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G'day Eggy, how's it going? you've been a busy man! I can't verbalize just how much I am blown away by the landspeeder! absolutely breathtaking work, it looks fantastic, the weathering and shading as usual are just beautifully done, i'm now nervous about painting my two sitting on my shelf! (i'm still airbrushing speckles!) your attack bike is just as good too! the gunners face is great and everything just looks imo perfectly done for the chapter! the right amount of embellishments the right colour, the right shading, really just everything is how I imagine how it would look! i'd also love to see the glow effect even subtly on the jets of the speeder?
if you ever don't have the spare money for models to paint i'm sure Dakka would pull together and just send you things so we could continue to be blown away by what you paint! you are just amazing Eggy, a really outstanding artist and someone's blog I recommend to anyone who cares to listen to me (I tend to go on....)

thanks for painting!

Nerdfest09

Beautiful work as always egg, man I just love how your red turns out... very nice & just a bit gritty.

kingjayko wrote:amazing, as always. keep on the good work!

Thanks!

medabee wrote:Amazing, excellent blending on the attack bike, is that airbrushed on?

Thanks and yup, it's airbrushed. I do most of my work with an airbrush.

nerdfest09 wrote:G'day Eggy, how's it going? you've been a busy man! I can't verbalize just how much I am blown away by the landspeeder! absolutely breathtaking work, it looks fantastic, the weathering and shading as usual are just beautifully done, i'm now nervous about painting my two sitting on my shelf! (i'm still airbrushing speckles!) your attack bike is just as good too! the gunners face is great and everything just looks imo perfectly done for the chapter! the right amount of embellishments the right colour, the right shading, really just everything is how I imagine how it would look! i'd also love to see the glow effect even subtly on the jets of the speeder?
if you ever don't have the spare money for models to paint i'm sure Dakka would pull together and just send you things so we could continue to be blown away by what you paint! you are just amazing Eggy, a really outstanding artist and someone's blog I recommend to anyone who cares to listen to me (I tend to go on....)

thanks for painting!

Nerdfest09

Hey nerdfest! Yeah I've been busy though not all with painting - work has been busier lately so my hobby output has slowed down a bit. Thanks for all your kind comments, I've been trying to keep up with a few painting logs when I get the chance and yours is one of them. It's nice to see the progress you've been making with your army and the improvements you've made so keep it up! As a kid, my problem was always I never had the money for the hobby though had plenty of time. Growing up, money isn't an issue but time is now - funny how things work. Anyway, keep up the work on your paintings and don't worry about the speckles, just experiment with the paint mixes and you'll eventually find what works best for you.

Gitsplitta wrote:Beautiful work as always egg, man I just love how your red turns out... very nice & just a bit gritty.

Thanks Gits!

Thank you eggroll, i might send him a pm. I used really watered down paint and brushed it on mine. its not as bright, but I got the effect. I got my AB and stuff, been messing around with it. I painted some shoulder pads the other night with np. I am still trying to figure out how thin to get the paint. I don't speckle anymore, but I think its to thin now because the paint seems to move on the model. Am I right? What pressure did you use again? 15psi?

Thanks Eggroll, :-)

once again eggroll beautiful just beautiful work on the landspeeder. I can't wait to dive into my Ravewing now

Kal-El wrote:Thank you eggroll, i might send him a pm. I used really watered down paint and brushed it on mine. its not as bright, but I got the effect. I got my AB and stuff, been messing around with it. I painted some shoulder pads the other night with np. I am still trying to figure out how thin to get the paint. I don't speckle anymore, but I think its to thin now because the paint seems to move on the model. Am I right? What pressure did you use again? 15psi?

Go with 20-30 psi at the start. Don't go lower until you get used to painting at the higher psi. Lower psi will require that you have a better handle on the paint mix though will allow you to paint finer lines.

GreyDeathOne wrote: once again eggroll beautiful just beautiful work on the landspeeder. I can't wait to dive into my Ravewing now

Thanks Grey. I'm dreading painting up the rest of my ravenwing battleforce box though.

I need to learn how to airbrush. Your results are spectacular.

Kal-El wrote:Hey eggroll how are you doing the glow for the eyes? That an AB or brush? I read major toms blog, but I don't understand the push pull thing he is talking about.

Push pull technique is basically just describing the fundamental physics of the brush. If you load up a brush, and then drag it in short strokes across a sheet of paper, you will note that the paint is thicker where you lifted the brush. This is because you create a little pile of paint when you lay a loaded brush down, and then as you drag, you take most of it with you, leaving a heavier, more opaque deposit towards the end*. With thinned paint, you can leverage this effect to create little gradients and blends, so you drag your brush towards the source of light in the case of OSL to intensify the effect closer to the source. It takes some practice and patience, but can be effective.

