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The banner looks great! The green looks a bit odd, but as it has been used also on the troopers it probably looks better when the banner bearer is with the unit. The free hand is sharp and the designs fit fluff well.

@Metsuri: Cheers. The colourscheme NEEDS the green. Two colour schemes don't really work on full armies.


Here's the unit as it is now altogether:




Starting to get bored. The faces need detail and the drum needs to be done.

Something that really strikes me about your fantastic minis are the metals. You get a really nice shine from what looks like a darkish base metal colour, so I take it you don't use many washes as they dull the shine massively. That makes your metal depth even more impressive

What brand metallics are you using and do you generally skip the mid stage when highlighting them, as in going from Boltgun straight to mithril?

How are you doing your yellow's Sigur? Been struggling to get the right looking yellow for my Talabeclanders, and this seems what i'm after.

Wow that flag is soo awesome!! great work with the highlights

Solid work sigur, though I think your nuts for doing yellow on black primer .

Outstanding standard bearer, and the rest of the formation is great as well.

@Ifalna: Thanks. I'm almost ashamed of the simplicity of the recipe I use for dark metals on standard troops. It's basically just Boltgun Metal, Badab Black, Mithril silver. Over the years I learned that with metallics, sharp highlights and reflections are way more effective than smooth blending due to metallics somehow blending in a natural way anyway.

@TheFirstBorn: Again, very simple: Iyanden Darksun, light wash of Gryphonne Sepia, highlight with Iyanden Darksun/VMC Sand Yellow mixes and add some white in the end.

@IHEARTLARGEBLASTTEMPLATES: Thanks. I usually don't do freehands of that size but I'm happy with the result.

@Empchild: Cheers. With Iyanden Darksun or paints from the VMC range, that's not too much of a problem any more.

@btemple0: Thank you!



Once more, an update:




I redid the faces a little, painted some teeth and eyes (to an extent. More recent plastic sculpts of human heads have very, very small eyes and overly exposed lower eyelids that make painting eyes a little superfluous, at least on these State Troops.) and added shields of course. The shield emblems aren't quite finished as you can see in the picture.

Crisp, bold painting as usual, you almost want me to start collecting some fanasy models!

The discworld minis look great, I just finished one of the books yesterday!

Hmmm, now I am going to have to break out the empire army I have been collecting and get to assembling so I can paint. Great work btw, keep it up!

Verry nice work indeed!

Liking the wolves alot. Keep it up!

@Commander Cain: Thanks. Which book did you finish?

@Stretch: Cheers. By all means, do those empire minis. They got some mighty interesting colourschemes and if I wasn't tied up with all the commissions, I'd be working on my own Empire army right now.

@112lom: Thank you.

@silveryfox: Thanks!



Little update on what happened today (apart from a bit more on the Swordsmen).

Outriders horses WIP


Knights horses WIP


10 more Greatwords WIP



I'm really trying to do as much as possible because these days i'm mostly motivated by panic because this monstrosity is leering at me day and night and I know that some time soon I won't be able to resist any more and get it out of its box. And once that happens, the Empire stuff is starting to get delayed...

Some nice stuff here

That is, without a doubt, the most epic Chimera I have ever seen!

::checks site::
http://banelegions.maelstromgames.co.uk/?tag=bnb-007

At 100 GBP, I guess it kinda ought to be, too! LOL

Eric

As always, nothing but strong praise for all your work!

Great work on the Averlanders.
Can't wait to see what you do with the DKoK

@Truffle: Cheers.

@Magickal Memories: It IS a beautiful model and at that of a creature you don't see models of too often. I think it's well worth the money.

@MajorTom11: Many thanks.

@TiB: Cheers. Here's a picture of the DKOK test mini I did some months ago if you're interested:








Alright, the new Greatswords are finished now, including the banner.





