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I can't take the credit, I just replicated someone elses great idea! Just not as well as they did it ha ha

I finished another model. Actually looking over my army, I have hardly anything finished due to the rubbish weather I've been too scared to matt varnish them and so havent done the decals and other little bits on so many units. So I knuckled down and finished my converted Forgefiend tonight after watching Looper (what a freaky film...) - looks much better than on Sunday, lots of washes on the metal, lots of drybrushing, stippling, washing... etc etc etc lighting is pretty poor on the pics, but I love the furnace glow showing though the gaping mouths on the chimney stacks!. Just need static grass and tanglewire on the base when it's varnished.

That Forgefiend is looking incredible. The colours you've used look amazing, particularly the flesh colour on the limbs. Really nice work.

I know what you mean about the rubbish weather. I've got a bunch of stuff I want to spray prime but it's been raining here for three days straight. So frustrating.

Hey thanks, appreciate it. I think I may need to just get them sprayed and hope for the best, time to man up I think!!

Here's a quick pic I took of the liquid masking I use. Quite scary to slap purple gunk all over your newly painted model, but it seems to work a treat so bravery is key! I decided to add some hazard stripes to my Forgefiend, why not eh? My Forge World Decimator sitting next to him getting the same treatment. Really happy how he's turned out. Defo a model that needs paint to get the proper impression from it.

Man you have a great eye for color. Now I may have missed something, what is the purple for? Is it like warp energy or something? Don't get me wrong, looks great. Just curious.

excellent models! love the zerkers and the infantry, superb! any painting advice for a new hobbyist ?

40kFSU wrote:Man you have a great eye for color. Now I may have missed something, what is the purple for? Is it like warp energy or something? Don't get me wrong, looks great. Just curious.

Ha ha noooo it's just the liquid mask! It's what I use to block out the bits I don't want the hazard stripes to be painted on. I'm hopeless at keeping inside the 'lines' with the yellow so it helps me with that, but then when I peel off the mask it leaves the bare metal behind and looks like the hazard stripes have chipped off etc.

nettraper wrote:excellent models! love the zerkers and the infantry, superb! any painting advice for a new hobbyist ?

Thanks man. My advice? For what it's worth, work out something you are confident with painting, colourwise, and just focus on that. I knew I could do metals pretty well so picked a colourscheme that let me use that strength, and then around that base I've added other things and got my confidence doing other bits too. It at least means you don't get disheartened when your model looks terrible from being over ambitious with the colour scheme. Also watch as many Youtube videos as you can - stuff like Girl Painting and some of the other tutorial channels. Again decide which of these things is going to be 'doable' for you. Oh and spray undercoat! But seriously, Youtube is an absolute gold mine for help.

In terms of working through an army, just set yourself deadlines. Focus on one unit at a time (seems obvious) and leave the nicer models as 'treats' to paint in between the more mundane longer jobs like squads. Hope this helps! Since the turn of the year I've painted up two squads of ten marines, a six man Terminator squad, a Forgefiend, a Land Raider, a Rhino, a Predator, a Helbrute, and a Decimator. Basically a 2000pt army in about seven weeks! And it's been really fun, a good workspace with a computer for music/movies/youtube and it's flown by.

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Well this week I set myself a goal of finishing off all of the models I had been playing with, in an unfinished state. None of my vehicle or heavy support models were finished except the little Rhino. Knowing I wanted to add more things to the army shortly, I decided to get them done and out of the way. My to-do list this week was as follows:

- Land Raider (stripes, details, weathering, crew)
- Predator (was only basecoated and washed so everything else!)
- Decimator (needed all detail, trim, stripes, base...)
- Forge Fiend (see Decimator)
- Decals on all infantry (I have been waiting ages for my Micro Sol/Set to arrive)
- Paint new pre-Heresy Raptor squad
- Paint both strike teams of Nurgle-marked Chosen marines

The goal was to get all of this done by Sunday (starting the previous weekend), and I would then reward myself with my next unit if I could get it done in time! Here's my progress so far... in short I'm onto the Chosen and Raptors!





Predator is fully magnetised for every possible weapon configuration - Still need to finish the twin-linked turret lascannons though as I've not used them in a game yet.





I went back and added hazard stripes to the Forgefiend, I felt it looked a little plain without them.



