Theophony wrote:
I know you probably posted it already, but what colors/method did you use on the minotaurs paint colors. I'm thinking of doing something similar with my Ghar for beyond the gates of Antares.

Easy, silver base, then wash black, then wash agrax use silver to add scratchy bits then wash sepia and black in recesses. adjust washes and scratching to suit.

So the dodgy greenstuff worked enough and the statue looks pretty good, well, good enough for the board and then as a scatter terrain piece I cut some foam board for the jagged rocks and roughly greened (or rather, brownstuffed) a different snout and some ears and hooves and used Ghaz Thraka's horns left over from when I built him up!

Then I gave him two coats of granite coat, which I may add does actually dry a lot smaller than originally applied and didn't exactly hide the details as much as I thought it would once dried I primed it and painted it with no real plan, I just went for stone appearance and weathered as I saw fit to hide the ugly parts the next step is the water effects if there's nothing else needed for the main fountain? I did consider continuing the mossy lichen into tendrils of Ivy wrapped around parts? or adding small flowers in the mossy base? but I don't want to be too ott

WIP Pics.



and after a bit of work today, this is where it stands, i did indeed use some clump foliage wixed with wash to make the lichen/moss










and I primed and brushed over the balcony too, it looks pretty much like plain Balsa again but it's not, and is textured which I tried to show in the pics, I also stuck some balsa strips on top of the railing and across the bottom which will offset the pale stone once it's varnished a dark stain.

I think for a piece of terrain it came out looking great. Interesting enough to glance at, but not enough to keep you away from the models.

Yeah, very nice balance struck there Nerdy. Nicely done.

Thanks guys, considering how ass the sculpting was I think I did o.k! :-) now for the water!

The board and board-terrain is looking great, Damo. Is there an armies on parade that it's scheduled for soon?

Really nice work bud, don't be so down on the sculpt, looks pretty great to me.

I may be late, so sorry, but may I suggest some staining from the pipes prior to the water effects. Just a very loose wash to add the effect of water damage over the millennia.

The Armies on parade is in October but I want to complete them in advance since I'm going away, still the Nurgle board to do but I think that will take some Damo-esque thinking to get a good balance of gross and believable with a hint of cool! :-)

Cam, I will have a look at that as i'm pouring the resin tonight for the first layer in the bottom, just gotta find some fishing line to run the resin down for the spouts. and then I should probably paint the actual army!




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Also I need to buy Yvraine to paint, does anyone out there either know of a cheap box or someone who doesn't need her? I'm going to paint her up for my Neice for Christmas but the ones on ebay have stupid postage costs :-(


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Just a little update, I poured the resin in a colour I thought appropriate for clean but aged water and started the power swords on a couple of guys! not very exciting but progress none the less! just need to do the spouts when it dries!





and very crappy pics of the swords



Now the question is this, is the yellow painted with too much contrast? the tabard should be yellow because he's a librarian but my style looks a bit stark on him compared to Asterion?



cheers guys, lets see what you think! I also got word I'll have another FW Titan to paint this week! Only a Warhound though....

I think the tabard looks great, Damo. The contrast is stark, but it fits with the rest of the model.

I think I might do it black and the raised detail in yellow? it's almost too bright for the overall look I feel? because once the armour is painted it's very gritty and dark, this might just be a bit much, I might shade it a bit first though and see what it looks like :-)

It's your call (and your model), Damo - I haven't got any yellow on my WIP Minos librarian, and very little blue, either. Go with what you feel.

That statue is awesome buddy, very cool and in-keeping with the brutal nature of the Minotaurs.

Fantastic work as always bud. Swords are looking awesome. Fountain is looking excellent. Nice and crusty, but not disgusting.

So just got my FW book with the updated sheets in it and i'm really peeved on one thing :-( Ivanus Enkomi used to be able to have a jump pack and sword with his fist which is how I modeled him to boost the assault squad, so I need to change the model up a bit now and change his head and sword i'm guessing (i'm not sure what a normal Chaplain should have or can have)? and then build another Enkomi as a standard one with a fist and crozius? looks like my Mino's are going to be Chaplain heavy.

Fountain looks great and power swords are fantastic. With the tabard imtge shading is very nice! The bright colour does maybe draw the eye down, away from the face a bit?

Yeah I think that may be the issue San, it draws focus too easily, i'll have a play around tonight if I get a chance and see what i can come up with.


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Can anyone link me to some good blogs or videos of how to extend the GW building kits with plastic and foam etc? if i'm building them from scratch and want to make them a little bigger without using all the sprues.... :-)

Hey guys, I managed some work on the Mino board! I 'grouted' the tiles and varnished the wooden boards, also painted the pillars and set it up to see how it looks! coming along nicely I think, only things I think left to do is paint the plinths of the statues to match the pillars (or maybe I should paint the whole statue? or is the contrast good!) and make the rear wall with doors in it. I might even make some Minotaurs battle banners to hang between the columns on the side? thoughts?








I also got this guy back ready to go! yep, it's a Lucius Pattern Warhound Scout Titan! started to prime him up but I was already out of primer so I could only squeeze a little out, still, it's actually a really cool chunky model and I think i'll weather this one more just for fun!





Last six Europa's for RiTides all assembled waiting for priming!



and lastly, I had a look in the index' and Ivanus Enkomi from the Minotaurs is not as good or versatile as he was previously and thus means I couldn't field him with his current weapons and that a generic Chaplain with Jump pack was going to be better for me, so I swapped the sword arm out for a bolt pistol arm and the crozius arm from an older Chaplain I was working on for my IF's i'm not too sure about the crozius arm though? I think I'd prefer to use the arm from Cassius from the Deathwatch box? if you see it have a look and then imagine it on him with this pose! only thing is it'd cost me $20 for a model just to use the arm lucky I hadn't done much on his painting.

Am I the only one seeing these bloody photobucket thing saying we need to upgrade our photobucket account to use it for image hosting? What a pain in the backside.

Dani you tease

Yeah, your pics are broke as hell mate.

It is impressively offensive and short-sighted for a company to do something like this. Every broken image link is a testament to just how bad, money-hungry, and abusive to their users photobucket has become. They probably broadcast that message to millions of people with this dick move

Saw this thread about Photobucket in N&R and came here first thing as I know nerdy uses it. Hopefully you can save your pics!

N&R thread here:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/731067.page

PB does that if you use too much bandwidth on the free account. I upgraded years ago, but they never charged me for it more than once.

 dsteingass wrote:
PB does that if you use too much bandwidth on the free account. I upgraded years ago, but they never charged me for it more than once.

Yes, they did do that - but this is a wholesale change to their Terms of Service.

Basically, unless you open up a pay account with them, you will not be linking to other sites from Photobucket anymore.

I see people listing Imgur as an alternative, but I thought they didn't play nice with linking too?

I'll stick with Dakka.

Well looks like all my pics are gone! everything from when I first started on here, such an absolute shame :-( and to be honest if I could swear on here i'd be launching a barrage of hate and insult against Photobucket! all my faces I painted all the Helsak's I built all the commission work i've done in the last couple of years...... gone......I feel a bit empty actually. Dakka is too tricky to use easily and quickly and i've only learnt how to use PB. so no more images from me until I can find a solution.

I use my wordpress blog to host images. Very easy to use, easy to upload images and very fair pricing. It is waaaaaaaaaaaay better than the horrible spam-experience you get when uploading to photoshop

Dakka is a good image host, you should fiddle with it until you get the hang of it. Feel free to message me if i can be of any help. Imgur is also a solid host. Sorry about your lost images, sucks beyond what words can easily express.

Found a site to use! and it's easy to use lets hope it stays that way!


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Lovely miniature, great scheme. Can't wait to see how it develops.

Just going to show the progress on my Mino's board now I can show pics again! and the other large product I need to paint! The board needs a background with some doors in it and it's pretty much done except for some slight weathering on the floor, probably just some dust or dirt.








And a Lucius Pattern Warhound! old school style.

I'm in the process of moving all of my blog's photos (5 years here, 7 years on wordpress) to both Imgur and Wordpress, both of which are really easy to use. Photobucket can go feth itself with this dick move. I expect that they'll back off somewhat from a backlash, but trust is broken and bridges are burned. Damo, you can still access all your old pics, and even if you've not got the energy to repair your years of blogging here, I'd still recommend that you spend an afternoon downloading them all so you've at least got them yourself.

The Minotaurs board looks great at this point... and whoa! Warhound?

Chaplain is awesome mate! Is ita custom build?

You should put your images on dakka.

Dakka's image hosting is not great.

Did a little more on the Chaplain terminator, a bit of cleaning up and detailing, still got his shoulders and cloak to do he's coming along pretty well I hope.



and I got a couple of these containers to build up, this one is being protected since it is full of skulls and hatred!



and while this isn't overly exciting it's still progress on RiTides massive fleet! all the larger ships are now base coated with the bone colour, i'm going to use my finger method to play around on these when wiping the wash off the top which then leaves the base as the highlight to work on before I weather them.

That terrain looks really sweet, very Minotaurs.

Thanks Sam, I must be doing something right if it's indeed looking very 'Minotaurs' :-) just need to find something to make the rear board from, I seem to have lost my large sheet of foam core......

Love the chaplain man. The metals are fantastic

I really like that Chaplain... I also think that display board is going to look awesome with all of the Minotaurs arrayed in all their brutal glory.

Love the black blending on the chaplain.

