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Looking forward to seeing your new models Bubble. No worries about the Fulgrim model, youll do great on him and then youll be a much better painter for it.
Cheers
BB

lone dirty dog wrote:well its a collection thats for sure nice to see you back to it and you have enjoyed your break guess you are still at uni then how long you got left

I totally get your hesitation when it comes to painting such a miniature, but trust me break that habit otherwise you will have minis sitting in boxes collecting dust

Love "Disco Damnation Marine" I just see a unit of clubbing marines in my head now

Haha maybe I will have to make a whole team of them then! xxx

GiraffeX wrote:

Looking forward to seeing your paintbrush in action bubble

Thank you for your continued support GiraffeX! xxx

bebopdrums2424 wrote:Looking forward to seeing your new models Bubble. No worries about the Fulgrim model, youll do great on him and then youll be a much better painter for it.
Cheers
BB

Lol I'm sure I wont be but thanks haha! xxx

Ok so (in my eyes) an exciting update for you today! I decided to combine my Uriel and Pasanius models as they're such bros and make a diorama! You can see the general idea for the base here....







In essence, they are going to be back to back, standing on this rocky bit of land. Uriel is also going to have his foot on a dead daemonette to go with him holding the bloodletter's head. The daemonette is missing atm as she's being stripped of her original paint as of now

Thoughts please people? xxx

I like the fact that it reflects your idea perfectly, without even reading the text I could tell what you were trying to achieve

So far looks the part plus cant wait to see the daemonette added, great work so far

Thanks so much LDD! You're my lone supporter at the moment it would seem haha
I'm excited to paint the daemonette as it's something so different for me and I'll get to use exciting PINKS :O

I'm really proud of what I have to show you today, Pasanius is finished!









Please give me your thoughts! xxx

The one and only returns no seriously looks great I have to say painting marine or termi armour is a real pain.
You have to get the look just right IMHO it can look over done or under, but I think you have got a nice enough balance with this.

You definitely are improving I can see j-paints influences showing through in your work which is a good thing, I like the emblem scratches really draws your eye and adds the grittiness to the model.
Hard to see the flamer detail due to the lighting or this dam iPad, the flesh tone and facial detail looks great and nice toning all most see the rage colour to his face.

You really do keep improving with your updates, keep up the hard work

 lone dirty dog wrote:
The one and only returns no seriously looks great I have to say painting marine or termi armour is a real pain.
You have to get the look just right IMHO it can look over done or under, but I think you have got a nice enough balance with this.

You definitely are improving I can see j-paints influences showing through in your work which is a good thing, I like the emblem scratches really draws your eye and adds the grittiness to the model.
Hard to see the flamer detail due to the lighting or this dam iPad, the flesh tone and facial detail looks great and nice toning all most see the rage colour to his face.

You really do keep improving with your updates, keep up the hard work

Hi LDD! Again it looks like you're the only one who cares for my painting attempts and I love you for it! *hug* Thanks for the comment!

Yes you're right, the scratches in the symbol were his idea, and I think it made the transfer look better...

It's not your iPad, you're right, you can't see the flamer so I took a couple of better photos of it for you. It's not particularly ground-breaking, but I like how dirty it looks





Oh btw if anyone is interested to see what I used as a model for the model (lol), look here! - http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Pasanius_Lysane#.U1FrT_ldXeI

That page also tells you about the character for those who haven't read the Graham McNeill Ultramarines series.

I have just now started work on the base for the diorama- had a go on J-Paint's airbrush (sounds like a euphemism) and made this muddy looking base.



I didn't want any green etc in there as the blue boys are supposed to be on Medrengard (Perturabo's world) and it looks gakky there, basically

Hopefully you can see the daemonette's peachy buns on the base too, Uriel will have a foot on her so enjoy the view whilst you can hahaha xxx

Lo Bubble.
Great job on Pasanius.
Nice shading on the armour, the blue has a really nice depth to it.
The face is really good. Nice skin tone.
The scratches and damage to the arm gives a nice story to the model.

Your painting has really improved of late. Keep it up.

Nice work on Pasanius bubble, the skin tone is excellent and I really like the scratched effect over the transfer, very cool.

Now I'm going to have a good look at that base again before the detail is covered over....

Arrrgghh can see the flamer looks pretty good from what I can see, nice scratches and scorched seems spot on.

Nice peach buns by the way, shame they will be covered up

Now don't go over working J-paints airbrush LOL

A neat trick to apply to heat weapons like flamers and meltas is to apply a bit of purple and blue wash (blue on the end of the weapon fading to just a little purple). It's really easy to experiment with, and gives the weapons that look that metal gets when it is subjected to intense heat.

