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well I have just read the first two pages and the last page and I was shocked and awed by your painting talents on page 1 I was feeling overdosed on awesome by mid way through page 2! Is it okay that I hate you a little now? your first mini's are better than most of mine and I've been painting modeling on and off for about 14 years.... guess it's about time I read more tutorials

ahhhhh threadcomancy_

How so, last post prior to his was only 12-1-10

Just seen the power weapons on the S. Guard, been debating what colour to do mine for ages, consider the blue stolen. Wanted to see what it looked like so thanks!! Nice contrast.

Any chance of a pic with the whole force now?


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Ignore that just scrolled the whole blog, pics took time to load I wasn't patient!!

absolutely amazing
if this is really your first army then you are a genius when it comes to painting 40k
you should apply for a spot on 'Eavy Metal
you're certainly good enough for it

so, out of curiosity, are you done with your blood ravens for a while? or is your blood raven force finished? ive recently started building my blood raven vanguard veteran squad using the winged jet packs off of the blood angel sanguinary squad... terribly expensive though

CalasTyphon216 wrote:absolutely amazing
if this is really your first army then you are a genius when it comes to painting 40k
you should apply for a spot on 'Eavy Metal
you're certainly good enough for it

Apparently 'Eavy metal painters do not get payed as much as you would think. The real money for painting miniatures comes from commissions where you can charge a reasonably good price.

You are too good for 'Eavy metal anyway Roleplayer Those sang guard put the GW ones to shame!

@kennyalhavg- Have you got the winged packs off a bitz site? I am sure it would be much cheaper to do an army with them that way.

@kennyalhavg- Have you got the winged packs off a bitz site? I am sure it would be much cheaper to do an army with them that way.

nope, my blood ravens are true scale, so Im using the sanguinary squad with IG heads as part of my ordo xenos force acting as a cool inquisitorial looking substitute for a howling banshee squad since those torsos and legs are a lost cause for scaling up

Hey all.

Just a post to say I am alive.

Apologies for the lack of posts. I have been painting but havent had time to do photos. Lot of bad family issues at the moments with my parents going through a very ugly divorce.

So just havent had the time/motivation to maintain my blog.

I will try and do some more pictures soon.

Anyway thought I'd let you all know I am still around

looking forward to see pictures when you get the chance to post them!

Good to hear from you roleplayer. No worries, TCB... that's more important.

I'll second that Git...

Hang in there!.. real life is more important. We'll all still be around.

Good luck with your family I know how hard it is to maintain anything when stuff like that is going on. But what I wanted to say is i've read the last 42 pages in 2 and a half hous damn you! I wanted to stop I did but your amazing work just kept pulling me back for more. Your work is incredible and has actually inspired me to spend more time on my IG. I would before only spend about an hour on most of my models and they would have a decent table top quality but on my recent commissar i spent over 5 hours! So damn you again inspiring me to spend more time on my IG I dream about painting now. Which was incredible to me because as I said before I don't spend that much time on my IG and he turned out great. I can't wait to see more.

It tore me up inside when my mom and dad got divorced I thought it was my fault.

"In the ashes of a tortured world they cease to be,
Emerging from the ashes in a fatal symphony,
And for the last time hear them scream in never-ending pain,
The mightiest wings even cannot escape hell's wrathful flame"

And... you posted that just to make the rest of us feel inferior??

*grin*

Just kidding. Astounding work RP.

I always arrive a day late and a dollar short on these threads.
I have to say, I really enjoyed looking at your whole blog. Will certainly be subscribing.
A couple of questions from various points.
Where did you get all those rivets for your Baal Predators?
Some of your Sanguinary Guard look metallic for sure, but is this latest one NMM?
You're a stellar painter it's no surprise to see you winning & qualifying so much!
I would love to see tutorials from you, is that ever going to happen?

Mukkin'About wrote:I always arrive a day late and a dollar short on these threads.
I have to say, I really enjoyed looking at your whole blog. Will certainly be subscribing.
A couple of questions from various points.
Where did you get all those rivets for your Baal Predators?
Some of your Sanguinary Guard look metallic for sure, but is this latest one NMM?
You're a stellar painter it's no surprise to see you winning & qualifying so much!
I would love to see tutorials from you, is that ever going to happen?

I have the photos done for several tutorials.....just need to get around the writing words to go with them. Atm I am using all free hobby time to get my army done for adepticon, dont really have much time for much else until its over.

All my Sang guard are painted in a style I call True NMM. Which is using NMM highlighting theories with actual metallic paints

Love the painting RP such clean lines and clear colours.

I'm completely jealous of your skills, please don't stop however and I'm looking forward to the next lot that are put up.

True NMM? That's really interesting! I would love to see a tutorial of that because you pull it off splendidly!
Best of luck to you for Adepticon!

All my Sang guard are painted in a style I call True NMM. Which is using NMM highlighting theories with actual metallic paints

True NMM?... isn't the whole point of NMM to use non metallic colours to achieve the metallic effect? hence the name NON-metallic metal.. to me it looks as though you are just highlighting using metallic colours.

True NMM might be a bit of an oxymoron given your technique... perhaps something like "true metallic metal" might be a more apt term.

A close-up of something that illustrated your technique might help.

Sicarious85 wrote:

All my Sang guard are painted in a style I call True NMM. Which is using NMM highlighting theories with actual metallic paints

True NMM?... isn't the whole point of NMM to use non metallic colours to achieve the metallic effect? hence the name NON-metallic metal.. to me it looks as though you are just highlighting using metallic colours.

It looks great, and the name just explains how he did it. Stop being so nit-picky and enjoy the really nice figures!

heres a link which may help : http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2010/02/tutorial-painting-true-metallic-metal.html

Without pickyness how can we ever get better?

And that link describes it best - TMM (True Metallic Metal)

"Without pickyness how can we ever get better? " re word it and you have a quote worth being written down in a history book

dark6spectre wrote:heres a link which may help : http://massivevoodoo.blogspot.com/2010/02/tutorial-painting-true-metallic-metal.html

Dear lord you are a God send. I'm starting a Doom Legion army so this will hopefully evolve them beyond the mere boltgun/badab black of most other all metallic chapters.

Roleplayer wrote:These 2 files I have collected are my bibles when it comes to painting techniques.
They contain every masterclass from white dwarf for the last 2 years.

my dad used to do that with the 80's and 90's wd's, but they were lost they had some awesome articles and eavy' metal pages in them. im keeping all my old wd's so i can do the same thing

wow, unbelievably amazing, extremely well done sir! I'm both jealous and inspired