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Top work mate, I really like the cloak as well, great colour choice.

Sorry for being late to the B'day wishes, but since I hate you (have I ever mentioned that?) for bringing an endless stream of awesomeness, I think it is well deserved...

Excellent work mate. He looks very impressive, and it's good to hear that your birthday was a good one. What was the technique you used on the armour?

Wow thank you so much guys I'm thinking that when I do Rowboat Girlyman the crisp blue armour shall get the Nerdcandy treatment! it's a great method that isn't too difficult to do either, get your base colours on (in my case green) then shade your recesses with wash and mix a little bit of gold paint with your base colour again and highlight as normal dragging the mix down to blend (it gets quite thin and is easy to blend/taper) then using the same mix go over the highest points to strengthen the effect and finally add more gold and do your top highlights then wash the whole armour with Biel tan green I'd love to see someone actually try this and show me so I can see if what I say makes sense?

Now today I'm washing the rest of the warband for Whaley and working on some faces, I'm struggling to get a decent tutorial that is clear and in focus so I might just paint my new head today got them from Puppetswar and the quality is good and the postage was faster than last time!


until this afternoon........

I wonder if colors like blue and purple would work better with silver instead of gold?

That would make sense, actually. You see what you're doing is suspending the metal flakes in the colored layers. The gold works so well with the red because its a warm tone of color, and so well with the green because it's a component of green (gold being yellow).

Mixing it with blue (or even purple) might actually start turning it a little green where you dont want it. Silver would get you that neutral color but also the metallic shine. Kinda get what Im thinking?

Sounds like it calls for some test marines, Damo

I was planning on using silver so we were all thinking the same thing!

I painted a couple of heads but I'm thinking I will do them again with the spares they could be a bit smoother but I'll show you anyway. this is the NEW Damo head and I've included a comparison pic





and my best mate's version.


Kinda finished Whaley's Stompa not a top tier job but certainly game worthy!



and here's my new work station set up with my Birthday paint racks!

That painting set up looks next level man! Is it back2basix stuff your using?

Sweet layout for the workstation nice looking holders indeed, good call to have the paints upside down as well

See the similarity in the head choice although the mini has the upper hand

And what is going on with superman and wonder woman

Really, really nice stompa you got there. Space Marine looks proper angry and I think tha- wait, why does Wonder Woman have a wolf's face and Superman is Hitler? What is going on over there!? :p

Mate , really, that green is SWEET , going to have to find something to paint in that style, something other than camo !

Happy birthday by the way !

Superb work on Vulkan... The green armour is awesome.

That Vulkan model is easily in the top 5 that you've painted Damo! Great Scott!!

And the "You" mini head is spot on. That's going to look great on a table

Belated happy b-day good sir. I think my other post got lost in the warp, or it got blown up by how cool the Vulkan figure turned out.

If that is not a top tier gargant, then I don't know what one would look like.

You did a great job on your friends head.....( )

Thank you my friends! I still am so happy with Vulkan he really worked out nicely! might have to do myself a salamanders 30K army one day? would look really different with that paint too!

the paint racks are from CNC Miniature Scenery and they were easy if fiddly to assemble but totally worth it and now my station is much neater and more organised even if I did also realise I own lots of Yellow paints in different shades yet I hardly use the colour

What are you crazy fools talking about my mug for? isn't it normal for one's partner to get mugs printed with your dogs faces on different bodies? that was my fathers day pressie from the fuzzy kids, Issabella is Wonder Woman in the middle, to the left Superman is William and on the right Batman is Oscar the Dark Bite...... I now have a collection i'll show you one day

Little boring update on some WIP

I started to paint some more bare heads but haven't had any more time for a tutorial yet as I want to do a good one for once so until then I'll just show you wher I'm at.






went a fair way into getting some main colours down on the rest of the warband. these lot are having pale armour accented with gold and red cloth accents.




