Well fantastic to see WIP shots. Love the GSC, guess it just one of those things that for some reason everyone finds them cool, they are just brilliant models, and when painted well like your work they become really special. HG guys looking spot on too, really nice.
The terrain is looking amazing, love the scheme you have going on, and I WANT those statue dudes, going to have to do my own though, because I will cast a couple hundred up I think. For some reason I think og them being everywhere in 40k. Kinda reminder, big brother is watching type of thing. Always tempted to give them one red glowing eye!
I finished all the models I got last Tuesday, so i'm pretty pleased about the quality of them especially as I haven't painted any of them before I was going for a dusty underground lair kinda look to them, serviceable and solid armour and weapons and a very alien countenance they probably are a bit more purple than I had planned but I think they're pretty striking!
I will now bombard you with copious pics to peruse which I hope you like!
First up the Patriarch and his Stealer children.
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Next it's heading down the scale and the Aberrants, these big brutal bastards look sure to break some face!
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Next bunch of purple kids, at least they can wear some kind of clothing!
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Hey, at least these ones have guns right?
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Now basically the PR team of the GSC, the face of the business....... well the ones that have actual faces anyway.
Why do bald people take the rap for all the evil cults of the world? Worlds? Have we shamed them so much that they are willing to join these groups just to be loved?
Beautiful work Damo you snuck your metal recipe in there with the suits and the lovely glow of the flashlights on the shoulders is awesome. Also loving the dirty white robes.
Thanks guys, I was pretty nervous but like the end results. The purple skin was a bit of a trial and error as I had a few ways in my head to approach it, it's bright and would be great on a luminescent Tyranid force! I'll have a look at my paints and write down what I did.
Also if anyone wants to look up my dog Oscar Mallinson on FB (suprise, that's me online) i'll send through pics and paints for the yellow!
Yep, finished another Howling Griffons Character! I got Librarian Mercaeno done in his Terminator armour and looking really cool, something about the pose and that bare head just appeals to me a lot!
I need to wait for more paint to arrive before I can do any more on them sadly, and i've not got much else on to be honest, just 2 testers for Whaleys Scorps and my building so if you need a couple dudes done hit me up
but while you ruminate on that I want to showcase this guy, i'm really happy with him. I know the pics are almost the same but I couldn't work out which one was clearer?? my damn eyes are gak when i'm not painting.
Thanks guys, I wasn't confident to do the entire model blue and still have the same feel as the rest of the models but was inspired by the approach I took with Whaleys Libby from SH :-) and really liked it!
And thanks to Gits superb terrain update on his blog for Bushido! I went back to working on the Sanctum! thanks Gits! :-) might have some tomorrow to show you.
Thanks fellas, and here's an update on the Sanctum, still a bit messy but it conveys what I want to at this point. I know next time I'll be painting the panels separately and gluing them together so i can actually get to the parts and paint the details neater. but she's coming along.
Ooh dang that is great looking terrain. I always find myself being a bit lazy with that stuff as a super quick paintjob can often look pretty good but you seem to be proving that it can look so much better!
Librarian looks awesome as well. Great colour scheme you've got going on.
I want my Space-Mortalis board to reflect the glorious battles of the space marines so I printed some suitably sized images from google and thought i'd see if it would look o.k on the tester I think they'll glue on and weather up nicely!
I like the idea, but the imperium would NEVER allow pics of chaos marines to exist as that would mean that corruption of the pure space marines is possible . Hide the people from the truth they are too stupid to handle it .
Finished the Sanctum of Prioress Kristy. and I must say that while it's not as crisp as i'd imagined, i'm still pretty happy with how it works as a model! I reckon it'll be a great backdrop to some epic battles
not much to say about process, it was a trial and error as I mentioned before but it was a lot of washing and dry brushing and a few more focused parts and it just kinda came together I wanted it to look more recently destroyed, mind you that could be hours or weeks or months in these infernal wars so the colours are still there and it's more dirty than destroyed.
I think i'll do some of the smaller ruins next and have a little area of scatter terrain to match the big building?
Just got another box of Space-Mortalis bits so I really thought I ought to put it together again and see how it looks! I think.....yes.....it's going to be awesome! it will take a lot of painting but I'm up for the challenge when i've the time to do it as it deserves!
I also finished Whaleys Red Scorpion marine test model, it's just base drying now so I'll try and hop back on and update that later today too
anyway here's some drool worthy board action! still another box to arrive.
I know! I'm keen to do it but I really don't want to rush it, so it's probably a summer job when it warms up and washes and paint dries super fast I've got some other walls and floors on the way with some other parts to add some actual height which I really want to see together!
here's the pics of the Red Scorps test model, I think it is a decent enough job but i'm still a little iffy on if it's good enough for Whaley, especially as I know I can paint much better for him and he deserves it! I can certainly paint marines and terminators like this but i'd be a bit concerned about tanks anyway it's not up to me and to be honest i'd be pretty keen if anyone else has any models they need painted at the moment, i've had a rough trot with my health again and needed to take time off without pay which sucks but that's why we save our coins isn't
I think some color on the gun casing would really help, since it's a very mute scheme to start with. Usually they are shown with red on their weapons, though I know that's a fancy pants bolter. I think he's begging for some freehand squad markings too.
The Librarian and the Sanctum on the previous page look great! The space-mortalis board is going to be a sight to behold when it's finished. I really like the Red Scorpion, the muted scheme is lovely.
For heaven's sake, rill out the bolter barrel... I agree, bolter casing could use a bit of color. I was thinking gold actually, but I'm not the one you need to satisfy.
I'll try and find a normal bolter to do a red casing on and see what it looks like. and then i'll drill the barrel :-)
Grey I just really don't think I do well, I can't find that zen place with it where I just know what i'm doing with it! on characters like Russ etc which are stand alone more or less i'm o.k because I can play around with it more, but for an army where they are repeated, I think my skills let me down especially as I mentioned I want to do a good job for people I paint for. especially Whaley
I primed a few models and started base coating the colour on them. Only issue was I started using a new black paint and it was terrible!!! it clogged and dried fast and obscured details and ruined a brush! so I very very nearly threw them all in the bits box and gave up! I really didn't want to do that so I started actually painting them to hopefully improve the overall look and give me some motivation to keep painting them up, so far the red quarters done and i'm more relaxed with them already! hopefully when I get to the black metals I don't ruin them
O.K so obviously Terminator WIP isn't that exciting??
how about a little bit of scatter terrain? a 3D printed little lifter!! this beauty will be included in my Space-Mortalis board to give some cinema to the gaming space
A lovely model that really didn't take too long to paint and it looks cool as! can't go wrong can you!
