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You make the freshest gore dood!

Awww shucks! thanks!

Good evening folks, and welcome to another update on my blog! this weeks menu includes and entree of Dark Eldar served on some lightly painted lion cloths, followed by a tasty main course of a NEW MARINE CHAPTER for me! yes, I have been creating dishes in my mind that I need to cook! feeling armoured giants shake the earth as they stride across the desolate wastelands of distant planets!
I couldn't resist, and needed a quick fix! I looked at my Sallies and wanted them to feel the caress of my brush, yet something darker called me, a chapter steeped in apprehension and fear, a chapter loyal to the emperor but teetering on the brink of blood lust, a chapter who's single minded purpose in destroying their enemies left nothing but bloodied chunks of barely recognisable flesh in their wake! they are red, they are not Blood angels, yet they share their primarch, they are the feared and brutal..... Flesh Eaters!

But firstly, lets take a look at the DE, I wanted to get my plan in action and finish what i started, to get inspired by my own hand again, my first point on the agenda was the finishing of at least one of my Raiders, this I didn't do, but with good reason, I started finishing off the loin cloths on the crew, and got carried away as i had the red out, and managed to finish all the loin cloths on all the models I had assembled I also managed to do their eye lenses (not quite as well as the first squad ) and block and wash all the metal parts, guns/chains/canisters etc...
All that's left is to highlight the armour and paint the sheathed knives and faces, but anyway here's where i'm at with them...

First the crew for one Raider, this is the big crew, my other one only has 3 members.







Now onto the Flesh eaters, I managed to assemble and prime and wash the whole squad with Devlan Mud, and using my 'quick' method of painting the Blood angel I worked out for a fellow Dakkaite, I wanted to try and finish the sarge of the squad, which I duly did!


This was the original marine I did for the experiment, now with added markings!


and now a selection of pics of the finished sarge! I really like him!






Well, there we are my guests, I hope you enjoyed the menu? I hope to include more 'Flesh' next time
comments welcome as usual and I'll be talking to you all again soon!


Nerdfest09.....

Choice, as always! The highlights on the Flesh Eater's armour is minter Damo. Really nice work. Cant wait to see the crew loaded up in the raider too.

whats the quick method for painting BA's then? Loving how they look

Love the red and gold on the muted black.

Excellent job on the red Nerdy... very dynamic!

Thank you everyone! I'm pleased they're well received! :-) more work on them tomorrow! hopefully get that raider done if I don't get distracted by the marines! lol

Woah, you didn't promise too much on your blood recipe. Works like a charm. The Marine looks cool as well. Not too great a fan of completely mono-colour marines but the face is looking spectacular. Really a lot of fun and character in there. Keep it up!

Those DE are looking really clean and crisp, great work mate!

And those Flesh Eaters they look mint! For a moment there I thought you wrote Flesh Tearers, and I was thinking don't they have a little more black in their colour scheme?

I looked up Flesh Eaters on Lexicanum and what little fluff they have is really cool.

So are the Sallys finished now or will you still be working on them?

Sigur
Woah, you didn't promise too much on your blood recipe. Works like a charm. The Marine looks cool as well. Not too great a fan of completely mono-colour marines but the face is looking spectacular. Really a lot of fun and character in there. Keep it up!

Thanks Sigur, I know what you mean about the mono marines schemes but I think once a few more get inducted they'll look pretty sweet all together? and on the plus side it means i can get through them a lot faster. The face did take a bit of concentrating on, but I think I did alright, he looks intense enough for a Flesh eaters sarge!

Flying Pooo
Those DE are looking really clean and crisp, great work mate!

And those Flesh Eaters they look mint! For a moment there I thought you wrote Flesh Tearers, and I was thinking don't they have a little more black in their colour scheme?

I looked up Flesh Eaters on Lexicanum and what little fluff they have is really cool.

So are the Sallys finished now or will you still be working on them?

