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Thanks Gitz

From above i am really pleased with how he came out. The blending between the colours seems to have come out well. Each one i do seems to be better My adventure into different colours with the Mantis Warrior and the 2 marines that my Neices designed, gave me a look at blending with different colours, and i have added an extra step into me shceme. Also i have decided that i definatly dont like painting multiple miniatures at once on a production line as it sucks the enjoyment out of it, and i dont't pay as much attention to each individual model. I need to treat each one as hero that deserves respect. ... So i now have to paint -

Steampunkery Barron
the rest of my Tactical squad (8 i think, a couple of them are heavy weapons to make it more interesting) *(I remember now Razorback)*
Assult Squad
2 x Rhino
1 x (i have had a complete mind fart and forgoten the name of the rhino with guns on top to act as a command squad transport, capacity 6) lol
1 x Stormtalon

1 x ork Bommer

So that is enough to keep me going for a while.

It's all one big learning process M0rdian... and it never ends! (that's the best part)

by the way.... you skull tank brought me to your thread...remember? whatever happend to this one?

yea!! i loved that!!!!

Sorry Vic, My Skull tank / Razorback has recived a base coat and will probably be the next thing i paint after the Steampunk guy is done. I am currently Black Ops 2ing on my xbox so ther eis no painting going on. Once i am fed up of being killed repeatedly, i will be back to my study with gusto

Once i am fed up of being killed repeatedly...

LOL... well that´s a deal then

(besides... to wins for my own accord then...as a steampunky mini of yours painted is also a win^^

Well while sat on the phone today i thought i would do some colouring in (as you do) so i printed off this off and scrathed away while chatting to people.



I then decided to try and draw something. I normally draw fantasy, so my proportions were way off when drawing a Space Marine, even while folowing a guide

nice blends... really good looking marines...and even nicer of you to include the sources!

your own first selfmade marine...very good looking and highly promising... something you definatly should be doing more often while phoneing people

dude lets not get inot my first marine dwaring!!!!

Well i decided to draw a Steam punk "lady" as i do better with organic and humanoid shapes rather than the symetry of SM Armour.

so this is what i came up with, from a few hours on the phone.



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I know its not my miniatures, but i thought i might as well post this stuff some where while my evening painting is on hiatus. I am also reading the Horus heresey on my commute to work. i just happen to be shooting people on my xbox in my me time in the evenings

she looks really nice...shading looks very good... only nitpick here would be the size of her head... a bit big... and the posing of the feet... looks a bit as if she needs to visit the throne soon

Thanks Vic. It took a long time to draw it so by the end she did need a pee. The water retention must have inflated her head and given rise to the pigeon feet tee hee

(Edited the naff spelling and grammer)

ahhh.... cause and effect... so neatly put on one sheat of paper^^

Not bad..

Well i finally got round to finishing my Steampunkery. The xbox has been a great lure as of late. But more recently i ahve been having the urge to put it down a bit early and go upstairs to do a bit of painting. So thank you very much rsjake for the Weapon sprue. I hope i have done them justince. And i hope that the mustache is good enough for you Vic











I had taken some pictures last night, but the artificial light was too harsh, and it seems that the agle of the window onto my desk gives some lovely daylight in the mornings On closer inspection on the photos, i can see that my blending is not as smooth as i had hoped, but i have been out of it for a while. But from 12-24 inches he looks awesome and as he is sat on my desk at my work just under my monitor that is just fine and dandy

What a crazy figure, I love it! Nice job M0rdian.

Looks awesome! The Mustachio really pulls it all together!

And here he is at work

wow...yup that is a strong ´stache^^...
that is a good looking model mister...jakes gun looks very cool on him!

Well its been a while. Lots happening at home what with moving, redecorating, working 2 jobs and my wife falling pregnant

Well to start we have had a move around, making room for a new nursery. My study became the new spare room, and i got shifted down into the converted garage. Actaully more spacious but less wall space for me to hang various geeky weaponry.


Also I have some painting company in my new study, although i was more of his paintbrush tech.


Considering when i left my old office once of the gifts from them was a Stormtallon, i have not finished it yet, so i thought I had better get on and finish that. So here are some WIP pics.








