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Post by gjnoronh on Dec 13, 2016 16:07:53 GMT
I think thinning down your base coat quite a bit and then following with lots of wash is probably giving you the 'wash only' type technique. You are getting a lot of 'highlights' and shading (in appearance anyhow) with less steps. It looks great and seems very efficient. It's the approach I want to switch to rather then working up from a dark prime.
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Post by Naitsabes on Dec 13, 2016 22:59:50 GMT
maybe so. I think the next step for me would be using medium to thin as opposed to water to prevent it from getting blotchy. even bought the stuff but haven't really tried it. honestly, you can get pretty far simply putting washes over a solid base coat.
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Post by Naitsabes on Dec 16, 2016 4:32:50 GMT
Next up 10Nov2014. Good times back then...and extra-dodgy blurry, distorted pictures. -------- so...Update time! Today you’ll get to meet one of the units prescribed by the scenario, the Kludburgh militia. This is a unit of 30 Free Company (hey, if it wasn’t for this scenario I don’t think I would have ever made a unit like it). Their town got razed by the advancing chaos horde and the survivors have made their way to Volganov (their special rule: “hatred against Chaos”…I am not convinced it’ll do them any good). Here are a few close-ups of the more illustrious survivors: From the left: Sir Brun, Knight of the Golden Calf. He survived passed out drunk in the wine cellar of the Kludburgh tavern. After losing his honor, his pride, his destrier and his squire (which he values in this order), Sir Brun decided that it is his knightly duty to lead the Kludburgh militia to their destiny. Sergeant Frank of the 3rd Ostland Spears. The 3rd got all but annihilated in a separate beastmen attack on the Grimway. After struggling through the forest all alone for two days Frank ceased the opportunity to join the Kludburgh militia when he stumbled upon them. Silent Bob, the village idiot. During the attack Bob just stood in the middle of the town square with the usual smile on his face and for unknown reason was ignored by the savages that pillaged and murdered everyone around him. He was almost lynched by the Kludburghers afterwards for chaos worshipping (for how else could he have been left untouched) but his innocent smile saved him (yet again?). Bob is now in charge of pulling the cart with all that was worth taking from Kludburgh’s ruins. It is not a heavy load. Hey, this is fun, so one more set, from the left: Bodo, the Burner. Short and stout from a life of cutting wood and burning charcoal on a diet of mostly cabbage soup, Bodo’s kiln and hut off in the woods was not attacked. But, no town means nobody will buy his charcoal and so Bodo joined in. Old Petey. He is the sole survivor of an extended family. There is but one thing left to do for Old Petey: shoving the blunderbuss in some abomination’s face and squeezing the trigger. Oswald. He is a veteran of the Ostland Army and retired to Kludburgh some years ago. Oswald fought valiantly to defend the town but was knocked unconscious and left for dead early on in the attack. He is ready for round two. Young Helga. She was skinny dipping in the remote Nixen Pond and started running towards Volganov when she saw the smoke billowing up over the trees. Too late to save her family, Helga has sworn not to put back on any clothes until every last Northman invader has been put to the sword. The guys don’t complain. I now realize that Sir Brun should really get Captain stats. Which means I need one more milita man and, this should be a standard bearer. That standard should be suitably gruesome. Maybe the militia would nail trophies to a pole for every chaos thug they hunted down. Our own real world history has plenty of gruesome examples, ears and scalps come to mind but I don’t think I could pull that off skillwise. Maybe hands (and hooves)? What do you think? Okay, so this picture of the Reiksguard is mostly for my own benefit and to motivate me. I keep telling myself “It’s just one more rank and the first unit is done.” I’ll do a proper photo when the unit is complete. I have acquired the models for it, so it’s just a question of elbow grease. Speaking of these new acquisition The lot included a few of the old metal Reiksguard which is nice for a LITTLE bit of variety. Now in the past when I got my hands on these guys I chopped of the diddy short lance (probably state of the art in the early ‘90s) and replaced it with a plastic lance. What do you guys think about that? Is this sacrilege? The model isn’t older than me, so it can’t be too bad, right? Also pictured is a nice “Heroic Hero with Broadsword” from that same era (this was before GW made sure everything can be turned into a trademark…). I really like him, they just don’t sculpt ‘staches like this anymore. He’ll make good Reiksguard unit champion…I do need to add more command models so I can use multiple Reiksguard units of reasonable size in regular games. That’s all for now folks. Upward and onward!