I am probably going to regret this and most likely get scolded by Whaley but here's a teaser of a new passion project from me! you all know I like to plan ahead and sometimes something grabs my eye and inspires me to begin a bigger project, well I found these online and then went looking around as if I were to actually build a small force. Sooooooo I'm planning a predominantly 30k inspired mechanicum army!

now for your input, metal areas are to be all dark brass and gold with red lenses but what colour do I use for the armour and robes? I'm steering away from red as I've got enough red marines but I'm not sure what else will look good? I have a feeling a dirty bone would look nice like I used on Mortarion? or a pale green like necrotic flesh from Army Painter? or even a yellow? but then I don't know how that fits with a Forgeworld!?



do you want to know what I got? (I know, I know Whaley I said i'd wait.....)
Thanatar Calix siege automata
Thanatar siege automata
6 Thallax automata
Magos Dominus
Tech priest
Myrmidon Destructors
army book.

Good heavens Damo... I CANT WAIT!!!! (so excited)

ooohhh - lots of lovely FW Mech.....not jealous at all....nope.....not a bit........Thantar siege goodness......dammit!!!

I was your idea to wait! You ruined your own plan. Silly Damo.

Love those lenses, how did you paint them?

Sweet lenses mate!
I got myself 4 of those for my Mechanicus ongoing project. But what figures do you plan to use those heads with? They don't fit 30k Mechanicum, do they?

Also, absolutely amazing work on Vulkan. I know, i know, i'm late at the party. Better than never

Keep it up dude!

Gitsplitta wrote:Good heavens Damo... I CANT WAIT!!!! (so excited)

Really? well perhaps we should converse and throw some ideas around then Gits? it was your models recently that made me consider it again so I 'blame' you

whalemusic360 wrote:I was your idea to wait! You ruined your own plan. Silly Damo.

.... I'm just an excited kid at heart aren't I!

Mymearan wrote:Love those lenses, how did you paint them?

Lenses were a scab red base then a bit of blood red mixed in and highlighted along the lower part of the lenses, then just red, then orange then a watered yellow to glaze over it all, then I washed it with sepia and when dry a dot of white in the top followed by a coat of ardcoat.

ciuncky wrote:Sweet lenses mate!
I got myself 4 of those for my Mechanicus ongoing project. But what figures do you plan to use those heads with? They don't fit 30k Mechanicum, do they?

Also, absolutely amazing work on Vulkan. I know, i know, i'm late at the party. Better than never

Keep it up dude!

Thanks mate! I'm using Kastelan robots as stand ins for Castellax 30k robots. not sure how to arm them yet though (help would be sweeeeet) glad you like Vulkan he is such a badass model!



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 Januine wrote:
ooohhh - lots of lovely FW Mech.....not jealous at all....nope.....not a bit........Thantar siege goodness......dammit!!!

Be Jealous!.....be very jealous! .... now I have to work out a scheme for the big guys!?

Forewarning this is a terrible suggestion, but one none the less. Teal!

Teal? hmmm interesting, very interesting :-)

I vote Black, it's the new Black after all.

I thought Black but it's notoriously hard to get good weathering on :-( I was toying with either an off white/cream/bone? or yellow?

Vulkan looks awesome dude.

That Stompa is also totally sweet!

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 nerdfest09 wrote:

Thanks mate! I'm using Kastelan robots as stand ins for Castellax 30k robots. not sure how to arm them yet though (help would be sweeeeet) glad you like Vulkan he is such a badass model!

I'd say get along with the Phosphors. Guns look a bit better, but Phosphor is fine.
Then again (just an idea) if you use them as stand-ins, you could easily just mix the two guns into one. Maybe even add an ammo belt from 3rd parties, and put the bolter barrel on the Phosphor gun, somehow underneath.
And maybe some cogs/gears to look like blades protruding from the fist.

So what are the main differences in weapons and load on the castellax? I've seen them with bolters and buzz saws and the shoulder gun? is the shoulder one phosphor?

Sorry mate, haven't been reading a lot about those. I'm not sure it is phosphor, but i think Forgeworld's listing specifies what they are armed with. Maybe that will help to get a better idea and see how to convert them