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Please...Give me more stuff to look at!!

Alright LDP, just because you asked nicely :-) I'm home tomorrow and friday so i'll work on my raiders some more, I would like to paint the decking and finish that off so I can research and add some realistic effects of blood spatter and gore as if they've dragged victims from the ground and slit them before launching their warm corpses and some still barely alive off the edge and into their comrades below, sowing fear and discord among them!

NF09

wow, you really ARE a good painter. I considered the old DE models hideous, and many of the new DE models somehow MORESO.

I think that's the sign of a true painter - you are able to paint a DE army in such a way where you would actually want to field it without hiding your head in shame.

This, I would field gladly.

Also, where did you get that strange orange sand from?

Hi Ailaros, thanks for checking in! I appreciate it and the positive comments! :-) it's always a nice feeling when someone likes your work, especially when they like it and they don't usually like the models! makes me all warm and fuzzy! lol

lets hope the next stuff i do you like just as much! i'll be starting the floors in the raiders and adding some gore, lets hope i do it well and not too overdone, I'll be keen to get some feedback from everyone about it!

and the sand i got from a local hobby shop, it's in the train section, i'll have a look when i get home from work and I'll let you know what it is or i'l take a pic of the bag and PM you. it's nice and fine and a great colour to accent darker models! :-) in fact I'm inspired by your models and am myself starting a 'red' army to paint up as well as my DE and my sallies and I'll base them the same but with some cork mixed in, looks pretty good for a very simple base, the De ones still need some tufts of dry grasses and blood spatters on some.

catch you soon eh!

Nerdfest09

Update time! got some Mandrakes in the mail yesterday and never mind the fact they suck in game, they're bloody awesome models! I love how they look and they weren't too bad for finecast either, much much better than the Incubi I got, only very minimal bending of the weapons and the sickle did snap partly when clipping them, but that's no worse than other models!

I had a vision of painting them with my method for black, and lo and behold it looks sweet! so far i've only primed, sprayed and started to wash them with ink, but i can totally see where they're heading and i like it! i'll be giving them purple bale fire too as i found some purple drawing ink in the shed!

here they are so far:



And I did some great work on my DE that i'm really pleased with! I wanted to add some 'tasteful' blood spatters on the decking of my raiders to convey them dragging victims off the ground and gutting them and launching the bodies off into battle! I found some old drawing ink in the shed which i used, it was brick red, and I found a black one too and made my blood by firstly using straight red to get my desired pattern, then mixed in some black ink and GW 'Ardcoat for some glutinous shine, I added more and more black to show the darker fresher blood and where entrails would lie and the bodies bled out, I like the end result, I have since these shots added another coat of 'Ardcoat to add some more shine

So, do you think I got it right? does it still appear 'natural' enough?






that's it for the mo dudes and dudettes! I hope you like, I'll work more tonight and tomorrow and hopefully give you more later! let me know you're feedback!

catch you soon

Nerdfest09

Gruesome!

Blood looks good, especially for older dried blood. Good shade of brighter red around outside and darker stuff in the middle where it would have dried thicker. Very realistic! Your DE must've been getting busy.

The blood and gore in the Raders looks really nice and natural. I'm looking forward to seeing those mandrakes painted, what you have planned for them sounds great.

Cheers guys, I've since added some gloss to make the gore look fresher :-) I would have in hindsight liked to add some small lumps or bumps to simulate actual 'bits' of victim! Mwahahahaha! but i'm pleased with 15 minutes worth of blood letting!

and FP, i've made progress on the Mandrakes :-)

Eggy, you bet those skinny sadistic sods have been busy! I'm starting to get the 'ol need to paint feeling back!

NF09

Dude, you so need to get some cadians chained by their wrists hanging off the side off the raider with their guts all open, it'd be rude not to!

Dude, you so need to get some cadians chained by their wrists hanging off the side off the raider with their guts all open, it'd be rude not to!

Now that sounds great it would be even better because I have a good friend by the name of jirc, who seems to be painting up some cadians! it may encourage him more if i do a real space raid and slaughter his troops before he can get them on board!

Awesome stuff!

