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Celts look awesome,

You should try tracking down the old dogs of war albions...





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Couldn't quite tell from the tilt of his head.
Now I know I can see the more pointed features.

Okay I'll take the Zimbabwe dollars, it'll save having to buy some anaglypta!

Manoknok: Ahh I was wondering if GW used to make something like that back in the day. There is another company called Celtos that also makes some similar models that I was thinking of trying out, but fortunately I currently have enough Rackham stuff to last me for a while. Hopefully until I can get some decent income again at least

Chibi: Yea, he is a lanky little bugger, but doesn't really have the long snout of some Siamese, which we rather prefer. His features may well change though when he finally trades his soul for the prize of immortality. I don't mind, so long as it isn't by defeating (read: eating) my entire army :(

My sister's Burmese was very similar.
She finally decided not to behave too badly to humans when she was basically too old and too arthritic to continue the harrasment.*

Luckily my cat decided at around 2 years old that sleeping and eating was mostly enough fun for any one day.
(waking me up at silly o'clock being the exception to this rule)

*Kissie the Burmese that is, not my sister!

look forward to the next updates btw!

Well, seeing as I don't post many paint in progress pics for this army, and I had an MRI to break up the painting before I could toss on some wash, here's some quick shots of the marauders:







As you can see, they look like hell. Exactly as planned...

As a side note, WTF army painter? This skin tone has so little tooth to it the layer of grey was coming off due to DRY BRUSHING on some of the white grey. Seriously? Grumble grumble.

Hehe cat talk wise, I am not going to tell my wife that story C B-B; I got home from my MRI and the first thing she says is "I need to burn my robe!" Apparently little Rogies was sprawled out on her lap like a good cat, then rolled over on his back to display the rude erection he was sporting.
Considering we described him as a kitten as "somewhere between 'super friendly' and 'sex offender'" I am thinking we might need to have a talk with the vet who neutered him.
And if I find him mounting my Sorchimera, he will get introduced to the bolt cutters :-P

Looking great despite the toothless Army Painter!
love those bases too

hope the MRI went okay and there is nothing to worry about

Yah, just trying to sort out some muscle issues on the back of my knee before my deductible flips at the end of the year. Looks like it is just a cyst, so after the MRI gets back it is either a cortisone shot or a knife. Wheee! (plus side, got a nice little nap in the MRI )

Speaking of health problems, I will have some more after I belt sand the bottom off the 36 resin bases I need for the last block of marauders and 6 warriors On the other hand, my lungs will out last the rest of me by a few millenia, at least in plastic form

eeewww wish I hadn't asked now
hope it gets sorted okay!

please get a good mask!!!
I did a minimal bit of work on some resin earlier this week and the mask didn't stop the nasty stuff. That was bad enough! Horror at the thought of sand belting! YIKES!
Have postponed the next lot of resinwork till a good mask is obtained! Various forms of silicosis are to be avoided!

Hey Man,

Just thought you might be interested in these celts:

32 multipart for $20

They also do chariots...

http://www.wargamesfactory.com/wargames-factory-store/celt-warband-box-set

Just saw them and thought of your blog.

Ahh yes! Thanks man; I had been looking at those pretty hard when Rackham models were really hard to come by on eBay. I delayed, worried that the more historical WGF models wouldn't mesh well with the more Conan style Rackham models. Fortunately my super shopper wife found me the stack of metal and love that is in the original post, and I haven't wanted for models since

I was thinking of grabbing one of their chariots as a base for the War Shrine, but turns out I got some parts from a white lion chariot in the MONDO MEGA bits bag that will fit the bill well enough.

Ok, quick update. Got a lot of the marauders done, basically working up to getting everything done before the skin. Mostly just have the green to highlight and wash, and then it will be skin and blue highlights.

okay
they look hard.
I'm a coward and would run away if I saw that lot coming towards me! *clucks*

Another drive by update: Flesh done, just the blue and some little touch up and these lads will be done. (Sans base of course)


Ever notice how no models seem to have arm or leg hair? Or chest hair for that matter.

