Totally - what Gits said. And we demand a tutorial, tips, hints, secrets, some magic and a shubbery

Seriously though - fantastic work there fella

A SHRUBBERY!!!!!


Ni.......

Anyway thanks for the compliments guys! if you like faces then boy-o-boy do I have a treat coming up for you! as you may be aware I've been working a lot lately and this has impacted my paint time considerably, i've found a few minutes here and there to assemble some Grey Knights etc but as far as sitting down and really cracking into some brush work I haven't had the luxury of time sadly

but thanks to assembling the Knights and getting my plans sorted for the heraldry and colour scheme I have included a number of bodies without helmets for the purpose of adding some great bare heads into them I bought some new ones from Puppetswar I wanted to paint and will be using them when they arrive, as well as some Sternguard heads and a random one I found on ebay so a bit of a face-paint-a-thon will be coming up in a few weeks. I have to also paint a face to resemble my best mate when on the battlefield since I've got my head, he wanted one too and luckily the sternguard head with the beard can look enough like him to pass nicely so I'll do that one first.

hopefully this week I can get more done to Whaleys Warband, there's really not much more to do, skin tones and faces then details and add ons and I think they'd be good to go! then I can Vulkan.......

Just lost for words on how good that is. So long as we don't get a naked Cmdr Damo...

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Just lost for words on how good that is. So long as we don't get a naked Cmdr Damo...

The battle would be won right there!......

Yes .. any tips and tricks/ tutorial for us great unwashed would be helpful... yes, yes indeed!

Hey, speaking recently about heads and faces, I was looking again at the Norse warrior heads from puppetswar and I really like them but now i'm considering a re-do of my own visage! one of them has the same facial hair configuration as i'm sporting with the lower beard no moustache look and shaved head, which is the second from the top but his beard is more bushy than mine on the sides or even the first top one I can nip off the hair and paint the cheeks as stubble as I keep it shorter on the sides of my face and longer into a ducktail type beard

what do you think? a new head for Kaldor Damo?

Those heads are full of character, it would be awesome to see what you can do on them.
So yeah, pick any of those heads, and re-paint yourself.

After all... the other one doesn't look that good... does it ?

Thanks Minus! :-D that's one vote for a Damo re-do! all thse heads are going to be Grey Knights! Wooooo

I think you should go for the bottom right one and grow yours to match

I must admit Damo, while these heads are fantastic... I think the self-portrait you did (i.e. the existing one) is better than any of them.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I must admit Damo, while these heads are fantastic... I think the self-portrait you did (i.e. the existing one) is better than any of them.

Shhhh Gits.
Let him paint another face. Lots of other faces. THEN maybe, you can tell him that the first one looked better. But it's always good to see Damo painting faces.

The first attempt is meh Damo. Try another head.

Damo, just buy a pack of all the heads puppets war do , magnetise the neck socket and have helmet on / helmet off versions of all your marines !

ALL the marines fully personalized with helmets and bare heads!? why that's ludicrous ...... o.k i'll do it! (maybe one day!)

but until then how about half a warband? how about half a FINISHED warband!

here's the group shot to start.

and now the individual pics, I really tried to get a more 'Blanchy' feel to them with darker colours and less sharp highlights but I wanted the faces to be more washed out and full of intent!












And I've decided to just use my Flesh Eaters army for my Armies On Parade entry So I need to paint only one more squad for them! TERMINATORS! They'll be back! at this stage I've primed them red and washed them with Agrax Earthshade and today I began by giving them the first highlight of Vallejo Bloody Red.


And while I do like the original Damo head I would feel I need to re paint it as I don't sport the moustache with the beard any more and I reckon I can do a new one justice, especially if I smooth the sides down marginally to better represent my current guise and if I stuff it up I can always use the original

What is this "Armies on Parade" thing I keep hearing about?? Is that a GW store thing?

 Gitsplitta wrote:
What is this "Armies on Parade" thing I keep hearing about?? Is that a GW store thing?

It's a GW thing, yes.

Warband looks sick! The shield guys in particular look very grimdark. Funny, since they are the only models that arent 40k in the lot.

Hehe, I just love that look on the second shield guy's face. He has had enough of your heresy...
Gorgeous gorgeous work on the warband. Its everything we could have wanted to see


Man, those reds are just beautiful! Truly your color, Damo. Really psyched to see the Flesh Tearers coming back!

I admit I also think second shield guy is my favorite with his "I'm sick of your Heresy!!" look he has such a cool face

I started work on my Armies on Parade board today, I used some styrofoam to give it a little height at the back and used crumpled aluminium foil to create a couple of shallow craters and the blend from the higher part to the ground. The addition of a row of windows representing the lower part of a building will add some background and the usual battlefield detritus thrown around like ammo crates and broken rubble to add some interest

I used powdered filler with acrylic brown paint mixed in to give the colour and put a handful of blended cork in to add some rough start to the texture of the ground, I spread a thin layer over the whole board and then sprinkled blended up cork over the whole lot and then some fine sand which I then pressed and mixed into the filler with my hands. Once I'd done that I mixed wood glue and water together and liberally sprayed it over the board to seal it all together and give it a hardy finish.

I popped it in front of the fire in my Man shed to dry out and then I used my cans of The Army Painter Primer to coat the rubble and buildings with green and then I sprayed desert yellow at a low angle across the ground and used black for the craters.

it's looking good in m opinion so far with that amount done and next I'll add washes and details and drybrushing

Looking at it with fresh eyes, you should beat up the standing wall and the metal grate in the middle. Would be weird if rubble was still perfectly shaped.

Sweet stuff man. where do you get those gothic catherdraly plastic from - seen them used aorund but never sure where they come from?

whalemusic360 wrote:Looking at it with fresh eyes, you should beat up the standing wall and the metal grate in the middle. Would be weird if rubble was still perfectly shaped.

Good point I'll get the dremel out for some drilling and chipping

Januine wrote:Sweet stuff man. where do you get those gothic catherdraly plastic from - seen them used aorund but never sure where they come from?

left overs from the Cities of Death boxed buildings I should have some more spare if you want a few?

Both the display table and Inquisitorial Warband look great, Damo. Very nice. If you wanted to add some extra, I'd suggest looking at getting some plastruct I-beam and clipping and bending some to strew around the board.

Another good idea AZ! I actually think I might have some still in my bits boxes somewhere!? I might arrange the army on the board and see where some would fit best?

Yeah, out of the way, in between where units will stand and next to things like the building rubble.

Actually I can probably take a pic tomorrow of what I want to display on the board before I go further? I've picked my favorite models from my collection (sans Terminators of course) that way we can have a look and see what makes a striking image!

Those blokes look amazing bud. And nice to see your red back in action.

On the display, I would try and go darker. Your beautiful Red stands out best against dark backgrounds. Fear it may get a little lost in the brown. Looking at the Griffon! (I think!) he's there but muted by the backdrop. Your boys pop so much they may be ok, but I would go a couple shades darker.

2 cents, what do I know!

Love the red on those Marines! Are you airbrushing that highlight?

Camkierhi wrote:Those blokes look amazing bud. And nice to see your red back in action.

On the display, I would try and go darker. Your beautiful Red stands out best against dark backgrounds. Fear it may get a little lost in the brown. Looking at the Griffon! (I think!) he's there but muted by the backdrop. Your boys pop so much they may be ok, but I would go a couple shades darker.

2 cents, what do I know!

Thanks Cam, I'll runs some inks and blacks through it to darken it a bit before I dry brush, i'll snap a pic this arvo of the army on it to get a feel

Mymearan wrote:Love the red on those Marines! Are you airbrushing that highlight?

Hey Mym, nope I use a brush on my mini's and only use a dodgy old airbrush that spatters horribly to add shading on my larger models (tanks etc.) I prefer to brush paint where I can and the way I highlight it's easier



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Did some more work on the display board it's really coming along quite quickly! i'm a little suprised but happy I've taken advice on board and darkened it overall with watered brown and black paints and washed the rubble after a quick first drybrush! still more to do but it really shouldn't take long now to finish.

I've painted a little area of green goop to add some water effects to which should look o.k with a little painted detail on it, and i've got to paint the window edging in a gold colour and add the stained glass windows behind them. I also gave the undulations in the terrain a bit of shadow by painting on some darker washes under rocks and around edges

NOW! I also put the army on it and took a few shots to get some feel of the force swarming across the battlefield........ maybe too many shots.......but meh!

first up the progress on the board.







and now with the Flesheaters on it.

Simply gorgeous! Can't believe you do those highlights by hand, looked like zenithal airbrushing to me. Any chance for some more detailed pics and a small tutorial?

 nerdfest09 wrote:

whalemusic360 wrote:Looking at it with fresh eyes, you should beat up the standing wall and the metal grate in the middle. Would be weird if rubble was still perfectly shaped.

Good point I'll get the dremel out for some drilling and chipping

Januine wrote:Sweet stuff man. where do you get those gothic catherdraly plastic from - seen them used aorund but never sure where they come from?

left overs from the Cities of Death boxed buildings I should have some more spare if you want a few?

