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The bases are just great!

I still haven't found Drune riders, but I keep looking for it.

God, do I love your bases. I demand moar!

Thrice Nice!
and the bases are aces

Thank you sirs! I am really pleased with how the bases worked out, especially since I have molds to make like 12 at a shot (overkill? nah) The humidity has been annoying though, as too much moisture makes the slow set resin I have bubble like crazy.

Salvage: Pretty much all the chaos steeds are on 50x50 bases it seems. Kind of handy for swapping. I was thinking I might do without the Slaaneshi steed but that puts her without the fast cav rule, which I am uncertain of losing. It might work though to do a daemon steed for all the lovely things you mention, and put the wolf girls with Shields light armor minus throwing spears. They lose Fast Cav and shooting, but get a 4+ save which is kind of neat.

Sleeping hasn't been going well, but I have got the marauders almost done. 6 seems to be the perfect number for assembly lining them without killing myself. I also started base coating the remaining 4 wolf priestesses and am messing around with test schemes for the warriors.

And if anyone wants copies of the resin (unpainted) bases, let me know. I made slotted ones too (the new marauders are mounted on them). I can crank them out pretty easily at this point, so like .30 a base would cover it per base. Hopefully as it gets colder the bubble issue will die down, if it ever stops raining :(

Hyena Joe: I did find one box of Drune Raiders online a bit ago, but the guy wanted ~100$ for them. Even still, I thought about it, but good lord... For that kind of money, I want more than 3 of them. I might pay 150$ if it was enough for a unit, but jeebus...


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Oh and one thing: does it make sense to put the banner of flame on the warriors? Since it doesn't seem to work with the knight's weapons, I figured to put it on them for regen hunting. Worthwhile? I don't really know how that stuff works in game, but I have a cool modeling idea for it

Wehrkind wrote:
Oh and one thing: does it make sense to put the banner of flame on the warriors? Since it doesn't seem to work with the knight's weapons, I figured to put it on them for regen hunting. Worthwhile? I don't really know how that stuff works in game, but I have a cool modeling idea for it

Well that's all the reason I would need to say go for it

But if you need some backing up, my own WoT boys are carrying only one magic banner at this point, and it's a flaming one for flipping over hydras ... and dealing with the regening grave guard and plaguebearer horde that have suddenly sprung up in my neck of the woods

- Salvage

Cool, that's what I was thinking. I didn't know if warriors were the best option for that or a pack of marauders. The idea of painting up 30 marauders to represent it though... ugh. Warriors it is

It's time for the weekend update! Wooo!
Actually have been pretty productive the last few days, though today was mostly relegated to house work. However... WOAD!

The last 6 marauders (of the first unit of 30...)


The last 3 ogres (till I make more)

Individual shots:




And since Migs asked, here's a group pic of everything done so far:


The Heroes (who are so cool they never come out clear in pics)


The marauders (model eye view)
As a side note, my favorite is the one on the far right there, possibly because he looks a lot like Salvage. Well, at least in the face region...

And up next on work table, wolfy girls and WoC:


Very observant viewers may have noticed there wasn't a GW Chaos Knight in the family pic. That's because I probably will no longer be using them, as I found 4 boxes of 3 Rackham Drune Horned Raiders on eBay over the weekend! WOOO! Turns out the fellow didn't even want my left nut, but settled for 135$. Not great, but I figure 10$ per model isn't terrible considering what terminators go for. I also got some more of the Formor ogres and some other neat stuff, so yay for spending too much cash! (Keep this up, and I will be replacing my wolfy chicks with the Privateer press versions.)

Enjoy!

That blue warpaint looks really good, It really adds some pop to the figures. Nice job, cant wait to see more!

I agree with the warpaint, it makes them look more like an organised tribe than just a herd of beasts. Great work overall!

Ok, so I had a much less productive day outside of helping my wife with her MBA paper. I did however mostly finish the test warrior I was messing around on. Here's some WIP and the "final" look.


And sorta finished:



You can see the cloak isn't done, nor the fur and horns. The gloves could use some work as well... Anyway, my main concern was getting the colors straight. (The gloves got darker as I went, and I accepted that the green cloak looked ok.) I am still not certain how happy I am with him though. The armor looks very drab to me, and I don't know if free handing on some swirls and squiggles in blue or light grey would help to fancy it up a bit to the level of the Rackham lads, or if I should just let it go and hope that 12 look better than 1. I also don't know about the blue helmet. I wanted to get SOME blue on him to tie him in with the rest of the army, and add a bit of color to an otherwise drab model, but I don't know how it worked.

