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Just finished the main bodies on my 3 Landspeeders today, looking o.k so far next is all the fiddly little bits and pilots etc. should have them all done in the next day or two

so, here are some progress pics for your perusal! love to see what you think? are you guys sick of red yet on here?







I also did a little bit, only a little mind you! on my buildings, I'm starting to get the terrain bug again now the weather is getting better and i have the room after cleaning out my small man shed! i'm going to give the doors and accents a dark weathered gold appearance i hope!



More soon dudes!


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Freakin' sweet, just hit 50 pages of Nerdness! ahhh, today is a good day!

Congratulations on hitting 50 pages! Well deserved. Those LSs look sweet... just love the way you lay down your reds.

Oh wow lovely shading on your reds! And well done, it's great to hit 50, a weird but wonderfully satisfying benchmark (of course, gits is king of the uber-blog, so high praise!)

High praise indeed, especially from two of Dakka's stalwart veterans of the blog world! why thank you gentlemen I hope the images had re sized correctly before your viewing? they look a little naff close up! I can't wait to get back into them in the morning! they'll look much better with the extraneous bits painted, i'm not sure if i should do the bases as i do my marines? or should i leave them clear?

I've got 2 Sanguinary Novitiates to work on as well as my Termie armored Chapter master/captain! i'm still unsure as to the best loadout for him I know even running him will be a drain on competitiveness but i just want to do him, and If i'm going to paint him i may as well make him useful so far he'll have the lufgt Huron arm so it can either be a power fist or lightning claw but the other one? confused! do I give him a chainfist as well? and run him cc style?

thanks again guys, you always buoy me with your praises!

Heavy cc chapter master is a killing machine. Chain fist gives you a tank hunter, and I've experienced first hand that taking out a baneblade. Boo...


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Also, I'm not nearly at gits blogginess but I thank you for your kind words.

Grats on 50! Kepp going for them coveted triple digits!

Gits is not nearly Gits anymore. So it's time for young blood to take up the banner and carry on!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Heavy cc chapter master is a killing machine. Chain fist gives you a tank hunter, and I've experienced first hand that taking out a baneblade. Boo...


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Also, I'm not nearly at gits blogginess but I thank you for your kind words.

Thank Gork n Mork for 6th edition, and granting us a reason to see the almighty CHAINFIST!!!! Back in action once again. Like Assault cannons, Ive always loved chainfists, but they were just too pricey and not really worth it before. Too bad assault cannons are still meh

Lightning claw and chainfist it is then :-) should be lots of fun, if I can get him with some cc termies and a sang novitiate that combat should be pretty bloody and befitting of the FleshEaters marines! did you guys like the big ass double chainfist from the Chaos Lord? or should i be a tad more subtle and use a normal chainfist?

Subtle? This is the grimdark magic space future...
I like the double chainfist, and flesh tearers always sounded suspiciously chaosy to me anyway.

Update time with some w.i.p's

Subtle? This is the grimdark magic space future...
I like the double chainfist, and flesh tearers always sounded suspiciously chaosy to me anyway.

Phew! I've heard those Flesh Tearers could be nearly chaosy! lucky i'm doing Flesh Eaters then! I kid, i kid, thanks dude, I've gone with the whopper chainfist from Hell! not much done with him today just some base coat and wash on his arms.


I also got a little bit of plastic crack in the mail today! yep, scored myself a Shrine of the Aquila! that kit is bigger than I thought it's wicked and i was inspired by Dsteingass and all the mad crazy Terrainers out there in Dakkaland! and their terrain so i tried my hand at adding some small details like girders and conduit etc.





And still riding the terrain Train I did a little bit on my crashed land speeder, I think it'll go nicely with the others I'm painting! so far it's just dragon red primer and a black around the edges with a white mist over that coat, I'll bust out the Airbrush and blend the board colours into the edges and do some burn detailing etc.




More updates on the morrow!

Ahh terrain, I love nice terrain, and for some reason, I never put the effort into making it

I know how you feel KC, i always imagine these epic landscapes to fight over then i struggle to give birth to my visions! but I've spent the last 12 months or so reading some amazing blogs and getting tips and hints and help from the authors! :-) so this time I hope I can make some nice looking stuff which will be varied and have a few nice little touches etc. I just bought $100 worth of Vallejo Air paints to use just for adding shades and colour to what i build terrain wise!

Good gravy $100 on paint?! I think my entire library of paints, cost in the neighborhood of $30ish? But then again, I use cheap ass paint, so I guess thats a lot


But yea, I need to stop being soo......lazy about terrain. Ill throw some together and its just so damn boring looking. Why isnt there an easy button these?

Flesh Tearers, Flesh Eaters, Potayto, Potahto...

Nice job on the shrine! I also found that you want to add plastruct simply for rigidity, it's a swine of a kit. A good, cheap/free source of interesting beams is the plastic sticks kids' balloons come on. Of course, you need to mug a kid first.

The speeders look really awesome Nerdfest, i like the smoothe highlight effect you done on them. Looking forward to see them done with all the detial work etc.

The building looks man, gonna be a nice terrain piece to have on the gaming board.

