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The librarian looks awesome. That skull helmet on the chaplain looks strange, is that third party?

Thanks for the compliment dude, I can't wait to throw librarian Tomas into the thick of the action! and yep, the chappie helm is from Chapterhouse studio, it's meant for power armour but I really wanted it in that armour so i did a bit of 'persuasion'

Skull-soup terrain?

I like the part where you dropped flour on your terrain board

And what colour will you paint the pentagram on the librarians shoulderpad with?

Yes, Skull soup, I believe it's pea and ham? heh! flour on my board, it's just a foodies dream in my blog at the moment!
I don't know what colour to do the pentagram yet, tbh I didn't even think about it until then, what do you suggest I use?

Nerd, I'm happy you're paying proper attention to make your crack dark, it's too bad you have to spend so much time on your hands and knees to work on it though.



edit: those are cool figures.

Crack and crevasse puns never get old

I don't know what colour to do the pentagram yet, tbh I didn't even think about it until then, what do you suggest I use?

I would say something contrasting that will be visible like lightning blue or lightning purplish.

Btw, where is my terminator armour and storm shield, I want to kick ass on the tabletop and not be used in your usual tactical experiment tabletop disasters

Your color scheme is very striking, I like it.

NF09 man loving your gameboard! Great color scheme along with the texturing. Also the libby looks great. Keep up the great work.

Thank you GD1 good to see you back! :-) I've nearly got the board done now as well as the libby complete and my termie chaplain as well, Aaaaaand done more work on the building and base for it!

so keep tuned dude and i'll update end of this week! so, what have you been painting? I must see more awesome work from you soon please!

I just finished your thread what a roller coaster ride, thats all i can say it all looks great! i really liked how your marines exmplar looked i would have never thought of that going to give it a whirl on my dark eldar. but first they need a bath in simple green. you make this look too easy. Like how the game board is turniong out can't wait to see more of that. and thanks for all the tuts thats loads of help. i am actually looking forward to this friday for an update to see if i can not glean any more knowledge from you. lol.

G'day alabamaheretic good to have you on board the Nerd ship! it can get quite choppy at times! I can get kind of disenchanted with my work and hence jump from force to force with reckless abandon! finally (as you may have noticed) I have settled on my Flesh Eaters space marines, I've worked out a quick way of painting them i love the look of and the only problem to date is taking pics of red is a pita! I am going to paint my death co. in the same scheme as my marines exemplar as i really liked the colours but as my skills progressed I saw re doing them as too much of a drag!

if you want any more info or advice on anything i've done just shoot me a PM i'm only too glad to help if i can and my main goal for starting the blog was to learn things myself from everyone here on Dakka, and if I learnt something or figured it out myself then i wanted others to look and go 'hey! I can do that too!'

My battle board is great! I love it, I am only sad i never bought it years ago! I have 2 weeks off work in about 14 days and i'd planned to paint it then as it's a big job, but I started the basics and 3 days later she's nearly battle ready! i'm also working on a ruined building and base from the imperial sector, so keep your eyes peeled for progress on that too, if i do a good enough job then I think i may try my hand at some more terrain work, there are heaps of excellent Dakkaites who are mega inspirational (i'll link them later) and I've jumped in feet first because of them!

well, i'm looking forward to friday myself, my bff is coming over and i'm helping him work on his storm raven medic gunship he's working on (so far i've done all the work!) it's gonna be a Nerd cave full of Nerdness and we'll drink Gweneth Paltrows until we get it all painted! then i'll update and we'll s where i'm at!

sorry for the endless dribble there everyone..... it's 5:34am down here and work's been slow

catch you soon!

actually the endless dribble is fine much more exciting than adventures into painting land thats for sure. i would like you to stop on by when you get the chance and maybe offer up some great nerdness to my blog . sorry to hear work is slow though thats gotta blow.

nerdfest09 wrote:Thank you GD1 good to see you back! :-) I've nearly got the board done now as well as the libby complete and my termie chaplain as well, Aaaaaand done more work on the building and base for it!

so keep tuned dude and i'll update end of this week! so, what have you been painting? I must see more awesome work from you soon please!

