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All nice Nerdy! Luv da Dredd!

That dread is bloody nice looking. Well done!

Careful, you never know when some sneaky Lootas are nicking about!

Nice update Nerdy the dread is looking lovely and weathered, I really love the effect you have done on the power supply as Git's said I've never seen that done before and it looks fantastic.

Now those hell bitches are super sexy lovely skin tone and blending and the mottling effect is out of this world mate

Its cool to see some paint slapped on the lions they are going to look fantastic I'm sure.

The Mek keeps getting better no idea how you had the patience to do the hazard stripes on the cabling.

Everything you touch with your brush seems to come out amazingly well, keep it up

I'll have you an army list shorty for your Alpha Legion a plan is forming

I've been trawling Gits and Dave's threads all night looking for what set up they use for their airbrushes? I want to upgrade and need a good package with a compressor and a gravity fed cup? the googling didn't help as i know not much about it all! :-( anyone else got any advice on a good little set up?

I've always been happy with my Paasche Talon. Its a great multipurpose airbrush- Im pretty sure its the same one Gits uses.
As to a compressor.... well the one I got is crap. I dont recommend it: Paashche D500SR

Talon, Grex compressor.

RiTides has a great thread about it but it's in the DCM section. Seems that MajorTom and many others are saying that the Badger Krome is a great place to start and you won't need to upgrade it for a long time, possibly ever, so it's a solid buy for most people. I found quite a few set ups on ebay with that brush for around £300 I think. I need to check the compressors though.

Best thing to do for advice though is upgrade to DCM and read that thread. There are loads of good videos on YouTube too. AirbrushTutor and WargamersConsortium both have helpful series' on the subject.

Thanks Casey! I've been toying with becoming a DCM for about ......3 years looks like i need to finally bite the bullet and next pay get my DCM on! then I'll do my research and get a new set up.

only a little bit of paint today, I wanted to brighten up the Mek Ork I am painting but didn't want to lavish too much colour to be distracting on him, so I decided to use his backpack to be the spot colour by painting it in tarnished and bright copper tones, what do you think?



got some packages in the post the other day and just had to get a little excited and have a crack with some of them firstly lets see what I got!



and some marine parts incase i need them.....

and some terminator parts incase i need them........

and an Emperor's Children Contemptor dreadnought........ incase i need it

and this.

and this is what i tried? o.k? too dark powder do i need a lighter one?


I also did some painting of my Alpha legion guy! the armour is meant to be a greenish blue right? how does this look? I really want to get some feedback before i continue!

That is one hell of a supply drop.


So ah... Nerdy... You uh... ain't gonna use all them there classy looking FW marines are ya? Why don't you uh.... share the marine love about... by you know.... eh.... sending me a few... for you know... reasons. Yeah. Reasons.

Oh my, that is a treasure trove of pure awesome. Hook that plastic/resin crack to my veins! And you knocked out progress on multiple projects too! I don't know where to start!

Wow... That's pretty amazing all-round!

That is a boat load of things! In case, you know, you need them.

Nice haul

I think The Lord has too much green to him for a regular trooper, but for a hero I think they should stand out more anyway, so it fits him great.

Also I like the dirt effect you did, not all dirt and grim has to be a dark muddy brown. Yours looks more like a desert flats sort of grime.

Ok. too much stuff overload :Wow:
Love the muck - really nice.
That's a lot of marines Going even more purple are we?
And that mek... just awesome. Yowser.
Like your alpha dude but he is suffering a bit from peanut head syndrome?

I think I know why you have no money for DCM-hood...

Well the mek is looking more awesome by the day. The supply drop is just not fair. But I can't wait to see what you do with it all. And the lord looks cool, apart from I kinda agree about the head, can't put my finger on it but.........kinda looks like when a baby is filling it's nappy. I am sure it will look brilliant in the end, and who the heck am I to say anything. It's just slightly off is all, IMO. I will shut up now ...........sorry.

Yep that is roughly the "codex" standard look for AL guys.

Lol, thanks guys for the feedback the AL guy is my first attempt and it was the amount of green I was concerned about, i think perhaps another blue wash should pull it back enough we'll see how it looks, but at least it's not too much to be ott! and his head Oh you guys! I actually like it, it's only marginally smaller than the GW ones and on a Scibor body it does initially look small I won't argue there, but I look at it as being more in proportion if he was actually wearing the armour! I keep thinking Primarch even though that won't be his role in the force

any ideas on his tabard colour? my initial reaction is creamy white or black, green could work but it'd have to be quite bright and it might pull your eyes too much? Hmmm?

Oh I should probably chuck this in swap shop but I figured here would be just as successful as you dudes know me I've put my HH IF on the back burner now as I had too much going on in my head with my models I needed to strip it back a bit so I have as a result got 15 MarkIII Iron armour marines with Phobos pattern bolters up for grabs, I'd like to swap them for Ork models with no paint on them in plastic if possible some StormBoyz would be ace if anyone has some but i'm open to any ideas

Painter, collector, gamer.... plastic crack peddler

The worst kind of crack peddler.

Superb supply drop, I'm green with envy on the books in particular.

Speaking of green, this guy has a definite Hulk vibe going on...

Wow thats a mega supply drop NF09

Oh yea, Damo, I think youre "calgar" needs another coat or two of blue wash, as hes currently a bit green for Alpha legion I think

Hi mate, as always your output is impressive to say the least.

Love the very moody pictures with the black background. Your Marines look snazzy already!

Thanks Siggy! haven't seen you in a while! I've got a fair amount on my table at the moment and i'm trying to juggle all my projects for myself and my friends :-) it's a 1st world problem i'm glad to have though! i've got some serious anticipation for a couple of upcoming commision-ish things (you know who you are) and then i have this other thing......



.... http://whydidibuythat.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/muppet-orange-whatnot-kit.html

Yes, it's a muppet and I bought one from ebay! why you may ask?....duh! so I can turn it into a likeness of myself and then finally create some fun painting tutorial videos for youtube lol! and yep, i'm deadly serious! :-)

Dude thats awesome!

i look forward to watching Muppet-Damo progress

Thanks ramos lol! once he arrives I'll sort out a beard and hair that looks like me and i've got 2 pairs of glasses so he can have a pair and if they don't look right i'll have to get creative! :-) then all I need is to find someone who can edit and produce my vids for me! it's gonna be fun times I tell ya!

Damo is looking to Chaos Incursion his way thru his local games group it seems!

Thanks Nerdfest. I no longer feel bad about having hordes of unpainted SM's after seeing that rabble you just picked up!

You are going to love the FW masterclass books though, some excellent terrain and weathering tips. I also recommend their weathering powders as they work like a treat.