Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]

[pw]

I guess I'm trying to make some attractive stone walls to act as linear obstacles and help combat the power of cavalry in my games. Ideally I'd like them to look reasonably realistic and to mimic the GW Warhammer look as closely as possible.

In terms of height etc those obstacles look pretty much spot on. I think I might order some up soon. Thanks for the pics.

[azrael71]

You can make some very nice log barricades using BBQ skewers and glue.
Just add a few WM off cuts and they look great and at a fraction of the cost.

Pugwash, those archers are great.
Loving the poses.

[pw]

A bit of a distraction from painting the Empire but anyway, here's my first attempt at a 10mm wall. Not perfect but my patience ran out for sculpting tiny bricks. Any suggestions for improvement will be very welcome.

[Lex]

A bit of a distraction from painting the Empire but anyway, here's my first attempt at a 10mm wall. Not perfect but my patience ran out for sculpting tiny bricks. Any suggestions for improvement will be very welcome.

use 3mil foamcard and replace some of the outer layer on either side. On the exposed foam use a sharp pencil to score your brickwork and give that some collour, while the "card" areas can be used to represent whitewahs/dauble

[Lex]

Right, October has come and Heyou, Grand Pouhah of the Red Hand tribe is back for some more colour after gettin a tan (see my Gallery Thread for some more info on Heyou and the tribe of the Red Hand).

As you all know I mentioned that I would have bit of a time-box problem during the end of September and early october. So I figure it was not more then fair to make sure I have evidence...


It turned out that Heyou managed to get some troops to stow away in my luggage to raid Khemri, although technicaly speaking they already have a "tan"


So whilst they were along anyway, I figured to wine and dine them


You will notice that I am strictly speaking not working on one unit at a time




This has to do with the fact that this will be my first try at using Armypainter, hence I am preparing 8 units of Horsearchers and 3 units of Archers, as wel as a command stand




Oh yeah... I mentioned before I figure I have a sollution for the Bears unit (as well as an alternative for the Warwagon)


I will use

to sculpt and cast me some Hairy Squigoths, which can double as bears, and probably as mounts for my Knight units too, whilst the upperstructure will work well as (part of) a Warwagon....

[jchaos79]

pw: these wall looks pretty good

Lex: looking forward to see how army painter works on 10mm. I have real curiosity

[Lex]

Lex: looking forward to see how army painter works on 10mm. I have real curiosity

Me too, so keeping a foto-log of all steps will be to everyones benifit 

Depending on weather I will have all units prepared for washapplication this OR next weekend (if weather stays fair enough I have a chapionship game this afternoon and a tournament tomorrow, in which case painting will be pushed to the evenings of the comming week)

[azrael71]

Lex, I am really interested how the army painter will work out.
I toyed with it for my O&G's but after a few trials thought it would be quicker to just use my normal methods.
I spoke to a GD entrant last week whose painting standard is fantastic.
They were doing a 28mm demo of army painter so I asked about their thoughts on using it on 10mm.
They thought that dipping may not be apllicable but painting the wash on may work.
I look forward to your findings.

Mick

[pw]

Thje closest I've seen to dipped WM was an orc army that had been basecoated and inked all over with the old GW brown ink. They looked good to me but my attempt to do the same was awful. I guess it's all down to the colours of the base coat. I'm also looking forward to the results.

[Guthwine]

One of our dwarf players in the club has used the fanatic army painter for his dwarfs and they look very good. Which is really was surprising as I thought it would only fit to dark armies like chaos and others.

[Lex]

Well, today's weather was good and so I ended up taking a championship ..... at around 16:00 this afternoon, with the rest of the time dedicated to celebrating sosI wont be taking the next step tomorrow, but during the next week....

Camera is ready and I will keep a picture log of results !

[azrael71]

Had a few days off painting goblins so decided to finish off my 2 siege trebuchets I bought last week.




This week, I will be working on my squiggoth I think.

[m4jumbo]

Ostland Week 5 contribution.  SOmething other than halberdiers this week.  Some serious fire power gets added to the Ostland army of Baron Oskar von Hellman in the form of two units of great cannons.   

These were fun to work on, like making a small diorama.  The pictures could have turned out better.  I may see if I can retake them and update them later. 

[jchaos79]

Well, monday and I show you my 6 week contibution.

- It is a liche on chariot. The liche is a mummy and the chariot is pulled by two big jackals... (animal very realated with the dead world in egyptian mythology... anubis the jackal-head, and so on)...... So, just enjoy it

[azrael71]

This weeks output, my squiggoth with a rabble of goblins in the howdah.