[WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II

[Edmund2011]

thanks, they look quite good. Being 12mm are they of a similar size as GW/Pendraken, etc?? A comparision picture with GW would be appreciated, if possible. 

[Dave]

They're too big compared to Pendraken figs (and consequently why Matt has them now ). The size difference between the GW figs is less noticeable though.

[captPiett]

thanks, they look quite good. Being 12mm are they of a similar size as GW/Pendraken, etc?? A comparision picture with GW would be appreciated, if possible. 

Thanks. Since they're being dull-coated at my spraying sub-contractor (i.e. Dave), it might be a while until I can get that comparison pic posted. Unless he wants to be a stand-up guy and take the comparison pic...

GW figs run a little big, so it's pretty hard to tell the difference between minifig 12mm and GW 10mm.

[captPiett]

The refurbishment continues...

My next experiment was with my Old Glory 10mm ECW pikemen. I have 4 units, painted, based/flocked, and dull-coated, so I was wondering if I could graft my new painting methods (drybrushing, washes, multiple shades, etc.) onto my old one (black undercoat, and leaving the recesses black for the black-lined effect). As I really don't like starting completely over on figs that are complete (like I did with the last pikemen unit), the difference isn't stunning, but worth it IMO.

I did 2 units so I could compare them:
The unit on the right is the "before", left the "after." This brigade had different colored pants (pantaloons?); I think I'll go back and make the blue ones red.






The other brigade. They're more uniform:







The gaudy yellow flag gives away the old paintjob. I think the new one "pops" a lot more. Still a lot of black showing and the faces aren't ideal (devlan mud really muted those), but again, I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel here, just up the quality a bit.

A close up comparison:

[Edmund2011]

i like it, yes they are improved...

[captPiett]

More progress to report today.
I finished some empire great cannons I'm using as DoW galloper guns. Yeah, I know, no horses, too big, yadda yadda yadda. But they're painted the right colors...

[captPiett]

Next, my first dark elf units, harpies.









As mentioned above, I imitated camilcil's basing scheme. I really liked the way it came out. I'm still collecting the rest of the army, so it'll be a while before I do any more DE stuff. I'm working on some Kislev horse archers for another unit of DoW light cavalry.

[Dave]

There's a noticeable lack of gallop in your Galloper Guns.

[Lex]

And a lack or niples on the harpies.....

That said, the "other" cast of canon works better for "horse"gun IMO

[Dave]

There's another cannon model?

[Lex]

There's another cannon model?

There are (to my knowledge) two guncarriages. The ones like thosein these pictures, which have the "box" in the trail and a smaller carriage that dont have that and which also allow you to place the MORTAR as alternative for the (smaller?) barrel. That carriage could take eg. spokes wheels from a charriot and would work as horsearty.

The HEAVY trail

The light trail. in this case with a mortar

[Guthwine]

Nice work, I like the basing of the harpies, good job.

You could also just make one base with a cannon and put the "gallop" and some crew on the second base. Also "too big" is not a valid argument in Fantasy.

[captPiett]

Ok, another minor update. I was able to get a hold of some more warhammer building decorations in the form of horseless four horsemen. So now I have a full three bases of them. I turned the original figures to the side, and now they're VC bats proxies:






If needed I can also follow Lex's suggestion about the birdmen for DoW.

[jchaos79]

They are super! I like em a lot. Are they from building boxset? or are non GW?

[Stormwind]

They are super! I like em a lot. Are they from building boxset? or are non GW?

They're all cherubs from the Fortified Manor box set of Warhammer terrain. =-)

http://www.bitzbox.co.uk/product_info.php/warhammer-fortified-manor-chapel-cherub-p-8383?osCsid=0ef6f257fa6b3ea51da6fa8a9e108134
http://www.bitzbox.co.uk/product_info.php/warhammer-fortified-manor-chapel-cherub-p-8384?osCsid=0ef6f257fa6b3ea51da6fa8a9e108134
http://www.bitzbox.co.uk/product_info.php/warhammer-fortified-manor-chapel-cherub-p-8385?osCsid=0ef6f257fa6b3ea51da6fa8a9e108134
http://www.bitzbox.co.uk/product_info.php/warhammer-fortified-manor-chapel-cherub-p-8386?osCsid=0ef6f257fa6b3ea51da6fa8a9e108134