Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]

[pw]

October is here (it took me a day to notice) and with it comes the second month of the 'Tale'.

After a great start will our intrepid army painters be able to keep up the pace? This thread is where we'll find out!

[jchaos79]

Stomm, this mounted character plus legionary is fantastic. I like the shield paint and also the figure of the legate. It is so well sculpted.

Do someone know if the Perrin brothers will make more 10mm figures?

[Stomm]

My Romans aren't by the Perry Brothers, that's Rick's army, and IIRC they cast some up as a prize for one of the WHH weekends a couple of years ago. My Romans are by Steve Barber: http://www.sbarber-models.clara.net/main.html

Glad you like my efforts BTW, taking a bloody long time though... At my current rate I think that I may just about be able to submit one unit a month, if I'm lucky. Not for wont of trying though, just trying to find the time to paint is, well rather difficult...


But... The important thing is I am actually getting some painting done, so my painting progress this last month or so has been slow, but still its been infinitely greater than the last two years or so...

[jchaos79]

Stomm: uff, yes of course, steve barber... even I asked you the same thing before... I have my head in a thousand matters... and sometimes I am confused.
Doesn't matter you can not upload a unit every week, you still painting and you are very enthusiastic !

Here I post my 5th week contribution: Ra-Min-Ka cavalry regiment, (they had been raiding from the desert to the heart of the Empire, beware Ostland and Talabheim   )

-two shots, in irregular formation and regluar formation




have fun

[pw]

Very nice jchaos, you've really got a nice distinctive style going with these undead.

Here's my latest effort, just a single hero but I'm pretty happy with him. The sculpt is odd though, he's got a gigantic head!

[Stomm]

Here's my latest effort, just a single hero but I'm pretty happy with him. The sculpt is odd though, he's got a gigantic head!

Nice, same for jchaos79 as well for that matter, and yes, his style for this undead army is very nice and consistent. Actually, any chance of some photos of the whole lot so far jchaos.


Anyway, as to why I quoted. Yes, he has got a big head hasn't he, you should see what a whole unit of the bleeders looks like, loads of hairy beards everywhere!....


Nothing new from me so far. I either haven't had the time, or in the case of the last two nights have gone up to my games room, only to be distracted by my PC and Medieval II Total War. I've had a broken monitor for a while (left the window open during a thunderstorm, yes I know, bloody stupid), and have only just now replaced it. The good thing painting-wise is that it's actually an HD-Ready 19" widescreen TV, so I can plug my old PS2 into it to watch DVD's whilst painting. The bad thing is of course that it also means that I can now be very easily distracted by my PC games, and my PS2 is bloody noisy when playing DVD's so I have to put the volume dangerously loud to be able to hear anything (my games room is right above the girl's room).


Anyway, gonna go crush some rebels before bed, but I do honestly intend to pick my brushes up on Monday evening...

[m4jumbo]

Week 4 for the Ostland Army.  This week we have, you guessed it, more halberdiers.  On one hand, your're all probably getting tired of seeing Ostland halberdiers.  On the other hand, there's only one unit of halberdiers left for this project.  In any case I'm still enjoying painting them.

Halberdier unit 3 of 5


Halberdier unit 4 of 5


Both units together


The progress so far.

[jchaos79]

M4jumbo, that halberdier are great, the banner with the skull is my favourite, and I think I can't get bored with empire figures, they are beatiful!

Nice, same for jchaos79 as well for that matter, and yes, his style for this undead army is very nice and consistent. Actually, any chance of some photos of the whole lot so far jchaos.

Thanks pw and stomm for your impresion! -I here I post a pic of the army in october, I cheat a little bit and include the units painted before starting the tales, but I think the pic is for showing the style more than the progress.



Also, yesterday, for fun,  I take the putty and try to make "something similar" to the guy with the hammer for pw... it just the work of an very amateur, but I share with you... maybe painted will look better!.

[Swordmaster]

I guess I haven't noticed we have October already either!

So here is my September/October entry once again:

[jchaos79]

Sordmaster: more reavers, good! yep in my opinion the horses seems a little flat, but this also enhance the horse in the tabletop!

Well here is it painted: sigmar hammer priest

by the way, las weelend I visit all the GW stores searching for SH, and I bought a citadel brush (very thin one my first time to use citadel brush), and I am surprise for the low quality of this brush... they have wonderful colours, but brushes...

coming back to sigmar hammerer, here is how I will put the hammer (not decided yet)... I am not sarisfied with the hammer... maybe too big?



Here are some shots



So pw, if you like it, considered yours

[pw]

@jchaos: I'd be delighted to have him sending orders to my Empire troops, thanks! As for the hammer, I think it is possibly a little on the large side - I think I'd aim for something about the same size as a White Wolf Knight's hammer. I wonder if it'd be possible to drill through his hands and position it across his body like the one in the picture? I guess that depends on how big his hands are. And you've inspired me to have a go at some 10mm sculpting myself. What are you using? It looks like milliput?

[jchaos79]

- I think I'd aim for something about the same size as a White Wolf Knight's hammer. I wonder if it'd be possible to drill through his hands and position it across his body like the one in the picture? I guess that depends on how big his hands are.

Yep... I am so foolish... I have the white wolf hammerers, and do not realize to unpacked them up to see the size... About the hands, drilling could be dificult because the figure have the fingers little open (he was a jenissarie archer, but really do not know, because I have never drill a figure and do not have driller in house. My be could be nice to attach with cianocrilate cement.

And you've inspired me to have a go at some 10mm sculpting myself. What are you using? It looks like milliput?

So good! it is really funny, well I only have made the two space marine, the orc and that is my fourth figure. I use milliput standard yellow - grey, but I don't know if exist other better for modelling 10mm.
DaveC if you are reading this it ewill be great to have some advice from you.

I will varnish and send it to you during this week. Feel free to repaint it ( I paint it in 20 minutes very quickly just for shown) or attach the hammer as your wish, or try the same conversion and obtein a better result! I used OT10 Janissaries bow from pendraken.

[pw]

Cool. I won't be repainting it, it's a much nicer gift as it is. I'll have a go myself and see what I can come up with. In terms of sculpting I'd assume most people would use Green Stuff but I'm not an expert (in any way at all).

[azrael71]

The reavers look nice.

The hero is a great start into the world of modelling.
I use both greenstuff and milliputt.
I also use sculpting tools and color shapers I bought off of ebay.
Remember to keep your tools wet () as this will stop the putty from sticking to them.

For drilling I know you can use a hand held hobby tool (dremel) but I use a 12v battery drill with between 1mm and 2mm bits for drilling and pinning.
You have to be very careful you don't drill your fingers and ALWAYS wear goggles.
The drill bits are small and snap easily, one of those in your eye will have you looking like a pirate for the rest of your life, NOT FUNNY!!!
 I managed to drill my chaos general on dragon mounts hands to add an axe from the botfa dwarves.
As long as you take it slow and steady you should be ok.

I also managed to drill and pin my trebuchet's struts that are 7mm square using this method.

But when all is said and done there are a LOT of better modellers on this forum than me

[jchaos79]

Thanks for your nice words Azrael, and also for the advices!
wet the tool, what a great idea! 
and also... the protective glasses... I have some pair of them and I will rescue from my parents house my dremel maybe next week. If someone know more tips, advices for modelling 10mm they are very welcome here? or in the thread "jchaos79 warmaster proyects"