Cities of Death......dammit - must have missed out on that while away from hobby for so long. Just the things I'm looking for for some dios I working on.

Jan - It's from the Honored Imperium set, and still available.

Damo - I'd suggest moving the dread up with the termis, and maybe removing the Baal. It's a bit overpacked at the moment, I think a bit less will have more of a visual impact.

What a great display! Top marks all around!

Wow thats very impressive Damo.

Thanks again guys! it's been fun to do and it's also been easy! mixing the brown poster paint acrylic with the filler for a base and then sprinkling on crushed corkboard was so time efficient and then some spraycan bursts to add variation for the ground and the rest is a big makeup brush which I used to sponge/dab darker washes over the board. a whole board like this would only take a day!

A suggestion or two from one who knows...

"Crowds" don't work very well visually. Trick is to balance the natural look with each unit and each character having it's own, distinct visual space so they just don't get all mashed up into one big blur.

I know it's a war-torn battlefield... but it needs more green in it. I would recommend some of those grass tufts. Tuck them in here and there where they might have avoided the shelling or along the back edge. Something to compliment all that red.

I've got some of my grass and green flock I use to go on the board yet Gits so hopefully that will add a small hint of contrast colour? I also haven't really decided on final positions of the models yet so it's certainly up for change :-)

One more for the Warband! got the goatboy finished and I like him nice and grim as he should be.






and some servo skulls to keep them all in check







also began Gits Kans too, not much to show yet but at least they have something on them



and after some input from me 'ol mate Whaley I have weathered the wall in my diorama board and dirtied it up for the warzone! also added some stained glass and brushed them over with typhus corrosion to make them dirty and gritty. the blacks and some bits do look shiny but that's because the pigment fixer I used is still drying there.





and I love this photo! just something about the feel of it I just really think suits the model and the wall.

Nerdfest- your work is stellar as always mate

Really nice paintjobs here

really cracking stuff nerdfest. Should change your name to grimfest

Looks much more natural like that for sure. Really like the stained glass. Skulls and Ol Billy came out great as well.

What technique did you use for your stained glass?

Awesome final pic. Very GrimDark.

Lovely pics Nerdy, those stain glass windows are amazing.

Wow... just WOOOOOOOW!
That is seriously awesome work. Massive improvement on the wall! Super gritty and grimdark, and those stained glass windows just sell it!


Inquisitor Grump looks right at home in front of it.

Just outstanding work, mate. Very impressive on all levels. The whole army shot might potentially be given slightly better composition as Whaley mentioned, but the sight of all those beautifully painted models on the board is just out of control.

The Inquisitorial stuff is also fantastic as well. I really like the little anatomical touches that you're doing these days, such as sligtly more reddened skin on elbows and knees.

I'VE GOT THE TOILET PAPER MASTER!!!!



Heh friggin crazy good brush as always my brother from other brothers motha!

Lol ^ Only you could turn my Grim Dark into toilet humor! :-) thanks KC happy you're still about my man! may the beards be with you.


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 Solar_lion wrote:
What technique did you use for your stained glass?

Awesome final pic. Very GrimDark.

Hey Solar, the glass is simply some designs I found online that I re sized to fit the windows in the 40k buildings and had them printed on clear acetate I also have a black gel pen that people use for scrapbooking stuff and if you use that on the lines (which I didn't do this time) it gives a raised black lead-like appearance, it can be a bit thick so choose designs that aren't too intricate I'll show you if you wish I believe I've still got some I was fiddling around with.

Ye gods! Such brilliance! A new diorama pops to mind using this guys as well.



*I found it master, the last one!*

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Lol ^ Only you could turn my Grim Dark into toilet humor! :-) thanks KC happy you're still about my man! may the beards be with you.


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 Solar_lion wrote:
What technique did you use for your stained glass?

Awesome final pic. Very GrimDark.

Hey Solar, the glass is simply some designs I found online that I re sized to fit the windows in the 40k buildings and had them printed on clear acetate I also have a black gel pen that people use for scrapbooking stuff and if you use that on the lines (which I didn't do this time) it gives a raised black lead-like appearance, it can be a bit thick so choose designs that aren't too intricate I'll show you if you wish I believe I've still got some I was fiddling around with.

Look at it like a compliment. I'm saying your painting is the gak also I'm always here duder I just don't always have time to post. I even almost painted the other day!

 KingCracker wrote:




I'VE GOT THE TOILET PAPER MASTER!!!!

I had the same thought, I think it's just that model
Though the other image I get from him is the little cleaning/painter robot from Wall-E. The one that spazes out and goes to clean up all the little crumbseft behind people.

Hey guys! you'll embarrass Gits if you keep staring at his Kans! .... but go on anyway! they are attractive!

So, I finished Gits Kans in record time a couple of days ago and the final touches to his last Cybork member finally got time to take some pics and they all look pretty good, only two jump packs for his Mantis warriors and then I can send away!

Now, i'm also trying to get all my projects done at the moment due to something that kinda accidentally happened that I think you'll like I was just fishing on a local facebook wargames page to see if anyone would be interested in buying Kiera off me? well, it didn't take long at all! within an hour I had an offer of $350! which I then inadvertently replied that $250 was great! Soooooo I got $250 from a local guy who was so happy with her that he is wanting me to do some commissions for him including a WARHOUND TITAN! I'll make the 100 back with that I hope just not sure what to charge for a model that large? any ideas? Ramos? Siggy?

anyway while you ruminate on that info of what's to come here's Gits models and some shots of the stuff to paint this week!

Kans!












and here's the Tinman! I had to do a rough heart on his chest, it wouldn't be right not too!




and now for the rest of Whaley's Warband! these are getting attention this week as well as VULKAN! when assembling to prime him I noticed he had a snapped little finger which I had to replace somehow! enter a GreyKnights pointing finger to save the day!






So, what would you all like to see me try or do with Vulkan? any certain colours or depth of light or dark to really make him stand apart? I have a personal challenge to have each Primarch I paint to feature on the gallery front page


Also got these primed and some old ones getting some love!


love to see your thoughts about all this I've just swamped you with

Kans and ork look great Damo. Thank you so much.

Awesome stuff man - keep it coming!

Good to see orks again here. All great as usual.

I love the tinman.
Really !

@Nerdfest: Call your tinman Ded Killy as a wink to Ned Kelly lol.

Orks are looking great, really like the tin ork.

Will be exciting seeing you paint a Warhound

Brilliant orks as usual mate. That weathering is top notch, especially that rust.

The kans look great but the Tinman is simply awesome!

Started on Vulkan today, I washed the greens of his plates and 'browned out' all the areas I want gold I have a few ideas for something a little different on him regarding colour blends after looking at him properly the hard part is getting the balance right to still make him appear in green armour when he's so ornate with all the gold about him!



his head is going to be more African American skin toned rather than the charcoal black of the recent fluff which is cool as I haven't painted that tone before



I also decided to start my faces again and tried to do it in stages, so the first two stages are basing with Tallarn flesh and wash with Reikland flesh shade.

Vulkan is looking badass mate. Nice work as ever

I love the Vulkan model so I'm pretty excited to see what you do with it. Also I hate the literally black skin tone they supposedly have, so going the route you're going makes me a happy camper. When I first got into warhams a guy that taught me was black and his army was Salamanders, and he would go on and on about how they are the best because they are the black guys. Man he was pissed when they changed it to charcoal black

I agree KC, which is why I asked Damo to go with the realistic version over coal black.

I thought I had replied, but I think your biggest challenges/spots to shine on Vulkan will be the face, cape and keeping it green armor instead of gold all the things. Looks like you are off to a great start!

That's looking fantastic. Love the muted colors...

Nice work (as always) Nerdy. Love the Tin-Ork, did you make that, or is that (yet another) model I don't know about?

Update time on Vulkan! really really pleased with how he's turning out I had an idea for his armour as the Salamanders are noted (next to the Blood Angels) as artisans who appreciate the workmanship in armour and weaponry with friezes and relief work etc. so I took the inspiration from Kiera the Imperial Knight and managed to blend the greens into a shimmery gold metallic and in my hands it really looks cool, a bit hard to translate in photo's at this stage but you can see the blending from gold to green and then the shine on the higher points.

I think the balance is good between the green and the actual gold parts so i'm not too worried now it's gone further wit the brush!

That green looks amazing Damo, blending in the gold was an excellent idea and you pulled it off looks fantastic.

Beautifully done Damo. I may have to steal that for something.

Stunning work with that custom green. Mesmerising in its own way. Lovely work fella

That is an awesome effect, nicely done!

I hear on the upside down part of the planet it is already your birthday. Hope it's a great one man, chill with the pups and the lady and just enjoy yourself.