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Post by grandmasterwang on Dec 16, 2016 23:07:45 GMT
Your regiments are awesome. How many points is the mega knight unit?
Liking the bits of background for your soldiers which you are providing.
Regarding Lahmium Medium. I got a pot ages ago.. it really is great stuff and does make a difference........ but i find i still use water to thin 99% of the time despite having some medium on hand.
As that Warhammer Quest reviewer has taught me... anything with a broadsword must be pretty huge! I like the look of the mini.
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Post by Naitsabes on Dec 18, 2016 19:14:31 GMT
The Reiksguard comes in with two units of 45. That's 1245 points each. Just a bit silly. I am slowly working my way through the second unit at the moment. Before I show you more of the Reiksguard though, let's look at some wizards, originally posted back in the good old (end)times when the grass was green and the games exiting. 14Dec2014 ----------------------- It's been over a month since the last update, wow, time flies when you are having …a family, work deadlines, End Time books to read and Warhammer games to play …so to sum it up: FUN! The End Time in particular has mixed things up a bit on the gaming side. I had a good game with Empire against an Undead Legion and a really fun game of Chaos Legion on Chaos Legion in a Watchtower scenario. Yes, you read that right, fun with and against the new lists and fun with the watchtower scenario. I live in a Warhammer paradise, where the terrible things that ruin everybody’s warhammer according to the internet don’t apply (I also saw a rainbow unicorn snuggling up with some bunny rabbits the other day…I live in a special place). So not too much happened on the painting side. I did grind my way through some more halberdiers, but why show you twenty today when I could show you a complete unit tomorrow (or the day after). I did however finish a truthsayer and used the opportunity to drag out some other wizards who have recently come out of the bushes to help in the defense of VolganoF (that’s right, I belatedly found out that’s how you spell that city…not that ANYONE would have discreetly send me a PM…hope you all had a good time chuckling about my inability to spell like a drunken Englishman). The truthsayer strutting his stuff and a not-Gandalf Shadow Wizard And here is a little old guy, affectionately known as Catweazle, also mostly Shadow although in a pinch I’ve used him as Beast. Next to him a much more grandiose Light Wizard (clearly that school of magic needs lots more trinkets)
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Post by Naitsabes on Dec 18, 2016 19:18:59 GMT
And now for a glorious moment, 20Jan2015. --------------------------------------------- Greetings! so here we go without further ado here is the REIKSGUARD (interesting how photobucket occasionally distorts the images after cropping. all three I treated exactly the same way) According to the scenario this unit of 45 is half of the entire Altdorf chapter. Sounds a bit off to me. Normally for bases I cut the roofing shingles to size although this isn’t cut at the moment. Kind of fun to carry around but presumably not useful in-game …not sure how I handle it for this unit. Would probably be more practical to have a few separate movement trays. Here are a couple close-ups. My favorite command models (I made three sets so I can field the knights in slightly more reasonable unit sizes in ‘medium’ sized games). I spent quite some time on the banner. Good old paper banners…just don’t do enough of these anymore with all the convenient plastic bits around. Turned out okay I think. Kurt and two of his friends. And the sashes. On the very left the GW version and then a selection of what I and my ham fists came up with. Maybe the length of the sash has something to do with length of service in the Reiksguard? Well…and then it got a little silly Right, so before tackling the second unit I do need to recover a bit from knights. Also, if Bubbble Fantasy Marines show up or new Empire/Bret combined knights I might be able to scoop up these old sculpts for cheap, so no rush at the moment. There are always halberdiers to do for some R&R. I’d love to hear what other unreasonable units are out there or what mad plans you have. Please share. Cheers. Naitsabes ----------------------------------------------- Well, bubble marines did show up and destroyed everything while the rumored new knights never came to be. A travesty! ....and two years later I'd still like to see other unreasonable units. Not sure why but I do find them fascinating!
