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Update day! Update day!!

We're all so giddy for it. Pity I won't be able to actually see the pictures til I get home from work (unless you upload them to a dakka gallery :3)

Nooooooo! sorry dudes! my partner had a doctors thing today so i've been looking after her :-( I could pop up some pics of the marines and termies on the urban bases if you like? :-)


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Oh, actually I can take some pics of the new head in my dreadnought and the two rhino's I finished and the troops and things on the bases! so i do have something! yay! i'll just have some dinner and i'll get onto it quick smart! ;-)


Nerdfest09

Haha. No worries. At least you're more proactive than I am!

Though that has to change soon - I have to start painting Dark Elves like no tomorrow and also start on my Extinction Angels again too.

Since they've sort of usurped my Eldar for the Tale of Many Painters here. (Seriously. 30,000 points of stuff to paint or 5,000 points. I have priorities!)

Alright, I managed to take some quick update shots! I hate it when you take pics and then they show up all the little mold lines and imperfections that you thought were good? these are some of those! but at least I've got more work to show!

firstly the Termi bases and troops!





next up is the 2 rhino's i've been working on for what feels like ages! I know there's a mold line right up the turret gunners arm but in daylight with your eyes closed you don't even notice it!



I fiddled around with the rhino's and decided that grey arrows on the doors looked best, I tried black but somehow the grey looked right on them, the kit from chapterhouse is pretty good and the skulls in particular are really nicely done and add that touch of grim darkness we love to see!

And here's the new helmet on my Ven dread, it was an old helmet from a kit bashed chaplain I did about 6 years ago! I never even re painted it! (naughty me!) it looks o.k (probably as you can only see the top half )


That's about it at the moment! hopefully I can paint my Libby tomorrow hope the bases and bits look up to standard? I wish I had better stuff to show you

Until next week my friends!


Nerdfest09

Woot, nice work! Keep it up Nerdfest!

Thanks james! :-) I shall try and do something different to show you all by next week....

P.S. when I shut my eyes I totally couldn't see that mold line, so all good there!


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I don't think I have seen anyone do lenses and eye sections on helmets as well as you do them. Something I have never managed to get the hang of personally and it bugs the hell out of me that I can't do it

Hi Lukewild, you CAN do it dude, it was the same with me, I struggled to paint black and lenses so i did some research and found that there are colours that blend better for lenses, so now all I do is paint the eye socket blood red, then the bottom front half of the eye lense blazing orange and then golden yellow just blended into the front and a dot of white in the rear corner :-) you can adjust the ease of painting by watering the paint down if you've got the patience and doing multiple coats, another thing that helps is only posting photo's where the pics look good! lol! :-) give it a try and pop some pics up here for us to see?


@jiirc: thanks james, I told you that mold line wasn't so bad! :-) I'm itching now to get my Cousin to take some proper shots to put in the gallery and see how they look! the models really do look better in person as to what i can manage with my camera at home, or i can get a part of them looking good but then other parts look ordinary! I've still got another dread and my 2 landspeeders to do now! which i'm rally looking forward to painting for you guys (and me of course!)


Nerdfest09

Sweet man! Those termies look AWEEEEEEESOME!
The scheme works so well, looks really clean, oh and you dreadnought looks really threatening too! He should meet my chaplain

thanks LDP, means a lot from a fellow blogger such as yourself! I do like the colour scheme too, it's colourful without being too over the top but is still nice and dark and nasty looking too!

Just wait until i do my landspeeders! i'm wanting to paint them right now but I need to finish the other stuff first!

you never know, maybe one day we'll team up for a game and my dread and your chaplain will go head to head! :-)

Keep painting Bro!

Nerdfest09

My chaplain goes on the dreads back and scares people whilst the dreadnought rips them

That all looks great nerdfest! Really coming along nicely. Love the coloring of the "cathedral windows" on the dread chest.

I am so jealous of people seeing pictures - I can see them at work! Ah well, 4 hours and 20 minutes til home and then I can see them!

