Tale of Warmaster Painters... [SEPTEMBER THREAD]

[Angor]

Sergei the Giant is an old warhammer ogre, quite puny compared to the current ones.
jchaos - you definatly type better english than I do spanish so dont worry about it.
Swordmaster - I really hope that you had those finished befor this started! If you have painted them since this has begun I must conceed my hat to you! They look great the colour scheme is really striking and makes a nice change from white elves!


How much are we looking to update each week?

[Pugwash]

How much are we looking to update each week?

Well, the guidelines say;

Participants should aim to paint one 'selection' from their army list per week

I'm aiming to have my first unit of spearmen based and photographed before the weekend, but I think we should note that the first unit of a new army (for those who aren't using an exisiting army) is the place to test your new paint scheme, and be sure that you want to replicate those colours a few hundred times, so there might be some consideration for that  

pw: wondering if anyone can suggest a base model to make a Warmaster version of this chap?

Also, the Grand Theogonist has the bald, empire priest thing going on.

[Meister.Petz]

  I hope I am fast enough to paint one unit per week

[azrael71]

Today's submission
11 units of Squigs.
2 units of Squig Hoppers













Got to be honest these were easy as they are just a yellow spray undercoat followed by ink washes, apart for the squig hoppers and the last 2 units.
I have prepped up my 6 units of boar riders (1 savage) and the spider riders.
On opening the spiders I realised I could get away with 3 to a base so I now have 4 of these to paint.

I am hoping to paint the last of my warg riders and some bofa goblins for the rest of the week as I am out of undercoat until I can get some in a couple of weeks so that might slow down my progress a bit

[Meister.Petz]

Man, your painting speed is adorable and its crazy that you get this great painting standard even though you're painting so fast.

I'm almost ashamed to present my first (far too dark) WIP from the stuff I've done this week until now:


Greetings
Peter

[m4jumbo]

I'm interested in joining in, hopefully I'm not too late.  Been playing Warmaster off and on since it's release with my Tomb Kings and small High Elf force.  This sounds like a great motivating opportunity for me to finally get my Empire army painted.  It's only been sitting around in blisters since it's release in 2000.....

Already a day behind so I'd better get moving.  

I'm going for a 2000 point army at this point and if I finish that before the end date I'll add more units.

5 - Halberdiers
2 - Handgunners
4 - Crossbowmen
2 - Flagellants
3 - Skirmishers
3 - Knights
1  - Knights of the White Wolf
2 - Pistoliers
1 - Hellblaster
2 - Cannon
1 - General
1 - Hero
1 - Hero on Griffon
2 - Wizard

The pile of blisters to paint.

[pw]

Hi M4jumbo, not too late at all. What scheme will you be going with?

I think we should note that the first unit of a new army (for those who aren't using an exisiting army) is the place to test your new paint scheme, and be sure that you want to replicate those colours a few hundred times, so there might be some consideration for that  

Couldn't agree more. This is 'Introduction' week and as such posting completed units isn't expected though it is a source of delight so far. And for those of us who are afraid of the pace (not you asrael71  ) don't forget that characters/Warmachines count so you can be quite tactical about what you do when (I've just finished my halberdiers bar the basing and started a character for the following week during which time I'm also painting up some knights. So, if the knights don't get done I'll have a 'joker' to play!)

Thanks for all the ideas for my Warrior priest. I'll have to look into all of them and see what would work with my very unimpressive greenstuff skills.

Oh, and my oh my aren't the Skaven figures great. Seeing them makes me regret buying my Lizardmen a bit.

[azrael71]

Great to see another painter joining us.
As PW said ignore me and the rate I post:) I go at these things hell for leather and then can't bear to paint for 3 months 
I always paint more towards the beginning of the week as we play from thursday onwards.

I really enjoyed painting my empire force so I am sure you will as well.

As for skaven over lizardmen PW, I don't know I love them both as they are both great armies to paint and play.

Now should I paint my wargs 

[jchaos79]

Welcome M4jumbo!

Azrael, the squigs looks really really good! It have to be sooo funny playing with that stuff!

Meister.Petz, your skaven looks great I still fascinated with skaven pictures because I never see the figures at my hand.

[pw]

Has anyone else noticed the massive box of toys in m4jumbo's picture?    Is that all Empire stuff!?

[Stomm]

Only just got the kids to bed, so no painting tonight I'm afraid. I've decided to watch as much of 'The Two Towers' as I can before the wife moans about having to get up early and needing her sleep, etc... so as to at least keep my mind 'in the right frame' for painting. It is also I think the first time I've watched it on our 40" flatscreen, makes a change from a 12" laptop monitor whilst I'm painting...

I've also been somewhat distracted by the temptation of those lovely, lovely SH Terminators... So tempting, especially as there is a painting comp at my local store this weekend...

[Rolgan]

Next up a unit of Wolfrider, which I'll admit were painted previously.  However, I do have two more units of WR that I simply need to get based, hahaha which were mostly finished this weekend.



and



I suspect I'll have another unit of WR this week completed, that's the drawback to painting on sticks and then basing...

~C

Okay, clearly I need a lesson in posting images, because I can't freaking get it to work...

[m4jumbo]

Thanks for the welcome, and thanks pw for putting this idea out there, it should be fun.

Has anyone else noticed the massive box of toys in m4jumbo's picture?   Is that all Empire stuff!?

No, that poor overstuffed box is only partly filled with more Empire.  There are also Orks, Dwarves, Chaos and the few straggler blisters remaining for my Tomb Kings.  That's not including the other storage trays of more Orks, Dwarves, Chaos, Lizardmen and siege equipment.  It's a daunting amount of lead, so I'm hoping this thread helps me plow through the units consistently and put more armies on the table.

As for which paint scheme I'll use for the Empire I'm still undecided.  Nothing like coming into this prepared.    I have been thinking about doing them as a Middenheim army, but just realized that my High Elves are done in the ever popular blue and white scheme already.  I'd like the two armies to stand out from each other so I think I will have to go some other color scheme than Middenheim.   I'm going through the Warhammer Armies books and looking at the different uniform colors to find one I will like and that will be quick to paint.

[Rolgan]

Nice to have you aboard, M4jumbo.

That is a rather daunting pile of pewter.

Hopefully, this helps you paint through it.

Nice pictures everyone, I'll have some better pics by the end of the week

~C

[pw]

Here are some of Rolgan's very nice wolf riders:



And here's how to post the pic direct into the thread.

1) Get the image URL (I used ctrl and mouse click on my mac which brings up lots of options including the important 'copy image location' - on a PC it's probably as simple as left clicking the image).
2) Paste that URL into the thread and surround it with

And that's it. Hope that makes sense. I expect Flickr has an option that makes this easier (Photobucket does).