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Heeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooo Dakka! Hi, I'm still new here Some of you may recognize me from the thread with DLS's The Death of the Emperor (freaking epic) fluff. I'm the guy who posts the "MOAR!" pictures... Anyways, on topic, I recently ordered (and recieved!!) the Imperial Space Marine from Forge World, and I'm unaware of anyone else having done one and posted it on Dakka so far so I decided I might as well be the one to do it. Chances are I'm wrong and someone here DOES have pics of one up, and if I am, PLEASE post the links to that persons work. He's the great big one (for those of you unfamiliar with him: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/scmarine.htm ) This is my first time posting any of my work, let alone work in progress, on Dakka, so please go easy on me, as I'm a mediocre artist at best I just got him and am taking him out've the package and cleaning him while typing this, (smoke breaks, not four hands ) and fighting with dad for the camera... I'll be posting pictures as I go along at various stages, and any suggestions are more than welcome!

ps... GW Modeling Glue =\= good with FW.

Ok so I'm still fightin for custody of the camera cable, but so far I have him cleaned, washed and primed (B&W - White Arms, Pauldrons, Legs, Feet, Helmet, Chest and pack, everything else (Bolter, 'nades, knife) are done in Black). For using a spray gun, is the ratio of Paint to Water any different than "usual" when you're using a Foundation as opposed to just regular GW paint? If I'm lucky I'll have some pictures up in the next few hours!

Of course, just not pre-prime or pre-clean. I'll most likey paint each piece individually and then VERY CAREFULY pin what needs be pinned, as I HATE trying to paint into little tiny areas. So I managed to get a hold of the camera and the cable and am uploading pics as I type! So here goes Dakka, my Imperial Space Marine!







Sorry they're a little blurry, I'm not much of a photographer either... Sorry they're huge too, I cropped them and everything :|

"Moar" to come

I know right? I was almost giddy when I picked it up from the post office. Then I almost screamed at the ammount due for customs... Then I spent 4 hours cleaning it, trying my damnedest not to slash my finger open... Now I've JUST put the first coat down on the base and am waiting for it to dry to hit (more like abuse) it with Badab Black. I share, see?





And this is what happens when I'm not careful cleaning FW stuff



Did that to myself working on my Chaplain/Furioso Dreadnought... That sucker went right down to the bone and the doctors refused to stitch it because of where it was. I was back home in an hour working away with my finger in a splint. (I know it doesn't look like much, but it was like a pyramid-shaped chunk out've my finger, and I have big hands, so perspective perspective perspective

Definately Blood Angels, Xanthos. Though, to be honest, if I find I *really* enjoy doing this one, I'll definately be ordering a 2nd from FW and painting that one Dark Templar :3

Thanks for all the support so far guys, it's encouraging as hell! 'Specialy since it may influence BishopGores decision - I'd suggest doing it, as it even says on the FW page it's a limited run because they don't know when the moulds will crash. I just suggest getting priority shipping, as the 31 day wait almost made my head go splodey! In the next few pictures I finished up the base, and I must say I think it kicks some serious Heretics Booty!!

For anyone curious about the technical side: I started with a black undercoat and followed it up with one coat of unmixed Codex Grey thinned out a tiny bit. (Pics in the previous progress post.) (#1) Once that was thoroughly dried I almost poured the Badab on and worked it around, leaving A LOT on the pillar bases around its top edges so it would run down into the grooves for a natural sooty look. (#2) Next I VERY LIGHTLY drybrushed with a layer of Shadow Grey and poked it into corners with a little more force and then used a mix of Chaos Black and White and made a batch of grey that was about 3 shades darker than Codex and drybrushed it on liberally. (#3, 4, 5 & 6) The Second, Third and Fouth coats of grey were done the exact same way, just adding more white to taste and less pressure on the brush. Finally for the dirt look I used a home-made wash based on the old Vermin Fur from one've the old 17.5ml pots that I typically use to stain my purity seals. I put a lot into the cracks in the pavement below the rubble and a gentle dry-brushed poking on all the small rubble around the bigger chunks! Oh and the spent shell casings are pure Shining Gold. I'll hit them with a super dark-red wash to brass them up shortly. All that's left for the base (besides a mat clear coat) is to put a tiny bit of static grass growing out've the pavement cracks. Suggestions, Comments? Spit 'em up.