Tanks guys :-) yep, it's the day of days! Damo's birthday! i've had a ripper of a day out for lunch with the Nerdwench and a couple of gifts of some Ninja Turtle figures and 4 CNC paint racks! I just finished putting them together and will take some photo's tomorrow after I do some more work to Vulkan! should nearly get him done if I'm lucky, that green armour is totally cool in real life it glows!

Happy B-day Dude!~

Happy birthday Damo! Hope it's a great one.

Happy birthday mate have a tinny on me and that armour is looking rather splendid although it is not a green skin

Good work on the armour and happy birthday.

Happy birthday, mate! That Vulkan is coming along very nicely. I think you've made a great choice with the green-into-gold which looks absolutely fantastic. I also applaud you and Whaley on going for a realistic African skin tone instead of that silly black that they changed it to.

Birthday!!!! Have a great one and cracking work there on Vulkan

Happy Birthday Damo

happy birthday, Damo!!!
sounds like you are enjoying it, mate...

great idea with the golden green...
i'll have to try that out sometime...

personally, i like the coal black and red eyes of the modern Salamanders (the juxtaposition of the Chapter with the most compassion towards normal humans being the most demonic looking is really cool, in my opinion), but a throwback is always nice...

keep up the good work...

cheers
jah

Happy birthday bud.

Spectacular work on that green.

Have a great birthday Nerd!


Vulkan looks just jaw droppingly good. Amazing effect you got with the gold and green. Reminds me a lot of that polychromatic paint that you see on tuners. You know, where it changes colors depending how you look at it?

Cant wait to see this in the flesh
Absolutely beautiful!

FINISHED! another one bites the dust and I am going to blow my own trumpet again because I bloody LOVE this model! he just looks so cool, the perfect paragon of what the Salamanders Primarch should be, his finely wrought armour paired with a stoic yet solid pose, his armour gleaming with detail and care of that which shields his body.

his armour I am really happy with it's bright and different with a candy paint feel but it works so well, I just have to stop myself from doing the method on everything from now on I wanted him to really push the green and gold without hiding the green, I think I've done a good job with balancing it and having the red skin as a pop of colour along with the cream leather straps

I think I have added the pics correctly so you can vote on them and I really want to try and get him on that gallery front so he doesn't feel left out with his brothers

And thank you everyone for the birthday wishes! I really appreciate it! I had a lovely day out to lunch at Christmas Hills Raspberry Farm then home and a coffee and out again for dinner at the Pizza Pub with the family and friends (my mother's birthday was the day before mine so we had a joint dinner) then home with a very full tummy, quickly jumped online and ordered some FW models with some birthday gift money

Crikey - he's perfect. Armour, cloak, skin. Each thing absolutely bang on. That skin tone really looks so much better the stock tones they went with. First time I saw the other way I thought they'd done some 1920's 'blackface' rendition. Couldn't fetching believe it. Yours looks so so much better. Awesome job.

Looks pretty sick! I was wondering how you were going to do the flame mantle, I think the gold works well, and is more practical then actual flames. The candied armor works well. Salamanders work well with the effect, would be interesting to see in some other colors too. Emperor's Children, Ultramarines, Blood Angels and Imperial Fists might work well, at least in my head.

Wow, wow, WOW!!!!

This has to be some of your best work... I mean wow... every part of it is spectacular. The skin tone (which is a great change from blackface), the marble on the hammer... But most of all that armor! I think that's what really sells it


Awesome work, Damo.

That's an astonishing job Damo. The green is innovative and the rest is simply brilliant. I've clearly been wasting you talents sending you oaks to paint,

Perfection.

He looks really good Damo. I love it.
Nice bright green, shiny golds.

I like the purple tone in the scales, on his cape, and the marble on the hammer.


I want to paint a primarch now...

You've really out done yourself this time Damo, Vulkan is stunning, love the green/gold and that cloak makes me drool.

Stunning.. I am blown away. but the cloak detail and marble hammer effect was thing that made me gasp! Good show!

Top work mate, I really like the cloak as well, great colour choice.

Sorry for being late to the B'day wishes, but since I hate you (have I ever mentioned that?) for bringing an endless stream of awesomeness, I think it is well deserved...

Excellent work mate. He looks very impressive, and it's good to hear that your birthday was a good one. What was the technique you used on the armour?

Wow thank you so much guys I'm thinking that when I do Rowboat Girlyman the crisp blue armour shall get the Nerdcandy treatment! it's a great method that isn't too difficult to do either, get your base colours on (in my case green) then shade your recesses with wash and mix a little bit of gold paint with your base colour again and highlight as normal dragging the mix down to blend (it gets quite thin and is easy to blend/taper) then using the same mix go over the highest points to strengthen the effect and finally add more gold and do your top highlights then wash the whole armour with Biel tan green I'd love to see someone actually try this and show me so I can see if what I say makes sense?

Now today I'm washing the rest of the warband for Whaley and working on some faces, I'm struggling to get a decent tutorial that is clear and in focus so I might just paint my new head today got them from Puppetswar and the quality is good and the postage was faster than last time!


until this afternoon........

I wonder if colors like blue and purple would work better with silver instead of gold?

That would make sense, actually. You see what you're doing is suspending the metal flakes in the colored layers. The gold works so well with the red because its a warm tone of color, and so well with the green because it's a component of green (gold being yellow).

Mixing it with blue (or even purple) might actually start turning it a little green where you dont want it. Silver would get you that neutral color but also the metallic shine. Kinda get what Im thinking?

Sounds like it calls for some test marines, Damo

I was planning on using silver so we were all thinking the same thing!

I painted a couple of heads but I'm thinking I will do them again with the spares they could be a bit smoother but I'll show you anyway. this is the NEW Damo head and I've included a comparison pic





and my best mate's version.


Kinda finished Whaley's Stompa not a top tier job but certainly game worthy!



and here's my new work station set up with my Birthday paint racks!

That painting set up looks next level man! Is it back2basix stuff your using?

Sweet layout for the workstation nice looking holders indeed, good call to have the paints upside down as well

See the similarity in the head choice although the mini has the upper hand

And what is going on with superman and wonder woman

Really, really nice stompa you got there. Space Marine looks proper angry and I think tha- wait, why does Wonder Woman have a wolf's face and Superman is Hitler? What is going on over there!? :p

Mate , really, that green is SWEET , going to have to find something to paint in that style, something other than camo !

Happy birthday by the way !

Superb work on Vulkan... The green armour is awesome.

That Vulkan model is easily in the top 5 that you've painted Damo! Great Scott!!

And the "You" mini head is spot on. That's going to look great on a table

Belated happy b-day good sir. I think my other post got lost in the warp, or it got blown up by how cool the Vulkan figure turned out.

If that is not a top tier gargant, then I don't know what one would look like.

You did a great job on your friends head.....( )

Thank you my friends! I still am so happy with Vulkan he really worked out nicely! might have to do myself a salamanders 30K army one day? would look really different with that paint too!

the paint racks are from CNC Miniature Scenery and they were easy if fiddly to assemble but totally worth it and now my station is much neater and more organised even if I did also realise I own lots of Yellow paints in different shades yet I hardly use the colour

What are you crazy fools talking about my mug for? isn't it normal for one's partner to get mugs printed with your dogs faces on different bodies? that was my fathers day pressie from the fuzzy kids, Issabella is Wonder Woman in the middle, to the left Superman is William and on the right Batman is Oscar the Dark Bite...... I now have a collection i'll show you one day

Little boring update on some WIP

I started to paint some more bare heads but haven't had any more time for a tutorial yet as I want to do a good one for once so until then I'll just show you wher I'm at.






went a fair way into getting some main colours down on the rest of the warband. these lot are having pale armour accented with gold and red cloth accents.




I am probably going to regret this and most likely get scolded by Whaley but here's a teaser of a new passion project from me! you all know I like to plan ahead and sometimes something grabs my eye and inspires me to begin a bigger project, well I found these online and then went looking around as if I were to actually build a small force. Sooooooo I'm planning a predominantly 30k inspired mechanicum army!

now for your input, metal areas are to be all dark brass and gold with red lenses but what colour do I use for the armour and robes? I'm steering away from red as I've got enough red marines but I'm not sure what else will look good? I have a feeling a dirty bone would look nice like I used on Mortarion? or a pale green like necrotic flesh from Army Painter? or even a yellow? but then I don't know how that fits with a Forgeworld!?



do you want to know what I got? (I know, I know Whaley I said i'd wait.....)
Thanatar Calix siege automata
Thanatar siege automata
6 Thallax automata
Magos Dominus
Tech priest
Myrmidon Destructors
army book.

Good heavens Damo... I CANT WAIT!!!! (so excited)

ooohhh - lots of lovely FW Mech.....not jealous at all....nope.....not a bit........Thantar siege goodness......dammit!!!

I was your idea to wait! You ruined your own plan. Silly Damo.

Love those lenses, how did you paint them?

Sweet lenses mate!
I got myself 4 of those for my Mechanicus ongoing project. But what figures do you plan to use those heads with? They don't fit 30k Mechanicum, do they?

Also, absolutely amazing work on Vulkan. I know, i know, i'm late at the party. Better than never

Keep it up dude!