I finished mt Chaplain! started my Minotaurs and found a new way to paint faces! pretty decent day I'd say so let's start with Mr Hatred.






I found a way to paint faces with only washes and while I was skeptical about it at first I'm really pleased with the result and the speed and ease of it! there;s a few steps to do it but it's not hard.

Liquid GS some rough hair on a bald head then prime and paint a light flesh colour.

a watery bloodletter glaze in the eye sockets and ears.

a purple/blue wash watered down and placed in eyes, hair and jawline.

watered down agrax over everything.

skin tone and black wash mixed together to do stubble.

paint hair dark grey.

mix agrax and seraphim sepia and wash over everything.

do metal and black details and done!

So firstly I'll show you my normal way I do the faces on a marine you've seen before.



and the new way.





And the beginning of the Minotaurs painting! I thought i'd better start them since I was washing stuff and base coating ships and they provided a nice distraction so far they have been washed in Nuln Oil and then the reds were painted and everything was all washed in Agrax

Yey I can see the image and it's glorious!

EDC

Nice start on the Minotaurs there, and the Chappy looks great. I believe I saw the same YouTube video just a couple of days ago, as well. It certainly gives a good effect from what seems like a dubious series of steps, doesn't it?

I've been using a similar method on and off for a while now it's main advantage is it keeps the actual number of layers of paint really low, which helps for faces were the detail is a little shallow (like Greyfax, for instance. Very small face with hardly any defined features). I think for larger, more defined heads like most SM models, the more traditional method is superior, but it's a good one to have in the arsenal for sure.

Minos are shaping up nicely!

Yeah I actually really like how it looks! great for more gritty marines and in some cases a better looking face for the model, I think it'll serve the Mino's well and certainly means I can do a heap at once! :-) maybe even tomorrow!? but first thing in the morning i've got to move the Nerd lair around for better feng shui and light for this time of the year! then get cracking on priming the last of RiTides ships and getting some more done with the bone layer on the hulls!

Great update! Chaplain looks fantastic. They really didn't skimp on the skulls....

Where did you learn that face recipe? Sounds like something I need to try

Awesome I can see the pictures again..

Minotaur's look great .. I see you went with a non - bronze theme. I like it.

Faces are my bane . I will try this new method. thanks for posting it.

Is the Titan for you?

The Chappy turned out beautifully Nerdy. Outstanding work!

Wow thats a brilliant way to paint faces! Definitely appreciate that, Damo- Will give it a try soon


Love the Chaplain... ughhhh that is PRETTY!


Minotaurs are looking promising as well... You've a really unique method to your painting (especially metals), and it's always interesting to see your WiP pics...

Hey Damo. I downloaded all your pics from Photobucket yesterday - so they're not lost. I'd suggest you do the same. it's actually pretty easy (at the moment, so get to it!)

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/731067.page#9465692

Thanks Az! i've got most of the good ones from my 2nd PB account but i'm yet to go back to my first NF09 account and get grabbing! i'll hopefully get some time tonight. but until I do do you want to see some updates?

I started a few of the bare heads I needed to paint in the new style, I will go back to them all and add some more highlights and do a few more Damo-ish work on them but to get them all to this stage so damn fast is brilliant! and they look fine as they are when popped into some armour! so I strongly suggest those who hate painting them to try this way it's a doorway to a better life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk7cLxTAtJ8




and I washed some more of the Minotaurs Terminators, they are looking more bronze now and I added Asterion into some pics as a comparison. I went back in and added some scratches and then washed them with Sepia, next i'll go back to add black into the recesses and to bring some detail out and then do a final silver highlight, are they looking suitably Minotaurs? and do they hold up colour wise with asterion?






I reckon they all will look like a great and brutal force done like this! only a couple of months until they need to be finished ..... nah! i'll get them done easy! just need to finish RiTides fleet! which I may add i've been busily painting bone on the hulls again today and also priming the last 8 ships, I thought they'd be slightly easier task than what they have been so far very repetitive and fiddly painting on multiple models is hard until you get to the fun stuff like highlighting, edging and weathering! then they'll be worth showing you.

Those Minotaurs look great.

EDC

Those heads are great! Going to have to watch that video...

Really liking this method of painting skin/faces!

Also, your Minotaurs are making me think I'll be sending a bunch of Custodes to you too, eventually...

Great work on those Minotaurs, Damo. Very sexy.

More Minotaurs progress, washed again with sepia and edge highlight with silver and that's the main armour done, also worked on the faces a little bit just adding a highlight to the cheeks etc. still the mouths and hair to do on them but I wanted to rest them in and see how they looked
also did a mega fast paint on the container, just primer and sponge weathering with a wash.

Those Mino's look fantastic. Love the armour. Now you see, I can go with this being a space marine. Not silly bright, "here I am!"
Faces are looking great. Container is looking awesome.

Thanks Cam, I like the dirtier look to them too :-) it's believable enough for the bronze and it looks worn which I think appeals to their fluff being hyper aggressive marines and the plus side it's also fast to do! once the reds get some love and the faces finished they'll really pop I hope, I hope the red bolter casing on the tac marines will be enough of a spot colour along with their lenses to make them stand out.

Loving these Tartaros termies, Damo.

Thanks Az! always nice to hear praise from a fellow Minotaur! :-) I also received the rule book today so I shall be poring through it as soon as I'm not at bloody work :-( Gah!

Really nice crate! That display board looks great too!

Its just all good. The marines, the faces, the shipping container.... Nerdy goodness everywhere!

I'll try that face technique this weekend and see how it works for a face-painting amateur.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Its just all good. The marines, the faces, the shipping container.... Nerdy goodness everywhere!

I'll try that face technique this weekend and see how it works for a face-painting amateur.

Awesome gits, that'd be good if you can I used Pallid Wych flesh as my highlight which is very light and i'd us a red/brown with the flesh colour for the lower lip also a fine argax wash just to define details if needed. and that's about it on top of that method. go for gold and post your experiment up for us

Man oh man that army board is gunna look nice!

So I have just gotten a brand new trans Atlantic handheld communication device :-) Galaxy S8 and I'm hoping to be able to record video and upload straight to Youtube to show some painting! still working it out for now since as you know i'm really not the most tech savvy guy here! I'll leave that title to Whalemusic :-)

Mate, faces are excellent, I will certainly be trying that recipe !

 nerdfest09 wrote:
So I have just gotten a brand new trans Atlantic handheld communication device :-) Galaxy S8 and I'm hoping to be able to record video and upload straight to Youtube to show some painting! still working it out for now since as you know i'm really not the most tech savvy guy here! I'll leave that title to Whalemusic :-)

When my new fandangled device does things I dont like I just grunt at it and hit it with my grizzly bear leg bone club. Now admittedly Im no tech guy and that probably doesnt help any. But there ya go

new Samsung cameras are AMAZING for miniature photography. For recording needledrops of vinyl....they need an external mic. -That's my $0.02

One of the easiest ways to get photos uploaded is directly from the gallery app to a Google Drive account, which you'll have a google account.

Hey guys, I have some more work in progress stuff today! I'll start by mentioning that I am indeed still working somewhat feverishly on RiTides fleet of ships but they are quite fiddly and when you have about 50+ of the buggers it can take a while for not much visual progression, so far they have been primed, silver and washed Nuln Oil, then i've used Dheneb Stone on all the bone areas of the main hulls and now i'm working through them with a grey wash over the bone parts to give a subtle shade and to help the colour look better since the stone is quite a chalky finish, once that's done on all of them I'll use the Dheneb again to start the edging and some of the subtle damage then work up to a bone white and then damage the heck out of them with oodles of great ways!

But for today you get stuck with my Minotaurs again, I did the red on them yesterday and touched up today before work, like i mentioned earlier it's great how such a simple scheme and style can pop with the addition of only one other colour! there's not much more on them to do really, the lenses and completing the faces as well as a yellow bolter stripe sarge's finery and basing still, I really hope they still look good enough and cool enough to have people say "hey, they're cool"









And the rather belligerent Hekaton Aikios is coming along as well




What are your thoughts on them all together? with Asterion as a comparison ?


and my arm arrived for Ivanus Enkomi! now his pose is right!

Great work on all of these guys, Damo. The Tartaros are really looking sweet at this point. I'll hopefully have some more paint on my next batch of Minos before the end of the week, though I can't keep pace with your turnover on them. I need to clean off my bloody desk!

I think that pose works pretty well on ol skullface. It's hard to make a good pose for a jump marine out of one that isn't.

I do love the contrast in the eed.

Many thanks guys, I'll keep an eye on your blog Az to see your next batch! now clean that desk mate! and I also am pretty happy with Ivanus' pose considering he's not a traditional jump marine but I wanted to use that model so a bit of angling and picking the correct combo of arms made it work :-)

I've nearly done the Termies so they should be up tomorrow for your perusal, only the bases and sarge's tabard strap thingies to do, then i'll get onto Hecaton and finish him up.

Finished my Tartaros Terminators for my Minotaurs! pretty happy to have them done, it gives me a good feel on how long they take and how they all will look, I like them personally even though they aren't overly decorative or detailed., gives them a colder more straightforward militaristic feel. I hope you like them and the pics are o.k?

I think they could use some squad markings and chapter logos on their pads. Bummer FW doesnt make the transfer sheet any more. I think you should put down a color on the base before the crackle paint as well. Kinda weird black showing through, ya know? Otherwise they look great, certainly can't fault them there.