*NOTE - There are exceptions, on particularly long brush strokes, your brush loses all it's paint by the end and trails out in at the end of the stroke. This technique only really shows if there is brush travel involved, you have to move the brush, even just a little bit, otherwise you just end up with a chalky little pool.

Airbrush is superior to be sure, but the problem is that not all airbrushes are that accurate and fine that you can nail an eye nicely. Screw it up, even a little, and you just screwed the head and potentially backpack and chest as well. It requires practice and confidence to pull it off, and a nice AB too. That being said, I have heard of a trick where you cut a small hole into some card, and hold it just above the eye (not touching the eye, you have to leave a few millimeters to get a soft edge) and use that to prevent speckle and to target your spray more accurately. This is something I'm going to have to try next time the opportunity presents itself!

Eggroll wrote:

Kal-El wrote:Thank you eggroll, i might send him a pm. I used really watered down paint and brushed it on mine. its not as bright, but I got the effect. I got my AB and stuff, been messing around with it. I painted some shoulder pads the other night with np. I am still trying to figure out how thin to get the paint. I don't speckle anymore, but I think its to thin now because the paint seems to move on the model. Am I right? What pressure did you use again? 15psi?

Go with 20-30 psi at the start. Don't go lower until you get used to painting at the higher psi. Lower psi will require that you have a better handle on the paint mix though will allow you to paint finer lines.

I agree here, although depending on the ab, and if they use vallejo air paint or another ab ready paint out of the bottle, it may be feasible to jump right into 10-15 psi. In general, 20 psi for coverage work, and 10psi for detailing is what I have found works best from my research, and also recent tests.



You are bonkers my friend, a RW battleforce and more vehicles?!?!

I thought of an idea for my own guys I thought I would throw out to you btw, I think I will be painting a few squads as succesors, a lamenter tactical squad, a flesh tearer assault squad etc etc. I was thinking it would be a fun way to break up all the red, and still be on-target fluff wise and rules/wysiwyg wise. Just throwing it out there, would love to see you tackle a few of those schemes too!

Finally, I tried the Micron... oh man it is awesome. I have little experience with AB as you know, but the smoothness of the action and the way the thing is balanced is amazing. It is very subtle, it isnt that different from my ps900's, but with a little experience under the belt you can feel the difference between the audi and the ferrari engines if you know what I mean. Highly recommend you have a go one day!

Thank you eggroll and major tom. I got an infinity 2 in 1; the same one eggroll is using. the lower the psi I go the thinner the paint correct? Right now I have my setting between 15-20psi. I am just getting familiar to the right thinkness of the paint and trigger control atm. I did not do any AB today since I worked on my GK's all day. I think I am going to get the hang of it pretty fast though. I use mostly GW paint. So Vallejio has an actual "Air" paint??? I might have to just switch to that if I am reading that right.

Fantastic job also with your models eggroll; you are giving me something to strive for. Painting with a brush can get old sometimes lol.

Correct, for thinner paints. In general though, there shouldn't be too much varience, I have found thus far that only a tiny bit more thinner is neccesary for a 10psi 'sweetspot'

Vallejo does have a 'Model Air' range, works straight out of the bottle in general, and comes in a ton of colors... I love it myself.

Looks like you have made another AB convert in Kal-el Eggy! You really should be sponsored!

ShumaGorath wrote:I need to learn how to airbrush. Your results are spectacular.

Thanks! Join the club, all the cool kids are doing it

Kal-El wrote:Thank you eggroll and major tom. I got an infinity 2 in 1; the same one eggroll is using. the lower the psi I go the thinner the paint correct? Right now I have my setting between 15-20psi. I am just getting familiar to the right thinkness of the paint and trigger control atm. I did not do any AB today since I worked on my GK's all day. I think I am going to get the hang of it pretty fast though. I use mostly GW paint. So Vallejio has an actual "Air" paint??? I might have to just switch to that if I am reading that right.

Fantastic job also with your models eggroll; you are giving me something to strive for. Painting with a brush can get old sometimes lol.

Thanks Kal-El, switching between AB and brush is nice when one gets a bit tiring. As for Vallejo air, I don't use it since I find it a bit too watery, I'm fine just doing the mixes with GW or P3 paints and putting that through the AB though it is more convenient I guess.

MajorTom - Yeah successor chapters would be a nice break from all the red. My display case could use more colour. Not sure if there are successor colours that are that different though?

