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Okay your blades, OSL, camo, and weathering are blowing me away.

Consider the back/front for a comms officer officially stolen.

Eyegasming here!!!

Jallen_ wrote:Hey there, Just found this thread and I have to say you have some fantastic painting skills. I'll be watching for me good stuff!
If you are interested in a background story for these guys, the GW book called "victories of the space marines" as a short story referring to a chapter called the "Warbringers", who wear camouflage almost identical to this.
It's a great read and I'd recommend it for some inspiration.
Keep up the good work man!

EDIT: forgot to mention that I love the older models and conversions. I can recognise quite a few from my own collection! I'd also like to see the whole army some day. Perhaps post a picture?

Thanks mate , I'll keep an eye out for the Warbringers book !

jamesk1973 wrote:Okay your blades, OSL, camo, and weathering are blowing me away.

Consider the back/front for a comms officer officially stolen.

Eyegasming here!!!

I just have too much time on my hands ! :-)
You'll need to do lots of trimming but steal the back/front idea all you like !

Got these bad boys finished today, with the help of a desk magnifier ! What a difference it made (to me seeing not my painting !! )

Glasses I think are required if I'm going to get any better at this lark.

See what I mean , those pics looked focused when I took them ! Bugger

After 12months I finally finished the Bane/Fell blade, Hurrah's all round.

Man that's really cool that you and your kid get to play 40k together. I'll bet you two have some epic battles. The kid does pretty good work too!

Ill bet Big H doesn't give a rats bottom about which codex sucks and who got nerfed as long as he's spending time with his boy. That right there is what it's really all about. Jink nerf be damned!

Thanks mate, I try to keep it to small scale "Adventures" so we don't have hundreds of figures all over the living room. He plays big stuff at the FLGS.

You know what ? I'm a firm believer in common sense and the "rules" are a wise mans guide, not his bible. We chop and change bits so its FUN !

Rules we use are 1st and 6th Edition WHFB and 1st , 4th and 5th Edition 40k. I figure we've bought enough rules for now !

Great work!
Where's the bearded head of the terminators from?

Ragnar69 wrote:
Great work!
Where's the bearded head of the terminators from?

Its a resin head/body from the Forgeworld SpaceWolves range.

Thanks mate !

I can't even describe how blown away I am by some of this. Beyond inspired (and you have caused the complete disregard of the idea of painting my marines 'neatly').

You really should do a tutorial on your force swords. The last few are so awesome that I'm probably going to try to repicate the technique.

Love your OSL, too.

 tekno000 wrote:
I can't even describe how blown away I am by some of this. Beyond inspired (and you have caused the complete disregard of the idea of painting my marines 'neatly').

You really should do a tutorial on your force swords. The last few are so awesome that I'm probably going to try to repicate the technique.

Love your OSL, too.

Thanks very much dude. In a millennium that knows only war, there's no time to be "neat" !

I'll have a think about a short tutorial, tho in essence I just stole all my "ideas" from other people on Dakka ! NerdFest09 and Eggroll being two very good examples , tho there are plenty of others.


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 tekno000 wrote:
I can't even describe how blown away I am by some of this. Beyond inspired (and you have caused the complete disregard of the idea of painting my marines 'neatly').

You really should do a tutorial on your force swords. The last few are so awesome that I'm probably going to try to repicate the technique.

Love your OSL, too.

Mate, this is a good a tute as you will need http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/351390.page#2521640

 Big H wrote:
Mate, this is a good a tute as you will need http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/351390.page#2521640

Nice. That's way cool. Have you ever done any tutorials on your camouflage techniques? I've been studying your pictures pretty intently trying to decide how I can adapt them into a snow/tundra/boreal forest camouflage pattern.

I absolutely love these!! Best I have ever seen!!

I had the same problem when I first started collecting Space Marines in the 80's...then I got over it.

You have done a great job with them, I absolutley love the wear and tear look as true ground fighters should look, I've never seen a clean Grunt in real life so why should a figure of a fighting man be any different?

My last work on my Blood Angels I gave them dirt and mud around their legs and feet, loads of ammo pouches, grenades, and knives. Still kept to the matt red though.

I acutally had a well commo'd scout squad in a group of trees at a tournament, so well hidden I forgot about them all together! Even forgot to collect them at the end of the tournament.

 Kelly502 wrote:


I acutally had a well commo'd scout squad in a group of trees at a tournament, so well hidden I forgot about them all together! Even forgot to collect them at the end of the tournament.

Ah, thats a problem ! Stay behind Observation Post for calling Orbital bombardment ?

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year DakkaNoughts !

For the New Year I promise to finish some Camo projects and perhaps move from tracked vehicles to a more DropPod and Flyer themed force , all in Desert Sand obviously !!!!

That's a nice Christmas present! Thanks, and Happy New Year to you too!