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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #45 on: October 12, 2009, 01:56:42 PM »
Greetings!

Here is my update as well, another unit of archers:



This week I decided to paint second unit of Phoenix Guard, as I like the miniatures very much. :)

BTW, great job people, good to see new units painted. :)

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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #46 on: October 12, 2009, 02:53:24 PM »
PW: Ah, I thought you were talking about making a castle or fortress wall... If you're making yourself some linear obstacles like that, I may as well suggest that you get yourself some air drying latex, some two part resin, some lego blocks and a well ventilated garage, shed or spare bedroom and cast yourself up a full set. If you've ever been to WHW you will notice that pretty much all of their terrain is custom made, then reporduced in resin, which works really well for walls, and even moreso for the Mordheim tables they've put together, bloody great they are if I do say so myself...

Lex: I'm guessing you were in Egypt for the scuba diving... Out of interest, why the light tan undercoat?

azrael71: Nice trebuchets, although the sculpting is rather 'basic' isn't it? I don't see even the slightest hint of wood grain, etc... The Squiggoth is nice as well, is that an Epic Forgeworld one BTW?

m4jumbo: Mmmm, cannons... Not much more to say really, as IMHO there is no such thing as too many cannons... Very nice and effective, although I'm not sure if I would have done all white wheels. As and when I ever get around to painting a unit of WM Averland cannons or other artillery, I am likely to either leave the wood parts painted all black, or possibly paint the spokes and things like that box yellow, leaving the rest of the carriage and the rim of the wheels black. I've left my WH Averland artillery all-black, with the yellow being partially represented by the bronze on the guns themselves (ok I know, really its more brown-orange).

jchaos79: My those are big Jackels.... The only criticism I can really say is that perhaps they look a little too alive? Other than that, great idea...


Swordmaster: Again, nice neat High Elves. The blue and gold scheme seems to work really well. I might however suggest that you bring the browns on your wood almost to white. Currently the sort of I'm guessing vomit brown that you're using has a tone very close to the gold that you are using, but then of course that may be your intent anyway...

I do like the blue-washed scale armour BTW, I think it ties in with the blue fabric very well, and is that a gold trim I detect?

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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #47 on: October 12, 2009, 03:13:52 PM »

Lex: I'm guessing you were in Egypt for the scuba diving... Out of interest, why the light tan undercoat?

Because that was the undercoat-can I had at hand at the time. I figured I would use the tan as a base colour for "something" once I would be painting these up (and they where always meant to be a proxy-kislev army), so I decided to have my gobs a tad more yellowish..   for the same reason I undercoated my Slaaneshi troops pink.....  less to paint that way  ;)

And yes, Egypte for beach holiday, which includes some diving and lots of snorkling .... (and some Sakara.....)

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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #48 on: October 12, 2009, 05:27:46 PM »
lol i just see now this funny thread , i become to paint my army just yesterday (in reality i've painted some years ago a giant , warboss on wyvern and a rock lobber) my huge orc army. Ok i try to put some photos when i finished some model, for what i rember now my collection is 2 unit of chariot , 6 goblin , 8 orc, 1 black orc , 12 charac +2 boar chariot , 3 troll  unit , 1 ogre , 2 wolf boyz , 1 boar boyz , another lobber . But some other stuff have to arrive me , and maybe i forgot to write something else. Now i'm going to paint them.

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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #49 on: October 13, 2009, 09:02:16 AM »
@lilith: Welcome aboard, I'm looking forward to seeing the Orcs, they're some of my favourite WM figures (although I'm not sure I'd enjoy being their general!

@Stomm: I'll put a picture of the wall so far below, do you think it'd cast up in its present form? It's got small gaps that might cause problems.

@Swordmaster: Those are my favourite of your elves so far. Is something slightly different? The bases? They look great as they are but I think I'd also try them with lighter bows (perhaps bleached bone leaving the current colour as shading around the hands and highlighted with some white added in).

@azrael: What a nice toy! In the spirit of making good stuff 'more gooderer' I have two thoughts: 1) I wonder what it'd look like with a wooden howdah (more Warhammerey?) and 2) I'd stuff even more gobbos in, the look cool riding on the back of such a beast!

