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Specialist Games General Discussion => Modeling & painting => Warmonger Miniatures => Topic started by: andys on October 04, 2014, 09:57:10 AM

Title: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: andys on October 04, 2014, 09:57:10 AM: My first Zweihander unit. Not complete, the basing needs doing, (as it does on the 20-odd other various units I've got painted up!).

This is also not my competition entry, photos of that to follow.
Title: Re: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: Dave on October 04, 2014, 12:49:49 PM: Congrats on the first unit painted andys. I started in on my Thursday.
Title: Re: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: Stormwind on October 04, 2014, 02:43:30 PM: Wonderful - great to see them not just in strips but on 40mm by 20mm bases, as God intended. =D
Title: Re: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: andys on October 04, 2014, 04:15:17 PM: Quote from: Dave on October 04, 2014, 12:49:49 PM
Congrats on the first unit painted andys. I started in on my Thursday.
"First painted Zweihander unit in the world".

Wonder how much I could get on ebay for that?!

Edit: It's weird, the colours are much more vibrant than they look in the photos :(
Title: Re: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: Geep on October 04, 2014, 04:32:29 PM: Nice work, though I must ask- what is the shape in the black corner of their banner? When I first saw it I thought it looked a little... risquÃ©
Title: Re: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: jchaos79 on October 04, 2014, 07:00:07 PM: Geep! Oh my god!... :o ;D

Andy, good work

Dave.. thanks again for make possible that miniatures
Title: Re: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: andys on October 04, 2014, 07:46:34 PM: Geep, Well the symbol started off as 3 gold dots. I'm not very good at flags, so I joined them up. Then I realised...! They are a Dogs of War unit so maybe their flag is saying what they will do to their enemies for gold?! Wish I was better at flags!
Title: Re: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: Geep on October 05, 2014, 12:08:11 PM: I'm guessing they just want to advertise 'Greatswords' in every way they can.

Banner ideas can be pretty difficult- I tend to steal from source books.
Title: Re: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: andys on October 05, 2014, 12:21:54 PM: If the standard bearers are just cast with the pole, I tend to print out paper flags, often reduced scale ones that I find on the web. Usually works well, certainly a country mile better than my painting skills!
Title: Re: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: Dave on October 05, 2014, 01:16:10 PM: Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed. :P The Order of the Golden Dong is renown throughout the old world as a mercenary unit of the highest caliber.

I was toying with the idea of these for a bit:

(http://www.mwctoys.com/images/ShieldsBig.jpg)

Too much white though, the pop culture banners I'm going with will offer more color options.
Title: Re: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: andys on October 05, 2014, 01:59:12 PM: No way would I even think of hand painting anything THAT complicated Dave!
Title: Re: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: jchaos79 on October 05, 2014, 05:06:16 PM: The sun with moustache is cool!
Title: Re: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: berzerkmonkey on October 06, 2014, 08:52:30 PM: Quote from: Geep on October 04, 2014, 04:32:29 PM
Nice work, though I must ask- what is the shape in the black corner of their banner? When I first saw it I thought it looked a little... risquÃ©
Gives new meaning to the word "Zweihander." :P
Title: Re: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: andys on October 06, 2014, 09:42:34 PM: You know, I was going to paint over it and try something else but after all the comments above, I thought "***k it" ( ;)) and decided to leave it as it is.
Title: Re: Zweihanders - Non competition photos
Post by: Geep on October 07, 2014, 11:07:25 AM: There's no like button, so I'll just state my support for the above ;D