Gitsplitta wrote:Good heavens Damo... I CANT WAIT!!!! (so excited)

Really? well perhaps we should converse and throw some ideas around then Gits? it was your models recently that made me consider it again so I 'blame' you

whalemusic360 wrote:I was your idea to wait! You ruined your own plan. Silly Damo.

.... I'm just an excited kid at heart aren't I!

Mymearan wrote:Love those lenses, how did you paint them?

Lenses were a scab red base then a bit of blood red mixed in and highlighted along the lower part of the lenses, then just red, then orange then a watered yellow to glaze over it all, then I washed it with sepia and when dry a dot of white in the top followed by a coat of ardcoat.

ciuncky wrote:Sweet lenses mate!
I got myself 4 of those for my Mechanicus ongoing project. But what figures do you plan to use those heads with? They don't fit 30k Mechanicum, do they?

Also, absolutely amazing work on Vulkan. I know, i know, i'm late at the party. Better than never

Keep it up dude!

Thanks mate! I'm using Kastelan robots as stand ins for Castellax 30k robots. not sure how to arm them yet though (help would be sweeeeet) glad you like Vulkan he is such a badass model!



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 Januine wrote:
ooohhh - lots of lovely FW Mech.....not jealous at all....nope.....not a bit........Thantar siege goodness......dammit!!!

Be Jealous!.....be very jealous! .... now I have to work out a scheme for the big guys!?

Forewarning this is a terrible suggestion, but one none the less. Teal!

Teal? hmmm interesting, very interesting :-)

I vote Black, it's the new Black after all.

I thought Black but it's notoriously hard to get good weathering on :-( I was toying with either an off white/cream/bone? or yellow?

Vulkan looks awesome dude.

That Stompa is also totally sweet!

D

 nerdfest09 wrote:

Thanks mate! I'm using Kastelan robots as stand ins for Castellax 30k robots. not sure how to arm them yet though (help would be sweeeeet) glad you like Vulkan he is such a badass model!

I'd say get along with the Phosphors. Guns look a bit better, but Phosphor is fine.
Then again (just an idea) if you use them as stand-ins, you could easily just mix the two guns into one. Maybe even add an ammo belt from 3rd parties, and put the bolter barrel on the Phosphor gun, somehow underneath.
And maybe some cogs/gears to look like blades protruding from the fist.

So what are the main differences in weapons and load on the castellax? I've seen them with bolters and buzz saws and the shoulder gun? is the shoulder one phosphor?

Sorry mate, haven't been reading a lot about those. I'm not sure it is phosphor, but i think Forgeworld's listing specifies what they are armed with. Maybe that will help to get a better idea and see how to convert them

Will do, I'm waiting for my Taghmata book in the post so that should hopefully help me sort it!

The one with the big ass cannon on its back is the plasma mortar, I get excited just thinking about that bad boy.

 GiraffeX wrote:
The one with the big ass cannon on its back is the plasma mortar, I get excited just thinking about that bad boy.

You mean the one I got as well as his brother with the big ass lascannon!


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But no.... not the big guys, I was talking about the castellax ones with the buzz saws and bolters

FW has 3 types of castellax. Shoulder mounted mauler bolt cannon and wrist mounted bolters(or flamers). Power saws guy comes with a shoulder mounted multi melta and again bolter/flamer wrist guns. 3rd variant has a darkfire shoulder mount and saw wrist weapons as per usual.

O.k so as i'm using the Kastelan robots as my stand ins the easiest option for me conversion and game wise would be to make the shoulder guns maulers and convert some flamers or bolters onto the arms? probably bolters as they're not real fast.

they come with bolters/flamers as standard. The shoulder weapons are pretty easily converted too. I really didn't like the old style mulitmelta on mine so I converted it to an eradication ray. Lovely lovely figs though. Thinking about getting a few more but want to get the Thanatar automata first - now that IS a beast

Hell yeah it's a beast! I have been drooling over it for a while and finally made the jump to buy some! I'm looking forward to really painting them all a little different to the norm for me too, trying to decide on how to paint the 'faces' of them? just standard metals? or as a gemstone? or hot metal? or with light creeping through the lines? or metal fading into heat dissipation?

A few days late, but your Vulkan is AWESOME. Incredible work, Nerdy.

Gah I always miss out on all these cool updates so I'm just gonna say that I love everything! Vulkan is perfect with that beautiful green armour and marbled hammer. Your miniature face is also super cool and I think I will have to find a head to make myself now as well!

Looking forward to the mechanicus army as I am working on something very similar. Are those the Wargame Exclusive Kastellan heads? They look so much better than the standard ones although I am a bit miffed that you got them as I wanted to be the first Dakkite to use them .

Oh and on a side note does anyone know anyone looking for an Ork Waaaagh!!? I have a WHOLE BUNCH of models I'm not using I want to sell cheap as chips!

Work in progress on the band! golds done and swords nearly done too! faces got some love and I decided on the two bare heads for my FleshEaters Termies, so all in all a good day













the bare heads I chose to use are Kharn the Betrayers head with the cables shaved off and a sternguard head I think suits?

I love the inquisitors, Nerdy. I'm envious of your ability to paint flesh.

Thanks Zambro! :-) it's that part I paint that I feel really ties it together.

Love that inquisitional band. Very nice!

 Zambro wrote:
I love the inquisitors, Nerdy. I'm envious of your ability to paint flesh.

Yes.. we need a video tut!

I love the glow on the monkeys goggles that match his dodgy finger probing antics.

I feel that the speed you can plow through such amazing painting is completely worthy of mention

Thanks Knightly! :-) I really really want to find a way I can film myself painting in clear enough focus to show you guys how and what I do! especially faces, it's so hard step by step for them!

I hear go-pro's mounted on an over the shoulder mic stand are a common way to go.

Brilliant work nerdfest. Those are the old 90s servitors aren't they?

Knightley wrote:I hear go-pro's mounted on an over the shoulder mic stand are a common way to go.

I thought about a GoPro but was worried as I haven't any experience with them and they don't have a screen to check what you're filming or zoom etc? and I don't want to drop a couple of hundred and then not be able to use it properly! i've asked around about them but most answers were from those with some technical knowledge and i'm sorely lacking in that department! that's why i'm starting a 30K Mechanicus army in the vain hope some tech priest incantations will rub off on me!

weetyskemian44 wrote:Brilliant work nerdfest. Those are the old 90s servitors aren't they?

Yep, pretty sure they are Weets, i'm doing them for Whaley and his warband. The models are really cool actually and the slack faces are my favorite part, they look pretty much expressionless.

Really great work on the warband, nerd. Love the washed out, gritty colors you've got on them. And the skin tones go without saying!
I really really like the Jokaero, too... Great idea with the color link between his goggles and his finger.


Termi heads really have a lot of character. Makes them look like they've seen some rough battles.

That Inquisitorial Warband is looking pretty bloody nice, Damo. I really like your ability to stay focused and on task. Hopefully I'll be able to do the same sometime in 2016.

As for the Mechanicum colour scheme - do you know what you plan to do with your eventual 30k force? I've seen quite a few good looking forces painted in colours that echo the Space Marine Legions that they are attached to, and it tends to look pretty nice.

Ramos Asura wrote:Really great work on the warband, nerd. Love the washed out, gritty colors you've got on them. And the skin tones go without saying!
I really really like the Jokaero, too... Great idea with the color link between his goggles and his finger.


Termi heads really have a lot of character. Makes them look like they've seen some rough battles.

Thans Ramos, I choose my heads carefully especially for my FE's I want them to look a little unhinged on some of them which is a nice contrast to the fact the BA and successor's can be quite ornate and gilded.

Azazelx wrote:That Inquisitorial Warband is looking pretty bloody nice, Damo. I really like your ability to stay focused and on task. Hopefully I'll be able to do the same sometime in 2016.

As for the Mechanicum colour scheme - do you know what you plan to do with your eventual 30k force? I've seen quite a few good looking forces painted in colours that echo the Space Marine Legions that they are attached to, and it tends to look pretty nice.

Well, quite simply........ Iron Hands..... hands down and as far as staying focused on a task I kind of have to when I'm doing something for someone else, as I get only a few hours in a day one day a week and if I get too distracted and go back and forth I take too long to do anyhting for my mates so I like to set my goals and finish projects before I get stuck into my own models. which leads me into the fact that the war band are done and soon I'll be terminating and Mechanicuming it up!


pics tomorrow!

Phew! Warband is DONE! these were some tricksy little blighters and I'm not 100% happy with a few of them, namely the assassin models but as a whole the group fits nicely and looks impressive the Inquisitors are cool and the Jaekero is really cute I actually like the acolytes? kinda creepy and suit the rougher style I did them in

So that's the end of my commissions at the moment I've some SH Termies to do for Whaley but they're not an immediate concern so they'll get love a bit later.

not sure what's next but I'm pretty sure it'll be my Flesh eater Terminators for my Armies on Parade entry board and some FW assembly.......










