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Lol, Darkstarsabre! :-) these are not the droids you're looking for!..... sorry what I meant was, be patient my child and I shall show you things you never imagined!

No problem Nerdfest... I read everyone's responses so I'd see it!

:-) Nice to know Gits! I shall endeavor to grace your threads with my compliments and exquisite recipes for jam I got from my nan!....maybe not the jam recipes

My wife makes jam... feel free! ;-)

Would it be cheeky to request the jam itself?

First may i say, incredible models. God i wish i could paint black like this. Consider that weathering effect idea stolen lol. Second, Your inquisition style rhino doors, please tell em those are not forge world and i can find them myself easy, did a google search and found nothing so i ask, where in gods name did you find those doors lol? (The Arrow w/skull ones i am ordering as well.. but if i can get the others, might change up my scheme a bit.)

Nerdfest09 wow ! It's been a while since I checked your thread but man it is looking good my brother. Loving your weathering and details to your model. Keep up the great work and looking forward to more.

Cheers guys!

@Gitsplitta: I'll see what i can hunt down for your wife, i'm sure my nan's recipe book is around here somewhere?.......

@Darkstarsabre: hmmm cheeky request, but i'm not sure how a jar of fine sweet preserve would fare on a trip overseas?

@Arrathon: thanks for the comments! my black recipe is damn easy dude, you should give it a try? and let me know how you go with the weathering? and those doors sadly were given to me by a friend who had them sculpted but felt they weren't up to his usual standards! but I can see if he's got any others around?

@Greydeathone: good to hear from you again! i've been busy as you can see, and i'll be busier up until july when they're having the first battle of their little plastic lives!

All coming together nicely mate

The Termies are very nice and the kit-bashed Libby is cool - I knocked a very similar one out of GK bits too, they're just right for making cool psykers...

Any idea on your basing scheme yet?

Subscribed!! Love that weathering effect, as stated above, consider it "stolen" :-) You said you're from Tasmania, is that correct? In that case I'm just across the ditch in Auckz, wish it was closer though, I'd love to come have a gork at your uber pro skills! Keep up the good work dude, you are certainly keeping many of us on the edge of our seats waiting for more updates!

James

Awww, you all warm the cockle of my heart with your kind words! seriously. it now feels like i'm chatting with old friends! some older than others.....

@Scc: thanks, i'm glad you like the termies, I do too, as for basing i've got a shed load of back2base-ix urban ruins to paint up, probably just with a barley grey base and a wash of black, nothing too spectacular, and you are so right, those GK bits are made for making librarians! especially those legs with flowing tabbard, i'm going to go old school fluff and have the tabbard yellow with his rank on it. Did you get the book I sent you yet? I posted it last monday? :-)

@jirc: hey mate, yep i'm over the ditch! if you are ever in tasmania feel free to look me up and come round for a look see and maybe a game with my mates! glad you like the way I weather, I like it to be easy and quick! if you have any questions just ask and i'm happy to help out best I can! I did have pics of the thunder hammer guys but I'm not happy with the photo's it makes them look pretty ordinary so i'm now working on my assault marines and the combat squad attatched to my dev squad! :-) oh and my 2 rhino's....and my dev squad.....and my 2 landspeeders....and another tac squad.....and another dreadnought! yeah i got a bit to do, so you'll have plenty of updates to see!


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Yay! Updates!!!
If you post a group shot, then so will I

LDP

The termies and libby are looking class.

@LDP: friday will be day of updates again, i'll do a group shot and hopefully finish my rhino's and bases! :-) then you must do the same!

@shingouki: thanks dude, i'm itching to paint the libby but i've got so much else to do at the moment! but i'll paint him soon!



Nerdfest09

Out of interest, nerdfest, how are you planning on basing these guys?

@Dysartes: I have bought myself a heap of the back2base-ix urban ruins bases as i intend for this army to be in a city fight landscape, they're nearly ready to paint but it's trial by error unfortunately for me so I hope i can do them alright without too much fiddling around! :-)

Looking forward to Friday man
that's when you update...right?

@ LDP: yep,you got it man! friday is update day! i'm looking forward to updating my pics too! i've got some more done and have my plans for what i'm working on for thursday, so hopefully I should be able to post up Rhino's, bases, and assault squad pics should be a big-ish update hopefully


Nerdfest09

Since you inquired about who the Sons of Malice are here is a link or two...

Sons of Malice

And if you haven't checked them out yet, here is my Sons of Malice 5th Company

@ Mr.Malevolent: Damn, the sons of malice sound like you could have some great background and cool modeling options (which I notice you've done!) nice job on your marines! I like the fact that they used to watch the eye of terror but were corrupted, and my marines Exemplar were created to specifically watch the eye of terror to stop incursions from your mob! if only we could have a game against each other! it would be epic! and i've read that short story about the doomed, now I can picture who they actaully are thanks dude :-)

Oh ! I just realized that your Chapter is in fact, tasked with guarding against renegades like me. Thats awesome! *note to self, include Marines Exemplar in SoM fluff* I would definitely love to play a game if I'm ever on your side of the pond which could happen if I play my cards right

How awesome is that about our armies! are you allowed to like my Exemplars and absolutely dude if you ever come down under to my island i'm keen to game with you bro! I should have a few shots to upload on friday so i'm looking forward to getting stuck in tomorrow, I still need some ideas for modelling my captain and paint scheme? any ideas?