That forklift is lovely, the colour of it gives me a real Aliens vibe from it even though it's totally different. I can't fault the Cataphractii, the red is very, very nice!
Snrub wrote: What black paint were you using, Nerdy?
Termies are to your usual wip standard. Which is honestly better then my best finished product.
Weirdly it was a Vallejo product they're usually spot on but the game colour I used just was awkward to paint with, it had a real tendency to be sort of sticky which I found odd. I made sure I shook the hell out of it too.
I think the termies are coming along great. Just wondering if there’s anything to help push the gryphon idea more with them. I mean the claws are great, but perhaps using the Ravenwing bike sprue wing poles on the back of at least one to tie in more of the visual. Just an idea feel free to toss it in the bin with that black paint.
nerdfest09 wrote: Just got another box of Space-Mortalis bits so I really thought I ought to put it together again and see how it looks! I think.....yes.....it's going to be awesome! it will take a lot of painting but I'm up for the challenge when i've the time to do it as it deserves!
An odd place for the rebels to have placed their shield generator, but I am confident my AT-ATs can reach it, Lord Vader.
Monkeytroll you dag mate, thanks guys for the positive vibes! i'll be pottering around with my own models until I get a new commission, i'm meeting a local guy who bought the Nurgle I did off my friend the other day and he's got a Mortarion he wants done! and other than that i'm pretty quiet to be honest.
So i'll use this lull in proceedings as a dear diary i've been pretty crook with my lungs again *sigh* ended up in hospital a few times in the last month and needed to take 2 weeks unpaid leave Whoooo! 'not' so of course i've had the odd struggle with the old mind thinking overdrive and making me a bit flat. But i'm back at work today and had a good shift with no problems and i've managed to make some progress on the house renovations insofar as painting walls go since that's not too taxing on the old air sacks fingers crossed I'll have the home finished by christmas with new carpet and curtains left to do then a good clean and detail and I can relax (until my wife decides to buy another house )
On the hobby front, as I mentioned I've not got anything on for others so it's just my Howling Griffons on the table. I do need to find a bolter and paint that red casing to see if Whaley wants me to do a few squads of Scorps? and i've a guy who wants me to paint a few goliath trucks for GSC? but he's got to build them first so until I get anything it'll be yellow and red for a while
Sorry to hear that your lungs are giving you grief, Nerdy. I had a punctured lung once and it was the probably the most sucky experience of my life. 3 or 4 weeks of not being able to breathe properly was the pits. I can only imagine that actual long term lung issues must just be an absolute bastard of an existence.
Sincerely hope you get better soon!
Those 30 tactical marines are shaping up really well. You sure can blast your way through an excessive amount of stuff when you set your (air)brush to it.
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nerdfest09 wrote: so until I get anything it'll be yellow and red for a while
Oddly enough, I doubt you'll hear any complaints from us.
Yes Gits, Spehss Mrrrhines Thanks for the understanding and support guys I appreciate it! it helps me stay positive and forward thinking! so much so I quartered my command squad and captain as well as the heavy bolter guys
I don't know how the wife would feel about a rich glowing red wall in the house ......... although a quartered wall in red AND yellow with a giant Griffon rampart might look good
only thing left to quarter is the little Storm Talon and then it's just Terminators when they arrive! and it's all done with a brush, no airbrush here just a can of primer 30+ marines and a lovely relaxing hour or two of ruining another brush!
Well, my plan might be lofty but I really really would love to produce an army of them worthy of a feature in WD so everything is GW and i'm sticking to the minimal conversions that still look different like the chaplain as a chapter master etc :-) I'm pretty excited too about them.
As always..... wow....just wow. I love the Griffins, that is such a hard colour scheme to pull off and make look good ( plus two of my least fav colours ugh red AND YELLOW... double ugh) but as usual you make it look easy peasy.
I love the little bobcat for the ZM board that ZM board is going to look bloody fantastic when it's all done.
You are a true champ for pulling off the HG's and the IF's you did a while ago. I just love browsing your pics. -back to lurk mode -
Always impressed by what you keep churning out Nerdfest! How is the Griffins paint scheme in terms of time you spend on each marine? It seems like you are essentially painting two separate models all needing their own different highlights, I would personally break down in tears after the first squad!
Hope the lungs stop bothering you soon by the way, I always find that inhaling a good old bit of Forgeworld resin dust cleans them out nicely, maybe you should give that a try?
Thanks guys, I'll see what I can inhale to appease the lungs for the lung god! so far it consists of lots of steroids but i'm sure resin will suffice!
as far as painting the Griffons go, well, they're not as bad as you'd think, yes it's almost like two models worth of highlights but I tend to work on all the red first as it's the most involved of the two colours and i'll do each step on every model in a squad before moving on to the next one. the best part is that I use Agrax to shade both colours before painting so once I've quartered every model I then wash over the quartered marines etc with agrax and then they're ready to go!
So much in the last couple of days just landed on my desk! and in typical Nerd fashion I started pretty much everything!
So firstly I quartered and started the last vehicle (at this stage) for my Griffons army the little StormTalon
And then a really cool local guy came over to discuss a project he wants me to do for him, and left me with a model to paint up to a good job for his Nurgle army. I finally get to paint the new Mortarion model and i'm pretty happy about it too! so I started on his base to make it more thematic.
And while he was at my place I had a knock on the door and it was the delivery man with my new terminator squad for the Griffons, that may not be so exciting except the fact that the squad is made and converted from the Series 2 Japan only Heroes models
So I built all the bodies and and then got together all my arms from the normal Termies squad and also the arms and the heads from the models themselves and swapped them around to get a cool variation of poses and attitude in each character and I'm really happy with the way they look at this stage, still a little to do on them but not long until I can prime and paint.
