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The new speeder is stunning! Love every bit of this thread and can't wait to see more stuff!

Speeders looking good Eggy, looks like i need to pull my finger out and we'll have a 'speeder off!' :-)

Thanks Northern, Meph and Farty

nerdfest - Huh? Where are you pulling your finger out of and what is a speeder off? I think I'm missing something here...

The latest speeder looks very good eggroll! Just one small bit here: the heavy bolter looks rather clean, maybe a bit of burn/rust would look good. But, who am I to criticize work that is far beyond my own?

UG

Unluckyguardsman wrote:The latest speeder looks very good eggroll! Just one small bit here: the heavy bolter looks rather clean, maybe a bit of burn/rust would look good. But, who am I to criticize work that is far beyond my own?

UG

Thanks UG. Your point is certainly valid and you don't need to be a good painter to critique other people's work. I did do some weathering on the bolter with a dry brush of boltgun metal. I would dirty it up more but then it wouldn't fit in with the other weapons I've been painting so far so I'll probably leave it as is. Otherwise it's a very good point.

Eggroll wrote:

Unluckyguardsman wrote:The latest speeder looks very good eggroll! Just one small bit here: the heavy bolter looks rather clean, maybe a bit of burn/rust would look good. But, who am I to criticize work that is far beyond my own?

UG

Thanks UG. Your point is certainly valid and you don't need to be a good painter to critique other people's work. I did do some weathering on the bolter with a dry brush of boltgun metal. I would dirty it up more but then it wouldn't fit in with the other weapons I've been painting so far so I'll probably leave it as is. Otherwise it's a very good point.

Yeah, I definitely see how it fits with your theme. Thanks for taking the time to clarify!

UG

Top job as ever Eggy! Impressive consistency between the Speeders considering how far apart they were painted.

I finally had a bit of time to go through this thread in its entirety and boy was it worth it! I also discovered that I'd been unknowingly inspired by your Death Company. I've just completed a squad myself and before I painted them I did a Google image search for inspiration and yours came up. They were the best I found by far and I must admit I... "borrowed" quite a few elements from yours without even knowing they were yours

I shall post some pics and credit you as the source of inspiration

Thanks Luther. I've done enough tanks and vehicles now that I've gotten so used to my process that it's easier and easier for me to replicate it on new models.

Good to hear both you and google image search held my DC in such high regard Let me know when you have pics posted.

Eggroll wrote:

Unluckyguardsman wrote:The latest speeder looks very good eggroll! Just one small bit here: the heavy bolter looks rather clean, maybe a bit of burn/rust would look good. But, who am I to criticize work that is far beyond my own?

UG

Thanks UG. Your point is certainly valid and you don't need to be a good painter to critique other people's work. I did do some weathering on the bolter with a dry brush of boltgun metal. I would dirty it up more but then it wouldn't fit in with the other weapons I've been painting so far so I'll probably leave it as is. Otherwise it's a very good point.

It makes sense for the weaponry to be cleaner than the armour. Were it to be rusted, or to rust up then the weapon would start to malfunction, so it's more realistic to have it "clean" maybe dulling it down from shiny metal would improve it. Besides, fluff suggests that marines particularly take great pride and time in keeping their weapons in order and ship shape, as would (I guess) chapter techmarines and serfs.
Anyway. Great stuff Egg, really impressive. And on both GW site and miniwargaming. Impressive.

They are truly amazing, I've always loved Blood Angels and these are the best I've seen!

I have the same airbrush as your first one, the Iwata rev BR. I always seem to have trouble with the flow reducing after a couple of minutes, I have to give it a big blast off the mini and then its back to normal, have you ever found this? It means I often dont know what the flow of paint is going to be like at a certain trigger position.

I keep it very clean, stripping it right down after using it so its not dirty and I use Vallejo or GW thinned with Vallejo thinner.

The laurel wreaths on your armor is outstanding, I can't seem to get my greens so smooth (but I'll keep trying )
Also the hair on your helm-less marines is great too, little details like that make miniatures really pop out IMHO
Thanks for sharing your work!

Imperial Monkey wrote:

Eggroll wrote:

Unluckyguardsman wrote:The latest speeder looks very good eggroll! Just one small bit here: the heavy bolter looks rather clean, maybe a bit of burn/rust would look good. But, who am I to criticize work that is far beyond my own?

UG

Thanks UG. Your point is certainly valid and you don't need to be a good painter to critique other people's work. I did do some weathering on the bolter with a dry brush of boltgun metal. I would dirty it up more but then it wouldn't fit in with the other weapons I've been painting so far so I'll probably leave it as is. Otherwise it's a very good point.

It makes sense for the weaponry to be cleaner than the armour. Were it to be rusted, or to rust up then the weapon would start to malfunction, so it's more realistic to have it "clean" maybe dulling it down from shiny metal would improve it. Besides, fluff suggests that marines particularly take great pride and time in keeping their weapons in order and ship shape, as would (I guess) chapter techmarines and serfs.
Anyway. Great stuff Egg, really impressive. And on both GW site and miniwargaming. Impressive.

