I will be moving onto 3 regiments of Flagellants next but expect it will take me at least 3 weeks to finish them. I am thinking browns/greys/whites as per normal Flaggelant colours but with some red to key them into the rest of the army. I need a name for a band of Talabheim Flaggelants - are there any anyone can recall from any Black Library/Mordheim literature? Otherwise I will make one up.
Dave
An ochre-brown, IoW 'rusty brown' and sack cloth white (IoW washed bleached bone, then highlighted back up again) scheme would in my mind work well enough to tie flagellants into a Talebheim army. Basically go for colours that 'hint' at your state colours, whilst not actually being them.
For my Reikland army I've gone for a light sack-cloth effect, with the odd detail picked out in red for the unit I have finished, and my intent is to do the same but with some details picked out in blue for a 2nd unit. As and when I ever expand my Empire army by going for a 'best painted' section, IoW painting some more to the best of my ability, I'll likely go for all different shades of brown, erring on the dark side, with black in places and maybe the odd small red detail, ropes, etc... And if I do a 2nd unit in such a fashion I would try to just differentiate the units through the use of different shades of brown, maybe going lighter with one and darker with the other, or maybe injecting some green into the mix, not actual green-colours, but adding it to the robe colour mix for some subtle toning...
Hmm, I really need to finish off that first 2k don't I? I've actually hit a bit of a 'painter's block' these last couple of weeks. I've had the opportunity to paint, but I just haven't been able to inspire myself to do anything, not even assemble or clean up a few plastic figures, never mind put brush to model.
I think this might be because I know that I have no chance of finishing my EIR army for the HW weekend in May, I really need to get working 40k and WH armies sorted out for club use, of course Space Hulk is still a factor, and my Warmaster Empire army has been in an 'almost finished' state for literally years.
So, I think that in order to loosen this mental blockage I need to focus on one of my goals that is both achievable, and will give me some real satisfaction. To that end, I think that I am going to try to finally finish off my Warmaster Empire army to a full 2000pts. And by 'finish', I don't mean just painting the two units of Crossbowmen and the mortars that I've got to get it to 'tournement legal' status, but to put together that second unit of flagellants and paint them rather than always proxying a unit of undercoated Kislev bears, reworking all those units of knights that I painted the night before the very first Call to Arms in my hotel room at 3am after having been out drinking with Steve Hambrook, Andy, Wayne, Chris & Co. Finishing all their bases, and retouching any bits of battle damage. And maybe even treating myself to finally painting the Steam Tank that as it happens was the very first model in my Empire army that I assembled and undercoated...
So, first up should hopefully be a unit of crossbowmen, maybe both actually. Once I've tidied up my painting area and got myself set up, I'll see if I can organise all the units that I intend to have finished, including those that are already done. I'll see if I can take a couple of photos for the 'before' shots, including seperating them into 'these are fininished/need a bit of TLC', and 'these need work doing' groups. Wish me luck...
