Just realised I haven't replied to anyone's recent posts...
JChaos79: Oddly enough I think that the blue showing through the red on that banner looks very striking and rather effective. Was it a happy accident or intentional?
Swordmaster: I really would like to see your HE's up-close, I suspect that your photos still aren't doing them full justice. And on the subject of photos, the camera needs to be in between the light source and the target, otherwise you get what I think you have in your latest picture of Reavers which is a backlit photo, so a lot of the detail is lost as it just isn't lit...
azrael71: Do you do anything other than eat, sleep work and paint? Your output is quite simply astounding, and of a decent quality as well to boot... I wonder how we;; you'd cope with a HE army to paint though
Pugwash: Very nice, have you thought of alternating turban and feather colours to differentiate units though? Whilst having the whole army looking exactly the same has a real visual 'punch' on the tabletop, it is a real pain in the backside when you've got a messy combat to sort out... Oh and I think that you've nailed the basing, just that little bit of sun-scorched grass flock just adds a bit of a different texture and interest to you base.
jchaos79: (again!), very nice, have you ever heard of the 'E Formation'? Its a very effective way of maximising the firepower of four units of archers. It can be quite deadly when used appropriately...
Rolgan: Don't worry, I've painted even less than you. I think so far only Lex hasn't shown any progress pictures of any kind really, but then he is 'on the road' so to speak... My excuse take the form of two little rug-rats and a wife that gets up for work at 5:30am. Needless to say she wasn't too pleased when I came to bed at about 1:20am after a painting session. I lost track of time and I was determined to finish the figure I was painting.
m4jumbo: Very nice, do you intend to paint each unit of flagellants radically differently? I've got one finished for my own Empire army and I'm still deciding how I'd like to paint my 2nd, if and when I ever get around to even gluing them to their base, or a coffee stirrer...
As to my own contribution for the week. Well, none so far, I'm not sure where the wife has put the camera. I've been painting little bits of units here and there, for example I drybrushed, inked and then did a final light drybrush to the armour areas on two coffee stirrers worth of legionaries (that's around four stands), painted the unit stand id numbers on the underside of some of my Empire Crossbowmen, painted the hands and faces of one of my stands of crossbowmen and then spent much of my time finishing the legionary model on one of my character stands.
I've now finished that single model, but now have to tackle the horse and rider that represents the actual leader himself. I've noticed that there is a nasty mould line that runs right through his face, so it's going to be tricky to compensate for that... Anyway, since we all seem to be talking about how many painting hours it takes to finish a stand, etc... I'll just chip in by saying that this one single figure has taken me at least three, maybe four hours of painting time to complete. Obviously some of that time might include taking time and therefore doing other painting whilst an ink wash dries (incidentally the new GW inks are IMHO bloody brilliant. They really help to neaten up drybrushed armour at this scale, not an easy task at all...), but the shield design alone must have taken at least an hour, if you take into account trying to get an even white from a black undercoat...