Nerdfest09

Woohoo! A captain! My 2nd love - HQs

I recommend a massive kitbash or conversion of sort description I love those
and give him a cape - can't go wrong with capes

But that's just my opinion, feel free to do what you like.

LDP

P.S looking forward to tomorrow!!

G'day everyone! I did manage to get some work done on my models today! i've made good progress please keep in mind that this update they are all still w.i.p, I really wanted to get my rhino's nearly done if not finished, and I should have them done tomorrow for my friday update
Firstly I gave them a coat of barley grey with the airbrush, it's a nice colour for interiors as it looks nice and industrial yet you can use it on other things as well!

Then while they were drying I managed to do the 'ol Nerdfest09 quick 5 minute interior

Then I started to assemble them and see how they were taking shape....nicely I thought?

After the glue had dried I assembled them proper and masked off the sides with tape, did the boltgun overbrush and dabbed on the liquid mask the same as I did with my Landraider, I feel I may have gone a little overboard with the mask on these two, but it's done now and i'm sure I can adjust anything i'm unsure of!

All done I re sprayed the chaos black over them and took off the tape, they look pretty good so far, I started on the Chapterhouse studio's side hatches but i'm not sure if I should just paint the skulls bone and leave the arrow red? or paint the arrow black to contrast with the sides of the transport? opinions will be apreciated in this!



I also started on the top hatch as well, it's only got a mechrite red base coat and bleached bone skulls that have been washed with devlan mud then overbrushed bleached bone again before I start to highlight them up.


Now for the Assault squad! I'm really enjoying these guys this time, I like the way they are looking even though they each have a heap more work to be done on the each, but at least the direction i'm taking appears to be a good one, first up is the test fit of the first guy then I have a couple of group shots showing the heights of them and roughly how they will look as a squad




Bases! yep I finally made some progress on these bad boys as well! all I did was undercoat black and airbrush a light coat of the barley grey I used in the interiors, then washed with badab black from the airbrush and dry brushed fortress grey over once it dried! the first shot is just after the barley grey then the othe ones are the was and finished product.





And finally for the day i started laying down the base colour on my librarian, it's not much but I may be updating as well tomorrow with more progress! please let me know what you think of my project as usual at the pace i'm going I should have enough completed to game in July which is my goal!



Well, there we go! all done for today! I know i'm updating a day early but I thought i'd post up now and maybe again tomorrow night i'm keen to see what reactions I get from this lot first



May the Emperor protect!

Nerdfest09


Hmmm I just previewed my post and the some of the pics didn't appear the correct size or they are sideways! I want to appologise if it makes the post hard to follow! i re did some and they stayed the same...not sure what the go is there! i'll have another crack when i get on tomorrow

Looking really good man, the weathering on the rhinos looks great, definitely not overboard, makes them look well used like all rhinos should, as they are the work horse of tanks!
Love the look of the librarian, the GKs stuff works really well, good choice! I wish I could stick with a project like you, my space wolves are coming along verrry slowwlyyy.......

Keep the posts coming, love to have a nosy when ever I'm on Dakka , helps motivate me!!

Cheers, James

Mr.Malevolent wrote:Oh ! I just realized that your Chapter is in fact, tasked with guarding against renegades like me. Thats awesome! *note to self, include Marines Exemplar in SoM fluff* I would definitely love to play a game if I'm ever on your side of the pond which could happen if I play my cards right

Renegades should stick together really.

@jirc: Thanks James, that's kinda how i thought too, as the most commonly used transport seeing numerous firefights and getting those angels of death to where they need to be quickly, then they're going to be a bit roughed up I like how the Librarian is coming out, even though it's only the beginning of him, the knights stuff doesn't look out of place or stand out too much as purely GK parts which is good
I'll probably have more to post tomorrow? hopefully the pics will come out properly as well!, Keep up the wolves dude, I have had 3 incarnations of the space wolves over the years and have a spot in my heart for them, but I think i'll slowly just keep painting up my wolf guard terminators and see where it leads!


@DarkStarSabre: Hmmmph! it may even work with a global campaign? the loyalists and renegades of dakka playing along a storyline to a certain goal? maybe some clever fluff addled dakka-ite could work something out for us to play around the world and post up results? actually sounds like it could be fun


Nerdfest09

Hah. That sounds tempting when you consider the number of CSMs and SMs floating about with this sort of theme.

Even if my Extinction Angels appear in all of -two- official places (Codex CSM 3.5 and one of the Eye of Terror result WDs!)

I'm sure we could still work out something, just need a bright spark to work out a campaign then assign battles and outcomes, i've only got a mate who plays Nurgle near me so I reckon i'd have to take the fight to him 'come at me bro!' style! :-)

Man those are looking good nerdfest... love the interior detail on the rhino too.