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Those heads are really well done.

Wow.... did I miss a face painting tutorial? because you should really do one! consider this a followed thread! I scanned through all 65 pages and love every model!

Thanks as usual guys! I am pretty pleased with how the heads look myself, and no Brok, you didn't miss a tute on these guys although i think i did one on a head or 2 waaaaaay many pages ago lol! but if anyone wants me to re visit them I can do that? they are by no means brilliant close up but they end up really nice on the table top :-)

hahah Well they look brilliant in all the pictures, love how the short hair is done and such!

I say tutes are always a good thing! And your Nerdinator is brilliant! He will obviously be the last one to die.....or first, depends on the epicness of stupid you want to go with. So either last man standing to an onslaught of genestealers... OR the first to die from a lowly Grot pistol

 KingCracker wrote:
I say tutes are always a good thing! And your Nerdinator is brilliant! He will obviously be the last one to die.....or first, depends on the epicness of stupid you want to go with. So either last man standing to an onslaught of genestealers... OR the first to die from a lowly Grot pistol

Well, seeing as i only play for silly fun times! I am guessing he'll be the first to die! right next to Librarian Tomas! I have a tendancy to launch my named characters into battles that if they win will go down in history, but in truth they really don't have much of a chance! last game i played with Librarian Tomas he single handedly took on a 10 man Death Company squad in hand to hand! ........ he didn't make it

and I'll whip up another tute when I get some more bare heads for you!

your nerdinator is just awesome, they are some very lovely head sculpts that have been painted to perfection!

You may well have twisted my arm into making purchases i cant afford....it is a state of affairs that seems to happen alot lately.

 J-paint wrote:
your nerdinator is just awesome, they are some very lovely head sculpts that have been painted to perfection!

You may well have twisted my arm into making purchases i cant afford....it is a state of affairs that seems to happen alot lately.

Lol thanks J-Paint! i'm glad I twisted your arm! but you won't be dissaponted at all, I also believe if Steve gets hassled enough he'll be doing a similar set of scale heads but with awesome grimacing and yelling faces for some much needed action on our mini's! so you may want to keep an eye on his thread and wait and buy a bunch when they get done?

I also got a set of the goggled guard heads but i don't have any cadians to use them on! but when i get a couple i'll paint them up too!

 nerdfest09 wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
I say tutes are always a good thing! And your Nerdinator is brilliant! He will obviously be the last one to die.....or first, depends on the epicness of stupid you want to go with. So either last man standing to an onslaught of genestealers... OR the first to die from a lowly Grot pistol

Well, seeing as i only play for silly fun times! I am guessing he'll be the first to die! right next to Librarian Tomas! I have a tendancy to launch my named characters into battles that if they win will go down in history, but in truth they really don't have much of a chance! last game i played with Librarian Tomas he single handedly took on a 10 man Death Company squad in hand to hand! ........ he didn't make it

and I'll whip up another tute when I get some more bare heads for you!

Really though, I think thats how one is supposed to play with a named mini. Ever since "Da Boy dat gets fings done" popped up on my radar and got that name, I do the same. Whatever squad is unlucky enough to have him plop into, is in for a real bad day, because he only does the impossible once his mates have been flayed Its some kind of Ork WAAAGH! magic I think

It's things like that that just make the game that much more fun.

Agreed. When the impossible happen, and after youve wiped the tears of laughter from your face, that match is forever remembered

A Mini for a mate and a bit of Foam dart goodness today!

I've been talking a bit with GiraffeX about lists and armies and I offered to paint him a mini as a thanks for being patient with me! I was going to do a nurgle daemon but funds haven't allowed that mini yet so, it's choice number 2! a counts as Ragnar Blackmane for his Celestial Lions marines I went rummaging to see what i could use and lo and behold I found a terminator I was going painting up as a chapter master for my FleshEaters! with only the armour worked on it was the absolute perfect start! so i found some arms/weapons and a new head and started dummying it up see





The other thing that's been occupying my mind is NERF! I have never thought of those guns as cool or fun, just underpowered kids toys until i got mine that is I think i mentioned that as soon as i got it and looked up stuff about it on the web I ordered a OrangeModWorks Massacre kit for it for more power! while I new the performance was going to be sorted nice it had to look the part now! so i put my hobby skills to work and pulled the gun apart, using a print out and double sided tape i won't lose where the screws go and then I sanded it all back ready for priming.



Once it was all sanded and cleaned with no dust (or very little) I primed it with a left over can of The Army painter primer 'Necrotic Flesh' it was so close to actual necrotic flesh it attracted flies


When it all dried I roughly assembled it back together with no screws so I can start the next step which was airbrushing!

I used Vallejo air paints and read through a couple of imperial guard blogs for ideas for camo pattern! then just winged it lol



More tomorrow dudes!