@M4jumbo: I like the white wheels, very bling!

@Jchaos: Once again I'm enjoying your painting. Your style is really distinctive and works really well.

@Lex: I'm just too jealous to comment at all. I see Beers, Pringles, snorkles....

And finally, before my pics, thanks to Jorge for the brilliant Warrior Priest. When I get the courage up I'm going to drill out his hands and give him the hammer. And thanks to Jorge (again) and Stomm for the knights, they'll be the next unit painted once I finish the long slog of painting a unit of Halberdiers.

Ok, the pictures:
Helblaster:


And a helblaster hiding behind a wall:

(as you can see I added another layer of bricks, this time slightly rounded in profile).

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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #50 on: October 13, 2009, 10:20:20 AM »
@Stomm: I'll put a picture of the wall so far below, do you think it'd cast up in its present form? It's got small gaps that might cause problems.

Well you'd probably get maybe ten castings before the mould breaks, and of course it would be a right bugger to separate when first made.

I feel that I should give a quick text guide to mould-making. Even though I have never actually done so myself, I have been to Tiranti's, bought the casting kit and read up on it, I even subscribed to the 1list sculpting list, sculpted a few things but haven't yet managed to find the time to take it any further. I am hoping that this will change in January, so instead of doing a Masters (which will cost money we don't really have, and frankly I wouldn't know what courses to apply for anyway) with the extra time that having both girls in nursery more prior to my likely re-entry to the full-ish-time job market in 2011, I'm going to have a go at sculpting and of course spending some more time painting, oh and getting more work done in the garden, oh and of course doing the odd-jobs around the house that have been left uncompleted for two years, oh and of course taking on an allotment, oh, and well you get the picture...


Anyway, rambling about my lack of time aside. There are much better qualified people here to talk about casting things, as they've actually put theory into practice. But basically when making the mould you cover one half with plasticise in a hollow box made with lego bricks. Then you pour in the air drying latex, and then when its cured reverse the process ensuring that you've got plenty of release fluid on the existing latex. Make sure you have some holes to secure the two halves together using bolts or something, and then of course cut pour and air channels, and there you go, one mould for mass producing walls. Make enough of them and you can flog them on ebay for a couple of quid. Well that's my plan eventually anyway ;)



And finally, before my pics, thanks to Jorge for the brilliant Warrior Priest. When I get the courage up I'm going to drill out his hands and give him the hammer. And thanks to Jorge (again) and Stomm for the knights, they'll be the next unit painted once I finish the long slog of painting a unit of Halberdiers.



No problem. I actually think that it's an interesting choice for a unit. Personally I don't like the 'identikit' look, hence why I'm not that great a fan of the HE Swordmaster or Phoenix Guard units, as they're just the same figure repeated, and repeated, and repeated...

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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #51 on: October 13, 2009, 10:35:38 AM »
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Personally I don't like the 'identikit' look, hence why I'm not that great a fan of the HE Swordmaster or Phoenix Guard units, as they're just the same figure repeated, and repeated, and repeated...

I'm not sure I will either, so far I've gone to great lengths to get variety in my units (clipping my crossbowmen from their strips just to mix them up for example) but when I saw that I had managed to acquire 8 of this figure in an ebay accident (I thought they were 'normal' knights) I thought I'd give it a go. If nothing else they'll look suitably different from the other units. watch this space and we'll see how it turns out.

Oh, and as for mold making. That sounds like it might be more work than just making the walls and unless I put them up for sale probably more expensive too (and while I like them I don't think they're quite good enough for that). I think I see a few evenings of cutting up bricks ahead of me!

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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #52 on: October 13, 2009, 11:38:47 AM »
As an aside I finally managed to fit in a little bit of painting yesterday. Literally ten minutes worth (had to set the countdown timer on my phone) whilst the youngest was having her nap, with the eldest at nursery all day. And then after I'd finished the washing up, etc... at 10:15, I did about 45 minutes of painting much to my wife's annoyance. I'm sure that one of these days she will figure out that the time that I can start winding down in the evening is directly in proportion to the time I will finally come to bed...

