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I am so jealous. Great work.

Looks great! Skin tone came out very nice looking. How'd you do the black armor? Looks like an almost dark graphite grey.

Oh my lord, that looks glorious dude!

That is very nice work indeed!
I am especially fond of the metal-to-flesh transitions on the arms, very well executed and with a neat end product.

Absolutely amazing, just amazing.

So perfect, skin tones, the arms, the armour, perfect.

And in a day! I want some time off, and one tenth of your talent.




BTW how do you take your pics, I can,t remember if I have asked before sorry, I love the feel of your pictures.

Wow he looks excellent Damo, the way you blended the skin tones into the metal on the arms is just amazing.

The speed at which you put out these models & the quality.
It blows my mind, and that Ferrus Mannus is absolutely freakin' awesome

Just going to add my statements of admiration and awe to the others mate - just unbelievably good.

the skin tone on that face...

the colour blending on the arms...

the armour....

the fantastic and unlucky emperors children....

you've always been good but just lately, you have really kicked it up a notch! and you did this in a day? like ...a standard Earth day? damn....

Fantastic work Damo. Like everyone else... the realism of the skin tones and the face just make the model.

Holy heck, that's awesome! Howlings Griffons, you say?

Your talent is sick, quite frankly. Imagine, if you will, me saying Dam-o to the following:

you never cease to amaze me with your speed and skill.

Damn, I wish I could paint as fast as that. Let alone as good as that.

Really good job NF.

Just, plain ...

Impressive work all around mate, though the most stunning part is, to me, the skin... And not ONLY the awesome silver-skin blending, the face is also really characterful !!

Thank you so much everyone! yes one standard earth day which means i've spoken to Whaley and he challenged me to paint 3 in a weekend!? lol Hmmmmm we'll see :-)

I do think the face and arms are the main focal points for the model and that's where I put the most attention, the metal skin blend did indeed work out nicely :-) and gave me confidence for when I paint Lorgar and his golden skin!

I did Ferrus' armour by washing the primed model with purple and blue washes before I went over it with black wash then highlighted with a really diluted grey in kind of that mnmm style thingy I do by accident lol

photo's, I use a black backdrop (duh) and just chuck the camera on auto but I have a little length of white cardboard I hold in front of the flash to diffuse it, depends how close or far along the lens I have it as to how bright I get.then I just adjust my contrast o the computer.

Wow, Ferrus looks stunning! The way his skin fades to metal on the hands is fantastic. I can't tell how envious I am of your painting speed!

Lucarikx

Not a huge update today but a very work in progress start of my DC Rhino, I am not entirely sure how to tackle it due to the way I started it but I'm hoping to trick and confound the eye by adding pretty things to distract you then just do some edge highlighting on the main part? any suggestions apart from starting again welcome

I like the Chaplain leaning out the top hatch, his role to curb the marines inside but still taking aim on the move!







and sadly my Marneus didn't arrive today so I finished the had I am using, it's the Korvyde head that was going on my Baal but wasn't quite done! but now it's all good!




I can't wait to Howling Griffon-ify Calgar and chuck that head on him, he's gonna look mean and nasty!

Awesome freehand on the Rhino. The Chaplain is a nice touch. Your head for Calgar is amazing!

Lucarikx

One day? Really? REALLY, NERD?
Come on, man. I cant keep up with that!! xD

My luck, you'll paint another Rhino and a Knight before I even get started on mine!!

Looks incredible though. Top notch skin tones.


Love the red freehand on the Rhino. Though if I may nitpick a little, the top looks a little gritty... Maybe the brush wasnt spraying as fine as you liked? Might need some smoothing and retouching with the airbrush (though careful you dont mar the lovely red!)

The head looks wicked, btw. Cant wait to see more Griffons!

The rhino is looking cool, are you going to do some nice freehand on the top hatches, that would be a real eye catcher.

Cheers fellas, the top is in fact very speckly as is the sides sadly as my ab is cactus :-( but GFX has just given me an idea! :-) would it be too busy if I hid the poor finish by freehanding more pretty designs all over it?

Your edge highlights seem way less precise then normal as well. I think you broke something while Primarch-ing. Other then the land speed record for painting a Primarch that is. I think the addition of designs in the black would make it look more like a rhino dedicated to a Chaplain then a DC rhino.

Looks like your airbrush was spattering badly. The head is spectacular.

I don't think the rhino needs any more filigree, I'd redo those areas. Also I'd build a iron hands army to go with ferrus, because that would be stunning. Just don't use the stupid forgeworld torsos that just have parts gouged out and tubes added .

I think I will try the scrollwork on the rhino, my DC Dead has the same on him so it will tie in and hide the splatter, and I can then tidy up the lines I usually start out a bit rough and refine as I go but as you can probably tell I was annoyed with the rest of it!

Dude, you suck. Like for real, your skills are just trash, you need to stop and save DAKKA the band width

Obviously I'm just jealous. That's some damn impressive brush work, ignoring the fact you did it in one go. Jeez Damian, way kick a guy when he's down

O.k i'm happy now! I can see myself saving private Rhino

I have just begun adding the scrollwork in pure black and I'll highlight it and detail it up next time but I can see it working and still fitting with the rest of my force so i'm happy I think it will look good when I finish phew!





I also finally got Marneus in the mail!

not much in the way of converting, just scraped a few U off him then primed him and base coated the red parts and anything that was going to be either bone,gold or parchment based brown!




and to get a real feel for how he will look and inspire the rest of the army I popped his head in to see how it looks! ....and love it!





So, will he be epic? I certainly hope so, and will I save the Rhino? I certainly hope so, find out in next week's exciting installment of Nerdfest09....09.....09..09 (echo fades.......)

Beautiful work!

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