Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]

[pw]

The postman brought me another WM gift parcel today containing the last two knight I needed for my Inner Circle knights (thanks Stomm). Stomm's comment that they would look too samey struck a cord so I've spent the last hour ignoring my halberdiers (poor unloved grunts) and trying my hand at some minor green stuff work. Here's the result (they look samey but in a slightly different way):



I'll give the GS a couple of days to harden and then revisit these with a knife to sharpen all the edges up a bit. Hopefully a lick of paint will conceal the messier bits. If anyone has any ideas for how to convert the riders a little I'd be happy to hear them.

[lilith]

uhm any solution for a newbye on photos? 

[pw]

Hi lilith. Stomm's got it right, you simplyu need to add the img tags around the links you've already got. If you are using photobucket you can resize pics there with the edit pictures button and they'll show up at a more browser friendly size. Smaller pics also give a fairer sense of the paint job too. Have a go and see if it works, you can always modify your posts so don't worry if you mess up. Once you've got it it's really easy. Oh, and photobucket even has the img coded link ready prepared in the 'share' section.

[jchaos79]

pw: These unit will be impresive when painted. Glad to see you finally get all the pieces! Inner circle? has it some background that we should know?

uhm any solution for a newbye on photos?  

lilith, I do not have imageshack but have photobucket. I think the two programs will let you make similiar options.

In photobucket, when you put the cursor on a image a display appears. The options are " email" "direct link" " HTML code" "IMG code". The one you are looking for is IMG code. just make a copy paste in the message text and the pic appear. Before post you can always type crl+p to see a preview of your message.

Other option is use the insert image botton (second form left two right, second row) and copy the html code inside, as stomm suggested.

Other option is use the attach option of the additional options if your image is less of 500Kb

I have notice that the width of the pic should be 20cm to fit the box without the annoying slide bar in the bottom. 15cm of width also looks pretty good.

In my humble opinion (maybe the opinion of the moderator of this subforum will count more than mine) you could open a thread in these subforum to post your old pics. The people should comment the main month thread to put the progress of the week and comment, ask, look for suggestions, and so on... All of these is explain somewhere in this subforum.

hope I could explain myself
So if you are joining us in the tale, let my welcome you

[jchaos79]

Azrael: Those svage orcs looks fantastic! I have never seen the figures. Glad to see them.

pw: I like the metallic rusty aspect of the helblaster! I always imagine it in bronze and brass (as I have painted mine), but I have to see steal looks great

[lilith]

i try this way then

[Stomm]

Just quote me, and you'll see the code that you need to achieve the above.

[lilith]

lol finally i beat my newbienes , ok now i try to post other photos

[Stomm]

The postman brought me another WM gift parcel today containing the last two knight I needed for my Inner Circle knights (thanks Stomm). Stomm's comment that they would look too samey struck a cord so I've spent the last hour ignoring my halberdiers (poor unloved grunts) and trying my hand at some minor green stuff work. Here's the result (they look samey but in a slightly different way):

Well I'm glad they got to you so soon, I only popped them in the post yesterday morning. Well actually my youngest daughter popped them into the postbox itself, and she was a lot better in the que than her sister, who has a tendency to roam around trying to nick packets of sweets or nuts from the shelves...

I'll give the GS a couple of days to harden and then revisit these with a knife to sharpen all the edges up a bit. Hopefully a lick of paint will conceal the messier bits. If anyone has any ideas for how to convert the riders a little I'd be happy to hear them.

Some basic scultping tips. Put the figures under a lamp for five minutes to cure them, it literally bakes it hard. You then need to leave it for a further five minutes to cool down and fully harden.

To get a clean line, use a scalpel when sculpting, and use vaseline to coat your tools. Some people swear by spit, I've tried both, and water, and vasaline is definately the best in my opinion. It stops the green stuff from sticking and making a gloopy mess. Just remember to wash it off before you add more, or undercoat, etc...


As for how to convert the riders? Well maybe add a ribbon or two, change the feathers maybe. You don't want to go too far, otherwise you'll just be replicating the standard knights and then the whole point of using these guys will have been lost...

[lilith]

uff the giant and lobber are too flashy , maybe better do another picture later.
The giant , lobber and wyvern are from 3 or 4 years ago the rest is started 3 days ago (the green flock orc , wolf riders and gobbo was based same time giant , but finished to paint yesterday)

the chariot are now finished but the photo are from this afternoon maybe tomorrow i post them finished.

Pls some comments , with all the problem this photo give me some consideration is needed

[jchaos79]

You have a pretty army!

I particulary like the goblins wolf riders. And also the goblin shaman.

[lilith]

thanks , today i try to fihish a pair of troll unit and a boar boyz

[pw]

Inner circle? has it some background that we should know?

In Warhammer Inner Circle Knights are the elite knights so this unit will probably be used with a magic weapon to represent that. I'm also hoping to hit on a paint scheme that will make them stand out a little. I'll have to look through the Warhammer Empire army book to see if I can get any inspiration. At the moment I'm thinking of giving them more gold than the other units and maybe painting the barding in red but I'm concerned that that might look a bit silly. I'll get a spare knight sprayed up and have a go at colour schemes soon.

@lilith: That looks like an impressive army and now that they're smaller it's harder to find fault. I'd perhaps tidy up the base edges on a couple of them. Remembering the larger pics some looked a little grainy from what I assume was drybrushing but now that they're not blown up to huge sizes that isn't obvious at all. I guess if I were drybrushing stuff I might go for a thin ink glaze to smooth things out but that might well be taking things too far! With so much to show you could start up your own 'Gallery' style thread in this forum for the army so far. And please do keep showing stuff in the monthly thread as things get painted.

[lilith]

goblin have a ink wash passage (the light don't help uff) and also the character , and chariot (today i post the final photo of them).

here some troll and the finished chariot

[jchaos79]

pw: thanks I did not know about the existence of inner circle. I like the idea of make a specific unit