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Wonderful work on the puzzle pieces!

Update:

Tonight I will start on the 20 Orks (19 Ork and Nob with boss Pole) by basing and priming all of the models. I will also start with painting the Ork Skin since that is the one uniting thing about all of the Orks.

Update on the EBay Problem:
Now you will see on a prior post on Sunday that I mentioned that I sold my friends well painted Dwarf Bloodbowl team on eBay and through shipping the models paint job was destroyed. The buyer and I, a very nice guy from Texas, decided to return the team to me and I will give him a full refund. Both parties happy right? Wrong!

I am not happy with having a customer that, through my accidently pack job, did not receive the item that I promised. I have decided now that this will not due. Once the Team is returned to me within this week and the refund is through, I will be re-painted the team myself and resend this team to the customer free of charge. This guy deserves the army he original purchased so I will send him it, properly pack, as a sign of good will.

Before you ask, yes this team is my friends models, so I will give him the amount the team sold for out of my own pocket so that he is not hit by my accident. 105.00 In total.


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Update:

I will paint two sample models, one on the looted Blood Angels and one in the Salamanders. I will have you the subscribers to comment whether you like the mash up. If they end up clashing with one another I will just reliant them in the blue and orange as the rest of the army. I am asking everyone this due to that of this army wins the store competition I am taking this army to Games-day.

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Tomorrow I will work on the two sample armors. I am going to go through my Extensive bitz box to find the blood angel icons that I may need.

Quick thought:
I believe I can add black armor into the mix to show the looted Death Company.

Quick thought:

I think I have come up with an idea on how to bring in the other Chapters to the army. I was thinking that the Ork Burna Unit will be clad in the Salamanders livery, Green with the flame painted on them. The Storm boyz can be planing in Blood Angels red, Death Company Black, and the unit commander gold for the Sangin Guard... Looted of course.

Opinions?

Sounds good.

Yeah, sounds like a cool idea

Bit late to the party here but subbed!

A fantastic cause, and a great army. Looking forward to seeing this completed!

Welcome guys, don't worry you are far from being late. The is an 11 month project. I hope you enjoy.

Update:
Last evening I did not do any painting. I built a single Burna and Storm boy to use as a test model. I will show you all the results soon to judge whether this should stay in the army. If for so e reason the two other chapter colors clash with the army than I will just still with the blue and orange for the Amy in whole.

I am also gathering the final bitz to start the first Ork conversion. I need one more item for the final peice to begin... Just remember... Mork made me do it...

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I don't know who would get this one but here is to my old school Mario brothers people, Bullet bills

That's so cool, i've been wondering what to paint on my kombi-rokkits, this has given me an idea for them!
Did you know, Bullet Bills were apparently named Bill because of the Bill and Ted films!

randomtoaster wrote:

That's so cool, i've been wondering what to paint on my kombi-rokkits, this has given me an idea for them!
Did you know, Bullet Bills were apparently named Bill because of the Bill and Ted films!

I did not know that, it kinda makes sense since in the later games the bigger ones were called Torpedo Teds


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Sample models are ready to be painted. I will have more up in a bit

First Salamander sample armor.

I tried to make the armors green brighter. Let me know what you think so far. I am just trying to get a feel for the change in the painting so that it does not clash with the army.

Not 100% on it myself. You have done a beautiful job and the green looks great. I am afraid I don't know the salamanders colours off the top of my head to say yes or no.

Are you going to add any puzzle pieces for a connection through the army, or leave as is?

Don't get me wrong, I really like it and you have done a nice job. I am just not quite there, nearly but not quite.

See what do others think before listening to me.

looking very good! And Salamander part for a burna boy also fits pretty well!

I'll be looking on this!!

Hum, I love the green armor but it's too close to the skin's colour. Is "tattooing" the puzzle piece on his arm a possibility to offer a bigger contrast?

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Hum, I love the green armor but it's too close to the skin's colour. Is "tattooing" the puzzle piece on his arm a possibility to offer a bigger contrast?

O.o Puzzle piece sleeve tattoo?

Its turning out amazing very nice job on it all so far...

Good Evening Dakka,

@ Camkierhi- The Salamanders Chapter colors are Green armor, Black shoulder pad, yellow or red lens. Their dragon on the shoulder pad is usually in White.

Some people add raising flames to the armor; I am going to go that direction when I or if I finish this guy.

There will be the Puzzle piece somewhere on the model….but only where hmmm…

@TheDraconicLord- The closeness of the armor and skin are what I worried about when I started painting this model. The Tattooed Puzzle pieces are a good idea, problem is that I do not know how to make the puzzle piece look like faded tattoo, if you know I would be happy to try out a new technique

@Kjellk, Alfndrate, and Commander OB- Welcome and thank you!



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Apologies:

Was applying for jobs this evening, so no painting update.

I wish I knew how I can only offer a tutorial I found: http://www.bushido-thegame.com/articles/painting-tattoo

I will have to try that out tonight. I will post the outcome when I can


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Hitting some problems with the tattooing. I am currently trying to tweak the problem.

Beautiful work

Looking really good! Best of luck with the tattooing but seems rather tricky... Must say that your painting seems to have come on leaps and bounds since the last blog. It was great then too!

Been a pleasure to watch this develop.

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Afternoon dakka,

As you can see I am partial done the sample Burna. I know that the first thing that you all notice is that there are not any puzzle piece on the model. I am in the middle of tweaking the paint so that I can paint the trigger arm with a tattooed sleeve as suggest. I don't want to mess up the model by practicing the untested technique on this one. I have a half naked reaper model that I am testing the tattooing on.

I still need to find myself some decals for the chapters as well.

I will start the blood angels sample model tonight.

looking forward to the BA sample!

Day 1
Storm boy sample, not done yet

Thought out of boredom:

Join my blog, I made cookie...

End thought... Now wanting a cookie.... Frak!

I like him, will you be lightening the red at all?

Now I need a cookie, darn it.

Looking great.

I just found your blog. I have to admit, I am blown away. Both in the painting skills and the fact that you decided to do the themes the last few years. I think its awesome.

I am fairly new to 40k as a whole, so I am unsure about legality, but would it be possible to customize a Nob or a Boy with a Space Marine Chainsword? Since you are going with looted armor and such from the Armegeddon Wars. Maybe also try and throw in some IG CC weapons? I am unsure of the creators vision, but it might be something to mull over?

Thanks and keep up the great work!!