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How loud is your compressor when you use it? Just wondering how valuable a compressor with a tank is .

Mr. Bill's Salamanders Commission is now FINISHED! Table Top Quality was chosen.

Stern Guard


Vanguard

Table-top quality my ass those guys are stunning!!
Well Done!!

Twalks wrote:How loud is your compressor when you use it? Just wondering how valuable a compressor with a tank is .

pretty quiet 59db. I have been looking to upgrade to a tank compressor and finding one that is quiet enough to have in my room.

Thats exactly what I was wondering, thinking about airbrushing my next army but most likely would have the airbrush inside... it gets cold here But ya that doesnt seem too bad.

Those salamanders look top notch tho.

Still bringing that plastic crack to life I see.

Fantastic work mate, your skills have taken a few steps up over this year.

Those veterans are b-e-a-utiful! But tell me... What's happened to that Sternguard's hands? (Second from the right.)

Thanks! He has 2 weapon options so they were left off for the owner to magnetize.

Those vanguard guys look like christmas...green and red. That's funny. That is beautiful work. Wish I could paint half as well.

ender502

LBursley wrote:

Twalks wrote:How loud is your compressor when you use it? Just wondering how valuable a compressor with a tank is .

pretty quiet 59db. I have been looking to upgrade to a tank compressor and finding one that is quiet enough to have in my room.

I just purchased this aircompressor and was amazed at how quite it is: http://www.iwata-medea.com/index.php/products/power_jet/. I am pretty sure I could operate this in a nursery without any fear of waking the babies.

Hey Les

Im thinking to get one of those sets for my "I like painting it , thats why I bought it" army , so heres a question .

Which one was more fun to paint ?

Question for you 'L'.

Have you used any acrylic paint on primers that were any good. Sometimes, I have a model that for some reason or another is painted, and I had previously glued on a non pianted part to it. Back in the days, GW had "smelly primer" which did OK, but they don't sell it anymore.

gretar wrote:Hey Les

Im thinking to get one of those sets for my "I like painting it , thats why I bought it" army , so heres a question .

Which one was more fun to paint ?

Stern Guard was more fun.

wyomingfox wrote:Question for you 'L'.

Have you used any acrylic paint on primers that were any good. Sometimes, I have a model that for some reason or another is painted, and I had previously glued on a non pianted part to it. Back in the days, GW had "smelly primer" which did OK, but they don't sell it anymore.

Vallejo Model color has a white primer that is fantastic for that. Gesso is ok but the dry time is what keeps me from using the stuff. But definitely try out some VGC white primer.

http://www.thewarstore.com/product43615.html

Thanks!

My own opinion of my "table top" quality miniatures just dropped through the floor after seeing those sallies. I'm a sad panda. :(

Great job. Your work constantly amazes me, and I would definitely hire you to do my tyranids if I wasn't so gosh-darned poor.

Why am I not suprised that your "tabletop" quality is better than my best efforts? Those marines are extreamly well done.

Did you use an airbrush for them?

Thanks! No airbrush on them. They were all painted using the techniques from the salamanders tutorial video. Glad you like them

Amazing stuff, Been following these for awhile now.

Have you had a chance to try any full metalic marines? Im having the hardest time to find a good way of painting my pre-heresy Iron Warriors. I love the dirty "in the trench" marines that you do, but my IWs keep looking to shiny

Hi, first off, those Salamanders are quite stunning, kinda makes me wanna try your tutorial.
I went looking for the minis on GW, but cant find those with the "spiked" shoulderpad, like yours, are they FW, custom or am I looking in the wrong place?

hemlighest wrote:Hi, first off, those Salamanders are quite stunning, kinda makes me wanna try your tutorial.
I went looking for the minis on GW, but cant find those with the "spiked" shoulderpad, like yours, are they FW, custom or am I looking in the wrong place?

The guys on foot are SM Stern Guard Veterans and the jump pack guys are Vanguard.

Found them now, I just sucked at scrolling far enough down :\

Anyway, nice painting, really got me inspired and hooked on assembling/painting my minis again.

Some models I'm playing around with.

Just so you know I haven't stopped


I basically tried to airbrush all the cloth on this model, picked out a couple details to see how I liked it broken up a bit and stopped. This model is still WIP.




I did the cloth on this with airbrush as well but found that the Vallejo Model Air Metallics are my new favorite metallics (the pigments are 1/10th the size of the regular metallic paints so the finish is highly reflective). The gold on this guy look a lot like C3PO The Gold has a wash of Tamiya Smoke on it. This model was just for testing.



And my Black Templars redux looking less and less like black templars lol. All the models are WIP.



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ALSO.......... soon there will be a tutorial on using oil paints for various effects. Example, check the thunder hammers on these 2 terminators I used for testing. I will show you how it's done. Each hammer took about 5 minutes to do.

Hooray!

:O Great airbrushing is great. What do you recomend to get for starting/learning?

Hey LB, do have any reccomendations for compressors/airbrush? i know you must get this alot, but i really want to give it a go with gradients and base coatings (which would make my like 100x easier!)

and the latest tyranid painting tutorial is sweet as!

LBursley wrote:
ALSO.......... soon there will be a tutorial on using oil paints for various effects. Example, check the thunder hammers on these 2 terminators I used for testing. I will show you how it's done. Each hammer took about 5 minutes to do.

I'm sorry? That sounded like you just said you had a pretty effective version of NMM done in 5 minutes? You taunt us with your creative fibbing! Looking forward to seeing this tutorial!

Just finished up the Carnifex for Hive Fleet Behemoth. Editing the last video after this post so it should be up in the wee hours of the morning.

Lord of battles wrote:Table-top quality my ass those guys are stunning!!
Well Done!!

I'll co-sign that statement!

Love the look you have going on for that fex.. can't wait to see the video! Once again awesome work.

The fex looks great, but you should have done it in this variation of Behemoth.

Refering to the Zoanthrope, that is.