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Do I really need to say anything?....really?.....Oh, O.k then, Eggy, again you astound me! and everyone else I imagine with your amazing Blood Angels, those speeders and bikes are beautiful and crisp and your dev's are just, well, heavy! the osl is as uual top notch and I love the use of the bare heads and tech helmets to mix it up incase you play (you so need too!) the multi melta guy is my pick for favorite of this update :-)
please,please keep painting, I do get those same old 'i'll never be that good' feelings but you know something? it's worth it to see your mini's as they will keep me pushing myself to try things I haven't done before (like paint green which i just did for instance) i've got some ideas from your speeders too, whether it comes to fruition or not is still to be seen!

so thanks again Eggy for being kind enough to not hide these from us!

Nerdfest09

Probably the best models I have ever seen.

They put my glowing skills to shame.

This army makes me want to go throw my whole 2000pt GK army I just finished painting in a fire.

Love the OSL and blue tints in the metal for the bolters. Really great touches.

I also started using the funky "rust" primer you use (used?) on your guys on your tut per the first couple of pages. I'm pleased, as it has a dried-blood color. When I start getting into more of the shading and HL, would you mind if I asked you a critique and a couple of improvement pointers?

Really great, as always, Eggroll.

-Remi (HF Iz)

Simply; I wish I could paint like you.

Nice Devastator Eggroll, but the lens glow seems a bit too red.

Hits_the_spot wrote: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.

Thanks Hits! I'm jealous of your conversion skills! Funny you should mention sticking power, I've been very tempted to start a new army and am starting to get tired of painting red. It was in August of 2010 when I started these guys but I plan on sticking it through till the end and finish off every last BA model I have before starting on my grey knights.

Gitsplitta wrote: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!

Thanks Gits. The blue was just an experiment with some Daler Rowney blue ink which turned out pretty well. I plan on tinting all my metallics in the future.

nerdfest09 wrote:Do I really need to say anything?....really?.....Oh, O.k then, Eggy, again you astound me! and everyone else I imagine with your amazing Blood Angels, those speeders and bikes are beautiful and crisp and your dev's are just, well, heavy! the osl is as uual top notch and I love the use of the bare heads and tech helmets to mix it up incase you play (you so need too!) the multi melta guy is my pick for favorite of this update :-)
please,please keep painting, I do get those same old 'i'll never be that good' feelings but you know something? it's worth it to see your mini's as they will keep me pushing myself to try things I haven't done before (like paint green which i just did for instance) i've got some ideas from your speeders too, whether it comes to fruition or not is still to be seen!

so thanks again Eggy for being kind enough to not hide these from us!

Nerdfest09

Nerdfest, I always appreciate your comments buddy. You've been improving your skills with each new update as well so keep it up. I'll be painting till I go blind or I lose both my hands so no worries about a lack of pics on my side

BoA.Raccoon wrote:Probably the best models I have ever seen.

Thanks!

Miss Dee wrote:They put my glowing skills to shame.

Thanks!

pdawg517 wrote:This army makes me want to go throw my whole 2000pt GK army I just finished painting in a fire.

Heh, don't put them in the fire, there's always simple green J/king, when I go back to the stuff I paint over a year ago I feel the same way and I have actually stripped some models to repaint. Everyone has different painting styles so don't be discouraged. As long as you keep painting I'm sure your skills will continue to improve. There's plenty of stuff out there that I look up to which is what keeps me going.

HF Izanagi wrote:Love the OSL and blue tints in the metal for the bolters. Really great touches.

I also started using the funky "rust" primer you use (used?) on your guys on your tut per the first couple of pages. I'm pleased, as it has a dried-blood color. When I start getting into more of the shading and HL, would you mind if I asked you a critique and a couple of improvement pointers?

Really great, as always, Eggroll.

-Remi (HF Iz)

Thanks Remi and not a problem, when you get some work up let me know and I'd be happy to give you some constructive crit.

Popsicle wrote:Simply; I wish I could paint like you.

Thanks Popsicle.

l33tninj4 wrote:Nice Devastator Eggroll, but the lens glow seems a bit too red.

Thanks, yeah I think they came out a bit too flat. Had the same problem with my DC guys. Need to figure out a better method next time I do the red glow lenses.

I dunno, maybe mix in a bit of orange to make the center of the light pop a bit more?

Wow Egg, just wow. That's absolutely outstanding work.

One question. On the average mini what % is AB and what % is brush?

Truly awesome stuff, I never really cared for Blood Angels because the red always seemed a bit comic, but your style is just beautiful.

The only thing I'm not sure on is the blue glow on the plasma cannons for the devastators, with the blue helmets it looks more like a paintjob on the gun rather than the result of a blue glow. I always preferred your green glow

l33tninj4 - yup, going to have to use some orange on my next set of helms.

Cypher - If you're asking about % of time spent, I'd say about 30% AB 70% brush. The actual surface area covered is different though, probably 70% AB and 30% brush.