Hope they're o.k guys......

Loving the power sword on your Inquisitor. I struggle with painting the crackling energy on power weapons, so I just tend to put a glaze of Guilliman Blue on the weapon. (or other colour depending on the weapon/faction)

Well Angel, you can use that to do what i do! just paint a base colour in my case purple, then purple and white mix to start the lightning then make it lighter in parts then wash with wash, then re lightning in parts and wash again. repeat until happy ;-)

Beautiful!

I especially like the Death Cult Assassins.

My only minor critique, would be that the skjn o the Servitors looks too healthy. However your technique for skin is excellent!

D

 evildrcheese wrote:
Beautiful!

I especially like the Death Cult Assassins.

My only minor critique, would be that the skjn o the Servitors looks too healthy. However your technique for skin is excellent!

D

Maybe he's a "freshly made" servitor?

Beautiful work Damo. Very impressive.

Impressive!

 angelofvengeance wrote:


Maybe he's a "freshly made" servitor?

Mmm, fresh servitor...

Great looking team you have painted up there!

Amazing stuff all around. Additional supportive comment.

The faces on these Blood Angels look really, really cool. Looking forward to seeing what they look like fully painted!

Really dig the way you do power swords too.

Cheers guys, the entire Band do look freakin' sweet all together but my photography (lack of) skills is troubling me for a shot with any depth and I don't know how to use my damn dslr properly :-( you'll have to take my word for it! :-)

and since Siggy likes my heads I'm going to HAVE to work on them next aren't I *sigh* first world probs!

Its always nice when people like your head

Yeah we need to see more of your head(s) Nerdy.

To go with my Mechanicus models do I start collecting Iron Hands? or do I get Salamanders and paint them like Vulkan?

If you do Iron Hands you need to do NMM on them.

Yeah I do really like the purple blades, ties the force in nicely with each other (helps its pulled off so very well to boot)

Coming soon to a thread near you!.............

Can you guess what it is?.............

Discussion starts....NOW

Well it looks like you've 3d printed something...

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Well it looks like you've 3d printed something...

Ahhhhh you must be new here.... ..... it shall all become clear

Is it that time of year already?

Time for the third annual Nerdfest painting competition... and thank God there's no "glamour pic" of Nerdy as a prize this time.

I'm a bit late (and should really post more here as it is), but holy smegging bolter of Gulliman, that Inquisition group on the last page is just totally beautiful! Best DCA I've ever seen!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Time for the third annual Nerdfest painting competition... and thank God there's no "glamour pic" of Nerdy as a prize this time.

You haven't seen the other prizes yet!

Great looking Inquisition Warband there, Damo.

 whalemusic360 wrote:

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Time for the third annual Nerdfest painting competition... and thank God there's no "glamour pic" of Nerdy as a prize this time.

You haven't seen the other prizes yet!

Truer words and all that It's time for a third already though?!? Jeez!

Umm it's actually the 4th annual Nerdcademy award guys! and I can safely say that Gits' pipe dream is simply that, a dream as it's now cemented in as 3rd prize forever more to have a stylish black&white 'Nerd's Nudes'

I've got the 1st prize, obviously before it's finished and 3rd will come soon so once I find something for 2nd place and work out a theme and judges we'll be good to go! not much at all.....

so what are some interesting ideas this year? I was thinking theming it with a title like

* 'hold the line, never falter'
* 'No,no, no, nooooo'
* 'gak! that was close!'
* 'Look to me brothers for we will prevail'
* 'Thank you brother'

and just seeing how everyone interprets them on a 40mm base how's that sit with everyone? also anyone who wishes to put forward themselves as a judge please make yourself known.


I did some painting today on my Terminators and managed to finish the red armour on all of them but by the time I got to photographing them it was too poor light and the shots I took were utter bollocks not worth trying to adjust to show you so i'll do it again in the morning with some better light for reds, it's such a bitch to take pics off nicely!

I like your topic options, should be fodder for some interesting pieces.

I'm thinking about doing the "hold the line" with marines all standing in line at the DMV (Departmento Mechanicus Vehiculous) waiting to renew their Rhino driving liscences.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Umm it's actually the 4th annual Nerdcademy award guys! and I can safely say that Gits' pipe dream is simply that, a dream as it's now cemented in as 3rd prize forever more to have a stylish black&white 'Nerd's Nudes'

I've got the 1st prize, obviously before it's finished and 3rd will come soon so once I find something for 2nd place and work out a theme and judges we'll be good to go! not much at all.....

so what are some interesting ideas this year? I was thinking theming it with a title like

* 'hold the line, never falter'
* 'No,no, no, nooooo'
* 'gak! that was close!'
* 'Look to me brothers for we will prevail'
* 'Thank you brother'

and just seeing how everyone interprets them on a 40mm base how's that sit with everyone? also anyone who wishes to put forward themselves as a judge please make yourself known.


I did some painting today on my Terminators and managed to finish the red armour on all of them but by the time I got to photographing them it was too poor light and the shots I took were utter bollocks not worth trying to adjust to show you so i'll do it again in the morning with some better light for reds, it's such a bitch to take pics off nicely!

love soe friendly dakka comps. is there a seperate thread for this? how does one enter? what's going on?? I'm lost......again??? lol

I'm down to judge again. No reason to break the streak now. I also enjoy the bribes.

Colour me interested, just timescale that would stop me.

Excellent, good to have some interest already won't get it's own thread for a little while until I get it properly organised and then I'll detail the competition rules and themes for everyone but for now it's enough to whet your creative appetites!


Now, yesterday I hinted I'd done some painting and finished the red armour on my Termies so I took some more not excellent pics but good enough to show you

Cool stuff! I'm not normally a fan of BA that bright and shiny, but you more than make it work!

Looking forward to the challenge, this year I feel I might just about be decent enough that I could enter without feeling totally out of my depth!

Cheers Paradigm, you have to have a crack at the comp mate! I've still got to find/buy something for 2nd place then we'll get it started but I think the themed titles will give people a different idea or two, they don't have to be diorama's but I'm encouraging everyone to think outside the box

Finally got a little box in the post and am so pleased I had to start assembling some of the models for my 30k Mechanicus army they are SEXY models especially the Thanatar! I know the shin guard is wonky as I must have knocked it but I'll fix it later. the Magos Dominus and Tech priest are really nice, the Dominus is a little confusing but I'll check out some painted ones and see how it should look?

I'm starting to get some feeling about the force now I've got them in my hands, not 100% on theme yet but the mind is turning about the idea of them lumbering across the battlefield unleashing such titanic devastation into the ranks of the Traitor Horus' lackeys.....

let's have a look see

NICEEEEE!! Got my thanatar on the way but have to wait until December to get my grubby painty hands on it. Such a wicked model. Way bigger than I imagined, which is AWESOME!!!
not looking forward to those ammo feeds though ><

Squeeeee!

That Thanatar is all kinds of badassness!! Holy gak. He's a big lad isn't he?!

The competition sounds like an awesome idea. I'll probably enter, see what happens. It'll be good motivation to paint something, at least even though I'll be stomped by all the other fantastic painters on Dakka.

I was looking at your BA. And while they are nicely painted, it was the photography the caught my attention. The colours are just so vivid and clear. How do you do it?

Hot dam, that's a big model!! I bet it cost a bomb to gak to Aus Looking forward to some paint going on it.

Januine wrote:NICEEEEE!! Got my thanatar on the way but have to wait until December to get my grubby painty hands on it. Such a wicked model. Way bigger than I imagined, which is AWESOME!!!
not looking forward to those ammo feeds though ><

Ammo feeds were fine mate just blu-tac the one on the rear and position the arm to fit, I didn't even have to heat it up!

Gitsplitta wrote:Squeeeee!

Did a grown man just Squeeeee?

angelofvengeance wrote:That Thanatar is all kinds of badassness!! Holy gak. He's a big lad isn't he?!

He is kinda big isn't he he's more solid than tall though, he really looks like a fully built engine of war when you get him in your hands!

Zambro wrote:The competition sounds like an awesome idea. I'll probably enter, see what happens. It'll be good motivation to paint something, at least even though I'll be stomped by all the other fantastic painters on Dakka.

I was looking at your BA. And while they are nicely painted, it was the photography the caught my attention. The colours are just so vivid and clear. How do you do it?

Hot dam, that's a big model!! I bet it cost a bomb to gak to Aus Looking forward to some paint going on it.

Thanks Zambro, more the merrier for the painting comp, the FW stuff is always pricey especially when buying from Aus with the dollar but in my opinion it's worth it as they are simply awesome models! I've got a heap more to assemble too

Oh man if only you knew how frickin' hard it is to get a good shot of red painted models! I spend ages making sure the light isn't too bright, then diffusing the flash with white card and take bunches of shots to try and get a decent one....or two

Looking forward to Nerd 30K

My Purple from Lucius

White Primer
Base: Hormagaunt Purple (thinned through airbrush)
1st Layer: Liche purple (45 degree through air brush)
1st Highlight: 50/50 liche purple/warlock purple through airbrush top down
Wash: Druchii Violet
2nd highlight: Warlock purple on raised edges of armour

Gorgeous work, mate. Very moody and grimdark.

