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It has been a while and I must apologise for that, but man is this looking sweat! Loving it all. Especially the sexy photo! Talk soon bro.

James

The lava effect on the dread arms is looking really nice.

Thanks again everyone for your comments! and suggestions! glad you enjoy hanging out here with me and my ramblings :-)

I think I may try and paint the weapons on the dreadnought in a brass/bronze look, just for something different and also as the Salamanders are master artisans and weapon smiths I feel it would be fitting to have an ancient war machine with a bit of bling to him :-) it should also look good against the lava effect on the shoulders, again, any criticism and suggestions are more than welcome!

I will aim to also finish base coating my sefadu mini's and attempt to do some more on the imperial fist and the sallies :-) so this week looks busy for the Nerd!

catch you all soon.

Nerdfest09

Ooooo I really like the lava on that Dread arm! And yes TH/SS Termies do look sexy don't they? Nothing inspires more hate/fear in your opponent either haha

Those arms are looking awesome

I had a nice relaxing day and got what felt like heaps done today! I won't bother you with lots of chatter today, I'll leave that for tomorrow here's where i'm at, I did some work on my speeders, I thought they needed some kind of colour to break them up but i didn't want to do black, so, inspired by the arms on the dreadnought I had an aha moment and went to work....

thoughts?




Also painted the barrels on my dread gold, tried to add some details onto them in mithril silver before I washed them with gryphone sepia, I thought they looked too gold so I re painted them back to silver but left the two 'brackets' on each end in gold and it looks much better yet still ornate enough to represent the sallies i'll pic up tomorrow..


Hope the pics aren't massive, but it's all meshing well imo, can't wait to do some more tomorrow!


Nerdfest09

Have you actually modelled the lava onto the speeders or have you gone nuts and painted it on?! Looks awesome either way, it really pops

Thanks kitch, I modelled the rocky bits onto the speeders and then painted the lava flow around them, i need to finish painting the rocks and touch up a bit and then that bit should be right and i can move onto the rest of the speeder :-)

Nerdfest09

The lava on the speeders looks fantastic Nerdy... never seen anything like that before. Very well done.

My issue with the gold on the guns is that it's laid up right next to the bolt gun metal... you need some other color in there that is not metallic to give a visual break between the two. I know you aren't done yet... but I thought I'd mention it before you proceeded.

Great work!

G'day again my fellow Nerds! I know this is unheard of! two updates in two days! don't sweat yet it's not a massive one just a few pics of the speeders weapons and one of the dreadnought to see what you think, most of the weapons are nearly done now, just need to do some touch ups and neaten areas up but at least they're 90% done now!






and just a little pic of the dready, not anywhere near finished yet but I think the gold brackets work o.k on him, once it gets more detailed I think it'll be great.



I would have liked to sign off with a great finished model or two but I don't have any ..... so you'll have to wait! hopefully I'll have the pilots and gunners finished next time and then the speeders will be completed, the first unit done on my sallie army! can't wait!


Nerdfest09

OK, that settles it... I'm sending my land speeders for you to paint.

Nothing against your Exemplars, but your Salis are really on a whole new level of awesome.

Really nice work! Keep it up

Nerd I love how the theme of the Salamanders turning out . Can't wait to see more!

Awesome! I'm really loving the lava and rocks! Totally mysterious and creative looking Frwd to the next update!

Doing good dude, keep it up

Love the progress your making on your Salamanders. Keep it up my friend!

Wow, thanks everyone, very positive stuff there!

@Pyriel & Mr Malevolent: thank you guys I appreciate it heaps, I certainly will be keeping it up as I'm really getting into the swing of them now and I can see some decent progress!

@bebopdrums2424 & GreyDeathOne: More eh! well updates will be a tad slower but I hope results will be much better

@The Epic Chaosdude!: thanks dude, glad you like 'em!

@whalemusic360: Good to hear from you again dude, i'm happy you like these guys! the exemplars really were an experiment to see how quickly I can paint an army up as I'm one of those painters that get annoyed if I don't see any fast progress! but I'm planning on taking my time with these sallies and although updates will be slower I hope the quality of them will keep people interested, i'm really wanting to produce an army that is as nice to look at as Pyriels! (although not as well painted )

@Gitsplitta: you really like 'em? now, to have you want me to paint anything for you is a massive compliment in itself! thanks Gits!

