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Thanks for the info I am amazed it is so simple for a great finish! Can't wait to see what you do next.

dad1946 wrote:The DC dread is awesome. What color blue did you use
to hightlight the dark armor. The fading and shading
really looks great. The blood talons are some of the best
I have seen. Great work.

Thanks, the blue is gw shadow grey.

Imperial Monkey wrote:OMFG, enlighten me as to how you achieved the blue on the libby...it is magnificent!

Thanks monkey. The talons are done the same way I do my normal power weapons, black basecoat with enchanted blue to ice blue to ice blue/white in a 50/50 mix. Then I edge highlight with white. All done with an airbrush except the edge highlighting.

Knightley wrote:Wow, really impressed with the Librarians face, you have a real knack for that!

Thanks knightley, I've been trying to focus on getting better at painting skin tones.

Emperors_Champion wrote:Maybe in another 10'000 points my Blood Angels will start to look as awesome as yours!

Super-scribed!

Thanks EC.

What's next Eggy?

All I know is you make it hard to concentrate on modeling when I have my virgin air-compressor right beside me all the time while working lol... The StormRaven is getting close to done though, and then all my studying of the Airbrush will be put to the test!

BTW, have you seen the FAQ Airbrush Modulation dvd? Pretty awesome... by the guys at M.I.G -

MajorTom11 wrote:What's next Eggy?

All I know is you make it hard to concentrate on modeling when I have my virgin air-compressor right beside me all the time while working lol... The StormRaven is getting close to done though, and then all my studying of the Airbrush will be put to the test!

BTW, have you seen the FAQ Airbrush Modulation dvd? Pretty awesome... by the guys at M.I.G -

I got 3 dreads primed and ready for painting on my table. Probably take me at least 1.5 weeks to get them done. Will try and get wip shots of the trio soon.

Have you at least turned on your compressor to make sure it works? What's the noise level like? My hardware compressor has been driving me nuts lately with the amount of noise it makes, can't turn it on at night even if I wanted to paint since I'll probably wake the whole building. You really need to start using the airbrush though, my first 2 months with my AB was mostly just messing around with it and trying to paint one model that I ended up stripping later in frustration. I almost gave up on the whole airbrushing thing at one point.

Yup, I got the FAQ from mig, I think i have both of them, there's one on color modulation and another on pigments. He's got some great stuff and the tutorials are top notch with good content and production quality.

I've been out the loop, but was great to see some new stuff from you.

I can't wait for my own vehicles and to get playing with that Airbrush properly

Good to see you back into it eggroll! loving the death company dread, you have done a fantastic job, also your photo's really do the paint justice, I got a free paasche airbrush last friday so i'll be plugging it in and pretending I can airbrush very soon, inspired by you of course! ;-)

Thanks mig and nerd. Hope both of you are doing well with the airbrushing

Been a long time since my last update. Lots of my time got sucked up with Dawn of War 2 Retribution and Crysis 2. Also had a big project deployment at work recently. Anyway, managed to get back into painting and have been making steady progress on my 3 remaining dreads. Here are some WIP shots:


Got my dreads primed and airbrushed shadows and highlights. Also did all metallic areas with black by hand and then did gold areas in tin bitz.


Did silver areas in boltgun metal. Also did some minor details on cables.


Airbrushed shadows for the silver metallics.


Pic from tonight, did more detail work to pick out some individual parts and also did highlights for golds and silvers.

Need to do some scribbles and names on all the purity seals and clothes next along with chips and battle damage. Hoping to get everything done by this weekend.

Awesome! nice to see what you assembled and didnt while working too!

Been wondering when you would be back...

Btw, I finally broke out the airbrush and gave it a go, check out the front page of Dakka! I can honestly say it's all because of you and your fine work getting me started, it's a truly fantastic tool I love it. Thanks for inspiring sir!

Have to say you have one fantastic looking army.

Very nice work again. The Red lends itself great for this style. I can't wait to get working on my own vehicles with the Airbrush.

Question, other than red, power weapon nmm and glow, do you use the airbrush on anything else generally? Curious where your airbrush/brush line lies...

Thanks SilverMK2 and mig!

Tom - Saw your tutorial and it looks fantastic though I thought you were a one army kind of guy and all about the blood angels :(. Good to see you've been so successful with the airbrushing on zenithal lighting, OSL. Base looks awesome too.