Hey Pooo, as usual, thanks for taking the time to pop in! I wish I could paint more to show you all! the DE are coming along faster than I thought they would yesterday I've only got to finish the heads and armour!
I think i'll love painting the Flesh Eaters! they're so quick to paint and they look cool and have great albeit not much, fluff! I should finish that whole Tac squad in the next week or so
And the Sallies aren't dead dude, they just take me longer to paint and I want to make sure they're my 'well' painted army! so as soon as I read the newest novel i'll be sure to get onto them again!


NF09

^ It's good to Hear that the Sallys aren't dead. Are you reading Firedrake? It's a great book, I'm around 3/4 through it!

Yep, read firedrake and Salamander, just waiting to get hold of Nocturne and have a good read, I can't wait! :-)

nereme wrote:whats the quick method for painting BA's then? Loving how they look

I also missed the link to this.

Linky?

Liking the sarge, but i'd do a black chainsword cover for some colour differentiation (:

This is my 'quick' method of painting red armoured marines, this guy took only half hour to do, a little bit more time and he'd come up sweet as I've since spent more time on him and the sarge in my previous post, i'm seriously considering making these guys my main marine army I can paint them to a standard i'm pleased with and do it rather fast, so i may or may not sell the sallies i've painted, time will tell, i'm torn


righto, start time!:

this is what i started with, one yellow marine! I didn't strip him as he was pretty smooth with not much paint.




Now this is about how far you need to have the model from the can when you use army painter primer about 5 inches, if it's too far from the model the paint dries before it hits it and if it's too close then it obscures the details (I sprayed outside too not inside ):


Here he is all primed up and fresh, nice even colour and he took all of about 25 seconds to do! a lot quicker than brushing on red for an hour per model!


here's the first wash, one coat of Devlan mud over the whole model, just be careful and use your brush to move the wash off the large parts so it doesn't 'pool' and put in into the recesses:


next up pop some blood red paint on your palette and water it slightly so it's milky consistency:


now use that to go over the parts we will highlight, I usually do the knees, the feet, top of the legs arms, helmet and shoulder pads, but as we go along you'll see them clearer, you can just see on the edges of the pads how it looks.


now, add some blazing orange next to the red and blend together, you'll be able to see the original red this way and make sure you've got a good highlight colour that's not too bright to start with
here you can see the original red in the top right and the original orange to the left, the highlight is in the middle



Next up, add this highlight colour over the parts we just re did in blood red leaving just a small amount of the original highlight showing, you can see more clearly now where we are going to add the highlights on him:



Next highlight is adding more blazing orange to the previous mix we did, it should be nearly all orange now and be quite bright, don't forget to keep the paints mixed with a small bit of water each time too.




O.K now it gets serious add another small amount of vomit brown to the mix we just did, it'll look like 'wow' too bright but don't worry, as now our highlights are getting smaller and more along just the edges of the armour plates.




Here, you can see the armour nearly all done, it may sound like a long process but it's very quick to do once you start as you're adding colour to the previous mix each time and the highlights get smaller and thinner, i also recommend when highlighting the very edges of the panels to use the edge of your brush to parts like the shoulder pads. I also painted the chest eagle vomit brown too, it makes a god base to paint gold onto otherwise gold can look patchy and not cover well at all. and don't forget to paint the armour joins with grey and wash it with black too



Well, that's pretty much it! I painted the burnished gold onto his chest and when it was dry i washed it with devlan mud and painted his eye lenses, first with snot green then added a touch golden yellow and painted it towards the front of the lenses then a touch more golden yellow and painted just in the front corners finished with a small dot of white at the rear of the lense, you can see in detail my lenses on my blog at the start here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/356350.page then I just painted the bolter metal and washed with badab black, painted the rim of the base with brown foundation paint and added some cork I blended up on top and he's done to what i would call good table top quality and he was quick! if you need any more info or want more detail on what i did just ask me I don't mind at all.

The only other step i used was to wash all the red armour with Baal red to tie it together more, I actually managed to get another 2 marines done today in less than 2 hours although one need a bare head painted!

@ldp: I'm giving them red chainswords because it's how the force is represented in the old pics i found of them from RT days! I'm hanging onto what little info i can glean on them, there's not much out there....

@ Ailaros: Why oh why do you want to know how to paint red? good god man, your reds are awesome! this is just a way i tried to do it to help out a fellow dakkaite who wanted a hand, i like the way it looks, especially on the table all based up it's not crazy good or fastidiously blended but it doesn't need to be and looks clean! tanks will be a challenge though!


Nerdfest09

Nice tut Nerdy... it sure is an effective progression, never would have guessed the vomit brown at the end but it sure does work.

Cheers gits, I know it's the same one i showed you a while back, but it has done me well recently! :-)

Not really a model update, but something Nerd hobby based nonetheless I just got some new Ink, I designed it a few months ago and wanted it to represent things important to me while still being appealing as a design by itself, and since i've been into the hobby for *egad!* 17 years now, I was under no illusion that that needed to be represented in a fashion that isn't too grim dark the roses, angel wings and and flowing hair all symbolise things close to my heart, but the brushes! that's ALL NERD BABY! took less than 2 hours to do around my other wrist and finsih that sleeve off and freehand my design and ink it in, he's pretty fast and when he asked about the brushes and i told him about 40k he was quite interested and even made me show him some of my models on the web!

And now a small blog related sentence to keep you happy, it's nearly my day off work, in 5 short hours i'll be driving home! my plans for today apart from sleeping for a couple hours are, to assemble 20 tac marines that i am painting for a good friend, finish off 2 flesh eaters and get pics and also finish the armour and base the other kabalite warriors for the DE, then on friday i'll do 3 Flesh eaters and faces for the bare head dudes, and finish the raider and add the crew so it's done!

lets see how i go.... anyway here's my new Tatt:

THAT is EPIC! Props for being True to yourself bro!

Why thank you dude, i appreciate that! :-) I may be getting older and only finding myself (not like that!) in the last couple years, but i'm embracing it with both hands!

Pretty damn cool nerdfest... is it in color?

No Gits, not colour, just black and greyscale work to make sure it matches in with my other sleeve :-) although my original design was colour I felt this style was the best road to take...

Still cool, and the monochrome makes you focus on the design rather than getting distracted by a riot of color. Though, color on the little paint drips (with the rest being black & white) might have been a nifty touch.

That i can always do later on, just make the drops bigger and shade accordingly! maybe even have one in each colour of my armies? it's a good idea!

LOL thanks Gits!

Got working on a larger project for the Flesh eaters! a redeemer! I wanted to make this one a bit different and more detailed to keep me inspired to paint it well! and I was fortunate enough to have in my possession some great Chapter House Studio LR doors and hatch! these things are awesome, they fit really well and are beautifully sculpted, I also had in my bitz box some Scibor bits to fit, these were not quite as nice but fit the theme, I was going to add the top additions but couldn't as they didn't fir flat and obstructed the open hatch on the top, plus i didn't think it needed them with the other parts

Here's some pics for your pleasure, i shall start the painting tomorrow!








these are the parts i'm not using, they could've been a bit too much as well with the other doors, and the details aren't quite as clear as i'd like to be able to paint them well.




I also managed to work on some more Flesh Eaters! not quite finished yet but well on the way to having a squad!






There we go everyone, I hope that keeps your appetite whet for more? i'm looking forward to doing that LR! and i hate painting tanks! so that's amazing for me!

talk soon everybody!

Nerdfest09

Those doors are epic !
Love the red You do mate

Love all the extra bits on the doors! Flesh Eaters are coming along nicely too!

Epic as always! Cant wait to see more!

I think I like you salis and errants more than the eaters tbh. Land raider is shaping up to be pretty cool though.