Chibi: Hehe hopefully they do! They need to be all imposing for the battle field, before they get chopped up.
I agree though, somewhere between the 300 style muscles and the dishtowel loin cloths, my brain tells me I need to get the hell outta there. I really like how well the models convey a raw aggression and eagerness to fight, which is pretty impressive for multi-part, interchangeable metal kits.

Ok, yet another quick update. I finished off the last 18 GW Marauders, and about 90% finished the knights yesterday! WOOO. The marauders still have a little touch up here and there, mostly from paint rubbing off the "primer" and the guys with animal helms needing some eyes on the hats etc. The knights have some detailing on the horses to pick out, and a little bit of work on the shield bodies to be done, but they have been dullcoted to facilitate, and are functionally finished! (Well, save for basing )




sorry the pics are a little blurry; I snapped these in the basement quickly this morning and pictures never come out clearly down there for some reason. Hopefully better pictures this evening.


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You know, the second marauder from the left in the back row has always sort of annoyed me for some reason, but I couldn't put my finger on it. I kind of figured it was the head (which isn't my favorite out of the set by far) but now I see it.

Jazz Hands.

He could be doing Saturday Night Fever back there behind the Karnagh, and it would fit the arms. *Sigh*

Both of the units look good, especially the cav, but I think that the drune cav was the best figs Rackham put out. Nice and natural looking tones on the horses and the riders stand out enough.

The blue warpaint on the marauders makes them pop nicely. I guess they will look even better after the bases are finished and they get some additional contrast from the dark ground.

Thanks man. I really do love the horse models, though it is somewhat alloyed with the memory of how much of a HUGE pain they were to put together. And yea, standing on rocks and dirt apparently made of skin detracts just a bit from the marauders I am definitely going to have all the bases washed and maybe base coated before Dakkacon, but I might not get to all the high grade paint and flock (lol) that the warriors enjoy until after then. For now I am concentrating on getting the figures done.

Well somebody is painting, even if it isn't me

Nice work Wehr, still a big fan of the mix of models in your marauder blocks, very cool and even a bit chaotic. Same goes for the blend of horse colors on those groovy riders.

Keep it up dude. Am still working on grading my students' terrible papers, but after that - and a week in sunny Colorado for the holidays - I too have to pick up a brush and slop snot green on little mutant things ...

- Salvage

Thanks man. I got a little more done over the weekend, and am taking off this afternoon to try and nail down the marauders and more of the BSB. He is pretty well done save for some armor highlights and weapon/shield kit, but his banner is going to take a long time. (Same with the marauder banner.) I also have the last 6 warriors about half done, with a little in progress bit for them to post.

That is, assuming I can get my card reader working... I upgraded to Win 7 over the weekend, and it isn't seeing it yet. Haven't tried to fix it so far, but it might turn into a pain.

Painting up the plague monk genestealer things? Or something new?

Any terrible paper excerpts? Btw, I sent you my review of the Ultramarines movie. Sufficed to say, it inspired me to further turn my back on the Imperium of Man, and paint up more warriors of chaos :(

Wehrkind wrote:Painting up the plague monk genestealer things? Or something new?

Dude, they're based on bloodletters ... but you're the third person to think that they were formerly genestealers. Huh. Anyway, my paint list is 12 plague censer 'letters, 5 plaguebearers on 40x20 bases (replacing my 40x40 unit filers with smaller, less static ones), 2 moar nurglings with weapon swaps, and 2 bonebreaker conversions. Will get them done by DakkaCon, with the help of a club member with a man cave basement ...

