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Nice work on the faces San thanks for switching that background on your updates also

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Boy San, have I dropped the ball on your blog. Don't know how I missed it. Your yellows are impeccable, your eye for design and color outstanding, and your airbrush skills are excellent. Consider me both subscribed and embarassed...

The faces look epic like all of your work

As always, you are all too kind.

@Gits - no embarrassment needed mate! Thank you for taking the time to stop by (and thanks heaps for the sub).


I hoping to get some more work done on the wolves in the next couple of days, so with any luck I should have updates soon.

In the meantime, thought I would ask a question of my fellow airbrush users. I am using an iwata eclipse HP-c at the moment. It's been a great first airbrush, but I'm aware there are better ones out there. I was thinking of looking into getting a newer one, something with a finer than 0.33 needle, and I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations?

thanks man, needed this thread to galvanise my own hobby interests. really awesome work man, look forward to readfing more when i can (only got to page 5 at the mo)
Courage and Honour.

Brother Titus you really are too kind mate! I hope you like the more recent models as well.

Speaking of which I have a small up date today. Have done some more work on the space wolves. The armour is highlighted and most of the bronze done as well. Still to do: metal highlights, bone and gems. Oh, and the claws on the wolves. With any luck I will have some completed pics by this weekend.

San! wowzers dude! the space wolves are really coming along nicely, especially the heads! I do love a good head and you've got some seamless skin tones there! very impressed (yes, impressed= Jealous) I also like the armour on them, the blue is a nice balance between the popular baby blue look and the older greys you used to see, great use of almost reverse highlights on the legs :-)

So what formula are you doing for your faces?

Thanks guys! Shocked by the quick responses....

@nerd- cheers man but I can't take credit for the choice of blues, that's all my friend the space wolf player. I just apply the paints

@solar - it's a bit of a process but I use a recipe I got from 'eAvy metal (recipe in old paints) 1) tallarn flesh, 2) thin wash of dark flesh 3) wash of scorched brown and black 4) 2:1:1 tallarn flesh: fortress grey : bleached bone to all but recesses 5) 1:1 tallarn flesh : bleached bone to raised areas, 6) final highlight bleached Bone. Thin paints for the win

Very nicely done San. Love the way he looks.

He looks amazing Envious of the painting quality

Gits and Nash- thanks very much! Those two wolves are finally finished and I am hoping I can get some photos up tomorrow.

In the meantime, something totally different. I got my new airbrush the other day and decided that rather than finishing one of the dozen or so projects I've got going, I would instead start something totally new. So, inspired by Yggdrasil I went to the store and picked up a box of tau fire warriors . Despite being totally ignorant of tau I set about building a test model. Sadly, turns out badger and iwata use different sizes threads ski didn't get to try any of the fancy airbrushing I was hoping to. Should rally have checked that before I picked up the box.

I any case, here is a WIP shot of the first of my tau. I love the model, and I would say he is about 75% done. I went with a green and tan scheme, tried for grey at first but he looked very bland.s might reserve that for stealth guys. Have decided to stretch myself a bit with these guys and I intend to use weathering and even some OSL if I can.

Before I commit to painting up dozens of these guys I would love some input. The symbol on the shoulder I was going to do as a bronze. It's just under coated at the moment. Black seems to be popular but I tried that and it wasn't working for me. Before you do comment though, I now realise that he should have had an antennae and that I should have pained the sept markings (?) before I did he chipping. Poor test model :(


Thanks in advance.

You're a better man than I sir. I'm not a fan at all of those old sculpts and is the impetus behind my Kroot rebellion. With that said, you've done a bang up job with it. Nice subtle color scheme with pop of bright blue (which you know I like). I'd say go for it. I'd love to see a full army of these on the table! Ill assume those you did not airbrush...or did you?
Either way, awesome
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Cheers bebop!

No no he is airbrushed, just with my old brush. Any thoughts on a base? My natural inclination is to go with a dark, rubble strewn type base ( because that's what I do for my marines and also, the dark colours should contrast nicely) but I'm not 100% sold. I do intend to bring some weathering powders etched on him....

As for the models, I didn't think they were too bad. Kinda dynamic in posing. I looked at some of the broadside (?) models (xv8 I think) and they looked very chunky.

Nice airbrushing work San. I like your green transition. Very well done.

The airbrushing on that tau looks great! Wonderful color palette too.

Maybe a more greyish black, like you did on the Chaplain bodyguard unit for the guns? What color for the sept markings? A light blue or orange would look good.

Stick with the same basing, gives you the option for allies without looking super disjointed.

Thanks very much everyone.

@gits - green is far more forgiving than yellow!

@whalemusic360- great idea with the basing. As for the sept colours, I was intending to use the same as the central panel in the left shoulder to keep the palette close together. Will definitely look at blue and orange though !


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Finally got the Thunderwolf cavalry finished! well, my part anyways...my friend wants to do the bases. since one of the models wont stand up without a base (the leaping wolf) most of the pics i have are of the model that is free standing.

its been great fun to paint these models many thanks to my mate for letting me have a go at them. They are awesomely over the top 40k.

learnt a bunch of stuff with painting the animals, and I very nearly succeeded in using transfers!

anyways, i hope you (and he) like them. once again, i have failed to get the scaling right so you probably will need to click and zoom. sorry.

Seriously nice looking TW's. Love the shot of the wolf looking right at ya!

So San, what did you learn about painting animals? I ask because I have a pile of Fenris Wolves and one Wolf Lord on T-wolf that I need to paint and have no idea what I'm doing...

well, one of the things i learned was that they aren't nearly as daunting as i thought they would be. after just painting armoured figures, i was pretty nervous about fur.

if you like the way they look i can PM you the details on how to get them like that. i imagine greys would be pretty straight forward too.



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@ Solar-lion - thanks mate

Please do!

The tau looks great and your Thunder Wolves blew my mind

Nice Thunder Wolf, its nice to see a different colour to the normal GW version.

Thanks folks! My friend was happy with the TW and that's the best part

As for the tau, I'm glad you liked him Nash; I actually really enjoyed painting him. Not sure if it was just because it was something different. Got to work on OSL as a technique....I think the way I went about it was far too heavy handed. When I get back I will try two more - one with my new airbrush that's waiting and one using bebop's glaze based technique.

Any tips anyone might have be gratefully received

I'm afraid I can't help with tips, what with you being a sublime painter already, but I just wanted to pop in and say that I really like the tau colour scheme, especially looking forwards to the weathering powders, that and chipped armour make a refreshing change for tau, and the fact that you chose green, well that's what i would have done too! I think for the shoulder thing the brass idea is still worth baring in mind, green and brass always looks nice together in my opinion.

By the way the TWs are simply....well, simply perfect in every way, you have outdone yourself!

Thanks heap J! I'm very much looking forward to finishing him. I think the weathering powders should go ok over those colours....

How's the doctorate going mate?

Slowly! How is the ...archaeology? Do you do archaeology? or is that my mind inventing things? , your blog has given me the kick i needed to update my blog btw, so thank you, what weathering powders have you bought btw? and from where?

Haha yeah, for my sins I do archaeology. It's all ok thanks, but at the moment I'm on holiday which is far better
I use the forgeworld powders myself and have found them really nice. They have a few different browns which blend together well. I can get the colours for you when I get home if you like. I'm sure there are heaps of other choices out there...I'm just a beginner in that sort of thing.

Looking forward to see some updates man, but I imagine its difficult with your studies..

Those wolves are mindblowing, and the weathered Tau look great.