I'm not seeing any of your images now man.

Lovely work Damo, but those bare heads look huge in the armor. Perhaps these are the rare... melon-head terminators??

I like them a lot - and I really like the bases.

I could use bases like that on my Dark Age stuff.

Any chance of a 'how to' on that particular base style, please?

 Alpharius wrote:
I like them a lot - and I really like the bases.

I could use bases like that on my Dark Age stuff.

Any chance of a 'how to' on that particular base style, please?

Boy do I have good news for you! The paints do the work for you now. Put it on thick and it dries into the cracked earth look. Which is why I suggested he paint the base with something other than black first.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Texture-Martian-Ironcrust-24ML
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Texture-Martian-Ironearth-24ML

And then he stuck some of this fancy self adhesive grass on there.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Mordheim-Turf
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Middenland-Tufts

Correct me if that's off Damo. Figured I'd save some linking action for you.

Those face look amazing . I will be forever grateful if I can get that formula to work for me.

Does he use both texture paints on the bases?

Looks like just the first. It is a bit thicker, so makes bigger cracks in the earth. Pretty sure they are actually the same paint, the second just has more water in it. If you thin down the thick one when you use it, it makes smaller cracks.

Thanks for that WM360!

What do you suggest priming with, if not black, when using it?

 Alpharius wrote:
Thanks for that WM360!

What do you suggest priming with, if not black, when using it?

Go brown or a different shade of red/orange.

You can even still prime black, but I'd put a layer of brown or rust red down or whatever you want the color that will show through to be before the texture paint. Alternatively (or additionally), you can paint on top of it if you wanted a different color scheme since GW only offers it in the martian red color.

Now I see them! WoW! Damo!

Lol thanks guys, the bases are painted Charandon Granite before the Martian Ironearth technical paint so while it's not black showing through it does look pretty dark (sorry Whaley i'll do better next time) and then I washed them with Agrax Earthshade and added some grass clumps from The Army Painter. the heads really don't look that bad but I'm guessing the final pic the angle is not great for looking good but good for showing the face with that new technique! :-)

I also wish FW still made the decals :-( i'd sell my left nut for some to put on them, I did try adding some stripes to break it up but I couldn't for the life of me get straight edges no matter what I tried, so red it is until I can find something.

What will you write on the customs form? left nut?

Depends who buys it Dave! if it's in Aus i'm good but if anyone wants a Nerd-Nut in formaldehyde for their gaming den in the states then I guess, yes, I'll have to put 'Left Nut' on my declaration form!

Well if it only your left one you can keep it!

Boys are looking amazing, do love them, and those new faces are coming out pretty good.

So i'm narrowing my prospective sales market by only offering my left nut? would the right be more attractive? or will I need to sell them as a full set?

Well, you know how it usually works right? You invest in the whole set, but only end up using a few most of the time

Can I see one in a clear resin paperweight style before I go with the retro-chic formaldehyde jar option?

Looking good, Nerdfest, as always.

If only to prove Whale wrong, they also still have their "Agrellan" line of paints - https://www.games-workshop.com/en-WW/Texture-Agrellan-Badland-24ML

Though, any crackle medium ought to work. http://www.goldenpaints.com/products/medium-gels-pastes/effects-paste This I share because I like Golden products, not because I have used it.

I also wish they would bring back their Badab War transfers and maybe this time actually make Executioner ones..

Moonpie I too wish they brought back the transfers! or if anyone can make some up to use I WILL PAY YOU MONEY!!!!!

I'll keep an eye on eBay as well.

What transfers are we after here? Can I see a pic, not that I have many kicking about, but will keep an eye out.

Nice work. Metal effect works well.

Pic links are all broken right now (I"m at work), but I'm investigating making my own transfers. I just need to read the instructions carefully at some stage.

Also, a place called "pop goes the monkey" over on Shapeways offers both custom Minotaurs pads and also glue-onable chapter icons made for shoulder pads. I'm planning to do an order with him this week, so you can either investigate and go for it right now, or wait for me to pull the trigger, get them in hand and report back.

Hecaton Aikios, love his history and his rather straightforward demeanor when it comes to battle a great looking model as well, maybe a little too much purity seal clutter near his head but I can live with that as long as he kicks ass and looks good!

The colour and style on him gives me high hopes that on larger vehicles this will look pretty good! the red is a good pop of colour and they can be as clean or dirty as I want! so here he is for your perusal and hopeful pleasure (not in a Ba'al sak type of way) is Hecaton Aikios, Contemptor Dreadnought of the Minotaurs Chapter













So now he's done and dusted, it's more washing of the RiTides fleet of shooty laser death in space! and I might have a go at one of the SM casualties or prime Leman Russ and start him with the Warhound? not sure yet, gotta get my head in the game i'm a bit sad with the new releases to a point, it feels like GW are re imagining Space marines for a younger audience and the quick fit models and styles of them aren't appealing to myself although the intercessors look good that's about it and i'm worried i'll never again see any nice normal marine models produced which will greatly diminish my enjoyment of the hobby knowing everything I have is everything I can use for inspiration.

But hey! we've still got a whole Minotaurs army to get through! so let's get excited people!

It looks great!! Lol at "shooty laser death in space"

That dreadnought is a true beast .

Great work on Hekaton there, Damo. Finished Termies look the part, and the faces are great.

Now you just need these to finish them off:
https://www.shapeways.com/product/J799HEPEL/60x-minotaurs-shoulder-insignia-pack?optionId=62992021

You're SM worries are reasonable. I doubt we will get many new kits that aren't Primarus Marines in the near future. You are forgetting one important thing though, and that is Horus and his heresy. At the very least, you will see FW continue to put out models for that in the traditional Marine scale. And with both box sets from GW proper selling very well, don't be surprised if they do more. It will just take a minute for the hype to calm itself.

Very nicely done Damo. he's beautiful! Battle hardened and worn, yet doesn't look like a fugitive from a scratch-n-dent sale.

Now some actual work on the Fleet of space time laser pew pew death! and a couple other little updates! the process so far on them is prime silver then wash all with nuln oil, then dheneb stone washed with a nuln oil and lhamian medium to slightly dull it down and smooth it out, now i've sponged some Dheneb back on and then some dark grey and started chipping, also painted some glowy blue engine panels still a little bit to go on these two but I wanted to finish a couple to make sure they looked right and i knew what i'm doing on them all!











Like to know what you think of them so far?

I also started washing my first Tac squad with Nuln and then Agrax and primed Leman Russ and a Lone Wolf, who i'm painting because I've taken ages to get to the Primarch for the guy i'm painting it for!






And I started the first casualty for an objective marker two will be Minotaurs and the dead guy will be either an Ultramarine or a 'Space phnatom' in the purple of my mates army (and yes it is spelt 'Phnatom'

Awesome work on Hecaton Aikios.

Love all the little scratches.

EDC

Damage on space fleet looks awesome . My only question was on the overall brightness / color of the hull, are these darker than the test model or is it just the pic (or do they brighten up in the final step)? Great work

Liking the look of those ships. Good job Nerdy.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
You're SM worries are reasonable. I doubt we will get many new kits that aren't Primarus Marines in the near future. You are forgetting one important thing though, and that is Horus and his heresy. At the very least, you will see FW continue to put out models for that in the traditional Marine scale. And with both box sets from GW proper selling very well, don't be surprised if they do more. It will just take a minute for the hype to calm itself.

This is true. Expect no respite from Forge World's Horus Heresy line - and frankly all of the new marines we've had in the last few years have been either from FW or FW-based via the boxed sets, so it's all good.

Hey guys, i'm gonna leave the talking up to you this post I've just got home from work at 2am I was going to update if I had a chance during my shift but the work computers block the postimage site

So here's a couple of quick pics of my Minotaurs casualty/pbjective marker, not the best paint on the details but meh! he's in pretty grave condition and I still hope he's cool I like the head swap from the original skull to a similar scratched visage as his chest.




and for some more Mino love here's the armour done on the first Tac squad! great technique for a quick main colour scheme and I love it!






So now it's your turn for words! speak up and keep me inspired!

The glow on the bionic eye is a great touch. I love this color of armor so much I'm thinking of doing it for my Ghar even though I just repainted them all in iron Warriors motif.

Man I love that last one, he's clearly a badass!

I know he looks cool doesn't he! I've just done the reds on the bolter casing and the chapter symbol but haven't had time for pics yet, now they really pop!

Really beautiful face on the objective guy. Been inspired to try your wash method on lex luthor and am really liking the results. So there you go. I rarely comment on your thread but you're an inspiration to the little people .

Graven you should comment more mate! and i'd love to see you throw up some images on here of your progress with the faces :-) it was such a nice suprise seeing how well it worked

Chapter approved.. Ok my chapter.., I'm itching to to try the face technique. The last guy has that look. Great job

^ Do it Solar! and like I said, show us here if you like :-) I know it's not my own method but if I can share and encourage enough to give it a try and it works well, it might just be the catalyst to more painting shenanigans of your own!

Okay well this is where I am just now

Terrified of ruining the eyes now ! But you're absolutely right about the method. Great results, although I'm a pale imitator.

See! that wasn't hard was it! :-) and for a face that hasn't got much deep detail to it I think it looks really good! enough tone and shading without being chalky or boring, I say leave the eyes and perhaps was them slightly with Nuln oil

Much better graven. I can really see your working hard on your blending. Very well done.