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Post by Naitsabes on Dec 21, 2016 7:16:31 GMT
24Jan2015 ---------------------------------- mini update I finished the standard bearer for the Kludburgh Militia: Olaf, the Pipe. An old witch once said that no harm will come to him as long as that pipe is going. So far she is right. The Kludburghers take great pride in nailing choice pieces of Beastman to their standard. The priest is just photo bombing. This is one of my favorite GW sculpts of all times. I like his stout face and neck. He does eat and drink his fair share but that hammer is not a ridiculously oversized ornamental weapon, he sure looks like he knows how to wield it. Here is the whole militia...and maybe the picture isn't even distorted like last time
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Post by Naitsabes on Dec 21, 2016 7:18:53 GMT
...and we are flying through months of my painting life in the matter of minutes! next up: 23Mar2015 ---------------------------------------------------- Time for a proper update! Today’s topic is a unit of Volganof’s finest halberdiers. To give them a bit of Ostland flair I went with fur caps, a lot of beard, only a little of feather and some more rustic bills in place of halberds. I imagine in preparation for the defense every last blacksmith has been ordered to produce weapons and some of that output may not exactly match the standards set in the official ‘Nuln Handbook of Imperial Weaponry’. Some close-ups The keen-eyed amongst you also may have spotted an ogre or two. In some version of the fluff (WFRP2?) Ostland has a relatively large population of ogres that is rather well integrated into human society. I took that as an excuse to break up the painting tedium and push my meager green stuff skills. Here are Rob and Tob in the harsh light of the midday Volganof sun Note on the last pictures that the ogres do get the same level of dental care like every other soldier – none! At the moment this unit is lead by my rendition of Kriegsmarshal Baron von Blutten. The second in command at Volganof, he is a proud and stubborn man. He insists on using his pistol despite having lost an eye many years ago (BS 2). Really?!? I mean how about using a freaking shield, he doesn’t have to follow the Emperor to the T (no, I am not bitter). [photo][photo] Finally, I did some bean counting and came up with a first complete draft army list and want to introduce the official Volganof Counter. Ready? 23Mar2015 Volganof Counter: 550/920 (920 models in the army, 550 still to paint) Yes, I am far from done. Upward and onward.
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Post by frozenfood on Dec 22, 2016 6:19:11 GMT
The lost eye is very well done. Impressive army and there is more to come!
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Post by Naitsabes on Dec 23, 2016 4:41:40 GMT
Thanks. yes, there is more, another year and a half of painting bliss. Have you been peaking into the future elsewhere on the internet?!?
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Post by frozenfood on Dec 23, 2016 6:31:31 GMT
Well, I'm psychic
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Post by Naitsabes on Dec 24, 2016 4:42:58 GMT
The tour de force continues. Also, I am almost at the point of posting an actual actual update. I guess this will be a distortion in the time-space continuum. But for now we are on 28Apr2015. plain and simple. --------- Try as I might, these end up being ~monthly updates. It is what it is. Today we are doing flagellants! The mighty "Mad Men of the Drakwald" come to Volganof's defense. This is a wild mix of flagellants of every shape and form. A good opportunity to look at GW flagellants through the ages, don’t you think? From left to right: 4th edition, Mordheim, 6th edition and current plastics. In my humble opinion it takes seriously rose-tinted glasses to explain away giant hands and feet and heads and eyebrows (!) of the two on the left as ‘characterful’. The 6th edition metals are my favorites. Really nice poses too, but hard to convert. The current plastics are a close second...as long as one cuts down the comically over-sized weapons. (and they allow easy kit-bashing, important to avoid the clone trooper-effect in a unit of 50). I did come up with a little unit filler. Presumably the goblin figured out that yelling ‘Sigmar protect me’ keeps him alive. Also in the unit: a dog. although one probably isn't enough for all the blind crazy man... A sneak peak of what is currently on my paint table. I scored a nice big haul of classic spears+halberds and have started working on those. Here is the new and improved official Volganof counter, now with glass-half-full attitude: 27Apr2015 NEW Volganof Counter: 392/920 (920 models in the army, 392 done) Upward and onward!
