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nerdfest09 wrote:Hellooooo! and G'day guys! thanks for checking it all out! glad you approve of him! he actually turned out fairly close to my minds eye, he's one of those mini's that I finished and just looked at and went "ahhhh that looks bloody good!" and got a real sense of pride! even though i'm really happy with him, I did learn heaps from painting and will now be hopefully better on my next model? they do say practice makes perfect! lets keep fingers crossed I find heaps of time to practice! especially as i'm now doing the Imperial Fist and that yellow needs some patience

also, thanks for the support for entering the cmon comp i'll pop a link up to him here if you want to have a look and vote on him or any other of those sweet, sweet mini's people paint! http://www.coolminiornot.com/287651

I'm also glad my new glasses are accepted and a touch scared that Kingcracker thinks i'm a sexy man! ..... I tried to do some more blus steel but ended up looking sad!


thanks again everyone, i'll talk soon and hopefully be updating more regularly now i'm organised and have a box full of new fun stuff!


sincerely..... Nerdfest09

Blame the wife. She looked over as I was reading what you posted, and said something like "Oh is that sexy fella your new boyfriend, gaydar???" So I said YES!!!!!!!!!!! and typed that Innocent enough really, I cant let that woman beat me!

Ahhh how sweet, a Bromance springs from the hobby eternal! I could have much less bearded nerds lusting after me, but at least the beard would keep me warm! :-)

..... and now my missus is giving me the 'what the hell?....' look! lol

Don't let them win Kc! no matter how odd the looks we get!

paintbrushes.... awaaaaaaaaaay! :-)

love that warboss!!

KingCracker wrote:

nerdfest09 wrote:Hellooooo! and G'day guys! thanks for checking it all out! glad you approve of him! he actually turned out fairly close to my minds eye, he's one of those mini's that I finished and just looked at and went "ahhhh that looks bloody good!" and got a real sense of pride! even though i'm really happy with him, I did learn heaps from painting and will now be hopefully better on my next model? they do say practice makes perfect! lets keep fingers crossed I find heaps of time to practice! especially as i'm now doing the Imperial Fist and that yellow needs some patience

also, thanks for the support for entering the cmon comp i'll pop a link up to him here if you want to have a look and vote on him or any other of those sweet, sweet mini's people paint! http://www.coolminiornot.com/287651

I'm also glad my new glasses are accepted and a touch scared that Kingcracker thinks i'm a sexy man! ..... I tried to do some more blus steel but ended up looking sad!


thanks again everyone, i'll talk soon and hopefully be updating more regularly now i'm organised and have a box full of new fun stuff!


sincerely..... Nerdfest09

Blame the wife. She looked over as I was reading what you posted, and said something like "Oh is that sexy fella your new boyfriend, gaydar???" So I said YES!!!!!!!!!!! and typed that Innocent enough really, I cant let that woman beat me!

nerdfest09 wrote:Ahhh how sweet, a Bromance springs from the hobby eternal! I could have much less bearded nerds lusting after me, but at least the beard would keep me warm! :-)

..... and now my missus is giving me the 'what the hell?....' look! lol

Don't let them win Kc! no matter how odd the looks we get!

paintbrushes.... awaaaaaaaaaay! :-)

This could turn out to something beautiful. If ya guys procreate you can name it Kingfest09. There is Crackerfest but sounds like some kinda Hillbilly convention for Nascar.

Yeah, we don't want no hillbilly convention 'round here boy! but kingfest sounds pretty good as a handle! :-) maybe we could start a business or something just to use it?

Lovely work nerdfest09, especially like the Ork warboss hope to see more boyz painted up.

Glad you like him Cheese! long time no see dude! I don't foresee any more Orks in my near future though! he was just an experiment and a bit of fun to paint, the good thing is he's turned out to be probably my favorite model i've done so far! :-) I've got some MERCS stuff I want to start on friday that are very nice too, not sure if i should paint them in a fashion similar to the images of the factions eg: sort of cell shaded comic style or if I should paint them more 'realistic' like the Ork or my marines of old?

any feedback on this matter from anyone would be appreciated :-)


cheers dudes.


Nerdfest09

KingFest enterprises! No clue what we do! But we sure do it well!

Kingfest enterprises: makers of fine beard products since 2011?