Hey dudes I got my Tac squad for the Mino's finished this morning! a nice little squad if I do say so! still some more squads to do before I have enough for my Armies on Parade board with them but i'm well on my way.

I also found some foam for the rear wall of the display board so i'm currently waiting for it to dry after I sealed it with a weird mix of wholemeal flour, water and white glue then i'll work out the doors and details, texture and then paint it up and that will finish the board all except some light weathering then I can test fit some models and see how it looks!








I'm still keen on using them to nail some of those stupid Primaris marines! I hope FW give the Mino's some decent usable traits!

These guys are stunning, they will make for a wonderful display.

That looks damn fine, nerdy!

Those reds are positively decadent... And the bronze? Beaten to hell and BEAUTIFUL!

Excellent work on the Tac Squad. Very eye catching.

EDC

Sweet squad. Looking forward to the display board.

So am I Moltar, taking on 3 is a decent challenge this year even though i've planned them to be fairly easy to build if something goes wrong then i'm going to struggle to finish in time! I had another look at the Mino board and now I want to add some pennants or banners which is another layer of interest to the board but I'm not 100% on how best to do them yet, i'm sure i'll work it out though :-)

and I know this is really a random thought but with the new edition of 40k it seems that the majority of angst is being caused by the implementation of the new Primaris models and the way the rules don't align well over the two sub factions in regards to wargear and traits etc. This is only my opinion from reading the threads frequented by the gamers who actually play (not me just whinging about my mini marines) so would 8th be better if they hadn't tried to add the new models into the mix? 'cos it seems even more confused now than before!

 Camkierhi wrote:
These guys are stunning, they will make for a wonderful display.

Was that a subtle jab that nerd doesn't usually get to play

The squad came out great, the first helmetless marine is one of my favorite models recently

Lol thanks RiTides! I think Cam was referring to them being on the Armies on Parade? they WILL see battle, they WILL be coming with me one day to the states and I will continue to paint and care for them as my small plastic children.

I also like that bare headed dude! he just looks like a real no nonsense kind of guy ready to kick ass!

Tacticals are looking titillatingly tactical Nerdy

Really lovely work Damo.

Quick question - what brushes are you using/recommending?

Especially for the 'faces' work!

 Alpharius wrote:
Quick question - what brushes are you using/recommending?

Especially for the 'faces' work!

Now that's a good question! Kolinsky Sable usually but any brush that has a firm set of bristles that ends in a good point will do, usually #0 up to a size #1 but I have been known to use even the most munted of brushes with bent tips as long as I know how they behave in my hand, for my eye lenses I have an old brush that's got a mean curve but it makes it easy to paint the blends with it's shape (I should shock you with some brush images! )

It's been many years since i've drifted above a planet exchanging fire in void warfare so my memory is hazy, I have done my best in recreating the damage inflicted by laser, torpedo and copious rains of shattered meteor as they rebound from our hulls while we hunt the perfect trajectory for fire.

here's an update on some wip of RiTides fleet i've begun the chipping and have most of the larger ships done, I will do some scorch marks as well and then start the metals by darkening the shadows and highlighting, then it's the blue engine cells? and they'll be done









and only this many left to do


and here's some of the old faithful brushes I was mentioning you can see how they aren't perfect but that's how I like them.

Love how low-key the ship have turned out. I find spaceships a nice break in the routine.

Great work on those Minotaur tacticals, Damo. The standouts are the armour weathering, lenses and the faces.

The ships look cool as well.

Ships looks great, nerd. I think you're the only one ive seen that made them look battleworn and aged. The norm seems to be factory-fresh and hyperfuture. Its a damn good look.

Neat to see the tools of the trade, too.... though that top one makes me cringe a little xD I assume thats your stipplling/chipping brush? (If you say thats your face brush, im gonna cry)

Those spaceships look fantastic for being relatively subdued. The weathering on them turned out great.

Cheers guys! Ramos I gotta admit I did laugh when you mentioned the top brush as my face brush! :-) made me want to try it and see how i go!? ....... (you know I will now)

Moltar, thank you too sir! I quite like these ships even though they are quite repetitive as a whole I think the hard chipping actually suits them and once I get them on a black background they'll look proper :-)

Today was once again adding the line highlights to plenty of ships, so not much to show but I also made some progress on the rear wall on the Mino board, i started again using proper foam this time and it's much better, I glued the doors on and gave it all a coat of plaster filler which i'm waiting to dry before I say if it indeed has worked! wish me luck!

The damaged fleet is looking so awesome! I think it contrasts the high tech look of the models themselves really well, and like Ramos said, no one seems to do it so it's a really unique look for the force

Well I'm glad you like them RiTides! since they are your fleet of spacey flighty death pew! I'll get them all chipped and then some smokey burn marks and some gouges in a few then i'll be happy as the hard part will be done then.

I have some wip on my AoP boards again, I've started work on the rear wall of the Mino board and I'm pretty happy so far with it, I wanted to do something pretty basic with a little detail that would accent the army on the board and I think the two gold circles will be the little touch (when they get finished) I was a little peeved that I noticed some pillars had moved after I glued them probably due to a rampaging sausage banging into the models hopefully it's not detrimental to the board though.



and I started the basis of the Nurgle board, first time using expanding foam and i've got the main shape all done!





what's your thoughts guys.

Looking good on the Minos board, and lots of potential on the Nurgle one!

Those boards are looking great Nerdy. Anxious to see what you do with them from here.

I love those rocks so much! How did you make / shape them? Is it just foam and a razor blade, or something else?

Good work on the boards. Looking good.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
...probably due to a rampaging sausage banging into the models ...

You should probably keep your clothes on during modelling then...

 Dr H wrote:
Good work on the boards. Looking good.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
...probably due to a rampaging sausage banging into the models ...

You should probably keep your clothes on during modelling then...

LOL good advice I'll certainly take on board next time!

The rocks are really easy! it was a small can of expanding foam (about $8) and shaped with a steak knife, i'll go over the lot with a watery plaster filler mix which will seal them for priming and then that's all apart from paint if you wanted to make your own rocky barricades or anything similar.

Well Nerdy da Nudist, you certainly seem to have a flair for the terrain, looking forward to both boards being finished and seeing some models on them.

That Space fleet are amazing, wonderful work bud.

Thanks Cam, the space fleet of floating angry space cars is still chugging along, I think it's stressing me because it does take time to do the same effect on every one and it feels like i'm not moving fast! once I shade and do the blue pods they will pop a bit more and i'll feel more confident with them, my main concern is doing a job that isn't 'Nerdy' enough, I may not be a professional painter but I really enjoy doing things for others and when they entrust me to do a good looking job in good time I try my best to bring their dreams to life so they can play with a force they really enjoy looking at!

sorry for the digression there!

The Mino board is nearly finished bar some banners if I can make them up how I want! so expect an update soon on that, I may pop a few models on it to see! :-)

Seems I forgot to comment on the collected Minotaur army. Very nicely done indeed!

 nerdfest09 wrote:
, I may not be a professional painter but I really enjoy doing things for others and when they entrust me to do a good looking job in good time I try my best to bring their dreams to life so they can play with a force they really enjoy looking at!

Dude , don't undersell yourself. Your Awesomeness is even Awesome ( your number of wins in the best painted category for Git's is a testament of chocolaty truth )

Anyway keep chugging along . we live for the next Ritides, Whale or Gits Project. ( oh and yours as well )

Awww thanks Solar that means a lot, I will always keep chugging along with my projects and those of others I just would hate to disappoint anyone that's all.

I have nearly finished the Mino board as well, i've added some propaganda posters and attached the back board, i'll dust some powders over it and call it done after I do the banners

I popped the finished models on just to get a feel of how it will look, I'll definitely need at least another Tac squad and perhaps the other 5 Termies? or perhaps Assault marines? it all comes down to timing before I go away!






and while there's no pics, I have finished the chipping on the dark sky star avoiding flying phallic rockets.

The only thing that detracts from the display is that their bases don't match. Might be something to keep in mind for next year, especially if you do a force specifically for the display.

Well, thank you captain negative :-( they have obviously just kicked in the door waving the 44 and still have sizable clumps of outdoors on their feet! duh! you didn't realise this?

I didn't match them as I wasn't planning on doing them outside on the board but my overall theme with them is that basing style, I wanted to make a more indoor structure but next year I'll do something cool, I think I learn more each time and find new things to try with them, perhaps if I didn't set myself the goal of 3 boards I could do a really cool board with one! imagine a Harlequin army set up in a webway lit with perspex and leds?!

Always gotta throw something in so it just isn't oohhs and awwws

I think the trick would be making the bases and the board at the same time. It would take a ton of planning, but some of the most impressive AoP displays I've seen have had it. Might be better to make temporary bases even, and switch them to play bases that fit the rest of the army later. Just something to think about next year.

Board is top notch Nerdy.

I am already thinking of next years board and I think I want to do a fully enclosed board that is an Eldar webway that's lit from various points and made of different light reflecting and transparent surfaces but you look at it through an eyepiece like the old 80's View Master and you see inside this diorama display of Harlequins dancing around wisps of ether. I think it will take a lot of clear resin, cellophane, leds, ghost tint and clear acrylic and a small warband of Harlies

perhaps you can help me with some reference material? and images you guys know of that convey that side of the eldar? or webways?

