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Ultramarines! Ultramarines!

Hey Damo,

Glad to see you've got your mojo back. I was a bit worried about you reading the options post a, b, c,.. etc. Sounds like you're back to your usual energetic self though.

Can't wait to see your Imperial fist, i'm always drawn to how people do IFs as "they" say yellow is the hardest colour to paint well.

Good luck dude.

Hi everybody, as usual thanks for hanging out on here with me!

@Hangfire: Duuuude, good to see you (sort of) yep the mojo is well and truly back now! these marines may take me a while but it's going to be great for me and hopefully good for everyone to see as well! and don't worry i'll be honest about the difficulty and problems I face especially with the IF marine! now where are your Eldar? young man if you spent more time painting and less time at the Pepper pig world with your daughter we may have enough for a game in a year or three I played 3 games in the last two weeks with my Exemplars so now my tally is 6 games in 16 years woohoo! had a loss against Tyranids had a draw against Tau (great fun that one) and a big loss against Blood angels! so i'll give up for a while and focus on painting stuff!

@Lipsdapips: Hmmm alright just for you! I'll whip you up an Ultramarine in normal armour and tack him onto the list! any ideas how you want him?

@SCC: thanks so much dude, that was a big help and those Brazen Claws are beautifully done! so smooth and the poses are fantastic! it'll be great to look back at to help me when I get up to the storm lord for you! I had a chuckle about doing a 'mentor' for Pyriel that's gold right there! but he's actually got the Salamander on it's way to him in Goblinburg as we speak! and don't worry if you can help me paint white/yellow/red then by all means just pm me and i'll store it in my files!

catch you all soon


Nerdfest09 (what do you think of my new avatar?)

A Contemptor Dread in your scheme would possibly be the greatest thing that could happen to a Dreadnought. Ever.

That is sooo tempting to do one of those dreads! like, really tempting! and the more I look at them the more awesome it would look! maybe....just maybe....when i've done my current marine thingy i'll splash the cash and grab one and paint him up!

who am i kidding? I so totally am going to do it as soon as i'm ready! :-)


nerdfest09

Wait - I get to choose how the model's done!?
It jsut gets better!

Yep, I've got a spare marine I can put towards it :-) I just want to know from you how you would like to see him painted up? helmet? bare head? company? bolt gun or pistol and sword? let me know and if i've got the parts I'll do it as close as i can for you! he'll be a bit down the track but depending on how fast i move through the others he's on the list!


nerdfest09

Then can I be absolutely cheeky Nerdfest old chap and request the left shoulder bare for a Deathwatch pad on the Crimson Fist? I feel he should become an honoured member of the Deathwatch team forming up.

I blame my love of Crusade chapters.

I'm also looking forward to seeing what you do with him - and your take on that dark sort of blue as I'm having to figure out an alternate approach for my Pre-Heresy Night Lord...

If you've got special bits feel free to build him up how you like, but if its too much trouble, just give him normal gear. Preferably helmeted, I tend to avoid helmets for some reason :|
If I have a spare marine i'll have to try marines exemplar

Done and done dudes! I'll do the crimson fist with both pads but I'll only lightly glue it on so you can remove it when it gets there! dark blue will be fun to do, it's got be dark enough to look that blue but light enough to show highlights and details! hmmm challenge ahoy!

and LDP, i'll paint you up a brother tac marine gladly with a helmet on! no problems at all

I'm having trouble trying to make the hand for jirc's wulfen lord and i can't find ghoul hands anywhere on the bits sites! any body out there got any vampire playing friends? as soon as I get them i can paint him up as the second on my list and get into the others quicker!

I'm so happy I started this train of thought and painting! it's really sparked me up heaps! and i've been madly researching different colours and methods for them, some i'm shaking my head at thinking how on earth can i replicate that! but hey! it's learning isn't it and we'll see how i go real soon!


happy painting everyone!

Nerdfest09

These marines you are painting for people... Are you doing a marine swap and sending them in the post or do you keep them and just take pictures?

Hey Hangy i'm not really doing a swap as I don't expect anything in return for the mini's i'm just using it as an opportunity to learn some more and send some good karma around but of course if anyone offers anything in return it would be churlish to refuse! it's a fun project that people can get involved with and follow with me! i'd be happy to do you up an Eldar if you like? I just need to get a model and i'll add him to the list let me know how you want him? color etc! it may be a little while until he gets done depending on the current ones i'm trying? but i've never painted eldar! so it'll be good to do!

so what else you been up to dude? anything fun

nerdfest09


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Oh yeah i'm actually sending them to people too! :-)

Wait!? YOU'RE SENDING THEM TO PEOPLE!?!?!?!?!?!?
WOOHOOOO! I have to do something in return, expect either a marines exemplar or a grey knight from me! Thanks alot!

