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I feel like we missed a model in here...

mannnn....you busted me!! Hey guys!! im sorry i havent been posting as much here! I have been painting quite a bit and its all been for this slow grow army that is almost over!! i have almost 2500 points of painted space sharks!! wow!! lol....i have so much that i havent yet shared, and i will in the coming days im sure, the most recent finished model though, is the apothecary, and ive posted it below, along with a smattering of pics from different units in the army so far. ALSO, ive painted a repulsor, which ill show later!Hope you guys are good!!<3

Bebop














alright guys!! whew thats it for today. Sorry for trying to sneak it by you whaley my laziness got the better of me lol

Bebop, these are incredible. They're some of the cleanest, coolest minis I've ever seen. And that powerfist is a work of art.

You know I hate you right? but like in a good way. like that time I drank wine!? well, I hatelike you again except this time i've drunk Port! you'r bloody models just astound me! I wish I could be half as clean as you and produce such lovely effects when I paint ;-( every single model looks a+ 10/10 you do make me always want to push myself to take more time and paint like you but I can't, I just cannot do it captain, I dunna have the power! I'll just hope that not everyone jumps ship to watchy you produce plastic painted porn .

good painting my friend Chadlance, good painting.

Thanks Heretic Tom

Ahhh Damo, you crack me up, i could never steal the attention away from you no matter how well i paint, youre the king of dakka, and a damn fine painter yourself! And case in point, :: looks around :: .... crickets ..... (prime reason why ive become active on Insta in lieu of dakka)

Thanks for saying hi you two, ill recluse back into my hole now.

I mean, you know I mired over the new guys since I called you on it. But yeah, social media is sometimes easier then forums.

Lovely work. As glorious a white as the grey.

I endorse the forum feedback because comments and smaller communities like Dakka provide far more characteristic feedback on stuff even if its more infrequent than people liking photos. Christ, i'm only 21 and I feel like a venerable dreadnought speaking like this! Nevertheless, while insta is great for the quickfire dopamine hits from loads of likes and lots of followers, I truly appreciate the feedback from people on the forums; the criticism is constructive and the interest is passionate.
Sharks look slick as ever bebop, I do get to benefit from the joy of following you on two platforms now, so that's a good thing i'd kill for a 'uge army shot!

To be clear, the reason i post here is because of the human connection. My friends on dakka are a huge part of my growth as a painter. However, many are actually now on other forms of media which is a lot more immeadiate, especially when sharing WIP. As far as feedback, i find my insta account again to have much more access to painters in general, and its much easier to get feedback from people in specific. Especially from painters that just wont be in here for whatever reason. Either way, thanks for the perspective, and of course an army shot is on the way

cheers
bebop

Holy balls batman. Your Space Sharks are FANTASTIC!

How do you paint your eye lenses? they're great.

They're all beautiful bebop, but I espescially love the apothecary because your expertise as a painter just jumps out from it. The gun detail is astounding. Thanks for posting.

 lipsdapips wrote:
I endorse the forum feedback because comments and smaller communities like Dakka provide far more characteristic feedback on stuff even if its more infrequent than people liking photos. Christ, i'm only 21 and I feel like a venerable dreadnought speaking like this! Nevertheless, while insta is great for the quickfire dopamine hits from loads of likes and lots of followers, I truly appreciate the feedback from people on the forums; the criticism is constructive and the interest is passionate.
Sharks look slick as ever bebop, I do get to benefit from the joy of following you on two platforms now, so that's a good thing i'd kill for a 'uge army shot!

Yep This is how I feel too about the forums, I have a much more close knit group who actively hang out to see what I (and others) paint and I feel it's much more honest than FB and I don't like Instagram so even though I'm a little absent due to a much busier work life at this point in time I always try and drop in to see what's been happening on the threads and it comforts me as I see familiar 'faces'

I do sometimes whack a pic on FB for opinion or if it is a wip to show others who collect the same army but my heart lies with Dakka

Fantastic work Bebop, you seem to have mastered the difficult to do " clean, but worn and chipped" which isn't all that common amongst painters !