That general dude your working on looks plain badass! Nice done on the gold, looks sweet. I like how you make, abit more silver then gold, makes it look more ancient you could say. Cant wait to see him done!

NF09 your terrain pieces looking awesome and love the "land speeder Down" piece especially. Cannot wait to see it completed.

O.k here's something different for you all! I'm hosting my own painting comp for a few laughs and to see what happens yes, you are all invited to join the 'Golden Bathtub' 2012! here's a link to the competition feel free to update any w.i.p's on the thread as you see fit! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/477119.page#4780554 I really wanted start something i could add to each year and I know lots of people enjoy a good project not to mention a good prize! and wow what a prize! yep a hand sculpted trophy of myself in the bath! .... no, seriously

Now todays painting work wasn't much, I primed the Shrine of the Aquila and started laying down the base colours and shading as well as a bit of fire damage etc:



Vallejo air steel, really smooth colour!



Catch you all soon! and get painting y'all!

Loving the stuff on here Nerdfest, I still check all the time but for some reason I haven't been commenting all that often recently. Can't wait for more, and i'm loving the land speeder Terrainorama!

ok... i take a break at page 40! saw lots of cool minis... orcs DE and numerous SM...

and i gotta say... you are a very talented painter nedfest!

and you have some clever ideas around the whole painting process... the pin idea... where you put heads and arms on pins... i will so definatly steal that idea^^

tomorrow i will read on... hopefully then i will be ontop of that thread^^

cheers, vik

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Good gravy $100 on paint?! I think my entire library of paints, cost in the neighborhood of $30ish? But then again, I use cheap ass paint, so I guess thats a lot


But yea, I need to stop being soo......lazy about terrain. Ill throw some together and its just so damn boring looking. Why isnt there an easy button these?

there is Its a Paypal button... just not cheap... ish...

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ok... i take a break at page 40! saw lots of cool minis... orcs DE and numerous SM...

and i gotta say... you are a very talented painter nedfest!

and you have some clever ideas around the whole painting process... the pin idea... where you put heads and arms on pins... i will so definatly steal that idea^^

tomorrow i will read on... hopefully then i will be ontop of that thread^^

cheers, vik

Hey Vik, you have been busy getting through 40 pages thanks for your patience perusing my progress of my principal painting predicaments! and I appreciate the kind words about my painting 'talents' I just like to figure out the quickest way to make something look pretty decent and it's included some happy suprises like my gold armour, I hated painting gold and so i sat down and thought about it and came up with my recipe and my patented 'Nerdstick' I think i can let you use the concept that came about as my Exemplars had black torso's with red arms and I couldn't be arsed painting everything individually so I primed all the arms red and all the bodies seperately then stuck them together after they'd dried on my patented 'Nerdstick' only tip I can give you if you make one of my patended 'Nerdstick' use plain plastic push pins so you can add a small amount of platic glue to get your bits to attatch to, i could only find shiny girly ones that had a coating on them so i had to resort to Blu Tac!

I'm guessing from now on in my blog, terrain will make a bigger appearance as I just love good terrain! and now i'm hoarding a heap of hints and ideas I'll be excited to make some cool stuff, as well as my normal mini painting antics! still need to finish 3 speeders then i'll put my other models to a poll on which to do next!

just went through the last pages... wow...again...

and

just like to figure out the quickest way to make something look pretty decent

understatement of the day...

and i will definatly use the nerdstick^^... and proper ones at that^^

also...the Shrine of the Aquila looks very cool already... the added details like the girders and conduits looks very cool!

i will be now a regular on this thread... yeah i know... hardship on your part

Lol, well Vik, allow me to oficially welcome you aboard the good ship nerdfest! :-) we will be stopping all ports from terrainville right through to the city of Xenos and many other exciting destinations on the way! keep a lookout on the port side for a huge pod of frolicking marines of the space variety, they're playful little tykes aren't they!

I'm glad the little touches to the shrine work so far! I kept them tucked back so you couldn't tell they don't run the whole length of each walkway :-) I have a few crazy ideas i'm working out that Dave is helping with, perhaps I can rope you in for some conference calls? or at least to see what you think! and even tonight at work I've been inspired to make a terrain piece from a Contemptor dreadnought undergoing battle field repairs or something similar with glowing screens and pipes and water effects and cables and oil and Oh my!

hmmm.... i´d love to help you as a member of the think tank...

sounds like you have a really amount of cool projects planned in the coming weeks!

glowing screens you say... be sure to look at klaus, not santa´s thread... he recently showed some on his big airship´s command centre...

I shall head there in a few minutes! he may be the answer to all my glowing screen needs! :-)

aye

Nice!
Good job on all the painting, be it green or red or black or gold or any colour you like, all good.
I shall be keeping an eye on your work.

Although I should crack on with some of my painting rather than reading and oggling other peoples blogs so much.

Hi DrH Thanks for the kind words! and i can totally sympathise with you about oggling others threads! I see so many awesome blogs and i can't tear myself away from reading them to try my own stuff! then i get frustrated that i'm falling behind

not long until my rdo's so hopefully I can spend my work time getting my fill of good threads and spend my days off painting

Looking really good so far, hard to tell at this scale as to details, but from your level of work on your "normal" guys that is probably not an issue.