Thanks for the review, though commiserations on having bought it to discover it's junk. I guess the upshot is that you've moved a couple steps and perhaps a shimmy towards the dark side of square based chaos

Speaking of unsatisfying representations of space marines, did we ever play Inquisitor using marines? (Or did we ever actually play Inquisitor?) Marines in INQ have 200 strength thanks to their power armor augmentation - a regular human has 50-60 - and with the way damage works (every 10 points of strength over 50 = +1), a marine holding a knife (D6 damage) does D6+15 (!) points of it. For a brief time when Studder and I were 40mm-ing our way around I had a marine with a stormbolter and club (basically knife without the shorty range) who would rampage around and beat things to pulp. Ah those were the good old days, Friday Night cuddles with Studder over at The Portal as my engagement decayed under my feet ...

Um, back to them papers

- Salvage

Imagine my embarrassment! To make it up to you, do you need some more 'letters for converting? I have a box I bought for such purposes, but have yet to use for anything.
Any chance of getting non-blurry cell phone pics of the work? So one could perhaps tell what parts go into what?

We didn't use SM when we shot around some Ing, just humies and muties. That was a fun little game though, we should roll that again. =][=munda works fairly well for similar things, but with more granular stats things go from "splattered meat" to "Lord of All Meat" pretty quick, and of course right back down to "Splattered" without the fun of infinite parries/counter attacks. I remember realizing that it was actually in my benefit for my shield and power sword Inq to just walk away from melee with your mutie since she could parry/riposte to kill you just as easily as actually attacking, with no counter attack from you (or something... still a little fuzzy on that).

Ever get trapped at work talking with someone who is desperately looking for affirmation but has nothing really to offer for it? A brief part of the yearly Halloween party was like that, then got worse. Cuddles with Studder even at his loudest would have been superior.


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Well, I figured out how to get Windows 7 to read my camera card: put it in the damned slot. Apparently the reader just doesn't shot up in Computer like it used to with Vista. Derp.

Here's a little work from yesterday and today. Particularly, here's the three stages of highlighting the warrior's armor. From left to right: base Neutral Grey, hard highlights with White Grey, sort of feather with more White Grey. As you can see, it isn't exactly an exact science:


However, after some black wash and the blues, it looks pretty decent




Also, I did some work on the BSB's armor and banner. The armor came out a bit dark, which is odd considering I was worried I went too light pre-wash, so I am going to have to highlight some more, but otherwise his armor and skirt are done. Ribbons, sword/shield and banner to go. The banner I am still torn on... I am thinking a green field with red to yellow highlighted lion, and some blue tentacle swirls or something. I am going to mess around with it in Paintshop and see what I can come up with idea wise in the next few days while I get him finished otherwise.


Still on the list: 30 marauders to put together and paint, finish the wolf girls (I don't recall what needs done, just that something does), touch up knights, build and paint War Shrine (ugh) and the Sorchimera. Good thing I am going part time next week.

Ok, so after some messing around with colors, here's the three leading ideas for a banner:

All Blue


All Green


Green with blue detailing


You gotta kind of squint at the last two; I couldn't get the colors just right, but assume that the green will match the cloaks/kilts of the fellows, with the blue coming close to the woad color without the very light blue highlight.

Let me know what you think! I am probably going to get to the banner this coming week so time is running out

Clearly the more complicated third banner, with the blue tentacle swirls

Dig the warrior with halberd + round shield in those PIP pics, is a particularly cool fellow.

- Salvage

Personally less keen on the third version sorry :(

I think it is too early to tell just yet as the colours are so vibrant on the banner.
There is a lot of unbroken colour which dominates compared to the armour and clothing of the figures, if you see what I mean.

Actually looking again I am minding the swirls less as it goes with the lion.

Thanks for the input guys! I have been staring at him most of the day, then over at the nascent war shrine with its HUGE banner, and after I wipe the tears away I find I am still torn. Definitely a blue/green color for lion banner man there though, so I think I will put some dark green on and see how it pans out. I might do some swirls that are more subtle too, for sort of an over all blue/green effect that when more closely inspected shows that it is really both colors separate but swirled. I might also kill myself with a hobby knife while building this bloody Raging Heroes banner chicks. This warshrine had better win every battle, or at least look as good as a naked hug from behind from Shirley Manson feels to make up for all this work. Grumble grumble.


