Author Topic: A return to the Empire - update (4/10) - Abandoned Gatehouse (Read 85223 times)

white knight · « **Reply #15 on:** April 05, 2010, 06:52:59 PM »

I've had some time to paint, so next up are two dwarves and another ogre. All classic marauder minis.

The dwarves:

The ogre:

Some more angles:

Meanwhile, I also based the last two:

pauld · « **Reply #16 on:** April 05, 2010, 08:18:15 PM »

Imressive stuff - you have a really clean and neat painting style

white knight · « **Reply #17 on:** April 05, 2010, 09:35:24 PM »

A line-up of the 4 painted ogres (so far). I did a few minor touch-ups to the leader to bring him closer to my current painting standard.

twrchtrwyth · « **Reply #18 on:** April 06, 2010, 02:57:00 AM »

Very nice work WK.

hetz · « **Reply #19 on:** April 06, 2010, 03:45:29 AM »

Great stuff WK, especially love the Ogres.

white knight · « **Reply #20 on:** April 07, 2010, 09:00:15 PM »

4 more marauder empire-themed dwarfs. Not as happy with these as with the other ones (yellow highlighs too harsh for one), but they'll do fine.

With the previous two:

Individual shots.

Thantsants · « **Reply #21 on:** April 07, 2010, 10:09:57 PM »

Looking pretty neat - wish my yellows were so clean - do they use Daz colourfast?

Cracking minis too - love the pipe smoker!

white knight · « **Reply #22 on:** April 07, 2010, 10:22:38 PM »

Until recently, I also struggled with yellow. The trick to get a bright clean yellow is to paint it first with a colour that will cover anything that would bleed through (including black) and that adds to the vibrance of the yellow. I use coat d'arms bilious brown (which is an orange-ochre type light brown). It also serves as shading in the folds.

phreedh · « **Reply #23 on:** April 07, 2010, 10:46:31 PM »

Love the beard on the guy with the yellow cap! Think they all turned out great. Looking forward to see a few spear men soon. =)

Erny · « **Reply #24 on:** April 08, 2010, 08:08:21 AM »

Yep, very nice. They'll make a nice unit. Do you game with them at all?

white knight · « **Reply #25 on:** April 08, 2010, 08:20:19 AM »

I hope to get a chance at gaming with them someday.

But not enough painted yet and I doubt I'll get enough done before the next Eurobash organised by the warhammer empire forum.

Erny · « **Reply #26 on:** April 08, 2010, 08:41:11 AM »

No local club or no time? I happen to be the chairman of a large vibrant club located conveniently in just the next town. There is also a club in the town I presently live in. Do I get a regular game? Nope, long hours and 20 month old son put paid to that! Occasional quick skirmish game if my brother pops over is all.

Hope you get to field them soon, collecting and painting is all well and good but they were cast to do battle.

white knight · « **Reply #27 on:** April 08, 2010, 09:12:01 AM »

No club, not much time.

But yes, I do hope to be able to field them.

white knight · « **Reply #28 on:** April 09, 2010, 07:45:37 PM »

4 more empire-themed dwarfs. The one with the eyepatch and pegleg is actually an old citadel Bugman's rangers champion, but he had the right look, so he joined this unit. The two in the middle came with seaprate plug-in hands (I also have handguns and spears for these guys). The one with the helmet and breastplate is a conversion of one of the speardwarves (not an original, but a recast) with a plastic crossbow.