LOL, Yes, LDP i'm sending them to people! it's a small gesture to say thanks to those out there who have and continue to support me and be my friends whilst enjoying the painting i do, I think it would be nice to have a little strange marine all painted up on your shelves by me watching over your work or even perhaps used as an objective in a game!
it's a bit of a slow project as i really want to try and do good paintjobs on them and I've got to buy the mini's as well i'm going to have fun doing an ultra for you! the first one has been sent to Goblinburg to make sure Pyriel doesn't get up to too much trouble

on a strange side note, i just remembered when typing that I actually have one of the first marines I painted (a dark angel captain) hidden in my wall from when i removed a brick wall and had to patch up the others by plastering over them so in the gap where a brick was missing I popped him in and then finished the wall so he's there forever protecting the house! I have a pick on my phone but don't know how to get it on here......

I was going to try and get more work done today on jirc's wulfen lord but i really can't sculpt those damn hands i need so I'm just playing the waiting game until someone out there in dakka land can find me the ghoul arms i need! then i'll paint it up for him and send it (to New Zealand too!) so instead I tidied up my hobby room in prep for moving everything out for a whole houseful of new carpet! but i can still get to the stuff I need to work on thankfully


Nerdfest09

Nice idea there Damo.
Gives you something different to do, so keeps the interest up. Think I might copy that idea. I've got a mini i've been wanting to paint for ages, but i had no real reason to do it.

I've mostly been building my army as I'm trying to play regularly, so haven't got much painting done, but i've nearly got my DA exarch finished, so piccies coming soon on him. Just need to figure out what to do with the banner.

I love the idea that somewhere in your house is a dark angle captain plastered in the wall. One day 38,000 years from now, a space is marine's going to find it and say "WTF!"

If you find an Eldar mini and you fancy painting it up, that would be cool as. I'd be interested to see what you do with all the nobbly bits. grrrrrrrrrr

Hey there Damo, I'm gonna cjeck with my FLGSs this weekend and see if anyone has those hands, will let you know how I get on. BTW, I have a a few old plastic eldar models you can have if you are keen on painting one up? My buddy gave them to me like 8 or 9 years ago so they are old school. Man it sounds like you have the full reno going on, stressful to the max! Would love to see some photos, I can give you my "professional opinion"!

Hi hangy and james! cheers guys! well, jirc if you have a spare Eldar model i would love to paint it up for our good friend mr hangfire who appears to be posting right above you! never even put one together but as i keep saying, it's all good learnin'

and thanks james for having a look around your flgs, don't stress too much, i'll find them somewhere, i've asked DSS as well to keep an eye out so i'm pretty confident someone will have at least one in a bits box hiding somewhere! and then I can finish him! he's nearly ready to go apart from those damn hands but they're important to the whole look of the model imo, the paint will be the easy bit for me as i do love my wolves i plan on doing a more technically neat and blended version of the scheme of the ones in my gallery, i've got the paints all laid out and the model just sitting there glaring at me accusing me of being a slacker!

And james, you'd be right, the reno's are a pain in the it started last year with a bathroom, re done from scratch as it was just a double brick bathroom with a drop in fiberglass shower that had deteriorated badly, so cutting channels in brick to run pipes that had come through the ceiling next it was removing that double brick wall to make the lounge open plan! hard work but not as bad as i thought, now the kitchen! thought it'd be easier as we're just getting new doors and benchtop but discovered the top is joined to the frame and now we need to remove the entire kitchen and do it again from scratch! not fun!

well Hangfire, Mr Hangfire I shall do my best when i get a chance for some Eldar love! what scheme? I'll try and get the shots off my old phone to show you, I couldn't paint faces back then so i painted a skull face paint on him instead! looking forward to seeing your DA!
How have you gone in your games? mine haven't been successful for my Exemplars but my lord they've been fun games to play! I keep reading about how the other armies play and want to play against them but i really need to finish the squads and bits to make it competitive, I had nothing ranged or heavy enough to hurt the Blood angels but i basically strolled up the board against Tau to have a draw!

Nerdfest09

Well, my games have been like this. I mostly play against a mate who started playing at the same time as me. He's got a Chaos Marines slannesh army. He likes having all sonic weapons and a demon prince with lash of submission.

I couldn't touch him, for ages. He would win every game and usually in the first 2 turns.

A couple ofwraithlords and a squadron of warlakers to deal out the pain and the tables have turned. He really struggles to hurt me and I usually table him. So now we're waiting for finecast Obliterators for him and fire dragons for me, before we expand.

I've played a few games with some experienced tourney players, but I got tabled every time without fail.

Funnily enough my worst defeat was against Tau. They just hung back and took me apart with str 5 shooting, and some crazy ass single shot missles. I think i'll do more outflanking if I play Tau again.

My eldar are being painted in the Yme-Loc colours, so mostly fortress grey with orange bits. I'm tired of painting my DAs so next up is a Wraithlord.

sounds good! i'll love to see what you do with a wraithlord! they are nice looking models imo and your scheme is great! I didn't realise it was an official one though?

I'm enjoying learning to play now and don't mind losing as long as it's fun! that's why i always try and put Librarian Tomas into ridiculous situations and see how he fares :-) he's been eaten by space chickens and genestealers and had the beat down from a sang guard squad! one day he will win a battle! :-)
And yes i hate tau too, they tend to camp and pick you off with volleys of shots! then markerlight you and it just gets worse!

