[WM] doubleclickhere's warmaster projects

[docdom]

Thanks for the nice words.
Yep subtle colours work better otherwise they look like clowns.

[Cobalt]

  Ooohhh! Shiny!

I have always been torn between Averland and Carroburg, and finally decided for the Red&Black against the Yellow&Black because I don't really know how to make such a nice yellow. Pleas do a step by step when you paint your next unit. And I love the banner. It is actually easier to read from a distance than mine, as you went for a pattern rather than figures. Can you put up a closeup of the banner?

Thanks

(How cool would it be to have a civil war : the alliance of the North (Ostland and Talabheim) against Averland? You don't live in Indonesia, do you?

[docdom]

I don't really know how to make such a nice yellow.

It's basically iyanden darksun washed with the magic "makes everything look good" devlan mud wash plus highlights with 50/50 iyanden darksun/bleached bone. Here's the step  by step on how to paint that Averland style. It's for Warhammer but leave out the unnecessary steps like several face highlights and it works fine for the 10mms. Guys get that devlanmud wash!

http://warhammer-empire.com/theforum/index.php?topic=32309.75

Sure I can take some pics of the progress of my next unit.

Can you put up a closeup of the banner?

Yep I can also post some closeups. Although I always try to take pics from far away so you don't see the mistakes and that I cheat with the letters. 

(How could would it be to have a civil war : the alliance of the North (Ostland and Talabheim) against Averland? You don't live in Indonesia, do you?

I would love to see your army in real life and have a battle but I think Germany is too far away....

[docdom]

A short update of my work. My second unit of halberdiers and the Averland Greatswords.  Next will be some crossbows, a pair of cannons and a hero.

[azrael71]

Great work.
The level of banner detail is certainly on the up on all recent warmaster projects

[schwager]

Those guys look really fantastic, well done!

Love the work on the banners, too.

[Cobalt]

 

All right. Now I want to do an Averland Empire army....

You'll burn in hell for this!

 

[David Wasilewski]

Fantastic! Love the Greatswords. Excellent painting too, yellow is hard to do in Warmaster scale!

Dave

[docdom]

Azrael,  schwager, Cobalt and David these feedbacks keep me motivated. Thanks a lot.

yellow is hard to do in Warmaster scale!

Yep. Normally that's true. But Iyanden Darksun and the wash is just the right combo for that brownish yellow. Painting the empire guys is much more fun and easier than I thought at first.

@ Cobalt:

A step by step of my next unit is in progress.


@ azrael:

But that's so time consuming I could have painted one more unit instead of the three banners.


A small addition to my army:

The captain of the Greatswords:




A pair of cannons:

[Jurisch]

Great paintings...

nothing more to say 

[pw]

Great stuff. I'm getting excited about painting some WM now (it's been a year or so since the brush hit the 10mm stuff). Seeing these fantastically detailed banners has got me wanting to try my own too, it's great to see the bar being raised in this way. Thanks for pushing things along!

[docdom]

@ Jurisch:
I hope you can see them on the battlefield soon.

@ pw:
Thank you! Good idea about picking up the brush again. I'd like to see more of your great Talabheimers and new banners for inspiration are highly appreciated. The banner competition is on! Just kidding. Afterwards I think it's crazy to spend so much time just for a "stupid" banner. But it's also crazy to play with small soldiers. Hehe.

As requested here's small step by step of my crossbowmen:

I use a mix of GW Citadel and Vallejo paints. They are exchangeable and there are several comparison charts around on the net.
First of all I glued the strips on wooden spatulas used to examine the throat. Before undercoating everything with black Citadel Spray I added some sand to the minis.
Next I painted the basic colours in the following order:
- first faces and hands with Vallejo Heavy Skintone to make to minis come alive
- metal parts bolt gun metal (drybrush on the chainmail, or you can fully paint it and use black ink)
- wood and leather scorched and bestial brown
- clothes in a quartered pattern iyanden darksun
-  badges shining gold
- feather liche purple
- green band vallejo hvy green

I always leave a little bit of black between two adjacent colours so there is a better visual seperation for the eyes. Hopefully that's understandable.


Then there comes a strong wash with devlan mud which already gives the mini a good tabletop standard



When everything's dry it's time for the highlights:

- for the skin I used a mix of bleached bone and hvy skintone (it got a little bit too bright)
- metal parts mithril silver
- leather parts snake bite leather
- yellow robes mix of iyanden darksun bleached bone
- black clothes and hair and beards codex grey
- gold badges mix of shining gold and mithril silver
- for the feathers and the green band I mixed the basic colours with bleached bone aswell



The base was painted scorched brown, with highlights of bestial brown then graveyard earth and finally bleached bone


Enjoy and please post your pics aswell and maybe a step by step so I know how you guys paint.

[BlackEd]

I really like those great swords!  They came out really well!

[Cobalt]

Cool thanks for the tutorial. I have decided that my next 4 hallebardiers will come from Averland, I'll probably follow your steps.

I also really like your general. I like the fact a highborn decided to fight on foot, like a real man, in the middle of the pike blocks with his soldiers, instead of parading around on horseback. 

And then:

The banner competition is on!

Let it be known YOU started it! 

 

[jchaos79]

The tutorial is great and very useful!!

Those conversions are lovely, and the painting is fantastic. Good Work