I can't wait to get into that last Terminator that looks like he's running forward ready to seriously injure someone with that fist!!!
Ahhh. I found exactly the same forklift on thingiverse. Did you find the add on armour and light packs? The same guy has also done a little transporter using the same cab assembly. When I can safely abuse my works 3d printer I shall get 2 or 3 printed up.
Hey guys, so I worked on Morty today he's a great model to paint! the only 'hard' thing is keeping him looking grimy but still detailing him enough to pick out his character and parts! originally I was going to do him all dark bronze and verdigris but changed tack when I actually started him, i'm pretty happy with progress so far today I reckon he'll be a pretty nice centerpiece for the army!
I'll probably finish the dirty white armour tomorrow with some small scratches and blacklining and work on his face so I can get a feel for how to paint his face and wings to stand out (i'm thinking rotting flesh would look good?)
Morty is looking good, I'd forgotten he had wings for a moment which had me wondering how he was floating! I like that you've kept him to his legion colours under all of the nurgle.
I've never seen those terminator models before, I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with them.
Theophony wrote:Why do bald people take the rap for all the evil cults of the world? Worlds? Have we shamed them so much that they are willing to join these groups just to be loved?
Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.
Cheers fellas he's finished except for the wings now so I'm waiting until he's finished before showing you all, he is a complex model with lots and lots of details so I had permission from the guy i'm painting him for to enforce the 'In Nerd we trust' rule and i've selectively omitted some of the more cartoonish aspects like the flying nurglings to keep him looking darker and more sinister
Can I ask here if anyone has any of the Deathwing Terminator wing banner things? I don't know what they're actually called but I think they would be or could be a good addition to those Termies I built? what do you think? could be Griffon-ish or too distracting? either way i'm cool, just want opinions
I can almost hear the snapping leathery crack of his wings and the thick rustle of grime caked death shrouds draped as a cloak around his massive armoured form. Mortarion comes forth once again to spread death and sickness across the worlds held by the imperium, his voice calling his followers into battle, the baritone sound emanating from his vox reminiscent of bubbles of gas pushing their way through thick mucus and effluent to burst like rapid pops across a foul smelling swamp....... some would say it sounded like laughter, none would live to tell their tale.
Looks good! I really like the white on the armor. I think if I ever get one to send your way, white armor and a olive green robe would be the preferred scheme.
It's a little hard to see in the pics but the 'red wings' are a bloodied rotting flesh so imagine the normal skin tones I paint but with added necrosis and green tinges to them near the rips and holes, the bloody frame of his wings move tearing the flesh of his back at each movement giving them no time to heal and thus continually leaking infected blood much to his twisted enjoyment.
Love how that turned out Nerdy !
Little H got a Mortarion while I was away with work so I fully expect I will use your scheme as a guide at some point !
Lovely the eyeball on the back. One thing, they're poxwalkers, not cultists but hugely inspiring, nonetheless. You've actually motivated me to get my Mortarion built, finally, and now I need to get my cultists started properly
I feel like you get the best result with poxwalkers when you really work the tone of the whole mob, instead of laboring over what are IMO sorta of unsatisfying individual sculpts (over and over again). Which you've totally done, grim is right
Morty is interesting looking. The unusually clean armour and grubby (yet not putrid) cloth is a stark contrast to the utterly disgusting base and wings. It's almost a role reversal of the norm for that sort of character. Where the armour and cloth would be the grimey worn parts, the base would be comparatively clean and the wings bland almost to the point of being ignored.
Whether that was your intention, I don't know, but the end result paid off quite nicely.
Thanks so much guys! and Happy Halloween to those American among you I did think the Nurgle Pox walking cultists? (will that suffice?) were a timely addition for this time of year. So now i'm moving on to the marines again for the army and should have a little progress next week, i've been busy at work after a bit of upheaval and soul searching but I'm back in an area I excel at and slowly getting my head clearer and more positive which means I'm more inclined to get brushing
Snrub, I'm glad you like Morty dude! I think (and I hope i'm not being arrogant) that I look at models and try and find a way to paint or subtly convert them to change them in a way to make them appealing to a wide audience of hobbyists, doing something different whether it be the colour choice with Morty having a cleaner armour, my goal was a white ceramic look that had grime and algae like an old toilet left to the elements? the robes I wanted to help pull focus to the body still looking heavy and kinda canvas or death shroud-ish
So I've got more Nurgle to paint, and some more GSC stuff on the way from Queensland to do.
But before I start the other stuff when it arrives, I was excited about a bit of work even before it landed my mate in Queensland who's sending the other models for me to paint is also wanting me to paint up Sly Marbo just for a display for himself and I got a bit excited and started the base for him today keep in mind so far I've just built, primed and laid on the main colours before a wash over it and I had a little more time to do the beginning of the trees and plants. Marbo will eventually be standing with his boot on the nids head and hopefully be framed well enough.
And now for something completely different! I have a good mate who works for the local council and somehow got a 3d printed model of the landmark in our town called the cataract gorge first basin, which is a naturally formed valley and basin area that is beautiful and pretty much in the city itself
He asked if I could paint it to look more like it does and I responded with "Hell no, I can't 'paint it' to look like that!" but I did say "I'll use every trick I can find and learn to do it so it looks realistic" and that's where i'm heading with it
first the model.
and now the area in pictures. I hope it's allowed under gaming terrain inspiration clause 34B section 4A? as you can see the part i'm re creating is the green grassed area which shouldn't be too hard, but I'll have to add textures and stonework and a few trees and make it all look good so there will be a good challenge there.
That's a really neat project, looking forward to seeing what you make of it. Certainly a different kind of challenge than your traditional terrain work!
And we all know Marbo's already in that diorama...
Thanks guys, I do enjoy mucking around with the bases when they're things like this and I think Marbo is in the tree somewhere? still heaps to do on it but in Nerdroom news we're having a whole house full of new carpet (finally no more concrete in half the house!) and that has meant I've had to get everything ready by painting all the walls in each room in the entire house and move all the large stuff out! This means the Nerdroom is moving into a larger room and explains why i've been a little absent. But only another week and then i'll be back into more regularly :-)
Yes that scenic model is going to be so cool i've been researching realistic modelling styles and hopefully can do it justice for my first go at something like this! :-)
Briancj that's the measure of the pool, what's your brainwave.
