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The hilighting on that dude is really good! Looks like zenthail, on most parts! But by hand! Btw I've updated my blog too!

HAZZER wrote:The hilighting on that dude is really good! Looks like zenthail, on most parts! But by hand!

That was the plan. I have to do it by hand as I lack an air brush. It takes time, but I am really pleased with the result. Watering down the paint is something I can not stress enough.

thanks for the info... and i too have thought that this might be zenthinal painting...(dunno if that was spelled right...it is way to complicated for me^^)

High hairline is obviously for added realism, I've always had a massive forehead! That photo was indeed from Hag. If anyone fancies checking out my new band we're called Sea Bastard (http://seabastard.bandcamp.com). Have recently written a song called Psychic Funeral which is inspired by 40K, along with a track about D&D and one about trolls!

ah ok... if the man that serves as inspiration states that it is indeed like the real thing...then truly i shan´t stay in the way^^

Well I have come to an agreement with my wife, that I should not be hiding in the spare room every night, and I should probably spend some more time with her. Which is true .. so every other night I get to do some painting, the other nights we watch TV in bed, and while she falls asleep I get to play Space Marine on my Xbox in Bed. So its not all bad

The fuse ( I think) has gone in my desk lamp, so I need to change that to get better light at my desk. I inherited another angle poise lamp with some great reach and pose-ability, but it seems that its fluorescent tube is on its way out as it just flashes and flickers and gives me a head ache. So I need to change that as well. So roll on pay day.

Which means for now I have the ceiling light, and the L.E.D light attached to my magnifier. Therefore these photos are not as good as I would like. Roll on daylight in the mornings The photo of the chainsword arm was so blurry I would not post it. But you get the gist.







I need to push myself to paint when I get in from working the doors on a Friday and Saturday night. This morning as my son decided to wake me up early, I had a little spare time, so put some more brown on the base (the red needs a couple of coats at least compared to the normal skull black. So my plan tonight is to highlight up his face and possibly highlight up his hair. I am going to keep it pretty black and lighten up the black, rather than jumping to codex grey.

the purity seal look good but is a bit on the large side...

all colors came out very good looking tho...what will you do to the studded shoulderpad? will it geta wash of ogryn or sepia?

well recently i got me a tube light...fluorecent as your s i think... if that would start to ficker i wouln´t want to work with that...

and well my wife and me are both when doing hobbywork inside the same room...i got my small desk in the living room...thus we are together and if something comes up in the telly i am able to react in cue... for instance if something nasty happens in desperate housewifes or the mentalist...two shows i don´t watch yet know everything about by only listening^^

It is probably the light but the Studded shoulder has had a wash of sepia, and then I tried highlight up. But it did not go as well as I hoped. I am thinking that I should do the studs different colour to the white, that way I might be able to blend it better after a further wash. I am thinking of doing them black, to match the trim on the rest of the shoulder pads.


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I used to paint in the living room with my wife, but my son is to inquisitive to do this while he is awake any more lol. I tend to only paint while she is asleep, but I may have on the occasion hinted that she might want to go to bed so that I can paint I tried to do my best and not be obvious, but I am as subtle as a rivet to the knee. So we came to a compromise

may have on the occasion hinted that she might want to go to bed so that I can paint

did that too from time to time...but she isn´t a night owl like me so it most of the times was the right thing to do^^ she didn´t get afronted by my suggestions^^

thank the lords my kids are not that touchy...they are really strongly interested in my stuff...good future hobbiest material right there... but they have the greatest respect to all the dangerous bitz and also to everything i am working on...they are three, verging on the four and the other one turned six the last weekend... so i guess it is the age that helps^^

black studds...hmmm i am not that sure of that but then i can´t remember all your other marines atm...^^ seeing your avatar pic...well...ok... this might actually look good...

Here is a shot with a few tactical marines, sorry about the mold lines, they are my early works.



Hopefully the balck will stand out, better, and then allow for better blending on of the bone


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And yes the Purity seal is a bit big, but I decided that due to Montymus the Bolds awesomeness he could get away with it lol.

When I paint downstairs it’s on the sofa, so my 17 month old son can reach all my bits, not actually painted down stairs in over a year though. I may take to doing a bit once he is in bed but before my wife goes to sleep

I like the mentalist, not keen on Desperate house wives though lol.

well that scheme is as classy as you can get... the colors just snug together like a charm... and i hope the blak stdds will make it look even more stunning!

Motivational Poster.



It shows my awesome skills with MSPaint lol.

M0rdain wrote:Motivational Poster.



