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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Mallo on June 27, 2019, 02:58:08 PM
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I've returned to WFB from having been playing AoS, having regretfully not gotten to play any 8th edition before. I was active in the hobby during the 8th edition period but due to a severe case of life getting in the way, I never really got to enjoy the hobby in what would otherwise had been my favourite period of warhammer! With more space & time in my life now I intend to correct this!
Though I've mainly only used citadel miniatures for my armies before, this is something else that I intend to correct. I'll be pushing out and away from citadel stuff in the future. Though I have a fairly large collection most of which still needs painting, there are some huge gaps in my collection and rather than keep relying on GW to not keep ditching models or raising prices, I'll be swapping out to some of the other ranges, warlord games & oathmark models espcailly. We're also thinking of trying out some other games like frostgrave and fitting them in-between our narrative campaigns as part of the same narrative.
I'm in charge of painting up all the armies in our house, and so as too not overload myself (as has often happened before) I'm going to paint them up in small 400-500pt forces and try and get some games in with them before moving on with the next unit. As the only painter in the house it can be a bit daunting- we have a huge collection of unpainted minis (I've been in the hobby since 1989 now and yet to still finish painting a full army for myself! o_o ) and have been eyeballing several other projects we have always wanted to do, but until now not had the time or space for! Being a bit of a hobby butterfly doesn't help either.
The first army I'll be painting for myself will be Gobbos! Goblins have always been my favourite army and to not refresh them first would be criminal! I'll finalise my list of the first 500pts or so in the next few days and add it in as a checklist for getting it painted! It will be a slow process as I love converting and intend to go to town on my goblins!
The first army my misses is having redone will be her High elves. She's been undecided between wood elves and high elves for days and has finally made her decision this evening! High elves being the most awkward as she's missing some key models, as well as not having any of it already painted or built (unlike the wood elves which we had already started on for AoS! ::) ) I've no idea what she intends to take right now, but more than likely it will be the lions of Chrace first!
Sorry for the wordy post! On to the more interesting stuff from here on out:
First off, here is a couple of the old pictures I saved from my old Warseer goblin project log. I was gifted a huge night goblin army back in the late days of 4th edition and while it was passible back then, it's taken a few too many knocks since and the painting quality is far below what I do now. It will be sad to see it stripped down, as it is an irreplaceable gift, but it's in a real sorry state (having survived something like 20+ moves including relocating overseas) and I'd like to see it back on the table, looking as menacing as it did so many years ago! Almost everything from that army is in the process of being stripped and repainted, but I've saved the few pictures for nostalgia.
Goblin Big boss on Wolf:
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/6/20/1014926_sm-Big%20Boss%20on%20wolf.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1014926-Big%20Boss%20on%20wolf.html)
This was the model I was most pleased off back in the day. Painted around 1999. A super simple conversion and the only time during the 90s I was happy with a paint job! I'm going to be very sad to have to repaint it, but it got badly dinged in the last move. His shield seems to vanish at some point as well!
Snotlings:
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/6/20/1014925_sm-Snotlings.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1014925-Snotlings.html)
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/6/20/1014927_sm-Snotlings%21%20.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1014927-Snotlings%21%20.html)
Part of the huge night goblin army I was gifted was a huge mass of snotlings (still one of the best sets of models GW ever did!) I had hundreds of them and all the swarm bases had slight conversions and other oddities and squigly beasts going on! It was one of the most special parts of the gift and so when it comes to repainting them all, I am going to try and recreate them exactly as they were!
And on to (brand) new stuff:
Gütz, The green swordsgrot:
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/6/20/1014924_sm-Snotling%20Warlord.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1014924-Snotling%20Warlord.html)
My snotling warboss! This is the second attempt at this conversion, I started making him probably back in 1999(ish) but he's been in and out of storage since then and the original body got too smashed up! I'm not much of a fan of sculpting, but I think I did a passable job, hopefully a careful paint job will sort out the issues with my poor sculpting! I've loved the idea of this conversion since I've started him and I'm really pleased to finally have him done and ready for painting!!
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Nice work.
Really like the snotling boss conversion
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Very sensible doing it in manageable chunks, which is something I will be doing myself soon.
I fully know the pitfalls of amassing a horde and not getting them done.
Gotta love those Snotlings (you MUST have a Pump Wagon!) and that boss Grot is brilliant.
Now that is going to be a lovely looking army when finished.
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Welcome back to the mayhem!
You have certainly chosen the right army to come back too.
:D
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I like your snotling boss a lot! WH 8th was too big for me personally. I rather like the crazy over the top 4th and the 6th. What makes 8th stand out for you if I may ask?
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Nice work.
Really like the snotling boss conversion
Thanks!
Very sensible doing it in manageable chunks, which is something I will be doing myself soon.
I fully know the pitfalls of amassing a horde and not getting them done.
Gotta love those Snotlings (you MUST have a Pump Wagon!) and that boss Grot is brilliant.
Now that is going to be a lovely looking army when finished.
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Welcome back to the mayhem!
You have certainly chosen the right army to come back too.
:D
Haha yeah I don't expect my plan to survive contact with my painting table, I'm already eyeing up some new conversion for other forces that I said I wouldn't work on until this first 500pts was done!
Got a pump wagon all ready stripped and almost ready to paint. Just need to cast a new wheel to replace one that got lost along the way and it will be good to go!
I like your snotling boss a lot! WH 8th was too big for me personally. I rather like the crazy over the top 4th and the 6th. What makes 8th stand out for you if I may ask?
Thanks!
When we decided to go back to WF, after playing AoS for the last few years, it was a toss up between 6th ed & 8th. While 6th has some amazing content (an insane amount really) it was the one edition I'd never really been involved with during my time with warhammer. I never got to play 8th, but i was involved in the hobby heavily during it's time, so have a fair bit of it in my collection, as well as having collected an awful lot of the large/monster kits from that era. The main deciding factor was that it (the rules) was already built around a lot of these large kits, which I want an excuse to paint. I think 8th got a bad rep, as it was neither space & cost friendly, as well as not being easy to break into as a new player. Cost & space is no longer an issue for me and I have a rather large collection of minis that need painting. Painting is my main part of the hobby so units of 100+ goblins are no longer the hobby bottleneck they once were. 500pt games of 8th play pretty fast, which should mean we can fit a couple of games in during a gaming session. The best thing is that if we find 8th stops working for us, we can always drop back to an earlier edition! One last minor thing is that a I'm a fan of the hardback army books and it would be nice to complete my collection of them, which I couldn't bring myself to do if they wouldn't see any use!