Yea been recovering with my painting time from the flood in my house and I have been consumed on commissions and my new Warmachine battlegroup I have been working on when I get a chance. My 40k stuff been on the back burner and it is a good break for the time untill 6th ed comes out and we all know what chapter is in the limelight for that!! (Finally props to the 1st Chapter!! ) That will be motivation for me to paint more 40k.
I will update my thread tonight with what I have been working on. Keep up the amazing work Damo and can't wait to see your board completed.
-Andre

Ah thank you my friend! it's good to imagine your dulcet tones across the waters! I must admit i'm a bit excited about 6th ed myself as I will use it to finally learn how to play the game! after 17 long years! :-) and having DA as the poster boys will be great to see! lets hope that GW don't pull a swifty on us and do another chapter just for laughs!

you just wait and see how much action your blog gets when DA get released! it'll be crazy busy!

All right stop
Collaborate and listen
Nerd is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Then I flow that a model daily and nightly
Will it ever stop?
Yo, I don't know
Turn off the lights and I'll glow!

Update-a-rama! quite a few little bits today, nothing too huge but interesting none the less

lets start off with the battle board, I had a little trouble with it the other day when using my water effects, due to the weather and temperature and quite possibly the thickness I applied, it dried on the surface but some small parts in the deeper bits stayed white-ish, I managed to fix it though with a little ingenious thinking, I applied a wash of thraka green over it and then when it was dry I washed over it with Gryphone sepia, it dried really matte but another coat of water effects brought it back up to shiny and wet!

here's a few shots of the work in progress:




As you can see, the skulls are still visable but the water looks nice and brackish but the surface is matte, I now gave it another coat of water and this is how it looks, it's not dry in the shots as it takes 12 hours to cure properly.




I was settling into a terrain day and was inspired to work on the base of my ruined building, I cut some foamcore board into tiles and attached them to a board with some filler, I sort of pushed and pulled the tiles in different direction to look like an explosion had gone off! then I added some cork and rubble and sand.


I'll have to do a shot later of the base in it's original form as it's on my other camera. but next I wanted a marble effect on the tiles so I found one on the Terragenesis website, it's really great for techniques and ideas, this tute was by a guy called Abaroth and it worked nicely except I think I made the veins too busy and close together so it doesn't look natural, so I'll re prime it and do it again later, but here's the first attempt at it.



MARINE TIME!

here's a couple of shots of my finished marine and also my chaplain I completed:



Here's my Chaplain all done, I named him 'Edwardo' after my dad I'm really pleased with him, I wanted to paint some different styles of bone on him, I tried to make his shoulders a warm bone and the other parts a nice cool bone shade, I can't wait to play with him!





And another legend of the chapter, a stalwart veteran of countless battles, terminator armour worn with pride for the last 60 years! here he is breaching a room and laying down fire!


I raided my bits box again too, and I am re building my Chapter master! I I'm going to use the same pose and weapons, but I have a new head arriving soon and I used a pair of heresy era running legs to make him more ornate.



and another character I am converting in my cut and paste style is my counts as Mephiston I used the chapter master old body and put it on the DA robed legs to give him the 'look'
I'm waiting on some pads and a head for him too, the one that's there isn't what I'm using.


Did a little bit more on my Sang priest/apothecary, just blocked in some red areas as he was looking too white


Remember way back at the top of this post when I said i was in a terrain mood? yeah well, I started putting together an objective marker for my board, i wanted something epic to fight over and i'm thinking the last data slate holo table would be pretty important to tactical genius, a room I can incorporate in my buildings to represent the command centre for planning an invasion, I need to diffuse the light somehow but I'm pleased as punch with this start

and here's a scale shot with a sarge:


I got the screens from Terragenesis and had my dad print them on acetate sheets, I have a heap more different ones i'll be using throughout my terrain!

please let me know what you all think and I'll get back to painting!

