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Congrats, and glad you had a fantastic holiday dude.

(Oh and BTW batting well above average dude! First time I seen Nerdwench, boy done good! )

Looking forward to the dreads and Sterny is looking great.

Looks like a great vacation and what a great time to pop the question, congratulations dude!

Damn, nerd! You waste no time at all, do you!?
Home 5 minutes and already you're cranking out the pretties


Super congrats, too. You two are a great couple!
Good to see you guys had a great time too, filled with all the Halloween and beach madness you could handle. Like Theo said, Its exactly like your island, just... you know. Without all the things trying to kill you!!

Welcome back Damo.

Hope you had a good holiday. Congrats on the engagement.



Now, get back in your corner and resume painting for our enjoyment!

Awesome sauce Damo! Glad you enjoyed one of our best holidays. Come back for 4th of July and share in our hatred for the Brits lol


Just kidding, we thank them for another reason to blow things up.

 KingCracker wrote:
Awesome sauce Damo! Glad you enjoyed one of our best holidays. Come back for 4th of July and share in our hatred for the Brits lol


Just kidding, we thank them for another reason to blow things up.

We haven't forgotten about those tea bags pal... vengeance shall be ours... say goodbye to MacDonalds... ;-)

I don't eat there. Also you'd be screwing yourselves again, just imagine how hard we could fight if we all lost 100 pounds

congrats on the engagement, Damo!!!
anyone who can put up with your madness is a real catch...

good to see you two enjoyed Hawaii, and Halloween...

cheers
jah

Azazelx wrote:Congrats to both of you, mate!
Looks like a great time all around, too.
Oh yeah, the marine is nice as well. Where's that power fist from?

Hey Az! thanks mate we did indeed have a better time than we even expected to! the travel bug has bitten us both now! and the fist is from the Sternguard kit I believe and if not it's from the new Tac box

Theophony wrote:Congrats on the engagement dude. Glad you had a nice time in Hawaii. That's what it's like to live in a country where only sharks are out to eat you....unless the locals decide to toss you into the volcano as a sacrifice.

Theo it was funny as when I swam right out from the beach about a Kilometre or so all I could think about was sharks and the locals seemed to like me? maybe I wasn't quite right for sacrifice!

Gitsplitta wrote:Thanks for posting the pics of your vacation Nerdy. Never been to Hawaii myself so it was really fun to see. Again, congratulations to you both! Sternguard is looking good, don't forget to drill out that bolter barrel.

No probs Gits I hope you guys don't mind holiday snaps instead of models! I just wanted to share as we enjoyed it so much, it was honestly a beautiful place full of relaxed and happy people. you would like the laid back-ness of Waikiki and the combo of good food, warmth and an awesome beach (with Aussie sand i'm led to believe?)

whalemusic360 wrote:Forget the beaches, that burger looks so good. Good to see you back at it so quickly too. I feel like a BA vet, especially the sgt, needs more gold on him. Maybe his face mask, or his shoulder pads being gold instead of red?

lol Whaley the food was insanely good for me! I wanted to eat as 'American' as I could and went to Denny's had lots of burgers and fries and the Cheesecake Factory (3 times ) I have other holiday food pics I'll send you later dude glad you like the Sternie so far, trust me.......

inmygravenimage wrote:Grats damo. Turns out you liked it, so you put a (onion) ring on it

Thanks Graven! I did put an Onion ring on it! I was going to paint up a Rhino cupola as a ring but thought better of it. she may not have seen the funny side or even know what the hell I was doing lol

Dr H wrote:Congratulations to you and the future Lady Nerdwenchington.

Looks like you had a good time.

Paint looks good. Look forward to more.

DrH my thanks to you, Lady Nerdwenchington is indeed happy and had the most relaxing time overseas which she sorely needed as she is kind of a workaholic! I keep her grounded

monkeytroll wrote:Congratulations dude! Glad a good time was had by family Nerd....

And only Damo would try to leave Hawaii a day early in an attempt to get back to painting

Ha Yep, a day early, while not a big deal in the end it certainly felt like we were stranded when we were told I did indeed want to paint but not THAT badly!

