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Cheers Iffy.
Looks like I'm just being lazy. Sometimes I get lucky and the teeth look fine and sometimes it looks like I just slapped on some white, which is funny coz that's pretty much what I do.
Shall have to revisit some of mine in the future.

Look forward to the chameleon themed Lictor.

Keep it up.

Hive Guard. Don't leave the swarm without them.

Dr H wrote:Cheers Iffy.
Looks like I'm just being lazy. Sometimes I get lucky and the teeth look fine and sometimes it looks like I just slapped on some white, which is funny coz that's pretty much what I do.
Shall have to revisit some of mine in the future.
Look forward to the chameleon themed Lictor.
Keep it up.

I think it's always worth spending the bit of extra time on teeth, as they tend to be a focal point for most minis that have them. Just try and keep each highlight layer smaller than the layer below so you get a nice transition

Gitsplitta wrote:Hive Guard. Don't leave the swarm without them.

Mmmmm, this shall be done then. Gorgeous models too.

Did a bit more work on the Nids bases today using rubbish I found outside. Shame static grass looks so awful up close haha, these now look really lovely together.





Who needs expensive basing kits eh? Bits of twig and bark for the win.

Still not busy enough for me though, want to get some little leaves or flowers on there too.

FOREST NIDS.

They look great Iffy, Army Painter do some little flowers like the tufts. I have a few on some of my Dark Wolves bases and they look quite nice.

Yes they are what I will prob go for, they look gorgeous in little amounts

You're not planning on doing a big army of these bugs are you? There is no way I could survive putting that much detail on the little guys.
Hmm, maybe you are just some crazy technologically-advanced robot from the future, programmed to paint all the models to a mind-blowing standard. That is the only excuse I could find for your amazing skills.

Moronic Nonsense wrote:
You're not planning on doing a big army of these bugs are you? There is no way I could survive putting that much detail on the little guys.
Hmm, maybe you are just some crazy technologically-advanced robot from the future, programmed to paint all the models to a mind-blowing standard. That is the only excuse I could find for your amazing skills.

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 Ifalna wrote:

Moronic Nonsense wrote:
You're not planning on doing a big army of these bugs are you? There is no way I could survive putting that much detail on the little guys.
Hmm, maybe you are just some crazy technologically-advanced robot from the future, programmed to paint all the models to a mind-blowing standard. That is the only excuse I could find for your amazing skills.

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it just so happens i can read binary. Although i having trouble finding the groupings you use. But my rough translation is, more forest nids. Hey Iffy, how did you get the grass to stand up?

 cormadepanda wrote:


it just so happens i can read binary. Although i having trouble finding the groupings you use. But my rough translation is, more forest nids. Hey Iffy, how did you get the grass to stand up?

http://www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Binary_Conversion/Binary_To_Text.asp



I make the grass stand up the incredibly stupid way, once I stick it down I turn the mini upside down and blow very hard on the base so all the excess flies off and the stuck grass points in the direction I blew. This makes static grass fly everywhere but is an easy way to make it look a bit fluffier. You are meant to do it with a static net but I am a neanderthal and cannot into that kind of technology.

The really big fluffy bits are Army painter tufts, so that part was cheating.

 Ifalna wrote:

I am a neanderthal and cannot into that kind of technology.

I guess that disproves my theory

I do static grass the same way as you!

k, looking through, I see static grass, some grass tufts, but what are the green/yellow little moss looking pellets?

Hey Iffy... what are those little green flecks on the base?

This looks fun (as always) Actually love those bases! Like the colours too, but the red seems... off. Abit dull? Maybe abit more orange/pink would be good?

Anyway, LOOV IT


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It certainly looks alot better than when I looked before, maybe a lighting thing...

oh yeah, and

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Looks like chopped up rubber moss or lichen Gits.

I had to up the brightness in the shots cause of how much shadow the gaunts were casting on the bases, so the red is a bti bleached alright, looks a little pinky!

The pebbly green stuff is the old rubber flock people used to use all the time on bases, GW seems to have stopped selling it though and replaced everything with static grass :( Shame, but you should still be able to get it in hobby stores.

It looks really nice with static grass as it looks a little like moss, but looks horrible on its own haha.

Got it... thanks Iffy.

Spent ages trying to find the stuff now and looks like it has a million different names.

http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=turf this appears to be it, the turf.

How long does it take you to bash out a singe gaunt when it has that level of detail?

Oh per Gaunt? Hmm.

Not including drying time I would say 10 mins for the airbrushing, 10 mins for the skin highlight, 10 mins for the carapace and 5 mins for the teeth and eye, they really are rather quick bar waiting for them to dry.

The base is the same, very fast to actually do but takes forever to dry between stages.

All included it took maybe 5 hours for the paintjobs on all 9 and maybe 2 hours for the bases, with a lot of drying time for the skin and carapace wash and waiting on the painted sand.

nerdfest09 wrote:I often browse your blog to catch up with everything you do when i've got time as it grows so darn fast! but honestly your Nids are so well done and pleasing to the eye I have re-subscribed so I don't miss ANY of them coming to fruition, when the big boys hit the table I'm going to be a very happy Nerd ;-) I'm especially looking forward to a chameleon themed Lictor, would be AMAZING! and even if you don't plan on doing one, i'll have to get you to do one for me lol!

chameleon themed Lictor

chameleon themed Lictor

Oh.. this is so happening now. Oh yes.

35 minutes per Gaunt eh? Thats really good.

Really looking foward to seeing some of the bigger beasties like a Carnifex or Tyrant.

OR A CHAMELEON THEMED LICTOR!!!!!!

^^ A Chameleon themed Lictor sounds like a fantastic idea

I'm doing a quick photo tutorial this morning to show peeps how to very easily have fun with coming up with colour schemes using GIMP, I can't emphasise enough how fun this is and how easy

 Ifalna wrote:
I'm doing a quick photo tutorial this morning to show peeps how to very easily have fun with coming up with colour schemes using GIMP, I can't emphasise enough how fun this is and how easy

I, for one, would love that! I tried doing that with GIMP a while back and got myself into a terrible state, so some advice would be well received.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
OR A CHAMELEON THEMED LICTOR!!!!!!

Ok we get it Nerdfest... you want to see a Chameleon Lictor. Enough already.

I made a thing!

Here we go.













All done! I will put it in a Dakka tutorial page soon, it really is very handy for trying out test schemes and getting great ideas Hope it is of some use!

I hope you put in a dakka post (with dakka uploaded images) cause it's all work blocked for me...

/shakes fist.

give me a sec

Thanks for that, that's really useful. I'm going to try this out over the weekend.

Cool Iffy... will have to investigate this "Gimp" program.