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Hey guys, you know how i'm trying to sell of my Contemptor right? well, since i'm not gonna use it and no one seems to want it what do you think about me stripping him and painting him up as an imperial fist one? thoughts?

Might as well. Though I can't believe no one wants to buy it.

Neat bit with the Nerf gun.

I couldn't find a pic of the contemptor in your gallery, where have you been advertising him?

The termi is looking cool but thats a FW mini oh great Nerdmister I'm truly not worthy

As he's in terminator armour he will need to be a Wolf/Cat Lord so we need to work on his weapon load out a bit

Storm Shield is cool, the other weapon needs to be from one of the below though.

Combi Plasma, Flamer or Melta
Wolf Claw
Powerfist
Thunder Hammer
Chainfist

The choice is yours.......

You do realise as this will be the initial mini for my Celestial Lions I will need to copy that gold across the army

Some destructions on how you accomplished it would be most useful as its lovely

Edit: I cant believe no one is interested in your Contemptor though, here he is for Git's



Look at the pose on him, he really is outstanding NF09.

Wicked work on the Nerf gun! I got a Longshot a few years ago (very similar to yours, but with an extending stock) and did my fair bit of modding to it. Mostly putting a dart tag gun on the front of it so its kinda like a grenade launcher setup. Sadly its showing its age, and the internals are pretty chewed up... Was fun running around campus with em though!

Its surprising to see the amount of support people give these "kids toys". Stuff like that mod pack you got, and the fact you even painted it! I keep meaning to mess with mine some more- it's still rocking its factory blues xD

Overall great work!!

You can mod and gain a significant amount of power for practically nothing.

The Longshot is a fantastic gun with a MASSIVE airtank, and once the air restrictor is removed, is quite ridiculous.

Oh yeah... beautiful dread. Problem is (I think) that BA are on the low end of the power curve now. Still, you'd think some current BA player would love to add that to their collection!

Yeah the 'ol Nerf blaster has crazy support and love out there from what seems to be people with a similar mindset as us 40K hobbyists! the thing that got me was down under we have as most know MEGA strict gun laws and as you should also know, most guys love shooting targets etc. so this way i can shoot targets and have some fun battles without having a firearm license, the fact that you can mod them so easily and actually get quite good performance is just a bonus! painting it up to look better was a bonus bit of fun for me! I'll update some pics when i install my OMW kit and re assemble it completely (I hope it works!) I actually am glad i left the smaller parts orange I think it offsets the shade of green well and it still is obviously a 'toy' gun but just a wicked looking one lol! I also just bought a bipod for it, and an 18 shot extended clip as well as a tactical light

Ramos, you need to have a look around man! you already have the dart gun so you only need to outlay minimal cost to paint her up and get her firing hard! then we can talk NERF!

GiraffeX yes dude that's a FW Lufgt Huron model as the basis of him and for weapon, it's no contest, looks like he'll have a wolf/lion claw as well as a nifty marble storm shield, I chose the most regal jawline from the MadRobot heads i have for him, I think it's pretty lion esque without going ott hairy and if I go back a few pages that actual model was what i used to do a tute on how I do my gold i'll try and hunt it up for you but it's really easy to do man, you'll bust it out easy as pie!

I also can't believe no one wants my Contemptor not that i'm trying to be pompous but he's pretty nice Oh well, I'll see how he goes and if no one wants him I'll strip him down and paint him as an imperial fist in a couple of weeks

No real updates from me today or for about a week as I've only got one day off then 2 on then 1 off for my 5 year anniversary with Kristy the Nerdwench then 4 on again!

but I'll be still Dakka-ing and hanging out here, it's just so relaxing and the weather's always good in dak-ville

Nerf started making a line called VORTEX that instead of darts, shoots discs. And MAN do those things go. My nephew has the pistol variation and I friggin love that thing, it shoots twice as far as a dart blaster. So if youre serious about shooting targets and such, you might want to check into one of those. Its basic ballistics....put spin on your projectile and it shoots farther/more accurate. Your blaster looks the gak as well, kindda looks like an IG Lasgun

Also has to get a Maverick if he hasn't yet. It's like the standard of dart blasters and, by the looks of it, most commonly modified. Shouldn't be too hard to give it a little more of a punch.

 KingCracker wrote:
Nerf started making a line called VORTEX that instead of darts, shoots discs. And MAN do those things go. My nephew has the pistol variation and I friggin love that thing, it shoots twice as far as a dart blaster. So if youre serious about shooting targets and such, you might want to check into one of those. Its basic ballistics....put spin on your projectile and it shoots farther/more accurate. Your blaster looks the gak as well, kindda looks like an IG Lasgun

The Vortex line are more accurate at low distances, and quite powerful - but at range the tend to curve, and if there's any wind it'll pick it up.
You also get interesting things on windy days where it'll follow the air stream breaking around a person, curving around them to miss when fired straight at them...

