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Damn you Eggroll! teasing me with updates and all i see is pin up pics of beautiful air compressors! :-)


what's next on the bench dude? anything you're working on for us to see soon? or are you having a hiatus from the hobby for a bit? I really would like to see more of your amazing work soon! if it wasn't for you i would never have gotten an airbrush set up! and i'm glad I did!

Nerdfest09

Eggroll wrote:Haha, Tom I didn't say anywhere in my log to buy a $500 iwata . Heard lots of good reviews for it though, just make sure you baby it, the replacement parts cost an arm and a leg.

Yes you did. You seduced me and all these other people with your siren call of 'looooooook... airbrushes are aweeessooooommmmmmeeeee' (which interestingly enough reached #2 on the charts in sweden in 2009 btw) therefore you are completely responsible, and a bit of a tramp.

nerdfest09 wrote:Damn you Eggroll! teasing me with updates and all i see is pin up pics of beautiful air compressors! :-)


what's next on the bench dude? anything you're working on for us to see soon? or are you having a hiatus from the hobby for a bit? I really would like to see more of your amazing work soon! if it wasn't for you i would never have gotten an airbrush set up! and i'm glad I did!

Nerdfest09

Heh, the model pics will be coming shortly. Hopefully this weekend I plan on finishing my repaint of a terminator librarian by then and hopefully start on my devastators again.

MajorTom11 wrote:

Eggroll wrote:Haha, Tom I didn't say anywhere in my log to buy a $500 iwata . Heard lots of good reviews for it though, just make sure you baby it, the replacement parts cost an arm and a leg.

Yes you did. You seduced me and all these other people with your siren call of 'looooooook... airbrushes are aweeessooooommmmmmeeeee' (which interestingly enough reached #2 on the charts in sweden in 2009 btw) therefore you are completely responsible, and a bit of a tramp.

Haha I was just showing off my goods. You could have bought the cheap chinese airbrush off ebay instead Once you get your Micron I'm sure you'll be shopping for a 3rd. BTW I wanted to get a Sparmax but De Serres was all sold out :(

Eggroll, I'm too impressed man, everything in this thread just rocks with so much awesomeness. I love the darker looking blood angels.

Just a question about your pre-airbrush days. Did you paint your models like so?

1) Prime Black
2) Rust Colored Primer
3)Dark Red Color (I think MajorTom said something like Burnt Cadmium)

and then just begin to pick out the highlights? I'm curious because I like the dark and gritty look your BA have, and kinda wanna copy it >_>

Damn, there's a lot of inspiration on this thread. I hope you don't mind, Eggroll, but I might try a variation on your priming/highlighting/shading method on my 1K sons. I like the shade you get from your colors!

Not sure if you answered it before in the previous 15 pages, but do you use any protective sealer? If so, what do you use?

Alfndrate wrote:Eggroll, I'm too impressed man, everything in this thread just rocks with so much awesomeness. I love the darker looking blood angels.

Just a question about your pre-airbrush days. Did you paint your models like so?

1) Prime Black
2) Rust Colored Primer
3)Dark Red Color (I think MajorTom said something like Burnt Cadmium)

and then just begin to pick out the highlights? I'm curious because I like the dark and gritty look your BA have, and kinda wanna copy it >_>

Thanks Alfndrate! My pre-airbrush days did not include any BA work. I only started doing a BA army because the quality and time saving techniques afforded by using an airbrush. If I was to do BA models without an airbrush I would still prime in the rust colour and then blend by hand the shadows and highlights. Would take a lot longer to get the same effect but it is possible. Feel free to copy the dark and gritty look, I'm sure I'm not the first to do it

HF Izanagi wrote:Damn, there's a lot of inspiration on this thread. I hope you don't mind, Eggroll, but I might try a variation on your priming/highlighting/shading method on my 1K sons. I like the shade you get from your colors!

Not sure if you answered it before in the previous 15 pages, but do you use any protective sealer? If so, what do you use?

Thanks Izanagi. Don't mind it at all, just make sure to post your 1k sons. If I actually finish my current army and my grey knight models, 1k sons is a project I'm definitely going to have to put on my to do list.

Yup I used to use protective sealer. Recently on my troops I've been lazy but since I don't game with them I figured it doesn't matter. All my tanks have it though. I do a base coat with Krylon Gloss Spray and then I apply Testor's Dull Cote after. Works quite well and doesn't affect the colours but it will dull down the metallic areas. You can always go over the metallics after with satin varnish but again...laziness prevails

Finished off the Librarian in Terminator armor tonight. This was a repaint of an older paint job before. Didn't like the old model so I ended up simple greening it and repainting. Got to love the metal models.

First off, here's the old paint job:


And here's the new paint job:

I don't see any difference...
...
...
HA! I can almost say that with a straight face! He not quite though Amazingly fantastic work, as always!

Wow that Librarian is very nice.

You can see how much your painting skills have advanced since the first paint job, how long is it between the current and the original?

joshoftheforest wrote:I don't see any difference...
...
...
HA! I can almost say that with a straight face! He not quite though Amazingly fantastic work, as always!

AHHHH! Reason I decided to repaint him was because the gf made a comment about it looking too 'cartoony' with the blue and yellow. After I showed her the new paint job, she said "you repainted him completely? he doesn't look different".
Thanks josh

GiraffeX wrote:Wow that Librarian is very nice.

You can see how much your painting skills have advanced since the first paint job, how long is it between the current and the original?

Thanks. This guy was especially painful to do since he has so much details all in one model. I think I did the original about a year to 14 months ago.

Nice work Eggy! your librarian is beautiful, the new scheme isn't as monotone or chalky as the original and I can see heaps of differences and subtle naunces of variation in tones and details, is this the same mini that appears as a cameo in your display cabinets early on in this thread? or am i having strange dreams again?

as usual looking forward to more, more ,more from you! interested to see how you plan on re doing your devs?