Hey nerdfest09 you planning on any gaming with any of your mates soon? Love to see your marines in action soon!

Dude face, you are one sexybitch! That Warboss is insane, quit your job and just start doing commissions! That's an order Sergeant!

Now that's a very nifty Warboss there. Really cool weathering and I love the headswap!

No headswap Siggy, just made some goggles for the big fella :-)

nerdfest09 wrote:Kingfest enterprises: makers of fine beard products since 2011?

Yea! kindda like DapperDan, but for beards! *we'll just use lipbalm smushed into bigger cans*

Yep, it'll keep me looking neat and sharp and you can tame the wild bush squig attatched to your face! it cannot possibly fail!

Mmmm..... I dunno..... the chin squig is a pretty wild one. I originally had 3 children....but it got hungry while I slept and ate one. So now my children are smart enough to feed it before bedtime

Not razor sharp potato chips?......

Nice work bruvva! Loving your work as always.

That warboss is jawdropping. Looks Eavy Metal standard to me.
What was your recipe for the red material between the legs, its so smooth.

G'day everyone! I had a chance to do some painting this morning and assemble my MERCS mini's too to start with I removed any flash or mold lines from them and happily as they are such good quality there was very little and only took me about 3 minutes I undercoated them white and washed them with devlan mud to bring out the details on them, they are great poses on the Sefadu models, very dynamic and full of action, even the sniper is bringing the pain with his rifle holstered! I haven't done much since the photo but i'm just laying down the base colours for them but thought i'd show you them first before I do more and update them!

SEFADU:


I managed to also finish the Wulfen heads for jirc! I only had to finish the teeth on them and touch up the hair a bit, i'd say they're good table top standard now and I hope they find their way onto some of his sweet looking space wolves! I packed them up nicely ready for a trip over the water! and here they are!


And just a quick update as I know you aren't interested in boring just assembled models but I managed to assemble and undercoat something beautiful! I never realised how sexy a squad of ten terminators with thunder hammers are these guys look hard as together! I used a can of Army painters Angel green primer and it's a great colour for the base coat and the can was so smooth to use, great coverage and it kind of sticks to even the hard to reach bits on the models, again, i'd recommend them to anyone! just follow the instructions carefully



Last thing I played with this morning was the arms for my Salamanders dreadnought, some may remember a few pages back i tried my hand at using greenstuff for the first time to make some 'rocks' on the arms, well, since then they've just sat there not doing much just accusing me of not paying them any attention, I figured I should attempt to do some more and see if I can get my salamanders mojo back on track, and what do you know? it did I think they look pretty good so far with the lava flowing over them like that next week I'll try and finish both arms so i can work on the dev squad again (I know, I know, still not finished!) what do you guys think?





Well, that's about it again from the Nerd lair next time I'll have the Sefadu models all base coated for opinions on how to work with them! and I should have the dreadnought arms done and maybe some more work on the Imperial Fist model

Hope everyone's well and painting!


Nerdfest09

The dread arms look really good. The lava effect will be nice against the green of the body.

Thanks prime, the body will be the same green that i'm working on with my speeders so yeah, it should pop quite well on the body, especially when i finish them off, I hope the pics weren't massive? they should be small but I see them huge and it really detracts from the painting :-(

The pics look fine, as does the painting, though maybe a touch more blending for the lava.

Those dread arms are sweeeet! (and it's great to see the finished wulfen heads too!)

Looking fab matey! The dreadnought arms are sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

Thanks Gits! :-) good to hear from you! i've been still loyally following your thread too! (just haven't needed to comment as everyone says it before me!) glad you like the dread arms, do you think they should be done in gunmetal colours or golds? i'm not sure yet? the gold would look good with the greens but it's easier to do the silver metals! hmmmm decisions :-)


Nerdfest09

Golds would be *really* striking.

I follow your blog regularly too... but like you, don't always comment. I''m here though!

I think that while gold would look really good against the green, gunmetal would look better with the lava.

Tarnished gold colors? Maybe like a bronze or brass? That would not only look really cool, but also set your Salamanders apart from the rest. Sure silvers would be easier to paint, but when pulled off golds are so much more rewarding

I say you do the end of the lascannon (the angled bit - hard to explain ) in gold and all the misc metal pieces silver, and heavily wash/weather
thats just my opinion though.

LDP