For target shooting, I recommend the Buzz Bee Range Master - It's a Nerf Sniper Rifle 'proper'. Single shot, bolt action, unmodded it's accurate to 40-60 feet.

Define "accurate".

Can hit a target roughly the size of an apple / orange fairly reliably.
Under 30 feet, it's my go to gun for an almost completely reliable nerfing. up to 60 feet, well, people can move out of the way, but I've still sniped my way through a few wars at about 50, with a 1 in 3 hit rate.

Generally these days I carry my Barrel Break, Maverick, and Rangemaster. (and a sword and 'knives')
Has me covered at all ranges quite comfortably.

Sometimes my Longstrike without stock/barrel too... my fiancee has claimed my Longshot though. -_-

Though soon, I'll be getting one of THESE:

And I think that'll become a staple of my standard loadout.

That's pretty cool Ovion (all of it). I had no idea people fought nerf wars... kind of like paint ball then?

Sort of... it's generally a lot shorter range, and light hearted than paintball.

It's good fun though, a lot of combat takes place at under 50 feet, the darts are slightly slower moving so you can dodge them, with a lot of cool guns it results in a kind of matrix-y sort of game.
And with practice there's some cool things you can do if you feel like being silly, such as deflecting darts with swords like lightsabers, curving darts like the bullets in Wanted...
The Rules we use in standard wars can be found here if you're interested, though I know that most places use slightly different variations.
I also know there's a reasonably organised nerfing community in the US.

Thanks Ovion, sounds like fun!

"We now return you to your regularly scheduled Nerdfest...."

Just a heads up on the painting of the Nerf gun, you may want to check your local laws regarding "replica" guns, there are places in the US where carrying a toy gun in public without distinctive identifying marks can get you arrested...stupid, yes, but whatchagonnado?

 hdbbstephen wrote:
Just a heads up on the painting of the Nerf gun, you may want to check your local laws regarding "replica" guns, there are places in the US where carrying a toy gun in public without distinctive identifying marks can get you arrested...stupid, yes, but whatchagonnado?

Hmmm yep, I though of that too and that's why i'm leaving parts the orange like the ammo clips, small sliders, breach cover etc. so while it looks like a cool painted rifle, it still has that subtle ovious toy-ness to it and also since i'm the only one i know with a Nerf gun, I will only be playing in my backyard .... by myself...... Oh well.....

Just modded my darts by cutting across the top using the little hole as a guide and filled the ends with hot glue just enought weight now to feel better!

and as Gits said "We now return you to your regularly scheduled Nerdfest...." I haven't had much time so far for painting but I have managed to matte varnish my entire army I used a can of Boyle's Matte sealer works great (so far) so we'll see how that goes, it kinda enriches my reds and makes them really look complete now, I moved my entire army into a large cupboard shelf to keep the dust off them, so now my little black Nerd shelf is for 'projects' yet to be completed!

speaking of yet to be completed i'm assembling my parts to make a power armoured Chaplain I have one with a Jump pack and a Termie one so i need to round out the options and this guy's gonna be special! I also have a 9 man DC. to build which he'll be part of and I'll pop them in a drop pod for fun!

Oh, I got a little box in the mail........ Forgeworld......... space marine tank crew!

 nerdfest09 wrote:

 hdbbstephen wrote:
Just a heads up on the painting of the Nerf gun, you may want to check your local laws regarding "replica" guns, there are places in the US where carrying a toy gun in public without distinctive identifying marks can get you arrested...stupid, yes, but whatchagonnado?

Hmmm yep, I though of that too and that's why i'm leaving parts the orange like the ammo clips, small sliders, breach cover etc. so while it looks like a cool painted rifle, it still has that subtle ovious toy-ness to it and also since i'm the only one i know with a Nerf gun, I will only be playing in my backyard .... by myself...... Oh well.....

Just modded my darts by cutting across the top using the little hole as a guide and filled the ends with hot glue just enought weight now to feel better!

Generally, legally, you need an orange tip to the barrel.

Also, I'd actually be a little concerned about the darts safety wise now - you've effectively given them hard plastic tips, and with a modded gun, there's a reasonable chance they'll break the skin due to the power + hardness and potential for sharp edges, and at the very least they're going to bruise.
I wouldn't allow them in a war for safeties sake unless they could be proven safe (Which I don't think they would), and I'd be rather worried about using it with any of my more powerful guns such as my Rangemaster, Longshot or Barrelbreak (which already sting with the soft tip.)

For target shooting... you'll probably get away with it, but don't shoot it at people.