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 JoshInJapan wrote:
Mantic's plastic undead really are exellent miniatures. If I didn't have so many of the old Citadel plastics I would be tempted to get even more of them. As it is, they will make a nice detachment for the army if I ever actually get to play KoW.

I'm up for a game anytime! Just drop on in!

Valete,

JohnS

You had probably better paint something first.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
You had probably better paint something first.

Sir! You wound me! You cut me to the quick! You...

Are most certainly correct...

Dang.

Valete,

JohnS

Weird and wonderful selection of minis you have been painting josh. The paint job on the storm giant has to be the highlight for me though.

And now for more of the same!


These are the other ten revenants that came in that undead army box I picked up earlier this year. They came from the command sprue, which has a few different options, including the now-purely-decorative standard and musician. I will probably go back and add a banner this week. I painted them using the exact same techniques as the previous batch, so if you're curious you can scroll up. I had a little trouble getting the transfers to lay flat on their shields, but you can't tell at arms length so I'm going to let that go. Here is the full regiment on their movement tray:


Next up: I'm not entirely sure...

Nice work mate. Hows the KOW army looking at this point?

It's getting pretty big. It started out as a WHFB army almost 30 years ago, so it's had time to grow to an unwieldy size.

I had so much fun painting those revenants last week that I decided to do some more:


These are the last four members of the Nightmare Legion that I posted a while back. The box set came with 22 of these guys, but I only ever painted 18 of them (three ranks of six, in WHFB terms). These four have been kicking around in one of my many Boxes of Shame for at least 20 years. I tried to use the same techniques as on the rest of the unit so they don't stand out too much. Here is the unit, all finished:


At the same time as I was working on the revenants, I pulled out a couple of pre-RoC Chaos models to work on while waiting for glazes or whatever to dry:


The guy on the left is a Chaos Knight, the guy on the right is a Chaos Lord. They were sold together in one blister pack, and they were the core of my earliest Chaos armies. I mean that literally:


These two models alone were 776 points, and could go toe-to-toe with any regiment of WHFB troops back in the 2ed/3ed days, and more than likely win. I stripped the models and repainted them:


These six models bring my model count to 367, plus assorted other projects, for the year. More than one a day. I have really enjoyed the challenge, and I think I will try to surpass that number in 2017.

Got some fancy skeleton folk there, nice work!

367!?!?!?! Dude.... That's a lot of figures...

Valete,

JohnS

Damn Josh, living the dream, I'll be lucky if I can cap 200 this year

The secret is not getting enough sleep. One hour a day, before dawn, spawns a lot of painted miniatures.

Ahh. I've done that, problem is they've been getting up earlier than I can justify as it is...

Very cool. I like the eye shield dude.

I try and do an hour a night but it still takes me ages to get anything done :/

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
Very cool. I like the eye shield dude.

I try and do an hour a night but it still takes me ages to get anything done :/

EDC

I find it helpful to lower my standards. A lot of what I've done this year has been basecoat->wash, with minimal detail work.

Here are some orcs:



These are, or course, plastic orcs from Mantic, the models which started me on this painting blog. There isn't much to say about these models, as I used the exact same techniques as with all the other orcs I've posted. It gets kind of repetitive, but the cumulative effect works well enough. Another ten and I'll have a second regiment or a horde for Kings of War. Or a lot of orcs to use in other games.

The Mantic Orcs are effective - especially in the unit block, but you know my love really goes to those old-school Chaos Warriors! I'm loving that freehand "eye" shield as well.

The red one or the blue one? The blue tentacle monster turned out pretty well, I think, but the red cat's eye doesn't show up well in that photo.

Those Mantic orcs are cool looking, especially the helmeted ones.

EDC

The blue one - I didn't realise the red shield was also an eye...

Yeah, the red one looked much better in my head. I was originally planning to use an Arcane Armorial on the blue shield, but I couldn't get the putty covering the hole in the shield flat enough. That's been a problem for every one of them, so I may go back to freehand if/when I do more repaints.

So wait, you had 2 guys fighting against regiments? Or were there others with them we just aren't seeing yet?

The fact that your box of shame has been around for 20+ years doesn't give me high hopes of ever actually finishing my own pile.

In the v2 and v3 rules for WHFB, Chaos Lords (the most powerful class of hero for the army) could go toe-to-toe with regiments of troops, and even destroy them if they had the right mutations. That's one of the things they fixed in the v4 rules.

My box of shame is actually my closet of shame. My son has claimed all my unpainted Space Marines for himself, so that helps just a little bit, but I've decided to not buy any more minis in 2016. I still have some coming from Kickstarters that I backed this year, but I won't be spending any new money.

Astonishngly, I got my Dungeon Saga carton B quite early, but I had to leave it under my desk at work for a couple of weeks after it arrived. I brought it home last Tuesday, cracked it open, and was pleasantly surprised at the contents. After all the B&Ming on the DS forum*, I expected a pile of melty slag. I find pretty much everything to be perfectly acceptable, while most of the models are really quite nifty. I decided to work on the heroes alongside the orcs I posted earlier in the week. Here are the first two:




I used the same basic techniques that I use for everything: base coat then ink, with some additional highlights because these are character models. Note the barbarian's Crazy Eyes. It took me three tries to get them as good as they are, mostly because my 3/0 brush is beginning to split. Also, I painted them on their bases, which made drybrushing the cobblestones more difficult than it needed to be. I popped the elf and the wizard off their bases to make it easier.

I haven't really sat down to look at the rules, but I'm pretty sure my son will enjoy having dungeon adventures as soon as everything is ready to use.

*which is not meant to discount anyone's negative reactions, of course. Personal tastes and all that.

Really like those heroes. Good work.

With only about 45 minutes a day for hobby work, I try to have several projects going at once. That way, I don't waste time waiting for washes to dry or whatever. I started this at the same time as the orcs I posted last week:




This is, of course, Mantic's Orc war drum. I picked it up in the pledge manager for KoW2. As usual, I went with my basecoat-wash technique, with a little more highlighting that usual on the drum itself. I like the model, but I'm not sure I need to get another one-- I can probably build at least two more using Mantic orcs along with musician bitz I have lying around from the GW orc sets I got to add variety to my Space Orks back when I still played 40K.

I'm counting this as three models in my running total for 2015.

I finished off the other two heroes from the Dungeon Saga base set:




I did a lot more layering/highlighting on these two. The elf is an elf, so I stuck with earthtones for the most part. I started to paint the wizard with the studio scheme, but quickly changed my mind. I gave him glowy eyes to match his staff, white hair, and left off the ugly blue piping on his tunic. I probably have minis nearly identical to these in my Bones I KS box, so I don't feel too bad about powering through them. I leave for the US in two days, so I will have to put off the enemies until January, putting my final miniature count for 2015 at 383. I wonder if I can beat that total in 2016...?

All of those DS models have come up quite nicely. I like the Orc drummer as well - which reminds me that Mantic never sent me mine!

Really? That's terrible. I have tried to remain a quiet Mantic supporter, as they'be always done right by me, but I may be the only one in this hemisphere who can say that.

Damn that's a fine number for output this year!

Nice orcs and DS figures, great work!