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Love the line highlights. They pop out on the models.

Cheers Leohart, pics don't do them justice as usual but hopefully when the lenses get done they'll pop even more! :-)

Beautiful work on the eagles especially.... that's pretty close to NMM looking. Could you produce a quick tut?

Sure Gits, it's really easy dude, snakebite leather base coat, then wash with devlan mud, highlight with snakebite then add a small amount of bleached bone, just highlight not as much, add more bleached bone, shorten the highlight again, then on the very edges just pure bleached bone, and Voila! ;-) 45 minutes to do them (although not all were wings some were just the little skull)

NF09

Thank you sir! Will have to do some 'sperimentin of my own!

The Aquila's really pop! They are lookin' great!

Looking great.

Now that´s what I meant by "gothic" looking marines. All colours are toned down to a darker more menacing hue. Hate that GW crap with those bright alarm colours, anyone seen the GW studio salamanders they make me wanna puke.

Good job on the chest eagles, I must say I never used snakebite and bleech bone myself, I always add in golden yellow into the mix but they look very good so I will try out your colour recipe myself.

If you are uncomfortable painting honour marks on various pieces of the armours then leave that to me, those will be used as my primary tacs with the new drake themed shoulderpads I sculpted that are soon to be released and I´ll paint up those lava crystal bases for these dudes.

Great to see your Salamanders up and running and they are looking awsome as usual!! And your BA is coming along faster then mine I got caught up on the HQ and really need to start the assembly line on my assault troops.
Keep up the great work and looking forward to more updates.

Thanks guys! the sallies aren't for me though GD1 i'm painting them up for Pyriel while he busily sculpts more goodies for us! My BA successors are going nicely, I've hit on a method and scheme i really like and I even have a teeny tiny bit of fluff about them from waaaay back in the RT days, and even 2 pictures! egad!

And Pyriel, I'm really glad you like them so far, i thought I did alright on keeping them gothic feeling and trying to keep the chests similar to yours, I should have the whole lot done in a week or two for you, I'm doing the lenses on the first 10 this friday and starting on the highlighting on the others, once i'm done I may attempt some honor marks on a couple of them and see how i go :-) they've been fun to paint too, and once they're done it's just the 2 attack bikes for you, thank you for trusting in me and having enough confidence that i can do something you like! lets hope they reach your expectations!

Also worked more on the honor guard for my own Flesh Eaters army, i blocked the right shoulder pad in brown ready for some gold paint to distinguish them from normal marines and laid down the first blood red highlights on them as well as finishing 'Mr Choppy' he's waiting to be bases and have his purity seals painted then it's on the shelf of angry red marines balancing on the edge of sanity while they protect a fragile Imperium... Phew!

Nerdfest09

Happy Friday my friends! I wanted to make some progress on the Salamanders i'm doing for my friend Tom! and i did indeed, I got the second Tac squad highlighted and the chest eagles done as well, they all look pretty nice, now i need to paint just the bolters and lenses and purity seals and finish the backpacks and I can send them on the way to him!







I also made a very small start on my bare head tute, I just prepped the heads and drilled them so i can paint them easier, then i primed black and gave them a coat of Tallarn flesh foundation paint, and i gave them one wash with Ogryn flesh wash, but you can see them below as well




I like the middle head on second pic the best so far, it's going to be a remake of one of my favorite one's I did on my Raven guard land speeder it's a space wolf head from the blood claws with the massive mohawk and braid shaved off him.

hope you like so far.

NF09

Wow, very impressed by how neat and smooth the highlighting and black-lining looks on those Salamanders! You've got a great color combination on the chest eagles as well, they really pop!

Those salamanders are top man!

Looking awesome. Will be waiting for your tuts on painting bare heads.

leohart wrote:Looking awesome. Will be waiting for your tuts on painting bare heads.

As will I. I've only got 2 skin recipes i like so far. It will be good to mix it up some!

Two thumbs up matey!

Seconded...and hot damn man, they are nice indeed!

Yay! I finally finished the salamanders i was painting for Pyriel, I can't wait to send them away to do battle against the dark forces of chaos and Xenos that infest our galaxy!

I like the lenses, I think even after painting 20 sets they mostly look good

let me know what you think








There we go my friends, I shall be doing some more flesh Eaters next week, so be ready for another small update then

Nerdfest09

Great job NF... they really look good. Excellent job on the eyes too!

Thanks gits, trust you to be the first one to see 'em lol!

Awesome job on the eyes, NF! They look great!

Those eyes are amazing and complement the rest of the paintjob.
Great one Nerdfest!

Thanks guys, :-) I personally think the lenses are the defining feature of them too! but i'm quite happy with them overall and I'm proud of painting the 2 squads in pretty good time. I have a few things on the burner modeling wise and my brain is churning through how to tackle them all! I'm just about to buy a Realm of Battle game board and paint it to match my bases as well as build and paint and weather an imperial sector box, then there was the bits box raid I did and managed to strip and re assemble enough parts to make a 5 man tac termie squad (apart from 2 power fists and 2 storm bolter arms) and a plasma cannon armed dev squad, so i've definitely got enough to keep me amused in the coming weeks :-) this week was slow as I had to pull everything out of my shed and re assemble it to make room for my board and subsequent painting, but i should be back to painting my Flesh eaters this Friday!

thanks for checking in! see you soon as i can!

Nerdfest09

After seeing the first page of this blog quite some time ago I couldn't stop lurking on it! And now that I reached the last page I decidet to say something!

Wow.
Your miniatures are unique! Your painting is breathtaking!
Your coice of colours is excellent! All your models are awesome!

Subscribed! Cant wait to see more.

Wow, Sir Calvin, thanks so much, that was really uplifting to hear :-) i'm humbled you think so highly of my models, it's something i just love to immerse myself in as much as possible and hearing words like that keep me inspired to keep painting! I have a couple of interesting things i am working on soon that I hope you'll enjoy! as well as my first major terrain work which i'll do as an adventure in landscaping! I will endeavor to get something painted this week, maybe my faces tutorial?

now stop lurking in the future and I'll see you back here soon eh!

NF09

Righto, update time, I had fun today painting my honor guard, got them about 95% finished and also experimented with some methods of texturing my board, I found some builders sand in the shed and pva glue so i did a little bit to see how they looked, i'd like to know your opinions on which 'look' is better?

firstly I put the glue down and then sprinkled the sand over the top and pressed it down to adhere, it ended up looking like this:


the next bit I added glue on the board and then rubbed the sand into it and smeared it around to get an effect, this way uses much more sand as it clumps when you rub it but i have heaps so it won't matter:


here they are side by side:


Now i added some blended cork board as some rougher texture to see how it looked, first the sprinkled and pressed one:


and the blended and rubbed one:


Next up is the Flesh Eaters honor guard I nearly finished them all now! I really like how they turned out together, tomorrow I'll do the bare heads and try and do up a tute for those that would like to know how i do it!
here's the squad, I can imagine them bursting forth from a Razorback transport, eyes wide with wild savagery as they disembowel their enemies before suckling on their flesh!






Thanks for looking, i'm keen to see what you think

Nerdfest09

Again your models are awesome. I love how you painted the red.

Cheers Calvin.

Thanks Calvin :-) more to come soon!

Really nice work NF, they just pop really nicely and the work on the head and face are exceptional as always.

I think I prefer the blended and rubbed board - but it really is personal preference/what look you are going for...

Your red and Marines are just beautiful - well done! So good, it is making the shoulder pad detract a little

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