15.5cm long and 8cm wide
Thanks Doc, I've had a look around and got some cool ideas, using real little twigs and other more normal hobby supplies. I haven't started anything yet as i'm in the process of putting everything back into the new Nerd room so hopefully soon I can actually do some work again!
To say sorry for not posting for ages due to a very busy life lately I thought i'd smother you all with pics of my latest commission work!
I have been still painting but not quite as much as i'd like to, i've been working on a nice table top quality bunch of models from shadespire and some primaris models that I had to fix up from the owners dry brushing efforts which weren't bad but didn't match the other stuff i'd done for him and he deserves a sweet looking army! I actually get to meet him in February which will be awesome!
I'll start with the couple of Khornate gangs, really cool imagery in these guys, and the hound is super awesomely cool! so I gave him some bloody flesh in his jaw.
Then a polar opposite being the sigmarites, clean silver and blue and cream make for a nice palette and the models are pretty nice, bigger than i'd thought they'd be!
now somewhere in between is the sorcerous Tzeentch bringing the blue to this years fashion show!
Here's the primaris and reavers, Moods wanted a black reaver look for stealth so I just gave them a few subtle hazed metal wear and tear.
boom massive hobby drop~ Damn damo, great stuff. My favorties is the chaos army and hound and the sigmarites..gorgeous painting on all the stuff though as usual and your output of quality is insane. Happy holidays dude
I forgot to comment on the first batch, but these all look good. I really like the Stormcasts and Blackstone dudes. Inquisitor Pimpman gave me a good laugh. His pistol holster should be zebra skin I think.
Doooood! One of those Chaos marines look like me....if I were huge and ripped and a space marine from the future.....but totally me!
On a more serious note, good gravy those are some pretty minis! You should paint minis from other ranges that are larger, I'm curious just how nice your style would lay down on something larger!
Finished up the Blackstone models for Moods! I really enjoy painting this sort of paint job, it's a real mix of visual styles, it looks simple but also looks striking and cool I like the heads on the psykers and the two halflings personally but the whole lot is a really attractive group of playable mini's that will certainly add a bunch of fun to the game when he plays it with his son! only thing left is to work out the bases
Great to see the blackstone fortress gang get the old Nerdy treatment - mine are en route and good to get some inspiration. What are you thinking will work basing wise? I am rather taken with the approach shown in WD but what are your thoughts o wise one?
Ah well young donkey dick, I seriously haven't thought that much about it! I'm thinking just a dark base colour with darker rim? they're table top so not going ott :-)
I hate you and your idea of tabletop quality. (Sulks off to my ramshackle cardboard table on top of a wire spool to play with my not as good as nerdy tabletop standard plastic mans )
Thanks guys, I won't have succeeded until i've triggered Theo to buy mini's and start another project! especially if it's Iron Warriors because i've been starting something a little different again no, not Iron Warriors but I am painting silver Terminators. It's no secret I despise Primaris and all they stand for, they are less than the rotting entrails on the sole of my boot after I have purged the Emperor's heretic enemies! BUT I still LoVE my marines, my Proper marines! but the feeling of what i've produced with my Griffons waned and I have agreed to sell them to a collector once i've painted the troops!
That leads me to where my Marines are coming from! I have always been very keen to do a sisters of battle army but have never done it due to metal models I am hoping the new models are really nice and I can collect an Order of the Bloody Rose which will give me a chance to paint red and also give me fanatical ceramite clad boltgun wielding powerhouses...... and did I mention Penitent engines!
Yes Damo, that's lovely but they're not marines you tool! ...... No, they're not but I can have allies! I have that squad of heroes2 Terminators and I really really want to paint and use them so I searched for histories of chapters that would fight along the sisters Black Templars?.....no......Salamanders?.........no...... Fire Angels?.......YES and it's another chapter who fought in the Badab War that makes 3 chapters i've done now!
anyway, they're silver, I can paint dirty metal well but I want to try new techniques and subtlety to make them look fantastic, seeing what Bebop can do now is a double blow of a kick in the nuts about my own level of skills and also a real trigger to want to do more so i've started them and so far primed and washed and now just started glazing the shadows, so far so good!
but first here's the progress on the Howling Griffons! yes i'm painting them all at once
The thing keeping me from buying GW is GW. Honestly my gaming budget is low, very low to non existent, so when I had picked up in my hands 2 copies of Forgebane for the price of 1, I then realized the problem of finishing off either army . COST. GW is making so many nice things, but I can’t afford to keep up with that. That’s why these skirmish games keep drawing me in.
Also I despise the new marines like you despise them, the regular guys look good by themselves, but I don’t like the aggressors , the tank is so so and the dreadnought looks nothing like a washing machine .
Hey guys, finally finished my Howling Griffons as I needed to sell them but it did force me to finish painting 40+ marines in quartered red and yellow hope you like them. I will be back in the land of Nerd this year but I have decided to try tackling different 40K related projects that I can attempt new things with, already have a few projects bubbling away in my head let's hope this amount of images will see you through for another week or two
Thanks guys, touching and sad to see them go but i'm happy to work on something new throughout the year. I think you'll like what I've got planned and I think it'll start out with a full Nerdfest Killteam.
They are a beautiful army. Your little patch of the world must be riff with wonderful Nerdy armies now. Always look forward to whatever you come up with.
Hey guys, just painted this today for a friend of mine I actually liked painting it more than I thought I would, I think having the different colours to work on in each step helped keep me focused as it looked really good as i went along. Hope you like him
Please Nerdy do a Slaanesh army of these. You skills with color would be intense to say the least. Plus you wouldn’t get burnt out on doing one color over and over .
What up guys! I found this guy I started when I was all about the Eldar but didn't sell him as I thought he'd look too good if I finished him up! so now I have an urge to see what he'll look like all done up, I got straight back onto the horse and just about finished the base off and did all the reds which was quite a bit
I've started doing the gems now and there is a LOT of gems why did I think painting every single one was a good idea? tell me again?
Holy hell, that cockpit O_O Props to the cephalopod that looted a wraithknight
I do feel like all Eldar painters get to a point where you have to choose: Do I paint ever gods damn gem? Or do I preserve my tenuous grasp on sanity for a while longer?
