to finish. In truth, I don't actually know what they are but he seems happy enough, I think I might add another highlight on the dark blue areas before I fully hand them over, thought Dakkanaughts ?

And, in the last post of the night, I promise. Little H has been driving me insane with insisting on using the cutting mat as a palette, even tho we have a perfectly good palette already. So he bought me a new mat and labelled it so we can work on modelling and painting at the same time

Ha. You know that the next time you use your new mat you will spill paint on it.

Nice job on the beasties. They look fine from here, but you are much closer.

Good job on the Harli's.

The "old" mat looks like my modelling board. While I tend to use old paint lids for paint mixing and thinning, I do also use my board for small quantities or mid-blend mixes.
But then I have a plywood board that's older than LittleH and not a posh cutting mat.

Man, that cav is cool!

Dr H wrote:Ha. You know that the next time you use your new mat you will spill paint on it.

Nice job on the beasties. They look fine from here, but you are much closer.

Good job on the Harli's.

The "old" mat looks like my modelling board. While I tend to use old paint lids for paint mixing and thinning, I do also use my board for small quantities or mid-blend mixes.
But then I have a plywood board that's older than LittleH and not a posh cutting mat.

Thanks Doc ! Quite possibly I'll spill, but now I won't tell anyone
for years I had an old piece of hardboard and used the plastic clam shell packaging miniatures came in as a pallette, then one day (about 10 years ago at least, hes 22 now ) my eldest boy used the hardboard as a backstop for his air rifle and filled it with holes so I was "forced" to go on line and buy new stuff !

Gitsplitta wrote:Man, that cav is cool!

Thanks Gits !

Check out the discolouration on the engine of this Su-35S
Certainly gives me some ideas !

Love your conversion work!

Looks like a wine barrel almost!?

Aetare wrote:Love your conversion work!

Thanks mate !

nerdfest09 wrote:Looks like a wine barrel almost!?

You know what Damo ? It kinda does !!!!

Can't really muster the enthusiasm to paint, but had a happy hour glueing some scum and trash together for my "to be completed" Inquisatorial warband, I've pretty much run out of interesting heads now so helmets will be the way forward !

Hey Dakkanaughts, apologises for lack of paint lately, terminally uninterested lately.
However got a little glueing done last night, some cavalry to become not - Uhlans for the nurgle nazi guard.

So here's the inspiration.
And what I've got so far

Not bad at all! looks perfectly plausible to me! they are going to look great painted up nicely!

Reality is stranger than fiction....

Nice job on the horse additions.

nerdfest09 wrote:Not bad at all! looks perfectly plausible to me! they are going to look great painted up nicely!

Gitsplitta wrote:Reality is stranger than fiction....

Dr H wrote:Nice job on the horse additions.

Thanks guys ! I appreciate your comments !

So lately I haven't had much interest in "the paint" but thru some quite bizarre events , like I found a pair of glasses at work that no one claimed that allow me to actually see !!!! Etc , so I thought I might do a bit to Little H's vermin lord that has been sitting about unfinished for 12 months , still has some tidying up to do, and I'm finding it a real bitch to paint but would be grateful for comments and critiques as I now can see what I'm doing !!!!

Those horses look great, nurgle roughriders.

Man, the horns on the vermin lord look exquisite! skin looks good and spot colour is great, i'd probably just work the red accents up to a light brown and wash back with red again :-)

Have to agree with Nerdy here. Those horns are fantastic. Great blending.

IFC_Casting wrote:Those horses look great, nurgle roughriders.

Thanks mate ! Yup, they will be Nazi Zombie Nurgle rough riders of Doom (one day ! )

nerdfest09 wrote:Man, the horns on the vermin lord look exquisite! skin looks good and spot colour is great, i'd probably just work the red accents up to a light brown and wash back with red again :-)

Azazelx wrote:Have to agree with Nerdy here. Those horns are fantastic. Great blending.

Nerdy , you know full well I can't paint red ! Thanks Azazelx! It's a complicated process but I'll break it down. First and most importantly take a bottle of red wine, drink it, then take a £30 Chinese copy of a quality airbrush, that in itself is pretty descent , and spray random colours all over !!!

I did some more last night and I'm calling it done , all the arms are magnetised so Little H can pretty much make all the options.
Ladies and gentlemen I give you the giant rat thing , hope you like.

Simply stunning!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Simply stunning!