Speaking of working, I did sort of get the burning weapon to look decent I think. Since this unit is going to be rocking the banner of flame I figured making all their weapons look burning hot would be a neat addition. The pollaxe might not have been the best first attempt since the size and flat head made for a slightly awkward subject, but I am fairly happy with the theory there. Maybe more orange would be a better way to go though.
Also, anyone who has good tips on object source lighting would find them MOST appreciated! I have never really done anything like this before, and am kind of flying blind here.

So, let me know what you think! Thanks!


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Ok looking at the pics again (nifty how handy that can be) I realize one of the things I don't like about the helmet: it isn't clear if it is a black helmet with blue paint smeared on it, or a blue helmet due to laquer or something more uniformly covered. I don't know which I intended either, which is probably why it came out neither here nor there in the first place. Hrmm... gotta think about that one a bit more.


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Also I can see that I went a little overboard on the OSL; hot metal doesn't glow THAT brightly. In fact, the shape of the hammer head should preclude nearly any light getting to the haft of the weapon.

Great looking army! It's good to see the excellent Rackham figs been given a life. I need to get some of my drunes painted some day.

Want play fantasy.....must resist urge...to make scottish army...too much money....

Wow really awesome loving the woad, almost enough to get me into WHFB

Ienjoy looking at these they are really different from the norm. makes me smile

Ok, so personally I would paint the warrior green with blue woad on the armor too.

I mean the entire army seems to be flesh, green/red cloth, and blue woad, so if you do the warrior blue, then he is going to look under developed compared to all these awesome guys around him as his main colour is a duller version of their decoractive colour.

Red cloak, green armor to match their clothing, and blue war paint, perhaps all down one side across the helm and some detailing on the plates. Would look brilliant and make him look like a fiercer member of the same Horde My 2 cents.

Edit: OR, red armor, green cloak, blue paint. The blue is your armies eye catcher, so use it to draw attention to him too, and help him fit into the overall scheme with the green and red.

Hmmm good ideas. I think you hit the nail on the head right there: there isn't anything that says "LOOK AT ME!" on him. Dull blue hat, dull bluish black armor, dull green cloak. I was having the same issue with the knight before that I just didn't like the look of, but couldn't seem to make work.

I was starting another test model, this one with the same dark grey armor, but thinking of doing some blue sigils all over his armor. I will have to try him with red armor as well, though I am a little leery of having the metal areas be different colors from the main force. (Boo GW for dull, flat plates )

Do you think a sort of light colored cape of flayed skin would work? That had been my first instinct when doing them, but I had convinced myself I should match the cloth colors between the units. Stitched flesh "cloth" with markings on it might be cool, but I am worried about making the most attractive part of the model their back. (There has to be a joke in there somewhere...) (Aha! "Perhaps I would need to paint their helmets as brown bags" there it is.)

Anyway, thanks so much for the input! I will give that a shot and see what works. I apparently really need to take some proper art classes so I can learn about that stuff past "This is will probably look good." Edumacation!

So: I like how rustic he is, compared with nearly all other WoC warriors with their neon, gloss, etc plate - the 'bear fur' helps bring the 'bitter hardened woodsman' across, which I can dig. Also, the incandescent weapon is really cool, nicely done ... though the OSL I took to be a weirdly messy haft, or like you had spazzed out and gotten snakebite leather all over his nicely painted gloves

Ultimately though I agree with you and Ifalna that he doesn't quite fit, or at least doesn't look too coherent right now. Green plate + blue woad would be pretty rocking - I like the idea of blue plate, on the assumption that if blue woad is the power / magic color than these guys, being the ultra-killers, ought to simply be slathered in it, but I get the feeling you might have thought similar, given it a shot and gotten this sorta messy blue end result? The woad over green or red (!) should look more striking as well, which is generally a win.

Annnnd of course nice work on the marauders and the ogres, always great to finish a big block up

(Also: drune riderssssssssssss ... *pant 'splosion*)

- Salvage

Glad you could join us sir! You make a good point there about the slathered in woad issue. I hadn't really sat down and thought through it past "Well, these guys should have some blue because they are cool and the little guys want to be like them." Which is really stupid of me, considering 1: The ogres rock it, and they wouldn't care, and 2: it should be more a ritual, power of the gods thing, not just hero worship. Much cooler that way.

