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I think he needs a mini scale version of the plastic six pack ring holders. Because ou know he's already opened up the canS of whoop .

 dsteingass wrote:
No, it needs to be a tall-boy can of Bush light
Real, American canned piss.

Agreed. If Riddick can kill a man with a tin cup, imagine what Marbo can do with one, sportin a mullet?

Oh mate, tried out your marble effects on some Warmill bases, what a fun technique you have invented!



Not as good as yours but I think I may have to re-base my whole army now!

Holy wow, you did an awesome job on the marble work there

It IS a lovely effect!

Greetings for this rainy day my friends! and i warm my body by painting models more works in progress today! I finished the fatigues on Vet squad 2 now just the boots, packs and guns to go, Oh and the goggles I'm still working out my technique for them as it's only the second squad but once i remember how to do them start to finish I should be right to crank out the rest of them faster




I assembled my 3 sentinels too wow they are enjoyable to build and a really cool looking model! I am thinking of running 9 of them for fun one day

here's the start of the pilots, you'll notice the lower parts are ignored due to them not being visible in the sentinels.


here the 3 of them are with support from unpainted squad2! followed by some individual shots of them





Should have an update on Marbo and the squad finished tomorrow so, what's everyone else been up to? I can see Commander Cain has been marbling up a storm! I mean BLOODY HELL MAN! that looks AWESOME! yep bro you need to re do the whole army now that's much much better looking than my first go I now need to re do my shrine of the aquila so it looks better! honestly you hit that out of the park

Ah well you didn't have an excellent tutor on your first go no?

Loving the camo on the guard, I fancy trying something similar on my guys partly because I love the style and secondly because I have completely forgotten how to paint their armour in my old style!

Great sentinels as well, the new(ish) ones are infinitely more fun to assemble than the old ones which had the monopose legs. Nice barrel placement I see!

I still completely love the look of those lasguns. Such a simple tweek and they look like a brand new sculpt.

Cheers fellas, KC I know just a little choppy choppy and the humble lasgun can look COOL! :-) just got to add the clips tomorrow and then start painting them up, and Commander Cain, yep, dude the new ones are the bomb the old ones... not so much! I'm hoping the three flamers will deter my enemies from getting close :-) and the camo scheme I wasn't really confident to do myself but I thought i needed to do something outside my comfort zone, I figured out that if you do the two colours you only need to highlight the main base colour of the fatigues otherwise you'll go mad trying to get it to look right lol!

Oi nerd! Good to hear from ya! talk about inspiration....ive had to catchup on alot of your work and its all just beautiful and youre quite the prolific painter! I love these ig, its a strong and creative scheme. I'm stealing the round bullet hole battle damage. it'll be on the next guy I paint, hopefully.
Dig the las guns too, are they shotguns? Nice slick way if so. Cool, lookin forward to seeing those sentinels all done!
Cheers
Bebop

Fantastic work Damo! Where will he stop? no one knows!

gak Damo will only stop the day AFTER his death.

I think he'll be more like John Lennon, having multiple posthumous hits

Kind of a weird day today! I spent most of the day painting but feel I didn't get as much done as I think i should! but I did do some stuff!

bebop it's good to see you again! it has been a while and I'm glad you like my IG! the lasguns are just modified to look cooler cutting them off at the front hand and adding a small barrel and clipping and replacing the clip feel free to steal any ideas you like that's what Dakka's all about!..... well, ...not stealing!........but sharing ideas!

and KC and Dave! I WILL NEVER STOP! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! in fact...... you want a clue as to my next project? it's a ripper!

got myself a little head today!

well, i got a bunch of them! another order from Mad Robot got the Spec Ops heads some torso's and some other heads too! Steve pops ina little thank you card into the box, but it's really us who need to say! THANK YOU STEVE!


I ordered a couple more dozer blades for my tanks, namely for the punishers and I got about to doing them today too, not quite finished still some burn marks and staining to go


Tomorrows painting challenge! can i do it!


I also started to sort my 10 man Storm Troopers squad! I love love love the torso's I got! so cool and i think will make them just something different, I just need to wait for NV heads to be released for them but tomorrow I shall add some pouches and stuff! I think they'll have some nice dynamic poses so far.

tried to give him rolled up sleeves not the best but I'm trying to decide what arms will work best


What's that? did i just hear a collective voice crying out for a bad dark pic of my Vet squad progress! well, i can't disappoint can I just layed on the metal and washed it.


that's all again for today! lets see what you think eh!

Love it when companies put that little thank you card in things.

Vets looking good.

Thanks not_u I'm not sure what arms to get for my Vets ( I meant Storm troopers )? any ideas so they look suitably cool?

and the little card is a nice touch isn't it! last order also had a little Mad Robot sticker on the front of it saying 'You got stuff' :-) a very nice point of difference in a world lacking personal service!

Well it had to happen soon enough right? I had to finally bite the bullet and start to re do Marbo! I thought it was a good day to do it as i was planning on painting the new heads i got from Steve, and i must say the skin tone now is MUCH better than before I hope you can tell from the phone pics? still not finished obviously but a good way towards done



and now for the heads, I wanted to just get the main skin on each face finished today so i can do all the details at once in another session, you can see on some my blending is getting better at that tiny scale some don't look like much but that's due to them having most of the face covered by beards or sunnies etc. in this lot I hope to get a good head for my Sentinel drivers (suggestions on which ones?) and also my Devil Dog and Executioner drivers!


two lots of these Spec Ops heads


and these caps are really nice faces! easy to paint and brilliant detail


and that took me nearly all day! i must be getting slow in my old age!