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I'm QUITE pleased with how this turned out.

Wow, really! Thank you guys for the words of encouragement! And I hope it does and doesn't take a long time, I'm anxious to see it all finished up, but dreading making it not look as good as I possibly can!

Ok, I just got through the 3rd coat of pinking his body (Pinking is a term that should be familiar to anyone who paints with the bastard child of paints - Red*) and he's too wet to handle and mess around with, as he's perfectly balanced up against things. Now I'm going to have his cigarette (SMOKING BAD!! Very Bad.) and decide if I have enough left in me to start on the non-red bitz... That Bolter does look ever so sweet.....


* This term can also be applied to Yellow and White. DAMN YOU YELLOW!!

Yea ok it's sleep time

hahahahaha oh menziez.... And yes, according to FW it's 6" tall, but I get the feeling it's a bit more. He's still in pieces, awaiting painting so making a comparison at this point would be difficult, but if I had to guess I'd say he's taller than my (ugly as sin) Drop Pod... I can't wait to get started on this giant 'Fething Fether', it'll be my first time using my new ($300!!!) air brush (http://www.grexusa.com/grexairbrush/pics/m_Genesis.XB.jpg). Thankfuly I also have... Either 16 or 22, can't remember, Assault Marines that I've been putting off to practice on and work any kinks out on, so someone is getting assigned 'Bob Duty' again. Poor bugger. Now that I think about it, I've bitten off a lot here... I have the Biggie Marine on the go now, plus that small horde of assault marines to paint, a LR Redeemer, 4 servitors, a slightly customized command squad (WIP, Jump Packs, but the banner looks like ASS cause my free hand ability is ASS), my servo-harness techmarine (WIP) and a Land Speeder Tempest... Oh yea and planning on and haven't gotten around to putting a heavy flamer on one've the Termies that came out've my AoBR set. Seesh Dat dere be a lot a 'umies. Should keep me busy for a while atleast.


And whoever finds the humor in the pics of the base I posted gets on my friend list hehe

Not too bad, Empchild, a few minor flash lines, but no major imperfections or anything. The only really "Oh God" part was the huge leftover bits from the injection points on the base and for his torso, but a sharp pair of cutters, a pile of files and some sand paper and they came right off =] And I can't stress enough to people on this site, if you can afford one, and feel ambitious, GET THIS MODEL!!! You will NOT be disappointed. Just make sure you get priority shipping, less your head get splodey from waiting like mine did. I don't know what kind've progress is going to be made today, as the airgun isn't ready to go yet, so today will probably be a very slow day of just painting his accesories (Guns, Knife, Ammo Packs and Grenades) but I'll still post pictures of what I've done.

Actually I suck at and hate painting skin, so I'm only going to use the helmet, I do however fully plan on painting the unhelmeted head afterwards, and if it turns out I like it... Iunno, it might just force me into buying a second one so I can use the head. lol Who am I kidding? I'm almost certain I'll be grabbing another


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Ok, so today is not a fun day for posting things, my internet keeps crapping out every less than 5 minutes, and it's really making me angry, so it's been a real pain to upload anything. I took some pictures of the pinking I did last night, including some pictures of the unhelmeted head, just for you Empchild lol. Aside from that I haven't done anything but put the metal on the scope But I'll get into the groove shortly, promise. For now, here's the pictures of the pinkied marine.










