Tale of Warmaster Painters II: February...

[BlackEd]

Excellent stuff all around!  Those Chaos Dwarves look awesome, and I love the bases.  I've been trying to make the bases for each of my armies different, so it is easy to see that the units belong togehter.  I was running out of ideas until I saw those.

I am charging like a turtle out of the gate.  I have started one unit of Daemon swarms.  I am putting a little 'scene' on each base.  I will post pictures of the current state over the weekend.  The current swarm unit will be depicting the swarm over-running some Empire troops.

Work, travel, and illness (sinus infection) are slowing me down.  I look forward to making more progress this weekend. 

[m4jumbo]

Well I'm not off to a roaring start, more of a slight coughing start.  But I finished up a unit of Crossbow for the Ostland army.  After I did my first Crossbow unit I decided that all my units should have standards of some sort, so when doing the 2nd unit, I made two stands with standard bearers so I could swap one stand with the first unit.  Now that the 2nd unit is finished along with a standard stand for the first unit, I'll post both units even though the first unit was mainly finished previously.  Confused?   Good, my plan worked perfectly then. 

Ostland Crossbow units.
Original with added standard.


New unit.


Both units.


And since I haven't done an "Army so far" picture for a while, here is the Army so far.


Next more knights, handgunners and characters.

[azrael71]

These look great.
Anyone who paints an empire army should get double points 

[Angor]

David Wasilewski - I really like your Empire infantry. I am a bit of a sucker for red and white empire they always look great!

Azraelezekiel - The more I see you Chaos Dwarves the more I know I have to buy some at some point... Please Stop painting inspiring armies I dont have enough time to copy them.

Pw - I really like your paint scheme, Its very neat and really well defined. I imagine an army painted to that standard will look great on the battlefield. (I think my chaos were a little too dark so they lose alot of detail when viewed from more then a few centimeters away)

Lex - I want to see those miners too!

Black Ed - Please post some pictures of your awesome army! I really want to see more painted. (Btw where did you get your Demonic flute pipe player from? or was it a sculpt  )

M4jumbo - That empire stuff is great! I really like units having a command stand (It helps for a little clarity in the game and looks awesome) the banners on your crossbowmen are really nice. How did you make them?

[Swordmaster]

Greetings!

I am really impressed by all the submission in the second tale. It's great that new people are coming with fantastic ideas. As always it is very difficult for me to comment on particular submission as all your work is great. Keep them coming!

[pw]

@m4jumbo - very nice stuff indeed, it's got me wanting to continue with my own Empire but for now it must be Chaos! Once they Chaos reach 1000 points I'm planning to alternate, adding a unit at a time to each army. And when I do get back to the Empire I'll certainly be adding in banners to my Crossbows. I'd thought about it and decided I couldn't be bothered. Now I see that was a mistake so in they'll go. Thanks for showing me the error of my ways.

On a barely-related note. What sort of gaming mat is that your toys are on?

@Angor: Thanks! Your Chaos army is amazing, it is the reason I decided to get mine painted. I was sad to see that the pictures had gone from Warseer - are they available anywhere else? I'm trying to compile a file of inspiring WM pictures. As for the brightness  - it goes against all of my instincts painting them this way but my usual muted style tends to disappear once things hit the tabletop so I'm trying out painting in a way that looks slightly garish up close but which has enough 'pop' to look good at arm's length.

[m4jumbo]

@ Angor The banner poles are simply straight pins, trimmed to size, one with a "liberated" Tomb Kings skull on top.  The banner is masking tape wrapped around the pins, sticky sides stuck together.   I tried aluminum foil for the banners as I had read that you could make nice shaped banners from aluminum foil, but the paint just flaked off.  Masking tape is very forgiving to work with.  I've also made some in the past with paper, but I think the masking tape is more durable and has a little bit of texture.

I'm definately happy with the look of the banner and "command stand" added to units that don't normally have them.  I will be adding them to other units like handgunners too.  I think with the handgunners and maybe the additional crossbows I will go with more of a slender pennant rather than a full banner.

@ pw The gaming mat is a large piece of indoor/outdoor carpet I came across at a garage sale many moon ago and made a 4 x 8 table top out of.  I've looked for something similar since then because it really makes a great game surface but haven't had any luck finding a match.   

[azrael71]

@m4jumbo, I once made an army banner for a very old skaven army out of aluminium foil.
I gave the foil a quick rub over with a scouring pad to improve adhesion, then a quick spray of undercoat and it was good to go.
Never had any issues with paint flaking after that.

[m4jumbo]

@m4jumbo, I once made an army banner for a very old skaven army out of aluminium foil.
I gave the foil a quick rub over with a scouring pad to improve adhesion, then a quick spray of undercoat and it was good to go.
Never had any issues with paint flaking after that.

Thanks for the tip.  I'll have to try that out some time.

[vincent]

I've posted them in my main post; I don't know if it is a good idea to re-post them here.
So I do, and tell me if that is not needed.

[m4jumbo]

vincent, wow very nice.  With the colors and re-work you have done on the shields those really match the look of the current WFB Khemri. 

[azrael71]

@vincent - those shields really do make a difference to the tk army.
A bit to labour intensive for me though

Can't see me getting much painting done this week as I am knocking up 4 units of centigors (decided not to wait for the new models from eureka scheduled for some time this year).
Using eureka beastmen, stags and a bit of green stuff.

Here are the results 4 units worth.






Also going to prime the bestigors, minotaurs and the remaining characters.
Looking forward to seeing everyone else's efforts

[BlackEd]

The Piper of Blasphemous Melodies is a RAFM figure from the Call of Cthulu line.  It is a "Servitor of the Outer Gods".  I just added the levitation.  And the ripped up earth. 

I have one unit of swarm sculpted.  I am sculpting a second unit of daemon swarm, of which I have 1 stand done.  I plan to get 4 sculpted.

I am hoping to receive my shipment from Pendraken soon.  I am trying to be patient, but I really want to see those figures and start assembling the 6 units of Daemon hordes I'll need for a 2K army.

I got hit with a Trojan on my home computer on Friday night.  It prevented me from uploading pictures!  I think I can clean up the mess and post something tonight or tomorrow morning.

I have 7 LOTR figures to paint for Saturday -- I am participating in a Tale of Gamers for War of the Ring.  This is only on-topic as far it is a reason my progress has been slow lately.

[David Wasilewski]

Vincent - WOW. Those are the best TK minis I have ever seen.

I have only cleaned and sprayed my 3 regiments of Flagellants this week - been too busy at work to do more. Will try and do flesh and wood this week.


David

[Meister.Petz]

Very great stuff is going on here. Every single army in this Tale of Painters is growing quite fast and most of them have an outstanding high standard of painting.

@all: Go on like this.