Beautiful

I much prefer posting here on DDakka, as well as reading (looking at pretty pictures) what others have done, than on FB.

I don't get anything more than a few "likes" and "good job" comments on my FB posts (even when I share them to multiple groups), whereas I get proper feedback on DD.

But then I only post finished pieces to my FB page, so it's not all that often for my 59 followers (still more regular updates than my 59 YT followers get They only get FO4 settlement walkthroughs).

My main problem with social media is that a post is only for that instant, after a couple of hours it may as well not exist, there's no going back over past posts, they've been buried by all the new posts.
It's no wonder all the pages I follow are constantly re-posting old things... maybe I should start doing that... It's just so... messy though.

Wow. I love that Apothecary. You, by far, have my favorite Space Sharks. Great job on all of them. I need to figure out how you get that smooth white, its perfect!

Oh come on, just too good dude.

@ Ice angel: thanks so much, glad you dig em!! The white is a bunch of different whites with varying amounts of blue grey in them
@ Dr H: I hear that for sure, this is my oldest hobby home so the roots go deep. FB I tend to avoid at all costs LOL....
@ Cam: thanks brotha!!
@ bIg H: thanks man, I guess so, I hadn’t really thought about it. I try to paint dirty but i guess it always looks clean lol

So big news I guess, the slow grow is over and I won the damn thing. Grand prize, 150$ store credit, not bad I’d say. The army is done but I’m having a friend photographer actually take some serious group shots of it, so I will be showing all that stuff here soon. And I promis 5o show is[t because there’s so much you guys haven’t seen from that army but I’ve got 2350 points fully painted But before that, I spent some of my winning $$ at the shop on shadespire and wanted to really push myself on this one. It’s already done but Here’s the first Orc in my gang<3











Anyways, cheers you guys! Hopefully in the next couple weeks I’ll have th efinished post of the whole space shark army!!
Happy painting
Bebop

That dark armored Ork is truly amazing!

Awesome work on that Orc.

Thanks Guys <3

Next update will be my full space sharks army

cheers

Great work on that armour, really nice!

Fantastic armour work.

I'm getting real sick of hating you! but when you keep raising the damn bar with gak like that, well i'll just suck it up and keep on hatin'

Can't wait!

Very nice work on the Orc, particularly the obsidian bits!

Lovely paint job. Like the texture work.

Absolutely out of sight. I love your Space Sharks, but I think that orc is technically far better. Really tight control on the NMM and the light/dark contrasts.

Thanks guys<3
@ Gomez: thanks! The sharks were tabletop standard speedpainting, about 6 hours per model ( not the apothecary) the orc took about 50 hours to paint

 bebopdrums2424 wrote:
Thanks guys<3
@ Gomez: thanks! The sharks were tabletop standard speedpainting, about 6 hours per model ( not the apothecary) the orc took about 50 hours to paint

Doing the math around this makes my head hurt FYI. No wonder your stuff looks so much better than mine.

Hey guysssss!
Thought id share a bit of WIP on this Deredeo dread im painting for someone....for $$.....i guess you could call it a comission///(i hate that word)...but i wanted the challenge especially because he asked for seomthing out of my comfort zone....he wanted bright (which i could do), but grimy and grimdark (which doesnt come so easy to me)....soo.....i figured....fk it, this is a good time as any to try out oil washes and some FW weathering tips from the imperial armor master class books, which are just freaking gorgeous....anyways....im pretty far in with the model but heres where we are at now...ps it’s a resin knockoff from what I can tell and the mold is absolute dire crap. Really really bad....

as far as the base....i want to do a wet mud slosh, anybody with some links for inspiration as far as wet rainy warzone mud, link em! <3

heres dah pics!





cheers guys!

Bebop