Great work on those BA - a lovely rich red on them. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do with that colossal Mechanicum was machine!

Late as usual. Absolute stunning reds mate. And here i was a year ago thinking the BA scheme has to be sooooo boring. Wow!

Nice looking FW stuff, i plan on getting some as well later down the line. Probably after current Mechanicus project. But man, Thanatar and Triaros...

[drools in Romanian] )

Thanks guys, I haven't gotten around to doing any more to the Termies but I will have to shortly as they're going on my Armies on Parade board so expect an update on them soon.

also I did a quick, very quick add up of my 30K Mechanicus force! so some numbers may be slightly off......

*HQ- Magos Dominus, Plasma Fusil: 95
*Elites- Myrmidon Secutors, Volkite, Graviton,Rad: 210
*Troops- Thallax Cohort, Icarian, chainblades: 175
*Troops- Thallax Cohort, Multi Melta, chainblades: 165
*Troops- Thallax Cohort, Photon Thruster, Chainblades: 175
*Castellax x4 (using Kastellan models) Darkfire cannonx1: 440
*Fast- Vorax battle automate: 195
*Heavy- Thanatar siege engine, paragon of metal: 285
*Heavy- Thanatar Calix, paragon of metal: 330
*Heavy- Myrmidon Destructors, Volkite,Photon, conversion: 230

Total: 2,300 Points

Should have some more assembly shots this week of that bunch of Resiny goodness!

Very nice Damo. Can't tell you how excited I am to see your army come together. Here was my plan.

Legio Cybernetica:
HQ: 2 Archmagos
EL: 1-2 groups of tech priests w/ 4 servitors
TP: 2x2 Castellax
TP: 20 Covenant
TP: 2x6 Thallax
HV: 2 Thanatar

Even with the Covenant there's far fewer models than a typical army of mine and should look great and be really fun to play. No FA but I'm not sure it's necessary given the rest of the army. I suppose time will tell. I do really like the vorax though.

I'm just hoping what I've bought is usable! :-) would hate to have spent on it and couldn't play one day. once I have it all assembled I'll probably work out a counts as for it as no one plays 30k. here.......

Well, I developed my list during a running conversation with YouTuber winters SEO who's been playing 30k AdMech for a long time. He makes fantastic battle reports. Here's a link to a few featuring his army. Will give you a really good idea how they play. I love winter's bat reps. Beautiful table and models. Short on dice rolling and long on narrative. I don't see anything about your list that isn't viable, so you should be fine. Spoilered YouTube links below so they don't monopolize your blog. Enjoy!

O.k i'm just brainstorming here a few ideas for my 30k Mech project. as you know i'm very dominant with whatever theme I choose whether it's colour of the force, style of painting or additions and conversions.

Since I don't feel the Forge World models require any conversions I'll be leaving them well enough alone all bar a few extra mechandendrites etc.

So that leaves how I paint them to make them something cool and eye catching. I was thinking along a few things and I have decided the metals will all be mainly the gold/brass as I did on Kiera Knightly so that leaves a nice chunk of armour plates to be a different colour, The colours I am toying with is an army green sort of a khaki with the addition of serial numbers and designations so they almost look military? or a havily weathered bone/off white such as I did on Mortarian, this was my original idea but I'm not sure I can get it correct across the board? now my last idea and the one I'm leaning towards as I've not seen it yet is to have the underlying theme of my Mechanicus force to be Monks :-) this will mean brown robes and earthy tones hopefully with a good choice of coloured lenses in either a red or a cool grey (sort of like glass)

I'd love to know your thoughts on this so I can begin the planning phase and get some shots up (you'll wet with excitement when you see them all)

The Blood Angels are coming along nicely.

Re mechanicus, they"re certainly gorgeous models. I think the bone/off white would be really cool and very eye catching. The brown doesn't excite me...although I'm not exactly sure what you're seeing in your mind's eye...

D

What about doing the green you did on Vulkan? That would certainly be unique.

O.k I'm just gonna put this out there for future reference but I REALLY want to own and paint a Ghostkeel Tau suit!

Are we going to start taking bets on when you'll get one painted? I reckon within 6 months, anyone else?

1st week of January. If it doesn't happen at Christmas, then my next bet would be on the January sales...

Is that the big stealth suit? Both of the new mechs are a bit underwhelming for me.

Yep, the big stealth suit not the tea bagging one! and good to see Whaley out of the grip of Destiny for a while :-)

Hard to play Destiny at work. Easy to get on Dakka.

O.k plan now is to finish and paint up my 30K Mechanicus army in brass and a dark red and do a bang up job on them so I can sell the army when it's done! there's no one who plays 30K near me and I currently have no car so I'm going to smash a top Nerd job on them and then see if anyone is interested in them :-)

A red army? If I didn't know better, I'd think you like the color or something.

Oh yeah pretty partial to red! :-) but this time it's going darker and richer.

I don't normally like new models. But I always thought the mechanicus deserved to be done properly, and they HAVE done them properly! Finally models to go with the illustrations and descriptions. I'm sure you will do them proud.

Obviously I would love to have a naked nerd statuette so if I can come up with an idea I'm in.

You should be able to make an absolute killing on a FW army painted to your quality! The scheme sounds great!

Thanks guys, Weets you're very correct! they are really awesome models whether you know what they are for or not! well designed, well sculpted and i'm looking very much forward to doing them soon. I'm hoping to get around $1,200 Aus for everything painted including the book (I won't paint the book)? the models alone is $840.00 Aus so I don't think i'm far off as far as price goes? but feel free to correct me if i'm way off :-) they should see love soon too!

Shame you can't get a game with them. I wait to be amazed.

I must admit Damo... I am saddened by that thought that you won't be keeping your AdMech. They're going to be a spectacular show-piece. On the other hand, it is nice that you'll be making some money from your considerable talents.

I play my 30K forces vs. 40K forces on a regular basis. The only thing that we don't get, and I am not saddened by, is formations.

Stay the course, build the hell out of that Mechanicum force and trounce your 40K opponents!

And I am building a Mechanicum force myself, and seeing you paint one up for play is motivation for me to paint. I own, but have not painted:

2000pts
+ Headquarters*
- Magos Dominus

*Troops*
- 20 × Adsecularis Covenant

- 9 × Thallax Cohort

*Elites*
- 6 × Myrmidon Secutors

*Heavy Support*
- 1 × Thanatar Class Siege-automata

Questoris Knight Crusade Army - Allied Detachment
*Headquarters*
- Archmagos Draykava

*Troops*
- Scion Martial Cerastus Knight-Lancer

Build, keep and conquer!

I could keep them I know and just have them as a collection or display and Combat Engineer makes a point that I 'can' still play them if I want to as my games are only ever with mates and nothing serious :-) but I do need to get some mode of transport and to be honest this seemed like a best of both worlds scenario where I have them already *check* I love the look of them *check* I want to paint them really well *check* I want desperately for others to enjoy my journey with them *check* I need a way to make some money *check* I have something that is potentially worth $1000. *check*

So, I'll bring them to the fore rapidly and lavish some love on them, with your help and guidance and comments I can be directed to paint something great! then hopefully if anyone anywhere thinks anyone may be interested in the army they can just contact me and offer me whatever! :-) then everyone's happy campers!

When Nerdy says he's bring things to the fore rapidly, Tomorrow we'll see a fully completed army going by the history on this blog

 Knightley wrote:
When Nerdy says he's bring things to the fore rapidly, Tomorrow we'll see a fully completed army going by the history on this blog

Pretty much! although i'm waiting on some bits that were missing to arrive then I'll begin the project while I find something to buy for second prize in the nerdcademy awards.... and NO a fully painted Forgeworld Mech army is not 2nd place

 nerdfest09 wrote:

Pretty much! although i'm waiting on some bits that were missing to arrive then I'll begin the project while I find something to buy for second prize in the nerdcademy awards.... and NO a fully painted Forgeworld Mech army is not 2nd place

Nah, that's more like most improved

This probably won't interest many but it could just be a spur in the side of someone keen to start mechanicus? you know how I was/am planning on painting up the FW Mech army and then sell it to buy a new car? well, I found and bought one cheap that is really great condition! so while I still need to sell the army to pay for it properly I only need to get a fraction of what I originally intended, so if you or any mates are thinking about it please msg an offer to me and if I say yes, you'll get a fully painted Mechanicus force for a good price! :-)

Good luck on the Mechanicus project and finding a home for them.

When you hoping to start? And more importantly when can we expect some piccies

D

Thanks Cheesy! hoping to start next week if my spare parts have arrived by then, fingers crossed! and of course pics will be soon after! I've nearly finished my Flesh Eaters Terminator squad for my AoP board but they're at that limbo stage where they're nearly finished enough to be finished so if I took pics they wouldn't show enough progress when they're done! :-) yeah, get ya head around that one.....

