Be Excellent To Each Other

Der Squiggoth is finished:

Aw, he's just like a Guinea Pig.

How easy is it to mount battlecannon on squiggypigs?

Depends how good natured they are. I shall attempt to make one from a toilet roll and mount it on Smudge.

Awesomes. 2D10+4 damage.

Had to be quick, so please forgive the focus. Only had 1 Ork painted up around too

HumungoHEH!

Awesomes.

How many points do you reckon that'd be under the Codex, then?

Well considering moments after I'd taken that photo, she rampaged off the the left and trampled3 squads of chaos marines and a terminator squad.. quite a lot.

That is the cutest thing I have seen

Also...not nerdy enough for this thread.

Mods - move it to 'Pets' Corner'

We need more pics of the little toys you chaps paint..

I love looking in GW window, although i have never entered

Precision Poly Cement is awesome. It's just so, precise! The smell is fantastic too.

Started assembling my Tau bits last night.

Some filthy Death Guard. Another 6 I took pictures of, but the photos came out worse than these did, so I'll try again in daylight.

Right - step by step instructions, please.

Do you favour the "dark basecoat, build up the lighter colours on top" or the "mid coat, wash, highlight" approach?

On them I basecoated black first, then drybrushed the hell out of them with ChakaKhan Green. After that I drybrushed again with Camo Green then gave it a wash of Badab Black followed by Devlan Mud. Then drybrushed again with the Camo Green. painted the metal parts with Tin Bitz, and lightly drybrushed with a 50/50 mix of chaos black and boltgun metal. Skulls, bones and horns were painted Vomit brown, then 50/50 bleached bone/vomit brown, then bleached bone, washed with Ogryn Flesh. Picked out bits and dabs with Rotting Flesh on the armour, and pure Boltgun metal on the metal bits. The mutated bits and flesh wounds were scab red up to blood red. Base was Bestial Brown, highlighted with Dark Angels green, then Goblin Green. Rocks were simply shadow grey, highlighted with fortress grey.

I think the drybrushing works well on the Nurgle stuff because they've never actually painted their armour. The original legion were unpainted, and they've just... mouldered over the centuries.

OK - first run drybrushing - they're lying about it being "drybrushing", right? I have a Marine codex which is suggesting that in order to paint an Ultramarines Rhino in blue, you paint it black then "drybrush it blue". A whole Rhino, to get the base colour.

I think it gives a nicer buildup of paint, so yeah sounds plausible. The beauty of drybrushing on several layers of paint, but changing the mix, means you can have some nice gradient shadow effects going on that washes can't really achieve on their own.

but, but, but drybrushing. How can I make a flat panel blue by doing that? Maybe I need to experiment, but I've always only used drybrushing for quick and easy highlighting. If I'm doing serious gradient colours (like on an ogryn's arms, say), I'll blend it.

How much paint do you have on the brush for the "basecoat" drybrush, then? Or is it a case of scrubbing the brush until it looks like a chimney sweep?

I don't put that much pressure on my brushes to flatten them. I've got a few really nice soft ones for drybrushing that've stuck with most of the abuse I've thrown at the so far. With the flat panels of a rhino, you'd simply brush on a smaller and smaller area to achieve the gradient.

but but but it doesn't pick up on flats, it only picks up on edges, surely?

Or have I been doing this wrong all my life?

Yes, I have, haven't I.

I just use the tip of the brush, so a flat surface would pick it up too.

See, that's just painting, surely?

It's painting but in a way that a 25 quid dvd tells you to, surely....

I suppose it is, but I find it easier to almost stipple the mini rather than slather it.

I've got loads of GW stuff left in the top cupboard above my wardrobe back at my parents' house. Lots and lots of Eldar, Tyranids, and some pretty old figures that I picked up about 18 years ago. I also have many many editions of White Dwarf, some going back to the birth of Dark Future and beyond (although some have been butchered: pages missing, pictures cut out and so on).

I have no need for any of this stuff as my brief dalliance with GW was focussed purely around my love of the little figures and reading about them, rather than actually playing any games. The majority of them are quite badly painted.

What do you reckon is the best means to offload the lot. Ebay, car boot sale, advert in some GW forum, or something?

I suppose I should take a complete inventory and get photos of the more interesting stuff.

You could say "Dimrill, do you want to buy any of this stuff?" and I'd probably go "maybe" then you could totally gets some pictures together and then we could come to some agreement on price and then make money love.

Basically, if you've got any old chaos stuff I'd grab it like Pamela Anderson at a handjob party.

Also - me.

You've been to handjob parties?

More than one. You need two of them to feel like you've been at a proper shag party, see.

Next time I visit the folks I'll sort it all out. From memory, I don't think I've got any Chaos stuff, but there could be one or two surprises up there.

I swapped a load of large vehicles with a friend of mine in my late teens, and got a 4x4 radio control car in return.

I'll update when I've got a list and some pics. Could be a few weeks.

From doing a shufty around eBay, old WD issues don't seem to go for much, if at all. I'd still be interested in taking them off your hands though.

Me, also.

The white dwarf thing, that is.

Not very Nurgly for Nurgle. Excellent paint skills though. The green light effect is very nice, might try something similar with my Tau sensors/eyes

Yeah, bit "clean" for Nurgle - I much prefer Dimmers's Nurgle-ites.

Excellent build.
http://www.coolminiornot.com/210732

That has *got* to be cannibalising a whole load of mecha/gundam kits.

Pregnant Tau!

From what I can make out it's ALL Tau kits. For instance the head is the torso of a Stealth Suit.

£££

Yep, and the body bit is the nosecone of one of their vehicles. Manta, or somesuch.

His whole posture is a bit

though.

He does look like he's thinking if he left the iron on.

Still better than YOUR FACE!

Tau are too clean. Give in to your Chaos roots.

Tau stuff is shiny and new to me though.

I'll probably nab a Forgeworld Great Unclean One at some point.

Really high level techniques, shame it looks really flat, and uninteresting. And the glowing eye technique needs to be much, much more subtle, cos it looks rubbish.

Note: I freely admit I couldn't match the techniques the guy used.

NERDS.

(I feel you should all be periodically reminded). See you again in a couple of weeks!

Oh no! The owner of the stamp collecting society is picking on the ham radio society!

Your niche obsessions are far less cool than my niche obsessions.