Got stuck into the basing for my first unit of wolf riders. The painted goblin was borrowed from one of my AoS warbands, he might stay or I might replace him outright as I don't want to repaint him, but I'm likely to go with the classic red goblin scheme for my old world gobbos, where my AoS ones have been blue.
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/6/21/1015078_sm-Wolf%20Rider%201.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1015078-Wolf%20Rider%201.html)
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/6/21/1015079_sm-Wolf%20Rider%202.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1015079-Wolf%20Rider%202.html)
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/6/21/1015080_sm-Wolf%20Rider%203.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1015080-Wolf%20Rider%203.html)
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/6/21/1015082_sm-Wolf%20Rider%205.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1015082-Wolf%20Rider%205.html)
I also painted this chap up a little while ago. He's meant to be a mushroom and squig leg seller from the outskirts of Mordheim. He was about to join my AoS warband, but having not gotten around to it yet I had yet to replace his base. Though his original square base still needs painting, I was always quite pleased the how the base turned out, being one of my very early attempts at green stuff, so he will likely be used in a unit in this old world project now, as I didn't want to see him torn apart anyway!
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/6/21/1015077_sm-Mordheim%20Gobbo.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1015077-Mordheim%20Gobbo.html)
And as one last bonus, this is a bunch of close ups I took of my AoS Grot warband for the miniature close up challenge ( #miniaturecloseup2019 ) earlier this year. There were far too many serious conversations going on about it and far too many people getting very worked up over it, so I injected a bit of snotling humour into the mix!
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/6/21/1015076_sm-Just%20Snotling%20Things.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1015076-Just%20Snotling%20Things.html)
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A couple of snotling bases done. I still have to paint the snail squig (I've not been able to prime him or anything else this week, as Irish summer is here, where a few days ago we had weather warnings for torrential rain & floods and now we have warnings for high temps!)
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/6/25/1015508_sm-Snotlings.jpg) (https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/1015508-Snotlings.html)
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This weeks update is that I built the first half of a unit of skeletons, and started putting together a few other undead models I had laying around! I have the first one painted to test the paint scheme but I'll have to wait till tomorrow to get decent photos now.
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I also wouldn't normally promote my personal blog in a painting thread, but as my WIP for this week was pretty much only building these skeletons from warlord games (ex wargames factory ones), I put out a wordy post up on my blog on them.
Long story, short: It took a couple of models for me to get the hang off them due to the slight difference in materials but otherwise, they are much better value than the GW skeletons! And turns out the feet & legs are numbered, which I didn't notice when I made the first one, as I Had the sprue upside down and didn't see the numbers! Oops! :D
https://frostgoblin.blogspot.com/2019/07/skeletons-thousands-of-em.html (https://frostgoblin.blogspot.com/2019/07/skeletons-thousands-of-em.html)
Sorry for the blog promotion, I tend to stay clear of that normally. I'll be getting pictures of the painted stuff from this week up asap!
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Pictures of the painted test skeleton and a couple of goblins. Please forgive the bad freehand around the goblin shield, as it was just for practice and not very good. I've never been very good at freehand and so I'm using spare space when I have it for practice.
I'm not a fan of stark white skeletons but also don't like it when they are too yellow either. It's also a pretty quick paint scheme, mostly done with washes and just a few other colours.
The goblins were given quick paint jobs and I didn't bother with their robes, as I had just wanted to try out some new tufts I had gotten, as well a bunch of new red paints. They can be tided up or redone at a later date.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W80S0mhTr_0/XShvE7wtezI/AAAAAAAAI-s/YAbIr871sogVsdNobDUHVZevBN_j_HPqQCEwYBhgL/s1600/IMG_20190712_111555.jpg)
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-STFNf8MXldY/XShvEy3-bOI/AAAAAAAAI-w/MLuMmtBH0U4S4cPc1MeIRW-fbUyWLdjKwCEwYBhgL/s1600/IMG_20190712_111424.jpg)
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First four skeletons completed! About 196 left to go!
(https://i.imgur.com/RfrGrsT.jpg)
I've never been very good at batch painting, so forcing myself to finally get the hang of it with these! First one was the test scheme and the next three were done at the same time! As I've spent most of my time painting one model at a time, three was an achievement! I'm going to do another couple of sets of three to get into some sort of pattern with them and then see if I can push the batch to five at a time! But I'm still pretty happy to have done three at once, such a step up from painting individual models!
I might even have enough done in time for using them with the upcoming oathmark rules!
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Looking good :)
Good luck with the other 196 lol
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Nice start on your huge backlog - good luck with that. Some nifty painting there.
On gaming, if you wanna go with 8th, go for it. That was the edition that killed the game, the buy-loads-of-models edition that finally killed the golden goose. So mixed memories of it for me. My group have switched to more skirmish style games for various reasons - Saga, Rampant and Erewhon - we recently tried a game of WHFB and man, it has not aged well. It's so clunky, and frustrating and damn slow compared to the others. I guess my point is that there are other games out there that can give you an Olde Worlde experience that are not WHFB. Warlords of Erewhon in particular has a real old style Warhammer feel to it, not surprising given Mr Priestley is the author. So maybe look into those, if you have the time in between painting 100's of figures. ;)
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Looking good :)
Good luck with the other 196 lol
Thanks! I'm going to need it!
Nice start on your huge backlog - good luck with that. Some nifty painting there.
On gaming, if you wanna go with 8th, go for it. That was the edition that killed the game, the buy-loads-of-models edition that finally killed the golden goose. So mixed memories of it for me. My group have switched to more skirmish style games for various reasons - Saga, Rampant and Erewhon - we recently tried a game of WHFB and man, it has not aged well. It's so clunky, and frustrating and damn slow compared to the others. I guess my point is that there are other games out there that can give you an Olde Worlde experience that are not WHFB. Warlords of Erewhon in particular has a real old style Warhammer feel to it, not surprising given Mr Priestley is the author. So maybe look into those, if you have the time in between painting 100's of figures. ;)
Thanks! Yeah, since looking at picking up all the books I'm missing from 8th, I've found a whole host of alternative games to try! I'm going to use one page rules age of fantasy regiments to get some quick games going whilst I'm still working though painting all the armies. Warlords of Erehwon did grab my attention, which is how I ended up buying this skeleton kit. The only reasons I didn't buy the rules when I ordered them was that there are a few armies lists missing I would have liked too see included, it's probably not going to get expanded and that from the battle reports I saw it looked only skirmish sized. I've since seen people play it using larger units/armies, more like 6th edition sized WFB ones. It's not much of an issue if they are not supporting it long term, as that can lead to a game becoming a mess of rules and forced purchases anyway, but it would be cool to know that another set of army lists and some other odds n ends would come in the future.