I got a fair way through the gravity defying pew pew sides and roaring flame pushers today! got every one of them shaded with black wash/ink so now I'm feeling much better about them all, i'll do the highlights on the metals and then just the engine panel things and then we'll see where or how many to do further damage on

and I started washing Tac squad number 2 for my Mino's and primed the Nurgle board.

Now a little Nurgle board love. I want the board to be pretty clean towards the forward edge as if the terrain is becoming corrupted as they army walks forward with slime and rot in the wake i'll pour resin muddy and bloody and fade it into clear and blue

The rocks were primed grey and then drybrushed white, then I've gone and used greens to blend in while it was all still drying and added black in some overhangs and crevices, i'll add more slime and moss once it's dry. I think i've left enough space for the army to stand, on the rocks and the wooden broken pier which will look good with the water poured!









And Sausage!

Is the new Redemptor Dreadnought a mortally wounded Primaris marine in the sarcophagus or is it a new chassis that the Castaferrum fits into? re implanting the marine into a new war machine? if it's the latter i'm in on getting one if not I won't, i'll just get another Contemptor.

I believe that the front lifts up to reveal something similar to the old sarcophagus. That Nurgle board is looking really fantastic. Wonderful shading. Going to be stunning with the water effect on.

That is one cute dog.

Thanks Cam, I was beginning to think there wasn't anyone reading my blog :-) I've actually started the resin pour this morning it's looking good so far, I have to be careful not to over commit on these! the front is going to be bluer water with some waves and the back is swampy murky nastiness!

The only issue I'll have is that I didn't have the army to use to make sure it will fit on! not very clever on my part, but I'll just whack them on and hope for the best!

That Nurgle board is looking awesome, looking forward to seeing it with the resin to take it to the next step... love it.

Well played on the picture of Sausage as well..... nurgle board, nurgle board, nurgle board.... cute dog!

Yeah Mad. you can't just have Nurgley goodness, you need to offset with actual cute goodness!

Were Here. Just stunned into silence by awesomeness.

I am with Solar, hard to give input when your work is so good.

Nice work on the board. Look forward to it having the water on.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
...And Sausage! ...

*faints*

Great stuff! I look foward to reading (or at least picture scanning) all 265 pages some day. In the meantime the metallics on the minotaurs is great - a very nice brass effect. The terrain is great to see - I especially like the more restrained effect of the buliding.

Hey guys, glad you're still there so here's some more progress! the first couple pics are the nurgle board after the resin, then after I've added some clear gloss gel medium to give the leading edge more substance like waves, i'll add more and colour the tips white after it dries (since it will dry clear)

here it is after first pour of resin with colour mixed in.



and after I added the gel, and some more close ups of different parts you may like






and here's some more Minotaurs stuff, Tac squad number two well under way! and the banners for the Board are nearly done.



also was asked to whip up an Ork pirate for a guy at work who plays D&D so I started this guy


and I finally got brush to Russ! hard to paint all glued together but i'll still have a good go at him until I get to do version two when Whaley gets off his backside and sends me one


Cheers guys!

Impressive looking board piece! I especially like separate streaks.

Board looks pretty sick (ha). Glad you have a practice Russ to go at. I'll likely get the Russ vs Magnus duel at some point.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Board looks pretty sick (ha). Glad you have a practice Russ to go at. I'll likely get the Russ vs Magnus duel at some point.

I'm happy to have a practice Russ, he's meant to be done to a fairly good TT standard so I'll be able to have a play around with him and colours, yours would be much darker and more iron like. the Duel would be an amazing model to paint up and I think I'd go full sick on it!

also, glad the board looks o.k, like I mentioned the only prob is the models fitting on it, it may look a bit disjointed but I'm going to have to ignore that risk since I don't own them or have them here.

Nurgle Board is looking really good at this point. I'd have to see those banners on the Minos board. I hate to seem negative, but they seem as little rough compared to your usual quality of work.

 Azazelx wrote:
Nurgle Board is looking really good at this point. I'd have to see those banners on the Minos board. I hate to seem negative, but they seem as little rough compared to your usual quality of work.

I can see that, they are a bit rough and ready I just wanted to put something to enclose the sides a bit and I kind of felt I was running out of time to do them how I really wanted to do them lets hope they don't look too bad when the army is on there! they were an absolute bitch to hang on the beam too! I nearly broke the whole board which didn't make for a happy nerd!

Geez, man- you are just TEARING through projects!! Im jealous, haha!

Nurgle board is suitably disgusting... like... eew...

Minos banners are a little rough, yes, but I think that works to them being battered and weathered. Makes them less of a focal point as well, so that everyone is focussed on the beautiful models!

How were you trying to hang them from the beams that was giving you such issue? Just gluing the edge of the fabric to underneath the wood?

I finished two boards enough to be happy with of course I could have gone further or spent more time but this year I wanted to try and do 3 to a decent level, also to hopefully encourage others locally to enter either this year or next! the Nurgle one I tried to have a distinction between infected and clean and really just an excuse to use some resin and have a play around!







and I finished the Minotaurs board, the banners are messy but not detrimental to the overall look so i'm happy with that!






and more work on the Marines for the board!



and finally I was holding out on you all with RiTides fleet of ships!










So now all I need to do is finish the Warhound, Minotaurs and more for the board, finish the Ork Board, Russ the pirate Ork and a Lone wolf.....

Nice update Damo - lots of good work on display here!

Brilliant work on the massive fleet, nerdy!! Although I think your pics here make them look a lot darker than actual

I can't wait to try them out with my local gaming group!

Wow so much to catch up on! Loving the display boards. The fleet of ships still looks so good. Good luck plowing through all that's on your desk.

Looks like I may have to leave my Ork board for next year, I had a good look at what models I can legitimately put on it for display and because I use a lot of SpellCrow parts I don't think I am going to have enough GW to tip the balance in favor but the bonus means I have 2 boards to enter and they're done! so I can focus on other things to get finished up! it may give me time enough to add some more models for the Mino board!

If you are adding more dudes to the mino board, I'd suggest moving the termis down to the ground level and cook up a honor guard. Chaplain, champion, apothecary, bannerman, techmarine, librarian.

I've got nearly enough to do that but I need an Apothecary and a Banner guy :-( and to buy them separate is quite pricey! i'll see what I can make up though.

also the GW model painter needs shooting.

the latest release models look terrible! I can honestly say I'd do a better job on the Necromunda mini's!!

They use lower tier paint jobs so it seems more realistically reachable for novice painters. Guess you'll have to try it out when you paint them up.

It takes away from how potentially good something is imo, if the paint doesn't draw me into a model then I tend to skim it over and not bother, or at least they can include an unpainted version next to it. these aren't kids toys they are gaming and modeling pieces for mature collectors!


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Sorry did that sound too harsh?

They aren't targeted at the painters/collectors. They are for people to buy lots of, slap some paint on, and play some games.

But it's Necromunda! the new guys who will buy and slap paint probably have only heard about it in myth and legend or vaguely when shadow war was released! I really thought they might at least leave some grim darkness for some of us instead of the Saturday morning cartoon style they seem to be deciding is good :-( and these paint don't inspire me except to do better than!

Much goodness... Love the Nurgle board.

Thanks Insaniak, I might go and add more grot if I get a chance to test fit the models on it before the day!? see how it looks, :-)

 nerdfest09 wrote:
But it's Necromunda! the new guys who will buy and slap paint probably have only heard about it in myth and legend or vaguely when shadow war was released! I really thought they might at least leave some grim darkness for some of us instead of the Saturday morning cartoon style they seem to be deciding is good :-( and these paint don't inspire me except to do better than!

I think it's something unique to the Forge World/Specialist Games department, you can see the same on some of the FW Blood Bowl bits. It's an interesting style, I quite like the almost impressionist look and it probably requires a fair bit of artistic flair to pull off (definitely seems more complex than it looks at first glance), but it really doesn't show off the models all that well. It'd be fine as a display piece, but to have it as the standard marketing pics would be like showing off new Space Marines but with all the metals in Sky-Earth NMM, it's technically impressive but so far removed from what 99% of painters will be doing with their minis that it's not the best way to advertise.

Actually, looking again, something really weird is going on. The style is consistent, but there's a massive difference in terms of quality between the autogun Escher (pretty basic) and the pistol one (much better technically speaking, leaving the style aside)... Odd! Still, can't wait to see what you do with them, I look forward to... ahem.... drawing inspiration from them...

Back to your own work though, I really like what you've done with those ships. I'm getting a real Mass Effect/Halo hard sci-fi vibe from them which is great.

Just too much to comment on... yet all spectacular. I just love the shore-line board. That's a Golden Demon right there!

Nurgle board looks ace!

Love the waves coming in, and how it transitions to the green sludge, so good.

Minotaurs board looks cool too, reminds me of a Samurai temple or something along those lines.

Keep up the great work!

I literally started this yesterday after work, just thought i'd throw a wash or two on and I ended up getting it ready to use the silver on so today I just whacked on the silver scratches and it already is shaping up to look decent! which means I should be able to do other vehicles nice and fast! might end up getting some more and really going vehicle heavy with predators and land raiders which is in the fluff of the Minotaurs

I think the 'clean weathering' looks decent on the tank lots of small scratching as if it's in a warzone, should I add some red dust to the tracks to mimic the bases on the troops?

That looks spot on bud, nice and quick too, and yes to the red dust, just to tie things together.

Nice work there Damo - and agreed on the red dust!