Basically, the marines take as good care of their guns as Eggy does of his airbrush

Yeah sorry Egg, I forget sayings get confused across the waters! to 'pull your finger out' means to actually do something you need to do or have said you would do and make a concerted effort in doing so! and to have a 'speeder off' is reference we sometimes use as in when you watch a movie and they have a 'dance off' or an 'eat off' or some form of competition against someone, so i was tongue in cheek challenging you to a 'speeder off' competition :-)

to surmise, I need to actually finish my speeders to a level that would hopefully be somewhat close to yours to gain some form of praise!

now keep painting dude! love your work! it makes me want to do more every time i see what you do!

Nerdfest09

Nicely done!

Imperial Monkey wrote:

Eggroll wrote:

Unluckyguardsman wrote:The latest speeder looks very good eggroll! Just one small bit here: the heavy bolter looks rather clean, maybe a bit of burn/rust would look good. But, who am I to criticize work that is far beyond my own?

UG

Thanks UG. Your point is certainly valid and you don't need to be a good painter to critique other people's work. I did do some weathering on the bolter with a dry brush of boltgun metal. I would dirty it up more but then it wouldn't fit in with the other weapons I've been painting so far so I'll probably leave it as is. Otherwise it's a very good point.

It makes sense for the weaponry to be cleaner than the armour. Were it to be rusted, or to rust up then the weapon would start to malfunction, so it's more realistic to have it "clean" maybe dulling it down from shiny metal would improve it. Besides, fluff suggests that marines particularly take great pride and time in keeping their weapons in order and ship shape, as would (I guess) chapter techmarines and serfs.
Anyway. Great stuff Egg, really impressive. And on both GW site and miniwargaming. Impressive.

Thanks!

Skippy wrote:They are truly amazing, I've always loved Blood Angels and these are the best I've seen!

I have the same airbrush as your first one, the Iwata rev BR. I always seem to have trouble with the flow reducing after a couple of minutes, I have to give it a big blast off the mini and then its back to normal, have you ever found this? It means I often dont know what the flow of paint is going to be like at a certain trigger position.

I keep it very clean, stripping it right down after using it so its not dirty and I use Vallejo or GW thinned with Vallejo thinner.

Yeah, I get in a habit of blowing it with the needle all the way back on an empty area of my workspace to clear off the tip before I move over to the model. I do this everytime I stop/start. I often find that there are small drops left over at the tip and if you don't blow that off before starting out, you'll get big splatters on your model. You sound like you take better care of your AB than me, I used to be good about stripping it down and cleaning it after each use but I"ve gotten lazy and do it only now when it really gums up inside

chrisyella wrote:The laurel wreaths on your armor is outstanding, I can't seem to get my greens so smooth (but I'll keep trying )
Also the hair on your helm-less marines is great too, little details like that make miniatures really pop out IMHO
Thanks for sharing your work!

Thanks. I've been starting my laurels on a black basecoat and using P3 Gnarls Green as a base, then GW Goblin Green, then Scorpion Green and finally 50/50 mix of Scorpion Green/White at the very tips.

LutherMax wrote:

Imperial Monkey wrote:

Eggroll wrote:

Unluckyguardsman wrote:The latest speeder looks very good eggroll! Just one small bit here: the heavy bolter looks rather clean, maybe a bit of burn/rust would look good. But, who am I to criticize work that is far beyond my own?

UG

Thanks UG. Your point is certainly valid and you don't need to be a good painter to critique other people's work. I did do some weathering on the bolter with a dry brush of boltgun metal. I would dirty it up more but then it wouldn't fit in with the other weapons I've been painting so far so I'll probably leave it as is. Otherwise it's a very good point.

It makes sense for the weaponry to be cleaner than the armour. Were it to be rusted, or to rust up then the weapon would start to malfunction, so it's more realistic to have it "clean" maybe dulling it down from shiny metal would improve it. Besides, fluff suggests that marines particularly take great pride and time in keeping their weapons in order and ship shape, as would (I guess) chapter techmarines and serfs.
Anyway. Great stuff Egg, really impressive. And on both GW site and miniwargaming. Impressive.

Basically, the marines take as good care of their guns as Eggy does of his airbrush

Heh, I actually don't take as good care of my AB as I should be . I only clean it when it jams...really not a good idea for a marine to do to his weapon.

nerdfest09 wrote:Yeah sorry Egg, I forget sayings get confused across the waters! to 'pull your finger out' means to actually do something you need to do or have said you would do and make a concerted effort in doing so! and to have a 'speeder off' is reference we sometimes use as in when you watch a movie and they have a 'dance off' or an 'eat off' or some form of competition against someone, so i was tongue in cheek challenging you to a 'speeder off' competition :-)

to surmise, I need to actually finish my speeders to a level that would hopefully be somewhat close to yours to gain some form of praise!

now keep painting dude! love your work! it makes me want to do more every time i see what you do!