One game I'm definitely going to be trying out is oathmark. The game sounds like it will be good and kits are brilliant, I've picked up a whole bunch of stuff for it already! They've already announced what the first expansion will be and the base game isn't even out yet! The game sounds like it scales really well- they have said that a single box of 30 minis is enough to get started but the rules support armies going up to hundreds of models on each side!
I'm not sure that 8th killing the game is much of an issue now. It was a terrible game for commercial reasons, but as a home gaming only now, it should be great. Yes, the issue with the size of the game made it a disaster for sales, I dropped the scale/genre for a while because of 8th (the dread of having to paint 2 or more 100+ units of goblins, just get to play) but not having to play the game in the way a community wants the game to be played helps. I can house rule anything I like and their is a finite amount of books to finish collecting- no surprise updates or reboots to invalidate a collection! But as you say, there are a lot of other games with old world compatibility, if I find one we like using more than 8th, then we would happily swap out the rules. I've never been one for rules anyway. I'd just as happily push models around and role dice and make them up as I go, so I'm not as attached to the 8th rules as I once was.
I've been happily playing skirmish games since AoS was released, but getting back to some mass army games is a nice break. Not only is it an excuse to paint up all those armies I Have collected (and not painted enough off yet!) but I have more space than I did ten years ago. I Stuck with small scales & skirmish because of the space and when I moved, out of habit.
I will definitely try WoE though. If only as a way to escape all these skeletons! haha lol
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Nice painting on the new additions.
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I reckon that batch painting is the only way to get anything done when you are looking at large armies.
Although when you get dragged off with 'The Butterfly Effect' into other factions, I fear for your sanity!
:D
This thread is one of the reasons that I am going to delve back into trying to put together a High Elf/Melnibonean army that stalled some time ago now.
I have a new plan for how to achieve this, though, so that will help.
We shall see....
::)
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From someone rebooting his collection too, the Warlords of Erehwon stuff is getting new (free) army lists as Rick Priestly gets through them (I think Snakemen were the last one?) but it shouldn't be too hard to adapt existing forces- I've also decided to build forces that focus on 3rd,4th and 6th editions (in that order) for two reasons - they're the ones I used to mostly play (so have some books) and that's when they had majorish changes.
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Spent the end of summer dealing with some extra classes and exams I needed to take and had very little free time. But I was working very slowly on all my projects when ever I could steal 5 mins to paint, which really wasn't very often. Hopefully I'll have more time as the winter sets in as I only have a bunch of classes to finish this year, until it all starts again next September- so hopefully I will steam roll through some of this painting backlog by then!
The skeletons got another batch paint completed and I built the rest (finished after I took the photo) for a unit of 20 (along with a unit filler for them) but I've not had an dry evening to undercoat them, so they have remained unpainted.
(https://i.imgur.com/6QUAJ1u.jpg)
I painted my first test models for a small (ha!) dwarven force. These are from the oathmark kits and I think they are superb! Not overly designed, they paint up nicely but still have tons of details and loads of extras in the kit! I'm really looking forward to the upcoming rules and the new models that are on the way! I might even completely do away with collecting the rest of the WFB rules I need if oathmark turns out to be as good as early play-testers have suggested they may be!
(https://i.imgur.com/YxmVTWH.jpg)
and I finished building my snotling warlord and finally painted him! Still got a couple of details to do and some work to do on the basing, but he is complete enough to sit inside his unit with out looking shameful and grey!
(https://i.imgur.com/f4PF57h.jpg)
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I really like the basing on those skeletons, it helps make the figures 'pop'. Nice work.
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Nice painting all around, but the skeletons in particular look great.
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I really like the basing on those skeletons, it helps make the figures 'pop'. Nice work.
Thanks! I usually only do winter basing but didn't think it would work as well with the undead. I'm pleased with the autumn basing though, the leaf punch is my new favourite hobby toy!
Nice painting all around, but the skeletons in particular look great.
Thanks! The skeletons have come out nice and they are one of the simplest paint schemes I've ever gone for! Mostly a couple browns and tons of agrax earthshade!
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Just a small update, but nothing new painted, just a few pictures of some home made terrain that I also did over summer which I'd forgotten to add in the update with the rest of my summer work. I built a hut, based on the old farmyard modelling workshop guide from white dwarf. I made it to match the plastic farm terrain I got a while back, which I need to get some nicer pictures off. It's a tad large compared to the brought buildings, but I don't think I mind. I was pretty happy with it. I still need to add the steps going up to the door but I wasn't sure if I am going to base it or leave it as it is, so left them off for now. I'd also like to add a couple of details around the door- perhaps some spare empire shields or a couple of torches, but I couldn't decide if it was more of a farm store house or a lived in hut. I thought it might be weird to add shields or flames to a store house!
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/11/22/1035797_sm-.jpg)
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Also, I put together some terrain for a Mordheim game we were planning for this winter, but had to put off for now. I've just been offered a new job and I won't have the time to put the game on over winter now. I'll keep chipping away at it though when I can, just in case I get a unplanned holiday or anything! This is just some of the scatter terrain I've been building here and there. My freehand on the sign is pretty awful but I keep trying to get better at it and this sort of thing is ideal as I can always bin it if it looks too naff.
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/11/22/1035791_sm-.jpg)
Also, I put together this little conversion, based off the rulebook art, in celebration of Mordheims 20th anniversary!
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/11/22/1035803_sm-.PNG)
(https://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2019/11/22/1035802_sm-.jpg)
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A great selection of additions with a proper 'old school' feel, especially the hut.
Love the Snotling Warlord ( lol) and the Mordheim rat is a nice touch.
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A great selection of additions with a proper 'old school' feel, especially the hut.
Love the Snotling Warlord ( lol) and the Mordheim rat is a nice touch.
