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GS fleur de lils looks stunning ! a job well done... and having a bit raised detail on a dozerblade is quite a nice gesture... then they know what hit them

as for yon priest... i thought more in temrs of tabbards and loincloth...

Fleur turned out very nicely!

Viktor von Domm wrote:GS fleur de lils looks stunning ! a job well done... and having a bit raised detail on a dozerblade is quite a nice gesture... then they know what hit them

as for yon priest... i thought more in temrs of tabbards and loincloth...

Thanks mate, yeah, I plan on leaving a dent in people's faces. Good call on the loincloth, that I can adapt.

Gitsplitta wrote:Fleur turned out very nicely!

Ta.

Oh, and, the Inquisition says:

what a cruel worl we live in... where trust worthy peeps get fooled in such a mischievious way...tststststs...

I plan on leaving a dent in people's faces.

LOL... that is a nice plan indeed... provided the planned indented face isn´t mine

i can give you some names i think are due a good dent tho^^

*claps* o well done my friend, i was fooled! (but i did wonder why the Tau were dying....

in other news, i love what you have done with the fleur, great work!

Looks nice, Graven. I was skeptical of the Tau color dcheme, but now that I see it, I like it. The darker turquoise and violet go together well. Nice job on the fleur-de-lys, too.

D'oh! Got me, too. I must ave been distracted by the turqoiuse... Fdl still looks good.

Viktor von Domm wrote:what a cruel worl we live in... where trust worthy peeps get fooled in such a mischievious way...tststststs...

I plan on leaving a dent in people's faces.

LOL... that is a nice plan indeed... provided the planned indented face isn´t mine

i can give you some names i think are due a good dent tho^^

Don't get me started. Be glad I'm off work for a fortnight.

Revenent Reiko wrote:*claps* o well done my friend, i was fooled! (but i did wonder why the Tau were dying....

in other news, i love what you have done with the fleur, great work!

Yellowbeard wrote:Looks nice, Graven. I was skeptical of the Tau color dcheme, but now that I see it, I like it. The darker turquoise and violet go together well. Nice job on the fleur-de-lys, too.

D'oh! Got me, too. I must ave been distracted by the turqoiuse... Fdl still looks good.

Ditto and that is the actual scheme I'll be using on the Tau; the bases are for the Storm Raven and Storm Eagle I have kicking about.

So, I'm off on hols, but then, so are the boys - which is awesome, but doesn't really enable much hobby time. Having said this, they're in bed, so I have been productive this evening.

By which I mean losing the will to live.



That's all the flesh tones done on my entire Welsh warband for SAGA. Yeesh.

They were all primed with Army Painter: FoW English Uniform - which for reference, is actually much close to Khaki (I say this having tested against both in normal everyday paint form) - not too bad, reasonable coverage, took 4 coats to get everything but it's a very diffuse spray. Still, detail has been lost on some of the Wargames Foundry minis (cavalry torso/heads); no great surprise there, this is the company with mold lines down the middle of faces. On the subject of the minis, I love Warlord's Gaels, which I've used for warriors (bottom right) and whilst Gripping beasts own metals are great in some places (the Warlords - large bases - and the dogs), the peasant levy (bottom left, archers and spears) are a bit... hyrdocephalic, or at least more GW scale than true 28mm.

Plan is, as mentioned, to paint on quickshade tone (strong, I'm now thinking). Most cloth will remain khaki, but beforehand I've still got at least metals in Chainmail and woods in Flat Earth to do. Horses will be a range of browns and fabrics, other than peasant tunics, will probably get hit with a coloured wash. Basing will be railway flock and tufts - again, not my usual sort of thing. I'm not going for perfection on this: I'm aiming to crank out a painted force (and then some) in my holidays. And yes, I appreciate I have other stuff to do. Yes, the brotherhood are now all primed. BTW, What the fudge-sticks is going on with GW's new Chaos Black primer? Very shiny, very sticky. Yeugh, etc.

I might start on the chainmail *sigh*...

graven

enjoy your holidays...

and i can see...after zooming in on the lot... ouch... that is the main reason behind me still not having a complete army... all that batchpainting... it really drains the enthusiasm from me...

but your current work looks really good... some percentage of sanity sure got lost in the process^^

and nice doggies...

oh... and you have kids too? got two youngsters as well...for the older one i today spray primed a tank to later on paint it with him... and this made the younger one demand quite strongly for his own frist tank too... so i converted an old khornish rhino into a loyal one... oh boy^^...this one will get primed tomorrow by him and me^^ the joy of fatherhood and neryism^^

Thanks Yeah, soul-destroying work. Batch painting that is, not parenting. Honest. my boys are 5 1/2 and (nearly) 3, though the older especially loves playing and building from random stuff. It's why I'm unlikely to ever sell off an army - too damned hard (read:costly!) to replace. Like gits, I'll try to drag them in properly when 9&6. I started about 9, too. Having said that, they're both pretty precocious. Nothing like their old man there

lol... that is the very same reason i can´t part with my orks or my emrpire army i literaly have laying around too...one day one of my kids may be into these and then if i would sell them... i ´d have to pay through my nose again^^

well my kids are 7 and almost 5... and both are totally interested... i guess it is time to give in to their constant urging me to make them armies... my younger son will get a yellow SM army... and my older one already has a necromunda worthy arbites force that will soon be a modern times IG army...*rubs hands*

You guys are so lucky, I have two girls who are pretty much uninterested in my models. Except of course the other day when my 5 yr old was heading off to church with her mum she came over to me as I sat down for my weekly painting session and said "I wish you could come to jesus house with us but you live in halloween eh dad?"

