Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]

[azrael71]

Sorry for the lack of variety over the last few weeks, but here is this weeks offering.
4 more botfa goblins this time in yellow and red





Just 4 more to go and then they are done.
Might also have a go at painting my trebuchets.

[azrael71]

Finally the last 4 units of botfa models for this army.
4 units of goblins in blue.





That is 16 in total.
My trebuchets are built and undercoated so they will probably get finished this week.
Next for the army will probably be my boar riders or will move to finish off all the goblins for the army.

[jchaos79]

Wow Azrael, you have spent a lot of work painting 16 goblin unit.... in.... 2 weeks? or less?

In my opinion you should move on the boar raiders instead going for more goblins... too much goblins should not be good for the health  

green tide on the computer screen!

[Rolgan]

Azreal,

You are a painting machine...I've been struggling to paint a unit of far harad light cavalry, you've painted what 8 or more units of goblins? I wish I could achieve your output, but sadly real life is ...uhm... hectic at the moment.  I have decided to hold off on basing any more of what I paint at the moment as basing is adding significantly to the time it takes me to "finish" units.  With that in mind I hope to have one or possibly two units to show this week.

Good job to all the others who are actually meeting their "quota" and thanks for this "Tale of..." It at least has me consistently painting.

~C

[Pugwash]

Wow, that's a lot of Gobbo's!

Another week, another unit:


The archers are pretty good to paint.  So good, in fact, I managed to get 3 units done this week (there was a long weekend )



1 more unit of archers, and that'll finish off my 10 infantry units.  Then it's on to try and put a dent in the knights before the movers arrive!

Interested to hear how other folks are doing, even if there's no update as yet...

[Stomm]

If someone know more tips, advices for modelling 10mm they are very welcome here? or in the thread "jchaos79 warmaster proyects"

Use vasaline (petrolium jelly) to lubricate your tools, much better than water or saliva for keeping the green stuff or other material from sticking to your tools. Just a very thin coating will do the job. It also makes getting a smooth finish that much easier.

As to what tools to use. Well in my vast experience of sculpting only one 10mm model, I have to be honest in saying that the tool that I found most useful, and therefore used the most was a needle. The 'pointy end' was very helpful when sculpting chain mail, hair, fur and the like, and the eye of the needs was very useful for pretty much everything else. For any sharp flat edges, I used one of my hobby knives.

I now have a whole host of different dental tools to use for sculpting, but have yet to get around to sculpting something again. When I do, it will probably be firstly to finish off the Norse Were that I started many years ago now...


Oh and remember to wash your models in between layers. Vasaline not only stops the green stuff from sticking to your tools, it stops it from sticking to pretty much anything. Soap and water should do the trick. Oh and putting your models under a lamp for five minutes will help to cure them more quickly. I ended up using my daylight bulb more for this than for illumination when I last did some sculpting...

[Stomm]

Interested to hear how other folks are doing, even if there's no update as yet...

Well I haven't made any progress at all this week. I've had a stinking cold which has meant that when I do finally get the kids to bed, I am much more liable to collapse in front of the TV with a cup of tea or play on the computer than paint. I expect this week to be a complete wash out with regards to painting, at least until I get myself some more lemsip...

[pw]

As with Stomm, progress is slow here. Term restarting (I'm a lecturer) plus Harry deciding that we all need to get up at half five has slowed things down a bit. Having said that I've painted up a base of halberdiers and hope to finish off a Helblaster tonight. I'm also planning to make some 10mm scale walls - so far I'm thinking of making them of individual plastic stones and then getting them cast up in resin if they turn out ok. Before I go mad cutting out hundreds of little rectangles does anyone know if there are any ready made ones that look good? Failing that, does anyone have any suggestions as to what would make the most useable wall? I'm thinking it needs to come in 120mm strips, be about 6mm tall and have a fairly low flat base. Lookswise I think I'll aim for something like the current GW walls.

EDIT: Just seen the archers (pictures don't seem to display on my phone  ), very nice indeed. I'm incredibly jealous of those of you who've pretty much finished the infantry.

[Stomm]

You can actually get sheets of plasticard with a stone wall texture, or brick wall if you wanted for that matter. I know where to walk to get some, but alas no online links. Try googling 'textured plasticard' and see what come up, or if you have a model railway shop nearby they will probably have something...

[Swordmaster]

Greetings!

We have some very fast painters here. Both gobbos and archers look great. Can't wait to see some pictures of the painted brigades of the rest of us.

As to the progress so far I managed to finish first stand of archers. I find it refreshing to change a unit to paint each week. it might look chaotic but it keeps my enthusiasm. And as much as I appreciate the high level of painting and speed I will keep my own pace of one unit per week.

[jchaos79]

Stomm: Thanks for the tips. It will be great to see your in progress Nores Were.

Swordmaster: I do the same, jump into different units. Painting the same unit twice correlative is just a little hard for me.

I'm also planning to make some 10mm scale walls - so far I'm thinking of making them of individual plastic stones and then getting them cast up in resin if they turn out ok. Before I go mad cutting out hundreds of little rectangles does anyone know if there are any ready made ones that look good? Failing that, does anyone have any suggestions as to what would make the most useable wall? I'm thinking it needs to come in 120mm strips, be about 6mm tall and have a fairly low flat base. Lookswise I think I'll aim for something like the current GW walls.

pw: I know in modelling shops they sell the bricks to build up... a church, or a building model, or so on... When you have the little brick take thick cardboard, a special one... I dont know its name... in spanish is called "Cartón pluma". It is used a lot by art academy students. Then is easy cut the cardboad into dimensions and glue the bricks to make a wall. House is easy because you use a pile of bricks for the corners.


I show you some pictures

[Stomm]

Stomm: Thanks for the tips. It will be great to see your in progress Nores Were.

The ones so far are conversions, basically sticking wolf heads onto marauder bodies, bear upper bodies onto human legs (that one does look suitably odd) and so on. The sculpting that needs to be done on them is largely to hide the joins and to fill in missing details, etc... I might have a go at scultping one or two from scratch though, might be good practice for me...

[pw]

Thanks for the ideas. I might try picking up some textured plastic card and see if I can make something of it that looks half decent. And those bricks! How incredibly cute. They're probably a bit big for my purposes though, I'm imagining a brick will be 4mm or so long (just typing that puts me off the project massively).

[Stomm]

Actually having one of the FW fortresses I can tell you that the model itself was almost certainly built solid, and then the 'blocks' attached to the outside of the model.


Anyway, I've got 1/2 an hour before I have to pick the girls up from nursery, I'm afraid that puffy eyes, etc... (bloody cold!) mean that I'm going to crash out with a bowl of ice cream and either carry on watching 'The Return of the King' (it was on 4HD and is taking up space on my V+ box), or go and play a bit on the computer. I might change my painting water for tonight though...

[jchaos79]

pw I dont understand complety the point of the "wall", if you are searching for something like barricades pendraken has wonderful and very pretty ones. They are scaled to 10mm and the width is just a warmaster base. They are a little hidden in the pendraken list because belong to range of figures of WWII.

I do recomend them. I use them with empire list as parapetes (10 points) need an order to deploy them, count the unit as defended. When the unit moves, they leave the parapetes and are remove of the game.

(I hope that is what you are looking for.... because not, I just tell you a nice story )

The pic is during a game (the biscuit cardboard is crop-land  ) (curiosity: these little dudes were my second ever painted unit of warmaster )