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 nathanie1 wrote:
@LDD - haha so many fond memories heard again on stage tonight. You should check it out if you can

Where is it at then ? I will ask the misses if she wants a night out yes maybe not that approach

its at the bloomsbury theatre 2 minutes walk from Euston station. tickets about £15

Thanks

Enter, stranger think this is my favourite version so far. Now stop touching it or it'll drop off. Or something.

i am eager to see the wings get some paint now!

and a nice cameo appereance there with that helemt on

@inmygravenimage haha yeah that's the gist of it.

I know I said I wouldn't, but I did. Head swap number 4, this time made of 2 heads, poor herald......







For the first time in the process I am truly happy with how he is looking, much closer now to how I imagined him.

@ Vik paint goes on tomorrow hopefully

Now that reminds me of the knights of ni ...

... except they are no longer the knights who say ni. They are now the knights who say 'ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing'

Head swap looks a bit better actually. The deformed horns add that bit of 'been there, done that, have the mutations to prove it' sort of look.

... except they are no longer the knights who say ni. They are now the knights who say 'ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing'

aye!

Glad I stumbled across your blog! Consider me subbed! Love the builds on these nurgle dudes.

@skalk cheers man

@moltar hi! Thanks for the kindly comment. He is all done now and ready to paint, but there is something about his wings that really bother me. I'm still not convinced and am considering removing the big two and replacing them so he has 4 equally sized small ones.

I've been beavering away in the darkness, updates coming soon, here's a taste.....

Easiest way to get my attention...show pics of dreads...cool fw eyecandy

@Vik it was some of the most fun I have ever had assembling a miniature, what an amazing kit!

Oh...I bet...ant I totally forgot the really nice looking base...the tiered cork really looks convincing!

That's one heck of a pose

Agreed, that is a nice pose.

@inmygravenimage and @Dr H - cheers guys. As soon as I finished him I wanted to do another one, it's a shame they are the wrong side of £40. :(


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choosing a paint scheme is proving an absolute pain in the arse. Really love the Forgeworld Minotaurs stuff but find there colour scheme pretty poor (especially for my limited painting skills). I am thinking maybe a successor chapter.


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Been making lots of marines. You don't wanna see them all so here are my favourites so far. Most still WIP with no purity seals or grenade packs added yet.

Veteran sergeant



Assault marine



Captain



And tomorrow's task as it just got too late tonight





Nathanie1 out

Sternguard, with special thanks to Theophony for waking me from my slumber.....









Still need to add all their grenades, pouches and other tracklements.

Nathanie1 out.

put the first lick of paint down on the marines. just a base coat and the start of highlights but I am proceeding with caution as its my first time painting astartes. He almost ended up as a lamenter, the checks remind me of the classic age of eavy metal painting but I really hate their heart decal. In the end I have settled on Raptors, I like their drab colour scheme and fluff and there are transfers readily available from Forgeworld.

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He's baaaaaack!

Sorry. Missed the last post, but so excited, especially to see raptors

Hey Theophony, hopefully so, hobby time is the last priority at the mo, hate how little time I have to post on here

Starting to get somewhere. Until, I buy the transfers from forgeworld he is going to seem kind of plain, I'm holding off until we know more on this rumoured website merger to see if I can get a shipping discount.







I can foresee issues over introducing very white transfer decals to a model that has had its colours muted but until I get hold of them I won't know for sure

nice!

@warboss thanks dude, much appreciated

Just a small update, tinkering around with some Mordheim stuff but so as to jot jump all over the place here are a few details added to the dred. I read an article a while back about using salt and hairspray to create wear and chips to paintwork and wanted to try it ever since so here is my first attempt on the dreds leg. I think it works better if you are airbrushing but I've never used one and am a little intimidated by the price and skill level required, so I went at it very carefully with a brush trying not to dislodge the salt crystals. The white should offset the transfers when they go on.

I'm not really happy with the blacks on the model. I follow San76 and he was talking about never using true blacks but very dark greys which I have been experimenting with here but I think I need to tinker with it some more.

The head especially does not pop and I think it is throwing the model off a little. Maybe I chose the wrong eye colour?

It's probably the wrong eye colour throwing the model off. Green on green isn't very striking unless you use a vivid, neon, lime green to really strike out. Try using something warmer like orange or red to combat the "coolness" of the green.

Final details going on. Changed the eye colour, it's an improvement but still not sure I have it right. I worry that I need to bring the general brightness of the image up, which will be an arse.

the weathering on that stripe on the leg looks good...how did you do that?... the raptors scheme looks very cool to that model...for me a good decision... and the current eyecolor is on the right way! but probably orange would be the best choice...

@vik hey man, how sit going?

The strips were a process of masking off the area, spraying the exposed sections with hairspray then sprinkling on rock salt. Once the salt has stuck to the hairspray, then spray on the stripe colour. Once the paint has dried run the miniature under the tap and give it a gentle scrub with an old toothbrush, this should dissolve the spray and the salt leaving the weathering marks in your paintjob. Hope that helps

ah... soso^^ ...

I didn´t knew one would try the salt method on a comparing small model...on a tank, yeah... but that takes some balls to try it on a dread.... well done mister^^

by the way... have you checked the current leagues comp theme?...maybe that´s something for you too...
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