:-*
Thanks! The snotling warlord is a favourite of mine, trouble is I like him so much I need to spend as much time or more on the rest of his unit now as he deserves the best that can be scraped up! lol
So I finished off the basing for the first few oathmark dwarves and did a test model for my Albion humans, using warlords Celts. I am really enjoying painting these kits and I'm really looking forward to the oathmark rules getting released, as well as all the new minis they have lined up for release next year. I'm very tempted to switch this project over from WFB and pivot to a full blown oathmark campaign.
(https://i.imgur.com/s4xFQ6D.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Q30INyt.jpg)
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The dwarf shields have had some minor conversion work done (I added the runes to them) and I've tried to keep the colour schemes for the two warbands similar enough that they work together for when I want to combine them for larger campaign games. I'm likely to add some more detail to the Albion (celts) when I start on them properly, such as tattoos, but left this one kind of plain as to have a base line colour scheme to work from later on.
I've the first of the metal dwarven heroes almost done as well, he just needs basing. I stupidly forgot to order the banner I wanted for this unit when I last placed an order, so I'll have to leave the banner model until I can order it, as I don't know how large it will be and will need to base him to allow for the room for the banner to not mess up the rest of the unit.
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Started a dark elf chariot over the new year. (I'm jumping between projects so I'm able to keep something workable on my desk at all times, so on busy days I still feel I'm making some painting progress on something. It's not efficient, but it does keep me from getting nothing done or losing interest in a unit!)
(https://i.imgur.com/qRfgY83.jpg)
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If you happen to be in Ireland, England, Spain or Germany then you may have noticed a lot more ghosts kicking around than usual.
If you find yourself being haunted, then here's a ghostbusting tip.
If you have found yourself with a big pile of chainrasps, thanks to the new mortal realms* magazine but don't want to see them on some circle base, there is an easy way to get them on squares with out needing a huge pile of the old slotta bases and without making them even more fragile than they already. If you try to cut of the tab you are left with next to nothing to glue the ghosts to a base. But the tab alone on a square is bendy and fragile.
(https://i.imgur.com/dRAgQtH.jpg)
I've simply cut a bit of sprue down the centre and chopping a bit off the wider end, then using plastic glue to weld the flattest side to the existing tab. Wait for it to cure then shave the bottom off so you have a nice flat, and much thicker surface ready for glueing. You will need to build the base up with some texture paint or some ready mix, but I'm having to do that with all my oathmark minis anyway so for me they remain consistent, so it's all good. It will add a couple of mm to the ghosts overall height, but I'm also happy with that, I will be using them in place of what ever the heavy undead infantry will be (unless we get a full blown ghost list in oathmark too!)
I'm using up the last of my oathmark plastic bases so I can weld them to them as well, though I intend to switch to MDF for everything else as these plastic ones are just to pricey to use for everything.
*I've mentioned in the other thread, but I don't like advertising the magazine. The company is one of the worst I've ever dealt with and I'm still chasing subs from last year. Whilst issue one is good value and people should grab them, I'd not recommend subbing to them.
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Wip of my dwarf Slayer Mini from the most recent (and last :'( ) Fenris games kickstarter. He's a massive lad compared to the oathmark chaps and he'll need a thicker base to stand on, as he'll need to be pinned as he is just so heavy! He was such a fun model to paint though.
(https://i.imgur.com/PWT7NxL.jpg)
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Originally painted up for a mordheim game over christmas that sadly got canned. Thinking of painting the whole set I have now as a unit for oathmark.
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Oathmark Heavy Dwarf champion
(https://i.imgur.com/Ay0UVCF.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/DZ8YROD.jpg)
Painting this one last night. Spare model out of the warlord games starter set I have, so used him to practice my Averland scheme.
(https://i.imgur.com/b9NMW8p.jpg)
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Started a dark elf chariot over the new year. (I'm jumping between projects so I'm able to keep something workable on my desk at all times, so on busy days I still feel I'm making some painting progress on something. It's not efficient, but it does keep me from getting nothing done or losing interest in a unit!)
(https://i.imgur.com/qRfgY83.jpg)
This is an amazing colour scheme :o :o, I never thought of this combination for a (hopefully living) horse :)
cheers Thomas
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This is an amazing colour scheme :o :o, I never thought of this combination for a (hopefully living) horse :)
cheers Thomas
Cheers! I had intended to go with black horses but I hate painting black on a good day and I have a LOT of dark elf horses to get through! Definitely living, just touched with a hint of fel magic!
My dwarf oathmark army is growing, very slowly! But I'm doing a model or two for all my armies in-between batch painting ghosts/undead. Painted this dwarf lady, found her rather hard to paint. Nice model but some of the details are not very sharp. Still, shouldn't see the mistakes once shes tucked inside a whole unit.
(https://i.imgur.com/JQGSr6t.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/mQJ5Rio.jpg)
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Fun stuff! I like her hat. It's not a figure I recognise. Do you know where it comes from?
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Fun stuff! I like her hat. It's not a figure I recognise. Do you know where it comes from?
Cheers! Yeah it is a very nice model, I have a few more from the set. Just found the details were quite soft and not as easy to paint. I grabbed her from Fenris games, but I think she is originally from the Bronze age miniature line.
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Getting through my undead at a pretty decent speed for me! At this rate I might even have the bulk of the army done before the 2nd oathmark expansion & the undead rules are even released!
First two ranks are done and a third is drying out and waiting basing. I did have a swap around last night though, originally was using the candle stick ghost as the unit champion but think he's been downgraded to a stand-in standard bearer. Added the briar queen from the underworlds game, the model is super fragile and I thought she would be safer inside a unit than trying to use her for anything else.
Once the last rank is done I'll add the grass (I love adding grass & basing, so thought it would be a good thing to leave to get me to paint faster!) and then I have 6 more skeletons to paint and that is both units complete.
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Very nice dwarves!
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I'm loving the dwarves! I just ordered a box of Oathmark dwarf infantry as a new project to tide me over during this pandemic, these are great inspiration! I'd love to see what you do with the dwarf heavy infantry.
Early reviews of Oathmark have been positive, I've been in a similar spot where I'm looking for a replacement for classic Warhammer Fantasy (the last edition I played was 6th). Age of Sigmar seems fine but it's not my kind of game, I prefer the more classic look Oathmark is going for. I've been playing SAGA: Age of Magic which is also great but Oathmark looks like it scratches a different kind of itch.
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Very nice dwarves!
