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Specialist Games General Discussion => Modeling & painting => Topic started by: pw on September 06, 2010, 01:21:11 PM
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Hi all, in an attempt to get my various painting projects on track I thought a log of some kind might be in order. So, here it is... This'll be mainly Warmaster-related but as and when other projects interrupt I'll try to show you what I'm up to. I'll try to update this with at least a unit every fortnight, starting with a bumper update next week with stuff I'm about to base over the next couple of days.
For today's post, here's my table of toys:
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/Levinas/Warmaster/DSC04505.jpg)
In there there's roughly 2000 points of Orcs, Empire, Chaos and Dwarfs. If I can keep my mind on track I'll be focussing on the Empire and Chaos for the next month or so to get the armies bulked up (they're both at around 1000 points now).
Distractions I've got to try to avoid on the way include: Nurgle Blood Bowl team, Realm of Battle table, and much much more! Let's see how I do...
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Sometimes I wonder whether it's best to consider miniatures as a distraction from the terrain.
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I like doing terrain! I'm pretty excited about the Realm of Battle thing (the BB team I'm painting now is a commission I took on to pay for it). Now that I've got a gaming room I've finally got space to spread all of the stuff out (leaving half-played games set up is very handy I must say, as is setting up tables/armies the night before). But the room is crying out for more attention than the flat MDF table you can see in the picture so it'd seem rude not to oblige. I'm also planning on some Warmaster terrain, I really fancy some army-specific terrain to go with the four armies but I think that may have to wait until two of the armies are painted.
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I agree with Carrington, my dwarven hold is forever getting put back down the schedule in favour of painting toy soldiers.
That said though you should be able to do a 2k chaos army in about 2 weeks ;)
Might even be worth a trip over the pennines to view your scenery when it is done :)
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You'll be very welcome, you can show me what a painted army looks like while you laugh at my woeful grasp of WM tactics! I'll provide tea, cake and a room to play in. This does all rather depend on Harry (now three) being asleep/out/allowed to throw some dice...
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I agree with Carrington, my dwarven hold is forever getting put back down the schedule in favour of painting toy soldiers.
Mwahhahaha... Nothing like throwing dead toy soldiers at you to keep you away from your fortifications.
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The Nurgfling team (Nurgle Halfling) team are complete and ready to go to their new owner for a tournament tomorrow:
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/Levinas/Blood%20Bowl/DSC04615.jpg)
That means I can get back to the Warmaster so hopefully I'll have something new to show this weekend.
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Very, very nice.
Good to see some old school GUO's in the team.
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Thanks, the buyer was happy so I'm happy. The cash for these instantly turned into a Realm of Battle table which I'm going to play around with for a while before painting so next up is some Warmaster (well actually, next up is my bedroom floor which needs sanding and revarnishing!). Coming soon:
Chaos Warriors, Daemon Prince, Emprire Cannons, and Chaos hounds, all in a bumper roundup of what I've painted recently.
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So, here are the pictures of what I've completed since the demise of the Tale of WM Painters:
Chaos Warriors:
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/Levinas/Warmaster/DSC04618.jpg)
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/Levinas/Warmaster/DSC04616.jpg)
Chaos Hounds (two of these were already completed):
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/Levinas/Warmaster/DSC04619.jpg)
Daemon Prince (he's currently a 'counts as' Hero on Chaos Dragon):
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/Levinas/Warmaster/DSC04626.jpg)
(as you can see his nose lost some paint on the way back from Warhammer World)
And the Empire get a little love with some cannons:
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/Levinas/Warmaster/DSC04620.jpg)
Next up, it's reinforcements for the Empire in the form of a hero on hippogrif and some Knights.
Oh, and the eagle-eyed may have spotted the Realm of Battle table in the background of the pictures!
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Great job, I especially like the gold-red chaos warriors.
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I'm with Guthwine. Nice job. I like your red/white empire troops, especially the guy from the character pack you put in the cannon crew. I like these little "conversions".
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Thanks guys. My next unit (awaiting basing) is a unit of Empire Knights that has a similar 'conversion' in that I've used a different hero for the command stand. Basically I haven't got the skill to manage real conversions in the style of Dave or Vincent and couldn't put up with anything less but these little 'figure swaps' at least add a little variety without being remotely taxing. Hopefully I'll have more pictures tonight. :)
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The Empire reinforcements arrive, led to battle by this heroic chap:
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/Levinas/Warmaster/DSC04631.jpg)
And the trusty knights:
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/Levinas/Warmaster/DSC04629.jpg)
Next up, I'll try to finish painting up a unit of flagellants.
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This daemon prince is one of my favourites figures of warmaster range... and your paint is great!!
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Very nice work as always.
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It's been a while since I've finished anything WM related. The good news is that I've just finished my latest project, the Realm of Battle table which is just about Warmastery enough, I think, to share. Here it is with a small Empire detachment about to deal most righteously with a daemon prince:
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/Levinas/Warmaster/DSC04650.jpg)
For those of you who haven't tried the Realm of Battle, I'd rate it pretty highly for Warmaster. The hills are useful in a way that perhaps isn't true when it's used for Warhammer and I think it looks very natty. The downside is the clips (which aren't attached in this picture). They're a horrible faff to use and I expect I'll modify the supporting table to avoid having to use them. The table is also just a little bit wobbly to use without a full-size supporting table underneath which is a shame. Oh, and the skull pits. You might just be able to see that I've filled them in with rubble, I didn't want my Warmaster troops to panic when they realised that they were battling over some horrific giant's graveyard...
Now I really need to make a river that matches and to buy myself some 10mm buildings, oh and tidy up the games room which is now covered in static grass. Before I do that I'm going to try to give the empire some reinforcements in the form of the Flagellants who've been patiently awaiting their finishing touches for so many months that it's almost years!
