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Steelers in a half carapace?

Awesome.

Cowabunga, sir.

Ok, we're at the point of just needing touch ups and nice basing. Maybe some pizza. Oh, and Splinter.
Manchu, thanks again for the idea. For everything, really.

Great end work. I love the sai especially. But they are all quite well done! I'm looking forward to seeing Splinter and the rest of them all done up and based on pizza slabs.

These are seriously dynamite. I'm having flashbacks to my misspent youth.

Misspent watching TMNT?
Is that even possible?

Doomthumbs wrote:Pics of awesome Turtleyness

You, sir, are a hero amongst men.

Oh the humanity... Why... Why?

*hides his brand new TMNT comic which just started a new series last week*

Nah in all seriousness, great idea! Disturbing as hell, but great

vent wrote:Oh the humanity... Why... Why?

*hides his brand new TMNT comic which just started a new series last week*

Nah in all seriousness, great idea! Disturbing as hell, but great

Disturbing?
Sit back and hold on to your value structure. Poppa is about to blow your mind.
Kevin Eastman. Heard of him?
Notable works include TMNT, but also Heavy Metal.
No, not the musical style. The Magazine (and movie!) that focuses on Sci fi art (cool), music (love it), and erotica (hold up, what?).
Do some google searches for some images. I'll wait.

Yeah! I know, right?! Seems all kinds of artists have pervy demons all up ins.
Be comforted though that the route with these Turtles seems clean.

Just surfing through the madness and win that is your thread. Your sig is also made of win. And it appears everything that constitutes your reasons for having this thread are righteous.

In addition, the continued success and existence is a testimony to the win that is Dakkadakka.

Oh, the joy of the peter pan whatever you said.

ps- the TMNT are ace.

Lol, love those Ninja Turtles...

COWA-BUNGA!!!

How about Splinter? Will he be called Splint-eal-er? A stealer body, a skaven head, and greenstuff robes?

Somone might have to donate a skaven model for splinter. I can't imagine any tyranid splinters. but if anyone could make it work...

Yeah, I'm actively trying to trade for a Queek Headhunter skaven model.

Take your pick of the nids posted here in trade, folks. Or commission some conversion work of your own.

I miss the old black and white R rated turtles...

Speaking of, Turtles Forever was one of the greatest things I've ever seen.

Doomthumbs wrote:Yeah, I'm actively trying to trade for a Queek Headhunter skaven model.

Take your pick of the nids posted here in trade, folks. Or commission some conversion work of your own.

I'm tempted to take this offer up for the Hentaithrope... very reluctant to grab finecast off eBay though, I've seen enough dodgy ones to only feel safe buying in a GW or large indie stockist.

Get ready.

I mean it, people, brace for impact. Catheterize yourselves.

I mentioned a few posts back about my wanting to go full on natural with a paintjob. "Purist" to couteract the "Puerile" claims that methods such as dipping are cheating. That by using minwax, you're devaluing the model industry with your childish scrawling of paint followed by a dunk.
I believe my stance was "Eff that."
So here is the start of my hardcore paint job. I made my own brush, primer coat, and dip.
I'm sure I'll talk about it more in the posts to follow, but let me walk you through the basics.

The brush: I whittled a small stick free of its bark, and dragged a razor across it to smooth it. I then used tree sap to bind a clump of my own hair into a bundle. It took about a day to fully dry out in the sun. Then split the tip of the twig, and broke out half of the split to form a crude socket for this clump of hair. More tree sap, followed by half of the drying time. When the sap was almost dry I mashed small rocks and dirt into it, and let these dry to form more of a wall around the hair to keep it in place.

The primer coat: I went online to find natural paint, and this took some doing. I found a recipe for face paint that included equal parts of corn starch and flour, mixed with a little water, and some glycerine. Wtf was that last one? Oh, its for binding purposes, so once it dries it wont cake and dust off. Well I don't have any fancy glycerine. I used baby fluid. Don't you judge me, don't you dare judge me. I see your gallery, and it is full of acrylic paints, cheater. Mixed it with my finger, because I'm freaky like that.

