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Wow what an improvement!

I am impressed and jealous. Too bad on the skin tone thing thanx anyway.

Wow, this is an actual maruder, not a smaller less armored choas knight and i very much dig the fact. go, realism, go

very nice paint job

edit: oh how many chaos knight heads do you get in a box by the way?

MGS, I'll likely do the big man next, I don't want to go buying anything new until I've gotten what I have on hand painted for the army. Granted that doesn't give me near a playable force, but I don't want to get bogged down with them! Though a character here and there couldn't hurt ^_-. I don't know that I'm planning to use a DP with this army right now. But I don't exactly know what the army will be as it stands! I've kind of come a bit back from thinking just cav, just khorne, but options are open ^_-. I'm thinking the big man will be next on the paint list after these guys. He'll be a lot of fun.

Chap P, Thanks man ^_^. I'm really happy with how he came out after all the turmoil of getting him going. I haven't played WoC at all yet. But I'm slowly getting my nose in the books and learning the game as it is. My list isn't really anything right now, mostly just thoughts. I'm considering, as a starter force, Champ on Demonic mount, Block of Chaos Warriors, Marauder Horsemen, and 2 units of Knights. Just to get me in the game and playing. That would mean I'd only need my champ and a block of warriors to get me going. Though I could always just rep the champ with the lord on juggy for now. But that other cav leader is calling my name. MUST HAVE HIM.

DDrE, I'll keep working on them as long as they're interesting, which could be for some time to come ^_^; I LOVE how many different characters you can take in this game...

Miss Dee, They are indeed, well, them and a Move from Texas to Maryland ^_-. I'm currently wanting to keep them a bit more neutral in terms of Chaos God patronage. Sort of the lynch pin of the army to have everyone else tie themselves in to.

Shaman, Glad you like him. I wish I could help with the skin tone, maybe in the future I'll have another more fresh in my mind skin tone I can help you out with ^_-.

L_L, heh, he is indeed just a regular Marauder Horsemen! Just because he's a lowly core choice doesn't mean he doesn't deserve some TLC!

jamessearle, Thanks mate! Unfortunately just 5 heads for the knights. But the marauders come with a bunch more (helmets/no helmets)

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Thanks to everyone for their input and comments, this is really keeping me excited about this army ^_^. Now to see about the rest of those horsemen. And a battery charger....

grey_death wrote:MGS, I'll likely do the big man next, I don't want to go buying anything new until I've gotten what I have on hand painted for the army. Granted that doesn't give me near a playable force, but I don't want to get bogged down with them! Though a character here and there couldn't hurt ^_-. I don't know that I'm planning to use a DP with this army right now. But I don't exactly know what the army will be as it stands! I've kind of come a bit back from thinking just cav, just khorne, but options are open ^_-. I'm thinking the big man will be next on the paint list after these guys. He'll be a lot of fun.

Weeeellll, I have to say I love single god armies, something about their overriding theme holds the eye far more than a 'grocer's stall' of bits n pieces.

Have you considered also including Khorne daemons as 'counts as' for other aspects of the army?

Of course that will then leave you freed to create 4 armies...

I will have to see how I'm feeling once I get a few more units ready for this army and go from there ^_^. I do like the idea of using khorne demons for other units, just not sure what 'count as' I would go for.

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Just keeping myself motivated mostly, but here is some progress for the next one:


Bestial Brown Base Coloring


Codex Grey base colors, still a few more spots to hit.

More tomorrow I'm sure!

That's very interesting indeed, seeing those two pictures and noting that you apply that base brown to the horse, it's reigns and the rider, both his boots and skin. This is part of the technique of 'binding' the entire model together once finished. I'm taking notes.

MGS, that's usually the plan ^_^. I block out a lot of colors all at once much of the time like that. A lot of the browns for these guys are based around Bestial Brown, just a lot of variation from there!

Another small update:



As you can see, I ditched the brown on the horse. Just wasn't working for me, but it was a good exercise to at least try out. I think I can handle the random black/white patterning for them though ^_^.

Also have a quick comparison pic as well:



Just thought some folks might want to see how they stack up!

Those horsemen look good!

The bases tie the units together as well as the metallics and the black on the horses.

Nice progress on the marauders, I agree that the horse needed to loose the brown. There is too much brown on the equipment/ rider so the horses should be in grey-white-black for the contrast in my opinion.

Finished the second Marauder! This one took a little longer than expected, I don't quite have the method down just yet for these guys ^_-. Lots of playing with color too for this one.





Skin tone is Cork Brown (Vallejo) washed with 2x Dark Flesh Wash (awesomepaintjob.com) brought back to Cork Brown and highlighted with 60/40 or so Cork Brown/Bleached bone. A few spots were washed back once and blended in a bit more with successive highlights (using a bit less bleached bone).

Likely start on the next guy soon! A bit less color play this time should mean he moves a bit faster. Only play should end up being the skin tone.

These are looking really good. I'd suggest a variation colour on the next horse though, too many dark/white 2tone ones will make it look too uniform.

Oh and my humble suggestion for a unit champion or a character's mount would be a stormy dappled grey like this one:
http://www.bergoiata.org/fe/horses/Horse%20Dapple%20Grey%20Cantering%20Left.jpg

And here's a reference list that may prove useful
http://www.thehorseguide.com/BreedInformation.htm

Are you still thinking on tatoo/woad/warpaint?

Very strong, clean colors and nice paintwork, Aaron. I am impressed.

Quite lovely, as usual! I find all that flat horse skin to be rather intimidating, but you do a great job of it. I grew up around horses, and those look very believable to me.

Wehrkind wrote:I grew up around horses, and those look very believable to me.

Shall I send Aaron a little road apple aroma therapy to rub on the bases to really complete the effect?

MGS, if I can get that dappled grey to work, it would be a great way to break it up a bit ^_^. I will see what I can do...As for tattoo's, I'm just not feeling them just yet. I haven't ruled them out, but it's an additional detail on what I feel is an already busy model.

scarab, thanks man! I'm pretty happy with how they're coming along.

Wehrkind, I have had some issues getting the hide to come out right in a few spots. With all of the equipment it leaves you with some odd sections of hide to paint and many don't lend themselves to easy highlighting. The biggest thing I've found is that going back and shading things helps to control your hide tones a bit more than trying to build them without messing up. I looked through a lot of reference stuff on google images to get a look that worked at this scale, without much hassle, and I think I've found one ^_-. Much of it breaks down to old camouflage techniques of roughing out the area with splotches of paint and stippling the edges and making them more random.

And I think we've been beaten to the scented minis haven't we Scarab? ^_-.

Scarab, he could always wash the base with a little horse water to give it that musky scent
I suppose it is a sign of missing way too much sleep when I start thinking that might not actually be a half bad idea. The road apples, not the horse piss. Horse manure isn't very offensive smelling at all, and you could add a little aromatic sense to the army that is normall completely lacking...

In other, less "get yourself banned from the game store" news, when did you move to Maryland GD?!

When you get to the infantry, this guy is amazing, just saw it for the first time a few mins ago:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/257974.page

I think you could really do that fig some justice.

Wehr, I just moved up here a few weeks ago ^_^. Also, not sure poo smelling models is where I'd like to go should I venture into scented models...even if it's just horse manure.. x.x.......

MGS, I just saw him the other day myself ^_^. Was digging through their site seeing what they've come up with and was taken aback by him. Fantastic piece. Might have to give him some paint in the future!

Very very nice
there smashing models and youve done them justice with a great paint job