Thanks! I'm loving the dwarves! I just ordered a box of Oathmark dwarf infantry as a new project to tide me over during this pandemic, these are great inspiration! I'd love to see what you do with the dwarf heavy infantry.
Early reviews of Oathmark have been positive, I've been in a similar spot where I'm looking for a replacement for classic Warhammer Fantasy (the last edition I played was 6th). Age of Sigmar seems fine but it's not my kind of game, I prefer the more classic look Oathmark is going for. I've been playing SAGA: Age of Magic which is also great but Oathmark looks like it scratches a different kind of itch.
Thanks! They are superb kits. I've started to build the heavy infantry, but it will probably be a while before I get around to completing them, my dwarves are coming out very slowly!
My oathmark book arrived the other day (as did the first of several more of the oathmark kits!) but I've yet to be able to sit down and read it cover to cover. But on the surface it is a fine book, fantastic artwork. At least one printing/design error sadly, one line of text has been accidental hidden by a photo, but so far better than anything I've picked up from GW recently. My last edition of WFB was 8th, though 6th is very good but I sadly missed most of those years so I never really got as hooked into 6th as I'd probably would have done had I been playing more when it was out. (In fact I continued to play 4th during 5ths time, I never really understood all this edition swapping! ha!)
I actually quite like AoS. It makes for a very good and quick narrative skirmish game. But the a lot of the same problems that plagued WFB at the end of it's life have been forced into AoS, changing it from what should have remained a simple & easy to get into game, into something that just can't last. So I 'completed' my collection- I've brought every battletome for armies that I'd play or own and will pick up the last couple of books & warscrolls as and when this edition cycle ends and everything is being dumped for cheap 2nd hand. I still love the skirmish rules and will continue on playing skirmish in the future. But playing AoS as a mass battle game feels like trying to jam a square peg into much smaller round hole. I've seen a couple of people complain that oathmark is doing the exact same thing as GW- by splitting rules into expansions, but I honestly don't feel its the same at all. Anything they release in the future seems like it will be 'in addition too' rather than invalidating previous books.
Oathmark feels very much like the an old edition of WFB- at least in looks and style. It's a little 'earlier' in a fantasy timeline for my liking (no black powder, crossbows or 'tech') but this isn't a bad thing. It does stop it feeling like just another cash in on the current steampunk style that is popular now (I like the style, but the market is oversaturated now) and there isn't really anything that stops me from including these things in an army, I'll just run black powder as count-as bows. But then I'm not a competitive player by any stretch. *If* it really takes off and we ever see anything close to a 'local scene' or I ever start gaming outside of my own house again (unlikely) then I'd happy use it as an excuse to paint a 'pure' oathmark army. It's great to see armies people are putting together that have that classical 'dark age' feel. I didn't realise how much I missed more 'realistic' fantasy until it had been missing and resurfaced again!
Sorry for the long reply, oahtmark has me pretty excited for projects again and I've not left the house since my office went into shutdown about 7 weeks ago now! :D
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Just a quick update this morning on my painting. Sorry for the shoddy picture but I wanted to document the progress. I am almost done with an entire unit, my skeletons are almost complete! It's been a very, very long time since I've managed to paint a large scale unit from start to finish. So I'm pretty pleased with myself! It's not the only almost complete unit either, my ghosts are well on the way to being near completion too! Just need another long build session to build the back rank.
Just got to finish off the basing on these chaps, there is a crow to paint on the unit filler and they are done!
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So it might be cheating a little to say the unit is complete- I do have to go back over and add decals to the shields but I've not chosen a design I like yet so intend to leave that until I have a couple more units done and I can pick something that fits the whole army. I don't have the unit champion built or any of the other 'heroes' (standard/skeleton trumpeter!) but when I add them, It just means the 2nd unit of skeletons is easy to complete as I have some models to remove from here! And yes, I have used a unit filler. But I like adding them and I can always add some more skeletons in now, I originally planned the unit filler when I only had the 24 model kit to work from and wanted enough to stretch into a unit of bows as well! But I have like 200 to work with now, but still like unit fillers! :D
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It is done! They are (almost!) complete! I need to hardcoat the leaves so they don't blow away, shields are blank for a later day and my crow needs adding to the unit filler tree stump, but other than that, a finished and gaming ready unit! Just need oathmark to get the undead expansion out now!
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Excellent brushwork, great thread!
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Excellent brushwork, great thread!
Thanks!
My painting frenzy hit a full stop today. I tried a test scheme out for the oathmark goblins (I got a big box of STUFF arrive at the weekend!) but I just couldn't make it work. I tried to avoid the bright greens of my other goblin army, instead wanting something more gritty but it just felt flat. When I highlighted the skin up again it just lost all feeling of being green and the brown rags/leather took way too long for the masses of models I have to paint. The reds came out nice, even if they don't quite match the shield transfers I got to go with some of them.
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Nice skellies 8)
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It’s all great, even the Goblin!
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Terrific work on the skeletons. The goblin looks good too, I think when they’re ranked up it would be a great looking unit with that color scheme.
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Nice skellies 8)
It’s all great, even the Goblin!
Terrific work on the skeletons. The goblin looks good too, I think when they’re ranked up it would be a great looking unit with that color scheme.
Thanks! :D I think the goblin is ok and I could probably make them look good once a whole batch was done but it just didn't feel like what I was after for these models. I had some good feedback from the oathmark players group and my biggest issue is that the colours are off. The skin doesn't stand out for me (My GW are pretty cartoony green after all) and the brown is a bit off.
I took the feedback I got there and had a 2nd attempt, this time with one of the wolf riders (I have a couple of spare models per plastic box, due to accidentality ordering more of the metal heroes than I really need for units! lol ) and this time its much closer to what I had in my minds eye. I've never been very good at doing the more grim and gritty styles which is why I've gone back to painting as bright as I can, but think this attempt it somewhere in between. Only took an hour as well, of which most of was flapping about choosing colours and mixing different shades. With a zenithal undercoat, then each colour was pretty much just a very thin layer of paint and a a very thin wash to give some more variation to the tones. An hour is very quick for me, I've always been a slow painter, but I'm pretty confident I could knock out a whole batch in an hour or two, now I know what to refine!
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(Please excuse all the bits of dust on him, I've just built a pile of new models and didn't notice he'd been covered in shavings until after I'd taken all the photos! :( )
I also had a huge supply drop from Victrix minis yesterday, which means I now have the main parts for my Albion warhost! (also sneaked in some huscarls to go with my Lewis Collins kickstarter minis I've not done anything with yet!) I've been wanting to do this army for years so I couldn't wait to get stuck into it so, so I started working on my first conversion parts for the war elephant and putting together the first unit so I can do some more colour tests!
