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Very cool Nerdy, your lens effect is always a wonder to me. I wonder how to do it,

Ace robots, nerdfest! Lovely models and conversions, gorgeous metals!

 nerdfest09 wrote:
I know I need to go to hobbyists anonomous.

I couldn't help but imagine this scene...

---Scene is set in a gymnasium hall, with the group gathered facing inwards on chairs arranged in a circle.---

Organiser: Hello everyone, and welcome! We are all here to help each other with our nerdy addictions. We'll begin by introducing ourselves, starting on my left, and going around clockwise. Welcome my friend! [Looks at nerdfest, seated to the Organiser's left.] What is your name, and story? We are all here to share and help each other with our problems.

nerdfest: Hi everyone, my name is nerdfest. I love painting and modelling miniatures! Sometimes I get the jitters if I haven't done any hobby-related activities for a couple of hours. I have come to meet others like myself. So, that's that, really!

Organiser: Thank you for being honest and sharing, nerdfest! That is most interesting, and a help to us all. And yourself? [Gestures to Bloke, sat next to nerdfest.]

Bloke: HI EVERYONE I'M ADDICTED TO STAR WARS SO I THINK THAT MAKES ME A NERD ANYWAY I LOVE JAJA BINKS COZ HE'S SO FUNNY XD

nerdfest: HERESY!!! FOR THE EMPEROR!!!

---Cut to nerdfest rapidly rising from chair, causing it to fly back into the gymnasium wall and shatter. Cut to nerdfest flying towards Bloke in a seething holy rage. Cut to black screen.---

---FIN.---

...

Sorry, I had to get it off my mind, and thought you might be interested Stay awesome, keep up the good work!

Lol exactly how that would happen! JarJar IS heresy!!! only thing to add is that much like wolverine i'd have protrusions from my hands although they would extend as I lunge and be paint brushes!

Now that’s some serious imagery!

Great robots Nerd, I love your blending effects and the way you can paint glass and gem effects.


Great work as usual now that im done the Warhound and the propheryon and after seeing your robots it might be time for some ad sec or thallax work.

Please keep the pic coming Nerd.

Looking awesome, the gem lenses give them real personality

Great work. Cool looking robo-thingies.

Hey, Nerd, can I be the 1001st person to ask where you published your scratchy, dirty metals tutorial?

I'm straight stealing it for my Goliaths and a cursory glance is not yielding me any results.

 moonpie wrote:
Hey, Nerd, can I be the 1001st person to ask where you published your scratchy, dirty metals tutorial?

I'm straight stealing it for my Goliaths and a cursory glance is not yielding me any results.

Bwahahahahahahaha you will never know the secret!

But the reason you can't find anything is either because A: It's not in this new blog or B: It was in the old one and Photobucket RUINED IT FOR EVERYONE YOU BASTARDS!!!!!!!

I also am going to use it on my Goliath when they arrive it'll make the armour super easy to do and give heaps of variation if you want it! on the robots I just did it was like this, the basics you'll need are silver paint as a base then you'll need seraphim sepia, nuln oil (and any other colour washes if you want to change it up a bit) an orange, and for the final highlights a nice mithril type silver.

*silver base
*wash sepia
*wash area with very watered orange paint
*wash black
*pick out silver edges and scratches

That's the basic formula but you can play around with it a bit for different looks, the order you lay the washes also makes for subtle differences it the final look so have a go and pop your progress on here if you like? i'd love to see it!

Thanks for posting the recipe, nerdy! If you're able to take some pics of the steps when you do them on the Goliath, I think we would all really appreciate it

And man, love the new plog with summaries! I daresay some other plogs could use the treatment although preferely without Photobucket nuking the old ones

The 3-man robot unit is just ace, and you varied them up really nicely!

I'm digging the Minotaur stuff Nerdy, very Blanchian paint-job - i.e - intensely atmospheric.

