Tale of Warmaster Painters [October]

[azrael71]

Anyone know of a good source for orc/gobbo banners?

[jchaos79]

Anyone know of a good source for orc/gobbo banners?

That is a dificult question for me... The times that I painted a banner for the greenskins I look a lot of books, but I finally end going to the middle earth motives (red eye, red fortress, so on...)

I try to get inspiration to the banners in the following:
- Tolkien besteary. A book of David Day
- Workshop references of late 80' to mid/end 90' --> you know... white dwarf, 'eavy metal articles, so on...
- Gamebooks of fantasy and scifi (not RPG, I refere to those books you can choose the number of the page to going on reading) particulary the Steve Jackson. They have outstanding illustrations.
- When fantasy, I use to seek a historical army with the same mood, and then try to twist or deform his banner to take it into fantasy. Example: greenskins could be banners of celtic, gauls, mongols, turminids (for all of you that plays total war), kazhar, plain indians...


so, I think I just tell you all my general sources for banners... hope that help, lets see what the rest of peopel says

[lilith]

the simplest is a maw with some long teefth. or a sun with an orc face inside (not simple to freehand , maybe better to find some old warhammer orc codex and copy the banner inside) , for gobbo the yellow moon with face , or wolf with a mountain on the back.

[eastern barbarian]

 tink orc glyphs from wh 4-k are quite good as well. I used white lightning on red background for my boar boys.

[lilith]

today's work another lobber and another troll unit

[jchaos79]

Very nice, specially the river trolls. Did you move the drybrush to washes?

Anyway, How do you texturize the bases?
I like them a lot, and the "long grass" islands over the "muddy" texture goes really well with the army.

[lilith]

all the army is washed and then drybrsuhed but my photo skill suck so you didn't notice the wash effect on most of my army      for tha base i flcoked it then  basecoted black then 2 drybrush of brown and lighter borwn and finally add some grass and muddy effect is a little black ink on them

[jchaos79]

A suggestion: to balance the colour of the pic you could use photoshop (autobalance or histogram manually) or even the microsoft photo editor that I think it come with windows pack. Then adjust the bright, contrast and gamma value to enhance your paint.

[jchaos79]

Here I show you my second in the tale (third in the army) unit of bowskellies, straight from the SandLands to your monitor screens. A little challange, who knows where is the skelleton without head (skull)?

[Carrington]

Here I show you my second in the tale (third in the army) unit of bowskellies, straight from the SandLands to your monitor screens. A little challange, who knows where is the skelleton without head (skull)?

Far stand, front row, second from left?

Nothing like the arm's length rule.

A while back I sold about three blisters of Skellie archers to Moscovian -- he wanted the skulls for Necron conversions.

I don't know what became of the remains of the miniatures.

[jchaos79]

All Right!

But I forgot to put the plural in the question.... because there are two decapitaded archers...

ufff What a good luck to be an undead army, because in other armies having two figures without head due to mould faults were inacceptable... but undead still fighting without head. No one can kill the death            

Klaatu barada nikto!! boo its magic

[azrael71]

Here is the first part of this weeks installment
5 units of boar riders to go with the one from last week.









I will also be hopefully completing my wolf/boar chariots this week.
But to start with here is a goblin hero on a wolf chariot.



Thanks for the advice on banners.

[m4jumbo]

In catch up mode again..... Week 6 Ostland army muster is the Baron's Guard Halberdier unit.  These are the personal Guard for Baron Von Hellman and as such they wear a different variation of uniform.  To set them appart from the standard Ostland units, the Baron's Guard uniform color is black and red with white highlights. 





Once I find a good "Bull's Head" decal (hopefully in white) I will add that to the standard.  Anyone know of a source for appropriately sized Bull decals? 

I think I should have done a wash on the red uniforms to give it more depth.  Oh well. 

These are the last of the halberdier units for this 2000 point block, I can't say I'm sick of painting them, but it will be nice to move onto other units.  A unit of Crossbowmen is already in process for this week.

[pw]

More nice painting that makes me feel like I'm lagging behind somewhat. What is it about you Orc painters that makes you so fast? Hopefully I'll finish my second unit of halberds tonight, base them on Thurs and have them posted here by the weekend just in time!

For Bulls head transfers you could try VVV transfers. I've not used them myself but there seem to be some bulls in there: http://www.3vwargames.co.uk/

@jchaos: Yet again I find I'm admiring your style. The one area that I think lets them down a little is the bases - I'd love to see one of your units based up in a way that covered the tabs with fake 'earth' texture and had tidier grass on it. For me it's the basing that really makes almost any scale of miniatures come to life and it seems to be something that WM painters often save time on.

[jchaos79]

M4jumbo: I can not point you to a specific Bull head decal, but bull head was a very typical symbol use in greek shields between the VII-II centry b.C. (classic greeks and geometric greeks) . I could figure out that there are out there tons of 15mm decays for this period, and some of them should have the bull head.

hope it helps