Depending on the timing, I could possibly swing the Admech. Do you know about when you would be looking to sell?

When would you be looking to buy Whaley? if you're keen mate i'll work it out with you?

Charge him double!

Lol Gits, it'll be closer to half when you take in consideration the Aussie exchange rate! :-)

I'll take it to messenger to work that out.

I know you already came up with a scheme, but did you see this new knight on FW? Apparently it will be an official Dark Mechanicus faction compete with transfers and the like. Thought it might tickle your death wing funnybone and looks pretty killer.
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Mechanicum-Cerastus-Knight-Atrapos

I wanted to do Dark Mechanicus myself. Are their rumors of them developing rules for such?

Dark Mech rules are coming in either the next or next-but-one HH book, there's some details from the Open Day in the FW N&R thread.

Excellent!

Excellent indeed. I love that new knight.

Just flipped through all of your completed work, and I must say you have a gift with the brush. It is very cool to see your improvement from the beginning of the thread to now! Truly inspiring work. Looking forward to see what's next

Hey guys! I've missed you all! got a bunch of photo's to show you, not sure where to start so I might just begin with some pics from the Armies on parade at my local store! not many entrants and a few had been taken home by the time I got down to collect mine.


this first one was done by a 13 year old



Skaven cave


silence at the base (or who took the men?)



and my own (We are your last breath)








and the winning board!


Now for some actual new-ish stuff got all the 30K Mechanicus models together and added the rubble basing for these guys as I'm really going to do a great job for Whaley as he is now going to buy the army and I want him to have a good looking army for his growing collection! to give the fragile parts like the mechandrites some more stability I positioned them to be resting on another more solid part of the model so they had two points of glue











And just because it's been a while I had a good day for taking some pics of my furry kids again, so if you want to see my doggies have a look, if not....... meh!

Love the Blood Angels, congrats on the win!

*drooling* mech stuff is looking great. can't wait for mine to actually arrive >< Thantars really are pretty sizeable. I didnt think they'd be THAT big. The vorax are also much bigger than I thought - lovely figs but still not sure about the heads. Lot of awesome painting ahead of you!
beautiful beautiful dogs btw

Congrats on AoP. It's a really great board, I love what you did with the Baal Pred.

Nice to see the Mechanicus stuff has arrived, it's gonna be a sweet project by the look of it.

D

Agreed, congratulations on the well-deserved win! Looking forward to the Admechy goodness!

Congrats on the 1st place! Your Blood Angels look amazing (in particular, that Chaplain dreadnought!)

As for that 13yr old kid's Army on Parade board- holy gak! That's fantastic. Well jealous! The Night Lord terminator is pretty awesome!

Well deserved my friend. Congratulations!

Cheer guys! I am really really pumped that I won the comp and the feedback from some of the guys in the store was really positive and they were quite keen to find out how I did things, I didn't think hiding in my Nerd room painting was that exciting to those who are actively involved in the hobby in stores, playing and painting with others to encourage them along but I'm pleased they wanted to talk to me and a couple seemed really cool and we've discussed a learning game with a few of us :-)

Wow, congrats on the AoP win!!

Congrats on the win, seems like it may have opened more nerd-doors for you as well!

Woohoo for giant robots!

NERDWINNING!

Well done Damo, you really deserved the win with all the hard work you've put into the boys in red over the years

Dogs are looking nice and fluffy as always, well apart from Oscar but that's not the way Labs roll

Also well done on the transformation, looks very cool, autobots roll out

Congratulations on the win. Well deserved.

Look forward to the robo-painting.

Congrats on the win there Nerd Those minis looked sublime and their display made them look mighty formidable. Safe to say i'd crap myself if I saw that outside my window when I woke up in the morning Excited to see what you create with the admech

I sat down for a few minutes and nutted out a good feel for a Ryza Forgeworld not Ryza from Wutang Clan but Ryza the Mechanicus Forge! and I have this image in my head that the 30K stuff isn't clean and factory condition, but worn, and are battle hardened immense figures of death and unbridled destruction. So, keeping that in mind I (again) wanted to try to mix up my usual way of painting and do something for Whaley with them that will look fantastic as a display and hopefully garner some "Oooooh's" & "Ahhhhhh" when gamed with

I primed them silver and watered down a dark blue to the point it pooled and ran in random places while darkening the recesses, then I started to get the highlights with burnished gold and washed with Sepia and Agrax. the armour plates are simply watered orange to a viscosity you can slightly see the underneath shades and once dry washed with Agrax.

So now for the questions do I go much darker on the metal parts? how much battle damage? how bright do I bring the Orange up to? what colour for lenses and/or power glow? Red/yellow or Blue? keep in mind the other models in the army that this will have to transfer too









I also went and saw a mate of mine and got some more body art started he freehanded Optimus Prime with the shadows of other autobots behind him in a battle, so far we've done the outlines and started the shading behind him, not bad for just over 2hours it'll come together more next time with a touch of red and blue!

Wow, those two are awesome so far! How do you paint this well and this fast? The use of a streaky dark blue to get that instant verdigris effect is superb!

Personally, I'd suggest a teal/cyan for the lenses and such, I think a nice cold blue would really stand out against the warm reds and brass. I'd take the orange a shade or two brighter, no more than that on these as so far I think they're brilliantly gritty and beat-up! On that note, battle damage up to 11 on the big guys, dial it down a bit for the smaller fellas.

So to clarify, the orange is just a thick glaze over metal? I've got to try that at some point!

Yep mate I figured that washes stain and bring out the detail and watered paint would essentially do the same albeit with a chalky finish and it works well if you choose where and when you use it :-)

Man... that's a beautiful patina you have on that metal. Stunning. I wouldn't screw with it.

Congrats and well deserved on the AoP win. It's a great looking army and board! The AdMech are looking amazing, even unpainted. I can't wait to see how they turn out.

Of course, the dogs somehow manage to pip even the Blood Angels and AdMech. Beautiful beasts you have there, and that's coming from an avowed cat guy.

Well deserved win on the AoP Sir, your Angels are always a treat to see.

Mechanicus , Wrong Ryza , but you save the thread with Doggie pics

I like. I would bring the orange out a bit more. The metals are stunning. I will have to steal this.

I think making the orange more orange-y helps make the black (assuming you are going to add black) really pop. Really like the metals, has a "been in the field" look.

For lenses, I think a light blue would work well, contrast the orange.

Did you want me to send you Ryza transfers? Might be hard to add them on later and look the same level of weathered.

Little update on the Mechs did some scratches and weathering on the metals but am a little unsure if I need to tone it down or if it looks good like this? I like it personally and would only adjust the belly torso plates but thats the main point of visibility for the weathering.

Whaley, I can't use transfers dude I'm captain crap when using them so maybe I can leave a flatter spot where you want to add one or two? just show me where and I'll make it work for you.








If you're this close and looking up at these guys....... the Vorax'll get ya

Ahhhh Sweet, sweet nerdpainting....

Firstly, big BIG congrats on the win! That's a handy feather in your cap and a testament to your skills! I'm very jealous of you....

Now the AdMech! Pity to see you parting with it, but its good that its going to a great home! (plus this way Ill eventually be able to see it in person!)

Im thrilled to see you tackling the big boys first... Love those models, and your painting is doing them justice for sure. Very interesting use of the washes to get an oily, grimy base. Even more interesting seeing the orange areas just being what is essentially a shade, letting the grime underneath through. I would like to see them a little more towards the orange end of things (currently look more red than orange), but that's just my own personal taste.

I get a very construction vehicle vibe from these guys. Nicely worn and used looking. Like you mentioned, I think the belly plates are just a liiiittle too scratched up, but I think that you could get away with it without having to repaint anything. I dont think that you need to darken them or anything either. They work very nicely with the rest of the colors.


Lastly, lenses I'd do in teal- that would really stand out from the orange and metal.




Ugh... the speed at which you can pump these things out....

Gorgeous work, nerd!

The scratching looks great, Perhaps a bit bright in one or two spots (I'd tone it down on the heads just a tad) but as an effect it definitely works.

I'll hit up Ramos about the transfers, he is really good at getting them on there without looking like transfers.

I like the scratches, even if there are a bit more of them then I would have gone with. Like Ramos said, makes them look more like machines and less like soldiers.

With a slight thread hijack, Nerd and I are talking about this new HH plastic box set, and doing a small HH force to go with one of the Primarchs. So the question is which one? It would be the contents of the plastic box (so Mk IV armor) with most likely a few other additions. Question here because the Nerdman will be painting it up next year some time.

Mech stuff is looking great so far. Muchly improved since you added the scratches on the metal.

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I'll hit up Ramos about the transfers, he is really good at getting them on there without looking like transfers.

I like the scratches, even if there are a bit more of them then I would have gone with. Like Ramos said, makes them look more like machines and less like soldiers.

