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Gitsplitta wrote:... like they're closer to being done!

LOL- good one Gitsplitta. I'll have to use that one with my orks.

I'm a little sad to see the heavy flamer guy took his helmet off? It takes away from the "haters gonna hate" look. Not a lot, mind you.

I like the poses on these guys.

Last progress for the night. Another layer of highlights and the bolt gun metal picked out. Also added a couple of the roundels for the badge that I'd forgotten.

So gits how much paint to water ratio do you do when mixing paint up for an airbrush... Just curious. Got an airbrush, but do not know how to mix the paint properly. Thanks..Models look cool BTW

Gitsplitta, I just wanted to say that this blog here has moved me to join DakkaDakka.

Your painting is excellent, and you and your sons are an inspiration. Part of the reason I'm dusting off my Tyranids and Necrons and putting aside the Dark Eldar for a bit, actually. Your love of the game comes through with your painting, and quite frankly, it's some of the best I've had the pleasure of seeing.

Keep on highlighting, and may the brush be with you.

from the side the heavy flamer guy appears to be laughing. its quite appropriate

prototype_X wrote:from the side the heavy flamer guy appears to be laughing. its quite appropriate

Time to add a comedian Icon somewhere Gits (From Nightwatch)

heavy flamer guy is great well done

we have the parkers price guide here, www.parkers.co.uk could help with deciding what kind id car you fancy.

Covers evetthing from emissions to trim etc.

I assume by Alfa you are thinking the mito. There is always the giuletta or the brera (featured in top gear) we have 03 beetle in flaming orange and it is fun to throw around, not the mos practical boot (trunk) wise but great all round visibilty and decent rear room.

Being a Vdub its bombproof and cheap to insure. Plus with the new model coming out in Europe next year (lowered roof, more like a tt) dealer prices might drop quite a bit on them.

It also drove pretty well on the snow.

Back on topic, yellows look really nice and rich, alot like the hand blended versions compared to the previous airbrushed marines.

Eiluj The Farseer wrote:So gits how much paint to water ratio do you do when mixing paint up for an airbrush... Just curious. Got an airbrush, but do not know how to mix the paint properly. Thanks..Models look cool BTW

Roughly 50/50... though I probably start at 75/25 and work my way from there. I recommend getting a bottle of pre-mixed paint like Vallejo Air and using that as your guidepost. There are lost of airbrush guide threads on dakka & elsewhere though... so just poke around. Not that using ETOH as a thinner does NOT work with the Vallejo paints, it causes the pigments to precipitate.

Orminah wrote:Gitsplitta, I just wanted to say that this blog here has moved me to join DakkaDakka.

Your painting is excellent, and you and your sons are an inspiration. Part of the reason I'm dusting off my Tyranids and Necrons and putting aside the Dark Eldar for a bit, actually. Your love of the game comes through with your painting, and quite frankly, it's some of the best I've had the pleasure of seeing.

Keep on highlighting, and may the brush be with you.

Hey, paid in full buddy... that tip about the Necrons was worth it weight in gold. Glad you like what you see. Haven't been pushing to kids too much as I'd rather have them do things when they feel inspired rather than feel they have to. Funny thing is... I think most of my passions comes out in the modeling as opposed to the painting. My stubborn insistence on using the old models, they wracking my brain trying to figure out how to modify them to make them look interesting. I care about the painting, certainly... but I think there's more of "me" in the poses then there is in the paint jobs.

prototype_X wrote:from the side the heavy flamer guy appears to be laughing. its quite appropriate

He does have a bit of that "maniacal mass murderer" look to him. I can hear him say as he flames the masses: "Come to me my little piggies, BBQ's a-waitin' and I needs fresh meat for the feast!"

CommissarKhaine wrote:Time to add a comedian Icon somewhere Gits (From Nightwatch)

??

dakkagrot187 wrote:heavy flamer guy is great well done

Thank you sir!

dantay_xv wrote:we have the parkers price guide here, www.parkers.co.uk could help with deciding what kind id car you fancy.

Covers evetthing from emissions to trim etc.

I assume by Alfa you are thinking the mito. There is always the giuletta or the brera (featured in top gear) we have 03 beetle in flaming orange and it is fun to throw around, not the mos practical boot (trunk) wise but great all round visibilty and decent rear room.

Being a Vdub its bombproof and cheap to insure. Plus with the new model coming out in Europe next year (lowered roof, more like a tt) dealer prices might drop quite a bit on them.

It also drove pretty well on the snow.

Back on topic, yellows look really nice and rich, alot like the hand blended versions compared to the previous airbrushed marines.

Oh yea.... I'd forgotten to mention that the new beetle was also on my list. Had a Rabbit back in the early 80's... not fancy but a decent little car. Have they gone nice but affordable with the new beetle or have they played the nostalgia card and slapped it with a big price tag?

I do not know, ours was 5k when we bought it a year back (approx $7k).

We would get maybe £3.5k trade if we were lucky £4k private sale, guess it depends how much you were willing to spend.

Please please take the flower out if you are driving it though.

Gitsplitta wrote:

CommissarKhaine wrote:Time to add a comedian Icon somewhere Gits (From Nightwatch)

??

The Comedian was a cartoon superhero from the Nightwatch comics. Let's just say he combined laughter with a flamethrower - I was referring to prototype_X's post

Ahhhhhh! Got it. Sorry for being so hopelessly un-cool. By-product of age and fatherhood I'm afraid...

I was just using the fire red and wow that blend is fantastic
well done Vallejo.

Gitsplitta wrote:Ahhhhhh! Got it. Sorry for being so hopelessly un-cool. By-product of age and fatherhood I'm afraid...

