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

[David Wasilewski]

Very nice - it's nice to see HE in Warmaster painted in colours other than blue/white or red/white!
You have obviously spent a lot of time on each unit.

dave

[Guthwine]

@Vincent&Dave: Thanks for the comments, its much appreciated!

Now the story continues, with 2 units of bolt thrower. I made them both at once as there are not that much work. Its a pitty there are not more units like them.



Comments and critics, as always welcome!

[Angor]

Hey man an awesome blog!

I really like the paintscheme for your elves, its been said already but its nice to see a none white High Elf army. The freehand work on the banners, shields and the design on the Champion of the spearmans cloak all really help the units to stand out. It makes them look great. I think I need to do more freehand designs as it really adds to the overall look.

I hope to see more!






ps. I love your Brets

[Guthwine]

Thanks Angor!

Yes the freehands add alot of character to the units, but its not a fast way to paint up an army.  Took me about a year to field my Brets completely painted. But seeing your great work with the skink bases, it looks like youre ready to invest some extra time in your units too.
But at least the reaver knights I am currently working on have no shields or barding, so I hope to finish them till next weekend.

[Guthwine]

After a week longer as I thought finally finished Reaver Knights unit no.1 and thus my first entry for the WM painting tale:



I really enjoyed these miniatures and they make my favorite unit so far. I should rewrite the list and take some more of them.

Comming up next is a unit of eagles and then both units of chariots.

[Guthwine]

Its unbelievable, I made the weekly base for the WM painting tale. Thanks to heavy drybrushing the eagles are finished.



I always thought there was one more upright eagle in the blister to fit them better on the base but these 3 are all the same.

Comments and critics as always welcome.

[Carrington]

I had fairly good luck bending the wings on the eagles.

Also did a test-snip of the eagle rider to see how he'd look clipped off the rock and posted on a 'flight-stand.'  Not too bad, even with no further sculpting.

[Guthwine]

I had fairly good luck bending the wings on the eagles.

Well, that idea didnt even cross my mind.

Also did a test-snip of the eagle rider to see how he'd look clipped off the rock and posted on a 'flight-stand.'  Not too bad, even with no further sculpting.

Yeah I also thought of that but then was to scared to clip off too much, so I sticked with the standart pose.

[Carrington]

I had fairly good luck bending the wings on the eagles.

Well, that idea didnt even cross my mind.

Also did a test-snip of the eagle rider to see how he'd look clipped off the rock and posted on a 'flight-stand.'  Not too bad, even with no further sculpting.

Yeah I also thought of that but then was to scared to clip off too much, so I sticked with the standart pose.

Ebay was yielding a bumper-crop of Giant Eagle riders for a while, so one of them ended up on the chopping block -- I can try to post pics so his sacrifice is not in vain.  How well the 'surgery' worked depends on whether you're actually looking at the model from below or not.

;-).

To do a good job, you'd probably cut the legs off at the body and resculpt the legs/feather pattern -- eagles have fairly nice 'retractable landing gear.'

[Guthwine]

Here is a little update on the epic front. I am going to play some minigeddon, so I needed some more of the cheaper units.







And now lets get back to the warmaster painting tale.

Edit:

Just added this weeks entry for the painting tale:



Edit:

Just added the next entry for the painting tale:

[Guthwine]

Its going well with the HE spearmen (will finish them by the weekend/some time next week) so I had a little extra time to continue with epic.

Here comes the commisars baneblade. It got a little darker than the first one, but its fun to paint and for only 2 hours (i love epic stuff ) I am quite happy with it. 



Sorry for the picture quality but I am suffering from a loss of photoshop that makes resizing the images with Paint a great pain.

[Meister.Petz]

Sweet 

[Guthwine]

I have good news and bad news, the good news is I have been painting, but the bad news is, that its nothing WM related. I went to my first BB tournament last month and got really into BB, so I spent the last month collecting and painting up some models. And right now I picked up Epic again started to continue with the IG. I just cant seem to focus at WM at the moment so I think Ill have to drop out of the tale.
But here are my excuses why I didnt post anything the last few weeks:

The first players for the "Ostland Bears":


The first players for the "Sotek Serpents":


And the last baneblade, which completes the super heavy tank company:


Instead of going for a second epic army, I decided to add more stuff to my guard army to play all kinds of combinations.
So whats left to paint is:
-1(-2) FW Warhound Titans
-4 FW Vultures
-3 FW Shadowswords
-12 Rough Rider (old IG Biker)
-3 Manticores
-6 additional Basilisks

Thats what I have lying around here atm, later some more Hydras, Infantry, Demolishers, Bombards and Griffons might be added. But thats far away right now. So Ill hope to update with new Epic stuff more regularly from now on.

[Meister.Petz]

ZOMFG!
Great work - never ending story

[Guthwine]

@M.Petz: Thank you, cant wait to see some more of your skaven. (especially in a battle against my bretonnians. )

Those who are interested in following my epic guard army, can see the progress made since my last post here:
http://www.tacticalwargames.net/taccmd/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18478&start=15

But being fed up with the boring browns for epic and after playing some Warmaster again the urge to paint 10mm returned. But the first work is a hired sword I need for our MH campaign and its the trusted Elf ranger. My big hope of bringing the long needed victory in Mordheim.



And after sitting way to long on my workbench I put the finishing touches on that second spearmen unit, which finally is finished. Definetly the last time I use the "rising moon", except its for one banner or something. That stuff was just a pain in the...you know where.
Thankfully I got one unit of phoenix guard and one unit of swordsmen, so for the basic 2k points list, I dont need any more spearmen, though they are very nice models for a basic infantry unit.



Next unit is going to be a second unit of silver helms, where I shall try the picture story paint guide.