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Nice artillery piece there

Everything in this blog is just ace but I have to commend the Thunderwolfs extra! The best ones I've seen


//Edge

Been away a long time, but really REALLY nice.

I like the dwarves you did, where did they come from??

@btemple0: Thanks. I'm trying to keep it pretty simple.

@OnTheEdge: Cheers!

@dantay_xv: Thanks muchly. Make sure you drop by more frequently. The dwarves are nice indeed; they're made by a polish (I think) company called Dwarf Tales. They have their own skirmish system of you you can download the rules for free on their website.

I really missed the old "puffy arms and impressive trousers" (as you put it) among the newer empire models. I had thought once of starting some empire guys either for a warhammer army in the dream tthat my brother's lizardmen will ever be finished haha, or for IG conversions, but the state troopers just didn't cut the bill for me, even thou they do have an interesting look to them.

outrider kit has always seemed cool!
ill look forward to seeing this army grow, how big will it be?

For that very reason, I started getting 5th edition State Troops off ebay. Problem is, especially halbeards look incredibly puny so they'd have to be exchanged for longer polearms from that one company I can't quite recall at the moment.

Here's the list of minis I'll do for that army: For now it's 2 captains, 2 magicians, 20 greatswords, 20 swordsmen, 10 handgunners, 10 state troops, 8 knights, 5 outriders, 1 volley gun.


Update: I finished the first unit of State Troops (I call them that because I never manage to remember how halbardiers are actually spelled in English) and the Volley Gun's crew. The cannon itself is also almost finished. Tomorrow I will finish the cannon, finish the second character and ...hm...or I save the characters for later when I'm really, really annoyed with hordes of infantry and decide to do a character for a change. Yeah, I guess that sounds better. So! Tomorrow: Finish cannon, put together more infantry! I just spilled half a pot of Coat d'Arms Beige Brown on my table. Good Night.
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Update!

Finished Volley Gun:



Finished Halbardiers:



WIP Mages (1 light, 1 fire, but I won't tell which is which):



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Update! Mages finished:


(Just checking for the level of damage my perception has taken - What or who does the shot of the back of the hat of the light mage remind you of?)


WIP of the second fighty character guy:


Next step: putting together the rest of the minis, then paint everything. Simple, isn't it?


edit: Assembled 10 Handgunners and 20 Swordsmen. Goodnight!

What do you think of that empire battle wizards kit? I was looking into buying one for use as a mini for one of my many D&D characters.

@btemple, lol, that also will be another item in my swapshop, plent of battlewizard bits, sounds like you should definitely should look lol!

@Sigur...

HOLY CRAP... amazing work AGAIN... but the flames are particularly amazing and vivid, your metallics are sublime as usual, and as usual every post seems to be better than the last, and that's saying a lot. Are your times to do these commisions increasing greatly out of curiosity? If so your price must be going up??

@btemple0: It's a nice kit overall. You get very nice options for most schools of wizardy and some very interesting bitz as well. The robes look very nice and the faces as well. On top of that, you get big hats which is always cool. The only negative thing I noticed is the pose of the wizrds themselves. They're always pretty hunched over and I would have liked to have one to have more like a pose like that one:
http://i.mobilehomepages.de/c/E0BEC1/135950/ssc5/gallery/180-people/30-fantasy/wizard.gif_320_320_256_9223372036854775000_0_1_0.gif :p But I know that's not really possible with a multi-part plastic kit of a cloaked figure with that many options. So anyway, of the new/current Empire plastic kits, this probably is my favorite (Knights and Greatswords are awesome as well though). If you want a pretty personalized D&D character from that box, I think it's a good deal.

@MajorTom11: Well, my price went up for a while (the problem with doing something you love to do for money usually results in you charging WAY too little. Especially in a market which basically has no rules to pricing, very hard to compare prices, has a product that is incredibly individual and different from supplier to supplier and is basically very niche), just now I'm getting a hang of it. The time my commissions take to finish are about the same as they used to be; if anything I'm getting faster.



Update - just probably not as much as you'd think or I'd hoped to be able to present you with after almost a week so I threw in some pictures of off-topic filler stuff.



9 WIP greatswords (funny story - you can tell how numb-minded I was last week as I left one of the 10 guys in the priming box. The unit will be 20 men strong so I'll do them in the classic 9 - 11 steps):




I recently found this little scenic base for cannons I acquired along with an empire army this summer and thought it would look nice if I put the Volley Gun on it:


On a completely unrelated note - look what I got here:


:-D When I recently went to my awesome LGS again, one of the guys at the counter held this into my face and jokingly said "You NEED this, right?". It's not like I'm known for being into terrible movies and even less into getting merchandise for terrible movies but for that price I got it. Simply as an entertaining piece and maybe it'll make a funny little present some time.

