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Yeah Damo... there's really very little you need to fill in each time.

And how much time does it cost you when you lose your full photo inventory??

How do you upload straight into a reply? i'll try Dakka gallery again next time and see how I go.

At the bottom of the reply window, there's an option to add attachments. Any pics you attach like that are automatically shoved into the gallery.

Well balls.....I saw I was a few pages behind and everything was boxed out! Friggin image sharing sites. Im with everyone else dude, use DAKKAs hosting. You can upload in batches and it takes very little time once you get used to the options on there. Infact it might be even easier now because I havnt uploaded a pic to my gallery in a LOOOOOOooong time.


Either way, dude, fix this !! I need paint porn bad!! Ive got the shakes over here

I agree. Can't check your paint at my work when you remote host!

When I upload, I just use the Upload more images thing in the gallery options. You can just select a bunch at a time from your folder. And I usually tick the box for Closely related at the bottom. Then I tick disable voting at the top once for all the images. All I have to pick for each image as I scroll down is the I created this box and process the lot. Really easy. Then once they are in the Gallery you can just copy and paste the links to your posts in the blog, but you can also link the images elsewhere like Facebook.

Anyways, be nice to see my fix of Nerdy goodness soon.

O.k guys I tried Dakka gallery this time for my finished Farseer not as bad as I remember but still a little awkward with multiple images due to having to open each image and select the linking code, where the other sites had the option on each image so I could keep track of where I was. but we'll talk about that later

My first HQ for the Eldar, my Farseer






and for something I haven't done in a while, I'm going to post some WIP on my Howling Griffon Captain, I wanted to show you how not perfect my work starts and how easy it is to pull together a really sweet job in a simple way, firstly i've assembled my Captain and primed him with The Army Painter Desert Yellow. then I have used Mechrite red to quarter his armour and base coated other colours like metal and robes etc.

Next I've just washed the entire model over all colours with Agrax earthshade.

so that's where he is at the moment and tomorrow I'll be doing the red and yellow armour so I thought i'd also show you what I use for each colour. For my reds I use these paints over a Mechrite red or scab red base washed with Agrax.

and yellow's are these paints over desert yellow washed with Agrax or you could use Iyanden or Tausept Ochre as a base.

Farseer is looking very neat! Lovely colour fades on the robe.

Looking forward to more Griffons, you always make that scheme look so damn crisp. Red and yellow are colours I use a fair bit, so it'll be interesting to see your methods.

Thanks Para, I've got the next step in the HG Captain i've now done the reds on him, tomorrow is yellow and then....... everything else so as you can see by the pics (they're all very similar but pics at night are a bitch to show you the red) sorry, as I was saying, as you can see that just doing the reds from such a basic start can already make the model stand out.

I'm really enjoying the format of how you're covering this HG cap. It's satisfying to trace your experience and gives a really cool insight into how you get the model done - so often the product of your work looks unattainable to the lesser trained painter. Any chance we can get a tease of the head/helm choice you'll be using?
This makes me really excited for the vanguard vets and JP cap I have in the pipeline. Just need those pesky bits to arrive

Nice job on the Farseer, great gems!

Boy I love the pruple to red transition in the cloak! Beautiful model Nerdy.

Farseer is great, those gems and spearhead, WOW!

Thanks guys, I do want to try and show everyone's able to paint a really nice tt model. to do the reds I used the colours noted above like this:

*Bloody red over 90% of the panels
*50/50 Bloody red/Hot orange from the top of panels to about 50% down
*pure Hot orange from the top about 30% down
*50/50 Hot Orange, Filthy Brown 15% down
*Pure Filthy Brown edge highlight
*Wash all over panels with Carroburg Crimson

if you've got the paints in front of you and a good clean paint water this doesn't take too long.

Now onto the yellow, I have done the yellows and tomorrow I'll run through how I did them. This model was a great choice as I made a bad choice with shoulder pad using the studded one which made painting the smooth transition really hard and thus you can see a few areas looking a little ordinary but that's the painting game eh! I told you i'm not amazing but love a good tt model, well here's proof

Either way he's looking good for what he is, it's suprising how dirty my bright colours can look on a marine like this!

And I do need advice with his head but we'll get to that in a minute.






Now the head, I found this head and I really want to use it as I think it gives him a really nice sense of dynamism and character as a Knightly leader but it doesn't sit great in the gorget so I'll have to gs a neck on him which might not look great? but I do like the wind swept hair and visage.




And lastly for today I went through my bits and whipped up a Terminator Sarge, thoughts? the shield where it's been filed will hopefully have the Griffon front on it from the flats i'm getting or if it deson't fit then i'll just add a large gem.