GiraffeX wrote:Congrats Nerdy thats one nice onion ring!

Hawaii looks really nice no idea why you would want to go back early, you must have really missed your brushes

Marine is looking good, as Git's pointed out don't forget to drill out the bolter, will you be going up another level on the gold?

Yo GFX! cheers man! it was a great trip with both of us getting rings we wanted she scored the diamond one and I scored the fried ones! Mmmmm mmm. don't tress on the Bolter, I like to drill all mine now and it shall be done. yeah I will indeed up the gold work, it's only the base coat

Camkierhi wrote:Congrats, and glad you had a fantastic holiday dude.

(Oh and BTW batting well above average dude! First time I seen Nerdwench, boy done good! )

Looking forward to the dreads and Sterny is looking great.

What are you saying Cam don't you find me attractive! well I never!....... Im totally....... BAH! ..........but yes I do indeed think Nerdwench is quite the stunner and still don't know how I managed to land that catch must be my personality a i'm hung like an Acorn on a beach.

Casey's Law wrote:Looks like a great vacation and what a great time to pop the question, congratulations dude!

Thank Casey! couldn't think of better place myself either it' been a big year for my lady!

Ramos Asura wrote:Damn, nerd! You waste no time at all, do you!?
Home 5 minutes and already you're cranking out the pretties


Super congrats, too. You two are a great couple!
Good to see you guys had a great time too, filled with all the Halloween and beach madness you could handle. Like Theo said, Its exactly like your island, just... you know. Without all the things trying to kill you!!

Ramos it's nice not having to worry about drop bears, redbacks, snakes, huntsmen etc. so I could relax and not worry about a Bunyip stealing me! I had to start SOMETHING! so I figured if I quickly churn through the red armour as I know how to do it fast and then block in some colour so I could post an update and chat to you all again!

Snrub wrote:Welcome back Damo.

Hope you had a good holiday. Congrats on the engagement.



Now, get back in your corner and resume painting for our enjoyment!

snrub, your concern is noted and I will indeed be locking myself in the Nerd Lair Tomorrow and painting the hell outta some Sternguard and priming some tans and dreads (got another.....yes, another Vindicator cleaned and built)

KingCracker wrote:Awesome sauce Damo! Glad you enjoyed one of our best holidays. Come back for 4th of July and share in our hatred for the Brits lol


Just kidding, we thank them for another reason to blow things up.

Gits we loved Halloween so much we are going back in 2016 to get married at the same time of year! and then we are going to dress up and enjoy the Halloween night life! I'm tossing up between Venom in a venom morphsuit and latex venom mask? or Deadpool in a Deadpool morphsuit and plastic weapons kit? while Nerdwench is gonna go Green and dress as her favorite character SHE-HULK!

jah-joshua wrote:congrats on the engagement, Damo!!!
anyone who can put up with your madness is a real catch...

good to see you two enjoyed Hawaii, and Halloween...

cheers
jah

Thanks my friend! she has put up with some pretty outlandish antics from me in our time I'd tell you but the internet isn't big enough!


Until tomorrow guys! Mahalo!

Good on the models. grats on the engagem,ent and glad you had a good time in hawaii.

when i was in the army i was stationed over thier we went to waikki every weekend it is a trip man. well

again congrats dude...so did you brain wash the nerdwench or something

Finished my first Sternguard guy! looking sharp (shooter) also primed my Dreads and Vindicators, the rescued one even after scrubbing and soaking is still a little thick in spots but hopefully I can still get it to look right

Yesterday we had our carpets cleaned and had to move furniture out and around so when I was putting it back I pinched a shelf Nerdwench usually has in a spot I don't like and now the Nerd Lair has all my books neatly organised with my other shelf with more room for models

Sternie first.







The primed goodies, DC Dread not finished s I had no black primer for his body!

Rescued Vindicator from Whaley


And here's my new shelf! I shall call him Shelfy.

Aw man, check all that shelf space to fill!

