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Title: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: pw on April 09, 2012, 10:16:45 PM
Anyone still doing this? I suspect we should call it a day but I'll happily keep creating monthly threads here if there's a need for them.

Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: jchaos79 on April 10, 2012, 01:55:34 PM
Yep, I still in. Really close to end the chrisitian army, maybe this month or the next. Now have a little break to paint some chaos, but defenitively I will return to the tale
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: BlackEd on April 10, 2012, 04:27:03 PM
I'll post pictures of my 1:1 scale painting projects, but I doubt anyone will be impressed.
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: Jo on April 15, 2012, 10:47:29 PM
I'm currently painting  an orc&goblin force for an annual event in our group. It might be a nice incentive to keep me on track.

What is the deal? Post a photo of what you have completed? And does terrain modeling also count? I'm working on rock faces for my kallistra terrain, this might need some encouraging as well.

Jo
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: jchaos79 on April 15, 2012, 10:52:14 PM
Hi,

I guess the ideal deal is one unit per week, but that is a hard income, so the idea is post your progress in a thematic army, and post ideas and have feedback of the rest of the Tale. Very welcome if you are in, this seems a little bit desert.
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: Jo on April 18, 2012, 10:38:00 PM
Et Voila - my submission for this week, the first miniature I have ever dared to post on the internet :)

An Orc Warboss for my O&G army. I'm still waiting for the Army Painter ink washes to become available. Becoming quite impatient I used their Quickwash which screwed up the model at the wings - but this is more than sufficient for the next battle (knowing it will be against tin men and asphaltoi).


(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20664663/WM/DSC_0451.jpg)
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20664663/WM/DSC_0459.jpg)
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: calmacil on April 19, 2012, 08:22:41 AM
That looks great Jo, very impressive  :)

I like the detail you've got on the wings, and the scales. Very well painted

I notice you have hex grids. Do you have a whole gaming table of those?
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: Lex on April 19, 2012, 08:54:50 AM
Et Voila - my submission for this week, the first miniature I have ever dared to post on the internet :)
With stuff like this you should not hesitate !
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An Orc Warboss for my O&G army. I'm still waiting for the Army Painter ink washes to become available. Becoming quite impatient I used their Quickwash which screwed up the model at the wings -
I love the bold shading, which I guess is what you consider the screwup ??? which IMHO is very striking when used on the larger 10mm models !
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: pw on April 19, 2012, 10:57:55 AM
That's great work, is this a 'dipped' model? It looks great whatever method you've used. If there's some speedy secret to getting results like this I'd love to hear it, my Orcs are very silvery right now!
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: Stormwind on April 19, 2012, 11:09:02 AM
Man that's jawesome!  You made the horrid wyvern grin all the more frightening with the shading. =D
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: jchaos79 on April 19, 2012, 01:55:34 PM
Top notch! great painting
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: rothgar68 on April 19, 2012, 04:09:23 PM
Looks Fantastic! Inspirational!
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: pw on April 19, 2012, 06:47:59 PM
What's he based on? It looks like a Gork shaped skull!
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: Jo on April 19, 2012, 07:35:45 PM
Thanks for the nice comments everyone, gives me some encouragement to get back to my painting desk  ;)

I notice you have hex grids. Do you have a whole gaming table of those?

It's Kallistra terrain (www.kallistra.co.uk (http://www.kallistra.co.uk)), modular hex terrain that looks great and can be easily stored - not cheap but perfect material. I can fill a table of 1.5m x 2.0m at this point if I use my (self made) river pieces. Now I'm working on some rock faces, I'll post some pics once they are finished, maybe of the complete table. A friend of mine is building an O&G village for a scenario that we'll be playing - a 7 player battle, all modular with the hexes.

I love the bold shading, which I guess is what you consider the screwup ??? which IMHO is very striking when used on the larger 10mm models !
I think I could have gotten the shading using a regular wash iso the quickwash. The quickwash has formed a few puddles at the bottom of the wings - that's the screw-up part for me. Using a regular wash would have given me more control and I guess the same effect. But the quickwash gives you this instant effect if it can simply run down, and then it's excellent material. 

That's great work, is this a 'dipped' model? It looks great whatever method you've used. If there's some speedy secret to getting results like this I'd love to hear it, my Orcs are very silvery right now!

The shading is done using the Army Painter quickwash which is used as dip for larger models but for Warmaster I use a brush to have more control - still insufficient here aparently.
I did quite some highlighting on this model (my first real airbrush experiment), especially the wings and the wyvern skin. I have a quick way of painting Orcs up to a fair standard without having to highlight first, using the quickwash. I have some in progress at the moment, I will try to take some pics with the instructions in a separate thread.

What's he based on? It looks like a Gork shaped skull!
It is  ;D
Pretty sharp observation skills, congrats! I was looking for a good base that I could use to pin the model. Then there was this piece of wood with half a staple in there so I used a saw to get the Gork shape. The small rock piles are where his eyes would be.
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: bsonbudak on April 19, 2016, 09:21:34 AM
i wonder if this competition is still a thing.

we started playing warmaster with my mates from my club so it would be a good motivation for us to get our staff painted to a decent level.
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: Dave on April 19, 2016, 05:25:52 PM
It isn't. We could run something in May?

Post on April 30 what you hope to have painted by the end of May.
Post pics as you paint things.
Post a final shot by May 31.
Maybe create a poll to vote for your favorite amongst the entrants.
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: empireaddict on April 19, 2016, 05:37:15 PM
Sounds like fun.  I'm in.
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: jchaos79 on April 19, 2016, 05:39:59 PM
The first warmaster Tale was a great motivation for me... so  a new one could be good. So I am in.

If there is enough interest (let's say at least 4 painters) and I am a volunteer to moderate the 2016 Tale.

My goal will be 1000 pts of  Empire (Ostermark) or 1000 pts of chaos/daemons. Not decided yet.


Edited: while posting I see Dave have intersting ideas to lead the Tale, so it is ok by me if Dave moderate it.



Title: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: mlkr on April 19, 2016, 06:10:12 PM
Woo! I'm in! Dont know with what just yet ;)

If the dates/rules are set I can crosspost to our community on FB?
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: Geep on April 19, 2016, 06:25:13 PM
I'll give it a go, but I'm very low on time- I may manage a unit a month...
Title: Re: Tale of Warmaster Painters III (April)
Post by: Dave on April 19, 2016, 06:34:00 PM
http://www.forum.specialist-arms.com/index.php?topic=8231.0