It shows my awesome skills with MSPaint lol.

actually i really like that

Well I finally got a chance to near enough finish off Montymus the Bold. All that is left is the chapter symbol on his Shoulder (which I will be doing with a micro pen) and to finish off the basing, but I can do this alongside starting the next model. (Although I may create my light box on my next modelling night (Wednesday))

I made a couple of mistakes, where the paint went to areas I did not want, and the pupils on the eyes both went lopsided, but luckily from a distance it does not look to bad. I may try and touch up the odd bit but it does not look to bad (as in it looks like I might of meant to do it lol) I have noticed that I have not painted the lens on the end of the sight, so I will have to break out the greens (or wait until I break them out for the next model)

Once I have built the light box and finished him off I will take some photos with the real camera rather than my phone.

Nice lookin' fig!

Wild! I really fancy this mini.

Gitsplitta wrote:Nice lookin' fig!

Thank you, that means a lot coming from you

SelvaggioSaky wrote:Wild! I really fancy this mini.

Thank you too I have had great fun with this model. i hope to continue to improve my skills over the rest of the squad.

The guy looks very cool!

i too have to say...very good looking mini...the studded pad looks very nice! looking forward to see better pics still for the mini... zoomable ones for preferrence^^

There will be zoomable pics, hopefully sooner rather than Later.

Last night was my xbox night, i am having great fun with a melta gun

Tonight i have to try and fix the nappy bag (one of the plastic bits is cracked, so a bit of super glue and paperclip is needed )

On top of that i plan on building my light box and basing Montymus and using my micro pens to draw the chaper symbol on his shoulder. so hopefully there will be some better photos tomorrow.

But until then.

well if you are able to... make a step by step series of the building of the light box... i tried some feeble attempts of making this and it always was futile...

oh and yep... i really dig dreads too... got a couple of them... some painted and some horribly second hand^^ in desperate need of a redo^^

My Dread could really do with stripping and repainting, now that I am better at painting. (and water down my paints *shudder*). Mm maybe i should invest in some brown Detol. … mm I wonder if I have any pictures of it on line …



It was the first thing I painted out of the AoBR box set, and the first model that was not a Necron. Bit ashemd of it really. So I will add it to my to do list, which seems to be getting longer.

Paint 9 Tactical Marines
Prime and paint 10 Assault marines
Finish priming and paint 2 Rhinos.

Finish building the weapons for my RB, then prime and paint it.

Build a Space Marine for my desk at work, prime and paint.

If I am rivety enough, build a Rivety avatar of myself, to aid in my work towards joining the league.

Strip and repaint my dreadnought.

Considering so far this year I have painted one model, this may take some time lol.

i think it doesn´t look too shabby ... what i really like with your bigger models is these strong and vibrant highlights!

and yep... i wont even try to make a todo list... it would have to many volumes already^^

Nice looking forwad to the repaint!

@ Vik - thanks.

If he does get a repaint, it will be at the bottom of the to do list

I managed to finish of Montymus the Bold last night. The basing took on a slightly different hue with the red as a foundation compared to the black, so I had to put some more brown down, and I may have put it on to thick as it has lost a little of the detail. I also managed to add the chapter symbol to his shoulder. So once it is dry I can add the static grass and call him done.

I have created my light box, and taken photos of the process as well. One I manage to sort out my desk lamps, so that I can actually use it, lol, I will post the process on here.


Space Marine on the Xbox tonight, So will try to start on …. Mmm what am I doing next … well I will think about what I am starting on next and let you know.

have fun gaming!^^ and pic or it didn´t happen....

At your request Viktor, here are some photos. You can tell that my Xbox is not plugged into an HDTV *shudder*, it was when it was downstairs, but it’s now in the bedroom. Its so fuzzy I cant even read the text half the time.

So here is my paint scheme for the Striking skulls, its as close as I could get it and is my Assault squad variant.



And I have also done representations of my Nieces schemes.





Hopefully tonight, once I get in from work, I can put some wash down over the rest of the tactical squad.

the first scheme of your niece is looking good...the second i fear is a bit cluttered with too many colors for my liking...

as for the striking skulls scheme... is that for real? one lower arm with purple and the other done in red?

the purple is truly a bold concept, but on your models it looks far better than on the army painter in my oprinion...

The second nieces scheme is meant to be optimus prime .yes it is rather garish but i can't wait to show her the painted.model and compare it to her original drawing.

Actually my assault squad will have the whole of their melee weapon arm purple. compared to the standard that has just the hand.

Like the new scehems man!