Nerdfest09

Ah, thanks for the explanation Nerdfest.

Ogryn wrote:Nicely done!

Thanks!

I just spent the last hour reading this entire blog from start to finish and I just have to say (Like 99.9% of the people in this thread) Wow, just amazing. I'm only just starting my Blood Angels army now, but eventually I think I'll definitely be using your glow and weathering techniques
Hopefully one day I'll be able to paint just like you do! Thanks so much for sharing this with the community.

They both look really good together It would look even better if you had 2...wait you have 2... how about 4!...Now wait ive go it... how about 3!!!No seriously 3 would look good! BTW how do you do your battledamage it just looks soo good!

HAZZER

Eggroll wrote:
Thanks. I've been starting my laurels on a black basecoat and using P3 Gnarls Green as a base, then GW Goblin Green, then Scorpion Green and finally 50/50 mix of Scorpion Green/White at the very tips.

Thanks Eggroll! I totally expected a yellow to be used at the tips.
Again, great work!

Ahx wrote:I just spent the last hour reading this entire blog from start to finish and I just have to say (Like 99.9% of the people in this thread) Wow, just amazing. I'm only just starting my Blood Angels army now, but eventually I think I'll definitely be using your glow and weathering techniques
Hopefully one day I'll be able to paint just like you do! Thanks so much for sharing this with the community.

Thanks Ahx!

HAZZER wrote:They both look really good together It would look even better if you had 2...wait you have 2... how about 4!...Now wait ive go it... how about 3!!!No seriously 3 would look good! BTW how do you do your battledamage it just looks soo good!

HAZZER

Thanks Hazzer. I actually have another speeder still in shrink wrap and a land speeder storm as well .

Battle damage is done with brush, I just blot out all the chips along the edges with black first and then go over them with boltgun metal. Then a light dry brush of boltgun metal.

chrisyella wrote:

Eggroll wrote:
Thanks. I've been starting my laurels on a black basecoat and using P3 Gnarls Green as a base, then GW Goblin Green, then Scorpion Green and finally 50/50 mix of Scorpion Green/White at the very tips.

Thanks Eggroll! I totally expected a yellow to be used at the tips.
Again, great work!

Not a problem. Thanks!

So... what's up next? The greedy eyes of your loyal followers await!

This is amazing!

Thanks Ogryn.

LutherMax - Nothing new anytime soon. Been too busy lately with work and school. Going to try and get to my space hulk terminators soon though.

those landspeeders are AWESOME! they are soo GOOD!

When I received email that the op has posted again, I had to rush to dakka to take a look (hope to see something new soon but sometimes rl is a bitch)

I know it has been asked before and that you have replied, but I would also like to convey a sincere request for a vehicle and infantry tutorial if you have the will to add one. I am personally interested in your way of airbrushing. Also, your weathering is superb.

MakeH wrote:When I received email that the op has posted again, I had to rush to dakka to take a look (hope to see something new soon but sometimes rl is a bitch)

I know it has been asked before and that you have replied, but I would also like to convey a sincere request for a vehicle and infantry tutorial if you have the will to add one. I am personally interested in your way of airbrushing. Also, your weathering is superb.

Sorry to disappoint . I'll see what I can do about doing a more step by step log of my painting process sometime in the future. No promises though as my painting time is a lot reduced these days and having to pull out the camera and tripod to snap photos is a bit of a hassle.

Eh, I hear ya. I'm in the same boat at the moment. I too have inclinations towards Space Hulk... I have the box, but I'm so stressed about doing the models justice that I bought a single duplicate Scipio to use as a test model before I go at 'em!

Eggroll that landspeeder came out great! Whats next?

LutherMax wrote:Eh, I hear ya. I'm in the same boat at the moment. I too have inclinations towards Space Hulk... I have the box, but I'm so stressed about doing the models justice that I bought a single duplicate Scipio to use as a test model before I go at 'em!

I don't bother trying to save good models for later anymore. Got too many to paint and if I try to save them, I'll probably never get around to it.

@GDO - Thanks! Next up are these SH termies. I got around to doing the highlights and shadows with the airbrush tonight. Also been building a land speeder storm which you can see in the background and a command rhino using a few FW kits.

Rhino looks really cool, although the dozer blade looks a bit wonky 0o

Your airbrushing just looks so effortless Egg... makes me want to bang my head against the wall.

OH, and i wanted to thank you for the inspiration you provide with your fine work. I've been painting my 2 LS Storms and the airbrushing technique I used on them, which worked quite well... was inspired by your speeders. It's not the same approach as yours... but something about your technique flipped a switch in my head and the end result was a couple of nice looking vehicles.

Thanks man! You're a real asset to the Dakka community. Please keep the parade of awesomeness coming!