Nerdfest09

I see the difference egg. The new model is much crisper and tighter than the old, as well as having a bit more naturalistic feel. Very well done I might add. Dropping the yellow from the design (and I'm a big yellow fan) was a very good decision.

The new librarian paint job is beautiful, brilliant blue.
Do you plan on doing a video.?Your technique with
the airbrush is some of the best I have ever seen.
A small video would certainly help some of us novices
out here.

That is an impressive amount of improvement in a year!

nerdfest09 wrote:Nice work Eggy! your librarian is beautiful, the new scheme isn't as monotone or chalky as the original and I can see heaps of differences and subtle naunces of variation in tones and details, is this the same mini that appears as a cameo in your display cabinets early on in this thread? or am i having strange dreams again?

as usual looking forward to more, more ,more from you! interested to see how you plan on re doing your devs?

Nerdfest09

Thanks Nerdfest. Good eye, the old one was in one of my display case shots from before.

Nothing special planned for the devs yet. Just going to do them as standard batch troops.

Gitsplitta wrote:I see the difference egg. The new model is much crisper and tight than the old, as well as having a bit more naturalistic feel. Very well done I might add. Dropping the yellow from the design (and I'm a big yellow fan) was a very good decision.

THanks Gits!

dad1946 wrote:The new librarian paint job is beautiful, brilliant blue.
Do you plan on doing a video.?Your technique with
the airbrush is some of the best I have ever seen.
A small video would certainly help some of us novices
out here.

Thanks though I don't have access to a vid cam to record any tutorials. Most of the techniques I use can be found in many of the youtube vids out there already.

Llamahead wrote:That is an impressive amount of improvement in a year!

Thanks Llamahead!

Eggroll, I don't mean to be pushy, but your work
is head and shoulders above anyone else on youtube.
Keep up the good work.

Sweet job on the librarian! More eye candy please .

Hmmm...

I'm gonna shock you and not totally kiss your bum this time lol! I note you did not use Zenithal this time, and for me it's a bit of a let-down as the blue of the armor is rather flat compared to the usual nuances of your work. Meanwhile, the plasma glow, red shoulder pad and pretty much everything else looks just amazing...

Shame on you MajorTom! he's obviously still just learning, lol... :-)

I do agree with you about the red shoulder pad and glow, Eggroll's done a nice job with the re paint, and I don't think it looks 'out of place' amongst his other work, maybe they didn't have any gloss coat in the battle barge when he was touched up after battle? i actually (the more I look at it) like the face on him, it's very subtle and softer than I usually see on a mini and I actually quite like it!


Nerdfest09

I don't know if the zenithal technique was really needed here. The blue seems over powering and flamboyant, but thats how librarians are, blue plated warp sissies... I think the paint job is top notch, and I get enough shadows from just the lights used to take the picture, so I don't think zenithal was needed. but thats just my uninformed opinion.

Thanks guys!

@Tom - Ouch I feel so rejected. j/king He does have a bit of zenithal to him though not as much as the normal red marines and the gradients are more visible in person, the photo is a bit over exposed and does make his left leg a bit too blue. Anyhow, appreciate the feedback!

Eggroll could you please list out the cleaning supplies I need to purchase to make sure I take care of my ab's proplerly? Thank you in advance.

I don't think cameras like high saturation R, G's or B's, the more primary a color get, the more it seems to 'flatten' it... Lol, sorry for letting you down, but, if it makes you feel any better, I would have told anyone else great job! Don't blame me if you you set the damned bar too high lol

Kal-El - I use watered down simple green though I hear windex works as well.

Tom - No worries, I was just kidding around.

what do you do just basicly spary it through your air brush, then whala your done? Kinda crazy easy imo if thats it.

I actually just went out to buy some simple green today. I had to stripe paint from some bad primer jobs...thats why I have not updated my own thread with new pics.

How long do I need to soak my stuff to get the paint off? I know you have stripped some models from reading your threads.

Kal-El wrote:what do you do just basicly spary it through your air brush, then whala your done? Kinda crazy easy imo if thats it.

I actually just went out to buy some simple green today. I had to stripe paint from some bad primer jobs...thats why I have not updated my own thread with new pics.

How long do I need to soak my stuff to get the paint off? I know you have stripped some models from reading your threads.

Yeah I let it sit in the cup for about 5 mins and then spray it through, cleanup with a q-tip. For stripping models I leave them in there for a day or more if I forget about it

lol rock on man, thank you!

LOL... that librarian looks great, although I have to agree that there's considerably less shading than your standard BAs... which is really a great signature of your figures.

Speaking of the shade, I read through the small run-through you gave in one of your first pages for you do the initial colors on your troops.

Pre: Prime w/ colored primer (rust?)

1) General coverage w/ Blood Red (mine'll be a different type)

2) Add shadows w/ your mix of red+black opaque

3) Watered down opaque red to take out orange-tinge.

Question about the shadows: what areas do you choose to target to spray with the #2 mix? I know it's a bit vague, and I think from your pics I understand, but would you mind if you showed a 'level' shot of one/two of your standard BAs for a better idea? I'd like to see what they look like, instead of an up-raised shot.

And this was the best I could do with re-phrasing it, without asking you if you "hit them in the crotch at all" ... sorry, man, and thanks in advance!

-Remi (HF Iz)

Well, there are obviously a few cosmetic changes to the paintjob that have given it a marginally better look.

I saw the first pics and thought "that seems somewhat lacking compared to the standards of the rest of Eggs work" THEN I read the text at the top of the post an it clicked

The change between the first librarian colour scheme and the second is incredible. needless to say the new paintjob is miles better and it looks absolutely great