Agreed on red dust, but it should be the last thing you do after any markings on the tank. I feel like the red panels could use some weathering too. They are pristine while the rest is battered.

I agree with WM on both counts. Looking great though.

Dust that baby up Nerdy !

Thanks guys, I'll add some dust later on then :-) I'll have to paint the reds before I weather up but they will get a little to tie it in with the hull,

I still like the colour, it's kinda a metallic brown rather than a true bronze but it still appeals to me when painting which is good considering it's my army! :-) and once I darken the recesses and paint the spot colours it'll look grand! speaking of colours, the skull and eagle on the front, what colour should they be? gold or bone?

I vote bone, gold will be too similar to the main armour colour IMO

^ One of each maybe?


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And can someone help with my previous query? :-) is the new Redemptor Dreadnought a larger chassis for the castoferrum sarcophagus or is it a stand alone 'Primaris' dread only? I have an urge to paint it up but I'm not wanting anything that's Primaris only since I don't like them.

I vote bone as well. Agreed gold will blend in too much.

I don't really understand the dread question. It's huge compared to the normal washing machine.

 nerdfest09 wrote:

And can someone help with my previous query? :-) is the new Redemptor Dreadnought a larger chassis for the castoferrum sarcophagus or is it a stand alone 'Primaris' dread only? I have an urge to paint it up but I'm not wanting anything that's Primaris only since I don't like them.

I only know one person who has that dread, and it was given to him free by GW because he's a big podcaster. Sorry, Primaris performance is pretty lack-luster so you don't see a lot of them around.

I have one. Though I haven't assembled it yet. It appears to be a Dread in a Dread. A bit better stats, but expensive pt wise.

Hey guys here's a Leman Russ i've done to the same style as the other models I did for the client earlier in the year nice sculpt but would be easier when he's not totally glued together, hard to see his face though since his pose is pretty hunched over which makes it hard to select a focal point for him but I think his armour gives him enough Ooomph to look good

hope you like.








and the finished Mino squad number 2!

Supernice Minotaurs. I never thought I'd actually like the new colour scheme, but your made them actually look pretty. And those scenic elements are great looking. Even some fancy waterfall work there.

What would you do different on Russ if he didn't have to match?

Minos looking good. You have other stuff planned for them yet?

Those dropfleet ships are gorgeous, makes me want to get more!

My only critique is that Russ is too clean-shaven. Not very Viking like in my book. He should have a 5-o-clock shadow of some sort.

Smashing work, NF.

Stunning as always mate. Love the metals on Russ!

Russ' armor is gorgeous, and the glow on the tip of his sword makes me think of ice, which fits their wolf concept. If I were a dog I'd be humping his leg for sure

Firstly i'd like to welcome Sigur back to the fold glad to finally see you on here again!

and everyone else, thanks as always, Russ I agree would benefit from a better beardy face or stubble but it was all glued together so I didn't have as much freedom as i'd liked with him. If I were to do him again i'd still follow a similar scheme but give his armour a more 'paint over metal' look and really bring the details up by doing more on his belt, cloak banding on the armour. This version is a table top sort of level so he looks good but the small stuff doesn't get as much love

I'm still working on my Mino's Predator and assembling Gits Crawlers so I can get into them soon.

so not much to show at the moment but gimme a week and i'll give you an update!

Nice work on Russ and the Minos there, Damo. I wonder how hard it would be to sculpt a half-decent beard onto him?

Just a little work on the Predator, managed to do a little more to the reds and get them done they were just washed so the colour may be a little off but it's starting to take shape now and look better! not a heap more to do just the guns and a general tidy up, then some nuln oil in the recesses and some red dust and details and she's a good 'un! makes painting tanks pretty easy!







I hope they release Russ with a beard when he returns from the warp! I imagine he'd be hairy and wild and probably a little more hair trigger barbarism which would be fun for the imperium and could bring the wolves into direct confrontation with my Minotaurs and the High Lords of Terra!

The reds look much better now, but I can't unsee what Whaley pointed out - just how heavily battered the bronze of the tank is while the red still looks perfect. I think a bit of weathering on it as you did with the AdMech stuff a little while ago would bring it all together and unify the paintjob really nicely. Wouldn't need to be nearly as heavy as on the bronze, but a bit would even out the two elements.

True, true but I haven't got to that part yet :-) there will be some light scratches on the reds but I needed to get the main part done first before I go back in.

Of course, and now that you've said you're going to scratch it up I'm much more relaxed.

And I think I may give some scratches another sepia wash and tone them down a bit, on the top of the hull seems to be a little too damaged now I look at it some more :-)

All the damage just means they are super bad- es instead or only regular bad- .

Well they certainly are a chapter of bad a#$% so then I suppose it fits :-)

Beautiful work on the reds bud, I know you have yet to start weathering it, but it has such beautiful tones and shading.

Hey guys I finished the Mino's Predator and am pretty pleased with it I toned down the scratches again by another sepia wash and did a few little quick scratches on the red and then just highlighted the rivets and a few edges and she's ready for war!

So do I paint a Landraider next or two rhino's for the board if I have time?

here she is and looking much better thanks to your advice guys

How do you plan on adding the tanks to the display? It seems more like a scene in a citadel, and tanks would be strange to me.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
How do you plan on adding the tanks to the display? It seems more like a scene in a citadel, and tanks would be strange to me.

Well, Mr Music I plan on......well,.......I'll just.........umm,. .......i'll.........




I'll pretend they arrived in from the side you look in from into the room to commemorate a glorious victory or Asterion's Birthday or something

Great work Damo. The scratches on the red unify the whole thing nicely - and toning down the damage was also a good call.

Thanks Az, I'm much more happy with it now too, it needed toning down slightly and just a small amount of scratches on the red is all it needed, nothing too in your face but it ties together much better, makes me look forward to a nice meaty land raider :-)

Very nice Nerdy. That did the trick.

Yeah that's looking very swish. And can't reiterate how good your advice was about flesh tones for faces, many thanks.

That is looking beautiful.

Thank you Cam, Graven, Gits, I'm definitely going to add to the vehicle pool in the future and maybe even get a biker squadron? are they any good? I've never enjoyed painting the SM bikes but I feel I could tackle them with this paint style without getting annoyed and it would give me an excuse to do some bike bases as if they are banking etc which would be fun :-)

I'll be doing some more on my Mino's soon and also i'll be able to post up some finished 'tabletop' Warhound pictures! I say tt only because i've painted the two main areas, being the armour and the metal underneath so I haven't picked out details like pipes and cables and kept the palette simple but damn it looks cool :-)

Do jet bikes instead, if you need some conversions just ask bud. That way they can fit in your cool display and battle on the table.

Looking forward to seeing a properly painted WH.

I miss a few days of checking in on Nerdy and he has all sorts of great work going on. Russ is outstanding, a bit of stubble is not such a big problem he probably shaved just before purging all those T sons.

Mino's are so damn good, especially that predator, scuffs and scratches look like he just rolled in from battle. Looking forward to seeing that Warhound.

O.K Yorky here's a Warhound for to look at

I finished her up this morning and I think for a fairly simple style and scheme it looks pretty damn cool, and obviously inspired by the Knight I did for RiTides (one of my personal favorites i've done) the guy I painted her for wanted a simple bulldozer-Esq battle machine!

I kept the metals dirty and tried a different approach to adding depth by firstly using a blue/black wash that I let pool in splotches and then I crossed my fingers I could do something with it! so it was less noticeable after a few washes and looks a bit like aged steel and like oil or fluid on the joints.

Here's the pics but I'm not really set up for models this size, hope they're o,k









So there you go, i'm slowly (or quickly depending on how you view my work) getting through my projects before I go away

Looks fantastic man. Love the metals! Great weathering.

Great work - especially on the metals (as always). The dull yellow/ochre fits in well somewhere between flat desert paint and industrial.

I like the simple but well executed scheme. Only thing I don't like about it is that the transfers appear to be very noticeable that they are transfers.

Yikes. You are the king of metal. \m/ \m/

Yep, that's got a very business-like feel to it. "come in, kick your butt, go sit down".

Warhound is gorgeous! I absolutely LOVE the weathering, and ONLY you are skilled enough to NOT overuse the edge highlighting! This may be my favorite of all-time of yours, and that says something!

Thanks Nerdy, it most certainly looks like it has kicked some butt. Color scheme and weathering is top notch.

Looks awesome mate !
And all with a hair brush and not an AIR brush ! crazy bar-steward

Oo nice pattern of doggo-titan. I like it.

Favorite part is the weathering. Big thing likely makes a lot of bumps and scruffs.

O.k here's something a bit different from me today! I attempted to record and edit a video for youtube showing how I do my Minotaurs armour it's my first video I've done so don't judge too harshly, it's about 20 mins on purpose since it's real time for how I do them, if I was doing a squad it would not take much longer as they would each dry as I worked on the next one.

Hope it's o.k and gives some people something to try!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Ci4LFHO4g

Nice! Good to see, and to put a voice to the face.
I look forward to the red video.

The video is at a funny angle for the 1st 10 minutes or so otherwise great video.

Thanks guys, i'll hopefully get better at setting it up for video so I can still paint :-) i'm happy with it for a first attempt although getting it onto the internet from my phone was a bit of a struggle for someone not very technically minded!

