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was thinking about adding bigger tentacles coming from his back over his shoulders, with suckers on the underside.....thoughts?

I kind of figured thats how you did it. I was close (didnt think of the washes tho) That rust is simply awesome. Like I said before Im planning out how to paint my Orks and the main stay is the machinery/metal/weapons have to be RUSTED lol. Thanks for the tip

Never seen nurgle's rot done quite so... purple... I likes! Stands out against the (awesomely) retained pre-heresy armor color quite well.

You should so do a nurgling peeking out from his mass of intestines!

so i have some things to update you all with....but im waiting on water effects to dry for part two. so here is part one, a tutorial on how i paint my guys. i still cant believe peolpe have asked me lol.

im not sure i picked the best guy to show you on but there you are.

first up spray white and touch up with skull white paint, then (using the foundation paint set, i water them down a little to help the paint flow) paint all the metal areas orange, armour trim green and bolters red. with the red and orange im not very neat, with such heavy washes you cover up any wavey paint lines or missed bits etc and finally i paint the eyes shining gold:
the first pic didnt upload fully (dunno why) but you can see all you need to



now we come to the washes all of which are pretty heavy. first up wash with black aiming for the deepest, darkest parts of the model AND all the coloured areas:


then brown covering the whole model:


then green only covering the armour and trim:



now we start on the stripey white. i have a pot of skull white that i have added a lot of water too. you want it so that you can see the colour coming through the paint after one coat. then it is simply painting little lines on the armour. i find that going section by section works best, going over the armour with one, two or three passes to get the effect i want. basically its up to you and gets pretty obvious as you go. a good tip is to leave little 'drip' marks under things like studs by simply painting white around the 'drip'. it looks cool. here are two half wayshots:


and two finished:



next up go over the green armour trim with the foundation green to cover up any mistakes with the stripey white and then catachan green in the corners or peaks as a highlight colour. i like this as its subtle and i want them looking dirty rather than shiney...so a 'dull' highlight works best i think.
now using the foundation orange again i go over the metal (washed orange) parts but this time i use a crappy brush and 'stipple' bright orange radomly. i find this looks pretty good and adds to the rust effect nicely. on hoses etc be careful not to over do it. then you can (i dont always, again im after dull and dirty so just the washes look great) use the foundation red to highlight the bolter:


once thats done the last thing is to paint on (NOT drybrush) some boltgun metal over the orange. this tip was given to me by Mabs and is a fab, fab tip. think about what bits of the metal will be used the most and therefore have the rust worn off showing the bare metal underneath....like knife blades and where your marine will be holding his bolter..etc etc and then add some in random places so you dont have too uniform a look:
the finished guy:



all he needs now is his back pack which is painted the same way and he is done.
oh the base i paint randomly in tin bitz and camo green. then paint pva over the base, leaving some parts bare, and use the little slate basing material from GW. when thats dry mix water effects (from GW) with green wash and dollop it on in the pools you have made by leaving bits of the base bare and then over the slate where ever you feel like. you will need two coats of this to get the effect you want. (note, this guy has only had one coat of the water effects so far, the second makes it look much better) once thats done paint the base trim foundation green.
once the whole model is completed (backpack added etc) i spray it in mat puity seal and then go over the water effects with a gloss hard coat.

done.

phew.

I must hate you for such a fine job, but I can't because its Nurgly stuff. Awesome job!

Ha! thanks

Hello all,

So i present my first finished PM's:

as you may know by now the guy on the left....he is my Favourite!...which means (i fear) i shall roll lots of (Gets Hot!) ones.

more of my Favourite guy (oh and THANK YOU squiggy, you were SO right about the old back pack for his model. It works perfectly )



more guys:







My thanks guys, you have all been a great inspiration

Phill

yeah,
looking good.
how about a army photo of everything that's painted so far?

Panic...

Hey Phill admire the great work you have done to these pms!

I was hoping on starting a Death Guard army and was wounding what you used for the rebreather tubes and the plague chimney things on your conversations?

wolfeman: its guitar string and plasicard tubing
Panic: ok ill try to remember



ok 12 more PM's done woohoo!!






oh and i forgot....my tank! (with added water effects and gloss varnish around the two lil daemons):





phill

so here are some cool models i have purchased.
some with SCALE shots!!!!!

OLD! termies from Ebay:

Yes I know, it seems I have gone from the slowest painter in this forum to becoming a whirwind of painting frenzy!!

Another update for you all.

First up my WIP chaos lord that I have had nothing but trouble with. I decided to use the fact that he looks so static (like a tree) and give him lots of tentacles (around the legs especially) to 'anchor' him to his base. The trouble is you can only do a few at a time as wet GS sticks to wet GS which is tricky when you are trying to fit little tube shapes without them loosing the tube shape! Anyway here you go:


I am spending much more time on this guy than i really want to, so however this new idea works out....is the way he is going to look

Also some of my termies:


Six in total (to go with the lord)...next step is stripey white

Finally some more work on T.E.D.




thanks

Phill

Soap for the xenos of grossness.
They very nurgly. Do you have any deamon?

Wow!