I'd like to play against chaos as well, something different but the guy who's got them doesn't like playing them as he wins with his tau :-) not fair!

Nerdfest09

Your generosity is too much, i'm returning the favour:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/180/368000.page

Thanks LDP, you are too kind! :-) looks like Dakka is the new coffee, bringing friends together! lol cheers dude! I need to paint more now seeing your stuff!


Nerdfest09

Nerdfest09 glad you back on the painting horse . Well what you ate doing is what I would've recommended. You gotta break it up by painting something different to keep your juices flowing. Or you will get burnt out. Also sometimes just step away for a week or two and that will help also.
So keep up the good work and finish your chapter and paint different models in between.

Thanks GreyDeathOne! I feel heaps better now I've got a new focus for a while, I'm just waiting on some models and bits to arrive in the mail before I can start painting them again! so sadly there won't be much action on the blog front for a week or two! but if i do anything at all i'll make sure it goes up! :-)


nerdfest09

Hello my fine gaming friends finally i've got off my Nerd butt and got an update for you all! not a huge one but I think it's good none the less!

I planned my day around painting these heads below, i wanted to start the marine head for Bullyboy76's imperial fist and the wulfen head for jirc's wulfen lord, i'm happy with how they are progressing so far, still more to go but i like to touch them up when they're on the mini and i can see how it all looks together.

the wulfen head was fun it's weird painting something so different to my usual work, and the sculpting made it easier to add the highlights, if i wanted to i could have overbrushed the whole thing and it would have looked passable, but, I wanted to try and do it properly like I said this whole project is about, I tried to add more pinkish tones into him to represent the fact they're in cold climes and would probably be a touch frost burned even for astartes, I also gave him yellow eyes to appear more wolf like, i think so far he looks good but it's not done yet have to do his hair/fur? and touch up the eyes and mouth, I popped it up next to the armor he's going in and now i don't like the termie armor it was started ages ago and I feel it's too busy and not smooth enough so i may pop him in pa instead and see what he looks like, but it's up to james what he wants him in, I think he will actually use him in game so he could be a cc lone wolf? or i could put him on a taller base and he could still be a wolf lord? dunno, ideas?







Next I worked on Bullyboy76's head for the Imperial fist marine i plan on painting him, he really likes my faces so he asked if he could be helmet less! which i find really strange as he is an awesome painter and produces some beautiful work including faces much smoother and better than I do! but, if that's what he wants from me then that's what i'll do this one isn't finished yet either, still hair to do and some touch ups on the face, I got one eye spot on but the other isn't playing nice with me! Grrrrrr! so i left it and i'll see if i can fix it hopefully later on




So, that's the days work so far! i then went and did a massive workout added 2.5 kilo's to my dumbells (and no they're now not a total of 2.5 kilo's!) and then went nuts on the bag! such a nice productive day, after i'd painted and worked out I even found myself glueing a marine together from my bits to paint up for myself and do a salamander in current armor, it's really tempting and pulling at me to play a sallie army as well now! we'll see how i go after painting this bad boy I may re visit those heads today but i'm drawn to the comfy couch and finishing the black library book 'salamander' by nick kyme, it's actually turning out to be one of the better books i've read from them recently, my first from the author but it's quite well written and is keeping me interested.

happy painting everyone hope you're all well and enjoying life


Nerdfest09

That's some great work on those heads. I like the skin tones.

Thanks djphranq! appreciate it! hope you are seeing the pics the right size? mine are still coming up massive..hmmm not cool, this happened last time too :-( I need to try and blend the highlights in a bit better but I read if you pull your brush from the shadows outwards it helps blend? dunno i'll try it though :-)

Nerdfest09

Tremendous work on those heads... wow, I've never done anything approaching that.

Really nice work and grats on the extra weight, personally i'm up to 13 push ups (yes that's all in one go!)
I really must go and hunt down bullyboy's blog.

With the wulfen's hair, did you drybrush? I found when doing the plume on my dire avengers it really hard to not end up with paint in between the fibres.

Hey nerdfest! good work on the heads though they came out a bit too white and pasty IMO. The marine's head looks a bit like he's wearing some makeup. One thing you can try doing is adding a bit more watered down flesh tones to give it a tint for a bit more realism.

Also, if you can glue marines after a good workout, it means you're not working out your arms hard enough. Usually if I try and paint after hitting the gym it ends up pretty bad with crooked lines and colours all over the place

Eggroll wrote:Hey nerdfest! good work on the heads though they came out a bit too white and pasty IMO. The marine's head looks a bit like he's wearing some makeup. One thing you can try doing is adding a bit more watered down flesh tones to give it a tint for a bit more realism.

Also, if you can glue marines after a good workout, it means you're not working out your arms hard enough. Usually if I try and paint after hitting the gym it ends up pretty bad with crooked lines and colours all over the place

Nah Eggroll he just took his helmet off and has that sweaty pale look . Nerdfest I agree with Eggroll just wash him down a bit and will bring some warmth back to him. Great job on both heads cant wait to see the rest of the model.