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Best wishes Nerdy and all in Tas. Please take care and hope all you and yours are safe.

Thanks for all the thoughts everyone much appreciated but we are all safe at home although some friends and colleagues had to be evacuated and the hotel I work at offered some free rooms for those affected on the worst night so we had a massive afternoon but thankfully there was only a few families that had serious damage or sadly loss of life Whaley picked a pretty accurate newsreel.

I have been grabbing the brush in random spare moments and took a couple of really bad photos to prove it

Gits Admech are well underway and should be finished in a few days time with some proper photo's once all the metal is highlighted i'll add the gold banding and green lenses then add some minor weathering and details .

Glad to hear you're okay! It seems like half of the east coast been hit by this damn storm, and you guys copped some of the worst of it. We (melbournians) have it p lucky in our sheltered little bay.

Great progress on the admech too; even more so given the circumstances. I love the blue/purple weathering on the barrels!

Glad your doing fine, hopefully all the wildlife doesn't head to high ground to join you .

The admech are looking great, the only thing that I find different is the purple on the barrels. Will that stay or is that phase 37 of 73 for the finished look? There's nothing wrong with it, just different looking than what I've seen other places.

I think the color on the barrels isn't really weathering, it's the heat from the gun taking the temper out of the metal. It would go from a deep purple by the muzzle to a light golden yellow before fading into the normal steel color (depending on the intensity of the annealing).

The heat burn on the barrels is pretty sweet mate, all paint or some weathering powders thrown in too ?

Good to hear that you're safe down there mate. The Admech WIP is looking very nice, though that's a distant second.

Wow fantastic blog Nerd. The way you do skin tones just makes me want to punch my monitor because you do them so well. Like fantastically well. Your Ferrus Mannus is just beyond epic. The skin on the arms and the face wow...just wow...

I am so peanut butter and jelious of your talents I just want to punch babies and kick kittens....ok maybe not that bad, but damn close


I can't wait to see what comes out of your demented workshop next

Sweet looking admech. Great work Nerd.

EDC

Brother Payne wrote:Glad to hear you're okay! It seems like half of the east coast been hit by this damn storm, and you guys copped some of the worst of it. We (melbournians) have it p lucky in our sheltered little bay.

Great progress on the admech too; even more so given the circumstances. I love the blue/purple weathering on the barrels!

Thanks Brother, you're not wrong about the storm being a bit of a prick mate, she really did a number on us down here in the Apple Isle and indeed down the whole coast, I watched the radar as it came down towards us across the straight and we just braced for it and knew it may raise the levels as bad as 100 years ago, which it did even with the flood gates in place! crazy stuff!

Theophony wrote:Glad your doing fine, hopefully all the wildlife doesn't head to high ground to join you .

The admech are looking great, the only thing that I find different is the purple on the barrels. Will that stay or is that phase 37 of 73 for the finished look? There's nothing wrong with it, just different looking than what I've seen other places.

Ha! thanks Theo mostly the affected animals were livestock along the river so we didn't see any Drop Bears or Tassie Tigers come looking for warmth and a dry towel

Don't worry about the barrels, the colour is quite light at this stage and will be darker when finished, Gits is right, I'm going for a burnt heat damaged effect but I'm not following it as closely as real world weapons since these guns are Martian and can have much varied pulses of weaponized energy or solid projectiles.

Gitsplitta wrote:I think the color on the barrels isn't really weathering, it's the heat from the gun taking the temper out of the metal. It would go from a deep purple by the muzzle to a light golden yellow before fading into the normal steel color (depending on the intensity of the annealing).

Correct Mr Splitta, as I touched on above with Theo i'm just sort of playing with the finish to see what I think feels correct for Martian tech

Big H wrote:The heat burn on the barrels is pretty sweet mate, all paint or some weathering powders thrown in too ?

Hey Andy! just washes for the blue and purple down the barrels and then watered purple paint to strengthen the colour, also LittleH's last two guys are still there nearly done so expect them soon!

Azazelx wrote:Good to hear that you're safe down there mate. The Admech WIP is looking very nice, though that's a distant second.

Thanks Az, appreciate the thoughts, the Admech are a nice distraction even though i've been super busy lately with work, floods, landscaping, work, more work.....

FabricatorGeneralMike wrote:

Wow fantastic blog Nerd. The way you do skin tones just makes me want to punch my monitor because you do them so well. Like fantastically well. Your Ferrus Mannus is just beyond epic. The skin on the arms and the face wow...just wow...

