My Take on Some White Knight Dwarfs **Updated July 10**

[Blue in vt]

Did You get these texture just by bravery and accident or willpower and a steady hand? Was it meant that way or pure luck?

  thanks...The wood grain is a bit of all the things you mentioned (but probably mostly luck!),  To do wood grain I will often wet my brush and pinch it flat to get a very thin spatula shape...then dip in paint and wipe most of it of so only the tips of the bristles retain some...then just go for.  try not to make the lines too straight....or too curvy....somewhere in between is best... and have them overlap each other a bit.  Go for a more dramatic contrast than you would normally as well.

I hope that makes some sense.

Cheers,

Blue

[Blue in vt]

Howdy all!

I was finally able to finish up a couple more of WK's excellent dwarfs and thought I would share the results with you.  Where the last two I posted will be worked into my existing (and ever expanding) pike block these two are the start of completely new units.  This fact allowed me to be a little more adventurous with my head choices and I picked two particularly interesting options.  Anyway here they are let me know what you think.





More detailed information available on my blog

Cheers,

Blue

[white knight]

Ooooh. Love the new green and blue colour scheme and the head on that one.
The other one looks good too. Feather's almost as tall as him. 

[Drachenklinge]

excellent colour-matching! Really nice little fellows!

However, I like to grumble a bit about something (on a VERY high level, though!) ...

It seems You are painting the miniature from top to base in the same brightness (no matter the colour) - with no paying attention to having the miniature lighter at the top, than at the base, right? Maybe it is for the pictures (they often tend to swallow things ... buggers), maybe it is ment that way or maybe You couldn't change right in the middle of a project. But I think it would be another step to breathtaking miniatures!

In addition I like to add, that from a certain point of painting skill, pictures tend to look "worse", than the actual mini (where as upto this certain level, pictures look better, than its original ^^) - and since You're obviously BEYOND that level, Your's sure look astonishing all the more in real!

best wishes
Drachenklinge

[Little Odo]

I am certainly liking these Dwarfs - are they actually slotta-based or do they glue flat onto the square bases?

[white knight]

They are slottabased, but if you'd want to remove the slot, it shouldn't be too hard with some bending.

[Blue in vt]

Alright...the "real" world has finally allowed me enough time to finish up the two front rank dwarf figures that WK was kind enough to share with me.  These included the Plug in Sword and Shield and the Pike....The shield Icon took forever and involved removing paint from the shield at least 3 times...its still not perfect but I couldn't look at it any more...

Here they are:





And with friends:




A few more shots on my Blog.

Cheers,

Blue

[white knight]

They both look great, but that shield is spesh! 

[Mister Rab]

That shield is amazing  You must have gone half blind doing that - I know I would have, and it still wouldn't look as good. I doff my flamboyant puffed and slashed hat to you, sir!

[Calimero]

Truly amazing work

[clam]

Stunning 

And like others already said that shield ....!  Excellent freehand and certainly worth waiting for.

So what's next?

[Little Odo]

I have to concur - that freehand shield is awesome.