Dozer blades look real. That's terrifyingly well done weathering.

Lovely job on those faces. One of them looks like Donald Sutherland's character from "Kelly's Heroes". (3rd pic down, second from the right)

Those are some great heads, nice find on those Damo!

Thanks Graven! twas actually really easy to do :-) just heated the blade with a lighter and used an old toothbrush handle to push the dents into it with a little wiggle then primed them plate metal and washed with a brown and orange mix and wiped it over with my fingers, then a little liquid mask and prime again with desert primer, after it dried I ran some agrax earthshade over the rivets and the joins and wiped it over again with my fingers, pulled off the mask and that's it! simplez!

I just Googled Donald Sutherland in that movie Gits! damn dude that is an uncanny resemblance :-)

Yea some of those heads they do are definitely mocked after real people. Perfect example is in the Spec Ops heads. The one on the far left with the ball cap and glasses. He is DEFINITELY the former American Sniper Chris Kyle. Heres a couple pics

AND with shades on




Im seriously considering putting an order in for some of their heads. Great job on those BTW. As per the Sentinel head, Im thinking the guy with the cigar in his mouth. Why you ask? Simple! Sentinel pilots have to be cocky and ballsy to do their job. And the cigar head just has that look of "Oohhhhh yea, I just banged your wife AND sister in the hotel room" *lights Cigar*

Well looky what i got today in the post! the new Wargames factory 'Survivors' and the sad thing is i only bought them for the use of one torso with a singlet but I can tell you that they are really nicely done! good hard plastic with exeptional details for the size of them, you get 4 sprues in the box to make 30 survivors, 3 sprues that make the main bodies (so you end up with 3 of each character if you wish) and then multiple heads and arms with many weapons to choose from so the 30 men can be assembled to reflect different characters! all in all pretty impressed with this new box


how they come in the box, the sprues actually fit together in the corners to stop any damage to the models, nice touch!


and here's a couple of closer shots to see the details as best i could manage here the guns are really delicate and small but also really good and more detailed than i thought they'd be!



I haven't had a chance to see them against my 40k stuff yet so I'll be looking into how I can use them next week on my rdo's I hope at least some of the parts can be used in my conversions!

cool....looks like excellent converion materials tailered for all needs...!

OOHH! Those are sweet! Are they more like 32 mm though like the female zombies?

Looks to be about right Dave, 2.6 cm to the neck by the pic with the ruler ;-) I haven't seen any of the female Zombies 'in the flesh'

I actually prefer the larger scale, I just don't have much of it other than Malifaux.

So, no paint today but I got a package from Battle Brother lucifer with 20 more Guardsmen and he kindly threw in enough other parts I can make another command squad! which I duly got around to doing so I assembled and added some parts as well as worked on my counts as Pask! John McClane

a few images for you,

the squad all good for priming (painted heads are tacked on at this stage)

and an individual shot of each one, this first one I really like as it uses a head from the Zombie survivors sprue and it is the best African American head i've seen to date in that scale!




and now Pask! I used the tank top torso from the Zombie Survivors sprue, which was actually the only reason i bough the whole box a bit overboard $36 for one torso and a head but never mind I now have what i wanted! I added the Bruce Willis head from mad Robot and then Catachan arms I cut and sanded a bit to fit the body without looking silly (I did that after the pics) overall I think he looks awesome so far and he'll be primed tomorrow



Now i do have a rather important question for you all you may have heard I might have ordered myself a Riptide suit it hasn't arrived yet so I'm working on my colour and style for it, but this is where I have hit a snag I think colour wise I want to use the green I did my sallies in with brighter highlights, purple lenses and white accents. but style wise i'm torn between doing the crisp cartoon style I painted my landraider and Baal pred in or a weathered style like my tanks? I've not seen many weathered Tau models and it always is striking, but i know i can do a really clean bright anime with a clean style?

so what are your suggestions?
Cartoon and clean


Or weathered and worn.


I do have another blasphemous idea for tau too I like to find aftermarket parts for my armies (no suprise there) if i ever do a force I was considering using the promethius bride heads as my Tau bare heads and the watcher helmets for some too? will this be looked upon with distaste or approval? I know the way i can do the different heads will be individual and look good, but I'm afraid they will then take away something that is integral to the Tau theme and appearance?

Damo

Heya Nerd, just thought id drop in and throw you some praise, i've been lurking of late, third year exams are coming up and my hobby time has evaporated accordingly! However I wanted to come and chime in that for your riptide i'm going to cast a vote for the weathered option, i know tau are all cartoony and I know you could do it to PERFECTION in that style, but to add to your repertoire of armies you have done slightly differently i think the more realistic look would be very apropriate. (As for the colours, green and purple is my all time favorite combination, you have my full support!) in the same vein the alternative heads would also make them very unique, i say go for it!

Having said this, don't stop your guard, they are the most inspiring guard thread i'm subcribed to atm, and that is saying something!

The Guard heads/conversions are as amazing as the others! -I'm afraid I'm not much help on the Tau front though.