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Yes I expect its a spiked ball with lead in it.

I thought that the blood bowl dwarf could count as a missile launcher... Really fat missiles.

I've been busy. These are very detailed models and I needed a lot of patience to wet blend in the white. All ready to colour them in now.

You cheat...I see flesh colour on that last one...you've already started

Going with the test scheme you showed a few days back?

Inhave some of them somewhere.....

Yeah I'm going with that scheme monkey - roughly speaking... I may jazz it up a bit with more yellow.

Miss dee you mean mantic enforcers? Or maybe you're talking squat arms and then I'm all ears (especially squat exo armour arms I would pay you in gold for those).

Love the squats, oh the Nostalgia!

Enforcers, I have some of those!

The first ones the Mantic

Be warned they are a pain to assemble and paint, so many mold lines, and so much small detail. I'm nearly finished with them now - just a few more go faster stripes and they're done.

I've been away too long. I have too much to catch up on. This stuff is great, weety.

Thanks valhalla and welcome back, lots to see since you were here last!

The enforcer commission is nearly done:

Looking pretty sweet...what else is there to do on these guys?

Is the sniper getting anything special on his cloak?

Will you be basing, or is the client doing that?

I'm not done yet! the cloak needs working on and everyone needs more freehand and shadows. Oh and the blades need to glow, green? pink? I'm not sure... the stock photo has them bright blue.

I'm just going to base them black at the end, its what the client wants.

Weets, have you seen this excellent kitbash squat blog?
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/586811.page

Awesome work on those minis weety! I really like the models too. They look like alot of fun to paint. Im feeling its time for me to branch out and paint some different stuff myself..
Great work!
BB

Great job on those soldiers weets. Just enough color to make them visually interesting without ruining the overall feel of them. Spot on.

Thanks for that link graven, those are nice space dwarves

Bebop - they are a challenge, I'd love to see how you handle them, I'm looking forward to the other factions more, especially the marauder faction, who are basically space orks

Thanks gitsplitta I value your opinion, as you can imagine the client has spent an arm and a leg getting me to paint these so I need to be sure It's all good stuff.

They are all done now bar the sniper and the engineer, who both need a little rejiggering (I think they are badly sculpted compared with the others). Here's some group shots:

Getting these two little blighters to look good was tricky and I think I failed, but here they are

Hi, I hope you are all in the mood for some NMM. I've been experimenting today with this greatsworder using my new paints, especially sky blue and pale-grey-blue

I think you're right weets, those last two scupts don't quite measure up. Something about them is out-of-proportion.... or maybe it's the mass of them when compaired to the others. (there looks to be a bit of a mold line on the front of the engineer's belly thingie... or is that a part of the design?)

NMM looks good. Are these paints a bit thicker than what you've used in the past? Flamberge looks great with the highlighting and shading.

Oh Weety Weety Weety. Lovely metal work.

And good job on the robo-guys. Look good as a group.

Hey thanks Dr H, loving your tank btw.

Gitsplitta Yeah I think part of it is the way they are crouched, and on some of the engineers equipment its hard to tell whats going on. But you have to draw the line somewhere with commissions as time is of the essence (I get the impression these will actually be used for gaming).

As for the new paint, it is actual paint, not wash. So it is thicker than what I normally use yes! It's all from vallejo though.

You might fiddle with the vallejo model air colors, they're paint... but very thin. Might be a bit more familiar for you to work with.

I put a lot of brush love into this psyker librarian dude. Not finished but I wanted to share anyway. He needs his bionic eye colouring and base finishing.

Oh look I finished it...

He looks really good, Weety.

I like the way the colors appear very soft and fit well together but are still distinct.


I always think of this Kids in the Hall skit when I see the DA librarian though:





There must be some wires crossed in my head.

Nice work Weety. Really like the shading on the blue.

Beautifully executed weets. He looks great! The little splashes of red and purple here and there really set him off nicely.

Very nice!

Some lovely shading on the blue, and I really like that soft green of the robe.

Terribly pretty indeed. Interesting to see your take on modern 40k!

Thanks JB I'd always wondered where the "I'm crushing your head" thing came from, that show looks hilarious. And the chap does look a little like the librarian (same nose). I've always liked canadian humour, I'm a massive Steven Wright fan.

Thanks everyone for looking and commenting

Blue is a hard colour to do right! I spent ages fiddling with the blue. At its base it is vallejo blue wash, carefully layered and blended, then highlighted with Vallejo sky blue.

The green cloak is vallejo pale green and vallejo pastel grey-green with a wash of umber and black.

The Space dwarf army is coming on but I will resist the temptation to show it till its done.