I really like the wind-swept hair, and think he looks great. More importantly, I can now get my Nerd-fix at work! Yay!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I really like the wind-swept hair, and think he looks great. More importantly, I can now get my Nerd-fix at work! Yay!

Shouldnt you be workin at work?

Your assault sarge captain guy looks great! And at the very first picture I thought "yeah!! I can paint like that too!!"
Then you showed it covered in wash and I thought "YEAH!! I can paint like that too!!!"

Then you showed a pile of different shades of paints and went on about shading and highlighting and possibly eatting muffins....I dunno my eyes glazed over and I realized I wanted a muffin....... Great stuff Damo!

Oooh Muffins! i'd love a muffin. and stop being a sook! get yer brush out and have a go dude! no point thinking you can't do it just do it and if I think you've nailed it then I'll send you a muffin in the post!

Windswept hair for the win . Looks like he’d been jet packing so long his hair stuck in place. Like bedhead

Actually, the setting of the head on the second option is much more realistic than the first. Think of how long that first head's neck must have to be in order to get his shoulders down in the armor. He's a human/giraffe hybrid!

The reds on that Farseer are just gorgeous...

Great job on the farseer.

Nice to see wip too. Good job.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Oooh Muffins! i'd love a muffin. and stop being a sook! get yer brush out and have a go dude! no point thinking you can't do it just do it and if I think you've nailed it then I'll send you a muffin in the post!

Pfff by the time I get a muffin itd be hard as a rock! But I agree, I know the rust on my brushing hand is my fault and Im sure I can do a decent enough job simply because Ive painted a couple things that I thought were pretty decent.




But dem muffins tho

I honestly feel the 'windswept' head is EXACTLY where it needs to be, in regards to placement and the gorget. No need to modify.

--B.

Really like (and appreciate) the work in progress shots. I like to see the development of the model as you work on it.

The blending from purple to red on the Farseers robes are really nice. I think the purple into red is a really nice choice.

Well, windswept hair it is then I'll certainly finish the head and see how it looks all done properly. I have put him on a temp hold due to breaking his sword and now I don't have one spare *sigh* so i've got to find a gladius or short sword to fit with his knightly theme.

I did work a fair bit on the Terminator versions base I wasn't sure what to do with him to rival the jump pack version on his Lion King rock but looking through my bits box I found a left over arm from the Artel Miniatures Cybork warboss and it looked like a broken arm by itself and I was hit with inspiration to bring a bit of their history into it since they are massive oath swearers and avenge any wrongs to them brutally and without preamble, I figured a bested foe is appropriate and since all the images I've seen or read of their home world of Mancora makes it a frozen tundra type planet with snow and ice so I wanted to have a grey/light brown rock and tiny suggestions of snow (not full Fenris). The arm by itself could have been simply laying on the ground but I didn't want it to dominate the base and be a focal point I wanted it to be more of a suprise addition that helps bring the model and his standing in the chapter out and tell a story. So I carved some of the main base away and I will be filling it with resin to look like a frozen lake!

so here's where I am with the base and the Captain, I also found a suitable shoulder pad for him.







And I also started mucking around with another base for a model.....

So i'm going to guess those that saw the base were wondering what could be going on it? well, I can now show you a bloody amazing model, something I really want to paint up and I think will also be a great fire magnet if he ever sees battle




Still need to work on the base details a bit more but the main basis for his stance is there

Big Eldar robot is always a win , better than tau every day of the week.

Also I love that Huron clawed arm, I’d buy dozens if they had made a mirrored one for the other arm.

Lovely Farseer Nerdy I especially like the shaded bone-white colour

Thanks guys, the dirty white was an accident as I was blending the white on from the top down and just liked the brown tinge towards the base so I went with it!

Is it just me or is Dakka a bit quiet lately? is there something going on or is just the ebb and flow of the world?

i'll do my best to continue to post stuff so today is pretty much a bit of wip on a few things, i've started the painting of my Wraithknight and am going to actually take this model slowly for myself so I can do a really good job on it, my plan is to blend my reds up to a really bright glowy red since I enjoy painting the reds so much and I want it to be a centerpiece fire magnet! so far just the two arms have been worked on, they just have the first red blended in and one arm has the first brighter mix applied.

first layer

second layer


next up is the basis for some deathshroud terminators for my friends Nurgle force, I've given them a rough base and dirty up and we'll see how I go with them I don't have a set plan for them at the moment but I can say the scythes are super delicate..........Yep I broke one, lucky it's Nurgle and I gs'd muck around it to keep it in place




Then I started the final silver on the Mino Ass squad to get them up and flying!



and finally today it's my big boy, the leader of my Howling Griffons force. I have done the two halves of his armour and it's looking sweet!