Some of you might notice that some of these Greatswords have darker skin colour than the rest and that there is some exotic symbology on the banner. Fluffwise, the army just returned from a crusade against Araby and some of the regiments featured in this army have a history of having been to Araby. That's why some amongst the troops of the Greatswords regiment are from araby and the regiment incorporated some bits of arabian culture into their traditions so I thought it would be a nice touch to have some darker skinned dudes in there. Reason is this: The state troops in this army obviously weren't in Arabia but the Greatswords, being more of an elite unit and being much more professional soldiers with more esprit de corps and all that were there too. And the Knights of course (Order of the Blazing Sun); Magritta was in endangered by an arabian army once more or something so the Order went there and the Greatswords went with them. Something like that. I hope I don't upset the owner of this army too much by messing his fluff up but you guys know how much I like writing endless drivel when it's late. :-P ). Anyhoo, while the knights enjoy staying pretty much by themselves, the Greatswords had more contact with the locals (be it in good or bad ways) so I thought they were the ones much more prone to acculturate to an extent.

I really like these minis (I know I said that already but I can't stress it enough). Perfectly easy to rank up, no unnecessary details and overall good design. Very good options and good sculpts, especially on the heads. They really make up for the State Troops who are not quite on par with those.

Apart from that, I finished the Outriders horses and did the horses of the knights (sans the barding for now). Next thing on my list would be the Outriders themselves. Problem is, I still have to convert the second champion and have to wait for a bit until I can build him. So I'm doing the Outriders in two steps of five each.

See you soon!

Alright, I didn't get all that much done the past two days but I put together another unit of handgunners and more or less finished the first unit of Outriders:









I think I'll do an army shot after the Outriders are really finished and then go assembling the Chimera.

Those Empire figures look amazing! I especially like the darker metal on the pistoliers! The customer is going to have a incredible looking army at his next game!

Churning these guys out I see! I had a go at you recipie for silver with a few tweaks of my own in, it worked great!

Should those DKoK models have the blob on the tip of the lasgun? I chopped them off mine

(the book I finished was Unseen Academicals BTW, great read!)

gman1401: Many thanks. I really have to do a group shot of the stuff that's finished so far.

Commander Cain: Well, I was pretty lazy the past week. Glad the recipe worked for you. Would you mind sharing the tweaks you did?
Yeah, that blob on the DKOK minis was a mistake. The client gave me the minis assembled and thought they were part of the minis and when I did the testminis, I was oblivious enough not to look it up. Thanks for the heads up though; the blobs are removed now. As for the Discworld books - haven't read any of the newer ones (well, none really starting with the release of Thud!) but I hear that Unseen Academicals is great.



There hasn't been an update in over a week now which is pretty long compared to the timespans I usually have between updates. Fact is, I haven't been all that productive for a few days. Glad that's over and I'm back to my regular level of "productivity" (so not all that much really).

Anyway, here's what happened:

Detritus and Dibbler finished






And here's a shot of the almost fully assembled chimera (covered in GW stuffs. This is not to annoy you, it's mainly for scale reasons and a lame joke I tried to pull off on another board :p)



I got farther now on the mini but not all that much so no painted WIPs as for now but soon!


Apart from that, the finished Khorne chaos space marines army:

*) Single pictures and a proper army shot are to follow


WIP of the first bunch of Death Korps of Krieg:


The Space Hulk minis are finished as well. I'll do pictures of those once they're varnished.

Currently in the works: Imperial Fists testmini.


So that's that for now. Comments and critique welcome as always.

Nice basing on those Zouave DKoK. I can't wait to see what you do with the Chimera.

lovely looking figures......I love the way you make painting sound so simple

Solid work Sigur!!!

I am honestly very glad that I subscribed to this blog. The stuff you're churning out is brilliant and you seem to never stop! Which is good for us The Empire so far is fantastic solid painting. Can't wait to see them all done. Keep at it dude!

wow.. those great swords and the banner are great!! so is everything wow. im speechless as you can tell with the 2 wows... haha good job

Particularly like the DKOK color scheme, very interesting and fresh from the norm!

BTW Sigur, you never responded to my PM!

Nice work on the Khorne marines. Good to see old OoP minis painted well, those old blood letters have a lot of character. And the basing of those DKoK is great looking.

Everything looks so stunning! Love the horses of the Outriders and the colors on the Empire in general. Gives me goosebumps.