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Ok, so it took me most of the day but I managed to get through the knife, it's scabbard, the two grenades and the two ammo packs, and I'm starting on the guns and scope (which I broke...) now! Just not 100% sure how I want to do them. But in the mean time here's his accessories! Does anyone else think the scabbard would look better with a thinned down layer of 'ard coat? I can't decide



The two ammos packs are simply goblin green with a healthy double coating of badab, the straps are Snakebite Leather and the metal is Chainmail that's added after the badab has set. The frag grenade is Dark Angels Green with a lot of badab and then highlighted with DAG again. The... whatever blue striped one... Is Ice Blue over Shadow Grey, all metal on both nades is BGM. The knife is BGM with Mithril silver edging and highlighting, the hand guard and pommel are a 4:1 mix of Shining Gold and Mechrite Red with an additional 20% water. The hilt is Shadow Grey over Chaos Black with a light badab'bing.

Ok so today was an adventure in patience! I got the compressor working, I got my storage tank to quit leaking, I worked the technical kinks out've using my air brush and I waited for about 70 layers of paint to dry... Suffice to say, my back hurts like hell, but he's basecoated!!! I'm still going to dry brush a single coat of BR onto him to bring the natural sheen of the paint back, hopefuly; without making it look toyish. But for now, he's awesome and I'm turning back to the bolters for the night to let him cure, but in the mean time, here he is!



And as for the finger slicing, for anyone who is interested, it was for this guy... Also, please note, Dakka, I'm HORRIBLY unoriginal, so you'll probably recognize his paint job, as it's based off of someones on here. Please don't hang me for plagerism



His right shoulder is magneted, and his Weapos (2nd CCW, Lascannon, Autocannon and Plasmacannon, I'll grab bolter arms eventually... Probably when I order my next ISM) are all magneted too. His hips are magnets too so he can swivel about happily. He's my most, and only, articular model!
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ps. Someone give this post a bump? I'm feeling lost since I'm not getting 600+ views a day


pss. Yes, I'm a huge fan of the Apollo-style Terrain.

Oh you're quite right, Bishop, the unhelmeted head could easily be made to look really impressive, but I'm not a huge fan of how it sits on the model, plus I'm still "afraid" to try and paint the head for any sort of display purposes... I will eventually paint it though, just for the practice it'll give. But the red really came out amazingly. Now that I've seen it in natural daylight I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY happy about it, there's only one area I need to touch up at all. However!!! Using the air brush isn't as easy as it's made out to be. There's a LOT of technique involved, techniques I learned in high school automotives and have had years to practice since. And what kind of airbrush you buy makes a HUGE difference. The cheapy little one from GW, it looks like a little flamer-pistol, is a total piece of "fething gak" as the word filter would say, and isn't worth your $45. The one I bought is massively professional grade and cost me $300 (CND), while painfuly expensive it's absolutely worth every penny. Not only do you get the sweet sweet finish of an air brush, but now speed basecoating isn't a sin that makes models look horrible!

In short, if you're going to buy an airbrush make sure you buy quality and make sure you spend some time practicing using it. I'd suggest buying a bottle of cheap acrylic to use for practice. Just use it on a piece of wood or something until you get your technique and timing down and you've become comfortable using it, THEN try using it on your mini's. Waste not want not right?

oaktree wrote:it's looking great so far, i think you could always youse the space marine for terrain, Very Expensive Terrain.

lol so very true! Or if my opponent is really generous it could be Proxied for a Warhound Thanks for the complements guys

Ok, sorry I've not updated ANYTHING, but I spent the better part of the day on friday in bed praying for the Emperor, or just any other lunatic in the world to come and cut my head off so it would stop hurting. (I get migraines. Really bad migraines. Like gimmie a gun and I'd contemplate using it bad migraines... Anyways.) Suffice it to say I didn't get a chance to touch a brush let alone use a camera with a retina searing flash. However I made up for it last night and tonight (yay no gf on vday lol) a bit and got his accessories finished as well as the bolters and started on the helmet. I would've posted hours ago too, some idiot who paints giant space marines left it on a few days ago and the battery was kaked. So without further ado, here's the updates!