Another thought was the caged skeletons from the fantasy giant kit, or the frozen empire trooper from that ogre monster that I can't remember the name of. Race you for it

Ready... set,...... GO! it's on bro! lets get our DE on and start torturing souls to keep us alive! aliiiiiiiive i tell you! i like the idea of caged bodies! :-) what's the other one you speak of?

On the right side of this Thundertusk / Stonehorn, he's modelled to look frozen to buggery as the monster gives off a freezing aura, could look mint as a captured palace guard or something of that ilk

Picture of the bit itself

Nice work on the decking there mate... looking very realistic with the blacker areas. I'm not sure "tasteful" is the right word for it, but it's realistic without being over-the-top.

Damo that blood stains look great! And looks real enough for the scale. Can't wait to see it all completed.

Finished Mandrakes! oh boy oh boy oh boy! I loved painting them! although I did see that i didn't paint the hooks on their flesh dresses! so does that mean they're not done? eh! lets just say i've fixed it and it's alllll gooooood!
I used the purple ink I found with the other drawing inks in the shed and it worked well for the bale fire, I like the skin, i like the hair, I painted it white and then washed it with watered down fortress grey, then badab in the recesses and re highlighted with overbrushed white in places, so over all finally I feel good about painting at the moment and I hope it carries on over the next few weeks, if it does i could get heaps done!
My next step is to finish at least one raider and it's crew, then move on to the warriors and Incubi, then Wyches again and then Talos and Venoms!

here they are with some close ups of the blood on weapons and a couple of group shots of them melting out of the shadows and charging across the kitchen bench!







And now onto some School shots of the bad boys! just a pic of each of them to show you







There we go everyone, i hope you like them, they took me about 2 hours 20 minutes to paint the squad over 2 days and i think I did them so quick as i was enjoying them come to life and they looked how i imagined in my head before i started them,

feedback/comments always welcome!

talk soon dudes!

Nerdfest09

Man those Mandrakes look cool!

Very nice work Nerdfest. Those turned out just great!

Damo, those mandrakes turned out amazing. Great job on the purples and the drapes/tabards look really good and fleshy. They should compliment the rest of your DE very well.

Brilliant work buddy. the blood on the weapons looks so fresh, and covered in fleshy sticky bits too!

Awesome. Probably the best mandrakes I've seen!

Great job dude! Hehe PS when did your blog become 26 pages long?

Thank you everyone, the Mandrakes are one of my favorites that i've done so far! I think they look close enough to the GW interpretation to pass as being a good job (apart from the hooks i forgot!) and i don't think i went silly with the blood, just a small spatter as i can see them being really quick and just slicing at their victims before moving onto the next ones! I can't wait to have them be killed in a game, i really wish they were better :-(
I am glad the flesh 'dresses' look like flesh too, I was a bit nervous painting them, my original idea was to have them look like hessian or linen and have the bottom edged look as if they were soaking up all the blood from their victims they spilled!
All in all from everyone's great words i'm very happy with them and maybe a little bit proud of them! even though they didn't take that long to paint! should i feel guilty about that? Nah! :-) i'll just enjoy them and get onto the warriors now!.....


NF09

Love the blood effects on the Raider and Mandrakes. Definitely the most convincing method I've seen! That Raider's deck brings to mind unpleasant things that could happen with a cheese grater.

Thanks Jon, I can totally see unpleasant cheese grater torture on those raiders. I should have added pulp under the deck and painted my armour like swiss cheese? :-) maybe one day I should do a comedy army!......

Any new work from you? anything else I can get inspired to try my hand at? it was those sails that got me going again! thanks heaps! :-)

NF09

Excellent mandrakes! How did you paint the flesh skirts?

Hi Ailaros, I just finished your pm and i'll be responding shortly! as for my flesh skirts, I used elf flesh mixed with fortress grey as my base coat then darkened the recesses with dwarf flesh then washed the whole lot with ogryn flesh and devlan mud in the deeper parts and highlighted with my original colour watered down so it was still kind of transparent, then just added a touch more elf flesh as a final highlight, i think the trick was to keep the coats very thin and almost see through, then i added some blood spots and did the little bits of touching up here and there

You make the freshest gore dood!