NF09

I love the highlight that you do on your models. It adds a depth to the models. The chaplain looks great, I love the deeper cooler bone colour. The terrain is awesome as always.

Wonderful update NF, great stuff!

looks good damo! really liking the objective marker and the marble floor technique. maybe you can put a wash on your objective to dull light some. Just a thought on that.

Nice idea on the holo table! I agree it needs to be diffused and more even throughout. Maybe just stick a sheet of parchment/baking paper between the light and transparent sheet?

Thanks fella's I'm glad you like it so far! I'll try and put something between the light and screen to diffuse it, maybe some baking paper or cellophane?

I'll re do the marble this week and see how I can improve it? I have a feeling that treating the entire slab as one large piece will make it look better but I'm not sure how real it would appear? i'm not an expert in marble floors :-)

I have a heap more bitz arriving this week so i'll assemble and show you what else I've got soon!

so, what's everyone else been up to lately? I only have one more week of work then 2 very welcome weeks off for painting and modeling!

NF09

Ahhh ! That is totally BADASS!
TG kicks ass doesn't it?

Not sure if you have seen these but they look quite helpful for painting marble effects.

http://hot-lead.org/advance/texturing_marble.htm

http://chestofcolors.com/how-to-paint-marble-bases/

Thanks Giraffex and Dave! you are totally right, TG kicks ass! I'm always referring back to it for ideas and techniques it's a veritable gold mine! I'm now looking forward to trying the marble effect again on that floor. I'll see if i can incorporate the two other methods Giraffe showed me very good effects, I'll probably go somewhere in between the one i tried and the more detailes slab effect, so thanks heaps dude

hey, any ideas on how i can 'finish off' my holo table? I mean to make it blend in with the grimdarkness and look effective? I'm currently toying around with cutting some cardstock into a strip with arches along its length and wrapping it around the table, then adding rivets or stuff to identify it as 40k terrain? what sort of texture should i aim for? metallic? concrete? wood?

c'mon ideas men, thinking hats on!

Riveted steel plates, with a port for a cogboy to plug into

*rubs fingertips together* Yes.....Yes.... I can see my plan coming to fruition! steel plates..... hmmmmm, rivets,....... a nice welcome 'port' for cogboy! .... a cogboy for that matter!


Now, my pretties how do i make rivets?... I have heard on the evil mastermind website some are very good at it!

Ah the holo table, I had a thought about that. What you could do is have two bulbs one on each side one normal and one flashing (blinking) so its gives the effect that one side is on its way out.

If you are using bulbs with plastic um clear bits then you can diffuse them by lightly filing round the bulb, that's what I did to defuse the LED's in my tanks.

Really awesome stuff here! Cant believe i let this one under my radar for so long!

The faces stand out as particularly breathtaking.

Hi Vitruvian, glad you found something you like! :-) lets hope i can keep you entrenched in my sticky web of tomfoolery and madness?

I was never a fan of bare heads on marines, mainly as i couldn't paint them, but i found a good method and i like how it looked so much I decided to have a whole gamut of bare heads throughout my new force! i've just ordered the 6 TW bare heads to use as well and i got a Lord Zuphor bare head i'm using for my re-do of my chapter master counts as Seth :-)

the next problem i have is a sternguard squad, i want to keep them looking mainly the same as my troops but i want a small differentiating factor to make them stand out as such, any ideas?

Hmmm dunno. Uber guns? Awesome shoulder pads. Ancient marks of armour. Bionics?

I would go for the robed marines in the DA veteran box, but I might be a bit biased. :-)

Another idea is to have Gold Helmet.

Would just the addition of scoped and perhaps a gold knee be too little? that's sort of the direction i was thinking?...

Some sort of badge, trophy or maybe a stripe on their helmet? I like how the Chaplain seems sort of creepy, in a good way of course. Mainly how the head works with that sort of piercing gaze it has.