Hi everyone, hope you're all well and happy? daily fighting the forces of evil that threaten to engulf all that is pure in this world? that's the shot
I managed to do a little work and i'd like some opinions on it, i've never painted blue or yellow before so it was a test for me, I highlighted regal blue by adding sw grey to it, I was hoping to blend it in smoother but it ended up as quite a hard line highlight, once i'd started blocking in the other colours though (bone,yellow) it looked o.k and next to my other marines the method didn't appear out of place, i'd just like to know what you guys think of it so far? still a long way off but I thought i'd show you some w.i.p


The other thing i'm working on is my Terminator chaplain, I wanted someone to join my guys to help them kick ass in combat and who better than a hard ass chaplain? I've used the new grey knights torso and tabbard with standard terminator legs, and the chaplain skull mask from chapterhouse studios, i'm still working on getting parts for the arms as yet! but soon it will happen I've filed down the sword on the chest to replace maybe with a skull motif? and you can see in the background my spent bolter casings from secret weapon miniatures, not bad but very fiddly to use!


Oh and I finally got some dice! it might not seem like much but I've not played many games and now I want to actually play so i need some hardware! got me some dice to match my army! is that lame? I think they're cool as!


@Gitsplitta: thanks for the compliment on the arches, I wondered what to do with him for ages to give him some colour without going overboard and still letting him look like a marine exemplar! I like it too

Hope to talk to you all soon!


Nerdfest09

I'm a really big fan of hard line edge highly, I know it isn't very realistic but I just like the look of it, makes your models pop on the battle field. I do my space wolves like that, even more so even, so I'm a big fan. The blue looks really nice too. It's all coming along really nicely!


James

Well bugger me, the blue on the Librarian looks delicious.

Best not come over here, I might end up licking it to absorb the sharpness of it!

thanks DSS! I'm stoked you like how he looks! he's a bit chalky in places but i'm hoping when he's got all his other colours on him it'll just 'flow'
i'm not sure about you 'licking' him though i've seen a pic of you somewhere and you look kinda compulsive and I fear you may just swallow him to absorb more sharpness
I may hopefully have his armour and tabbard done tomorrow and then it's just the head and pistol to do! i'm looking forward to painting the yellow tabbard (as the fluff states) 'cos i've never painted up a yellow like this before!

Game on!...campaign style bro!


Nerdfest09

Haha! Especially as by January I'll have at least 1750 points of Extinction Angels done (as part of the local Tale thing here) and 3,000 points of Dark Elves.

Which I now have to buy -another- Dragon for.

Stupid new shiny thing o.o

Great colour scheme. Really like the weathering as well.

Good lord! you must be a lawer or techno genius to afford such an affluent gaming lifestyle? Unless you just keep everything? I have a habit of selling things at a loss all the time! otherwise i'd be coming close to owning as much as you..... ah hindsight eh!

It's looking better and better man! The libby armour looks nice, makes me drool with admiration...and hunger for some reason Great stuff!

The libby looks great, cant wait to see him finished. And where did you get the skull shoulder pads next to the chaplain? Those look bad@ss!

nerdfest09 wrote:Good lord! you must be a lawer or techno genius to afford such an affluent gaming lifestyle? Unless you just keep everything? I have a habit of selling things at a loss all the time! otherwise i'd be coming close to owning as much as you..... ah hindsight eh!

Nope. I just keep everything. I'm very reluctant to part with anything! Call it my hoarding ways....

Hehe, I used to be like that.

Thanks again for the reflections on my stuff everyone! looks like i'm heading in the right direction painting my libby! I am going to paint the tabbard today if i've got time before work.

@whalemusic: I'm glad you like how it's all going :-) I wondered when someone would notice those pads! lol! they're actually part of the 'master of the rites' set from maxmini, they are meant to fit on power armour but with a bit of force and hopefully some clever painting you'll never notice? I like the way they look and they match the helmet as well!


Nerdfest09

The blue and yellow on the libby look just great nerdfest, good work!

Can you link me that, I cant seem to find it anywhere!

I sent you a PM WM, hope you can find them with my directions? i'm not sure how to post links yet! :-)