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Thanks guys, i'll hopefully get better at setting it up for video so I can still paint :-) i'm happy with it for a first attempt although getting it onto the internet from my phone was a bit of a struggle for someone not very technically minded!

make a call to your local tech priest just dial 1-800-HHE-RSEY to get the general answering machine. It constantly changes, so pay no mind to it. If you feel sick, do not worry about it. If you feel the answering machine is uncontrollably attractive, so do we. Lastly, if you feel an over coming rage that makes you want to maim anything in sight, do not worry this is normal customer service.

After answering we are going to need your 44 digit account number, along with your 80 digit star address location to send help. Help will arrive in -1000 years to +100 years based on warp travel.

Lol so much to keep up with. Minos still looking great and that warhound looks fantastic too. I like the balance between metallics and the yellow.

cormadepanda wrote:

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Thanks guys, i'll hopefully get better at setting it up for video so I can still paint :-) i'm happy with it for a first attempt although getting it onto the internet from my phone was a bit of a struggle for someone not very technically minded!

make a call to your local tech priest just dial 1-800-HHE-RSEY to get the general answering machine. It constantly changes, so pay no mind to it. If you feel sick, do not worry about it. If you feel the answering machine is uncontrollably attractive, so do we. Lastly, if you feel an over coming rage that makes you want to maim anything in sight, do not worry this is normal customer service.

After answering we are going to need your 44 digit account number, along with your 80 digit star address location to send help. Help will arrive in -1000 years to +100 years based on warp travel.

Lol that was brilliant! I usually anoint my pict capture device with the blessed black Cafbrew so I hope that appeases the machine spirit in the SGS8, if not I shall call 1-800-HHE-RSEY and await for enlightenment.

Moltar wrote:Lol so much to keep up with. Minos still looking great and that warhound looks fantastic too. I like the balance between metallics and the yellow.

Thanks Moltar, The Mino's are great for me! fast to paint and still look effective and brutal which means I can grow the force in the future if I so choose! and the Hound was really fast to paint too if I hadn't faffed around and left it so long, I originally primed it and washed it with the acrylic wash but wasn't sure how to proceed so I left it in the shed for weeks until I HAD to finish it, but once I got back itno it it took 2 days so I could have had it done a long time ago!

What I enjoyed about the video:

1. Sutry Aussie accent, I do miss living over there, so don't change that
2. Solid painting advice, god use of washes and weathering.
3. I'm not the only one who paints with slightly munted brushes!

Solid first effort mate!

Awesome job!

Weathering and heat-stains on the barrels are top notch!

Knightley wrote:What I enjoyed about the video:

1. Sutry Aussie accent, I do miss living over there, so don't change that
2. Solid painting advice, god use of washes and weathering.
3. I'm not the only one who paints with slightly munted brushes!

Solid first effort mate!

Thanks Knightley, I toned down my usual lingo for the video in case I alienated anyone, maybe I should just let it flow? I thought it a good place to start since my mantra has always been to find and use techniques that are really easy and anyone can use to their benefit and my brushes are indeed pretty much all munted but they're family so I love them.

Littletower wrote:Awesome job!

Weathering and heat-stains on the barrels are top notch!

Thanks Littletower, glad you like the hound! I'm not sure i'll do another one unless Whalemusic gets another Warlord and needs some paint

Great video! You make it look so easy, but your brush control on the scratches is really good.

Thanks Whaley, the trick with the scratches is to make sure you run it ever so lightly across some panels to give miniscule marks of silver in places, it gives a much more natural and appealing look I find. :-)

Mr Gitsplitta now has two more Dune Crawlers to add to his force of mechanicus lets hope they do well and kill the heretics....... or really just whoever just pisses off the forge worlds! I hope they match the previous ones I did and as a squad will look fan-bloody-tastic!

I also got some work done on the Minotaurs Terminators and Honour Guard and a base for another Contemptor Dreadnought, this time Hecaton Morbus to go with his friend (who's a bit of an angry Contemptor 'ol Aikios)

lets have a look at the crawlers










Mino's WIP. (I forgot to take the termies)



Base for Morbus!

Gits is one lucky guy, another great additon to his Ad Mech. I seriously dont look forward to facing them, all that firepower. Mino's and base are looking good too, Damo do you ever get to play with all your wonderfully painted armies?

One of your minotaurs seams to have lost his head Did he turn heretic?

I cannot manage even to scratch the paint on the first two you painted and your wishing him luck on the two he doesn't already have. ~Sigh~

Mino's loo good.. base is awesome.

Stunning, Minos looking great and that base has a magic all its own, but those walkers, oh boy...!!

Gorgeous copper on those Walkers. Are all of the bits magnetised as well?

Great work on the Minos Veteran WIPs. What models have you used as the body/base for the second and fourth ones? Back Banner and Iron Halo guys.

The admech look amazing! Lucky Gitsplitter...

Dammit I wrote a massive lovely update and it disappeared so now it's time for bed and i'll have to talk to you tomorrow.

but i'll pop some WIP pics up for you to discuss







and a palette cleanser wanted to try and use their awkward poses and position to make something more dynamic as if they are charging through a battlefield debris using the metal sheets to bound off over and through.

Wow that is some grungy white! Yeah man I think you made the "awkward" poses really work for you. A good choice as a pallet cleanser from all that metallic bronze!

Crawlers are looking sharp- cant wait to see them on the tabletop come Adepticon

And that base is PERFECT! You really chose your colors well on that, and as always the execution is superb. Good touch with that little tuft of grass stuffed in the crack- really makes the base come alive.

First individual termi needs part of an imperial guardsman under that metal piece like he's stomping it shut on the dudes head. The forth termi needs a Titan foot coming down on him because he looks like he's about to get stomped . It is an amazing white you pulled off.

Cheers boys! I have to say the palette cleanser Red Butchers are indeed a nice change but they are very detailed with chains and spikes and the white really does take a while, it's a colour I've not really worked on much over the years and I have always preferred a dirtier white so I thought i'd give it a go I also wanted to give them a brutal feel with the blood and dirt without going over the top on them which I also think I did right on the more advanced guy.

and thanks for the compliments on that base too! I found the broken resin friezes in my bits box and thought they looked sorta old, what better way to use them than a Mino base! shame I couldn't use it for Aikios since he was already done and pinned so I got another one just for the base and I did also add a couple of small bits of the frieze to Aikios base to tie them together.

So really now I only have the World Eaters to play with and my Mino terminators, dread and command to finish up and I can just wait until I get Alpharius' models or work on my own stuff more

The Minos are all looking great. The contemptor especially has a great pose, very dynamic.

Butchers are looking great too. I'll have to give the WE a special spot on their own.

the world eater terminators are going well. I enjoy your minotars the most.

Thanks Whaley, hope you enjoy them but it'll probably inspire you to do a WE force. they WILL be that cool.


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I finished up the Red Butchers sergeant and I think he looks perfectly suitable for them as a rampaging deranged squad of blood drenched maniacs I had a few things I wanted to convey when painting them, I wanted to still add the blood and spatter but I wanted to not go overboard and I also wanted it to look more realistic, like layers of gore and viscera dried on and then coated in fresh life blood.

The armour had to be white, but it had to be weathered and grimy, not dirty and decrepit like Death Guard but still battered and serviceable keeping in mind these guys don't ever leave it, and they just get hung up in the bowels of a ship frothing and straining to be unleashed again on the field of battle.

I also wanted to get his face to show the snarl and strain of the single mindedness he endures along with reddening around the chains in his head. the pose I like angled like this as if he's moving at speed through the debris using the terrain to force himself off towards you.

so here's a few pics of the first finished guy!










So there ya go, my first white armoured model, a challenge to be sure and a time consuming style for me but certainly something I can do again

Loving the progress since I last stopped by. The Dunecrawlers are top shelf and I love the purple weathering on the end of the guns.

Your Minotaur armour colour is really nice. Although personally I feel a little too much silver is showing through on the terminators. The Contemptor is looking beautiful already.

The World Eaters are really cool. I have been toying with an idea of doing a Bezerker army as a World Eater warband that is so bloodied they appear red over the original white armour. I think you have almost achieved what I am looking for with these guys. But I plan to coat them head to foot with only a little bit of the original colours showing through. Keen to see them finished to see if I can steal your work.....

The video was a good first start but that didnt sound like you Damo! You should put at least a little bit of your lively self on there next time.

Well thanks guys, i'll try and lively it up a bit next time Cracker and Archer I can see the silver being quite prominent but it does darken down a bit once I use black wash to line the model, it's a funny balancing act how they change with each little step and speaking of the Mino's I've some more work on them today, I silvered the Contemptor and the command guys

They're starting to take shape now and I should easily get them done in time.

I hadn't even noticed the contemptors base until now , very nice. The silver is definitely bringing out all sorts of details too.

Not sure about the purple claws, I'll have to let them grow on me for a while.

Yayyyy!

Theo I think the claws will end up o.k the plan is light at the tips and really dark at the base so it won't be as obvious as if they're sporting weaponized Eggplants. (Omg! Vegan Marines!!)

now with my hobby progress I mentioned I was up to date with my work for others and I am so I'm slowly relaxing and compartmentalizing what i'm going to do next, obviously my own Minotaurs army will feature until they're done and I have to buy more models!

I also sold my gaming board and have a blank table in the garage, I also threw in my terrain (a lot of it) to sweeten the sale, so I now need to build and paint more gaming terrain and another table! my idea for the table layout is using cork tiles in a 4x4 to add cracks and distressed features with only a light coat of filler over them, this will enable me to still place buildings level and form a solid base for any Necromunda shenanigans if they happen :-) also one day in the future I plan on owning a FW Zone Mortalis set so the 4x4 section will also let me place the tiles on there nicely.

