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Cheers EDC.
No tape. Just did it by eye. Single brush stroke to keep it straight.

Gonna start doing them in groups of three now rather than just one at a time....starting.....soon

So much discipline on show here, Jan. Getting through those models very nicely...

 Azazelx wrote:
So much discipline on show here, Jan. Getting through those models very nicely...

Cheers Az - just got the Skitarii squad of 10 finished this morning - phew!


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Second of the Space Hulk termie finally finished and based. Big thx to MajorTom for the tips re: the sticky gore coming out of the 'stealer.
Camera and lights just weren't wanting to play nice today so not the best of photos but hey ho, there ya go
Hope you like him - Terminator Brother Goriel of the Blood Angels, attached to Squad Lorenzo aboard the acursed Hulk 'The Sin Of Damnation'



Off now to process all the photos of the squad of Skit Rangers I just finished this morning.......urgghhhh

good gravy that's beautiful.

What did you use for the nid boogers?

Hot glue gun! then Nurgle's Rot technical paint over that

Very nice! If I were in nitpick mode, I'd say Goriel himself could do with something to break up the red areas, maybe some white scrollwork or something, but that's really just picking holes in a fantastic mini!

He is amazing Jan. Love the red.

Cheers Para. Know what you mean about the endless red - but he's a blood angel. Endless red is kinda their thing. That's why I went with balck pauldrons and the white shoulder adn shin heraldry. He is one of the ...plainer of the squad but happy enough with the result......photos are bugging me though

Lovely job on Goriel. That reminds me I should really finish my Space Hulk terminators..

Thx AoV - yes - get busy you. Your termies await!!

Great work Jan! Love the basing and Nid goo as well as the model. I've already complemented the lovely stripe, so I want to say your gemstones came out very nicely too!

Many thx Bottle. Thhose BA really do like their gemstones eh - makes me wonder if ol' Sanguinius wasn't fooling around with an Eldar on the sly and his 'sons' ended up with a touch of Eldar DNA in their makeup

Great model Jan! the glue effect is really done well, it's something I want to try one day especially since I have a hot glue gun (you know, for keeping the romance alive in the bedroom) how did you apply the strands?

MajorTom was the genius behinf the hot glue. he did it on one of his a while back and was kindd enough to share the secret. Blob of hot glue fresh of the end of the gun on a cocktail stick. Pressed to the bese and then stretched it up to stick to somewhere on the 'stealer. Takes a few tries to get it right. Once cooled I just painted with nurgle's rot and nurgle's rot + a touch of rhinox hide in the shadows.

Looks great! I've followed MajorTom for ages and always loved the work he does but I may have missed that bit lol

Very nice. Especially the nid gore

EDC

Cheers. The gore was the last thing to be done when all else was finshed. Hadn't done that hot glue thing before so was a tocuh nervous that I'd banjax it up and feth up the fig but turned out pretty cool in the end

Great work on this guy. He's certainly come up really well, and the 'nid-gore creates a nice colour contrast with the deep red of his armour.

Cheers Az. Aye, I wanted a colour other than red to contrast nicely with the BA. Nurgle's Rot proved to be just the right colour (I very nearly mixed up a purplish goo but thankfully didn't) . I added a touch of rhinox into it later to give some bit a slightly shaded touch. Kinda soirry there isnt more dismembered bugs in the set now!

Easy enough to make your own, though!

true. Hoping that my new lightbox will arrive today so can get some better photos sans the light glare on his armour. Should make things so much eaasier than my current haul everything - lights, backdrops, boxes etc etc to the kitchen. I'm gonna reshoot Brother Goriel there but cant face reshooting all the skits again! They turned out fine the first time I think anyays

New light box arrived in rather tidy time. Gotta lively Korean delivery service; 26 hours from order to doorstep now to try it out!

Love the light box, It looks a lot more professional than my cardboard box one .

Just out of curiosity, I noticed the black backdrop your using here, and wondered which backdrop you prefer to use, black or white?
Although I guess it depends on what your actually photographing.

Aye - it depends, but in general I prefer black. The black paper I use is korean handmade paper called hanji. fibrous paper whcih a nice texture

Need to make more space hulk progress this month. Bases are Sulaco bases from Fenris games.

Lotsa base coating been done which is dull as but gotta be done. Trying to chip away at all the space hulk stuff and threw on a spryer ganger I found at home.


Out of nowhere and totally unexpectedly, Mrs Januine wandered into the painting room the other day and said she wanted to try painting a fig with me if I had any extra (lol) figs to paint. Took about an hour to prise my jaw off the floor! So built up two canalise warriors a certain superhero gave me a while back and they're all ready for the pair of us to paint together..........once this pisser of a hangover sods off!

The Mrs wanting to paint a mini is a real turn up for the books!

I like those Space Hulk bases, do they over lap the movement squares on the tiles?

EDC

Aye. Really nice bases but overlap the tiles just a touch. Not too much to feth up gameplay though

Ooo some nice ol' school stuff here

Those bases look great. I'm torn on what to do with my space hulk and by extension Blood Angels models. I like consistent basing, and I like basing that matches the playing field, or is at least reasonably neutral. Which leads to paralysis so I've just been painting different things instead.

Looking forward to seeing how your couples painting turns out!