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Stunning Damo. They leap off the page. Beautiful work!

The depth of colour is jaw dropping.

Smashing job, Nerdy. Works really well.

Well done! The shading is great! What's on the table next?

Thank you my friends! I'll be using the fists decals but I need to get some micro sol and micro set and learn how to use them properly I'm thinking I'll just use the white tactical arrows ive got instead of trying to freehand black ones on all of them evenly.

as for what's next, most probably lots more washing green on the Salamanders which is pretty time consuming and i'll intersperse that with my Sternguard squad and Landraider, i'm thinking I should get some larahman medium to use with the wash to make it flow better over larger panels on the tank without the streaking tide marks you get otherwise? has any of you guys tried this?

i've also started organising my bits box for my upcoming Nurgle army found some cool heads from Gits i'll use on my cultists as well as a few random odds and ends to throw on a few of them.


and I took some update photo's of my little Daisy May she's growing so fast! 6 months old now and a truly beautiful intelligent caring little dog!

Imperial Fists are looking really awesome! I love the white helmets.

EDC

Daisy May is looking lovely Damo

Wow, Damo... Damn fine job all around!! Really making spectacular progress, and those Fists are awesome! You've really got the hang of that yellow.
Sallies look wicked as well. Stunning effect with that candy gold. I dont think I've ever seen someone use that technique before you started...


Oh, and remind me to ask you how you paint that white fur... the effect is stunning!

So here's a fun one for you, tanks! how the hell do you paint them yellow without the horrid brush strokes? answer: finger painting! I primed my landraider in desert yellow but was finding it hard to approach how to do the first highlight of yellow which is kind of important to get the look I like I had images of doing it with very watered paint and many layers but I discovered that if it's too watery and you try to wipe it off the panel with your finger, it 'stains' which is perfect so I got to painting and wiping! it slightly brightened the yellow enough to add successive yellow highlights closer to the edges.

So I went ahead and started highlighting the raider to see if it worked with another highlight layer, it's coming along well at this stage even though there are some brush marks you can see but that's going to happen when you are painting such large panels by hand all in all i'm happy though and it's shaping up to at least be on par with my Flesh eaters one I did only worry I have is laying on the wash at the end? i'm thinking now I'll try airbrush thinner instead of the GW medium as my research has led me to believe that's a better option.





and just a small update on the Sallies, I began washing the green wash over the gold and now you can see the shade of the green they'll be I just snapped a pic next to the first gold so you can compare them. Next step is just a fine gold highlight on the high points then details.

Why am I not surprised you are fingerpainting?

They look great Nerdy. Fingerpainting... 10 million pre-schoolers can't be wrong.

Awesome Yellow. I think the finger painting is brilliant. will have to try it.

Can't argue with the results. Good job, Nerdy.

Rubbing the paint off with a finger is also a good technique for weathering; slap on the "dirt" and rub off the majority with a finger, leaving it in places your finger doesn't get into.

Finger painting is good fun and I do think the results speak for themselves I did a wee bit more on the Raider and also started assembling some Chaos cultists for my Nurgle army which was fun I've got 12 assembled and need 8 more to make up my two ten man squads. Still some tidying to go but they look o.k for what they are meant to represent, enough rotten and decrepit parts to mesh with the more complete bodies and the metal heads that Gits gave me from who knows where








This is a closer shot of the raider to show the extent of the visible brush strokes and just a little update

Interesting conversions on the cultists, the DE pieces fit right in! And i'd suppose finger painting DOES have it's uses...

Raiders looking fantastic, nice finger work, use mine all the time.

Nurgly guys look spot on bud, really interesting combinations.

Thanks cam, the Nurgle guys are pretty messy but I tried to just get a decent mix of parts so I had options to paint ruined flesh and worn fatigues etc. and any rough glue can be diseased flesh! :-) win!

Great use of the DE Wrack kit there, Nerdy . That Land Raider looks fantastic also. Will have to try finger painting sometime. Would certainly make edge highlighting vehicles easier...

Cheers dudes! :-) speaking of bits and uses for them.


Does anyone have a set of Nurgle Plague Fly wings I can buy please? got some fun planned....

The cultists look pretty awseome

Quicky question on the new space marine kit, I got one cheap but the arms have been all clipped off the sprue! is there a way to organise them so they match up? for instance do they have 3 vents on one forearm on both matching arms etc? I don't want to stuff the assembly up :-)

Just picked this guy up for $5 so I thought i'd try and see how my ideas for a cleaner Nurgle style looks on him, since they started as men I wanted to paint the skin as normal then disease and add wounds and veins etc. I like how he's progressing but wanted your input before I went further.

I want him to be creepy and gross but I didn't want to particularly take the easy route and just make them totally dirty and rusty I've got my Orks for that!

That is genuinely unsettling, so mission accomplished!

Yeah he is rather disturbing!

Wow, that's creepy lol. Well done

Awesome stuff Nerdy. Skintones are lush. Nice job

I love it, the tones are perfect.

Ew. I love it.

Yeah, they look brilliant. Love the conversion work on the cultists too


EDC

Well thank you :-) glad he's going o.k! I've since finished him and I think i've upped the game when it comes to making him look sick and unhealthy! I went for some wet raw wounds and some necrotic skin tones and he really does look pretty gross lol! you'll just have to wait until tomorrow for an update.

I hope the general style can carry across power armoured marines and Gal Vorback (spawn) and I got the basis for my Deamon prince in the mail and he's going to look fantastic!


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I also finished the IF landraider a while ago too :-) but i'm waiting on the FW tank crew to add one to the top hatch so you'll have to wait for those pics too! just wanted to keep you waiting....