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 Sigur wrote:


Oh, here's a picture of last night's game by the way:

Worst.
Lookout.
EVAAAAAA!



Loving the vikings, they're totally metal!

Great work on all the Vikings, Sig'.

and lol at those last pictures.

@SlaveToDorkness: Indeed. The tower also actually proved to be full of nice look in that scenario. Took my guys a turn to break the door (using Roland the Ram as a battering ram) and then another to search the tower, but it paid off. And I guess the guy on the tower was happy that the Saxons were satisfied with the pig they found in the lower level of the watchtower and took it back to their ships rather than coming up.

@Dr H: Cheers, glad you like them pictures.


Alright, today I based all the guys and did their shields. Also painted the peasants a bit, but got fed up (hey, there's a fun coincidence. One of the peasant minis I'm painting is the same as the guy pictured in the 'worst lookout evar' picture above. The one in the picture of course painted by virago, not by me). It happens. Finished a dead priest, a dog and a treasure chest though. And of course the bloody shields. Making decals made for Gripping Beast plastics fit Foundry shields. Good times. :p But yeah, so most of the guys are finished now, just the warlord and the peasants and carts to do. Still no news on the Warlord Base situation. Serves me right for not stacking up on these things. Or something like that. The deadline I'd set for myself was the 15th. Oh well. Not too bad. It'll work out fine.

Oh, yesterday I made up a new trick to keep me going. I take little pauses during painting and in an empty editor document I sketch out a list of stuff to do on the models I'm currently doing. Just a simple list saying "eyes, beards, highlight metallics, lips" and so on. I think the list mustn't be to long. Whenever I think "bugger it, I'll stop painting now", I look at the list and think "just these two more things and then I go.". Once they're done you can delete them from the list and put the next few things. I know it's basic stuff for people who properly know how to organize stuff and I'm sure that it's not for everybody, but it worked for me on some things. I'm sure that some organizational 'simplify' guru whizzninny wrote that in some book about a million times and I shouldn't be posting that but it's late, so whatever. Let me ramble. And maybe it helps someone. At least it's worth a shot. I'm sure I won't be doing this a few months down the line, but whatever works, right?

Anyway, good night.

Okay, I got my 60mm base now, put the models on it, slapped some stuff on it to make it more scenic. Today I got some stuff to do during the day, but I aim for the Warlord to be finished before Saturday.

Here's a bit of a teaser picture of the finished carts:



In fact, all the Vikings got their shields now and the bases are finished. They're varnished too.

I ALSO got the base for the warlord earlier today and got to working on the warlord base:



Hope you like them, the self-imposed deadline of "before Saturday" still stands.

Lovely work on the cart. Really like the wooden effect you got.

@ckig: Thanks very much!

Okay, Warlord finished!



...and varnished. Just recharging the cam's battery, then I'll take some finished pics of the whole force (not that it's finished. Still got a few scenic dudes to do and a few more leader figures, but they're a playable force now at least.)

Free hand raven banner or does it have a historical counterpart?

Nah, just another LBM decal flag. Freehand banners take longer to do and thus are more expensive. My guess would be that the design is made up with little foundation in history.

Great job on both the cart and warlord. Good job on the base too.

Beautiful work, that warlord looks stunning.

Carts are amazing for the scale they are.

Just love the commander, such a great steriotypical look to the group.

The commander looks amazing Sigur, the model really does say "You don't want to mess with me".

@Dr H: Thanks muchly.

@Camkierhi: Thank you! What do you mean by 'for they scale they are'?

@Gitsplitta: Yeah, this warband isn't very light on stereotypes, but there are few things which are more fun than playing with stereotypes!

@GiraffeX: Yar, the sculpt is really imposing. Proper warlord!

Okay, here are the finished pictures:

























Hope you like them.

There is more to come. Quite a few great sculpts from sets of 'vikings having fun' sets and some leader figures (plus: vikings on horses!).

Group shots are amazing.

Sorry thought they where the tiny scale stuff. They are amazing regardless, and the dappling on the horses is superb.

@Camkierhi: Thanks very much. No worries, I was just a bit confused by the scale thing. Those horses acutally are very interesting minis as they actually got shaggy fur sculpted. Gives them a very rugged, proper look. These, along with the peasants, are amongst Gripping Beast's better metal minis (which generally have a pretty bad reputation, and deservedly so from what I've seen so far).

Hullo, today I would like to share with you my review of WLG's plastic M3A1 Half-Track. The article also has a little report of how I turned this M3A1 into a M5 Half-Track (the export version) for use with my Soviets.



http://www.battlebrushstudios.com/2015/08/review-warlord-games-m3a1-half-track.html

I hope that you find the article interesting and entertaining! Feedback and comments are as always highly appreciated!

Okay, back on the Fantasy side of things now, painting minis for Guild Ball.

As far as I read it's less like Blood Bowl (despite being similar in theme) and more like Malifaux/Warmahordes with a ball.

I'm working on a Butcher's Guild team and a Mortician's Guild team, starting with the Butcher's. (I have no idea what's going on with these apostrophes, but the designers write it like that, so I assume the guilds were the idea of some butcher/mortician each of whom now runs their own guild rather than having a guild of butchers/etc.).

