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Just picked up the Dark Apostle model and bought the i Chaos Codex. I can't say I am a big fan of the codex as I am finding it hard to find all the relevant rules. Expensive too at £30.
I am also finding that I have bought some wrong combinations of my pre heresy death guard which is frustrating.

I really hate it when you kit something out then find out its wrong or they've changed it.

I should get my codex in the post tomorrow, I believe I will need to paint up lots of lord models as I ran mostly daemon princes under the old codex as HQ's with no basic marines.

You can still have Daemon Princes as HQs, I'm feeling a post Heresy Death guard Army Coming on soon but I need to tidy up some other projects first. Typhus and the Nurgle Daemon Prince are both already in my possession.


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I am looking for some Nids, preferably going cheap, I need Termagaunts, Hive Guard and Tervigons. Anyone got any they would be willing to part with?

Been working on my Space Wolves today, made a bit of progress. Had a disaster with the air brush, tried to persist on three models before I finally gave up. These are the three models and my subsequent rescue attempt on the paint jobs. All still wip at the moment but you can see what I've been up to.

Some basic colours at this stage;


Now with a bit more detail on them;






That is it for today, hopefully some more progress tomorrow!

Pardon me for asking, but what was the airbrush issue?

My word Reaper! Thanks for pointing me towards this blog, its managed to totally slip past me till now! Its awesome stuff! That ultramarine really is beautiful, my envy for your freehand is off the chart!

Your airbrushing doesn't look as much like a salvage job after an airbrush failure as you suggest, It look very impressive, nice and clean. Must make a note to buy myself an airbrush, it's clearly a very good investment.

I want to see your post heresy death guard, you will do them so much justice!

Gitsplitta wrote:Pardon me for asking, but what was the airbrush issue?

Hi Gits! I was trying to use Ulthran Grey but I think I got a bad pot as it was all lumpy and I could not get it smooth enough no matter how much thinner I put in it. So it had a tendency to splatter and clog very quickly. Kept adding more flow enhancer with each new model until I finally gave up. Took about five hours to get them to this stage after the cock up.

J-paint wrote:My word Reaper! Thanks for pointing me towards this blog, its managed to totally slip past me till now! Its awesome stuff! That ultramarine really is beautiful, my envy for your freehand is off the chart!

Your airbrushing doesn't look as much like a salvage job after an airbrush failure as you suggest, It look very impressive, nice and clean. Must make a note to buy myself an airbrush, it's clearly a very good investment.

I want to see your post heresy death guard, you will do them so much justice!

Glad you dropped in J-paint, I always find it helpful to look at some one else's efforts on a similar army when I am painting. I am champing at the bit to start the post Heresy Death Guard but I am suffering from too many projects at the moment so they are on hold for now! As for the Ultra Marine, I am just taking a little break before I go back to him and have a go at "finishing him off" with the feedback I got from the heavy metal painter at Games Day. Still a bit gutted he didn't make then cut.

I honestly think that with a few higher highlights like he suggested you definitely will, Its stunning. Its a shame you have to paint in their style to get a chance of winning though, I am with you in painting a bit darker because in the grim darkness etc I wouldn't have thought every single character would be followed around by an intense lighting crew.

Thanks J-paint, I'm now looking forward to next year!

Here is my new Space Wolves Captain with Thunder Hammer & Storm Shield, He has been kit bashed for Nerdfest's Golden Bath Tub competition but I thought I may as well make a model for one of my current projects killing two birds with one stone.







I'm hoping to get some paint on him today as the deadline for the comp is looming!

Looking good reaper, it's a suitably HUGE hammer, You'll paint him beautifully I'm sure, look forwards to it

Thanks J-paint.

So I did some more work on the Wolf Captain tonight, here are the results so far;



A bit further on;





Still got a way to go but he is coming on.

Looking really nice so far, I especially like the skull on his belt, very well done indeed.

This isn't your fault Reaper... but that head... he looks like he took a thunder hammer directly to the face.

He likes to call that look Grizzled or battle hardened!

. I like it!

Finished Wolf! Sven is now done!











Finally a mix of all the shots;

Looking really nice Reaper, did you freehand the chapter symbol?

Yes, I rarely get those transfers to sit flat.

Wow thats really good, I thought it looked better than the normal ones.

Thanks GiraffeX!

Right this is what has been occupying me for the last couple of days;



Got most of these from Ebay so will be painting them up on mass soon. 101 so far and still need about 50 more for the list I'm going to run!

Hey... those on the lower left will fit right in with my kid's army... want to sell them??

101 gaunts... where is corilla da inquistor?!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Hey... those on the lower left will fit right in with my kid's army... want to sell them??

Sorry Gits it has taken ages to get all these together and I still need more. It would have to be a stupid amount of money.

Just checking...

still an impressive feat

Well time for an update on what I've been up to over the past couple of days! Lots of Nids..... I will post up pics in a vague order showing how they have progressed.

First I did a fleshy main coat on all the termigants I had at the time of painting (more have arrived since).

Here is an example, I did about 70 of these guys just like this;



Did the same for the ripper swarms, 6 bases of these;



Also the hive guard;



I got a Carnifex in an army I bought of a mate, he has had the flesh coat too;



The two tervigons also got a flesh coat, first the green one;



and the Blue one;



I then got the red out and did the next areas on all these;











Then a thin layer of Payne's Grey was washed over the models giving this result;





Decided to do the Termigants in units of 18 in different colours;



Did some blue ones too;



and then started to hand brush a set of green ones, still got 8 more to do. The airbrush is way quicker but I couldn't face cleaning it again tonight!



Also put some of the red on the Tyragon;





So as you can see I haven't been slacking and there is way more to do. I have got everything second hand so far which has saved me a minor fortune but there have been lots of repairs to do and some of the paint was quite heavy but I don't want to spend ages on this so I haven't cleaned flash and mould lines, this is purely a tournament army painted as quick as possible. I will tie them all in by basing them the same. A huge army already but I still want three more Tervigons and some more Hive Guard! I think I have enough Termigants should have around 160 when all my ebay purchases roll in!

Those browns are beautifully down Reaper. What's your technique?

nice work mate it looks well done

Cool thread. Nice work. Subbed.

Gitsplitta wrote:Those browns are beautifully down Reaper. What's your technique?

The base is one of the new flesh colours, I'll look it up when I get home. Then just a light wash of Payne's Grey. Very quick! The only one above that hasn't had that is the Trygon which was already that colour on the fleshy bits off ebay.

cormadepanda wrote:nice work mate it looks well done

Thanks! Great results for such little work.

monkeyh wrote:Cool thread. Nice work. Subbed.

Thanks for dropping in!