[WM] doubleclickhere's warmaster projects

[docdom]

I opened this thread to post my new work in one place. My army threads in the painters tale got too confusing the more armys I started to paint. For tonights battle for the worldwide wm campaign I painted the high elf dragon and a bolt thrower unit. Let's kick some dwarves butt!

[azrael71]

Nice work, the images are a little dark though
I can't remember whose empire you are in, but make sure you stomp on those dwarves

[jchaos79]

The dragon seems awsome! a little dark to enjoy the details. Good luck in your battle!

[docdom]

Yes you are both right. I hear this not for the first time. I was to lazy to get another lamp from my home office room. Everytime I have to unplug the lamp and fiddle the cord behind the desk. I hope I remember your comments next time to give me the will to handle the cable and get better results....   Thanks for the feedback!

[spiritusXmachina]

@Azrael: Doubleclickhere is in your empire.

[docdom]

@ spiritusx:

Very mindful of you. Thank you.

@ azrael:

It didn't really come as you wished me and I planned but you can read the battle report that will come soon....

[docdom]

The last few weeks I finished more minis completing my undead army for the moment. The new units increase my armysize to about 2.4k.

9 Skeletons
6 Archers
3 Chariots
4 Cavalry
1 Sphinx
1 Bone Giant
2 Carrions
2 Skull Chukkas
2 units of Bone Throwers
1 Tomb King
4 Liche Priest
1 Liche Priest on a dragon

With the latest painted units I tried gloss and then matte varnish instead of only matte to make the paint job more durable as I heard. Now I'm not happy with the glossy look. You can specially see it on the red bone giant parts and on the infantry banners. I used only a "thin" (whatever that means) coat of vallejo gloss varnish followed by two matte layers of vallejo/gw. All varnish was brushed on (I'll never use a spray can again. That killed 10 units of high elves) and diluted about 50/50 with water. How can I get rid of the glossy look? I also tried undiluted matte varnish to kill the shine. Can anybody help me please?
Here are the pics.
 

[Guthwine]

Very nice army! The gloss actually doesnt look that bad on the pics.

Will we see the undead at the eurogt or will it be the high elves?

[azrael71]

Great work, loving the dragon and bone giant especially.
As for the shire, I always use dullcote spray and I am very choosy about the days I spray.
Like you I lost a load of high elves to a damp day

[jchaos79]

I use Mattlock Marabu and it is really good.

As far as I know (I did it and works for me) --> apply mat vanish over the shiny figure and the shines disapear. I understand that you try this before... and did not work. mmmh maybe try again?

[docdom]

Thank you guys for the comments. I'll google for the Mattlock Marabu and see if I can get further advice somewhere. It's just a matter of taste I guess and I don't like the wet look. I hoped I could kill that with matte varnish. Next time I just skip the gloss step.

@Guthwine:

I'm still undecided. The undead are my new army but my heart is still beating for the high elves. I love the high elf theme and the sculpts are so beautiful. And don't say I want to compensate my lack of skill with the Ld10 General.  

[jchaos79]

if you try matlock, tell us your experience. (I also dislike the shine look, and every time I varnish I do it with some uneasy felling)

[docdom]

Some more yellowish pictures. But this time I used two lamps. It must be the camera I guess. 
Soon I don't have to fear broken spear tips anymore.

[docdom]

if you try matlock, tell us your experience. (I also dislike the shine look, and every time I varnish I do it with some uneasy felling)

This time I didn't use any gloss varnish but even more matte layers.    I think I'll stick to that procedure as I'm happier with the matte result and don't have the will to experiment with new varnishes.

[jchaos79]

The paint is awesome!!

I will try to paint my phoenix guard "copying" your colors ...  but not yet, I should paint following my "do do list"