So, what have you got to look forward from me?

*My own Minotaurs army
*Alpharius' Alpha Legion army
*gaming table build and detail
*terrain from Deadzone and scratch built
*3 Characters for RiTides
*4 Kastelan for Whaley that have languished far too long.

I must be providing some pretty ordinary content lately maybe a few update pics will bring you out of the woodwork?

I got the reds done on the Mino's this morning, the Hecaton Morbus Contemptor is going to really look good with his battle brother Aikios! who I may add is actually a bigger model than the standard contemptors! larger torso and fist quite noticeably.





and the termies and command.





I've got a bit of a tidy up to do then the other details and they'll be ready for the cabinet! ....... until I get to play

You know Nerdy, I really love the way the brownish "older" metal works with the stark silver scratches and highlights. Really nice job on that. Purple claws are cool too... love me some purple! I do think the pristine red is a big incongruous when compared with the heavily damaged metals... but that's your call. It certainly does make them look striking and points out the quality of your blending capability.

Thanks Gits, I know the reds probably need some damage but I kinda just like the look of the contrast :-) plus I like to think the armour isn't 'beat up' per-se but sort of showing light dings and imperfections that they've just buffed over and kept as a badge of honor. plus did I mention the red looks good against the metal? :-)

I think the reds are stunning, but need some weathering to tie them together. I'm glad to see the honor guard transitioned from fists to bulls ok as well.

Amazing work as always, the Minos are looking spectacular that red is stunning. Your work on the butchers is amazing bud, the blood effect is perfect and the choice of heads spot on. Inspired as usual thanks.

The Minos command and Contemptor look great, but I have to agree with the others. Just the smallest amount of scratches would bring the shoulders together and unify them with the rest of the squad's armour. Similar to what you did with the Predator, essentially.

Hey guys i finished some Minotaurs for my army! Hecaton Morbus and the Termies are done. Really starting to build them up now only the Command to finish then I can have a break and organise the Nerd room again and wait for the next batch of models (and i'll probably work slowly on the tanks for the Mino's)







Termies ready!


I accidentally forgot to send the bases for Gits' Crawlers so I'm guessing this is how he looked Brother sergeant Splitta from henceforth.

Some really great work in this bot the star is those faces, they look wonderful. Fair play to you.

Someone is going to get lightning claw'd up right good.

Luvverly work on these Minos, Damo. I'm really enjoying watching your guys grow, and it's definitely helping to keep me honest and on task for my guys. It'd be pretty amazing to have a 2-on-2 game with you allying our armies against another pair one day.

Lovely work Nerdy. Very dynamic.

So I have bought a couple of the Deadzone terrain building kits over the last few weeks and just started mucking around with them good kits for the price, pretty basic assembly and not as detailed or flush fitting as GW but I can certainly let that slide since I'll be weathering and dirtying them up for a combined 40K/Necromunda style of building so any imperfections are not going to bother me rather than the overarching image they provide.

Although basic to build and work with a set of instructions even basic would have helped me organise my parts, it seems I've used a railing part as a half floor on one part and i'm not 100% on what's floor or wall or how to set it up for ladders in a design, but again for the price i'm happy to just make this up as I go along but if anyone can help me identify what's a wall/floor/railing/ladder hole?

The plan is to get a basic collection of square buildings built, one two and three level structures with areas I can then add walkways to connect them for Necromunda play and also have them placed normally as 40K terrain. I will be making my own walkways for the majority when i get to that part, but this point i'm just seeing what i can make.

Colour scheme is quite possibly a ochre yellow this I believe will look good done over the terrain and lend itself to weathering really well (I mean just look at Dave's stuff!) also since my Minotaurs are a dark metal and the board base will have a red dust element I think this colour will offset the models rally well!

I'll try and get enough badly built terrain to show you tomorrow I have plans that means you won't really notice I hope when it's finished.

lol Ive had so many WTF am I putting together in this hobby. The basilisk I used for my Ork BoomGun tank was 2nd hand unassembled but had no instructions. I remember putting the floor of the tank on upside down and I slotted one part in the wrong slot so 2 steps later I realized Oops.....that wasnt right. All you can do is squint your eyes, scratch your head and pretend youre not an idiot

Great work on the Minotaurs. I'm torn on the shoulder pads... some scarring on them would look great. But the red does look fantastic against the weathered metal.

KingCracker wrote:lol Ive had so many WTF am I putting together in this hobby. The basilisk I used for my Ork BoomGun tank was 2nd hand unassembled but had no instructions. I remember putting the floor of the tank on upside down and I slotted one part in the wrong slot so 2 steps later I realized Oops.....that wasnt right. All you can do is squint your eyes, scratch your head and pretend youre not an idiot

Yeah I can be a perfectionist but if I let that lapse then I seem to just go the other way completely i'm like 'it's not really straight and it doesn't look quite right..... nahhhh she'll be right with some paint!..... hmmm about those sprue points I forgot..... ahhh what the hell it's character building!'
which means I'll just keep on going and see where it takes me, I think I need a couple of the ruined building sprues as well i've noticed, so that's next up.

insaniak wrote:Great work on the Minotaurs. I'm torn on the shoulder pads... some scarring on them would look great. But the red does look fantastic against the weathered metal.

Thanks Insaniak, I'm also torn but I think i'll leave some little weathering on the larger red models parts I like the look too much should have the command squad up tomorrow as well as some dodgy buildings...

So I have built some more of the terrain I've added a few bits and pieces to fill it out a little and i'm waiting on some ruined sprues to add to the buildings i've built already for some floors and edges leading to the ground.

I kinda like what i've done without really knowing what I was doing sort of a bunker type assembly and a couple of storage areas also a little ramp made from the floor of a Land Raider I will go back through my bits boxes and add more pipes and rods to hide some flaws.












I also got the finished pics of the Command squad for the Minotaurs, glad they're all done and ready to go to war now! and yes I did forget to take one of the guys individual pics he must have been in the toilet polishing his bolter








hope that gives you something to enjoy today

That command squad is hands down one of the coolest sets of Marines I've seen, so characterful and every one unique.

Needs a Company Standard Bearer though, can't see the Minos going into battle without an Ancient bearing their colours...

Who has a Land Raider floor just hanging out in their bits bin? What happened to the rest of the tank?

Yup, the paint game is strong here... That command squad is remarkable and I lurve the assault terminators!

Really stunning command squad bud, and the terrain is looking really interesting, it is good stuff, interested to see how you go on it.

I especially like the tank... nice work Nerdy. Command squad is of course, looking fantastic!

Why thank you gentlemen on the comments, I agree the command needs a standard bearer for sure! and an Apothecary, both I'll be keen to paint up when I can get them :-)

I also think i'm happier now I moved my Nerd Lair back around to how it was originally, I moved it and it threw out my Chi which meant I couldn't paint as well due to the lighting, nor could I take pics the same and it was quite the process to move so I left it in hope i'd get used to it.

I started these today, washed nuln and washed Agrax so far so not much, just enough to change the tone and get a feel for them

only question I have is what head for the gunner? I've just tacked in a few to see what you think!





and the head selection

flowy movement hair as the tank goes forward?

Greek style BA head

Bald bionic

rebreather head

FW yelly head

I'd go with biotic. He's a techmarine, make him seem like it

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Thanks Whaley, hope you enjoy them but it'll probably inspire you to do a WE force. they WILL be that cool.


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I finished up the Red Butchers sergeant and I think he looks perfectly suitable for them as a rampaging deranged squad of blood drenched maniacs I had a few things I wanted to convey when painting them, I wanted to still add the blood and spatter but I wanted to not go overboard and I also wanted it to look more realistic, like layers of gore and viscera dried on and then coated in fresh life blood.

The armour had to be white, but it had to be weathered and grimy, not dirty and decrepit like Death Guard but still battered and serviceable keeping in mind these guys don't ever leave it, and they just get hung up in the bowels of a ship frothing and straining to be unleashed again on the field of battle.

I also wanted to get his face to show the snarl and strain of the single mindedness he endures along with reddening around the chains in his head. the pose I like angled like this as if he's moving at speed through the debris using the terrain to force himself off towards you.

so here's a few pics of the first finished guy!










So there ya go, my first white armoured model, a challenge to be sure and a time consuming style for me but certainly something I can do again

Hello there NerdFest, your Minos are just fantastic, the weathering on the bronze armour looks fantastic.

But this guy.....I have a huge softspot for Pre-Heresy World Eaters. You have brought him to life, when I read a Horus Heresy book with World Eaters in it this is how I picture them. Great model and great painting. I would love to see more of these guys.

I like the Greek BA one, maybe because it's painted, but also because he is all Ho-Hum, more heretics to run over. The flowey hair guy needs to be throwing horns....seam appropriate for minotaurs.

Thanks guys, so we're thinking at this stage, either the Greek head (it'll be painted properly) or the Tech bionic head so far? I was thinking the Rebreather head for the same reason Whaley looks a bit more techmarine. but then the Greek head gives him that calm confidence that I think the Mino's have in spades

I'll try and do some more on the tanks this arvo, it'd be nice to have them done as well, it means if I paint some Assualt marines I can have a game in my holiday time! after I build a game board that is but that'll only take me a day.

Chipping in for the bald bionic-eyed rider here!