Boss Salvage wrote: Holy hell, that cockpit O_O Props to the cephalopod that looted a wraithknight
I do feel like all Eldar painters get to a point where you have to choose: Do I paint ever gods damn gem? Or do I preserve my tenuous grasp on sanity for a while longer?
that is the lure of Slaanesh. But by the time you ask if you are already lost and damned because to skip the painting of each one is a pleasure of laziness, but to do them all is a pleasure of masochism.
I've started doing the gems now and there is a LOT of gems why did I think painting every single one was a good idea? tell me again?
I can't find it now, but I've seen a quote from Jes Goodwin in the past basically saying that the only ones that are definitely meant to be gems are the ones that are in a setting, so like on the wraithknight that would be the big one in the middle of the chest for example. The others are meant to be some sort of pod/bump on the armour containing circuits or something like that. He then went on to say that it wasn't a hard and fast rule and that the 'pod' ones could be gems too if you wanted them to be. I tend to prefer gems kept to a minimum on my eldar, because I find having too many of them breaks up the model too much, especially if they've got a high contrast to the colour around them. Saves time too!
So I have a little work to show you! one is a model of Helbrecht painted up and the other is a large lapse of judgement and is Primarneus Calgar Helbrecht needed to fit in with his armies models so he's rocking a nice toxic themed base, I discovered that using old 25mm resin bases on top of the 32's gives a bit of work room to add more details and then they don't get wasted, I hope he is to an acceptable standard to bring the light of the Emperor into the darkness!
Primarneus and friends, no friends of mine now they're Primaris but they're for a friend so you know, I had to do it the one good thing I can comment on is that i'm glad they (GW) have pulled back on cramming too much detail onto the models, these are a great example of showing the status and regalia of the Ultramarines without being covered in flowing parchment or smoke stacks and warp dust!
While a lot of Primaris minis don't do much for me (basically anything not in the standard armour, I'm really not a fan of Aggressors, Interceptors or the new Dread), I do like the Calgar one. It strikes me as fairly close to what an updated Calgar might look like even without being Primarisised, Though the previous version is a real classic to my mind.
Finished up the Saim Hann Wraithknight my lord it's a cool model so many gems.....so.....so many! but totally worth it to paint! how darn good does it look if I may say so I don't know what else to say really, except it took a while and I think i've done a decent job of it and I hope you enjoy it!
Amazing work dude. I can completely empathize with the pain of painting every. single. gem. as that's what I did with my Wraithknight as well. It was incredibly tedious but I feel it's well worth it in the end, it's such a beautiful model i feel it does deserve the extra attention. Fantastic work man.
Thanks guys, i'm pretty pleased with him myself too! i'm glad i didn't half ass it and rush it doing the gems certainly makes him stand out as something special on the table, now I just need to find someone who wants to buy it
I was given some models by a friend and it now looks like i'm collecting Tau now he saw how utterly shattered I was with Primaris and marine models so thought I'd be suited to painting this kind of thing..... turns out he was right
my first Broadside, very much inspired by the Constructicons from the original Transformers
I just built 3 battlesuits and am working on some pathfinders next.
Thanks Gits, I know how you aren't a fan of the Tau so even saying that it's pretty is a big plus! I'm going for a jungle themed board re do for them now!
I really want to do a Riptide for them now as I think the colours and size of the model will look fantastic, just some suits and pathfinders to build.
nerdfest09 wrote: my first Broadside, very much inspired by the Constructicons from the original Transformers
Bless
Weirdly I'm stumbling into a Tau army too, thanks to Kill Team prompting me to paint some truly ancient fire warriors I had sitting around for 10 years and my bro sending me his own dusty collection of grey plastic aliens. Broadside is high on my list of beautiful 'new' kits I didn't know existed but totally need Won't be as green or tasty as yours, but should put some holes in things. Pity the plastic crisis suits are still trash apart from the commander / FW stuff (right??), tho I'm going heavy groundpounders anyway - can't get enough of those plucky little shas'la and their boundless optimism in the face of cosmic horror / intergalactic tyranny.
Ta Daaaa! more Tau! this time it's my first actual squad finished I painted up the first Pathfinder team and I actually think I prefer the models with just the green and no white accents on them I reckon i'll be continuing the theme of solid colours mainly throughout the force. I was actually really inspired by the leaf insect grasshoppers I see a lot of down here and the Tau helmets resembling the shape of the wings and the colour is also pretty close! it's going to make for a really interesting gaming jungle board for them.
Now, as far as actual painting skill on these guys don't judge me too harshly, I wanted something that was fairly quick to paint a lot of, still look good and not drive me mad so you will notice a few rough areas but they're meant to be 'Taubletop quality' they are intended to be a gaming level army so i'm giving myself a little leeway on the line troops. And as you can see I still like my faces I wanted the squad leader to be a bit weathered so carved his eye up a bit as an experiment, didn't look too bad but I did just notice I need to paint his topknot
Awww geez, thanks guys, They really do have a fantastic range of models! now i've been looking into them I can appreciate the posing and aesthetic of them all and i'm pretty keen to do some more. I would love to do a Riptide *cough cough whalemusic....* and then bust out some vehicles for them. At the moment i'm working on 3 battlesuits and then that's all I have for them :-(
As long as they're magnetised, so they can combine, I'm completely fine with that I was watching Pan's Labyrith the other day and your colour scheme really reminded me of the crickets/faeries in that. Definitely onto a winner!
First time checking in in a few pages, gotta love that Wraithknight, I wouldn't have done so many gems for my own sanity but it looks gorgeous!
Also really like your Tau, I'm a big fan of the colour green anyway, but it's a really nice tone that you've picked! The bases are great too, blend really nicely into the models without looking bland.
Say what? you want me to do more Tau!? O.K well, I don't want to upset you so I did these guys over the last 2 days and now I have painted all the Tau I have boo hoo for me, I think I'll have to look at commander or something next perhaps? I don't really know much about how they work in the game world as i've been Mr Marine for 20 years ( *inaudible screeching about hatred for Primaris*) but I'm liking what i'm painting even though it's a pretty solid level of painting but not pedantic perfection kind of job they look cool!
my first Battlesuit squad
Thanks for sticking with me guys, I appreciate your company
It’s like you can’t make up your mind. Are they little green aliens or little grey aliens , I guess little grey aliens in green armor works . Your talent with colors is just amazing. You bring out completely different hues than just about anyone else, well done mate.