Thanks Gits ! there is an element of the photo making the shading look better in my opinion, but it's not too bad in real life either !!

Take whatever you can get! Most of what the camera does for you is bad (showing every little flaw)... if it does something good for you for a change... roll with it!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Take whatever you can get! Most of what the camera does for you is bad (showing every little flaw)... if it does something good for you for a change... roll with it!

Fair one mate !

Yeah, agreed with Gits'. Far too often the camera shows up the flaws. *shakes fist*

Great job.

That is a damned fine giant rat thing, good show!

Dr H wrote:Yeah, agreed with Gits'. Far too often the camera shows up the flaws. *shakes fist*

Great job.

You should use a crappy iPhone camera ! Thanks Doc

OneManNoodles wrote:That is a damned fine giant rat thing, good show!

Thanks Noodles, I didn't enjoy painting it at first but as it came together I got quite enthusiastic and finishished it at 2a.m. or some thing

Glorious!

That is amazing looking work on that figure!

Azazelx wrote:Glorious!

shasolenzabi wrote:That is amazing looking work on that figure!

Thanks for stopping by and commenting guys !

I'm pretty sure the guy at the FLGS hates me, why would he sell my child Harlequin jet bikes ?
For the love of God WHY ???

WIP

Also WIP, which may be pretty pointless as GW seem to be bringing out some new nurgle marines, but here's a "true scale" effort.

Lol it's an evil they are taught to push the most extreme models on unsuspecting children! although I believe you have pushed the demon back into the warp with that paintjob! it's looking great, are you planing on adding any more to the canopies? or just leave them with the ghost diamonds?

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Lol it's an evil they are taught to push the most extreme models on unsuspecting children! although I believe you have pushed the demon back into the warp with that paintjob! it's looking great, are you planing on adding any more to the canopies? or just leave them with the ghost diamonds?

thanks Nerdy! I will be calling them ghost diamonds from now on, cool name !
Luckily a good set of decals come with the kit so I don't have to do some freehand monstrosity, I might do the lumps on the bonnet thing as blue gems if Little H wants and some edge highlights maybe, otherwise done !

Rat King looks amazing, great job.

 Big H wrote:

I'm pretty sure the guy at the FLGS hates me, why would he sell my child Harlequin jet bikes ?
For the love of God WHY ???

For you to pull out those fancy diamonds, that's why,

I like the true scale effort, and also the harliquin bike job. But i am in love with the giant rat thing.

Great job on the harli' bike bits.

cormadepanda wrote:I like the true scale effort, and also the harliquin bike job. But i am in love with the giant rat thing.

Dr H wrote:Great job on the harli' bike bits.

Thanks fellas !

My lack of effort lately has been disturbing, so I decided to chop up a monopose plastic contemptor and make it more betterer !
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A couple of happy hours glueing.

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That dready will look great when painted. it is shaping along nicely!

Yeah man! that looks great! they need a good pose since they're so versatile and i'm looking forward to seeing this painted! what army is he for?

shasolenzabi wrote:That dready will look great when painted. it is shaping along nicely!

Thanks Shas !

nerdfest09 wrote:Yeah man! that looks great! they need a good pose since they're so versatile and i'm looking forward to seeing this painted! what army is he for?

Thanks Nerdy ! Yeah the monopose plastic is a little disappointing compared to the forgeworld versions so I just had to smash him up !
Paint wise I'm going for recently turned Death Guard, dirty and oozing but still white and green armour, just chipped and rusted to feth !
Finished the glue stage, have a little cleaning up of greenstuff to do then paint this week with any luck.....

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O,K that weathering and chipped paint is astounding! frickin' perfect, please continue and do an army like this! you will be a god among men

Yup, that looks awesome.

nerdfest09 wrote:O,K that weathering and chipped paint is astounding! frickin' perfect, please continue and do an army like this! you will be a god among men

insaniak wrote:Yup, that looks awesome.

Thanks fellas, high praise from giants in the hobby, appreciate it !

Nerdy, kinda like this ?

Great job. Looking cool.
Nice flamer build too.

LOL yes dammit!

I may have been a little over optimistic when I thought I’d get the contemptor done in a week, but here he is ! Better late than never !

I’m fairly happy with it, me and Little H are going for something like “35K” Death Guard, ie chipped and worn but not yet the full on 40K tentacles and belly teeth.
What do you good people think ?

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