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Cool!! I think the battle table is one of the most important issues of the hobby. You have a really profesional table
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Very Nice.
I was toying with getting one of these, you may now have convinced me :)
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I've got a bunch of pictures of a Hexon set up; I'll post them soon. Overall, I'm quite happy with it, though I'll need to make/buy some less dramatic hills.
The Realm of Battle set up is awfully nice though.
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_7xa6_IFSjNY/TKJQcFa3OrI/AAAAAAAAVok/bgxu_9moUC4/s800/DSC03697.JPG)
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@carrington
A full inventory would be cool along with a total expenditure.
I also have toyed with this system a lot, but I need it to be easily and quickly moved, is this the case?
My wife is very understanding, but having this semi permanently setup will undoubtedly cause friction ::)
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If you're looking for something that packs away nicely then the Realm of Battle is pretty neat, the bag it lives in would be easy enough to hide and setting it up/taking it down is easy enough. The downside is that you'd probably want something underneath it to give more support (I've got three boards that screw together to make a 6x4 table).
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@carrington
A full inventory would be cool along with a total expenditure.
I also have toyed with this system a lot, but I need it to be easily and quickly moved, is this the case?
My wife is very understanding, but having this semi permanently setup will undoubtedly cause friction ::)
Edited to avoid a thread-jack: more in another topic, but suffice it that it's a little harder to set up than the Realm of Battle, but not terrible -- the set up you see was an 'away game' with about a 30 minute set up, 30 minute take down.
We don't have a spare table at home, otherwise I'd be happy to set up the Hexon there for a day's game.
I was very tempted by the Realm of Battle set-up... and used it to calibrate my buy-it now price for a nearly equivalent coverage of Geo-Hex.
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The realm of battle table does look nice, but expensive, and time consuming to finish right.
Think I am going to wait a year for job prospects to change, and perhaps a move. Small house right now- literally no room for a gaming table or extra boxes of terrain.
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To my surprise I've got a newly-painted figure to show, this chap is my second Empire wizard, painted in white and blue (he's a 'light wizard'). As I'm sure you all know, this is the mounted wizard that comes with the War Altar (at least I think he's a wizard, perhaps he's meant to be a priest but he does the job). The grass is a little unruly and will get a trim when the glue dries but here he is for now:
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/Levinas/Warmaster/DSC04658.jpg)
Coming soon, it's my '1000 points in 24 hours challenge'. When I unveil the mission details you'll find that it's not quite as dramatic or unlikely as it might sound...
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Did you mean: paint 1000 points from bare metal to full color, in 24 hours?
mmmh you are going to need a lot of coffee and .... without joking: beware of your back, paint in a right postion in the chair or you could harm yourself (just my friendly advice),
:) I should see this
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1000 points in 24 hours ??? Pah, I could do it in me sleep lad ;D
Loving the themed wizards, I did all 8 colleges for my empire force a few years ago.
The plan is that once I have my 2 on going armies, an araby army and hopefully a mystery one along with all the odds and sods I have in the store I will redo my earlier armies.
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I did warn you that this wasn't going to live up to expectations! Here's what I'm planning:
I'm going to give myself 24 hours to paint 1000 points of Warmaster Tomb Kings from preparing the miniatures to getting the grass on the bases. BUT, these hours won't be consecutive beyond the fact that I won't paint anything other than Tomb Kings for the next 24 hours I can find to paint in. I'd imagine that this means that I'll be painting for a couple of hours most nights a week and that this challenge (challenging for me!) will take between two and three weeks. Anyone who has paid any attention to my painting posts will realise that this is going to have to be lightning fast painting for me as I'm possibly the slowest painter around. I'm aiming to post here after each painting session whatever its length.
For tonight, the list:
Tomb King 130
2 Liche Priests 180
5 Skeletons 150
2 Bowmen 70
3 Chariots 330
Bone Giant 125
Carrion 65
A few points over but I fancy painting the Bone Giant...
Here goes...
Day 0: Time spent: 0 hrs
Just a pile of unpainted toys (actually it's worse than that, I've got two units to strip). The bag of chariots looks like a nightmare...
(http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/Levinas/Warmaster/DSC04660.jpg)
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Even one base a month is commendable :)
Every little helps.
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we will follow your self challenge!! good luck and beat yourself :)
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Well it's not going well so far as I'm yet to get started! (very) pregnant wife + 3 year old with cold = NO PAINTING TIME! At the very least tonight will see me dump the models that need stripping into a jar of Dettol...
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Time elapsed: 3 1/2 hrs. Time remaining 21 1/2 hrs
The challenge continues but not in the dramatic way I’d imagined. First, it turns out that I can only muster about 30 minutes painting time a day so to date there’s been no heroic push forward with the undead, and second, batch painting 1000 points of Warmaster figures isn’t actually dramatic in any way! What have I to show for three and a half hours?
Well, to date I’ve built everything on the list except for the chariots and the bone giant (a lost pin vice is the problem there). The rest is undercoated white (except the carrion who are black). Preparing this lot took close to two and a half hours (including dunking the painted figures in a jar of Dettol). The next hour was spent painting all of their bases graveyard earth in what has to be the dullest painting session I’ve ever endured!
Next up, it’s more brown. This time Calthan brown….
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Anyone who has paid any attention to my painting posts will realise that this is going to have to be lightning fast painting for me as I'm possibly the slowest painter around.
Don't be daft, you all know that I'm the slowest painter the world has ever seen. Although I must admit that this is largely due to 'faff time', for every hour spent painting at least the same is spent getting settled down to paint, selecting the DVD to put on, having a cup of tea and some biscuits and so on...
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But the right setup before painting determines the outcome, especially the right DVD in the background is an important factor. :)