Nice work!

kharndude wrote:Soap for the xenos of grossness.
They very nurgly. Do you have any deamon?

I have 7 PB's (old and new) and the FW GUO model but thats it so far. The PB's are ready to piant the GUO is still in its box.....I confess to being scared of ruining it!

Ok, update time. I took a couple of days off from painting as i was getting 'stripey white blindness' which is a new illness i have created (praise be to papa)!

Anyway i felt the urge return so i am back painting. Some WIP progress shots of 3 of my termies. Three more to do stripey white on...








Since taking these pics i am almost done with the stripey white on the last three, then its just touch ups etc. so they are almost done! will update soon.

Sadly i have had to start over with the daemon skin on TED. my first attempted look AWFUL. sigh. Still, I am gonna get that done soon too.

thanks as ever

phill

Looking really nice!
If you want any additional ideas/tips visit my thread "Attention all Nurgle Followers"

What a great BLOG! (should be in the P&M blogs for people to see )

My hat is off to you for achieving a unique, strong and in chacater take on a great and popular subject take. Fantastic army in the making!!

Would it be ok, if the mods moved this to the P&M blogs forum??

er, sure i have no problem with that.

this was my first post in here and one of my first ever posts on any forum so i confess i didnt understand at the time what the P&M forum was for!

I just wanted to get posting quickly and this seemed like the right place.
so sure, feel free to move it

And thank you for your kind words . I am a firm believer in making constructive crit's AND encouraging comments. It helps me pain fasta

phill

Nice work! I'm a big fan of the paint scheme.

I love the Helldorado minis, they have the potential to be very Nurlgly. Are you going to use them as "counts as" lesser demons?

You are too powerful. *spontaneous combustion*

DebonaireToast wrote:Nice work! I'm a big fan of the paint scheme.

I love the Helldorado minis, they have the potential to be very Nurlgly. Are you going to use them as "counts as" lesser demons?

Don't know exactly. I have a few tanks (rhino, pred and LR) that I may want possessed so they might get stuck on top of them somehow or yes i will use them as daemons or spawn....or for parts in a DP.
You see I much prefer the modelling to the painting. MUCH prefer. So I have to be really strict with myself and finish painting what I have done already or I will just keep building stuff hehehehe. And my local GW has a new rule, if it isnt fully painted you cant use it. :(.

On that note a little update for you:

So I had 6 pics of 6 almost painted termies, but after i had deleted all the pics from my camera (it was very full) I found that two of them hadn't uploaded right.

So

I have 4 pics of termies to show off for the last time as WIP. Next time you see them they will be all finished and based, yay!






All thats left to do is a couple of them need the green trim highlighted and two faces to paint. ( I hate that, can't paint skin. helmets only from now on!) Oh and of course now the bases have had their base coat I just need to add the slate and water effect for a finished job.

cool.

I hope to finish them and TED this weekend. Unless i get TED's skin wrong again in which case I'll start the second to last batch of PM's.

Great stuff! I love the color scheme on the plaguemarines, and the step-by-step tutorial is very helpful-- particularly since some of the technique is unfamiliar.

My favorite models are the marines themselves, which have a nice sinister feel.

Ok then here are the finished terminators.

I did 3 thick coats of the water effects on the bases with these guys and used some larger pieces of slate. I decided to add more interesting things only to the bases of special characters etc. We death guard aren't into showing off much you see.

I like the way these bases worked out actually, it looks as though the wieght of them is making them sink a little into the slime that was once the plant life of the planet....before we brought our plague!

ok enough waffle, pics!













and here is a quick shot of all my painted models:


thanks as ever for your help and support guys

*Takes a mic and interviews Phill:

"Hi! congrats on the deathguards , what have you learn / progressed from this project, and whats next on the horizon?"

yeah,
looks good, I'm really digging the bases.
Might copy that in my slugs project...

PAnic...

"hi, yes thanks Lunahound a great question. The first and by far the biggest thing i have learnt is to model up and then paint one unit at a time. I am convinced if i had done it that way instead of modelling everything at once before starting to paint them all, not only would i have painted everything by now i would have at least two or three extra units all modelled and painted too. The second thing i learnt is to write down the order you paint the models and what colours. by doing that i got my painting time cut in half, as you will see in the tutorial its pretty simple really.....well, it is now!
And next up, i have a biker lord on bike conversion and 10 bikes planned, another rhino, predator, LR some space Zoats to act as another unit of bikers, some plague bearers a FW dread, Sorcerer and GUO and lots, lots more marines. but before i start doing those i have two more batches of marines to paint and a FW dread.
Phew"

on the painting table now are 4 plasma guns, 2 icons and 2 champs:


also on the go is:



with next in line to be 7 more PM's and a dread:


also i bought:


i like this guy but not his plasma pistol so i will have to chop that off:



May i pressent to you all T.E.D. my possessed vindicator:










And an updated army shot, with the guys split into their squads..

Wow...nice great looking army (know it's been said before but..) think I might adapt your paint technique for my albino ork warboss ( stealing an idea from another thread ) cheers for the tips.

no worries Mu