Heh, coincidentally, my package of grey knight terminators just arrived in the mail yesterday from Maelstrom. I plan on starting a small grey knight army after I finish with my blood angels. Right now I'm just stockpiling models.

I just use the airbrush to do my reds, power weapons and shading for metallics. Basically all the bigger surfaces which I can do all at the same time and cut down on the painting time. Other stuff I stick with just hand brushing.

Lol don't worry it's a one off, I did it as a favor to btemple0 who just sent me a whole box to steal parts to make an apothecary termie, when I offered to pay he said, meh, just do a tutorial or something... so I figured I would use the oppurtunity to stretch my airbrushing muscles for the first time... dude, I LOVE it...

BA will get all the attention shortly, not to worry! At least with a GK for now, I didn't have to compete directly with your standards lol

Thanks for the info, this is basically what I figured. Do you mask much other than vehicles?

Lucky, yeah the terminator box has so many nice bits and the banner details are just incredible.

I rarely mask nowadays. Just too lazy. Most parts I just tilt the model at an angle so that the overspray won't get on adjacent parts. Works in most cases though in some, like the top square panels of the dreadnoughts I had to mask off.

yeah,
you WIN at Blood Angels.

Love the airbrush work, It's a great inspiration.

Panic...

Panic wrote:yeah,
you WIN at Blood Angels.

Love the airbrush work, It's a great inspiration.

Panic...

Ha, thanks panic. That's about the only winning I'll probably get with my BA since I don't play.

You win like Charlie Sheen THINKS he wins, but for real.

With Tiger Blood (Angles)

That would be an awesome succesor chapter lol

Skipping to the end after 3 pages .... Fantastic red just as I think they should be.

Very inspiring Egg.

Do you have any recommendation for where you learned to do your battle damage?

Thanks Miss Dee and VermGho5t.

VermGho5t - I read a lot of online tutorials and watched a lot of youtube vids. Mine isn't exactly the same as any one of them but uses some similar techniques. A lot of it was just trial and error till I got something I was satisfied with that also didn't take too much effort.

whalemusic360 wrote:With Tiger Blood (Angles)

I don't like blood angles.....they're far too obtuse!

Egg, how are you shading with the airbrush. I saw the post were you said you use half red/half black, do you water it down so as to make it in all the cracks?

misfit wrote:Egg, how are you shading with the airbrush. I saw the post were you said you use half red/half black, do you water it down so as to make it in all the cracks?

Nope, I use about a 1:1 mix of paint and water in my airbrush. It should dry almost immediately after it hits the surface, if it's pooling in the cracks, it's too watery. To do the actual cracks, I do that by hand with watered down black paint.


Finally finished off my three dreads tonight. Put a bit more work into their bases including one built as a mini diorama with tyranids.

First off is the ironclad dread...not a legal BA dread from what I could tell but don't really care as I wanted to collect at least one of each type in my army:


Next up is the vernable dread. I also painted up the TL Lascanon and the Assault Cannon but they're not equipped in the pics. Had a spare sprue with some land raider parts on it so I took the back plating and built it into the base.


Finally, my favorite of all three. Again, a totally illegal weapons loadout but these were the only arms I had left after doing my DC dread from the BA dread kit. Used a spare dread body and the half human, half machine head which fits the open sarcophagus quite well. This base has the two tyranids on it, first time painting them so wasn't sure about the colour scheme, I just used the standard colours GW shows on their site. Somewhat of a mini diorama, the tyranid in the back is just checking out his dead buddy:


Here's my whole dread collection so far...I think I might have to pick up another BA dread kit to make a dread libby to round out the group.

Very nice indeed. I would love to see how you would go about a lib dread.

SilverMK2 wrote:Very nice indeed. I would love to see how you would go about a lib dread.

Thanks SilverMK2. It's on the shopping list along with the stormraven.

Not something you want to run into in a dark alley, not at all.... Very nice mate very nice.

Thanks Santo.

Well I've been painting my Sanguinary Guard for about 2.5 weeks now off and on. They took so long b/c of all the individual details on all the models. This was also the first time I ran metallics through my airbrush too which turned out not too bad - just a lot more work cleaning up.

Got a quick teaser shot here of all 10 guys...will have detailed shots later.

Fantastic stuff mate after reading this a few weeks back i went out and got myself an air brush, i love it it maks the hobby much more enjoyable. All of your models look great carnt wait to see more. What colours do you use on the baces? Keep up the good work, take care