Here's the test mini, the Butchers (I'll just refer to them as 'butchers' and 'morticians' from now on if that's okay):



Hope you like the guy. There's 7 models to each team (including mascots).

oh Guild Ball, very interested seeing what you do with these, its supposed to be a very good game with lovely minis.

First guy is looking great, very nice axe.

@GiraffeX: Yeah, I'm sure it's a game which is very playable and the casting quality of the minis seems to be alright. I mean it's one of those things which are just not up my alley. Some of the minis I think are nice, but it's not something I could see myself actually playing. Putting them together was a bit of a chore on some minis, especially so on some of the Morticians. I'm sure the person who sat at the computer and designed the models had good intentions and knows what the crowds go for, but I assume they do not know how to design a miniature which is to be actually cast up. There's this one guy who hold a LONG, THIN staff in his outstretched hand. All of this, along with this body, is a one-piece cast. The models come in big, shell-like blisters and the way I got the model was with the top half of the staff being bent right above the fist at a 97 degree angle (my estimation). Of course the bloody thing snapped when I carefully tried to bend it back again. Impossible to pin because the staff is too thin, hardly possible to use the staff as a pin itself and just drill a hole in the first because the staff would be too short in the front then. Stuff like that. This is what makes people not like metal minis. Those Foundry wikings? Solid casts, nigh impossible to damage, clean, glue to base, done. But no, we gotta have some spindly 35mm size bloody sailor moon figures. The world may complain about "heroic" 28mm all they like, but then they also gotta complain about that silly fad in mini design too. Baaaaaaaah, I say. Yeah... I don't know, it's just not my kind of thing. From what I read the rules are like Malifaux or Warmahordes so that certainly doesn't draw me to the game either. Minis are fine to paint though, no complaints there.


Butchers WIP:

Looking very nice, the skin tone on the ladies is very well done. Which paints did you use if you don't mind me asking, I'm always looking out for ways to improve in that area.

Glad you had fun putting the minis together

Cheers. I'm using either the Andrea Color skin tone set or Coat d'arms skintones (mostly Elven Flesh). I also recently got myself Vallejo Model Color Flesh Base, which seems to be a great skin tone paint as well. A friend of mine swears by it.

Looking very nice! Needs some tats!

The game itself is very fun, but then I like Warmachine. It has a more fluid pace, and feels more like a sport but with thinky bits. Lots of resource and risk management decisions, which I like in a game. Much less randomness that breaks the game than BloodBowl, but a lot of fun effects and the like. I have only got a single game in, but watched a bunch at our local club, and it was fun and interesting (and I can't even sit through a football game.)
Honestly, as the models are all named characters, there isn't much reason to not just scratch build your own from bits, and skip dealing with the annoyingly thin metals. They are all pretty nice, but I am sure I can do better

Some really interesting models you've been working up lately Sigur. Must keep life enjoyable when you have such variety to play with.

@Wehrkind: Yeah, I thought of tattoos as well when painting those. The rules are available for free online as well as far as I remember, right?

@Gitsplitta: Cheers. Yup, it's all in the variety. I could paint those Foundry minis for quite a lot longer too I think. The style of the sculpts really clicks with me. The funny thing is that I also never really grow tired of doing Space Marines too.

Speaking of which... here's a WIP Space Marines special character:



...and here are some test figures for the Morticians:



...aaaand there's another thing I probably shouldn't say (I probably shouldn't say anything but positive marketing drone crap), but I may have messed up on the colour scheme there. The order was "make 'em grey and purple". I also wanted to make them dark to fit their guild and to contrast the brighter Butchers. Between the grey clothes, the grey NMM metal, the black and the dark/dull purple I'm not sure if they aren't a little boring to look at. I'm pretty sure I'll stick to the colour scheme for the most part, but maybe tweak it a little by adding green bits. I really like those stripey things over the eyes as seen on the dude with the mask. Maybe that's a thing I'll carry through the whole team. Maybe i'll make it green when it's on purple masks or black or purple when it's painted on faces. What do you think?

Nice work on the marine. Just can't believe how quickly you work with such skill. The guy on the right looks great because of the position of the bare skin. The guy on the left.. well... it's the way he's sculpted.

I think they look good, the markings on the mask break it up nicely, maybe a few bits of grass on the base to add another colour?

@Gitsplitta: Thanks, glad you like it so far.

@GiraffeX: Yeah, some green grass on the bases as on the Butchers testmini is a given.


Okay, army pictures time!























Hope you like them.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Finished three Butchers for now:



The photo isn't great, but i guess you can see the breasts.

They all look fantastic! The Ravens on the banners (or whatever corvid they may be) are amazing. Also, The cat was beautiful, too! (Their picture was in my email.) Keep up the awesome work

Thanks muchly. Yeah, that cat. Lady a bit down the street brought him back home from her holiday in Greece a while ago. He spends most of the time roaming the streets with his pal (who's deadly afraid of people) and leave, as cats do, trails of mangled corpses. He's a huge charmer. With most people as soon as he sees them (no matter if he knows them or not) he drops on his back and relies on being cute. This way he gets fed by lots of people along his territory. :p But the thing is that he IS very cute and not afraid of people at all. Nobody does not like him (even though I'm very allergic to cats).

That is indeed the sign of a clever cat! Ours has gotten past the hunting phase, fortunately. He did, one evening some time ago, casually bring in a monster sized rat (dead, luckily), so that's certainly better than poor birds and mice!