Back on the Wagon - Dysartes' Painting Blog - Updated Sept 9 - Targ, 10 Brigands, WIPs

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**Metsuri**

Good to see you back!

Nice work on the romans. Eyes can be tricky to paint, it seems I always have to learn the skill again after having had a break painting them. Nice colors, red and steel create nice contrast to the figs.

**Dysartes**

Thanks, Metsuri - the army will be in a pretty similar scheme, though I'm going to look to see how to customise them to be like the XXth Legion, as they were based in Chester - which is the closest city to where I'm from.

Maybe I shouldn't've been doing the eyes on the morning of the contest.....

**Dysartes**

Another month, another figure - I recently painted this as part of a review for Irregular - I present the Luggage, produced by Microarts Studios....

**weetyskemian44**

I love your work - especially the merc jacks! Don't stop posting...

**CommissarKhaine**

Discworld-gotta love it!

**ghosty**

I dont like that miniature. SImply because it has knots in the would that suggest eyes. In the discworld books the luggage is specifically described as being able to stare at people without eyes. Bah!

Ok, I love the paintjob by the by, looks great

**Dysartes**

weetyskemian44 wrote:I love your work - especially the merc jacks! Don't stop posting...

Thanks weety - I've currently got three in my active WIP pile, a Mangler and a pair of Renegades. I'm also working on Ashlynn, pMagnus and MacBain.

ghosty - I haven't got the Rincewind Discworld books with me, but I thought there had been mentions of knotholes that were in a suitable position for eyes, even though he doesn't have actual eyes. Either way, the figures are produced under license, so I would imagine they've been approved before production.

I can see that I need to tidy up the gaps between the legs, as that's a little messy at the moment. I'd also like to pick up Rincewind,and a plinth, and go for the mini-diorama "Trouble followed behind, on many tiny legs".....

**Dysartes**

So, time for a bit of an update - I've been taking part in a a Tale of Warmahordes on the PP forum, and need to finish at least 5 points of figures by the 25th.

So, true to form, I'm going to try to finish 15 instead.

On the painting table are the Horgenhold Artillery Corps (not really changed from any previous pics you may have seen), Master Gunner Dougal Macnaile (see previous comment) and three new items, whose WIP shots you can nw take a gander at.

Order of the Amethyst Rose Gun Mage Unit

Order of the Amethyst Rose Gun Mage Officer

Order of the Amethyst Rose Gun Mage Captain Adept

Hopefully, there should be some completed pics on Friday.....

**Dysartes**

So, got some stuff finished for a Tale of Warmahordes deadline over at Privateer Press - 7 points worth:

Master Gunner Dougal Macnaile - 2points

Horgenhold Artillery Corps - 3 points

Order of the Amethyst Rose Gun Mage Captain Adept - 2 points

I can only use the Adept with my Mercs if I use Ashlynn's theme list, so he might see double-duty with my Cygnar.

The Gun Mages shown above weren't quite finished in time, but hopefully will be done tomorrow.

**Trilobite**

Dysartes, thank you so much for showing me the luggage. I dont think I will be able to resist buying it as Im such a big discworld fan.

EDIT: SQUEAL! they have so many!!

**Dysartes**

Trilobite wrote:Dysartes, thank you so much for showing me the luggage. I dont think I will be able to resist buying it as Im such a big discworld fan.

EDIT: SQUEAL! they have so many!!

Yes, yes they do - and there are more to come.

There is a big set of all the ones that are currently available, I believe.....

**Metsuri**

Nice work, I especially like the mortar and crew.

**Dysartes**

Time for a couple more completed projects - these should've been finished to go with the last group, but I got them done yesterday before heading to the Derby World Wargames show, where the Sheffield Irregulars took the Best Participation Display award for our basing workshops, which was cool.

Order of the Amethyst Rose Gun Mage Unit

Order of the Amethyst Rose Gun Mage Officer

**Dysartes**

Another week, another finished figure - in this case, Harlan Versh, the Illuminated One

2010 Completed Figures: 48

**monkeytroll**

Nice, and thanks, now I know where I got that sword from

**weetyskemian44**

Harlan Versh looks pretty cool - he is mazin mini

**Metsuri**

Nice clean work on Harlan. Good natural looking selection of colors.

**Laughing Man**

Harlan's looking good! Makes me want to actually get around to painting mine. ^.^

**malfred**

Harlan is sweet. Good selection of colors.

**Dysartes**

Thanks guys - Beast Hide as the base for his overcoat seems to have worked pretty nicely.

Next guy I'm hoping to finish is my Cygnar Grenadier:

Having said that, I should be working on Magnus, my Mangler and a Renegade, so I can go for my two-Merc-starter-set Press Ganger application....

**malfred**

How far from done is that Grenadier?

**Dysartes**

malfred wrote:How far from done is that Grenadier?

Not miles off, malfred - armour needed a highlight (done), pressure gauge on the gun needed painting (done), and the metallics needed tidying up where I'd been a little messy with the blue (doing now).

With a bit of luck, he should be finished tonight.

Automatically Appended Next Post:
And here's the finished version, malfred:

**Metsuri**

That grenadier is excellent.The blue armor could use another highlight, but the metals look good and the gauges along with your trademark furnace glow look stunning.

Thanks for sharing!

**Finch Claw**

Luggage- I love Terry's stuff. Shame he has Amnesia.

**CommissarKhaine**

Nice model, very dynamic. I like the deep blue you've achieved, very striking in combination with the bronze!

**malfred**

Hell yeah, that's a pretty blue. The dial is a nice touch (I always forget they are gauges)

**Dysartes**

Thanks for the kind words, guys.

metsuri: The furnace look is a trademark now? Cool

Finch: Alzheimer's, dude, not amnesia. I'm looking at ordering the three witches on broomsticks tomorrow, as a birthday present for my mum.

CK: Good to see you back on Dakka, dude.

malfred - I figured I'd give painting the dial a go for once - base of Menoth White Highlight, VMC Cavalry Brown for the red, P3 Iosan Green for the green. May have to revisit some of my older jacks and paint them in, as well.

The blue was painted using the method described in the Forces of Warmachine: Cygnar book, minus the final highlight. 2 thinned coats of Cygnar Blue Base, shaded with Exile Blue, then again with a mix of Exile Blue & Battlefield Brown - I'd guesstimate about 75/25 there, though you could go deeper. Highlight with Cygnar Blue Highlight. You can take it a step further with a mixed highlight of Cygnar Blue Highlight & Frostbite, but I didn't.

Getting chance to use it again, as I'm just starting on a "classic" metal Defender.

**Dysartes**

OK, it's official - I've gone mad. Over on WAMP, a challenge was set - paint an army (defined as at least two units and a character) by February 1st 2011.

Now, that seemed a little easy - if I felt like it, I could do a cygnar force like that in 6 models - so I decided to puch myself a little. I said I'd cover that minimum for not one, not two, but three armies - WM Cygnar, WHFB Dwarves and WAB Romans.

It gets better.

Honest.

Having thought about it for a while, I went back and said I might up my aim - to six armies by that date, adding Trolls, Minions and Mercs into the mix.

I'm hopefully going to stop whimpering overnight, then I can figure out in the morning what I'm going to paint, and what (if anything) I'll need to buy to achieve it.....

**Saltybacon3**

Loving it so far!

**Finch Claw**

Silly me.