Pasanius looks excellent, and you did a bang up job on the face, especially looking back at the Sanguinary Guard that didn't have any lenses in their helmets. Those eyes are great.

EDIT - It does kill me a bit to see one of the oldschool daemonettes used as base fodder. I love those models.

Thank you faithful followers! Haha are you disappointed she's not boob side up?

Hi Chemical, thanks for dropping by. Yes that's a great idea- at some point I did think of doing something like that and then I promptly forgot lol

Oh god don't remind me of those models, I looked at them the other day... I was only just starting out then so they're obviously not great. I might actually redo some of them

HAHA that's exactly what J-Paint said! Ooops...


As they're vaguely relevant I thought I'd up put up some photos of my visits to Warhammer World! (I have more interesting photos of actual STUFF from the Hall of Miniatures etc if you want to see them let me know )


Me and my new boyfriend (lovely of him to let me rest my bag against his foot )


I have some growing to do :(


The tiny baby Rhino which I don't think would actually fit any Marines...


And if it doesn't work out with the Ultramarine, Lurtz looks game!


Oh and here's on of my books Graham McNeill signed for me


And my FINAL shameless self-promotion... my FULGRIM SHOES :O My best friend made them for me and they're so awesome!!! I figured if anyone was going to appreciate them it might be you guys! I've been showing them to anyone who will listen to me, including Graham haha.


PHEW, that was a lot of photos Anyway, next stages in terms of painting are getting the daemonette done- I've just put down a 'Fulgrim Pink' base for her skin (yessss it's an edge paint but I'm making it work ) and purple and blue tentacles. Then work will begin on Uriel (whose head has gone AWOL at this moment...) xxx

Fulgrim shoes! You are strange bubble lol

In regards to more pictures I'd never say no.

Looks like you had a great time, I've not been but it's on my list of things to do.

Wow It has been quite a long time since I have been here, and you have only since gotten way better. Amazing work bubble!

Noooo Giraffe I'm not strange well actually, who am I kidding

Hi Rogue, thanks a lot Good to see you back

Sorry it's been a bit slow, not really much of an update today but I wanted to post something and keep up the progress blog...

My daemonette has been giving me more trouble than I'd hoped (she 's clearly upset that she has to play a corpse in this little vignette of Utra awesomeness....) I originally had her hair an exciting turqoise but it just wasn't working. I couldn't wash it with anything etc... So the whole model looks more subtle now that she has a purple do. She needs a little tidying up here and there, but I just wanted to show you the pool of blood that is forming and (slowly but surely) drying around her. Will post another photo when it's dry and hopefully it should look suitably glossy.




Uriel is coming along nicely, albeit still missing a head. Debating whether to just stick the helmeted head I quite like on him and be done with it, or to green stuff a bit of a quiff onto another head that I think could work... I kinda want him un-helmeted like Pasanius so the 'human' element is there for both of them... I'm going with a green cloak rather than the white I would normally do for my Ultras, because green is the company colour for these two He may look a little like a christmas decoration though...

As you can see the base has gone down on the bloodletter's head. I chose Blazing Orange as I'm hoping to do a sort of reverse highlighting thing with red on top so he looks like he's all glowy underneath



And I've finally started on Mr Perfect. With the airbrush. Because he has to be perfect.
... It's not cheating... I swear. I'm not very good at it yet so we'll see how that goes. Just started the gold, looks very intricate in places so wish me luck!

Oh and yes, his sword had an accident... It will be reglued, never fear! xxx

Great purple shade bubble! No worries about the sword, I broke the mace on my seaogre twice now and it's just that pesky weak resin to blame don't forget to slash the both sides of the join so the superglue settles nice and strong!
Keep on it!
BB

Ooooh, I like how the ultra captain is forming, and is that a GREEN cloak I see? That's unique, lass! I like it. I like the realism and extent of the deamonette blood and how it drips off the base hahaha, it's real cool. I cant help but notice though that the blood looks quite flat D:, I dont normally apply blood effects to my models, but you could try adding some black while the pool is wet closest to the corpse to represent like depth and thickness? I dont know, this is all some really nice work either way!

I'm really excited to see Fulgrim, purple is my favorite color! I'm sorry to hear about the sword though, that's probably my only gripe about some of the fiddly bits on Forgeworld models. Yeah they're detailed but they're oh so delicate. A friend of mine has Red Scorpion power swords that look like floppy noodles because they're so thin.

Looking good there Bubble. i too like how the blood flows off the base it's a nice touch
also, maybe it's the picture but the blood does look a little flat.

uriel looks great! not much else you can say about him.

Mr.Perfect will most likely look great when you're done with him so i'm not the least worried there

Well the blood looks a little ketchuppy to me to be honest but that might be because its still wet so we will see, the rest looks like a good start and the purple pops nicely.

