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There's a pic.

That whole gallery is my Executioners. It's on Ice's gallery, because I am a luddite.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Fantasy, wolves, guys with funny hats, show it all! People love pics, then we don't have to read!

Its just you who cant read not the rest of us ;-)

 Miss Dee wrote:

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Fantasy, wolves, guys with funny hats, show it all! People love pics, then we don't have to read!

Its just you who cant read not the rest of us ;-)

I have a feeling those symbols in a chain above me mean something.... but i cant read it...

Words are for heretics!

I have 6 marines in the squad painted up. I'll get pics up when I can. I painted the helmet on the sgt. red, which pleases me. I am having great fun actually using codex style patterns. I have never had a vanilla space marine army before outside of the executioners, and that army was specifically painted "old school" style.

The one element that is truly vexing me is the purity seals. I just don't know how to do them. I have done one with a red button and blue ribbon and one with a purple button and green ribbon just to be colorful. This isn't exactly working how I would like it to.

Also, in other news of how annoying quarter patterns are, I actually painted the wrong color on one of my beakies. Luckily I figure it out with just the basecoat of the yellow, but it did make me feel stupid-like those doctors that amputate the wrong limb. When this happens on my Empire, I just move on with life, but Space Marines have to be consistent.

Also, anyone have any good advice on how to achieve a perfect circle for a shoulder pad chapter symbol? For now, I am putting on an Imperial Fists chapter symbol and then painting over it.

More work later. Might be a week or two for pictures.

Very simple, take a little ball of Green Stuff, get your fingers wet and squish it onto the pad. Use a little tefflon shaper to smooth it out into a nice uniform circle. It's a lot easier than it sounds and you'll be getting raised, perfect circles in no time!

You can kind of see it on these figs.



... and partially painted on this one.

I'm pretty sure he was only referring to how to paint them. I do like your home made seals though.

OH, sorry... my bad.

No, actually, I'm going to give that a shot, Git.

The Chapter symbol I came up with is a gold circle containing a white triangle with an eye in it.

If I pull it off, I may also do it for the Executioners.

Hope it works well for you. It's become second nature to me...

I think the purity seal quandary will present itself in a better light when I put up pictures of the ones I have painted. It just doesn't have a clear cut answer.

According to my girl, to whom I direct my color questions, the only colors that go with pink and yellow are grey, black, cream, and white, and gold. I have already got those colors in others spots. I get away with the red helmet on the sgt.. But when it comes to those silly purity seals....

Black for the waxy. bit and cream for the parchment.


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If you want more i have some on my Ravenwing sprues if you want em.

Black and cream always works together.

I've tried a few with red and blue.

panda-I have more than enough purity seals. In fact, I was hoping the new box wouldn't have those ankle purity seals, so that I could just do without.

I HAVE A GALLERY!!!!

I went over to Ice's today and he used his gizmos and whatsits to place images magically in front of your eyes.

There is Empire, more Fools, and Chaos Lords.

ADMIRE ME!







You are all welcome!

I'm amazed at the fine quality of the boob paint job, not bad for someone with no personal experience with them. Nicely done!

BURN!

Good call Gitsplitta.

I would like to add that I really like the forgeworld heavy bolter. I don't know what it is about ammo drums but I really like the look of them in 40k.

And Gitsplitta comes out swinging.

Love the heavybolter fool. What exactly is the chapter symbol? (aside from geometric shapes)

Meh, personal experience is over-rated. Just look what moonpie's done with only his imagination and a bathroom full or porno mags!




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O.K., O.K., I'll stop... Sorry moonpie... couldn't help it.


I do like the Fool. Your highlighting technique is really interesting. Reminds me of the technique one of the guys down here at the Madison FLGS uses. Very effective.

wow. I don't know that I deserve that, Git. I can hardly type through the tears...

As far as the highlight goes, that's how I do it.. I am not a "neat" painter. In fact, I was once told by another painter at the GW store here, "Wow, I like your painting style. It's very 'dirty'."

To which my response was, "Uh, thanks?"

It holds up better at the 3 foot rule, than it does blown up 4 times actual size. Wait til I post some Space Wolf pics. The highlights I do on them I would describe as "impressionist."