The packs were given a soft highlighting of snot green, the straps got a 3:1 Snakebite/Skull White touching. The bolters casings were highlighted with Shadow Grey and the metal parts were painting Bolt Gun and then badab, then highlighted with boltgun and then the highest parts with chainmail. The stock on the Bolter was drybrushed with boltgun to make it look like the paint is wearing away to expose tiny ammounts of bare metal. The knifes grip was highlighted first with Ultrasmurfs Blue, then Enchanted Blue and finally just barely touched with Ice Blue. The blue strips on the... flash bang? were highlighted with a 1:1:1 mix of skull white, ice blue and water. The frag 'nade was highlighted with DAG after another badab. I also added a tiny tiny highlighting of pure Burnished Gold to the gold on the sheathe and brass on the knife.



Sorry it's so freakin huge

I about crapped my pants when I pulled this part off, I usualy make an absolute atrocity of anything that shines or is reflective...





This pic turned out like crap, but I love the intensity of the red

Just paint it like a statue? No way, that wouldn't be nearly enough for a model like this. The fact that I'm even doing this model could end up being an insult to decent painters everywhere who want one've these guys lol Though it would look excellent as a center piece in a ruined Hive....

Sorry about all the delay guys, but it's just starting =\ I'm not going to be updating for atleast a week, some rl crap has come up and I'm not in the mood to paint right now, but I'll probably be back in a week or so. Again, deeply sorry to anyone whose been anxiously waiting more shots, or my running sentences. Thanks for your understanding. Also, thank you for 1500 views Not bad for a guys 2nd thread =]

Ok Dakka, so I'm back. whoopy. For those of you checking this out again, thanks for your patience, for those of you who forgot completely... Damn. But I still haven't done any real work in over a week, but I'm trying to get started again, and I'm having a hard time making some decisions about this model and I want your opinions this time Dakka! Don't just sit there being all quiet, give me some advice! So, my question is what colour should I paint the Aquila? White, Black, Yellow or Gold?? I wanna know what you think!

Nope, I don't have the control yet to do the whole thing airbrushed, or the patience. Only the red is airbrushed on, but I might make a stencil around the Aquila to protect the body if I decide to airbrush the colour onto the aquila, but I still need to know what colour I should use

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thanks toxic, but you'll have to wrench it from my cold dead powerfist first I keep looking at the model and grinning like an idiot, so I know how you feel lol. As for the suggestions, I don't know how to do NMM, and I think I'm a little confused... gunmetal black? You mean do it boltgun metal with black shading and edging and like.... mithril highlights? That could be cool. But I think I also like the idea Silver had, black with a gold drybrush.... I'll have to see how that looks on a bitzbox piece first, but it could be quite cool =o Anymore suggestions from ANYONE are more than welcome as well!!! Don't make me track you down and shove a bolter in your face to get an opinion out've you, Dakka

Ok Dakka, you've made your suggestions, and I tried my best, I really did. Hopefuly I'm just massively over-critical about my work, but then again it could be mediocrity in paint form. I've added comments to the pictures cause I'm weird like that. Nonetheless, you've asked for it, and you've come to deserve it in my opinion: (That almost sounds threatening.... Crap.)



Any suggestions to touch this up are, as always, welcome!



Blurry Blurry Blurry, but the eyes show up so much better in crappy pictures



And yes, I hate Orks. Their exsistance annoys the hell out've me. Orks are like suggesting that Neanderthals could've built a freaking Particle Accelerator. Orks should stick to WHFB. I don't care what the fluff says, idiots like Orks couldn't build a freaking Galleon let alone a Space Ship. Orks PLAYERS are ok for the most part, just horribly misguided.



I'm not sure if this part is 100% done... I think I might want to add Gold Trim to the Mouth Piece and the helmets Brow Ridge. What does Dakka think?



I beat my head in trying to figure out WTH to use to fill in those display windows. Then I looked at my camera going "Oh God Please Charge Me Nuru!!" and I figured a Fuel Guage would be cool, and an EKG monitor was moms suggestion. The 3rd panel with the orders just felt natural.



