Right, lets see if I can get this image posting lark sorted. First a picture of the whole Early Imperial Army, both partially painted and bare undercoat:
Ok, that seemed to work, now for some 'finished' skirmishers. Note that I do not intend to base the army until al the units are completed, to aid with basing consistency:
Now a couple of shots of my in-progress detail-ish painted unit of Legion. I am painting these individually on the coffee stirers that you can see at the back of the whole army shot, then glueing them onto bases when finished:
Here is a picture of the same unit in front, and my 'quick-paint' unit that I'm currently working on behind. It should give you a rough idea of difference in painting standards. I had wanted to paint the whole army to the same standard as the pure B&W unit, but I soon realised that if I did so I might never get a painted army onto the table...
And lastly here are a couple of shots of the unit that I'm working on at the moment. I had considered it 'finished', but I wasn't really happy leaving the lightening as just a white line, so I'm going back over the shields on the front rank of each stand and adding the zig-zag and arrow to the end. I'm being a lot less delicate with this than I would do on the units that I'm painting as individual models, as apart from anything else the brush won't allow me to do it on the rear rank at all, so there is no point in worrying about it, and by glueing them to the base prior to painting it forces me to paint to a lesser, but quicker standard than I otherwise would...
I should be able to finish these off by the end of the week, and maybe get started on finishing the next legion unit. I do try to do as much 'batch' painting as I can. Byt this I mean that I got all of the army undercoated, then touched up with black first. Then drybrushed everything with the metalic stage (lots of armour on these figures), and I try to re-do as much of the non-metalic areas on as many units as my sanity allows in one go. It then makes it easier to carry each forward, so often various units in my armies (or models in the case of non-WM armies) are at various painting stages... I also tend to switch between painting one thing and another frequently, so as to maintain some painting and keep things interesting...
PS, the army is as follows:
General
Legate (hero)
Six units of Legion. Two will be painted to a better standard than the rest, and most likely in a slightly different scheme to be able to use them as Elite Legion.
Three units of Auxillia
Two units of light cavalry
One unit of foot skirmishers
Various combos can make 1000pts, but really I could do with getting some more skirmishers, which I'll add at a later date as and when I buy some. I've also got some archers, but not enough to make a unit...