So, I've now painted the leather straps and saddle on the horse harness on that character stand. If I can get any more done tonight, then I may even finish the thing....

But, with all this talk of the Winter Warmer, and the fact that it is actually before the Historical Wargames Campaign Weekend, I might, just might switch my painting focus from my WMA army to finishing my WM Empire army off for the WW composition rules. This will likely just involve finishing off two units of crossbows, my mortars and maybe one or two Halberdier units, plus of course retouching existing battle damage, applying static grass and maybe even varnish...


So, what are people's thoughts on this? If I do switch I want to ensure that I've finished at least one of my Legion units and this character first though. And then of course assuming that I manage to finish things off before Xmas, or at least before the onset of spring, I will of course switch back to the Romans...


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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #53 on: October 13, 2009, 01:01:10 PM »
I'd switch, there's nothing like a tournament deadline to get painting done (I'm hoping to have my army finished in time for the WW myself).

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I'm sure that one of these days she will figure out that the time that I can start winding down in the evening is directly in proportion to the time I will finally come to bed...
That's true in my house too but I{'m not so sure it'll ever be figured out!

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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #54 on: October 13, 2009, 02:46:11 PM »
As always great work here.
I think the high elf alt models are far superior to the standard (faulty) spearman.
If I could get enough I would redo my entire High Elf army with them.

Loving all the empire work going on.

I did think about doing a wooden howdah, but then thought, why not a metal one.
This wekk RL painting is impinging on my painting time so probably my last offering for this week;
One unit of savage orc boar boyz.




The other five standard ones are undercoated and the armour painted, so I may get some more done.
Anyway off to sand some skirting boards :)

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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #55 on: October 13, 2009, 04:37:02 PM »

I think the high elf alt models are far superior to the standard (faulty) spearman.
If I could get enough I would redo my entire High Elf army with them.

Well certainly as far as durability is concerned, they are miles ahead of the released HE Spearmen. However, I have seen Stephan Hess' HE Spearmen 'in the flesh' so to speak (he mounted them on clear plastic bases), and they are pre-release production samples. They all have ribbons, etc... wound around the spear-tips and the top of the spear shafts, and needless to say they are far more durable than that models that somehow made it to production instead. Something tells me there was a bit of a cock-up with that....


This wekk RL painting is impinging on my painting time so probably my last offering for this week;
One unit of savage orc boar boyz.


Nice, were they an alternative unit? I remember the Spider Riders, but for some reason memory of Savage Orcs just aren't there...

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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #56 on: October 13, 2009, 06:40:37 PM »
hy i post some of my initiated army , 3 pieces was painted some years ago (giant , 1 lobber , wyvern) some
was based and started to paint (the stand with all goblin green flock) and the other i just started to flock and basing 2 days ago , in a couple of days i've ended the started units (2 gobbos , 2 wolfrider , 2 orc) and near finished 2 unit of chariot , now i put some photos.

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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #57 on: October 13, 2009, 07:41:44 PM »
hy i post some of my initiated army , 3 pieces was painted some years ago (giant , 1 lobber , wyvern) some
was based and started to paint (the stand with all goblin green flock) and the other i just started to flock and basing 2 days ago , in a couple of days i've ended the started units (2 gobbos , 2 wolfrider , 2 orc) and near finished 2 unit of chariot , now i put some photos.

Can you embed the images please? You just need to use the (img) (/img) tag either side of the image .url, replacing the ( and ) with [ and ]

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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #58 on: October 13, 2009, 08:15:04 PM »
ehm , i'm not good with forum photography i'haven't understand what i've to change , did you see the photo if click on the link? howhever here other photo

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Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]
« Reply #59 on: October 13, 2009, 08:17:56 PM »
I saw the pictures by clicking the links, its just that clicking through is a pain in the backside, so we decided to include the pictures in our posts rather than put links to them, like so:




Actually, that picture is too big anyway. I find that the medium sized ones are about right, or the ones that you get when you click through to the gallery, rather than the larger file sizes that might be available. Basically it needs to be able to fit on even my little notebook screen without any scroll bars...