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Quite a haul there! Looking forward to seeing your project continue to progress with all those tasty bits.
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Quite a haul there! Looking forward to seeing your project continue to progress with all those tasty bits.
I probably wouldn't have ordered so much in one go except I hit the high threshold for postal charges (€40 :o ) so I added the extra bits as I was already paying for the postage on it! :D
Did some more building work this afternoon and then took a break from cleaning mould lines to paint some skin tests. I've never really liked painting human skin and the thought of having to paint 200+ skinful humans is daunting. I needed a skin recipe that I both liked & could knock out very quickly. The one I tried earlier in the year was very quick but a real pain if you need to fix a mistake or slip up. The one I tried today takes a little longer to do, with an additional extra colour, but I can probably do the skin on 5 of these in an hour including drying time. I thinks that's good enough for me and it's a little closer to how I'd do my skin on something like a dwarf or armoured empire chap, so they should mix together well!
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I'm now just waiting on a huge delivery of bases so I can really crack on with these. But I'll try to get the rest of his mates built tonight and see how I get on batch painting the skin.
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I think that skin looks great mate. I hate painting fleshtones and whites.
Making the most of postal charges makes sense to me!
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Loving the skeleton unit!
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I think that skin looks great mate. I hate painting fleshtones and whites.
Making the most of postal charges makes sense to me!
Thanks! I've never been keen on doing it, which is probably why I've stuck with painting green goblins for so long! I think these are passable though and I'm at least happy enough with it to be able to crack on with humans now!
Problem with Victrix is that I made the most of the postal charges, but obviously not enough! I'm flying through the kits at lightning speed (for me at least!) and already running low on some parts! I need a lot more! lol
Loving the skeleton unit!
Thanks! I'm very pleased with it, I just dread having to paint so many more! lol
Small update- final weeks of the college term and working from home has me loosing sleep on getting my final reports in, but managed to paint up my Albion war elephant last weekend! Still needs a couple of details finishing (I missed the toenails and not decided on eye colour yet!) and the base still needs painting! But he's almost ready for war! No oathmark rules for him yet, but he's ready for when chariot rules get their release later this year!
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Spent almost as long doing the basing as I did painting the elephant itself! But otherwise the war elephant is done and ready to crush goblins! I will probably go back and add some more details as I progress through the army though. Working on the infantry next, I think.
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Getting through my Albion army slowly but surely. Champion complete, though I'd like to go back and add some blue woad to the whole unit when everything else is done. I'm just not brave enough to try it now, if I mess it up I'll loose the momentum in painting it!
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I try to avoid doing box pictures, as they can be kind of dull, but it's been like christmas come early today. A huge, huge box (About 200 new minis- not really helping me put a dent in the backlog!) of Oathmark figures from the recent nickstarter(ish) came in and then these showed up from Heresy Labs:
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It's a specially created Luther mini for Mordheim, which was done as a celebration of the Mordheim facebook group hitting 10k members. The added art was a nice touch and the dice were included free and are of superb quality. All for a great price too, about a fiver per mini. Even with all the problems going on in the world and all the set backs they had, heresy labs really delivered. I'm not really a fan of resin, so its going to take me a while to work up the courage to start on this, but I am looking forward to getting him painted. He'll probably lead a unit in my oathmark forces, but we cancelled a winter game of Mordheim last year, so maybe its time to think about putting that back on with some new characters!
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Merry Junemass. lol
Nice work on your Albion army.
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Looks like things are coming along well for you and your Albion army. I am looking forward to seeing those Oathmark minis painted.
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Merry Junemass. lol
Nice work on your Albion army.
lol haha I think I will make Junemass my new tradition!
Thanks, I'm getting through it pretty quick for me- but I keep getting distracted by other units under the Albion banner!
Looks like things are coming along well for you and your Albion army. I am looking forward to seeing those Oathmark minis painted.
Thanks, yeah its coming along nicely, except I keep hopping between units, but eventually I'll have more finished than I don't, so I can push to get all those odds n ends done! The oathmark boxes are great but I might have been a bit over eager ordering so many at once, but at least they are not all technically for me! I'm painting armies that my small group can all use!
I got distracted from my main Albion force and started on another unit or two of allies. I've always wanted a halfling army but never really found a model range that I liked. There's quite a few nice models out there but not an armies worth, at least not to how I wanted them too look. I like the more classic look of hobbits but with a dash of humour, but the most common ranges go to far with them being rotund and comical. Mixed with my recent oathmark order I also grabbed a set of the Wargames Atlantic halflings. The set is fantastic. There is a couple of niggles with the set, but overall exactly what I was after. Murmurs of a Halfling calvary set on their facebook page makes me hope that a 2nd set will cover the minor issues I've got with the current set, but overall I'll be buying more boxes in the future!
I've put together some conversions for the the Heroes & command for two small units. Had to source parts from a lot of other kits. I've loved spending time converting these and will try to convert a lot more, though I like the basic models enough on its own to use them 'as is' as well! Going to have to fill a couple of gaps in the arms and hands once they are dry, but that won't take very long at all, the gaps are tiny.
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I have a sprue of the Wargames Atlantic halflings... not sure when I will get to them but I like the look of the pieces. Nice kitbashing you have done there yet again!
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I have a sprue of the Wargames Atlantic halflings... not sure when I will get to them but I like the look of the pieces. Nice kitbashing you have done there yet again!
Thanks! I really enjoyed making these, I just need to find some inspiration now for the rest of the unit! Definitely a kit worth the time to build, they were a real joy!
I've found I've been really enjoying these more down-to-earth and more historical based kits recently, that I'm almost disappointed that my own collection isn't now more LotRs/dark fantasy based. I'd hate to loose the more black powder/arcane tech side of my hobby though, but almost wish that kits like these halflings had been more common in previous years. I'm in too deep with the more advanced timeline fantasy now, but there is some real charm to putting together things like the halfling & oathmark kits and from the historical ranges. They tend to be a lot easier & quicker to paint as well!
Just need some priming weather so I can prime the halflings and get some paint on them!
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I do miss some of the steampunk and gunpowder stuff Myself but my wife is not a big fan of such.