And I'm not kidding. Last time I tried to freehand something Leonardo DaVinci rose from the dead, flew to Canada and slapped me twice.

So that's all I have *for now* Dakka, let me know what you think and spit up the ideas people! I said it in my first post, I'm HORRIBLY unoriginal so lend a hand Oh, also, some tips on painting battle damage would be like Christmas in March. I've checked the articles here on Dakka, but I don't like the simplistic approach some use... I seriously need your help on this part guys :(

Ok, seriously guys, the inspiration here has been all the encouragment I've gotten here. I honestly don't know how far I would've gotten without people pulling for me to get it done.

Empchild wrote:your doing great honestly. This is becomming incredably fun to read.

BishopGore wrote:This is absolutely beautiful work so far. Wish I could help you, but you're a better painter than me!

Hope you're enjoying painting it as much as I am seeing your work, you're inspirational

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Thank you guys, you're all making this go a lot smoother! That being said I finished up the chest and head (except for high lights and darkening any seams in the armour), and it doesn't look like I changed much, but there's still a good 5 more hours work in it! So I'm posting this, then off to work for a while! Thank you so much Dakka



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metallifan wrote:Oop! Looks like you lost a bristle on his belt buckle.

Holy crap! Nice eye man! I wouldn't have noticed that for a long, long time! Sadly, it's embedded in the paint now since it's had about 18 hours to sit... But I'll excise it... RIGHT NOW!! AHHH!!! Ok, so I got it out without causing too much damage, just some mild touch-ups, but on closer inspection it wasn't a bristle from a brush, nor a hair from my head. No no. Indeed it was a hair from my little "helper"...



Fuzzy, cross-eyed little bastard.... But he's fun.

This is also the same cat I caught running around with a Marine I'd lost... In his mouth. He didn't wanna let it go lol, growled at me as best he could, which only made me laugh harder because he was MAYBE 4 months old at that point. I'll post any upated WORK I get done today lol No more cat, I promise

I'm honestly not sure of the technique used to dirty up a model of *this* size. Airbrushing him with badab or even dipping him in a thinned solution of c. black would only serve to obsquere details, atleast I think so. Plus I don't have a proper medium to thin c. black to wash consistency, I'd have to use plain water and it wouldn't have the proper surface tension, everything would just run down and look... well runny. But if I'm totaly wrong about the air brushing bit and someone knows some secrets they're willing to share, I could probably convince myself to spend 6 hours taping off the parts I want left as is. I do, however, plan on using a dental pick to knock very small chips out've the paint and fill those in to look like battle damage/wear and tear, I just need some tips on how to make it NOT look like a half-assed attempt. It all depends on what kind've advice I get from Dakka really, as this has actually been a huge learning curve for me. If I'd known I'd learn as much as I did doing a model of this scale, I would've done one years ago.

And if this thread has managed to attract the attention of even just one of Dakka's more Masterful painters (Gods like MeanGreenStompa, atropos907 or littleboyblues to name but a few), then PLEASE! WHOEVER you are, I want your input, I really really really really *an hour later* really really do want your input and advice and any suggestions you could make! Even if it's just a whimsical one. Teeeeelllllllll mmmeeeeeeeeee

Hits_the_spot wrote:http://www.scribd.com/doc/23270615/THE-ULTIMATE-MINIATURE-PAINTING-GUIDE

See this link, page 73 i think has a good article on chipped armour. And you don't have to spray a wash on such apply in places where dirt gathers, spongeing and stippling are good to, but test your desired technic on something else fist.

