Strictly Average: NMM: Dante... and Jawaballs!

4.10.2010

NMM: Dante... and Jawaballs!

I captured some work-in-progress pictures of Little Barrera's Dante in Non-Metallic-Metal. Obviously there's a ways to go, but he's tightening up the blends to the gold now. Thoughts?

You can click on the picture for a more detailed look.

There you have it. What do you think, and have you given any thought to how your planning on painting your Blood Angels?

Now, obviously there is a running joke on Strictly Average about net-stalking Jawaballs, because I think stuff is funny long past the point anyone else does. For the record (and I may not admit this again) it's just a joke - completely harmless. I don't know how often he gets over here, since frankly I think he's too busy with his painting videos and such, but when he has he's had a good sense of humor about it. I've met him in person and he's a genuine, decent guy.

I say all that to say this: if you're planning on painting Blood Angels in the traditional way, check out his videos. He's working on a new series now, incorporating the techniques GW uses as well as those he's come up with. When I made my objective markers for BoLSCon, with dead Blood Angels and Space Goats, I tried to imitate his style, and consequently did the best job painting red I've ever done.

Don't worry - he's not paying me to say this, this is all me, but I'm serious about it: check it out.

Brent

(...this could be a trick of some sort, you know, to lure him into a false sense of complacency...)

3 comments:

Unknown said...: I'm not a fan of gold in the BA line. I just think it ruins the whole theme but that's a pretty decent job, pics when done!

One day Jawa may return the favor Brent, one day.; April 10, 2010 at 6:38 PM
TheKing Elessar said...: <3 NMM, especially 'Gold' NMM. One day, I'm going to try it myself. I'm just a little reluctant to take the plunge, not least because I have so many non-frivolous things to paint, and my NMM experiment will be a Silver Skulls tester. Sigh. I wish I was Golden Daemon standard.; April 10, 2010 at 7:58 PM
Unknown said...: I wish you had an off button.

(my one liners today have been brilliant); April 11, 2010 at 3:38 AM

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