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Been busy painting a ton of 6mm stuff recently, but back to attempting to make a dent in the ever increasing oathmark lead mountain.
Starting to get much faster at knocking out batch painted humans. It's village of the dammed!
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The last goblin paint scheme that I tried I liked and as quick as it was to do, any corrections or mistakes were a pain to fix and I felt it didn't suit my usual painting style- They looked too different from my Albions and I wanted them to at least feel like they were part of the same world. The ink and wash style of painting is fantastic and had this been a single army project, it would have been a winner. But as I'm painting every oathmark army myself, I went back to trials.
I've tried about 8 different skins tones in the end, including the bright green style of my GW night goblins. It just didn't look right at all for these more menacing looking goblins.
But I think I've finally cracked a scheme that is somewhere between the Bright green and dingy grey and remains somewhat fast to do (I'm already pushing 300 goblins models incoming)
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I stuck to the same leather colours as before, as to have a small 'scout' like archer unit- muddied and toughened leather from being out on the road. But for the main units, I'm likely to reverse the black and grey clothing and change the leather boots/hats to a different colour, as too allow me to use black & red as the main colours. I think the redish leather I've subbed in here for the bracers and belts goes well with the more orange tone of the boots, but I don't think the more orange leather works well with bright red.
I've just had in a huge order of basing materials, so I can go back and base up my last unit of Albion fanatics and then get these based too. I'm starting on my final thesis this week, so whilst I'm still on target for 'Paint at least one model a week for 2020', I'm not sure how much more of my Oathmark project I will realistically finish this year.
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Since I've have no time to paint or build since college started back in September I've not touched my Albion project since the last update.But that hasn't stopped me partaking in retail therapy and I'm now the proud owner of a hell of a lot more miniatures, including a large chaos dwarf army, which I ordered for my birthday back at the start of the year and due to the pandemic only just arrived!
But with so much work on, I finally snapped over Christmas. I packed up the work and took a much needed evening off which included settling down in front of a horror movie and getting some hobby done. I didn't want to work on something that was already a project, as I was worried that I'd screw something up as I'm still under a lot of pressure to get my work done and with it niggling at the back of my mind I wanted something mindless that I could just sit back and glue together and if it was rubbish, least I'd had a couple hours of peace.
And so behold, the new horror:
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Orc fanatics. I'm still carving down some more shields for them, I do hate it when companies sculpt arms on to shields! I've a few more spare bodies, then the unit will have to wait till I've brought and built a new unit of human fanatics for more left overs! I like them, they are pretty goofy. My misses is getting sick of all the awful puns that go along nicely with them though. I might even be brave and try out some sculpting on these chaps to give them a few more details, to really set them apart from their human counterparts.
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Nice! I've been wondering how this victrix fanatics would scale with fantasy bits and you just answered for me. Thanks for posting.
Fwiw, I recommend scheduling a little time on a recurring basis to destring your mental bow so to speak. It'll make the incessant work more bearable.
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I like the colors scheme on the goblins!
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Nice! I've been wondering how this victrix fanatics would scale with fantasy bits and you just answered for me. Thanks for posting.
Fwiw, I recommend scheduling a little time on a recurring basis to destring your mental bow so to speak. It'll make the incessant work more bearable.
Cheers! Yeah I do need to make more of an effort to set aside some time every week, last year got pretty bad by the end of the year.
I like the colors scheme on the goblins!
Thanks! I keep changing my mind on it but one day I will just pick a colour scheme for them and have at it!
I'm 'back' to college again this week, for the final time. But I took a couple of evenings out last week to mentally prepare for it and spent the time painting up another unit for my Oathmark humans, using more victrix kits for some heavy armour warriors. I actually batch painted the whole unit of 10 in one go, which wasn't very pleasant (Thankfully the Xfiles on in the background helps a lot!) but it was great to have the whole unit done and dusted at the same time! I can definitely go back and add more way more to them in the future but I need to start whittling down the huge backlog of projects on the go! The weeds still need a drybrush as they tend to look a bit flat without it, but they are still drying when this was taken.
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I wanted a bit of a cleanser after painting the last batch of Albions and whilst starting to build up the next selection of humans. I got a number of odds and ends for Slaanesh for Christmas to bulk out the models I got as part of the recent AoS starter set mixed with the Dark Elf/daughters of Khaine. This won't be a huge project, just a handful of units, mostly the daemonette stuff I just wanted to paint for fun. But I didn't want to use up the old chaos warriors for this, as I've already got some partially done for a mortal nurgle army and wanted something different for Slaanesh, more greed & excess than the standard 'spikes & tentacles & whips' that warhammer chaos tends to show.
There are a few things that need finishing on these; I'd not decided on a colour for the hammer shafts as I wanted something there that would break up the colours a bit more but didn't want to add too much more to the scheme. I've left the daemonette eyes, as I'll decide on them when I paint the unit of actual daemonettes and I need to finish the basing, couldn't decide if I wanted to stick with Chaos wastes/grey all over or do something else for the none flagstone part. The helmet horns are still drying from the wash here as well, so they will get a bit of touch up later too.
I was going to add the blue-green colour of the gems inside of the little triangle things on the hammers, but this felt like it would be even more work and I wanted to knock these models out quickly and keep clearing back log. I can always go back and add stuff like this over the summer.
I've also got some old decals for finishing off her shield, but that involves digging around in the storage area & I'm not really feeling up for that today!
I'm still getting used to my new phones camera, its incredibly harsh on my paint jobs right now! The daemonettes skin is much lighter than that and the colour transition on the shield is a lot softer in real life, especially with the dark section near the top!
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I really liked converting these models but it was slow to get them basecoated, there are some horrid design choices on how the were modelled. I think the flagstone bases they come with are nice but they are a total pain to fix up enough to use on my usual mdf bases, I'm not looking forward to having to clean up another batch of them later on. I regret not taking off the leaves from the stones, as I've no idea how to paint them now, I'm honestly tempted to go with a snow theme so I can hide them! Cleaning that shield up was mission, took me ages to get it nice and smooth after shaving off all the AoS iconography! Obviously the basing I've fit them on here makes them a much larger footprint than normal chaos warriors would have, so they may end up just sitting on the shelf than being gamed with, but that's a problem for worrying about another day!
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Superb! Love the robe colour. Autumn colours for the leaves I think would be a good choice but covering them, with snow would be easier I think.
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Superb! Love the robe colour. Autumn colours for the leaves I think would be a good choice but covering them, with snow would be easier I think.