The uriel model looks pretty dam good although not sold on the red/green cloak sorry but a bit to festive looking for me

Hey bubble, absolutely loving the Pasanius/Ventris diorama. i think your plan for it captures a great seen and the face on Pasanius looks amazing. i dont know how you people paint eyes....i just cant.

also loved the weathering on the ultra symbol.

and the shoes....fabulous

Thank you gentlemen for the comments I have just finished a 72 hour timed essay so I can get back to my painting, hoorah!

bebopdrums2424 wrote:Great purple shade bubble! No worries about the sword, I broke the mace on my seaogre twice now and it's just that pesky weak resin to blame don't forget to slash the both sides of the join so the superglue settles nice and strong!
Keep on it!
BB

Thanks for the superglue tip

lipsdapips wrote:Ooooh, I like how the ultra captain is forming, and is that a GREEN cloak I see? That's unique, lass! I like it. I like the realism and extent of the deamonette blood and how it drips off the base hahaha, it's real cool. I cant help but notice though that the blood looks quite flat D:, I dont normally apply blood effects to my models, but you could try adding some black while the pool is wet closest to the corpse to represent like depth and thickness? I dont know, this is all some really nice work either way!

Haha yes, not sure if you saw but I explained earlier that#s cuz they're second company and green is their thanggg Yes... it might still be a little flat... because whilst it was still wet I went to bed haha I will sort it, don't worry!

Poehammer wrote:I'm really excited to see Fulgrim, purple is my favorite color! I'm sorry to hear about the sword though, that's probably my only gripe about some of the fiddly bits on Forgeworld models. Yeah they're detailed but they're oh so delicate. A friend of mine has Red Scorpion power swords that look like floppy noodles because they're so thin.

Hello stranger Hooray for purple! Hahah floppy noodles

DiDDe wrote:Looking good there Bubble. i too like how the blood flows off the base it's a nice touch
also, maybe it's the picture but the blood does look a little flat.

uriel looks great! not much else you can say about him.

Mr.Perfect will most likely look great when you're done with him so i'm not the least worried there

Thank you DiDDe! And great to see you back The old gang is slowly getting back together.... mwaa haha!

lone dirty dog wrote:Well the blood looks a little ketchuppy to me to be honest but that might be because its still wet so we will see, the rest looks like a good start and the purple pops nicely.

The uriel model looks pretty dam good although not sold on the red/green cloak sorry but a bit to festive looking for me

Ohhhh LDD you're so mean to me haha You're right, it does need a bit more depth.
Lol I said it might look like a christmas decoration... :( I think I'll just make the whole cloak green to avoid that issue

San76 wrote:Hey bubble, absolutely loving the Pasanius/Ventris diorama. i think your plan for it captures a great seen and the face on Pasanius looks amazing. i dont know how you people paint eyes....i just cant.

also loved the weathering on the ultra symbol.

and the shoes....fabulous

THANK YOOOOU yay someone likes my shoes I want ultra ones too lol. Cheers, it's a good cheat for making the transfer look less... transfery haha

I'm going with the classic red cloak for Fulgrim, does everyone think that'll work nicely? I hope so cuz I couldn't think of any other colour to do it lol xxx

The new-ish GW technical paint for blood is pretty damn good and quicker than most other ways of doing it

Waiting to see fulgrim finished though now

Did you stop uploading the images onto Dakka? I can see the work on the Marine Diorama from before, but everything else is little red X's. So wherever they're hosted from, the work web-blocker haaaates it.

No worries on my end, I'll just check later when I get home.

Great looking paint so far, I really need to get some of that done.

The purple does look good!

Red cloak for the win definitely will work perfectly, the shoes are a winner thats the thing about you bubble you take it all to the next level

Hi guys!

I just wanted to post something to let you know I'm not dead, but expect radio silence until the end of this month, then my dissertation will be finished and I'll be freeeeee foreeeverrr! (Well, until I start a job lol)

I hope to get back to models at the start of August

I have one question for you though, I might have already asked this but my brain is like a sieve sometimes... Can anyone recommend me a good orange paint? I'm having NO luck with orange, the old GW one I have (blazing orange) just won't cover the blood letter head??

And I just wanted to share these with you... how amazing are my new shoes...





See you all soon! xxx

Welcome back bubble those shoes look fantastic.

In regards to paint try the P3 range they have more pigment in which gives you a stronger colour first time.

Haha I was never one to be all about shoes, but those are pretty awesome I must admit! Love the touch of the purity seal

Now, are those first company shoes, denoted by the white trim, or do the gold laces denote membership in the second company?

Really fun and cool!

I like the purity seal in particular.