With a slight thread hijack, Nerd and I are talking about this new HH plastic box set, and doing a small HH force to go with one of the Primarchs. So the question is which one? It would be the contents of the plastic box (so Mk IV armor) with most likely a few other additions. Question here because the Nerdman will be painting it up next year some time.

Salamanders. Absolutely Salamanders!

Firstly, itd give nerd a different color to paint (seein as hes been favoring the warmer reds and oranges lately), and though I dont know if you guysd want to go the crazy green gold color on everyone, but that could be really wicked as a force!

In any case, Im a fan of green

They look great Nerdy.

I'm going with Salamanders as well with Ramos.

Had to look up some MkIV Salamanders, could be cool.

I'd like to see Nerdy's take on The Emperor's Children, they are a legion that looks stunning when done right, and especially in MkIV... And if you ever add some stuff all their FW unique units are beautiful!

Only 3 people have opinions on a Nerdfested HH army? Figured there'd be more. I was kind leaning towards EC, because I have a few extra things for them already and they are a MK IV heavy army. But I also like Salis because they could be used up to 40k as well. 1st world problems.

Wonderful work Nerdy... the army is going to look fantastic!

I'd put my vote in too, I vote Salamanders! I want to paint that green on things and I also want to do the Terminators and Pyroclasts! if I didn't buy the Mechanicum models it would have been Salamanders fo sure!

and since I mentioned Mechanicum I did some more work the big guys, well one big guy to see how it'll look I bought the orange up a couple of shades and think I've hit the correct level of orange without being too much like my usual cartoonish style and still look brutish and robotic.










hope they're still hitting the mark how you guys see them? i'll go over the robot metal parts again with some silver highlights and do some weathering on the orange plates then it's the weapons and base! they've been easier than I thought they would be to get them to a level I'm happy with and as a complete force they'll be simply awe inspiring (I hope )

Oh and I base coated a model of Lieutenant Varis? to use as an objective marker

Loving the lenses on your Thanatar robots. Really nice blue you've got going there! Will you be putting 'Ardcoat on it to give it that glassy look?

Splendid stuff! The orange definitely works and will be even better once you weather it, and the lenses are cool. I personally would have taken them a bit brighter just for more contrast, but the glassy look does suit them.

D00d! Such gorgeous stuff. Lovely, lovely AdMech all banged up and scratched, just the way i like them.

Stunning work there Nerdy. Really loving your big mech. The metals you've done are phenomenal

Looking pretty damn slick dude, nice work. Orange is better. Metals look out of this world. This will be an amazing army.

Oh and salamanders for me as well, come on their Green!

Looking good! Much more orange then before. Are you planning and black accents?

Looks like we are going green. Now to wait and gather bits.

Brutish is right. Man do they look intimidating! Awesome work.

If it's not too late, I reckon you do either Sallies or Dark Angels. I say Salamanders because I think the scheme you did on Vulkan is absolutely amazing, and would love to see you do up a whole army of Salamanders, but I say DA because they're my favourite legion by far and I think it'd be awesome to see them (also you'd definitely show up my incoming 30k Angels )

Hey guys, thanks for the input not sure where to add some black accents on them yet? I'm guessing Whaley is expecting them I have already added some Ard coat to those lenses but may add some more coats to get it nice and glossy and look thick

I'm really keen to do sallies as 30k and have a funny feeling they will look stunning in that green! and since it doesn't take long to do I get to spend more time on the flame and lava motifs

I was given a model by a friend of mine to paint whenever I got a chance, he wanted it to represent a Brood lord for his Tyranids, the stipulations were it needed to stand out and look earthy, so I gave him lighter skin and red blended accents with a glossy pinkish red maw, I think he looks pretty cool for an hours attention and i hope he likes him!







started playing around with the Plasma mortar for the Thanatar too, I want to try and get a 'powering up' or particles coming together sort of look? you lose the effect a bit with the cover on but I know it's there

I love the stealer skin. But I love the energy plasma thing even more !
I'll probably steal this idea someday !

I've been wracking my head trying to decide what to do with the plasma mortar. The 'powering up' effect looks awesome. The hood ring for the mortar that will cover that up a bit - have you thought about opening it up; like petals. Seen a few folk online have done that. Makes it look like its about to fire

Who needs LED's when you can paint like that.

Energy looks amazing, and the genestealers "mouth" looks bloody awful in the best way possible.

That stealer has a severe case of rapey face! In all it's obscene glory! That plasma mortar is stunning though! Nice job!

Wow, amazing effect on the plasma mortar.

Ohh, plasma charge looks cool. Definitely get the charging up a big shot look ala Gundams. Maybe something like this for adding black?

Added it to the back side of the front half of the shoulder pad, offset on the groin, and on the forearm plate, to break up the metals. Behold and cower at my MS paint skillz!

Damo, your brilliant. One of the most innovative painters on Dakka. The gene stealer is inspired. Who wouldn't love that figure in their army? The mortar effect is equally so and utterly unique in my considerable experience. I will be trying to replicate it on mine.

Thank you for all the inspiration you provide, it really helps me grow as an artist.

Very cool models and you did them proud!.

Loving the Predator face on the stealer, great conversion.

The power up effect looks amazing, I wouldn't have thought to do anything like that, pushing the boundaries of painting yet again

Those robots are coming up lovely Damon ! The 2 shades up orange really contrasts well with the grungy scratched metal, blue was the best lens colour choice , looks stunning my friend !

Oh yes, by all means... listen to artistic advice from the robotic cat in the top hat.

Hey man, classy robo cats have valid opinions too.

Lol robot cats in top hats!? now I want to watch Samurai Pizza cats (Oh yeah!)

O.k I can see how some black will add a bit of Ooomph to the big guys, I shall add a stripe to the pad and a stripe to the groin to start and see how it looks took me a while to reply as I had to claw my way back into the room after being blown away by Whaley's MS Paint skills!

Now for a little finished model action! gotta say I really love this guys paint job, I want him as an objective marker or fleeing imperial soldier. I left his base very basic on purpose with just a grey and oily black wash so I can use him on an urban board when it arrives!

Lieutenant Varras





Can I get a bit mushy on you guys for a minute? I really want to touch on how a few people have (over the years I've been plogging) mentioned me 'Pushing boundaries' or 'doing things i've never thought' and I only have tried new things because of you, I appreciate the time you spend logging on and actually being a part of my blog and during the early stages I saw some great techniques and brilliant artists doing things that looked so good but I didn't want to 'try' and copy them and end up doing a sub par job that you could see better on someone else's blog, this kind of led me to trying to bend the look of what was done commonly in effect and application to give you something new and hopefully something that actually looks cool and makes you want to do it yourself! nothing I do is particularly hard to replicate or time consuming and I will continue to stay the course with my painting style and endevour to give you guys something cool and a place to talk and bounce ideas and your own methods with each other! so thank you for your loyalty and candor with everything I do and thank you for staying around from the start!

Nice subdued look on Varras and i like the Genestealer predator vagina face

You know, I have that guy (and his stupid crashed plane) but never really gave him a chance. Definitly painted him up nice, could make for some fun custom scenarios for you to play.

Adding that layer of Orange looks great, really helps them pop.

That plasma mortar looks amazing, I had to stop and drink in the goodness. Brilliant work.

EDC

Inspiring stuff nerdfest. Especially the handsome doggies and the sex-faced genestealer!

But no seriously brilliant work on the robots. The watered down blue ash works really well for verdigris.

The Mechanicum Automata look amazing. Really love your take on worn metal on them. The genestealer also looks cool as well. That Plasma Mortar effect is inspired, though. Fantastic work.

Dude.. you have to give us a class on Face painting..Please.

The Plasma mortar is amazing Damo, you really have outdone yourself again

Thnanks dudes and dudette!

not much to say about the next glut of piccies for you, but I got working on Thanatar #2 and got his orange up to level then popped him next to his brother to see how they looked and they look GOOOOOD!

took him from a few different angles to really just show you the same thing again and again











and a little shot of them with the friends they have! which unit should follow these guys?


hope you like the progress

The two big boys are looking fantastic fella. Really great job

Excellent! My vote goes to the Thallax next.

Just a little comment on the Genestealer to get this out of the way: EEEEEEE-EW! That mouth looks nasty. Very nice job and a cool, different colour scheme.

Those AM dudes look really, really cool Love the scratched metal effect you did there. The whole metal looks very nice, but those scratches add so much to the believability of the surfaces. Very cool idea.

I echo Sigur's comments. He really looks massive and imposing too. And WM's ideas about the black actually worked out. Who'd a thunk it??

Nice work NF.

Liking the "realistic" job on the 'nid.

Lieutenant Varras looks great.

I like what you did with the red/orange armour on the bots in particular.

And I love the powering up weapon. The use of different colours in there works really well.

Just excellent. Great colour choices and amazing execution, 'Bots look great.

The powering-up effect on the gun rocks. If it's not too late, maybe adding some light shine on the inner ring of the muzzle? to reinforce it even a bit more?