The first coat of color: I froze blueberries so that I could peel the skin off easier once they had thawed a bit. But then it hit me. No, I'm not going to crush the paint on with my fingers, as I had originally intended. I'm going to make a dip. So I crushed about 2 cups of blueberries into a paste. Swirled my model around in it.

The rest is pictures, I tire of words. More to come later.

This thread gets continuously more amusing.

The berry dip was surprisingly effective too. xD

I'd suggest, if you live near a coastline, to try to get some fresh squid for a black ink dip. While you haven't harvested the squid in question yourself, I'm sure you'd be able to barter some of your paintbrushes to an organic fisherman or something to get one.

I'd bet you'd be able to mix blood or some crushed grass juice to the paint to get a red or green for details as well.

Don't forget more tree sap/crushed insects in glycerine for a varnish finish!

Fishermen have long scary knives. No brushes for them. No ink for me.
Get out of my head. I AM going to mix the green from st augustine grass stains to try and make a mottled tone to go with the berry juice.
I do intend to use my own blood on the muscle slits and back, as well as the tongue.
I'm making my own charcoal out of willow cuttings for the black wash, and using cedar sap for the final gloss.

You could even shame the people that use real grass on their bases, and instead use your own hair, painstakingly painted with your green paint and washed with the berry ink wash. "You had to use actual grass for your model base? Amateur."

Only thing left is to whittle a genestealer from a treebranch you broke off using an obsidian knife you flintknapped yourself...

EDIT: Oh, man, give him a tiny little axe with a tiny stone blade, like the guy from the Gary Paulsen book Hatchet

I'm only out to shame the people that call out other people for using any technique to achieve something that looks decent, so no, I'm not going to do that.

Whatever they use, if it ends up looking good, and works for them, that's ok by me.
I'm definitely not trying to say that I'm better than anyone. That kind of thought pattern is what makes people... well, douchebags. I'm just a dude, and so are you. Unless you're a lady, and even then you're just a lady.

Mr. Thornberry cannot be a lady. Not with that sexy mustache.

Better results than expected from this next step. There is this evergreen tree outside (unsure of the type of tree) that has these weird globular pine ball things.
So in search of colors, I split it open. Huge score.
There is this dark, gooey resin inside. It looks dark brown, but when smeared, it turns yellow and green. YES. I smeared some over the genestealer with the brush.
Did the mottling trick with the berries really easily.

Yes, Mr. Thornberry has the proper junk in the trunk.

That stealer looks amazing actually, and I'm vaguely tempted to try this for myself and my stealers that have been laying around. I can't wait to see what it'll look like in the next few steps!

I could be wrong, but I think the growth from your evergreen tree is actually a kind of fungus, if it is what I think it is. (It is a little hard to tell from the picture.)

I wonder what the life expectancy of the colors you have will be.... natural pigments will break down over time.... it will be interesting to see how long it takes and what happens.

That stealer is really looking good! I'm still curious as to how well that paint job will hold up to the basic wear/tear or touching it during a game or just time, but the look you're achieving is very impressive!

Its going to hold up well I think.
I mean, the last layer I put on was pretty sticky resin. That is now baking in the sun. I dont think the colors will fade from oxygenation because they're going to have a resin barrier between them and the air. How colorfast was the mosquito from Jurassic Park? The genestealer is going to be around that long.


Jim- I don't think its fungus. Its more like little pinecones.

Doomthumbs wrote:Better results than expected from this next step. There is this evergreen tree outside (unsure of the type of tree) that has these weird globular pine ball things.
So in search of colors, I split it open. Huge score.
There is this dark, gooey resin inside. It looks dark brown, but when smeared, it turns yellow and green. YES. I smeared some over the genestealer with the brush.
Did the mottling trick with the berries really easily.

The crazy thing is: That model looks better than some other stuff I've seen. And those other guys didn't even make their own brushes or paints.

Rawson wrote:The crazy thing is: That model looks better than some other stuff I've seen. And those other guys didn't even make their own brushes or paints.

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Its not even done. I'm gonna fill in the back, and then repaint the claws and such white. The brush being incredible crude I think is helping. I'm going for a very uneven splochy coat.