Guthwines various SG Projects [EA/WM/MH/BB]

[BlackLegion]

Nice paintjob and the details are ace 

[Guthwine]

Got a bit bored by the tanks and started some of the many other projects on my table.

Here is the start of my WM high elf army. I went for a different look than usual because I wanted them to stand out. Alot of effort went into this unit and if I continue like that I will be able to field them in about 1-2 years. Please let me know what you think of the colors!

The aim was to paint as clean as possible and while there are some details that could be better, I am pretty happy about the result (especially about some - notall- of the gems.)
As it stands now I would say its my best work but as I said also one of most time consuming units. Also because I am used to bretonnian knights which dont have that much details.
So here it is the start of my HE army a unit of silverhelms:



I have also finished the first 2 miniatures of my ne MH Skaven warband:



The warplock pistol is a cross between a dwarven pistol, a dw handgun barrel combined and a bit from the dwarven musicians trumpet (or whatever it is)

Comments&Critics are always welcome!

...Comming up next will be the last sentinel squadron for my guard army.

[jchaos79]

Wow Guthwine, that looks relly impressive!

I love the colour scheme, It is notice the terrible amount of work of the paint.

As I see in epic units you like the work good done and the very neaty paints. It will be a pleasure too to see some units of your bretonian army, if it is possible!

[Guthwine]

Thank you, of course its no problem.

Overview:
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/7990/2kbretsva3.jpg

http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/779/2kbrets2ak9.jpg

Louen Leonceur


Grail Knights


Knights Errant


Knights of the realm


I have pretty much all of the units pictured in my CMON.com gallery here
http://www.coolminiornot.com/artist/Guthwine

[jchaos79]

Thanks for the link!

  This pics seems like a revelation. I should do a bretonian army... I do not know when, maybe in the far future... but I should do it.

I love the  knights errant, and they are very powerful with the original heraldic scheme.

[Stomm]

I don't think that the Knights Errant are available anymore...


Anyway, nice Brets there, very nice...

[Guthwine]

Thanks for the comments, its much appreciated!

No sadly the knights errant are very rare. I managed to get that unit from ebay for about 3 times the price of a normal blister but even that was a "good" bargain. The last rare unit I saw was a HE dragon prince unit going out for $125 

[Stomm]

Hmm, I think I've got some loose Phoenix Guard laying around somewhere....£££££ 

[azrael71]

These are absolutely stunning.
The grail knights are my favourites.
I have always fancied a bret army but know I am not committed enough to paint all the individual knight's colours so kudos to you.

[Ram Rock Ed First]

Guthwine,

The detail on those Knights is truely epic and captures the feel of a Brettonnian army to a tee. Well done on the minute painting mate.

Ram.

[Guthwine]

Thanks for the comments!

Finally after a long break from painting I finished the next unit for the high elfs. This unit also convinced me that the green/orange color scheme works for me.
I loosend the formation at the sides but made the center a little more dense with the addition of a 5th strip of bowmen which made them a bit awkward to base.
The great advantage of this formation is that I can paint every unit in the same way and still be able to tell which stand belongs to which unit. The big disadvantage is that they only look good when in line formation but anyways thats the formation they are going to have most of the time.

So here they are bowman unit nr1:



A big thanks to the Warmaster painting tale, all your great works got me to pick up the brush again and continue painting.

Comments & critics as always very welcome!

[Stomm]

I don't think that I've commended your painting yet have I? So, bloody nice paint jobs, especially the hereldry on your Brets, very tasty... I would however say that the Grail Knights are nice all being the same, but each would have their own individual heraldry IIRC (might have changed in more recent background I guess). So, whilst keeping the unified colour scheme, I woulf have suggested using the same red and white colour pallete, but vary the actual design between each knight. Say have one quartered, one with stripes, one with checks, one with diamonds, one half red, half white, and a combination of all of those.


Needless to say as and when I ever get around to doing a Bret army, or for that matter a 100yrs war or WotR WMA army, I'm going to have lots of fun with the knights...



As to the dark green High Elves? Very well executed, but I'm not completely sold on the scheme. Have you tried using Gold instead of silver for the scale-mail? Or perhaps lightening the green a little bit...

[Guthwine]

Thank you Stomm for the comment, its much appreciated!

... I would however say that the Grail Knights are nice all being the same, but each would have their own individual heraldry IIRC (might have changed in more recent background I guess). So, whilst keeping the unified colour scheme, I woulf have suggested using the same red and white colour pallete, but vary the actual design between each knight...

Well the idea behind this scheme was, that after they drank from the grail, they dont only fight for their lands, family or whatever, they just fight for the Lady, so personal heraldry wouldnt be important for the grail knights.

As to the dark green High Elves? Very well executed, but I'm not completely sold on the scheme. Have you tried using Gold instead of silver for the scale-mail? Or perhaps lightening the green a little bit...

I am not a big fan of gold on armor and try to keep it to a minimum. If it werent shiny, gold would be pretty useless.
I mean its good to break up the armor but steel should always be the main armor color in my opinion.

Concerning the green: The main reason for this scheme is, that I didnt want to paint them in the standard blue/white and that I personally like to paint green, its just easier I guess than red or white, so the main reason is I guess laziness.


But there are also news from the epic front. Finally my base 3000P list is finished and ready for battle!

Here are some pics:





Overview:
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/8474/final3000.jpg

The one thing I learned is that Forgeworld products are not really that good. I mean they surely look good if you are lucky enough to get miniatures that survived shipping.
Resin combines the drawbacks of plastic with the drawbacks of tin and on the epic scale its really a pain to work with something like that. (for example the barrels of the basiliscs, its impossible to get them straight)

But anyways I still have a FW warhound titan on my table that waits for a paintjob but for now Ill focus on Warmaster, cause I want them ready for the EuroGT. (it will be tough but I hope I can make it)

[Guthwine]

And the story continues with spearmen unit nr.1. The EuroGt seems like an almost impossible deadline but I hope to increase the frequency of the updates anyways.

According to the high elf army book, the sword/heart symbol is worn by units that lost their champion. As the banner pole also has that heart on top of it, i thought it would fit.



Comments and critics as always welcome!

[vincent]

This is lovely