Greetings!
I am so glad to see so many entries! They all look stunning so keep up with the good work! It really helped to regain my enthusiasm for painting. Thanks!
I am rather slow painter, especially when you consider the fact that the miniatures I have painted so far and pictures of which I have uploaded recently, are the result of a few years exeperiments.
Real life and other temptations (even of the sort of other games systems) are not excuse. Don't worry then that I seem to have an advantage, fortunately it's not a competition.
When I first tried to paint warmaster miniatures I had to completely change my style of painting I use for warhammer miniatures. In the case of 28 mm scale I do not use metallic colours at all. For warmaster I wanted something equally nice in overall effect but at the same time no taking too much time to accomplish. That's why I forgot about blending and using many shades of the similar colour and decided to use metallics and washes instead.
I work with a single stripe at a time, no matter infantry or cavalry. I paint in the following order:
1. Cleaning and undercoating (prefer white over black, although at the moment I use black undercoat)
2. Applying basic colours i.e. ultramarines blue for clothes and standards, mithril silver for chainmail, spears and lances, burnished gold for shields, helmets and other pieces of armour, bubonic brown for spear and lance shafts. Cloaks of the command group are painted in worlock purple.
3. Applying washes: blue wash on chainmail and clothes, purple wash on cloaks, flesh wash on a few places of golden armour.
4. Second layer usually for clothes only
5. Details and corrections: it mainly requires work on shileds, where I first create some colour blending and then paint the rune.
6. Basing: I do it in stages. Basically I attach the stripe to the stand and glue some sand around it, leaving enough clean space for the second stripe but in a way that I do not have to add it in between when the second one is attached.
7. Sometimes I also add a layer of protective gloss varnish. Miniatures are more shiny but that is acceptable fof high Elves I think.
And to reasure you that I still have considerable work to do here is a picture of the bigger, unpainted part of the army. Please, note that there is one Phoenix Guard regiment missing (work in progress) and one unit of Reavers (haven't received them yet).
Cheers!
