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Whohooo new car! That's always good, we are getting a new... er car come tax time next year, Walt is kinda pooping on himself lol.


And man can you get some paint down! I'm loving what I'm seeing, and that dread! Holy cow that is coming out nice nice nice. It makes me glad to see greenskins on your blog! You should do one at least every now and then, they are full of character and can be an excellent painting tool because of that. Not to mention my obsession for the Orks

While you're on vacation we should chat duder, it's been too long.

Hey guy! thanks for the input Gits, I'm glad you don't mind how the dread looks so far, still a fair way to go i'm trying to have most look rusted or aged and certain brighter parts look more recently painted or touched up and draw the eye to the details, probably do more tomorrow for you

I also like the concept of the trident to bring the theme out in my ES force and i do agree the ones i got while they look good, they don't quite mesh with the 40k models, so back to the trident drawing board we go (notice I said 'we' )

the Hell-girls have a loooong way yet that is only the first re highlight of the base colour so far and if my ocd serves me correct then i have at least 5 more to go

Oh yeah the new car (new 2nd hand car) is playing on my mind a bit, i'm quite excited and itching to get her on the highway soon! even though this is a gaming and hobby place I just want to tell you guys about it! but I'll try and refrain, although I will say it's big enough for the 3 furry kids and when it was new it cost over $100,000 and the year is 2001, if anyone can actually guess what it is I'll personally paint them a marine!

and KC, you bet dude, i'll organize a time for a beard date soon eh!

Land rover with import fees .

Lol, no not a rover, I wouldn't touch one with a pole! after 13 years of driving nearly everything by many manufacturers I can see how things have aged and hold up to everyday use, the new Landies are nice but seem redundant being so large :-) so no win for you Theo!

On a side note i bought the new space marine codex along with a Vanguard and Sternguard box and the Libby :-)

Good work on the Dred, girls and the HQ guy. Look forward to more.

For the trident, could you carve away some of it to make it more 40k-like. Maybe more angular and pointy?

Big and for that price, I'm thinking a big Merc' possibly an estate?

Lotus Elise S

I love how you painted the teef on the Dread, he's looking fantastic !!

Beware with the lamps though ! We need to see more of your work !!

Im glad you were there when the light blew... The Marneus counts as looks really good.

as does the dread. I think part of whats going on is that its too uniformly tinted. maybe add some black checks or bare metal to break it up?

Yay a beard date! SQUEEEEE!!

Close call on the light! Could've been a fire. A pipe burst on me last year, I just happened to be standing above it and heard it when it happened. Saved a lot of potential damage!

Damo's Rid'in High! Enjoy it bro!

Speaking of close calls, we had a pretty scarey one just the other day. We ate dinner then went out to do some scout outing for my son. We come back several hours later, and as soon as I open the door, the smell of gas pours out the door. I run inside and some how, while leaving Im guessing, someone must of hit the burner on the stove and it didnt ignite. So for the few hours, it just leaked and leaked and leaked. It was so strong it gave me a headache a few minutes later. So we had all the windows open, and fans like crazy


Thought I was going to crap my pants....my Orks were in the house no less!

You've got to keep your Lootas in their case, otherwise they'll scavenge all your household appliance bitz!

It's the meks I'd be worried about

Lotus Elise S dammit you got it! nothing like a car the size of a matchbox to transport myself, the Nerdwench & a combined weight of dogs over 100kg only 2 days until I get her!!! already started planning my automobile conversions! need to fix one cloudy headlight and then colour code the bumpers and chuck a set of rims on and she'll be sweeeeeet! & FAST! I already have my original copy of the Fast & the Furious soundtrack from 2001 to listen to!

I did do some more work on the DreadSplitta i'm sure Galorn may be linked to me telepathically? and now I'm feeling it coming together! I started the weathering and painted the flamer conversion along with the engines core and I LOVE it! I think it really looks a hot and old school powerplant! not much to do now, some teef, some cables, some oil, some dust, some lenses, some rust! I took a bunch of pics of him so I hope you don't mind but I couldn't decide which ones to show you today but I DO hope you like the progress?












Phew! that's a lotta Dread right there!