Wow, great Tau and such pace in your painting whilst retaining some frankly disgustingly good painting! Did you sell your soul to the devil to obtain such skills?
Well, thanks guys i'm having a running text battle with my mate about starting Tau, he's always thought of me as a marine guy (which obviously I have) but i'm out now no more marines for Damo, unless next year I look at Horus Heresy
I'll still be painting them for friends and whatnot so they'll still be on my bloggy blog but I won't be actively collecting them or liking them anymore
I finished up my little Sly Marbo diorama, a lot of fun to really get a vibe that worked for him and his pose, I chose pretty vibrant colours to add to the tropical jungle vibe and tried to get the swampy marsh to resemble water that had heavy rain drops pattering the surface? the only thing I don't like is the smoke in his mouth really not something that a man of his skills would be doing since it adds a strong scent to him and would also dull his olfactory senses. But Hey still a cool model
And the other thing I was experimenting with was more weathering, namely rust since I plan on doing a few figures with rust caused by copious amounts of blood I thought i'd begin with a necron lord from a dynasty who's slumber wasn't as fitful as hoped! somehow a liquid that reacted to their bodies was slowly turning them into figures that were more akin to being aeons old. A really nice way to do the rust and it's fun too
Grimy Necrons are really something there aren't enough of, and that mini proves why there needs to be more! Imagine an army like that, rust and tar sloughing from their decaying forms, joins creaking in a mechanical scream, the glow of eyes and blades the only points of light in a sea of dull metal....
Sorry, went on a tangent there! But yeah, lovely stuff. Marbo looks great too!
Thanks for the positive feedback guys! I would love to do more crons like that, especially a destroyer or 2, they were going to be my space marines 'break up sex' army but the Tau won out, not to say I won't keep fiddling around doing them now and then if I can find some cheap models.
But I do have to agree it's a really different look for them and despite its lack of gradients etc it still has enough to draw the eye to the model as a whole. the technique is right up DrH's alley it's a wash made from hydrogen peroxide, salt, vinegar and steel wool.
That necron looks like a rusty pile of crap. Literally.
It's so realistically weathered it's almost unreal!
If you're feeling charitable, a few pointers would be fab
The Marbo diorama is excellent too. It really captures the old-fashioned almost-cartoony 40k vibe, but with a modern high quality style to it. Never thought about the cigar thing either, but you're right...
That Sly Marbo vignette is great! I like that you've found a use for the old jungle trees. I've also got some of those bits left from the 3rd ed. starter box, and I've been thinking about where to use them..
nerdfest09 wrote: ... the technique is right up DrH's alley it's a wash made from hydrogen peroxide, salt, vinegar and steel wool.
I approve.
And great6 work on the Tau and Marbo.
It's made from what ...? Whaaaaat ????????
Indeed, I saw a model online and messaged the painter to let him know what I thought of his work and that it was quite inspiring, he promptly messaged me back to help by translating some of his guides into english (I believe he was italian?) and that was how he did the rust and we all know I love me some rusty metal and this just had to be tried! i've got a certain project in mind to use it on and I can't wait!
All of that is just to accelerate the natural corrosion of the steel wool.
Water and extra oxygen from the Hydrogen peroxide,
Acid to attack the metal surface from the Vinegar,
And you'll know that salt makes iron rust quicker if you've ever seen anything metal that's spent some time near the sea.
The steel wool just gives a high surface area to work with.
It all helps turn Fe into FeO3 I could go into more detail, but...
The final wash is a suspension of Iron oxide particles.
Is all you really need to know.
I have Ultramarines to show you! not just any old Ultramarines though! Oh no, these are special Ultramarines they are made from the series 2 heroes set and I changed a few arms and bits and bobs on them all to make them even more unique they look pretty awesome and I hope they kill lots of things for Moods who is their owner
I also saved some Eldar, yep I saved them from a horrendous paint job! like seriously awful from Blue Table Painting! I don't usually say anything about other painters as i'm by no means perfect but these were awful considering he paid about $1,200AU to have them supply the models and paint them with 'custom' lava bases i'll see if I can find original pics later but for now you can see the rescue.
firstly we'll start on the positive of the Terminators
And now for a much better looking Eldar army! before anyone says anything, YES one leg is backwards not my doing and when I attempted to fix it it was so glued together that it was going to snap the joints so I tried to get it to look o.k without breaking the model.
I think you missed a detail bit on the assault cannon dude's leg. That is a very nice blue on them though. Seems to be getting better as you get more used to it.
Great jobs on the blue boys and the rescued Eldar.
How is Blue Table Painting still a thing? I've never seen anything good from them, and it's not as if they are much cheaper than far far better painting studios and individuals.
...And how do you get one leg backwards, seriously...?!
More Nurgle today a slightly different scheme than I usually paint for them but hot damn it's another nice look to the followers of the father of death and decay! a dirty grey with purple/pink accents works strangely well!
Another little thing i'm playing around with is Horus Heresy World Eaters, in particular a Contemptor dread with modeled chains wrapped around his fists that are flying behind him as he roars forward into the fray! i've had an image of them caked and clogged with human viscera rusted with blood and gore as befitting their chapter. Please ignore the rest of the model i'm only starting out the base colours.
*insert bit where Salvage waxes poetic about the joys of tone control in minigame painting and how Nurgle done right is essentially about really nailing that tone down*
I also love the caked gore on the contemptor, that is ferociously legit Nerds Looks like you used some crackle paint in there as well to further the story of how little his armor is kept up? Great stuff.
I'm a sucker for 30k World Eaters. I dig the juxtaposition of the white and blue colors we usually see on Ultramarines with the wild abandon and brutality they are known for.
Thanks fellas, I am going to agree with you whaley! it's the chapters brutality over such a clean chapter look that really stands out I think.
looks like the guy I painted the Nurgle for is happy with them and he;s sending more to me! I also did them in a day and had them on the way back to him :-) which may be another determining factor lol started them in the morning and had them ready to send less than 7hrs later!
