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I'm liking that wolfen head dude, gonna be very cool. Who ever is getting that is going to be one very lucky lil' F***er!

Why thank you everyone! good comments! yeah he does look a little like pin heads love child but It was actually the sun coming through the window where i was painting that makes him look washed out a bit too much but I will give him another touch up and a wash in the recesses and paint his hair soon I hope,

The wulfen head is coming along nice, just need to re do his eyes and make them more wolf like! and the hair is dry brushed but I'm going to wash it and blend some more color into it to hopefully make it look better, he was going into a suit of terminator armor as a wolf lord for jirc but if i search my bits box I may be able to do him a small squad of wolf guard with those heads! we'll just have to see!

nothing else exciting for you all sorry

no more weights either and eggroll was nearly right, at first I couldn't bend my arm properly so i had a spa to warm myself up! then i painted!


see you monday night dudes!

Nerdfest09


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Are you kickin it on dakka James?

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Are you kickin it on dakka James?

Dude, you're like, super awesome at painting and stuff like... or something. That was me trying to sound like my wife's tweenage cousin... friggin slow.

Awesome heads though, that imperial fist looks like duke nukem. Give him a cigar for added effect.

Dude, you're like, super awesome at painting and stuff like... or something.

Awww shucks dude, thanks! I hope to get better at it you know so next time i paint anything for you it'll be even better than now!

Awesome heads though, that imperial fist looks like duke nukem. Give him a cigar for added effect.

How did I not see that! that's awesome, now he can run around the battlefield saying such classic quotes as: "don't have time to play with myself" or the ever popular "Take a teleport...straight to HELL"

Coool heads as usual my friend. They're my favourite bit to paint. I always try to make them the focal point of my mini's. Looks like you may have the same bug as me.

Nope GP not the same bug, :-) I still think it may be in the same virus category but I paint my faces sometimes before the armor so i make sure i'm only focussing on the head in particular then it spurs me on to make sure the armor is up to scratch! and in this case neither of these heads have bodies to be attatched to yet :-( and I've got nothing else i'm keen to work on at the moment so heads it is for the win! :-)

Fair play to ya mate. Just painting for paintings sake then. Commendable. I know what you mean though, you do a good head and it makes you have to do well with the rest. Hope you find something to stick them on bud.

Well keep up the good painting, coz i may have a Hive Tyrant/Swarmlord for you if you want to paint a real badass.

I'd love to paint a swarmlord! i'd paint him so well that i'd love killing him first turn and watching him get relegated back to the box!....so yeah, get one it'd be fun!

Yeahya, staying home from work tomorrow, my sons birthday tomorrow! I'll send your stuff out tomorrow, I'll actually have some time to get to the post office! (and secretly, shsh, don't tell anyone, some time to reply to some very important PMs)

You couldn't even beat my broodlord, how do you expect to beat a swarmlord?

How rude Tyraneil! :-) we shall meet again soon on the field of battle! and I shall unleash a withering salvo of crappy shooting at you! although i suggest we have a ref this time! check yo roster and we'll work it out eh!

@jirc: sounds like a good day to me! nothing says fun fun fun like replying to important and well versed pm's! :-) and post office trips can turn into days of delight! lol, hope your young un has a good day and you spoil him rotten! say hi to him for me!

So I saw your selling off your Exemplars, whats next in the pipeline?

Hey dude, yep, selling the Exemplars :-( i'm sure they'll end up with someone to love them and continue their purge of traitors from the eye of terror! hopefully anyway! :-)

Next project is kinda twofold, i'll need marines because i just can't live without 'em so after some deliberation and being impressed by a lot of reading about them during my research i've decided to start a Salamander army! should be awesome, i'm really looking forward to it, i've had a lot of help from Pyriel with what to run as I hope to play this army more competitively than i have before, now i'm looking for parts i need to add to the models I've got to use for it!
then next up i'm doing a necron army, i've been waiting for aaaaages to do this one again! had bought everything a few years ago but had to sell it off before i could even assemble it :-( so i'm itching for the new stuff to be released and i'm on it like white on rice on a polar bear in a snow storm!


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After minimal sleep today I will try again to pop some pics up for you all! I obtained an Ork warboss from aobr for freeeeeeee! and considering I haven't even touched an Ork before I thought it'd be a good time to start thinking of how i'd want one to look if i were to paint one up! I intend to paint him in lighter skin tones and heavily weather the metal and clothes, I have another head on the way from an Ork biker and i've been informed by Dakka's foremost expert on Orks (professor Kingcracker) that the biker head will look rather small on him, but i'll wait until it arrives and see if I can't do anything to make it look cool! I also didn't like the static pose of the stuck on gun arm so I tried my hand at converting it slightly! I wanted top give him the 'come at me bro' look we all love and i would expect to see from an Ork warboss bellowing a challenge to the puny 'umans! I sanded the arm to get a bit of an angle and then pinned it in place and glued it, then I used my brownstuff for the first time (yay!) and sculpted (well tried to) the shoulder and muscle to fit with the pose! he's since been undercoated and as soon as the head arrives i'll get paintin' I know it's only a minor change but I think it gives him much more presence and makes him look even bigger and meaner than he already is!






More tomorrow on some more wulfen heads for jirc! and maybe if i get lucky some more salamander love! oh yeah!

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Any thoughts on a colour scheme? You sticking with a GW one on going off the beaten track?

