Okay then,
time to introduce myself:

Aged 40, married with 3 children (8,6,4 yrs old, all girlies), slightly overweight, still smoking, and if you need a 3rd molar to be drilled out of your jawbone or a good old rootcanal treatment I'm the one you want to see.
Location: UK

And I admit not to be able to paint decent looking eyes. Tried and failed utterly. So instead of having some drugged junkie's eyes my minis are all blind. Like it or not.
I try to paint my minis to a good TT standard, nothing more, and I try not to spend more than 45-60mins each. I got family after all B) .

Cheers

CC


And here some pics


Guard

I've always liked your work CC.

Funny thing is, I never noticed that you avoided painting eyes. I was always too busy drooling over the camo.

As for the eyes, here's what I do.
-paint the area black
-paint one white dot in the corner of each eye.
-open a beer.
-then get nagged by the wife for drinking at 10am.

Most of that is true.

Make sure to leave a black rim- represents eyelashes...or, eye liner if it's Slaanesh.

Bah.... Having just tried last week to do a 3 color Space marine eye lens I totally understand. They look awesome anyway and I agree with no-use, very nice camo especially the choc chip.

:lol:
maybe I should stick to my Deathkorps hehe, lov'em, no eyes.




Cheers

CC

Pig Iron heads or West Wind, my friend.

Nice looking DKoK. I have about 6 sitting in the paint strip- can't decide on a color scheme. The other 34 are looking at my bank statement threatening to tell the wife.

Ok, I love the Desert guard, a similar conversion to ones I'm working on at the moment, and lovely camo painting.

Vossie looks great and I like the CoD artwork paint scheme going on with the tau included, great work =)

SC

Can we have some full army shots soon? Just so we (those who don't play against you) know how much of a nutter we are dealing with.

45 to 50 minutes per mini?!?!? Yeah right! I love your stuff mate!

You're not alone, I'm also 40 with kids, though I'm now 6 weeks without a cigarrette! The desert guard are great, any more pictures?

40 kids?!

You animal Dave!

SC

daaamn cc youre stuff is looking realy good B)

Now some foul xenos





Cheers

CC

stunning

real good cc , so how did you paint that blade its the metalish colour i want on my flayed ones :lol:

You know you can use Kroot Mercs w/ IG. It maybe a great way to kill two birds with one stone?

Great figs BTW. Really clean looking.

looking fantastic mate! can't wait to see some more.

I haven't got many of them. But here they are,
Marines:

Please do me a faour. I would like a step by step as to how you painted the weapon held by the desert guy in the bush hat?

Please ! :rolleyes:

Youve got some sweet skills mate ,Looking forward to some more pictures of your work ;) and dont worry I hate eyes aswell ,most of mine end up looking they have a squint :D

@Digits

You mean the lasgun??



The green parts are Catachan Green highlighted with a Catachan/ Gretchin Green mix, the black parts are highlighted with Adeptus Battlegrey, then washed with watered down Chaos Black.
Hope I could help.

I actually wanted to give them Pulse Rifles but couldn't be bothered to convert more than one..



@Deadley
Cheers!

Death Watch


Cheers

CC

Some good looking stuff. Specially like the guard.

Most realistic IG I've seen in a long time, the amount of detail is amazing. Be interesting doing a tie up for an apocalypse, with your IG onboard my chimera fleet.

@jasevx
hmm.. like the sound of it.

Here a couple of pics of SMs which never went into production since I couldn't make my mind up what chapter of these is my favourite one. Typical problem of mine :rolleyes:
Please excuse the odd mould line, they're only concept minis...




Guess this would be my first choice..




Cheers

CC

The Blood Ravens, where did you get the transfer?!

SC

I agree Tell use! iv so wanted to do a BR chapter but cant paint the raven

Bolter and Chainsword is your friend..

Unfortunately I am too daft to do this selfmade decal business, never worked out okay for one or the other reason. So my 'transfers' are actually paper prints. Just need to find a better way to make it less obvious..hmm.





Cheers

CC

You might also be able to get some Blood Ravens transfers off ebay. At least one set of mine came from there. Look for Sanguine Crows as that's what one company put them out as. Yeah I agree on not wanting to freehand the whole army with those. I just do the symbol freehand on scrolls and characters.

I'm definitely going to vote Iron Snakes. I'm trying a small army of them myself.

Go Blood Ravens - we have two Iron Snakes already :)

I vote blood ravens, not only do we have two iron snakes, but I really like the blood ravens scheme :D

Aye Blood Ravens!!!

Okay, Blood Ravens it is then. Thanks for the help in the decision finding process. It will be a small force only (40k in 40mins). Iron Snakes will have to wait a little longer then.


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Cheers

CC

BOO! I wanted iron snakes! still, the ravens look mighty nice!

Don't worry, at least after I will have finished reading 'Brothers of the Snake' (paperback- YAY) I surely will paint a squad...

Cheers

CC

nice work there, its all outstanding, you could'nt tell us the recipe for painting the cloth on the cadians could you? please :)

first off, youre a damn fine painter and pretty fast to, btw theres a little flash left on the legs wich is a shame cuase the paintjob is realy damn good

@bram kuijpers
Thanks mate. And thery are actually covered in mouldlines. The major downside of being quick..sigh.

@crassius47
Cause I can: Khemri Brown, Desert Yellow, Desert Yellow/ Bleached Bone mix as final highlight. Easy.





WIP gun


Cheers

CC

Whoah! That machine gun is brilliant! Love the Marines as well :)

Great Conversion! I really like that gun.

Good old .5, now get rid of the mould lines on the tripod! ;)

Aww, a .50cal. How cute!

Some very nice looking stuff here dude, those Guard are astounding and the Blood Ravens look perfect.

Keep at it!

Dave out.