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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Wirelizard on 19 June 2017, 06:35:37 PM
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I've already got a thread over in Flouncy Shirts about my Pikeman's Lament-powered ECW project (right over here (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=100100.0)) and a related Workshop thread on scenery (that one's here (http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=100029.0)) but Army Painter 2017 seems like a good framework/excuse/whatever to power through the whole collection of partially painted figures I've got on the go.
Currently the collection is all Warlord stuff and I theoretically have enough units assembled or waiting to be built to get me through the entire AP2017 season, although some of TAG's ECW/TYW line look kind of tempting to add some variety; from what I've seen they're a good match with Warlord size & style wise.
This might well shade over into various flavours of gunpowder fantasy, from witch or werewolf hunting to, well, much stranger things. I've already got a Warlord officer figure that looks an awful lot like a spellcaster with a staff to me, all I'd have to do is chop the head off his halberd and maybe put something else in it's place, and the Witchhunter General rules from Warlord look interesting... or a crossover of Pikeman's Lament & Dragon Rampant, which share the same basic core rules?
We shall see, and hopefully we'll see some fully painted and finished ECW units out of this at least!
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Not a period I've yet gamed so I hadn't seen your prior work but I really like those buildings! Best of luck on making progress, I know I can certainly do better than I did last year (can't do worse than zero ;) )
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I suppose you could do worse than zero, theoretically. If either by accident or in a fit of rage you smote all the models you had bought with a hammer, or cast them into an abyss, you would have made negative progress. :)
Looking forward to seeing some Seventeenth Century shenanigans on this page. Stranger things, eh? Puts one in mind of A Field in England, though Heaven knows how one would go about gaming that.
Anyway, Good luck!
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I suppose you could do worse than zero, theoretically. If either by accident or in a fit of rage you smote all the models you had bought with a hammer, or cast them into an abyss, you would have made negative progress. :)
I'll try to avoid that, no worries. Ending a project like this with a negative "score" would be a downer...
Looking forward to seeing some Seventeenth Century shenanigans on this page. Stranger things, eh? Puts one in mind of A Field in England, though Heaven knows how one would go about gaming that.
Anyway, Good luck!
Just watched the trailer for A Field In England - that looks interesting! Will have to look for the full length film - even if it isn't specifically gameable the general inspiration can still be used!
One of my other inspirations is Mad Lord Snapcase's glorious Belstone project over in our Gothic forum: http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=94488.0
The start is going to be fairly straight historical ECW troops, though, and possibly an imagi-shire (like an imagi-nation, only smaller and more English!) to provide some background.
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TAG announced their prices are going up early in July, so I took advantage of their current pricing to get a culverin battery pack with the culverin, eight crew, some detailing bits, and a few gabions for a bit of field fortifications. I also picked up a falconette so the same crew can man a lighter gun if desired.
That pretty much finishes off the purchasing I need to do for this project, I think! (yeah, yeah, never say never...)
Total list of units/figures at this point, off the top of my head:
- 12 medium cav
- 12 curaissier cav
- 24 pikemen
- 36 musketeers
- 18 firelock musketeers
- 2 guns with enough crew to run either of them; I could pad the crew with a couple of musketeers or something if I really wanted both of them on the table at the same time...
- at least 8 various command figures/characters, in addition to musicians and such that I've counted among the regular infantry above...
Once everything is assembled, based, and painted I think it'll be enough for at least two, possibly three, coherent Pikeman's Lament 24pt forces.
The only thing missing is figures explicitly meant as dragoons; for now I'll fake dragoon units with medium cav figures and musketmen/firelock muskets.
Now, if only an ongoing family health crisis wasn't eating most of my spare time and spare brain power...
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Looks like a fun project. Looking forward to your progress!
Good luck on the family health front. That is always a tough issue.
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Actually got some painting time in over the weekend, for what feels like the first time in weeks...
Lots of slow assembly-line progress on a bunch of pike & musketeers (about thirty all told) that were already half painted, so didn't bother trying for a photo of them.
I also started the first unit of firelock musketeers. Decided to go with a mustard yellow sort of colour, just because, with their officer in dark red.
I've also got a lot of the base layer down on the Warlord mounted officer. Decided to set myself the challenge of doing a black horse, black clothing, and black hair. Possibly also black leather on the horse harness/tack, but I haven't gotten that far yet.
(http://i.imgur.com/fMxObQr.jpg)
The horse, hat, and sleeveless coat got a base coat of 50:50 Pure Black & Walnut Brown, thinned slightly more than usual. Then I added a bit of Rainy Grey to the mix for the current highlight on the coat and hat.
The horse got GW Nuln Oil wash over everything, and then the coat (but not the mane or tail) got a layer of India Ink to give it the glossy black look it's currently got.
So far I'm really pleased with how the mounted guy is going, and the mustard uniforms are growing on me.
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Go for it. :)
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Good to see some figures to go with the buildings 8)
cheers
James
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Great start
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Thanks, folks.
Here, nowhere near finished but at least well along, is Warlord's "Mounted Commander", slouching along with a drink in one hand and a walloping huge broadsword on his hip. I set myself the painting challenge of doing a black horse and a black coat and hat on the rider (and black hair on him too) and so far it's coming along nicely.
(http://i.imgur.com/WmWkznM.jpg)
The trick, insofar as there is one, is not to use black. Most of his coat and hat are a mix of Walnut Brown (a very, very dark almost-black brown) and just a bit of Rainy Grey, with more grey for the highlights, and a bit of pure black for shadowing.
His horse is Walnut Brown mixed with pure black for the base, then diluted India Ink over just the hide, avoiding the mane and tail. The mane and tail are Pure Black, a bit of Rainy Grey mixed with Pure Black for the highlighting done so far, then GW Nuln Oil black wash.