On a slightly more related note (but still far off topic): I played Death Angel last night; that Space Hulk card game by FFG. Played it with two friends of mine and we found it to be a very exciting and fun game. Not sure about the endless replayability of the thing as, depending on the number of players, it's almost always the same succession of rooms that is generated but it's pretty awesome to just play a cooperative game and for it being a card game, it conveys the feel of Space Hulk pretty well. It was always pretty cool to more or less see the guys I've been painting for months in action (albeit not the miniatures but more just the names).

So that's that. I'm aiming to finish the Greatswords and the Captain this weekend. After that, it's either more State Troops or some Cavalry.

Wow great work! love your yellows.

@IHEARTLARGEBLASTTEMPLATES: Thank you.


Update!

Finished Greatswords:


As good as finished Captain:


So what's next? Hmm... either Swordsmen, Outriders or more Greatswords. What would you like to see next?

Very impressive Empire - the muted yellow and black colour scheme works wonders!

@MrFeral: Thanks muchly.



So while I was waiting for votes to pile up on what to do next, I decided to lay the groundwork on these swordsmen:



After getting a bit bored with black and yellow on these Averlanders, I thought I'd finally commence painting these guys:





(Still early WIP of course.)


Because pets always work in project logs, I decided to take some pictures of the most awesome dog in the world but she really hates having photos taken of her:

Nice Averlanders and Diskworld models , not so fussed on the dogs paintscheme, looks like it needs a few more wash's ;-)

@neil101: Quiet you! :p


Update!

Great work! The colours you use are very nice indeed Does that treasure chest have legs?!

looks like zebra fur to me. the pattern looks too flat (for Sigur's ability) to be legs.

Obviously, the legs aren't done yet.

Looks like the chest from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels to me.

Natorum wrote:Looks like the chest from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels to me.

You know why that is don't you? Cos it is the chest from Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

If you're into your Discworld there are a few more figures you may recognise earlier on in the thread.

@Commander Cain: Cheers.

@TiB: They were WIP.

@MagickalMemories: Spot on.

@Natorum: Quite well observed.

@Lennysmash:


Discworld minis finished!



















Bloodbowl minis finished!


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Apart from that, lots of Empire assembly, basing and priming.

Hmm actually quite liked the legs as zebra fur...

adventurous yet comfortable

@TiB: Well, it would indicate a certain idea of class....

Update! Despite your votes (Outriders would have won), I'm afraid I'll do the Swordsmen first. I don't do this to spite you but for practical reasons. Thing is, there are going to be a total of 10 Outriders now and I chose to do those together rather than splitting them up. I only got the five you saw earlier (assembled and primed) and the other five I'll get in the mail this week if everything goes according to plan.

So for now, it's swordmen. Trying to get State Troops out of the way:





The first ten (plus one Greatsword) are almost finished, the other 10 just got some base colours and the yellow and black parts finished. Hope you like them. C&Cwelcome as always!

Just a little update in between. Trying to paint all 20 Swordsmen up to the same level and then finish them all together.



Seeya later!

Sigur,
Again, your BB dudes are amazing. Your Averlanders are coming along nicely. After the swordsmen and outriders do you still have more Averland stuff to do?

@Moltar: Thank you. Loads of more Averländer coming up - apart from these Swordsmen and Outriders (10), there's 10 more greatswords, 10 more handgunners, 10 archers, a mortar, 10 more halberdiers a steam tank(!), 8 knights and some more stuff.

After a little doodling around (or was it oodling?) I actually liked the very first draft for the first freehand banner and went for it. Here's how far I got for now:



This isn't too impressive as posting the finished thing of course but I thought you may like it and I didn't get much else painted today because I was on the road, visiting a modelling store sale, getting the finished Discworld minis to the customer and picking up new commission stuff (Detritus, Dibbler, the Maelstrom Games Chimera and a platoon of Death Korps of Krieg).

But first - Empire of course.

Beautiful painting! It all looks so realistic. Those Wizards are especially knocking my socks off.

As usual solid work on the commissions. I can't say I know much about discworld but fun looking minis.

@bunnygurl: Many thanks.

@Empchild: Cheers. The Discworlders really are fun to paint.


Alright, that's the current state of affairs:



This is pretty much the final version. A few more touch-ups and it should be finished.