I have since been working on the highlighting of the red, and the details of the lights and the purity seals. I have highlighted the purple, but thinking overnight i think it is to stark as i have added to much white to the purple, so i will probably re do that (i'll take some photos to upload later) Hopefully after that it should be done apart from the base.

On a random note the Landlord of the club i work on the doors of at the weekend, the subject of painting came up and me painting 40k minis came up. Later he popped upstairs and came down with a box of metal Space Wolves he gave to me He has had them since he was 12, and the only stipulation is that i painted "the one with the Bird first" They needed a little bit of love first, so i was able to remove the limbs and then put them in a nice detol bath and they are now much cleaner and ready for rebuilding and some fun modification.





There was also 5 terminators, which will join my normal Marine force in my colours. But he special characters will be painted up as SW and i may do a diorama, as an asside to all the red at some point.

New space, new digs, new flyer, like-new figs! What's not to like??

Well i finished up the Stormtallon tonight. I decided against redoing the purple, i do like it and it fits in with the purple in the rest of the squad, it is just more stark on the larger scale. The below photos don't really do it justice, the artificial light does not show any of the colour blending on the red. I will have to take some pictures in the natural light at some point (as my home made light box did not survive the move )











The clear plastic has not been glue yet, as i am waiting until the super glue has completely dried and there are no fumes about to frost it, then i will use some pva glue. The most trouble i had, was gluing the pilots left arm (right when looking at him) because i had glued the pod into place before i remembered to put the pilot in but with some delicate toothpick work i managed it.

I have 3 more vehicles to paint, they have had a base coat of army painter pure red, but i am thinking about getting an airbrush, so i am going to hold off on them for now. In the hope that i can improve my vehicle painting. I have plenty to keep me going until (if i do get one) then. A squad of assault marines, a second squad of tactical marines to finish, a tech marine, an un opened box of scouts, a marine on a bike (more for fun than for the army) + the new termies i just acquired, and the random SW to intersperse between them. I am going to keep away from assembly line painting as that is what i find ends up putting me off painting and i leave the hobby for a while. so i may paint a few different ones at a time, like a SW an assault and a scout. To stop the enjoyment going stale. I am going to try and personalise every model i make in some way and not jsut do it out of the box, with GS if possible. (which reminds me i need to order some more)

For now i am doing Njal Stormcaller, i have found a random ork i removed the head from and and cardboard plantpot that i cut a disk from, honestly it looks cool .. ok i'll take a photo.



Now i need to think about if i will paint it as snow or mud .... what do you think?


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Oh btw, the weapon pods are magnatised so i can swap them out for lascannons.

Only got a bit done last night, i did some more work on the base for my Stormtalon.

I built up the dry brushing on the stone work and the tyre, and then gave the stonework a wash of Babadab black. Gave the corpse a further coat of orange. and but some Warplock bronze on the metal and then gave that a further wash of Babadab black also. Also the intestines and the moss/bush got a wash of Babadab black.


(Also i have found an app on my phone for this style of photo that i am enjoying playing with)

Then the allures of ME3 called

Well i have defiantly decided that i should not watch a film while painting/modeling as i end up watching it too much lol. But on a side not Pacific Rim was very cool.

But i did manage to paint up the ice base for Nijal, but i forgot to take a photo. I also put a red wash over the demon corpse on my Stormtalon base. But i have decided that i don't paint well on 'rough' surfaces i am better with smooth like a SM. There was no need for a photo of what i did on the base yet.

But i did manage to get a bit of GS done on Njal and my Tech marine.


I did not like the wires/cables hanging off the back of the tech marine, so i removed them. They looked like they were just hanging there. (I'm aware what they are technically USB cables to plug into the machine spirit) But i thought it looked silly. And i did not think i could model them joining onto something with the angle that they were. I have just capped it with GS atm and once that has cured i will sculpt something in its place. And i have drilled a small hole in the back of his hand and run a gs cable along and under where his backpack will be. I then pressed the backpack into place to make sure that GS would not obscure the join later. It would have been cool to model a cable from the backpack where i had cut it off into the back of the hand, but i want to paint them separately. He is currently just standing on pins in the base and not glued on.


