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Thanks Az! always nice to hear praise from a fellow Minotaur! :-) I also received the rule book today so I shall be poring through it as soon as I'm not at bloody work :-( Gah!

Really nice crate! That display board looks great too!

Its just all good. The marines, the faces, the shipping container.... Nerdy goodness everywhere!

I'll try that face technique this weekend and see how it works for a face-painting amateur.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Its just all good. The marines, the faces, the shipping container.... Nerdy goodness everywhere!

I'll try that face technique this weekend and see how it works for a face-painting amateur.

Awesome gits, that'd be good if you can I used Pallid Wych flesh as my highlight which is very light and i'd us a red/brown with the flesh colour for the lower lip also a fine argax wash just to define details if needed. and that's about it on top of that method. go for gold and post your experiment up for us

Man oh man that army board is gunna look nice!

So I have just gotten a brand new trans Atlantic handheld communication device :-) Galaxy S8 and I'm hoping to be able to record video and upload straight to Youtube to show some painting! still working it out for now since as you know i'm really not the most tech savvy guy here! I'll leave that title to Whalemusic :-)

Mate, faces are excellent, I will certainly be trying that recipe !

 nerdfest09 wrote:
So I have just gotten a brand new trans Atlantic handheld communication device :-) Galaxy S8 and I'm hoping to be able to record video and upload straight to Youtube to show some painting! still working it out for now since as you know i'm really not the most tech savvy guy here! I'll leave that title to Whalemusic :-)

When my new fandangled device does things I dont like I just grunt at it and hit it with my grizzly bear leg bone club. Now admittedly Im no tech guy and that probably doesnt help any. But there ya go

new Samsung cameras are AMAZING for miniature photography. For recording needledrops of vinyl....they need an external mic. -That's my $0.02

One of the easiest ways to get photos uploaded is directly from the gallery app to a Google Drive account, which you'll have a google account.

Hey guys, I have some more work in progress stuff today! I'll start by mentioning that I am indeed still working somewhat feverishly on RiTides fleet of ships but they are quite fiddly and when you have about 50+ of the buggers it can take a while for not much visual progression, so far they have been primed, silver and washed Nuln Oil, then i've used Dheneb Stone on all the bone areas of the main hulls and now i'm working through them with a grey wash over the bone parts to give a subtle shade and to help the colour look better since the stone is quite a chalky finish, once that's done on all of them I'll use the Dheneb again to start the edging and some of the subtle damage then work up to a bone white and then damage the heck out of them with oodles of great ways!

But for today you get stuck with my Minotaurs again, I did the red on them yesterday and touched up today before work, like i mentioned earlier it's great how such a simple scheme and style can pop with the addition of only one other colour! there's not much more on them to do really, the lenses and completing the faces as well as a yellow bolter stripe sarge's finery and basing still, I really hope they still look good enough and cool enough to have people say "hey, they're cool"









And the rather belligerent Hekaton Aikios is coming along as well




What are your thoughts on them all together? with Asterion as a comparison ?


and my arm arrived for Ivanus Enkomi! now his pose is right!

Great work on all of these guys, Damo. The Tartaros are really looking sweet at this point. I'll hopefully have some more paint on my next batch of Minos before the end of the week, though I can't keep pace with your turnover on them. I need to clean off my bloody desk!

I think that pose works pretty well on ol skullface. It's hard to make a good pose for a jump marine out of one that isn't.

I do love the contrast in the eed.

Many thanks guys, I'll keep an eye on your blog Az to see your next batch! now clean that desk mate! and I also am pretty happy with Ivanus' pose considering he's not a traditional jump marine but I wanted to use that model so a bit of angling and picking the correct combo of arms made it work :-)

I've nearly done the Termies so they should be up tomorrow for your perusal, only the bases and sarge's tabard strap thingies to do, then i'll get onto Hecaton and finish him up.

Finished my Tartaros Terminators for my Minotaurs! pretty happy to have them done, it gives me a good feel on how long they take and how they all will look, I like them personally even though they aren't overly decorative or detailed., gives them a colder more straightforward militaristic feel. I hope you like them and the pics are o.k?

I think they could use some squad markings and chapter logos on their pads. Bummer FW doesnt make the transfer sheet any more. I think you should put down a color on the base before the crackle paint as well. Kinda weird black showing through, ya know? Otherwise they look great, certainly can't fault them there.

I'm not seeing any of your images now man.

Lovely work Damo, but those bare heads look huge in the armor. Perhaps these are the rare... melon-head terminators??

I like them a lot - and I really like the bases.

I could use bases like that on my Dark Age stuff.

Any chance of a 'how to' on that particular base style, please?

 Alpharius wrote:
I like them a lot - and I really like the bases.

I could use bases like that on my Dark Age stuff.

Any chance of a 'how to' on that particular base style, please?

Boy do I have good news for you! The paints do the work for you now. Put it on thick and it dries into the cracked earth look. Which is why I suggested he paint the base with something other than black first.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Texture-Martian-Ironcrust-24ML
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Texture-Martian-Ironearth-24ML

And then he stuck some of this fancy self adhesive grass on there.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Mordheim-Turf
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Middenland-Tufts

Correct me if that's off Damo. Figured I'd save some linking action for you.

Those face look amazing . I will be forever grateful if I can get that formula to work for me.

Does he use both texture paints on the bases?

Looks like just the first. It is a bit thicker, so makes bigger cracks in the earth. Pretty sure they are actually the same paint, the second just has more water in it. If you thin down the thick one when you use it, it makes smaller cracks.

Thanks for that WM360!

What do you suggest priming with, if not black, when using it?

 Alpharius wrote:
Thanks for that WM360!

What do you suggest priming with, if not black, when using it?

Go brown or a different shade of red/orange.

You can even still prime black, but I'd put a layer of brown or rust red down or whatever you want the color that will show through to be before the texture paint. Alternatively (or additionally), you can paint on top of it if you wanted a different color scheme since GW only offers it in the martian red color.

Now I see them! WoW! Damo!

Lol thanks guys, the bases are painted Charandon Granite before the Martian Ironearth technical paint so while it's not black showing through it does look pretty dark (sorry Whaley i'll do better next time) and then I washed them with Agrax Earthshade and added some grass clumps from The Army Painter. the heads really don't look that bad but I'm guessing the final pic the angle is not great for looking good but good for showing the face with that new technique! :-)

I also wish FW still made the decals :-( i'd sell my left nut for some to put on them, I did try adding some stripes to break it up but I couldn't for the life of me get straight edges no matter what I tried, so red it is until I can find something.

What will you write on the customs form? left nut?

Depends who buys it Dave! if it's in Aus i'm good but if anyone wants a Nerd-Nut in formaldehyde for their gaming den in the states then I guess, yes, I'll have to put 'Left Nut' on my declaration form!

Well if it only your left one you can keep it!

Boys are looking amazing, do love them, and those new faces are coming out pretty good.