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Right so I've upped the level of shading and highlighting on the armour and now I'm happy with it:

Very nice weets. You really brought up the highlights nicely.

It was good before but now it's WeetyWowed! :-)

Merry XXXmass y'all! Back in a few days...

Have a good one weety!

Try to limit the homemade alcohol to ensure you remember some of it

Actually this year we are only drinking the finest red wines. we did go out picking but I have bought a freezer which has taken the urgency out of the blackberry wine process. This year I'm having a nice wolf blass yellow label followed by some cassillero de diablo and rounded off with a little newcastle brown ale! because feth it!

Good job perfecting the armour.

Happy Christmas. Hope the hangover is mild.

Oooooh! Gone all upmarket now have we?

YuS! So up market I have a glass.

Thanks Dr H I will hope for the best.

You wouldn't believe how many times I had to retype this to get it right. Have a good time everyone!

Merry Christmas weets. Enjoy yourself, you've earned it!

Merry Cthulhumas wheety xxx

Merry Christmas Weety hope you didnt drink your self under too much.

good work on the fantasy models cant wait to see what youc ome up with next.

You know you're gonna have to do 9 more of those Drummers Drumming.

And possibly some Ladies Dancing, Maids a Milking, Lords a Leaping, and the like...

Time lords a leaping?

Here's what I've been up to since xmas.

I've been trying to put together a small empire force, here's some troops I came up with:



Also I finally got around to starting my river troll (a gift from inmygravenimage).

First I inked him up:



Then flesh tones followed by a red wash:



He will get a lot more work. Also check out the skull buried in the base.

Nice. I like the flesh tone you gave him. After the first picture I was expecting him to be green Colour theory at work.

Still love the wood you paint. Tempted to send you some of my boxes just to see them painted better than I can manage.

Thanks H, I wanted him to look like he is covered in a slimy layer of pond goo. So he is just green tinged.

The wood is quite simple atm its just an umber wash and a white drybrush. I'm thinking of washing it with some grey mixed with olive green and then I will sepia up the binding rope.

The teeth need more highlights and some yellowing, I need to pick a colour and style for the eyes (they are quite big so I can go to town on them), the hair needs more black and I might give the skin a skin wash to tone down the bruised pink look.

Ooh, that's a lovely troll. I found the rest, finally, yesterday, if you still want them?

well it would be pretty cool to have the whole set - if you ever need anything painted graven I would totally do you a free one for all this treasure you keep sending me. One good turn deserves another and all that.

Oh-ho-ho, I'm totally gonna take you up on that offer I shall pm you m'dear.

More empire stuff turned up today. Look at these fancy lads with their get up. I read today that the reason the original greatsworders dressed like this was because as crack troops they benefited from a relaxation of the sumptuary laws, which forbade commoners from wearing anything fancy, or purple.

Weets, I'm really liking this Empire phase you are in! Very inspiring!

Ah thankyou dstein! I'm really liking it too. I love the historical pastiche of The Empire. I've been reading all about the history of the holy roman empire so as to get a feel for it. Apart from hippogriffs and the colleges of magic they pretty much pinched from history wholesale. There were even flagellants and witch-hunters...

Precious little progress painting wise - I've basically done this standard bearer's armour and also designed him a flag, made up of some holy roman empire flags I've spliced together - going to go library tomorrow and see if I can get it printed (maybe even get yarrick's flag done too).

cool looking flag

Yeah- the Longswordsmen from the Empire are basically based on the Landschnekhts of the real world- and they did specifically dress super fancy to show off that they were skilled enough to be given a pass on the sumptuary laws. They were also called Doppelsoldner, possibly due to being payed double the going rate, or that they used double-handed swords, or that they were twice the man compared to other men.

"My sword is bigger than your sword" :-P

twice as big!

I never made it too the library so no flag yet - I had to help out with redecorating. There's always something falling apart in our flat and today its the paintwork.

I prefer to paint tiny things so I found time in between scraping window frames to put a lick of paint to the standard bearer. I'm very pleased with the results and I absolutely promise to go get that flag soon. I'm really inexperienced with flags.

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Looking nice Weety.

Happy New Year.

happy new year H. And to the rest of you! Here's hoping 2014 is less eventful than 2013.

Batch painting time! I've got four more of these, but I've run out of bases for them.