If I can get away from work and the toilet a bit today (this morning seems to have come and gone) I will put up another test fig or 2. I have two sitting right here on my desk with paints and everything, and nothing done :(


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As a side note, my best friend the Imex brush from like 2005 (or whenever I started the Warhammer franchise and painted my Cannoness), a brush that is so well used and worn that there exist no markings on it of any kind and even has the paint worn off in spots around the ferrule where I hold it, has gotten even better. For some reason it developed a needle point on it last week. You could paint blood shot veins on a Slaanesh worshiper's coked out eyes if only you had a steady enough hand. I have no idea what spawned this newfound level of awesome, but there you have it. I love you brush, so much.

It's a sign your offerings have pleased the Dark Gods.

Wehrkind wrote:The armor looks very drab to me, and I don't know if free handing on some swirls and squiggles in blue or light grey would help to fancy it up a bit to the level of the Rackham lads, or if I should just let it go and hope that 12 look better than 1. I also don't know about the blue helmet. I wanted to get SOME blue on him to tie him in with the rest of the army, and add a bit of color to an otherwise drab model, but I don't know how it worked.

I really think you should try a free handing job on the armor, whithout it (and having seen the other models of your army) I have the feeling that something is missing on this model. The helmet is not bad at all, but perhaps it could be even better if you try to paint half of the face blue and the other half with symbols.

(By the way, your formors are incredible! )

Thanks for the comments guys. I have gotten nearly zero sleep all week, despite some rather Herculean efforts moving logs onto trails yesterday, and so my painting has ground to a halt. Fortunately all that lying awake half delirious staring at the ceiling has given me some good ideas on how to continue. I also made some delicious butter and biscuits. Also bid the hell out of some new models, so have 4 more formors (well 5; I had 1) and some other goodies coming. Still, looking forward when I can have my psychotic break and quit my job :(

Quick update. Messed around a little with another warrior, came up with this:

Probably the best picture I ever took:




Pretty happy with how it looks. Not too over the top, but it ties it in pretty nicely. With some incandescent weaponry and the gloves etc done, it should make for a visually interesting look.

Of course, I thought that of the last one, much to my later dismay! So what do you guys think?

these are looking great!

I think this looks better than the last one. The blue runes/ warpaint on the armor fits better with the rest than the lacquered blue helmet. It more subtle which is better in this army.

Wehrkind wrote:

Pretty happy with how it looks. Not too over the top, but it ties it in pretty nicely. With some incandescent weaponry and the gloves etc done, it should make for a visually interesting look.

Of course, I thought that of the last one, much to my later dismay! So what do you guys think?

Yeah! That's exactly how I imagined it would look like!

Your warriors are really going to look great among your army! But now, try to get some sleep!

Thanks for the comments guys, glad you approve! I am pretty excited about these myself since he actually looks a bit better in person than in the pics, largely due to not being taken in a fairly dark room lit by incandescents 9 feet away. Plus it all goes together fairly quickly save for the weapons, so I might be able to pound out all 12 this weekend. That will be great, as if I can get these, the wolfy girls and the knights done I will have ~1300 points or so all painted up.

Hey all! Turns out after passing out for many hours Friday after work that I had a pretty productive weekend after I woke up! (Apparently everyone else did too... had to dig this off the third page ) Mostly of note: the warriors are 90% finished! WOOOO!





Now I still have their weapons to do, some detailing on the cloaks and touching up the boots, but by and large they are very nearly ready to rock. All in all I am pretty pleased, though I am not terribly happy about some of the places the individual blue paint parts went. Captain Crazy Shield there in particular... but over all I think they work as a unit pretty well. I am thinking that if I can get their weapons started tomorrow after work I should have them done by Wednesday evening, which doesn't mean anything in particular, but it would be nice

Hope you all had a good weekend, and I look forward to your comments!

The warrior unit definitely works as a unit. They look nice in the top picture, which is how they appear on the table top.

Thanks Metsuri, that's my hope, that the total brick together sort of evens out the look. My fear is that after the weapons are done they will look so busy they become painful to gaze upon. Though I suppose nothing says "CHAOS!" like "Looking at this unit makes me feel dizzy and nauseous"...

They look absolutely fantastic. Really dark and brooding but with just the right amount of pop! Great job

Wehrkind wrote: My fear is that after the weapons are done they will look so busy they become painful to gaze upon.

Nah!!! Don't worry about that

Wehrkind wrote: Though I suppose nothing says "CHAOS!" like "Looking at this unit makes me feel dizzy and nauseous"...

That's the pure essence of chaos!

Your warriors are f g good looking! They really work as a unit and more important, they really fit with the rest of your army, which was not obvious considering that you've used different ranges of models in it.

You're really building a cool army!