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Post by Naitsabes on Dec 26, 2016 5:46:08 GMT
5Jun2015 I am STILL slogging slowly through the Spearmen I last showed you. Twenty done so far and the others have basecoats. So…nothing to show there. But, I have let myself get distracted by other things so here we go: For starters, here is a plethora of priests. I may have mentioned that the second generation of Sigmar priests isn’t my favorite. But, these two will whip up the hatred in their units just fine. That shield on the left with a two-tailed comet was sent to me across the ocean by the generous daniel36, Big THANK YOU. …and then I fail to take a proper picture, how embarrassing is that? The Ulric priest in the middle I really like. However until I painted him, I didn’t realize his technical flaws (e.g. fingers trailing of into eternity under the book; undefined ‘detail’ on the underside of the right arm, etc.). I suppose this is due to the state of technology in single piece metals back when he came out. For me it was a reminder of how far GW has come. Here are some classic outriders. Now these guys I like much better than their modern counterparts (the riders that is, don’t get me started on the horses). Great ornate armor and helmets. They are a bit same-y but I didn’t want to chop up this batch and possibly ruin the classic look. I have another unit that I won’t be as respectful with when the time comes …and some Altdorf artillery. Painted quite a while ago actually. But, they will certainly end up on the walls of Volganof Finally, here are some Knights of the White Wolf, also from my stash and painted a few years ago. I’ve decided there must be a chapter house in Volganof for they will be part of the main army, not the relief force. Really great models, in particular the faces (not that my painting does them justice, I might be able to bring out the details some more now that I have a better handle on washes and highlights). That’s it for today…and this month at the very least. I am heading to the old country for a few weeks so updates will be even slower than you may have come to expect. Upwards and onwards.
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Post by Naitsabes on Dec 26, 2016 5:50:50 GMT
double-whammy of project updates from the good old days. I a bit painful to read about Sigmarines showing up. My outlook on gaming isn't quite as rosy anymore 18 months later. The wrath of AoS has caught up with me here. I don't think there is much going on a the game store anymore and I haven't been down in a couple months either. ------------------------------------------- 4Aug2015 Well. It’s been a while. Between work and travel and travel for work I haven’t been painting as much lately. Also looks like GW in the meantime created a Sigmarworld full of Sigmarines clad in Sigmarite. As you may be able to guess from this project log, I am not into skirmish games and that’s the end of that. Luckily, a critical mass of people is staying the square-based course in my little corner of the world so my gaming hasn’t been affected. In fact, some of the more tournament-focused guys around here have loosened up a little and are now more open to house rules and scenarios. So, all is well so far. I will keep going with this log for now, it’ll look a little out of place between Sigmarines and Aelfs but maybe there is still some interested in the world-that-was. Right, so the main focus today is this block of Spearmen. It's the last unit of the Altlangen contingent (the poor sods that start the game outside the walls). Part of that unit I painted a long time ago and now I touched these up plus added models to bring it up to a decent 8ed unit size. Was kind of interesting to dig up the old models and look at the questionable painting choices I made back then (e.g. white drybrushing the whole model. Shudder. No, I didn’t take pictures, the past is in the past). It’s a mix of 3rd + 6th edition Spearmen. They go quite well together, unfortunately I ran out of eagle shield transfers so had to make do with the plastic version. Here are two close-ups. I also finished five more Reiksguard…no picture, they look as before. Really, who is keeping track. Actually, I am! Fifty of the ninety done now. And, then there is the city of Volganof. You may remember, this is what we are aiming for: Here is where we are at: Stop chuckling! Basically, we are getting our feet wet with these Hirst Art Blocks (well, mostly hands. It is a bit messy). I have seen quite a few logs use these and was expecting this mold making outfit to be some kind of multi-national corporation. Turns out it is one guy, living the dream from his kitchen. But, it’s a great product. The molds work as advertised, I can highly recommend it. At this point I aim for building a little hovel to gain some experience before we launch into titanic towers and walls. Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither will Volganof. The official Volganof painting counter as of 4Aug15 now stands at: 590 done/957 total (I found some more painted guys, so it's quite a jump)
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Post by TheREALricksalamone on Dec 26, 2016 10:52:28 GMT
The classic infantry in blue and red...brilliant.
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