A great article, saw some neat stuff in there I'll bring home, but that article has two massive and fatal flaws: One, it assumes I have gobs of money coming out've my ass and that I can afford 1000 shades of each colour, plus Vallejo paints, which are NOT available to me. I've checked A TONNE of my local hobby stores within about 50kilometers, and none of them carry Vallejo, and most of them resolutely refuse to. Even Michaels. Secondly, that article would only work from Start to Finish for doing battle damage. My Marine is already entirely basecoated to where I want it, what I need is an article that explains how to ADD battle damage to an exsisting, previously painted minuture. Preferably if it also took into account I plan on painting the damage into areas I will chip out've the paint with my dental pick. But thank you for giving me a link to that COMPLETE article. I've seen pieces of it before, and they wanted $10 for a PDF copy. Sorry, that's $10 I could spend on Mini's Does anyone know of an article that can atleast give me a guideline of how to do battle damage at the stage I'm currently at? Thanks for your help guys

And I almost forgot, Sonofruss, I don't have decal sheets, otherwise these posts would've never happened =\

Well, this sucks huge ammounts of ass, but while I was working on the knee of my Marine, I decided I'd use painters tape to carefuly section off the knee so I didn't have to paint quite so carefuly. This is the exact same roll of tape I'd used to tape off the Aquilla when I painted it, so I foresaw NO complications. The first complication I ran into was getting the tape into all the little cracks and details that needed it. I found this to be too much of a pain in my ass to be bothered with, so I started taking off the tape... That's where this project took a sudden and drastic nose-dive. More than half of the left thigh was stripped of paint when I removed the tape, and a large section of the shin as well. For whatever reason, the primer underneither had adheared VERY poorly and had allowed the paint to be peeled off, primer and all. Talk about demoralizing... I wanted battle damage, and that's what it looked like, but on a scale MUCH too large :( So for the next few days no updates or anything reguarding the legs, which really pisses me off, I'd poured a tonne of work into them... Thank God Acetone doesn't seem to hurt FW Resin....

metallifan wrote:Did you bathe the mini in dishsoap and hot water, and handed out a good scrubbing Nuruhuine?

Even a gentle sanding with 800 grit automotive paper. It was probably something REALLY random, like I scratched my nose and transfered skin oil from me to it and that killed the adhesion... Damn it. FML.

kravus master of Horus wrote:That must waste alot of paint

Mostly time really =\ But yea, it does take a fair ammount of paint.

Hits_the_spot wrote:If you want i could put together a tutorial together for adding chipped armour after the fact.

Would you? That'd be really awesome of you

bellumdominus wrote:Windows Fail! LOL!

OMG!! FINALLY SOMEONE NOTICES!! That was the original humor in this post! +1000 points and a Cookie for bellumdominus!!!! I'd begun to lose faith in anyone noticing that.

On a side note, does anyone know if Acetone has adverse effects on FW Resin? I know it'll eat plastic for lunch, especialy GWs, but FW plastic is catalyzed resin.... Would it be safe from Acetone?

Ok, so last time I said much, epic fail had recently occured. To be honest a lot of crappy stuff happened in and around the time this happened, and it really killed any ambition I had. It's still kicking my butt, but I figured I owe you guys an "I'm alive and haven't given up" so here I am. To say I haven't done anything is a lie, I've managed to pick about 85% of the paint off the legs, and it was ALARMINGLY easy. I'm now scared fething gakkless that the rest of the model might start to peel like the legs. God help me if it does.... Any road:






Both are also in the Gallery if you want to see the original full size pictures, and I promise I'll get back to it soon! Oh! And Candroth an Metallifan, thanks for the suggestions, specialy the bolter shells - I hadn't even thought of them in a long time.

I almost haven't even touched it with any chemical solvents yet - That's just scratching with my thumb nail and some brushing - I've already tested out acetone on some inconspicious spots and it doesn't cause any damage and strips the paint clean away. However, when I go to prime this bastard again I'm going to do some seriously heavy reading about prepping resin for primer so it sticks like Gakk to fine fur

EagleArk wrote:

Nuruhuine wrote:And whoever finds the humor in the pics of the base I posted gets on my friend list hehe

I think i may be the firt person to notice this, one of you keys has FAIL written on it...

Bellumdominus beat you to it. On a side note, SOME work has been done! Progress may soon be transformed into updates! Barring any more bad gak happening in my life that is.........