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Light fleshtone? brown wash, do you mean vajello colours?

Very nice stuff in here!
It almosts makes me want to paint some blood angels.

Threads like this make me feel incompetent as a miniature painter

I also discovered that if you under coat with boltgun metal, and then go over it with a wash/thinner paint it bleeds through and gives a great effect to the color.

Those terminators look AWESOME. Ive never really seen what they look like until now. Dang Id use them for my 40k termies lol

Great paint jobs everyone

Has anyone modified their Nids/Marines in different colors?

Goddang! That's an awesome broodlord!

mattyboy22 wrote:

Does the tongue and claw of gloss varnish? its shineh!

I did in fact gloss varnish the tounge and claws.

I don't have any painted yet, but when I find some Tamiya Yellow Spray I'll be painting mine as Lamenters.

SoG

BL is awesome!

Didn't see this thread before posting my own oops!

The only thing I've painted so far is the Broodlord, but converted him also so I could use him for 40k games.

WoW! Was that dipped or did you wash the BL?

Thats probably the best painted nid skin tone I've ever seen, perfect! The base kinda doesn't do him justice though, not that it matters much.

WOW !!!!!

Thats all I got

Gotta love the nids really.

Thanks for the positive feedback all, the skin is probably the easiest part of the nid to paint. Its just a skull white undercoat with a 3 stage gryphone sepia wash. 1st wash is all over, 2nd is also almost all over, but coaxing the wash into the joints and deeper parts of the skin, and the 3rd is just in the joints. then its just a 2 stage highlight with watered down Bleached Bone.

Nid look great when washed. Shame you cant od that for the BA

The dead Termie is my favorite model. Need to con a buddy to buy Space Hulk for that model.

Got piccies of my first Genestealers. In real life they are somewhat darker than the pictures seem to suggest, but I had to enlighten the pics because you couldn't see anything from the originals.

Genestealers:









Space Hulk architechture:

Outstanding !

Your highlighting is just about perfect !

Here is my go. Using the GW painting guide for most.

I'm happy with the figure but the green 'Nid blood didn't turn out as expected. It is 5 min epoxy with some pigment. It sprang back as I was stretching which has it curling vs. hanging down. I may try and fix it at a future date (but not likely.)

The hazard stripes are a decal from Armorcast that has been painted over. The base is from dragon forge.

I like it, the 'nid blood could just be particularly gloopy and viscous.

That is very good. I really like that base too.

wow at this thread


I havent decided what to paint mine as I dont wanna paint blood angels.

Kanvass, thats pretty awesome Broodlord there!

I know a lot of people were trying to figure out ways to make them something besides BA. I've been impressed with what others have posted here so far. If anyone has tried and made different schemes, post them up!

jgemrich, your lightning claws termie is spectacular! I am very partial to Shuttler's work, as it is appropriately grimdark and very realistic. As for the nids, Kanvass gets my vote for his awesome skin tone that I might steal... I just so happen to have a lot of sepia wash that I previously didn't know what to use for.

Here's my lame attempt at a terminator: