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I have been wanting an airbrush for years, never really knew how well they worked, until they became the new wave thing to paint with!. Is it worth the money investment and maintenance costs? I hope so.

Awesome Models

My girlfriend's mum has just got me one, waiting for it to arrive. TBH from the effects that I have seen LB do with his then I would say they are definitely worth the investment. I think along with several other factors they have upped the ante tremendously when it comes to modern day figure painting.

you can get a set really cheap dude, Mistress of Minis gave some great advice on it, you can get a brush for 50-60 bucks from amazon that works great, and you don't have to spend more than 100-150 on a compressor.

you are good to go after that, check out the thread in my profile though, it will answer a lot of questions. I can't wait to try it on a vehicle now though, I know it is going to make it so quick, easy, and perfectly graded.

Same thing for anything larger scale...

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I definately will be picking one up them. See my local hobby lobby has pache and Iawata, and compressors. They are expensive but they offer 40% off coupons on any regular priced item, so that may come in handy.

I will also try Amazon to see what deals they have, and shop around to find the best deal on one. Thanks guys!

If you can get amazon prime I get 2 day shipping for everything included.

Air Pro Tools PS900!!!

This is a clone of an Iwata brush, all the reviews afirm it is a just as good and well built chinese knock-off, and it is half to even 1/3 - 1/4 the price of the iwata, make sure you check that out!

Also, make sure to check out this thread for A LOT of good information on AirBrush related stuff, both general and specific-

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/289941.page

Here are some TERMIES!

Continued, Im trying to get as much freehand into the army as possible to make it pop. A few touch ups here and there though.

Very nice, the freehand is working well.

AHEM... skin tutorial?

Thanks man, I really hope the freehand sets the army apart from all other black templar armies.

Oh and I did a skin tutorial. I may do another one, a more in-depth and advanced one later. But for now that is the key steps to my technique.

Great looking stuff I cannot wait to see more

Great work as always sir. Really impressive stuff!

Im fumbling over some ideas for a commander for the Templar

1. converted/Scratch built emperors champion (my favorite choice at the moment)

2. Converted Marshal

3. Converted chaplain into a high marshal.

or Just do some commanders from the commanders box set straight out of the box in Templar colors to have a choice.

I do want the commander, whatever is chosen, to be painted and modeled to a much higher standard than the army, but fit in to the army as a hole. This is why I think doing a custom Emperors champion may be the best option here.

Wow! very nice templars you got going there. I myself am also in the process of building a BT army and have a question for you if you do not mind. I noticed on your neophytes, are your templar crosses painted on them as well? They are very crisp.

There was a termie with a handlebar moustache!

Yes all of the symbols are freehand. No decals. It really sets apart an army from another.

I love the freehand and the way you placed the symbols!

Thanks guys. I have to refine some of the freehanding. Some spots need to be tightened up. I started working on an Emperors champion conversion. Many bitz to choose from. I also am doing a marshal/chaplain in terminator armor, just to have a choice for a proper HQ choice. In a gaming sense I hate to load an army with HQ in risk of losing victory points should they be killed.

Friday I will be taking a trip down to the LGS. Im not sure what I will come home with, but you can bet it will be a lot, as usual.

The freehand is looking awesome! Very well executed and certainly makes a model pop.

Thanks man, I really did want the army to pop, BT are a rather difficult army to get a good solid execution on. Either you overdo the highlights, or not do them at all. And then you cant get a good white, or the white has too many brush stokes and looks bad. Its just such an easy army to paint until you actually start painting. I tried to speed paint the army, and take a little extra time on the freehand, just so that it stands out. Its just hard to sit down and paint, when its all one color. Thats why Im glad Im going the freehand route on them.

So I went to the Local games store today, on the last day of sale, and I picked up another huge load for my BT. I got two dark angels veterans sets, to convert into BT vets, a box of Sword bretheren, A dreadnaught, another termie squad to boost up my elites. A land raider redeemer to get some firepower in there, and another space marine battle force, just to add more troop choices.

I also picked up the DA Lord, with the draping cape and huge sword. Ive always wanted to paint him up, and I shall do just that when I get bored of BT.

Pics to come.

I must say as of right now I am never going to buy another Land Raider, This things hull is just a pain. Ridiculous construction, The bottom part wont even fit into the designated line or groove on the side hulls.

Very small update. My army is now 60 space marines strong, 15 scouts, 1 land raider redeemer, 3 rhinos, 1 predator, 1 10 man termie squad. 1 high marshal in termy armor. 1 squad of sword bretheren. 15 assault marines. Yea I think it should do for now.

Pics of some sword bretheren, and stuff.

The DA thing is to paint for fun, cant wait to get started on him. I have wanted to paint this little guy since he first came out.

So been a while. An update is here for now. The dreadnaught. My little DA buddy, and the Sword Bretheren Sargent. I tried something different on the Sargent face.

Hope you like em.

No feedback?

I did a little more work on the army, right now i started laying on some paint on the high marshal in terminator armor.

Im going to stick to the gold NMM on the HQ or more character models.

Nmm is looking particularly awesome on the dread! I'm not convinced on the halo though, it looks like it is painted the way a sword would be, light/ dark transposed on the left right sides, but Since it is a flat sided object the nmm is implying a facets where they don't exist if that makes any sense?

Da is going to be epic I can already tell, although the green looks a bit raptor khaki and not deep forest as usual, which so far isn't a bad thing!

Yea that halo has got to be changed. Its hard to get a good NMM effect on a flat fixed surface. Ill give it another go.

Thank the lord for the dread looking ok. I started the NMM process, and I realized just how much I would have to do. About half way through I started to get more motivated and pushed on.

The green on the DA, yea I wanted to go for something different. But i realized if I go the NMM route I need a darker green. A blue green possibly. That way I have a nice cool undertone. That green will be started over for sure. I also dont like how it highlighted. It looks almost grey.

Very Military green, very Raptor chapterish, I kind of like it though!

If you change it, go nice and dark, they are DARK angels afterall, I always like them blackish highlighted up to greens.

Looking good though!

I like it. How did you learn your NMM? Book or tutorial, trail and error?