[WM] PW's Stuff

[pw]

Hi, thanks for the kind words, it seems slightly uncool to say it but it really does help with the motivation to paint (and it's keeping me focussed on WM for now too). The plan is to get both the Chaos army and the Empire army up to 2000 points so that I can host some games and hopefully sort out a small games day around here (it'd be emarassing to organise something and then to turn up with unpainted stuff). So, yes, Empire will come next but as it's a largely infantry I'm not so excited about that! I'll post some army pics up soon to show you all where things are up to so far.

Back to the the subject of the tiny lawnmower, I've had a very odd accident. My Swiss Army knife scissors seem to be superglued shut. I've no idea how/when this happened but the things won't budge. Can anyone recommend something that breaks down superglue? Would brake fluid do it perhaps?

[Stormwind]

Use acetone based nail varnish remover.  It softens the superglue.  It's what I've used to break down the glue over my 2nd hand Epic Eldar and WM dwarves / elves.

[Kesseki]

Glorious!, this sorcerer is fabolous, i agree with Jchaos, the horn texture is just wonderful.

[TheIronPainter]

Holy heck how did this thread skip by my notice?! GOOD STUFF!!!! Keep it up!

I'm so happy there are people who are out there taking pride in their armies, I come from a shop where nobody has their stuff painted or it's just painted 2 colors and barely even assembled. Even if you can't paint, which is not the case here, making the effort makes SO much difference when you play. After all, this is a visual, material hobby, who have miniatures if they go unpainted?

Hopefully I don't offend any of you non-painters out there, that's not my intention! 

[pw]

Thanks all.

Today's offering is a little different. After an hour or so of faffing about with tiny gyrocopters, my Dwarf Man O War fleet is finally done. For better or worse I decided to forgo the traditional garish colours and went with a more muted scheme that's fairly close to the Dreadfleet Dwarf ship.

The Fleet:


Dreadnoughts:


Ironclads:


Monitors:


Nautilus:


Gyrocopters:


Balloons:


Next on the paintstation, it's still some Chaos Knights for Warmaster...

EDIT: Are these pictures massive for everyone else? I resized them all (but for the fleet pic) to 320 in Photobucket but here they seem to be the original size.

[Stormwind]

And I am stunned, again!  Great choice on the colour scheme - I used to gaze over White Dwarf in the 90s dreaming of a Dwarf Fleet.

[pw]

I went for a Dwarf fleet on the advice of fellow forum member Marell le Fou. It's a 'loaner' fleet that I painted up for one of my friends so that we can play some games and from what Marell tells me (and the few games I've played confirm this) the Dwarf list is a fun one to use and is robust enough to give a novice player a decent game. With this fleet done I'm pretty excited about painting up my Imperial ships so that the games will look good.

Ultimately I'm hoping that I'll have at least two painted armies for each of the games I play so that I can host some great looking games in my games room. To date, the SG inventory is:

Warmaster
Empire, Chaos, Undead, Dark Elf, Dwarf, Orc, Kislev (Empire and Chaos are the 'live' painting projects)

Man O War
Dwarf, Imperial (dwarf fleet completed)

BFG
Imperial, Orc

Epic
Imperial Guard, Space Marines (about 4500 pts each, painted)

Blood Bowl
Skaven, Orc, Ogre (all painted - I used to have about eight painted teams but had a cull a few years back when my children were born, thankfully I kept these three)

Space Hulk
All still on sprues (but I do have a painted set of Grindhouse Games' Incursion which is basically a refined version of the game set in WWII)

Dreadfleet
This is part painted (see my aborted blog), to be honest I bought this for the gaming mat and the terrain (all of which is great for MOW). I don't imagine I'll ever really get excited about playing this

As yet, the only games I can host using fully painted armies are Epic and Blood Bowl. This blog is my attempt to change that!

[docdom]

Wow, your dwarf fleet looks great! I'm going to paint my WM Dwarves in your color scheme.

[pw]

Thanks, it's certainly an easy scheme with paints/colours that cover well. The green is:

Gnarloc green
Badad black wash
Snot Green
Goblin Green edge highlight

What made it easier is that the metal (chainmail) got the same wash as the green so it doesn't take too long.

[David Wasilewski]

Man O' War - classic!!!

Nice painting. Simple but very effective.
It works lovely on the dreadfleet map.

Our group plays Uncharted Seas on 3 Dreadfleet maps I paid a seamstress to back with black felt and then sew together (it makes a seascape table roughly 5 feet by 8 feet). I chose a Dwarf fleet too because they are simple to paint, no fiddly masts and their turrets means it's less fiddly to keep track of fire arcs etc with as many ships.

Dave

[pw]

Your gaming group sounds great, everytime I think I've 'built' one people move!

On Dwarf fleets - I must admit, the lack of masts and sails was a major draw (faffing around with maps and paper sails is certainly putting me off painting the Imperial fleet for now).

[Stormwind]

I just noticed the sneaky use of WH40K epic eldar transfers there!  Harumph, the rune smiths won't like that one bit! =D

And my Lord, the last thing I need right now is to get the buying bug for Man o War, I need to concentrate on Warmaster or I'll never get anyone in my club interested!

Oh man, when I was 7 years old I would draw pictures of these and imagine owning them:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OOP-Citadel-Warhammer-Man-O-War-High-Elf-Eagleships-/221110712475?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item337b39b89b

I even painted watercolour pictures of them.  I wonder if I still have one - I should scan it and post it for a laugh. =-P

[Kesseki]

You're a proffessional, a genious!!

[pw]

I just noticed the sneaky use of WH40K epic eldar transfers there!  Harumph, the rune smiths won't like that one bit! =D

Good spot, there's a bit of Chaos Space Marine in there too, I can't imagine the Runesmiths will like that much either!

[pw]

With the Warmaster One Dayer on the horizon, I'm working on my Chaos army, this time it's some Khorne Knights:



I was pretty pleased with the banner, the icon is from the Chaos Space Marine's transfer sheet which seemed to stick to the contours of the banner after a couple of coats of Microsol.


And, here's poorly-taken photo of the army so far (I think it's around 2000 points):



Next up, a couple of units of ogres.