My collection is still growing though, a bunch of vehicles, more marines, more HQ's. I've got at least another 2 years worth of painting left to go through everything.

I know what you mean for the airbrushes, the fit, finish is vastly different between the high end stuff like the iwata and infinity from the cheaper chinese ones like the veda. The veda does offer excellent value though and is a great all around AB. I ended up bending my 0.2mm needle last night during cleaning. $#@! Got too careless, my original iwata needle is still straight though.

You make me want to make time to paint so badly, very inspiring work. I could stare at your photos for hours.

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I still gotta hand it to ya Eggroll; still one of the best BA armies I've ever seen.

Though I'd have to agree: painting vehicles isn't as fun as infantry sometimes.

I only started with the airbrush because i'd heard all the cool kids were doing it! and eggroll and majortom are like the coolest kids in school right now! both exeptional artists!

now eggy get on with the battleforce!

Nerdfest09

Yeah, I think I will end up getting a new AB as well, mine isnt up to snuff to do good work.

If you still want to stick with BA successors that are different, Lamenters are your best bet. Yellow with a checker pattern on the shoulder pads/

Gonna have to go with Whalemusic on this one, Lamenters would probably be the your best bet, and I'd love to see how you do yellow.

Side note: Whale, you get those CHS Stormraven pieces yet?

Havent got them yet, no. I preordered them, I dont think they have shipped yet.

Mmmmmm an Eggroll level army of Lamenters! hot damn that'd be an awesome army! yep i 53rd the choice!

Ah, just looked up what the lamenters' colour scheme and looks good. Was thinking about doing IF at one point so the yellow for the lamenters should be just as good. Not sure about the heart thing though...hmmm, will have to wait and see.

Have a look at Solar_Lion's Lamenters. You'll be sold (especially on giant yellow space taxis).

Yellow is the new black Eggroll, go for it!

If you wanted to change it up from your BA a bit more, you could do it as a Badab War Siege list, or even Tyrants Legion maybe.

Wow. I hadn't peered into this thread for a couple months... I'm blown away. Such absolutely perfect Blood Angels.... Congratulations.

inmygravenimage wrote:Have a look at Solar_Lion's Lamenters. You'll be sold (especially on giant yellow space taxis).

Thanks for the tip, he's got some get work though can't say I'm a fan of the checkered pattern and hearts. Makes things a bit too comical. Will have to think about it a bit more but at the moment I'm leaning towards an IF army if I do start up some yellow marines.

Gitsplitta wrote:Yellow is the new black Eggroll, go for it!

Will put the project idea in the queue. I need to finish off my BA army first before looking into other stuff. Got a lot of Grey Knight stuff bought and sitting in boxes right now waiting to be painting.

whalemusic360 wrote:If you wanted to change it up from your BA a bit more, you could do it as a Badab War Siege list, or even Tyrants Legion maybe.

Will take a look thanks.

Samus_aran115 wrote:Wow. I hadn't peered into this thread for a couple months... I'm blown away. Such absolutely perfect Blood Angels.... Congratulations.

Thanks Samus, stay tuned...there's most coming down the pipe!

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Finally finished off 11 heavy weapons guys this week. I did 3 guys without helms so they can be swapped out into tac squads without looking out of place with blue helms...if I ever start playing this game. These guys have been sitting around for at least a month now after priming, just got bored with them and moved onto other models. Came back to them the beginning of the week and rushed through them. Overall I'm happy with the paint job given how fast I went through them though I do wish I varied up the poses a bit more, especially using some running legs or kneeling. Oh well...onto the pics:

Heavy Bolters:




Rocket Launcher:


Multimelta:


Lascannon:




Plasma Cannon:






Full shot of the guys on my desk:

Very nice attack bike and Devastators, Eggroll - OSL strikes again!

Out of interest, was the attack bike gunners head from that kit, or elsewhere?

Dysartes wrote:Very nice attack bike and Devastators, Eggroll - OSL strikes again!

Out of interest, was the attack bike gunners head from that kit, or elsewhere?

Thanks! I think all the mope head hair styles are from blood angel kits. I think that one came from the baal pred kit though I can't remember. I just picked it out from my bits box.

Eggroll, your thread never fails to disappoint. i love your simple clean style and the colour pallet used. This is by far the best army i have seen. I only wish i could stick to one project long enough the produce an army, i'm very jealous of your sticking power. Keep up the good work.

Those turned out beautifully eggroll! The tinting of the metallics worked on really well and the red and blue is just so striking... well done!