 MajorTom11 wrote:
I'm digging the Minotaur stuff Nerdy, very Blanchian paint-job - i.e - intensely atmospheric.

Ooooh Intensely atmospheric sounds kinda naughty! "Oh man are we fighting the Mino's again? those guys are just so..... so..... Intensely atmospheric! they make me all funny in my armour"

and seriously thank you MajorTom, you are a man with a plethora of amazingly brilliant painting skills and if I can do something you think is interesting or worth a look then that's a big compliment, so thank you and i'll try to keep going with them.

Getouttahere

You flatter me sir, not sure I rate it!

Get a room you two, damn.

Don't be jelly Paul.

Sliding in on our DM's Whaley!

speaking of Whaley here's my next commission lot! I primed and just started getting a feel for them today, so not a brilliant lot of paint but more to just show you what I'll be working on which is more fantasy based models and they are excellent and very characterful, the big ones are amazing and the smaller humans etc are still good although there's a few lines here and there that are pretty tricky to get too but nothing that should deter from the painting.

group shot of all of them,


This one is a firm favorite of mine! Hellephant!



Earth Golem


Fire Elemental


warriors


a cat warrior, a demon warrior and a wind elemental


metal dude and a werewolf!


Water elemental! awesome looking if confusing model, should I do the 'armour' areas in shell/bone colour or lobster/crab red?


and a damn Unicorn!

Not going with the full rainbow tail/mane on the unicorn? Figured that would be up your alley.

Ooooh, I really like the elephant thing!

I may add some more colour on the Unicorn just for you Whaley but for now here's a few updates on some of them. I added more base colours and worked on a couple getting some details worked out, so far they are coming along nicely and I think the cartoon style will look really cool on this style of figures.

So, this is the fire guy, I think I may get it to look better by painting the flames upside down? eg brighter at the top instead of bottom where the heat is. still heaps to play around with on this one.


Little Demon guy has been given some brass and a wash, very much reminds me of a bloodletter, even in posing.


Stone Golem is probably the closest to being done, also one of my favorites from the box.


Tin man, I wanted a different metal on him so i've gone a dark bronze.


Now this water elemental is so far my favorite as far as painting goes! I wanted to try for a look to give it the power of the sea with blues greens and greys in his scheme, also I was inspired by Bebopdrums and I am trying to work on the seashell armour and give it a pearlescent finish like the inside of an abalone?


Wood elf type model, just the usual earthy tones here.


Hellephant, has had base colours added and a wash to bring out some details. most of the brown parts will be gold.

Pure art. Beautiful work sir.

Does anyone else think Yvraine looks like she has Aeldari runes embedded in her skin? Because that's what I see.

Nice progress Nerdy!

I think the fire elemental will be hard to really judge until you paint the cage part on him, which should make the flames really pop.

Where are those from, nerdfest?

And, not as a criticism, but is Tin Man's weapon bent?

CMON's "Massive Darkness" RPG Boardgame.

Looking good, and looking good in here too!

Finished the first of the models for Whaley, the Stone Golem is done. I wanted to get one finished to use as a standard for the rest which is great except i'm struggling with the flame elemental so I'll do him next and then back to this style. but until then have a look at this guy and see what you think!

and yes Tinman's weapon is indeed a little bent from the last post, I tried the normal hot water fix but it followed the whim of the gods wouldn't stay how I wanted! I 'could' cut the haft out completely and use some rod to make a new straighter weapon? Whaley? what do you want mate?

He's monumental. In more than one way love the colour contrasts.

Re tin man: I know photos can make things seem worse then they are, so I'll leave it to your judgement. If its real wonky then cut away, but if it's just a little bent maybe he wacked someone too hard.

Re Earth Elemental: The skin and the brick wall look wonderful, and the browns and greens set it off nicely.

"tin man"
"bent"

Call him Bender?

Lovely work on the stone golem thing. Those wafts of "hair" really help set off the grey of his skin.