Hey! I'm a dad too! Don't worry, soon they'll be old enough to explain this stuff to you

Actually the Comedian was a cartoon superhero from the Watchmen comics, I think Nightwatch is something else...



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@ Gitsplitta

Yeah, no problem. When I saw them yesterday, I immediately thought of my childhood and I thought of how much joy those little "zombie" robots brought me, so I figured that he'd enjoy seeing them. It's enough to make me dust them off, though I may end up replacing them if the aesthetic is too far off to blend with the rest of the army. Any recommendations on selecting and purchasing an airbrush?

Also, your Lancer style bayonets are very awesome. (They are a gun from Gears of War that have a chainsaw for bayonets.) I was wondering how you did the ones that are shaped like axes. Is it actually just a chain axe? Or something more subtle?

Hooo boy... that's a big subject... and I'm not necessarily the best person to take advice from. Keep in mind that a decent compressor is a lot more expensive than a decent airbrush. Why don't you start by looking up the topic in the dakka search... that should put you on some good discussions. If you still have specific questions you can come back to me and I'll see if I can point you in a decent direction.

i love the chian sword on beakie although im still not convinced on flamer i'll have to see this painted up

@Orminah - I am an experienced airbrush user, if you have any questions about it or want suggestions on equipment I would love to help you out. PM me though so theres no thread hijacking.

This whole project is awesome! I love seeing things develop out of fluff, I think a lot people don't appreciate the vast background of the 40k universe that is available in books and such. It's what really separates GW from other miniature games makers IMO. Great job on the modelling, consider this subbed!

Rogue Wolves wrote:i love the chian sword on beakie although im still not convinced on flamer i'll have to see this painted up

A skeptic! Good! I'll try not to disappoint!

Thare1774 wrote:@Orminah - I am an experienced airbrush user, if you have any questions about it or want suggestions on equipment I would love to help you out. PM me though so theres no thread hijacking.

This whole project is awesome! I love seeing things develop out of fluff, I think a lot people don't appreciate the vast background of the 40k universe that is available in books and such. It's what really separates GW from other miniature games makers IMO. Great job on the modelling, consider this subbed!

Thank you Thare! On both counts... the compliments *and* helping out with the airbrush stuff. Hope the thread continues to be enjoyable. Have big plans burried in the back of head... just don't know if I'll ever get to them!



Today's progress, one step closer...

hmm it does make me think of a mantis claw but i dont think the top blades on the chainsaw should be so close to the pipes on the flamer

Well, as long as there's clearance there wouldn't be any issue. I just realized that I put the teeth on backwards though... not sure how I'm going to fix that without screwing everything up.

I find it funny that so many people said that the blade on the marine I built/you painted (the original GMS marine really) was silly and unrealistic, and now its the standard, with whole chainswords underslung and everyone digs it! Fickle masses.

I clearly am a fan of ott blades on them, keep it up!

Your Lancer style bayonets are very awesome. (They are a gun from Gears of War that have a chainsaw for bayonets.) I was wondering how you did the ones that are shaped like axes. Is it actually just a chain axe? Or something more subtle?


And yes, I already asked this. But it availed me nothing. Lol.

Orminah, I believe those are the original RT chain-bayonets (predating Lancers by 12 years or so).

MasterSlowPoke wrote:Orminah, I believe those are the original RT chain-bayonets (predating Lancers by 12 years or so).

Ah, you'll have to excuse my ignorance. I didn't realize that they thought of chainsaw bayonets. I mean, swords is one thing, and of course, impractical as all hell, but I'd have a harder time justifying the bayonets..... Good stuff though. Gotta love GW's originality.

forgeworld makes some nice chain-bayonets but to gitsplittas defence since its the future i expect they may have some outer barrel covering the actual firing barrel to protect it from the chainsaws or something along those lines

Liking the chain bayonets, and if anybody can point me in the direction of some of the old RT ones it would be much appreciated. Been searching bits sites and e-bay - but so far no luck.

I have some chain attachment if you want them

whalemusic360 wrote:I find it funny that so many people said that the blade on the marine I built/you painted (the original GMS marine really) was silly and unrealistic, and now its the standard, with whole chainswords underslung and everyone digs it! Fickle masses.

I clearly am a fan of ott blades on them, keep it up!

I learned from the masters. Never thought about doing serious conversion until I started "hanging out" with you and BLACKHAND. I guess sometimes completely over-the-top works where slightly over the top rubs people the wrong way. *shrug*

As to the axe-style chainblades, MSP is correct, those are the originals. Since this army is based largely on the original RT-2nd edition styles of figures, it seemed appropriate. I don't think that physics or engineering should interfere with a good model (and I say that in all seriousness). This is 40k, where preposterous things happen every day as a normal course of events. The path of a chainsaw blade through a combat attachment is about the least important thing that you have to "suspend a reasonable doubt" about. People don't have a problem with 9' tall supermen fully implanted with organic improvements & cybernetic implants *after* adulthood which give them superhero abilities, make them werewolves and vampires, and who-knows-what-else, others (librarians) "magic powers", but they do have an issue with the path a chainsaw blade takes through an attachment... really?? That's the limit of their "not realistic" perception???

I hope to get some more work in today... managed to completely throw my back out yesterday which is a new experience. I don't really walk so much as hobble while bent over at a 30-degree angle, can't carry anything and move at the same time as I need both hands hanging on to something in order to stay upright. I can sit hunched over without pain... that's about it. Perfect for painting or blogging. Not good for much else. I need a hot pad or something...