I'm a little torn with my HQ for the Emperors Spears? I'm getting a bit of a superhero vibe from my paint scheme which I don't like perhaps if I leave the chest & body armour blue? I sat him aside to contemplate while i worked on the Contemptor for the force you guys know what i'm like when i get a idea stuck in my head so I used the scaled molds and added detail to the greaves of the Dread! looks sweet but makes me want to do Alpha legion now




My Imperial Fists got their first layer of highlight yellow! not really much of an impressive shot, and when painting them I realised the casting wasn't as great as i'd hoped, useable but a lot of areas where I need to use it as battle damage




And finally I'll leave you with a picture i took this morning that will make you all go AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! ....................

Love the progress Nerdy. He practically jumps off the computer screen!


Awwwww, they're like little snow man... dogs.

Beautiful dogs mate, must be a bear to keep them clean though.

Loving the OSL on the flamed and engine glow I hope to be able to pull that off someday.

Looking very awesome, good work.

Lovely work, Nerdy!

And I want your dogs.

Awww cute dogs!

Dread is amazing dood!

Dawwwww.... Your dogs are adorable. They're so fluffy!

Dread effects look incredible as well. Very cool osl, and the weathering is top notch.

The scale armor press molds you're using are pretty neat. My only complaint would be that on the dread plates, the "rim" of the scale armor plates runs right through the middle of the pad. Would you be able to shave that bit off so it appears as one continuous area of scales, then surrounded by that rim.

Dude The alphas are theoretially still loyal to the emperor personally... Read Legion... I'd say do up a "loyalist" set of AL (maybe 500-1k points) and have fun with em.

Yeah, the dogs are cute ones, and having washed dogs like that, I can tell ya, when Damo has to bathe them, it is a project based on my memories of working vet clinics and bathing such dogs.

Like the dready a LOT.

Yes the dogs win the post again! damn their cute fluffy adorable faces!

I am really enjoying painting Gits dread at the moment it's a great challenge to get it to look Orkish and still discern the details, the flame and the engine glow were just a way to try something special and a little different than i usually paint I hope it fits with his army well enough and causes untold damage and pain to his enemies!!?

Ramos, I plan on filing the join flat and adding a plasticard and riveted band to tie it together as i can't get the scales to match enough against each other using just the mold, I also think I may turn my Emperor's Spears into Alpha Legion so any advice and direction on them would be welcome I'm just not loving my HQ guy which is sad but at least i haven't started a whole squad, are there any particular things i should include or avoid when painting AL? I think the scales can be used to good effect on them?

The kids get washed and groomed next week so then they'll be white again (and oscar a nice shiny black!) then you'll see how much they glow and look like snowmen-dogs!

well, last night I had an appointment at 7pm for some more ink work but he was running late so I sat in the car reading white Dwarf until 8:30 then in i went and 5 hours later came out with some ink on my chest and some pure Nerd love on my wrist i had my right arm half sleeve finished off with some shading and around the wrist got "The Emperor protects" Lol there's no hope for me is there!

nice ink...your puppys are awesome taht dred is pretty slick too..

onoly thing is your ink needs maor color! eh im a color kinda guy...

Alpha legion eh? Good choice, because I think they look cool, and their fluff is the tits. If you want some serious mind bending Alpha Legion, look up Misgula (I think thats how he spells his name) he did some true scale Alpha Legion and man oh man....they are simply incredible. Definitely something to aspire to anyways


Also nice tats Damo, that reminds me I need to go see my buddy James and see about getting some ink done. Its been WAY to long since Ive had a tattoo

Ow! That looks PAINFUL!

Dredd looks amazing dude. Incredible look to it.

Cute dogs, guy around here breeds them, got a little herd of fluff he walks by every now and then.

Can't wait for the IF, they are looking nice. And the mould work on the other is great. No idea on lore about SM, to much. But I got to say your gut is serving you well at the moment so go with it, the stuff you have been cranking out is of a whole new level, so go with your gut dude.

I shall indeed follow my gut instinct and whip up a new space marine force in the Alpha Legion theme & colours but I'll be using the new Space Marine codex as my list and base, I have an exemplary and very helpful friend in GiraffeX who without complaint takes all my ideas and multiple mind changes and creates lists for me that are usable and i can build to! and since there's a lot of conjecture about Alpha Legion being chaos followers or secretly still loyal? i'm gonna go with loyal and follow the codex astartes :-)

Also, I bought the new Codex, Librarian, Sternguard & Vanguard kits :-) and I am going to use them to resurrect my FleshEaters army! so keep the eyes peeled soon for lots of awesome bare heads and those new kits joining the sons of Sanguinius!

Errrrhclent!

FLESH EATERS!!!