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Sorry about that Major Tom. I wasn't referring to you (I understand from the thread that you're a dab hand with the airbrush and have been helping out Gitsplitta). I was just poking fun at Graven for thinking the OSL was already in place. He's a longstanding gaming buddy of mine from the local gaming group.

Wow, looks great Gita, the cannon is very cool, and kudos for re-working it. MT makes sense with his suggestion - as to be expected - but it's understandable if you don't want to do further re-working.

I've yet to make OSL look like anything other than sloppy painting myself, so I'm in awe once it passes the half-decent mark - which yours did a while back

I would like to be a picky jerk, but I don't know enough about painting to be one.

@Tom: Thanks once again for the excellent advice, I'll heed it. Next time we get to the same place the first round's on me. Indeed LL's jibe was intended for graven as he was giving me sh** earlier. (good one LL!) Just for the record... I *need* people to be picky jerks... otherwise I get complacent and I don't push myself, i.e. I don't get any better.

Now... I want everyone to think only good thoughts. I need to finish up Yggs tranquility vanguard figure and I've got some really tricky GS work to do which is NOT a strong point of mine. Wherever you are across the globe... think good thoughts, say a prayer, light a candle... whatever is in your theology or tradition. I'm going to need either luck or divine intervention to pull this last bit off. (also I just dumped a half-a-cup of coffee onto my keyboard so this may be the last you hear from me for a while)

The payoff... is that once Yggsie's figure is done and on it's way across the pond, I'm going to being working on 4 las cannon figures... 3 for me, one for graven. (though graven's is by far the coolest... mine are kind of boring)

Cheers!

lol ok ok, just wanted to make sure! In all fairness without knowing that you had asked and were open to advanced advice it would have been an insanely nit-picky comment for a non-display only model. Just wanted to make sure lol!

<Lights ylang-ylang incense, plays whale song CD, adopts soothing voice> Goooood green stuff, lovely, nice, sweet green stuff. Be good for Gits, go where he wants, and do as he says, it'll all be worth it in the end. You'll feel good about yourself, and you'll look fantastic.

*crosses fingers and toes, bows head and prays*

Isn't that mixing pagan and Christian symbolism?

Depends who he's praying to

I'm not used to praying anyway....

Unless Greatfather Nurgle is eligible, that is !

[edit : Tom, please stop giving good advice to people ! Not only are you an insanely good painter, if, on top of that, you begin giving advice, that'll be true patronizing to those who asked for it (yeah, me included lol)... I definitely hate you ]

Gitsplitta wrote:Isn't that mixing pagan and Christian symbolism?

monkeytroll wrote:Depends who he's praying to

A purposeful mix designed to invoke the notice of both sides (as they cant stand the competition), therefore increasing the good fortune coming your way.....

Those plasma cannon dudes are really nice, I think the plasma coils look excellent.

They look stunning. Glad to have been of service by being a picky eh-hol.

I feel your pain. I'm not the great at sculpting myself.

Found one thing that helps me though: mix green stuff 50:50 with good quality miliput. The miliput makes the green stuff less sticky and easier to handle. The green stuff makes the milliput less prone to crumbling.

Match made in heaven.

Now if only I had the sculpting skills to put that knowledge to good use.

Love the plasma guys, are you going to have a go at what majorthom11 suggested?

Im loving it! Nice fix!

Well done Gits!

I think the OSL is good. Nice to see you pushing the envelope a little more with each new figure.

Thank you gentlemen.

I'm sure Yggs is impatiently waiting for something new... well... here 'tis. Figure is basically finished save for the camo and some OSL on the jets of the backpack (which no one will probably notice unless the turn the figure upside-down). I want to deface the chapter badge and purity seals somehow... MAYBE. I'm not sure at this point. The point of this figure is the subtle application of chaos... don't want to overdo it. So I'll wait until the camo is done and make a decision based on what I see then.



This helmet is my all-time favorite helmet of the GW universe. If I could... I'd put it on EVERYTHING!!

Dee-Zaamn! That dude looks awesome, Gits! I love that helmet too. It works for everything. Yellows look good, as usual. Excited to see him with the Tranquility pattern applied.

Looks good.
I like your yellow.
And the chainswords, the hinge works well.

Agreed, the helmet is cool.

For the purity seals, you could make it look like he's ripped most (but not all) of the paper off leaving the seal with a scrap of torn paper still attached. Probably not easy if they are molded on seals tho. Just a thought.

And what is that red thing with a skull on, on his hip? looks like a hip flask...

It is a cracking helmet. Sometimes hard to find when shopping on bitz sites because it's so popular. I'd give it to all my loyalist marines if I could find enough of them. But even I'm not mad enough to buy Chaos Space marine kits just for one head.

 Dr H wrote:



And what is that red thing with a skull on, on his hip? looks like a hip flask...

It's a melta bomb!

Looking ace gits!

prototype_X wrote:

 Dr H wrote:



And what is that red thing with a skull on, on his hip? looks like a hip flask...

It's a melta bomb!

Looking ace gits!

Oh, that's a melta bomb. woops

At least now I know. Thanks.

I love that plasma cannon!

Hey hey, on its way to be a awesome model !!!

Love the white on the helmet, looks crisp & clean !!

very nice models gits. Simply love those plasma cannons.

Perhaps as part of your "subtle" Chaosifying you could add barbs to the Tranquility pattern, just a thought , he is looking great so far!

Looking great at just the yellow stage

I like the idea of defacing the seals somehow - might be tricky to show well though, I thought of crossing it all out or drenching them in blood, but not sure how well that would actually translate on a mini. Maybe blank out the text and add partial chaos stars to the parchment - depending on colour that might work over the top of the script.

And I love Blackhand's idea for barbed camo!


Not a melta bomb - that is a hip flask, nothing like a quick slug of Ezekial's Old Style Hooch to quench your thirst in the heat of battle.


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