If I have gotten nothing out of this, then I have found where I have accidentally splotched paint where it doesn't belong. Ice goes, "Why is there yellow paint on the drum in back?" Response is, "Cause I screwed up..."

I still have the Tzeentch Lord on Disc to paint. I am in the stare at it and try to figure out what to do phase. It's built, but bare. I don't know if I want to do white or black undercoat. I am leaning towards white. Those are the guys I am trying to get the closest to "Golden Demon" caliber. Plus, it's going to be colorful and I have to take my time and do some calculations before I tackle colors.

It's rad to see the militia all lined up. I have quite a few more to paint with them. The fantastic thing about WHFB is loving kitbashing 50 dudes and then ranking them up, such that you only see their heads and arms... Ice didn't even know I had a whole Empire Army ready to go. As soon as I find my Beastmen book, I will have to convince him to play a game.

Also, Git, I don't keep them in the bathroom. That's just silly.

Check out the gallery. There is more that I didn't splash all over the forum page.


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Snrub - The symbol is sort of an Illuminati/Back of the Dollar bill thing. It is a gold disc with a pyramid with an eye in it.

Does it make sense as to being connected with jesting? No. Is it pretty easy to paint? Yes.

I'm also a closet conspiracy theorist, so it sort of tickles me.

I may get some Sons of Horus guys with the eyes and use them as Honor Guard at some later date.

Yeah, my friend down here paints like that. His stuff would look rather crude magnified and posted on dakka... but on the tabletop it jumps right off the battlefield at you. It's really good.

If anything, my painting is just the opposite. Looks good on dakka but doesn't hold up as well at 3' where you can't see all the detail.

I like the look. And really it's what it looks like on the table for me. Looking good!

Thanks, guys.

I have 2 drop pods that I still owe Ice money for because he decided to get them for me.

I'm wanting to do them as Space Wolves, because I have no transports for that army, but Ice wants to see them pink and yellow.

You said you got 2, why not split the difference? Codex marines and SW can both use them pretty well.

I think pink and yellow pods would be wonderfully unique.

Tell him you will only paint them pink and yellow if he lets you have them for free >.>

Really though Space wolves can use pink and yellow drop pods.

As much as I'd like to see pink and yellow drop pods, I'd prefer them to be space wolf colors because they would then get used. You never play anything but your wolves, and you don't have enough fools to field them even with pods. Your wolves could really use the pods too. You have like 6000 points of space wolves and only one vehicle. A lone dreadnought.

It's a very pretty dreadnought...

Yeah, I'm for sure going to do them as wolves.

The plan is to paint them up super weathered and beaten up. A lot of burn from atmospheric entry and ack-ack taken on the way in. All the wolves are painted as pristine and untouched, so the plan is that they are all just FOB(fresh off the boat).

Also, I am deathly afraid of painting anything larger than a terminator, so I'll obfuscate my crap painting with weathering.

Also, I am kind of inspired after having just watched Gravity. If there are any space nerds out there(har har) you should check it out. I just "tested" the IMAX content here at work and it is balls-out rad. I want to watch it again with our DBOX motion seats.
I just hope we don't have motion sick people ralfing all over the place. I hate cleaning up puke.
In actual painting news, I had 2 Cawdor minis unpainted left around from the 90s. When I next catapult pics onto this page we can do a comparison of how far my painting skills have come in 15 years...

" Yes your a very pretty Dreadnought.. now go back to sleep"

I've got 3 more DP to finish. Holding me back ia all the Interior painitng.. Good Luck with yours. Paint them as Executioners! ( ok wild card option!! )

The movie looks intresting thou I can bring myself to pay money to see another George Clooney Movie.

It's way more of a Sandra Bullock movie than a George Clooney movie. We've done gangbusters for it. Hamilton County, Indiana loves them some Sandra Bullock.

I did a demo for the IMAX audience where I took out a tape measure and measured out 52" to represent a big TV and said, "For all your friends waiting for this to come out on DVD."

It got some laughs compared to our 4 story tall IMAX screen.

Speaking of, I have to go shut that big boy down. I'm running a little behind tonight...

She will be welcome in my bed. ... Mr Cloney can bring the bat girl rubber suit.