WarMill - Thanks. Yeah the blue glow on the plasma isn't carried over onto the helms since I did those separately and attached them at the end. Less noticeable on the lascanon since there's more of a contract I guess.

I was asking both actually. Nice precog move there.

Quick update...been busy at work lately with projects so less time for painting but have managed to finish off one of my commanders. Did a bit more work with freehanding on this one with the shoulder and cape. Cape turned out a bit meh but the shoulder came out better than expected. I copied the design from one seen on a terminator standard bearer from From the Warp blog. Anyway...on to the pics:

How did you paint the meander on his cloak?

I'm always amazed when people pull that off as nicely as you did!

That has got to be some difficult, painstaking and potentially tedious work!

Still, the results are awesome!

So.... how?!?

Egg... you've moved into the realm of the gods. That's all I can say.

Alpharius wrote:How did you paint the meander on his cloak?

I'm always amazed when people pull that off as nicely as you did!

That has got to be some difficult, painstaking and potentially tedious work!

Still, the results are awesome!

So.... how?!?

Thanks Alpharius. I actually never knew the edge pattern has a name...looks like I learn something new everyday.

I did the cloak pattern in one evening ~2 hrs. Just started with the black cloak, did some grey highlights on the folds. Then I did the main yellow belt with Iyandan Yellow, then did the two strips on the top and bottom of the main strip. Then went over with just black to fill in the pattern. Looking at the photos, you can see where my hands got shaky and some of the lines didn't come out fine enough. I did all my work using my size 0 WNS7 brush which helped a lot with accuracy. Next time around, I might try and use a magnifier so it comes out even better.

Gitsplitta wrote:Egg... you've moved into the realm of the gods. That's all I can say.

Thanks Gits!

That cape is beautiful. The purple looks like it is glowing.
Your saying that the meander is painted freehand with a brush. My god you have amazing talent. Can't wait to see more.

Eggroll wrote:
Thanks Alpharius. I actually never knew the edge pattern has a name...looks like I learn something new everyday.

I did the cloak pattern in one evening ~2 hrs. Just started with the black cloak, did some grey highlights on the folds. Then I did the main yellow belt with Iyandan Yellow, then did the two strips on the top and bottom of the main strip. Then went over with just black to fill in the pattern. Looking at the photos, you can see where my hands got shaky and some of the lines didn't come out fine enough. I did all my work using my size 0 WNS7 brush which helped a lot with accuracy. Next time around, I might try and use a magnifier so it comes out even better.

Well, that doesn't make me feel any better, as I am pretty sure I can't do that either!

I'll give it a try eventually though, so thanks for the mini-tutorial!

Eggroll: "Yeah, heres this thing I did that I don't think is very good"
Everyone else" "How do you even do that?!?!?!"
Eggs: "I dunno, it was pretty easy, i was bored"
Everyone: ಠ_ಠ

So to sum up, that's awesome, and I cant do it.

More very nice work, Eggroll. Where did you source the helmet from?

Whalemusic360 - Heh thanks, I guess that did come out sounding a bit pompos.

Thanks Dysartes. The helm is just a regular tac marine helm with wings from the dark angels veteran sprue

Eggroll wrote:Quick update...been busy at work lately with projects so less time for painting but have managed to finish off one of my commanders. Did a bit more work with freehanding on this one with the shoulder and cape. Cape turned out a bit meh but the shoulder came out better than expected. I copied the design from one seen on a terminator standard bearer from From the Warp blog. Anyway...on to the pics:

Eggroll my friend that model came out amazing! !! the free hand on the cape and the zenethal technique came out perfect. Beautiful model.
Cause of you and BuyPainted I bought the Sanguiary Guard box set to broaden my paint skills
Keep up the beautiful work.

Normally people quoting blocks of pictures annoys me, but I enjoy looking at Egg's minis so much that this is the first time that I just don't even care. Excellent work Egg; purely inspiring.

(and that wasn't a slight at you GreyDeathOne )

new models egg! I am bumping this to get you to do some more!

Cripes... loving the freehand on that shoulder pad... my attempts look like I painted them on using my face... how do you do it?

Thanks Cypher.

Kal-El - Soon...working on the honour guard for mephiston at the moment. Will have them done in a week or so...been painting a lot less these days.

broadcast - Thanks. I just use a W&N Series 7 size 0 brush and make sure the tip is always sharp and paint watered down. After that just make sure you don't overload the brush with paint and it's easier to control the paint placement.

Eggroll wrote:Thanks Cypher.

Kal-El - Soon...working on the honour guard for mephiston at the moment. Will have them done in a week or so...been painting a lot less these days.

broadcast - Thanks. I just use a W&N Series 7 size 0 brush and make sure the tip is always sharp and paint watered down. After that just make sure you don't overload the brush with paint and it's easier to control the paint placement.

right on! Looking forward to it. I am also getting the hang of the AB. I have posted some of my stuff already. I am about to start trying more complex stuff with it like the eyes and stuff =)

Your fans have spoken Eggsie.

Honor Guard for Mephiston? You know he isn't an IC right? Regardless I want to see it though