Congrats on Hawaii and all the other gubbinz you have going on Nerdy!

I am jealous of that spacious setup! Props for the jewelers kit with the magnifying glass on top!

Congrats.

The Sternguard looks great

Sterny looking good dude, and your army on the shelves look so brilliant, Positively Glows RED.

That stern chap is looking nice. Like what you did with the strap, and the red (as always), and the wreath is nice, and the cloth is very nice... it's all good.

Like the Transformers cover.

Progress just a little insight into how I work through my mini's.

So, these guys are all primed red and then washed with Agrax right then I go ahead and do my first highlight with a watered down red. once that's done I can see the start of the blend and highlights so I continue by base coating all the other main areas like the robes and the areas that shall be gold with a brown/gold mix. once dry I then wash all the new coloured parts with Agrax again and they're ready for stage 2







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Nice Sternguard there nerdfest

Lovely Sternguard, the red is amazing.

Radiant as always.

Nice bit of insight there, your reds are a wonder of the universe.

Sterny's looking awesome.

I don't get it though guys? you all seem to really like my reds? and I won't argue I think they look good on the mini's but it's not a hard process. take the Sternguard above: Dragon red primer, a wash of Agrax and ONE highlight pass with Bloody red paint and that's it! :-) so really ANYONE can do that lol!

I then add orange/browns until i'm happy so maybe it's my pics that make them look so good? I dunno, I just don't want you to think i'm doing something magical when I am doing nothing really that i've seen you all do on your blogs! I'm certainly no Pyriel or Jah ......or RAFF........or Sigur........or ........ :-) maybe the next Nerdcademy will focus on Reds?...

Nerdcave is looking slick as always Damo! loving your latest models (Horus looks especially badass )

Why have I not looked in here sooner??

Love the sternguard!
I applaud your ability to batch paint those 9 sternguard. I can barely bring myself to batch paint chaos warriors 3 at a time...

Fine then.. Your reds are Meh.

But your Photos are awesome!! I wish my photos of red came out like these. Mine come out really flat not matter what I do

Vel'cona wrote:Nerdcave is looking slick as always Damo! loving your latest models (Horus looks especially badass )

Thanks dude it's nice to see you being bought back into the 40k world kicking and screaming! I hear you plan on Iron Hands!? gonna be keen to see you do them mate!

Zambro wrote:Why have I not looked in here sooner??

Love the sternguard!
I applaud your ability to batch paint those 9 sternguard. I can barely bring myself to batch paint chaos warriors 3 at a time...

Hey Zambro! I remember I might have bought stuff from you ages ago I suppose I should welcome you to the Nerd Lair! glad you like them! I love a good batch paint lol if I'm going to do the same thing for a bunch of models then I may as well do it on a whole bunch!

Styrofoam04 wrote:Fine then.. Your reds are Meh.

But your Photos are awesome!! I wish my photos of red came out like these. Mine come out really flat not matter what I do

Thank you Styro! my reds are meh! red is a bitch to photo I have a darker area when I photograph them and use a bit of white card to hold in front of my flash at different distance until I get a good lighting reflected on the model.

AHhh maybe I use too much light in my light box? I'll try the dark backgroung too. That is if I ever finish a model.

Guess what? I bought something today :-) for Green2015 yep I finally bit the bullet and bought a fair bit of stuff (o.k a lot) of resin from Spellcrow for my Ork force! so when it arrives in a few weeks I will be well stocked to begin some assembly and get you guys keen and excited for what's to come! remember I've already got the Orks from Stormclaw and that big ass Warlord to muck around with!

now i'm heading to beddy byes to get up and paint Sternies! Whoooo Hooooo

little more work on the Sternguard they've had a red/orange highlight and a pure orange highlight added and the cloth has been done as well as work on the bolters! now they have the red to finish and the gold to do and they'll be done pretty much

sorry about the pics the light in my cave was pretty ordinary when I got to snapping!





and you know what's less than a month away!? CHRISTMAS!!!!!! i'm already excited about it!