Ouch

Hmmm... Speaking on that butterfly cutout last page- Saint Celestine with butterfly wings?

 BLACKHAND wrote:
You guys are so lucky, I have two girls who are pretty much uninterested in my models. Except of course the other day when my 5 yr old was heading off to church with her mum she came over to me as I sat down for my weekly painting session and said "I wish you could come to jesus house with us but you live in halloween eh dad?"

Ouch

LOL... that actually is quite a nice example of childreens withdom^^

i would rather live in halloween than in church^^...but that´s another story^^... but congratulate yourself to have a wife that doen´t drag you with her to church^^

also... you could always make some happy marines for your daughters...this might take their fancy

 BLACKHAND wrote:
You guys are so lucky, I have two girls who are pretty much uninterested in my models. Except of course the other day when my 5 yr old was heading off to church with her mum she came over to me as I sat down for my weekly painting session and said "I wish you could come to jesus house with us but you live in halloween eh dad?"

Ouch

OMG *that* is funny!! Out of the mouths of babes....

BLACKHAND wrote:You guys are so lucky, I have two girls who are pretty much uninterested in my models. Except of course the other day when my 5 yr old was heading off to church with her mum she came over to me as I sat down for my weekly painting session and said "I wish you could come to jesus house with us but you live in halloween eh dad?"

Ouch

Freakin hilarious mate

Anvildude wrote:Hmmm... Speaking on that butterfly cutout last page- Saint Celestine with butterfly wings?

Possibly, hadn't thought of that. Great to have you along dude btw!

Not much to report, or at least show. All metal done, all wood done. Yawn. Now to start adding some fabric colours. FoW Russian, British and German greens/browns methinks. The base khaki will stay on leathers etc. I'll go through my paintbox and have a rummage. Also, on the advice of Stoney Boy, I've gone for quickshade dark tone, but of course that'll have to wait a bit.


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Addendum: split the army in 5 pretty arbitrary groups, and assigned each a main colour (English, Russian, ochre, cayman, leather) - first 2 done (=~30 figs) before losing will to live. Nothing to do with the 2 single Malts.

Nothing at all.

Well, ish. I haven't added golds to broaches etc. I had considered adding white to the archers feathers (goose) but brown duck feathers more on keeping. I'm also not obsessing by doing eyes, tongues, ears on the animals.

It's odd not to be focusing on the details. Part of me really dislike the whole batch painting to get a serviceable tabletop army - but this is all an experiment anyhoo. Not wary of doing quick shade.

Oh my no.

Bits 'o color! Keep at it my friend, you'll get there.

this welsh army... for these you don´t do a consequent paint scheme??? fluff wise this probably totaly justified... i hadn´t thought tho this woulld be reasonable for payabilty of said army...?

but don´t get me wrong... i like those muted colors! looks promising!

Gitsplitta wrote:Bits 'o color! Keep at it my friend, you'll get there.

Oh YEAH!

Viktor von Domm wrote:this welsh army... for these you don´t do a consequent paint scheme??? fluff wise this probably totaly justified... i hadn´t thought tho this woulld be reasonable for payabilty of said army...?

but don´t get me wrong... i like those muted colors! looks promising!

Well, the Hearthguard and Warlord(s) have blue shields, mounted warriors red for 1 unit, green for the other, and levy are obvious by loadout (javelins or bows - or, you know, dogs!). I've stayed within the same palette for everything to try to create a fluffy army that looks era-accurate but that is still playable on the field - actually, I think it'll be more obvious now what's what.
Here they are all blocked in:


and here's a shot of the warlord:

I'll do a comparison of him once quickshaded. Note the head of the breton warlord I decapitated to make my mounted warlord

That's 6 days, and fully painted force (well, nearly). I'm going for the army done in a week!

ah, i see....warlord looks quite good already... will be interesting to see him after quickshading...will you brush aply it or use dipping and rotating off excess?

Brush and wipe. At least, that's the theory. I'm taking the advice of both my flgs owner kenny_whiplash and StoneyBoy on this (latter used to be an 'Eavy Metal painter).

Dude are you assembly painting an entire army?! That is far beyond crazy And I like it

R

I am indeed! Lunacy...

Note to self - flock sticks to varnish

Looking good! What miniatures are you using for this army?

Hi, and thanks!
Warlords, Hearthguard (ft), Levy (Javelins, spears, dogs): Gripping Beast
Warriors (ft, some mtd): Warlord
Hearthguard (mtd), warriors (mtd): Wargames Foundry (to be avoided in future.
Hopefully magic wash will hide a multitude of sins...

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I am indeed! Lunacy...

Note to self - flock sticks to varnish

ouch!... was it still fresh?

Yup. I am that stupid. But it's really only the shield of a foe upon the field of battle, so I'll live.

I've done the dogs and their handlers (aka yet more levy), and they look... fine. I have to keep reminding myself that the whole point of this is chucking out a painted, varnished army in a week. And they do certainly look tabletop-able. You know, fine. But it slightly galls me not to have done them to my best.

well... the end justifies the means?

and somehow sand on the down shield makes sense... after all it wouldn´t be mint when the owner fall, eh?^^

NO Sheep ??

 Miss Dee wrote:
NO Sheep ??

she has a point