If only those Nurgle had drilled barrels and exhausts... is that a task for the commissioner or commissionee? Otherwise I can see why he's happy with them, and that's an impressive time turnaround.
I generally paint what I get, if the client sends them assembled and hasn't specified any extra work and want them quick then i'll just whip straight into them :-) i'm more than happy to do whatever though as long as i'm o.k at doing it!
Finished my first HQ for the Tau, an Ethereal on his hover drone I wanted to try and get his skin a little different to the troops and darkened the top and rear of his head to look mottled. everything else is pretty basic layered highlights.
This thing is solid! honestly this suit (if you could call it that) is pretty damn impressive, I was asked by a guy (a pretty cool guy I may add) to help him by painting this big bad boy for his army in his chosen scheme which I was originally skeptical if I could do it justice but I think i've done alright let's hope it does it's job admirably on the table!
Continuing on from multi hued giant death robots, I have another one to show you! this time it's the Forge World Y'Vharatafrseanaxe suit! a wicked fast assault suit suit that is bloody nasty from what i've been told, as usual a pleasure to paint as the lines and armour are perfect for how I paint hings so I hope you like him as well! only guy that's not so happy is Carl..... the ex-Primaris at his feet.
Thanks guys! I have to admit the models really lend themselves to my painting style and it's easy to do a more basic undersuit on them and do more work on the armour panels, and it doesn't detract from the overall paintjob and well, they look very striking!! those colours I would never have thought could look good together until I actually started painting them I've got another one from FW to paint for the same guy. I may include a couple in my own army since they really look frickin' sweet.
lets see, what do I have coming up to paint. another FW Tau suit, 30 more GSC models, new Abaddon, and I just finished a nurgle Spartan and razorback but no pics of them as they were a 2 day turnaround and back in the post
and I tidied up the nerd room again, it's the simple things that make a huge difference, I bought another paint rack and scrubbed the desk clean and organised all my stuff and now i'm ready to get into it again!
I got a couple of commissions last week and finished them up! I've some more Genestealer cults and another big Forgeworld Tau suit and his little friend looking good, the colour scheme on that suit looks really cool and the cult is growing quickly! a couple of gamers have reinforcements on the way and I hope they do well
let's go with the big suit first, i'm luckily getting this scheme down now
Thanks guys, it's funny now how quickly I can do that orange and blue blend now! I worked out how to do it similar to the process I do my reds and yellows and it's saved me a lot of time just knowing my own steps :-) instead of trying to work it out each time.
I'm currently painting Abaddon at the moment and he's looking really nice, I hope that the detail shines through when he's finished as i've spent most of today trying to get a nice black look to the armour which I think I have done but then realised you don't really see too much of it lol.
As always your painting is top notch. The blending is beautiful on those suits. FW did a awesome job on designing those suits.... I really miss the old FW broadsides with the arm mounted guns. Those looked so slick ( I had them they where fantastic models) with your painting style. Are you still working on the howling griffins? Can't wait to see more of those.
I sold the Howling Griffons a couple of months back after GW and Primaris kinda bummed me out about my love of marines, that's when I started the Tau. After them who knows? I may finally go to Horus Heresy 30k to get my space marine fix :-)
nerdfest09 wrote: I sold the Howling Griffons a couple of months back after GW and Primaris kinda bummed me out about my love of marines, that's when I started the Tau. After them who knows? I may finally go to Horus Heresy 30k to get my space marine fix :-)
PreHeresy Iron Warriors done with your magnificent metal work would be stellar.
Here he is! the biggest of the big bad. Abaddon the Despoiler all ready to go to his new home and wreak bloody havoc. I really liked this model, it's a good re-imagining of the design and while it follows the current trend of GW styling it doesn't add anything it doesn't need and isn't over the top with clutter, hence I enjoyed plus.... just frickin look at him!
I think that may have outdone all of your Primarch models . The reds really glow against the black armor. Whoever you painted that for is super lucky .
Having not really followed the storyline of 40k since the primaris invasion, what happened to Abbie’s pet dragon thing?
More stuff today all finished up! I was asked to paint a converted scout biker squad for a Blood Ravens army, they used the new GSC bikes and they actually work rather well together, poses are slightly harder to line up with hands but i'd say it's a success and looks very scouty
And I finished a test model for my own Kroot I had thoughts of how they would look, work and interact with my Jungle Tau and decided that they would adapt using the dna from the planets creatures they have ingested to mimic the colour shifts and skin adaptations for camouflage, hence they were painted with different primers overlapping each other giving me a chance to give them a very colourful alien vibe! I still wanted them to look good and nasty in a fight too.
Bikes and ATVs look ace! Very appropriate for rough terrain. You made the conversions nice and smooth to fit the scout bikers on there. Looks very natural.
The old mind is whirling. what do I do after my Tau?
I have a couple of ideas and i'm torn between them.
Horus Heresy force because it lets me have my proper normal space marines again!
Blood Angels or Iron Warriors?
Necromunda: I have always wanted to build a gang but I am not sure which one, I'm keen on Cawdor as long as I can swap heads onto them and I was waiting for Arbites but the new models have Primaris helmets and have totally put me off
anyway, that's all I wanted to say today before it left my head
I think your style would really suit Necro, especially any gang that can make good use of those lovely grungy reds and yellows you perfected on the Griffons. Escher would be a good pick for that scheme (and are great minis, a fair bit more customisation than some of the later ones), likewise Cawdor's chequered cloth patterns would look great in those colours.
I think the new Enforcers would probably look a lot more traditional with some headswaps for, say, Skitarii Vangard or Tempestus Scion helmets. I used Vanguard helms on my own converted Arbites team and they worked a treat.
The Riddle of Steel wrote: Bikes and ATVs look ace! Very appropriate for rough terrain. You made the conversions nice and smooth to fit the scout bikers on there. Looks very natural.
Either of the Heresy Era guys you listed would be great. I have had both armies in the past, with Blood Angels stuff just released from Forge World I think you could make a lovely army of them. Though your Iron Warriors I think would be beautiful as well since they have big stumpy robots and vehicles everywhere, plus you can grime them up all you want from trench work.