I think next update will be the dev squad plasma cannons i'm hoping to try and get the 'plasma coil' bit to appear as if it's charging up along a couple of them towards the end of the gun ready to fire! ..... but we'll see!


catch you all soon!

Nerdfest09

Damn you've been busy/ That dread and those Land Speeders are AWESOME! I love how incorparated the lava theme on the hull of the Land Speeder. If the whole army follows that same concept its gonna be epic on the table. Again great work.

Wow dude that's some great progress! If you want the gold to look darker to match the scheme a little better, you could always give it a couple devlan mud washes, works well for my shoulder pads/cheagles most of the time

Heh, cheagles

LDP

Yes Nerdfest, I really like them. The greens are clean and crisp, the lava is well executed and the little bits of glowing orange on the guns are very well done. I doubt I'll do as good a job on my speeders as you've done on yours.

Happy friday my fellow Nerd friends! Not a huge lot painted today but have some w.i.p shots for you of my dev squad, still obviously a fair bit of small detail type work on them all but they are finally coming together as a whole, mostly I highlighted the armour and base coated and washed the rest of the guns and started on the plasma coils, I really want to get the plasma blast from armourcast to add to one of them but we'll see how i go in the next couple of weeks? need to buy some more stock so it may just make his way into my army

I can't wait to finally finish this squad, it'll be the first fully finished squad for my sallies and it's packing a lot of ouch! except for one thing ...... when I ordered all the bits I got sent one wrong 'support arm' and one wrong backpack! so if anyone has a spare plasma cannon backpack and arm lying around?.....

anyway, here the boys are:




Next week I really hope to finish the squad and other cannon I have and then do some more on the speeders!

Hope everyone's happy, well and painting heaps! catch you all soon.


Nerdfest09

I like your Salamanders the lava technique is really cool. Those Plasma cannon gunners are very well painted not sure I'm a fan of the square bases though.
And I'm sure I have a plasma cannon backpack and a Plasma Cannon arm lying around somewhere, we can do a bits trade if you want.
Edit; I've just checked now and I have two plasma cannon sets with arms backpacks and everything!

Oh sweet FP! that'd be great dude, what are you needing for your projects? i'll find something you need i'm sure! :-) PM me your address and what you need and i'll get onto it quick smart!

and thanks for the compliments! I am looking forward to finishing these guys and you'll be glad to know that the square bases are just temporary until i buy my bases from back2base-ix I accidentally threw all my spare round ones out and had these lying around :-)


Nerdfest09

Ooooh pretty, they're like a string of sapphires and emeralds on a silver chain!

nerdfest09 wrote:Oh sweet FP! that'd be great dude, what are you needing for your projects? i'll find something you need i'm sure! :-) PM me your address and what you need and i'll get onto it quick smart!

and thanks for the compliments! I am looking forward to finishing these guys and you'll be glad to know that the square bases are just temporary until i buy my bases from back2base-ix I accidentally threw all my spare round ones out and had these lying around :-)Nerdfest09

PM sent. I thought the bases might be temporary, I was just checking. Square bases look horrible with all 40k minis for some reason. The Back2Base-ix bases are awesome they will look great with your minis.

Thanks Pooo, i'm planning on getting the sort of checker plate floor ones and imagining them to be on a boarding mission? and if they are in a massive space hulk then that can explain the speeder :-)

Boarding mission eh' sounds cool.
Seen these... AWESOME.
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/SPACE-MARINE-BOARDING-ASSAULT-UPGRADE-SET.html
A tad bit expensive though.

Yeah I did see them, and they are awesome but i can't think of a scenario to use them as they are? unless GW puts out a mission book like cities of death where you fight space hulk style battles throughout different ships? Now how cool would that be! :-) imagine the myriad of races they'd have to make full sized space ship corridors for! Tau, Nids, Ork, Oh my head is swimming just thinking of the fun times it would create!

Nerdfest09

nerdfest09 wrote:Yeah I did see them, and they are awesome but i can't think of a scenario to use them as they are? unless GW puts out a mission book like cities of death where you fight space hulk style battles throughout different ships? Now how cool would that be! :-) imagine the myriad of races they'd have to make full sized space ship corridors for! Tau, Nids, Ork, Oh my head is swimming just thinking of the fun times it would create!

Nerdfest09

That sounds Awesome. I doubt GW have the time to do something like that though.