I am so peanut butter and jelious of your talents I just want to punch babies and kick kittens....ok maybe not that bad, but damn close


I can't wait to see what comes out of your demented workshop next

Hey Fab, Demented workshop! I take it you refer to the Slaanesh phase I went through and showed everyone my Hels'ak? punching babies and kicking kittens I probably won't condone, but it does make me want to listen to Psychostick again......

I know i've said it a hundred times but I do really like painting faces and they're not that hard to do, I follow a pretty basic method and could push my technique further like the really good face guys but to be honest I like the way I do them and it's quick and only requires a good brush and a steady hand Ferrus was wicked fun to do in a day and the attempt at blending his metal arms seemed to have worked well if you liked it! and that's all I can ask for

evildrcheese wrote:Sweet looking admech. Great work Nerd.

EDC

Thanks EDC, i'll do more soon for you to check out, I seem to enjoy painting an entire force all at once and just smashing through them.

Welcome to Admech heaven finished Gits army and I hope he loves them! (i'm pretty sure hell be happy) So here they all are, Candy style paint with a few little touches of colour here and there with the shock lances and weapons burn, the missile pods i've given a rougher look as if they've been fired so there's some chipping on edges and a bit more grime around them. The Breachers and Destroyers I thought were going to be too simple with mostly metals constructing them but I was happily proved wrong when they were finished

anyway now I'll just soak you with way to many photo's






















Love to see what you think!

Amazing work as ever. I really love how you've done the grab weapons on the tracked dudes. Also I love how you've done the lenses in everything.

EDC

Sunning stuff as ever Nerdy. Gorgeous tones.

Absolutely beautiful.

Stunning!

I may never paint again...

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I may never paint again...

Welcome to my life.

Amazing stuff Nerdfest, your metals are so clean and realistic and that glowing red is fantastic.

Quite extraordinary. Pro job indeed!

Beautiful! The heating on the gun really draws my eye, Gits a lucky man!

Yeah OK you can paint I guess!

As everyone has said, brilliant work.

Incredible stuff Nerdy! Particularly like the weapon burn and whatever those crackling electric lances are. The metals are simply superb - the weathering provides depth and contrast that keeps the mostly-metal models interesting.

Many thanks everyone! really happy they've been received so well the colour scheme is really striking in person i've made a couple of small changes since the pics, namely just painting the Mechanicum symbols in the halved black & white and the armour plates on the Breachers arms in the red. I'm so excited about sending them off on Monday

next project at this point in time is the Salamanders army which is going to wait until a warmer day before priming so i'll finish up the LittleH models in the meantime

Yesss! I'd love to see how you paint up a Sally army. Have been wanting to start one myself for sometime but like nearly every other hobbyist I have far too many projects to finish first

Well, I need to say sorry for lack of updates the last week or so I'm just about to start on the salamanders for Whaley and the Titan should be en-route to me from Gits shortly and then things will progress in earnest I also may have picked up another small commission for a gaming club down the other end of my state, I was suggested to them via a facebook page and they may need me to paint 40 savage Orc with a command so that's nice that others are interested in me doing some painting for them, i'm really leaning towards doing more commission painting seriously so i'll say again if you know anyone who may want anything painted, be it a character or an army shoot me a msg and we'll talk

Now, i'm not the most cleverest man around, especially with technology, in fact i'm probably one of the most inept people you could meet all my internet workings are done on a old laptop and my internet connection is a postpaid broadband thingy you plug into the side of the computer, which as you may know means it's slow, I only get 15gig a month (I did only have 7) and it's unreliable. In this day and age it seems everything and everyone needs to be connected online more and more, with smart t.v's, ipads, watches, computers. well i got sick of it and decided to grow up and flow with the young kids yep I've signed up for the NBN internet with over 100 gig a month woohoo! and the price was pretty reasonable as well! so...... what do i do with it all? where do i go for cool games and movies to download and programs and all that exciting stuff I'll be able to do? i'll even be able to use the video function on facebook and actually talk to you guys!

I did also order some models for my Imperial fists command squad......

Hopefully it doesn't take you as long as Ramos to get started on that Titan

 Brother Payne wrote:
Hopefully it doesn't take you as long as Ramos to get started on that Titan

Ramos was waiting on parts from Whale If I recall, so in the meantime he scheduled other commissions. I'm sure we'll be seeing something soon.

LittleH's last two models all done and finished should be great game tokens for their games!

Beautiful stuff as usual, Nerdy

Outstanding work Nerdy!