I also added decals and tanglewire (home made...) to my Terminators - base wise I want the army to look like it's storming the enemy lines and breaching their flimsy defences in typical Iron Warriors style! Decals really finish off the models, but I need to get them matt varnished to take off the sheen from the decal surround.

The army's looking excellent mate!
I really like the chipped hazard stripes.

This stuff looks great. The liquid mask used to chip the hazard stripes is pure genius. Maybe I should take a 15 year break, would certainly make my wife happy.

Wow you're really powering along with these. They're looking great.

Thanks for the kind words.

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My first painted HQ... I just don't like my other two (Terminator and Kranon) no matter how hard I try to.



Loved painting this model, I can understand why it's so popular to paint. Simple conversion with some guitar string and some bits. Intended to be used as a bare Lord with maybe Mark of Nurgle if points are spare. Designated to run with the beastmen cultist blob I'm in the process of doing... but might be used as a simple champion in other games in this unit:





The unit formerly known as two squads of Chosen. They were previously equipped with six plasma guns and three meltaguns... super killy against Terminators but too expensive to risk running about. So pulled off the guns and put on bolters and respec'd as a 'tactical' style squad as I am actually sorely short of basic grunt units. Idea is they are matched up with the Lord as a small Nurgle detachment within the mostly Khorne army (more Khorne stuff coming soon). Mark of Nurgle if I fancy it. Or Plague Marines. Lots of rust, corrosions, blisters, bloated bellies. Some dodgy greenstuffing by me too ) But even Nurgle tainted, I wanted them to still be Iron Warriors ('fallen' Iron Warriors if you like) hence the hazard striped pads to tie them in to the rest of the army - I'm going to do the same with my berzekers.

And an army shot as I've not done one before... everything painted since about the 1st of January 2013. And more to come this week - beastmen blob, Heresy-era armoured Raptors, and hopefully the official warlord HQ model... and a non-official Warpsmith model too.



Then onto painting the Possessed... but actually as proper Bloodletters I think to use as my trooo choice in a Khorne daemon ally detachment - would be rude not to be honest.

For not painting in 15 years, you have done a great job! This is an awesome and inspiring army. These are some of the greatest and fastest paint jobs ive ever seen. Awesome army

Ah man your stuff is great, I was expecting some rough paint jobs that would make me feel better about my skills but wow great stuff. Those maines with the WoC parts are really awesome.

Love this post, great job. Love your paiting style. The nurlge lord looks great, I'm gonna have to use that 'chained bolter' thing myself.

Color Sgt. Kell wrote:For not painting in 15 years, you have done a great job! This is an awesome and inspiring army. These are some of the greatest and fastest paint jobs ive ever seen. Awesome army

One of the good things about IW's, once you hit on a way to paint them you can do real production line painting quite easily for the base colour then focus on the details and stripes. Key for me has been washes and layering drybrushing with them in different combinations. I think each one has four washes in different degrees/amounts.

Rotgut wrote:Ah man your stuff is great, I was expecting some rough paint jobs that would make me feel better about my skills but wow great stuff. Those maines with the WoC parts are really awesome.

Sadly now, those first WoC marines are my least favourite due to how I painted them - only did them about seven weeks ago but my technique for doing the bare metal is now much different and I think much better looking (sadly).

legolooney wrote:Love this post, great job. Love your paiting style. The nurlge lord looks great, I'm gonna have to use that 'chained bolter' thing myself.

I borrowed the idea from the the GW aspiring champ with the meltagun. Bit of jewelerry craft chain and superglue!

Stuff looks great, I can't believe you hadn't done any modeling or painting in 15 years. Love the Forgefiend!

Seriously good going here. I am loving how this army is looking. Colours do look great. I'm a big fan of the hazard stripes! Keep it up... :-)

Hi,

Really like your painting style. Your models look really good...well, not good..EVIL!
Could you tell me the process of painitn you used on the forgefields armour plates, it's a similar technique that i'd like to apply to my models. I'm trying to think up a very different colour scheme to the one you have used..but still in the mulling it over stage - Maybe black with red trim.

Keep up the pace, these mini's are great!

Man, those conversions are fantastic!

Hi,
Just discovered this thread, and I'm glad I did. The conversions on your models are amazing, I love the CSM/CW conversions the most. The paint-jobs on your models are really good as well. The army has come on realy well so far, looking forward to seeing more.