There’s been so much redesign with Necromunda that I haven’t even bothered getting a set of any of it yet . I’m not a fan of The Delaque, but most of the others are good enough for me, though I’m waiting for Spyrers. I think the Enforcers would look better with another paint scheme, I think the masks fit as an almost tactical paintball mask style.
Anyway, i'm here again with ANOTHER big ass robot! I got to do a Storm surge named Sergio that has arms, yes ARMS! printed ones and they make it soooooo much better looking, I also had the fun of adding a dread to the base, sadly I had no Nurgle rot and had to use paint to make the green until my guy I painted it for can whack some on maybe? I think I've actually painted all the Tau big bots now from the Tuna supreme to the riptide and FW variants
That is a suitably epic base for this imposing beast of a robot. Nice work!
I'd love to see you work on Necromunda models. The new Arbites are indeed in need of some head swaps but I think you're more than up for the task. I personally really like the Delaque, Cador, and Orlock models.
Ooh I have so much catching up to do on all your work, Nerdy. Better make a cup of tea for this one...
Utterly stunning work on the Warmaster though, mate. One of the nicest i've seen, without a doubt.
How much work was needed to convert those scouts on the Jackal bikes? They're not bad looking!
With your kroot, Lovely blue and all, but it looks like you've got a big splotch of black wash on his jaw. Unless of course that was deliberate.
Thanks guys, I've just finished some of my own Tau as well but no pics yet, plus some wip on my Ghostkeel and xv8 commander! i'll try and whip some pics up on the morrow!
I am pestering the owner of the multi tau to send me a pic of all the big guys together to show you. he's sending me a hammerhead next I think to paint for him. I am also getting some more grey Nurgle bloat drones to do and some more Primaris Ultramarines.
whalemusic360 wrote: Arms do make it look much more balanced and fitting with the rest of the models. Can't believe you used a chappy dread as basing. Those are OOP now!
The arms really make it better as well as the cover for the cockpit and the sad thing is that was a legit dread i've still got the one I painted years ago on the shelf!
Amazing work all around, and so much variety in the models! I love the color palette on Abaddon, and the converted scout bikes are a pretty cool idea. Some of the poses look a bit stiff, but that's to be expected with the old sculpts. The overall look of the squad works really well though.
I couldn't do it. I was SO close to having a finished army but the sirens call of the space marine dragged me back and I sold the Tau. but how could I space marine and avoid all the Primaris only one way! and that was to re group, re focus and look deeper into that which is pure! and start 30K yes Horus Heresy will enable me to collect and lavish love on those normal marines I hold so dear.
So yeah, I think i'll start up a new blog again to organise myself and keep the project there and see if it interests any other nerds
So, what chapter? I have started already working on a squad and a vehicle. Originally I was going with Blood Angels since I love the look of red on marines and so much fancy details would look stunning, but I know it would take me a long time to finish to a standard I would be happy with and the chances of losing interest are high. Imperial Fists? maybe, my yellows look rich and they were a large part of the story but no, not them.
I have gone against my normal thought process as i'm always been attracted to the good guys, and I wanted to rage against that which birthed Primaris and have decided on another chapter (Legion) one that makes good use of my way I do metals (which people seem to like) and also has a splash of yellow (which people seem to like) and also are going to be fairly fast to paint and still look good.
Now i'm going to need coaching and constant affirmation to keep going and doing things right so please don't hold back and i'll try and start the new blog tomorrow.
nerdfest09 wrote: I couldn't do it. I was SO close to having a finished army but the sirens call of the space marine dragged me back and I sold the Tau. but how could I space marine and avoid all the Primaris only one way! and that was to re group, re focus and look deeper into that which is pure! and start 30K yes Horus Heresy will enable me to collect and lavish love on those normal marines I hold so dear.
So yeah, I think i'll start up a new blog again to organise myself and keep the project there and see if it interests any other nerds
So, what chapter? I have started already working on a squad and a vehicle. Originally I was going with Blood Angels since I love the look of red on marines and so much fancy details would look stunning, but I know it would take me a long time to finish to a standard I would be happy with and the chances of losing interest are high. Imperial Fists? maybe, my yellows look rich and they were a large part of the story but no, not them.
I have gone against my normal thought process as i'm always been attracted to the good guys, and I wanted to rage against that which birthed Primaris and have decided on another chapter (Legion) one that makes good use of my way I do metals (which people seem to like) and also has a splash of yellow (which people seem to like) and also are going to be fairly fast to paint and still look good.
Now i'm going to need coaching and constant affirmation to keep going and doing things right so please don't hold back and i'll try and start the new blog tomorrow.
Iron Within, Iron Without Brother.
It also has vehicles and big Stompy robots . You can also swing some dark cult followers or even some imprisoned civilians to do grunt work. Loads of possibilities and the really nice part is that you can always use them to fight in 40K as well as they don’t change much.
I’d figure out early how your going to make mucky bases as the trench warfare side of these guys and their affinity for earth (psychers are geomancers) should play a roll, but that’s just a suggestion.
Please put a new link to the thread here so I won’t miss it .
my favourite thing? The orange lights on the stealers. So, so good.
I was going for a dusty underground lair kinda look to them, serviceable and solid armour and weapons and a very alien countenance 
they probably are a bit more purple than I had planned but I think they're pretty striking!
so if you need a couple dudes done hit me up 
. Hide the people from the truth 
they are too stupid to handle it 
so the colours are still there and it's more dirty than destroyed.
yeah, 
, now I have to go back and do a shed load more work on my kill team ruins effort, that is looking quite brilliant.
anyway it's not up to me and to be honest i'd be pretty keen if anyone else has any models they need painted at the moment, i've had a rough trot with my health again and needed to take time off without pay which sucks but that's why we save our coins isn't 
they're usually spot on but the game colour I used just was awkward to paint with, it had a real tendency to be sort of sticky which I found odd. I made sure I shook the hell out of it too.
and in typical Nerd fashion I started pretty much everything! 
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not my doing and when I attempted to fix it it was so glued together that it was going to snap the joints so I tried to get it to look o.k without breaking the model.
. You can also swing some dark cult followers or even some imprisoned civilians to do grunt work. Loads of possibilities and the really nice part is that you can always use them to fight in