Back in the day (love that expression) I liked it when you saw orks with cheesy prisoner clothes, like white trousers with arrows on them. You don't see that around much now-a-days.

I think it's good you're doing something other than boring old marines!

There's a bit of sorrow with you selling them there mate, however you'd gotten into a funk and sometimes the best way to deal with a funk is to be done with them. Shall be very curious as to what's next....

And yes, random things to paint do help. I've actually stockpiled odds and ends for just that purpose and practice so I have a random lot of LotR minis, some Empire and other things as spare projects.

Well, don't shed tears yet DSS, they are up for sale if anyone wants them but i;m hoping that I can work out finances to enable me to start the new army without them jumping on their battle barge and off into the solar sunset!

This Ork is going to be fun, it'a a huuuge model! towers over the marines so big bits to paint!

for his paint scheme i'm as yet undecided but open to ideas! the convict theme from hangfire would work and keep in theme with me being from Tasmania! a colony settled by arrow wearing convicts from England! 'cos that's how we roll!

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must have been a full moon last night because I dreamed pf painting werewolves! whilst watching werewolf fims and turning into a werewolf! crazy stuff! so once I awoke into the darkened morning my mind was already made up! start painting all the wulfen heads for jirc! so that's what i did, I started them, so far they each only have been based with tallarn flesh and washed with ogryn flesh and at this stage they have only had the first highlight added of a mix of fortress grey, Tallarn flesh and bleached bone, but i thought i'd throw up some progress shots for you guys,next i'll do the shadows on their faces and add the ruddy cheeks and nose (it's bloody cold on Fenris) I like the heads some are a better sculpt than others though, a couple are a touch rough in spots and it's hard to discern details but overall they look tough in power armor!

here's the pack:






Keep in mind they look rough but it's just the skin i'm starting on so when I post them up soon with more paint you can see the hopefully good progression to what they'll be when done!


cheers everyone, chat soon!

Nerdfest09

Very cool nerdfest... thanks for showing the in-progress shots, they're always very useful.

Thanks Gits, now for another update! I kept painting and managed to get a bit further on all of them, not quite finished yet but i've had enough for today's painting, i managed to nearly finish another salamander as well and I suppose these guys/beasts will need some hair work and touch ups around the eyes but thought i'd show you the progression of them again, hope you all like! especially jirc 'cos they're going on his wolf guard!







As you can see i've started to add the reddish tinge to the cheeks and started on the teeth, like i said before they're pretty good quality but it seems like they've been made by two different people! there's a couple i really like and a couple i think look a bit rough and cartoonish? weird.

Oh and here's where i'm at with the first Salamander for my new army! i've mostly done his armor and have to do his pauldrons and backpack and chest eagle, then he'll be sweet to continue the fight through the stars!






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Once again your painting skills make me feel really jealous. How you manage such a smooth transition and have a huge change in colour from the shade to highlight, well I just don't get it.

Maybe it's further back in your blog but why the sudden change from exemplars to Salamanders?

Hiya hangfire, Ummm, I don't really know why i'm starting a new army! I do like the Exemplars but I think I have to go back and touch up bits that i'm not happy with and some of the photo's makes the reds look really boring and flat which they're not in 'real life' I suppose they just ran the course for me, I doubt anyone will buy them though so they may see the paint table again! there isn't much market in my island state for a marine army and postage anywhere else will be a deterrent for people, I also like the stories behind the sallies, the skin and green armor are a nice change I think, and I can also build them to a rather nice list for playing with! i've only ever collected stuff on the rule of cool 'o' meter and this will be nice having an army I can paint nicely and also hopefully win a game or two with, thanks to my coach Pyriel for the list! :-)

So, you know what will happen? i'll have the Exemplars sitting there waiting to be sold, no one will buy them, i'll get sick of painting green and then before you know it, my blog will be updated with all things red and black again lol :-)


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Oh and my blending is not even as good as yours dude! seriously it's just my choice of colors i think make it easier to blend than others! reds and greens seem quite forgiving!

Looking good nerdfest!

Thanks Gits, they're coming along nicely, should hopefully have them finished next week, the Salamander is done though! he looks pretty cool and as usual wasn't a long drawn out paint either, and I took the time and remembered to paint the armor joins! :-) i'd be happy with a strike force painted to his standard, only thing i'm going to try is this, I painted the base coat on him with an old bottle of Orkhide shade, but to speed up the process i'm considering buying a can of army painter dark green to do my base coats! if it works then i should be able to churn out at least a five man squad at one sitting! which will be a relief plus I get the army on the table to suprise my best mate who has no idea i've started another force!

Oh and anyone got techniques for painting teeth/fang?

I'll try and pop up an update next week, right now i;m taking the kids (Dogs) into my parents place to annoy them and run rampant around the house and keep their Kelpie x in line!

keep painting dudes and dudettes!


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that looks great my favorite parts the eyes you really captured the fire that burns in them!

Oh and anyone got techniques for painting teeth/fang?

I use vallejo (I think) chocolate brown or GW graveyard earth (different but both are good for bone) plus snakebite leather plus bleached bone plus white:

Wow... that's good work Pyriel... I'm going to have to adjust my bone recipe. Woosh!

Hot damn Pyriel! that is a fantastic Ork! and the bone recipe is so nice! i'll have to order a couple of paints and then i can try it out! thanks dude :-) lets hope my teeny timy paintbrush is teeny and tiny enough for the teeth I need to paint!


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