I'll get him finished this week, probably, hopefully along with a whole pile of pike & shot for him to command!
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A very good start to your ECW figures, I love that mounted commander in black.
One of my other inspirations is Mad Lord Snapcase's glorious Belstone project over in our Gothic forum
Very kind of you to say so, I am planning to get back to that soon. I've got lots more Dartmoor legends to add to that thread. Good luck with your project.
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Lovely! This has got me watching my DVD set of "The Devil's Whore." Maybe a bit careless with the history, but jolly good fun watching Simm, Fassbender and co. in full 17th Century mode. Those two guys are always worth watching, even when the thing they are in is rubbish. Oh, and a great turn by Peter Capaldi as Charlie 1. The Doctor vs. the Master, who knew at the time?
You better not drag me into starting another project. That's the last bloody thing I need. :)
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Lovely! This has got me watching my DVD set of "The Devil's Whore." Maybe a bit careless with the history, but jolly good fun watching Simm, Fassbender and co. in full 17th Century mode. Those two guys are always worth watching, even when the thing they are in is rubbish. Oh, and a great turn by Peter Capaldi as Charlie 1. The Doctor vs. the Master, who knew at the time?
You better not drag me into starting another project. That's the last bloody thing I need. :)
:D I'm starting to hunt down ECW-related movies and such for inspiration; thanks for adding "The Devil's Whore" to the list... so many bad nominally-17th C movies!
In more local news, I've finished the first unit of foot for this project, a dozen pikemen in blue.
(http://i.imgur.com/0gZ9VQC.jpg)
There's another dozen pikemen (these ones in green) almost finished, as well as some muskets in blue to go along with the blue pike. Commander dude on his big black horse is also inching along toward completion, and I might actually have time this Sunday to get a game of Pikeman's Lament in, which would be awesome.
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Great stuff :)
cheers
James
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Those guys look great. The more pics you post, the more sorely tempted I am to get into this sort of thing. Must fight it!
Those helmets look great. Not too shiny but still a real nice metallic look to them.
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It lives!
Well, sort of.
A massive case of Real Life (extended family health crisis) and other hobbies have meant that I haven't touched a paintbrush or rolled a die, pretty much, since the last time I updated this thread sometime in July. I did a little bit of scenery building but even that started gathering dust in early September.
Painting mojo has been regained, though, and I am renewing my attempt at actually getting all these ECW figures usable and on the table!
I sorted the ongoing infantry and realized that a bunch of stuff was really close to complete, so I cranked through the paint and flock they needed this afternoon.
(https://i.imgur.com/gKPY8Am.jpg)
That's a full unit of 12 pike on the far right, six musketeers to the left of them, six firelockmen (in yellow) on the corner of the cutting mat, all finished except for spray varnish!
The single figure in the foreground is the last green-coated musketeer I need to field a full unit of 12 greencoat musketeers finally, and on the far left of this photo is part of another unit of 12 musketeers in blue coats, to go with the blue pike finished ages ago.
I'm not working until January so I might actually get a full Pikeman's Lament force (24 points) entirely finished by the end of 2017 with a bit of luck...
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Nice one, lovely colours on them and the basing looks good too.
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Great to see you back at this project.*thumbs up*
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Good to see it coming together as a project. I did pretty much the same in my painting project, only getting some traction in December as I was off quite a bit. Hopefully you get enough time to finish this year.
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Three days past the end of 2017 (but who's counting...) I've actually finished enough figures to field a standard 24pt Pikeman's Lament force, with some options and even sensible troop choices!
Two units of shot, two of pike, one forlorn hope (firelock skirmishers), and two units of regular horse, all painted, based, and flocked. They still need spray varnish, but I'll get that done tonight. Next up is a second set of six firelock musketeers and my first troop of six fully armoured cuirassiers for heavy cavalry punch!
I also have enough officers/sergeants/musicians/etc to give me some unit composition options as well as for characters for doing ECW-era Pulp Alley.
I don't yet have a photo of all the finished ECW figures together, but the blog has a couple of progress photos from the last few days: http://www.warbard.ca/2018/01/02/happy-new-year/
I'll try for a photo of everything all together this evening.
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8) Nicely done!
(http://www.warbard.ca/files/ecw_3_31dec2017.jpg)
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8) Nicely done!
(http://www.warbard.ca/files/ecw_3_31dec2017.jpg)
Thanks! It's great to get this ECW force table-ready at long last, having bought the first figures for it back in early 2011!
Here's a quick and dirty late night shot of all the recently finished figures, having just been flocked.
(https://i.imgur.com/oWjj5h0.jpg)
Clockwise from top left, the yellow coats belong to six firelock musketeers. Then there's 12 horse in two troops of six, a dozen musketeers in green, a dozen pike in green, and finally another dozen muskets in blue.
The only finished unit not shown here is the dozen blue pike I finished in mid-2017.
Depending on how you field some of the muskets, this is 30+ points of stuff in Pikeman's Lament, with a standard game being 24 points a side. So not quite enough yet to put two complete forces on the table, but enough for a varied force with some options.
I've also finished some farm animals from Warbases.
(https://i.imgur.com/esNHA1W.jpg)
There's a flock of big geese on a 40mm round base on the left, and two bases of Soay sheep. Objectives or just scenery... or possibly an unexpected battlefield hazard, given how psycho geese can be!
In progress right now are the first six cuirassier heavy cavalry, another six firelocks, six character/officer figures of various sorts, and some more farm critters, including two workhorses.
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Congratulations on the progress. Looks like a nice force.