I was unsure as to what to with Nijal, but i am not too bad at sculpting fur and as he is a space wolf, i thought that was a safe bet. so i decided to sculpt the legs of the wolf pelt he is wearing, draping over his shoulders. I also thought i would try to do the claws as well. they look a little odd atm, but i will sculpt some further fur over the top of them once it has cured. On his back there was quite a bit of super glue that had run down the cloack that i had been unable to remove so i sculpted a bit of fur over it to cover it up.

I have work tonight and tomorrow night on the Doors of a club, so i'm unlikly to get much done, may be was was or a small amount of paint once i get in to wind down. That is unless i get some free time on Saturday during the day.

Making good progress there M0rdian. I think your sculpts will blend right in with the rest once painted.

@Gitsplitta- Thanks, hopefully they will I am Enjoying doing it, and that's the main point

Well the weekend is over, i got some bits done but probably less than any other hobbyist But then again most hobbyists did not have to put up with being spat at and wrestling the spitter until the police arrive, or deal with drunken idiots breaking windows. Oh what fun.

But anyway ... I managed to finish paining the base for my Stormtalon I was a little worried about the corpse, but it came out OK in the end . (the beauty of a wash) All it needs now is some static grass.






I added some plastic tube to where i had trimmed off the cables on the Techmarines backpack. Once it is dry i will probably add some more GS (or Miliput as my order arrived today) To smooth it out. I also added a purity seal to Njal's backpack, i often make them with left over GS. And one of my fav positions to put them is on the backpack i think they look great there and breaks up the colour from behind. Especially as when i do play (on that rare occasion) most of the time you are looking at the model from behind



Also i continued the fur sculpt on Njal and put some more just over the claws so it did not look like they were sat on top. I also added a little more on his back in areas i felt needed building up.



And i got round to taking a photo of the base for Njal, and my attempt at "ice" i think its quite cool for my first attempt, not sure if i should not have gone as dark for the under coats. i could do it again to lighten it up.

Excellent work on the Stormtallon, M0rdain! Also, great sculpting with the Greenstuff. I admit that I tend to stay away from the it Don't worry, you've certainly done a quite a fair amount of stuff - certainly more than myself! Sorry to hear about the weekend antics, downright disgraceful that someone would have the nerve to spit at someone else in the 21st century.

-Cosmic Thank you. Well their antics are what i am paid to put up with so the bar staff don't have to. But spitting is the thing that annoys me most, and discriminatory insults based on sexual orientation (its a LBGT bar)

I had the house to myself last night so i made the most of the TV and played some ME3 multiplayer, so not much modeling last night i'm afraid.

I had invested a hole £2.33 in a pack of milliput as my GS was running low. It handles very differently to the GS so i will need to experiment with it. I did manager to get it how i wanted in the end but it was a lot harder than i expected.

(I also noticed the mold line in this photo so i will clean that up tonight) It was much more clay like than GS, i'm going to have a look on here for any tutorials about working with Milliput.

I also gave Njal a foundation coat, but as he is just black, there is not point in uploading the photo (as you can't really see anything), and this morning i had a look at him and touched up the places that i had missed. i also pinned his feet, and slotted him into some wood, as he kept tipping over in the bluetack.

Well after another busy weekend, i have got some painting done. Bear in mind this is still a work in progress. But in general i'm not that happy. i don't like the detail on his legs it made it too hard for me to paint, and does not look smooth enough for my liking. I should have removed the them, but hey ho. Hopefully once i have done more of the detail it will look a bit better, but it will only ever be table top standard.

The grey seems to have gone on thicker than i wanted especially on the back pack. But that may actually have been some super glue over spill that i forgot about before undercoating So the actual armor is done, i just need to work on the detail on the armor and everything else. Not sure what colour i will do the actual staff yet. may just go for metallic.





But bear in mind this is my first time painting spacewolves colours, so that gives me a little leeway in its ineptness, the rest is that my skill does not live up to my minds intentions. I really should stick to models with out too much detail.