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Also, glad you dig the halberd and roundel combo there He is one of my favorites too, very Scottish


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Okydoky, here's what I got done today; it's not a lot, but mostly because those Raging Heroes girls were a HUGE pain to put together, and I still have some gap filling around the legs that I see now that they are primed. Hate.



Yay green! I think I like the blue better :-P



Right... so imagine this with the lasses sitting on a pillow strewn platform resting upon the wheels and stocks across the flagellant's shoulders, being pulled by fatty and drummer boy there. Still need to build the platform, but considering I spent 2 hours mucking about with the girls, it should be a cake walk by comparison. Go go warshrine, go go go.

Really making me think I should just slot the giant in at 2000-2500 points for Dakkacon

RAGING HEROES FTW

What an excellent use of both of those models, particularly fatty & drummer boy as the beast of burden. Perhaps the only thing I don't love is that the chicks are kinda weirdly out of scale (and have weird things glued to their lovelies? I demand you pull a Sersi and let those mams free!) but I am absolutely sure that you are aware of this and have lamented the fact.

I do think the banner looks better in green than it would blue. Is the lion going to be golden in the end, or is that too ostentatious for your woad boys?

- Salvage

Thanks man, glad you approve I have been trying to come up with a good use for the lasses and... well fatty man and drummer baby... for a while now, and I think when this comes together it will be pretty cool.
The scale thing is weird though like you said, and honestly I don't have a good answer for it. A lot of the other models are slightly off scale, but so far it has worked. For instance the wolf priestess maidens are a bit small compared to the marauders, but then "14 year old girl on wolf" < "burly hard gay man" in general, so it isn't too bad. The warriors are a little off, but actually not much if you assume their armor is heavy and they bulk out a little more when they achieve T4. The mostly naked chicks with a flag though... there I just hope no one will be considering the size of the other models while looking at them! It might be fairly reasonable though, since with the ogres, knights and Sorchinmera herself being large models (the last being OMFG big) and the fact they will be riding a litter/chariot/wheelbarrow thing, the fact they are scaled to be about 6'7" shouldn't be too bad.

Besides, you noticed they had chains through their nips etc.; did you notice that is ALL? Raging Hard-on didn't sculpt the rest, but they didn't put anything else anywhere either. I am actually having an aesthetic debate with myself as to whether or not I should paint that as is, add something, maybe just make it subtle, or so far over the top I get kicked out of game stores. I expect more complaints over Raging Vag than "Bit tall, aren't they?"

I rather liked that Drummer and Ogre sculpt when it was posted earlier this year. cool to have one for sure!

With regard to the "ladies" they height diesn't nother me, there is a brutish ogre and a baby beating time on his drums and isn't there room for a race of racy amazonian giantess type people?

The erotica is another matter and personally I would have problems ie I mean I would cover their modesty
But that is purely a personal take and knowing the context of who would see the models.

That said given the excellence of your models this far, the chariot is going to be really full of Awe and then Some!
sorry, that was really bad

I love this blog! Awesome models I wasn't familiar with, lots of new techniques to sigh over, and a brilliant theme and paintscheme. I wish GW's marauder's looked this good!

Da Boss: Thank you sir, glad to provide I wish GW's marauders looked half as good as the Rackham ones. The little spindly guys might be a little too delicate for plastic, but I think with how well GW is doing with the DE of both games in plastic there is hope.

Chibi: You have a good point of course I am kind of torn too, and might just skirt the issue (no pun intended) by doing some woad down there in such a fashion as it isn't obvious what you are seeing. Like the mold lines around the Horned Raider's horses' dongs, I figure if you are looking THAT closely, you deserve what you get.

Wow great style to your army, love the woad, and the standard bearer just oozes dynamism!