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absolutely beautiful!! congratulations on the sponsorship!!

I just spent a nice chunk of time going through your thread from page 1 and I'm so super glad I did! Incredible, awe-inspiring stuff! Made me want to go nuts painting now, but I really should go to bed.

Beautiful!

love your thread and really love your painting tutorials.. and chance we can see some stuff other than marines tho?

I'm working on several models at once so this may get crazy but that is the beauty of this blog lol.

Circle Orboros Commission WIP START!

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All airbrushed Daler Rowney inks so far.

Looks like a great start Les!

As an aside, in regard to your airbrush tutorial vids, I would love it if you could make one about basic usage and not so much mini specific - Things like how you change paint colors (clean brush or empty cup and fill with new color then spray until the new color comes out?) what you use specifically as thinner, your cleaning regime, how you hold the brush and how far etc etc.


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Oh and tips and tricks like your silly putty masking etc. I am gathering info watching most of your vids, but a straight up 'start here if you want to learn to airbrush minis' basic vid would be amazing. Airbrushing seems to really be catching on right now, and you are one of the leaders in the field of miniature infantry specific stuff after all!

Woo, Circle from LBursley!!

Looks freaking sweet dude!

I agree with Tom, a "How to start with airbrushing" tutorial would be inherently useful for me and im sure many many others. Pretty please!

So, I came in expecting an update on one of your many space marine projects that you have going on, nothing relatively special compared to what amazing stuff you make seem standard. I scroll down, and then HOLY CRAP.

The skin on that werewolf is absolutely amazing. Jaw droppingly so.

Warpwolf 90% finished. Gotta finish the gold and the base then do a once over to sharpen everything up.

Very nice indeed, may need to get a Stalker now... Curses!

Nice job! Are you going to leave the eyes pure white like that?

He Looks very Druidic!

Not only how do you do your masking but about how/why you use the artist inks in your airbrush. Different effect? No thinning? Gorgeous work. PP makes some outstanding models and your paintjob does it justice!

Angels of Absolution Terminator WIP:

Got him to 70% finished. Just need to highlight the dark gray stuff, clean up some areas (finish handle on thunder hammer) , thrown a decal on him, and he's done. This will be the standard my whole army will be done in. I love how my test rhino came out all weathered so the troops have to match and this guy fits the bill.

Where did you get stuff he is standing on?

Cutthroatcure wrote:Where did you get stuff he is standing on?

I made it


Dakka Kill Team Entry..

Really nice!
Too bad the competition image was of lower quality :(
I'm sure it would've gotten more votes.
Cheers
Klaus

That Terminator is nothing short of fantastic!

Beautiful work as always. Should we ever really expect anything less? Didn't think so.

Are you using a crackle medium for the armour Les? Looks good, I saw it on Meph's marine a while back and was wondering how it would look for Salamander vehicles myself.

42 pages of brilliance

Nice work Les, though for my personal tastes I think you went way overboard with the weathering for the terminator.

Empchild wrote:Nice work Les, though for my personal tastes I think you went way overboard with the weathering for the terminator.

Yeah. My marines work for a living

LBursley wrote:

Empchild wrote:Nice work Les, though for my personal tastes I think you went way overboard with the weathering for the terminator.

Yeah. My marines work for a living

Such a bad joke.....

No joke really. I prefer my guys to look battle worn rather than prissy, "ewww, I got dirt on my armor", marines. Just more my style.

LBursley wrote:No joke really. I prefer my guys to look battle worn rather than prissy, "ewww, I got dirt on my armor", marines. Just more my style.

That's fine like I said nice work all around. I enjoy weathering but prefer a happy balance. For me I always think back too when I was a grunt shlepping a mortar around. Yes we were dirty but not overburdened. Like I said not my personal taste but I can still appriciate the work.

I think they look like they have been down 100 miles of tyranid infested road.

LBursley wrote:No joke really. I prefer my guys to look battle worn rather than prissy, "ewww, I got dirt on my armor", marines. Just more my style.

It fits perfectly, after all these aren't combat fatigues they're 10,000 year old relics that happen to pack a mighty big punch. I wondered if you were using a crackle medium to achieve some of the effects?

I love it! I want to learn!

Are you going to make a video of the battle damage. I watch all your videos. I dont mean to be pushy... But I need MORE!

what are you using to give the rust effect on the legs?

Cutthroatcure wrote:I think they look like they have been down 100 miles of tyranid infested road.

Hell yeah!

Lennysmash wrote:

LBursley wrote:No joke really. I prefer my guys to look battle worn rather than prissy, "ewww, I got dirt on my armor", marines. Just more my style.

It fits perfectly, after all these aren't combat fatigues they're 10,000 year old relics that happen to pack a mighty big punch. I wondered if you were using a crackle medium to achieve some of the effects?

Thanks! Yeah I used the Vallejo Crackle Medium. I had the bottle for a bit and never thought I would use it till now.

Styrofoam04 wrote:I love it! I want to learn!

Are you going to make a video of the battle damage. I watch all your videos. I dont mean to be pushy... But I need MORE!

I'll have a video for battle damage but no ETA as of now. I plan on doing a video on how to make a weathered army look but THAT video will be for sale on my site. It falls in the ADVANCED field and less into the normal army painting that my free youtube videos show.

Mafty wrote:what are you using to give the rust effect on the legs?

I used oil paint. Just a couple dabs into the chips and used a large flat brush and some alcohol to make it streak downward.