Thanks Codsticker! I really appreciate the comment! Sorry for the slow reply, these past few months has been crazy for me and I've not managed to keep up with too much of the hobby!
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So I've not had much time to hobby over the past few months- I've been working from home for 16 months, had issues with returning work from home equipment when my work contract ran out (equipment I was reliant on to finish uni projects) , still managed to graduated Uni (from home), started a new and very difficult job (from home) and honestly felt too wiped to do much hobby over that time. I did manage a few bits n pieces and I'm slowly getting back into the swing of it, but motivation is still lacking right now.
I also found myself feeling pretty nostalgic; I've seen a huge number of changes to the hobby recently and many of them not for the better. I found myself scrolling through a lot old projects over on warseer forum, but it very much looks like the site wont be there very much longer. Next to no traffic and the new owners haven't logged on in a year now. So coupled with a couple of threads I saw over on another forum (not particular pleasant ones at that) I decided to make a more conscious effort to post on the forums that do still have good traffic/communities and I want to spend more time and effort in painting threads, commenting on peoples work, rather than waste effort in threads that don't bring as much good into the hobby. Having less time & energy to actually hobby over the last 6 months or so has led me to getting my fix on discussion boards and I found they really don't bring the same joy fix that painting logs/blogs do.
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My first real post graduation hobby, I forced myself to sit down for a whole evening and work on a new model just to get a feel for plastic again!
I'm still messing about with some of the detailing, but I've converted a new model for my Goblins; The great goblin king of Albion!
Riding to battle on a stolen chariot, which is pulled by his loyal (and rather well fed and fattened) wolves, Gristle & Viscera, and accompanied by Smaksak his Snotling hornblower & standard bearer.
Skragnit, the Great Goblin King of Albion has summoned the most loyal of his Wolf Lords and is preparing to move against his enemies. The Dwarves. And the Elves. And the Humans. And the Vampire Lords. And the Lords of Chaos. And the other Greenskins. Oh, and that goblins that looked at 'im funny last night. In fact, pretty much anyone and everyone in Albion.
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I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to paint him. I've gotten kind of comfortable with my painting style in recent years, enough so that I've been happy with the results. But I was looking over some of the old Warseer WFB logs last night and I had a huge ping of nostalgia seeing all the old style painting. The more gritty, realistic (well, as realistic as you can be for fantasy!) look has always alluded me and I've tried many times to capture it in my own painting and falling way short. I've been mulling over old, old copies of White Dwarf and I just can't work out how to imitate that old chaotic looking painting style. But I'd love to bring a more gritty paint scheme into this model. (This would come at the risk at wanting to repaint my more cartoony styled goblins!)
I have another copy of the same gloomspite boss model and whilst I was originally going to give him the Necromunda treatment, I will probably make another version of the Goblin King, but on foot. In fact, it's likely I will buy another starter set and end up with a 3rd as well so will end up with a mounted squig version as well!
Whats even better is that I made him over the weekend prior and this week my Oathmark Bane of Kings arrived with chariot rules! It was perfect timing! This model was meant to be!
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That’s a great looking kit bash- i’m looking forward to seeing it with paint! I have a bunch of the Oathmark giant wolves myself (I used slightly smaller metal wolves with the riders), and using some to pull chariots looks really effective! Thanks for the inspiration!
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Great kitbash! It really looks the part. Perfect work for the stout Oathmark wolves.
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Thats a brilliant model, looking forward to seeing it painted
I recognise most of the bits, but where is the chariot itself from?
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That’s a great looking kit bash- i’m looking forward to seeing it with paint! I have a bunch of the Oathmark giant wolves myself (I used slightly smaller metal wolves with the riders), and using some to pull chariots looks really effective! Thanks for the inspiration!
Great kitbash! It really looks the part. Perfect work for the stout Oathmark wolves.
Thats a brilliant model, looking forward to seeing it painted
I recognise most of the bits, but where is the chariot itself from?
Thanks! I'm really pleased how the model turned out and glad to see people like it! I definitely think the thicker oathmark wolves look menacing pulling a chariot!
@Sir_Theo the chariot itself is a victrix Celt chariot. Great kit, Simple enough design that it would work as a base for loads of races! The scythes were added from spear tips though, its one thing the kit doesn't come with.
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Brilliant, thanks. I might have to pick up some of those and do something similar! :D
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I'm massively behind with this years painting. I've damaged my eye quite badly, somewhat in thanks to spending close to two years at home stuck behind a screen. So been finding painting very difficult as of late. Been painting when I can manage though, but have mostly painted some odd characters and terrain for our '95 Necromunda campaign as its been easier than trying to batch paint units for fantasy.
(Haven't stopped buying more units though! I've very close to having collected all the old classic minis I've been after now! Finally got all but one mini for my dark elves that I've been chasing, so looking forward to finally getting to start on that project properly!)
Still putting paint to fantasy units when I'm able. Been slowly working on bits n bobs when I can. Been working on and off on this snotling pump wagon for months, when ever I can manage five miniatures on it! Getting close to finished- got a couple more snotlings left to do as I want to cram more on there and then the base. Colours are a little washed out and its difficult to get the camera into focus (again with my eye) so apologies for the wonkyness.
The wheel made from a shield has been done in my dwarves colour scheme- something they are not too pleased about! lol
Originally the wizard snotling was going to go in the big unit of goblins, but he looked so good on the top, so I'll have to paint up another to pop in the unit now! Everything from the new plastic blood bowl kit, I've another couple of the kits stashed away and I might pick up a couple more and just keep adding snotling swarms! :D
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More WIP on my Slaanesh Mortals Army
Its taking me ages to get these done mainly due to the eye injury and I still have the shields to do for the spearman unit (which I'm dreading as the rounded shape is going to be a huge paint to paint to match the colours!) There are still some small details to do on them too, but would rather have them 'battle ready' and go back to them at a later date!
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Neat idea using ancient Greeks for low-level initiates! The ‘fade in’ you achieved on the chaos warrior shields looks pretty amazing, i can totally see how matching that would be a challenge. The group of figures looks great as they are, anyway!
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Neat idea using ancient Greeks for low-level initiates! The ‘fade in’ you achieved on the chaos warrior shields looks pretty amazing, i can totally see how matching that would be a challenge. The group of figures looks great as they are, anyway!
I am echoing Pattus again it seems. Great work!