Fred's 2012 Painting Diary

[jchaos79]

That is quite impressive, I miss this threat unitil now. Love your birdmen from DoWar army!

Congratulation for your painting diary Fred

[fred.]

Thanks jchaos

More Empire painting - First unit of Red and White knights is now based - even though flag and shields aren't finished

Red Halberdiers are getting there, clothes, skin, spear shafts and armour all done, need to do assorted browns for hair, beards and small bags. Need to choose a colour for the tassels on the pikes, maybe blue.

Second unit of red knights has had a bit of dark red added to flags, shields and about half the plumes. These will have a red and blue scheme.

Green halberdiers - half the figures have had green clothing done.

[fred.]

Much progress on Red and Blue knights, red highlighted with scarlet, blue painted and given a gentle highlight, figures based and given a dilute ink wash to shade.

Finally received an order of some Late Roman buildings from the baggage train, including a rather nice watch tower. Should go a treat with my Pendraken Roman figures.

[fred.]

Warmaster Empire

Two units of knights finished, based and sprayed with matt varnish. The two units of halberdiers are painted and glued to bases, need to finish bases and varnish the figures.



Next up some Pendraken figures (at last I hear Leon say!), some Elves and some Wagons

[Techno]

Stop it Fred !
You're making me jealous !
Wonderful stuff !
Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Glued sand to bases of the Empire Halberdiers, and gave them a coat of future.

Started worked on my assorted Pendraken wagons, found some appropriate sized bases, and glued horses, sand and wagons to the bases. Did a bit of basic painting on the tumbrel wagons and the horses.

The aim with these is to have generic wagons, so I haven't put figures on the bases.

[fred.]

Pendraken High Elves

Pendraken figures 2 posts in a row! Wooo!!



I got a bunch of PD High Elves off eBay along with GW Elves, I'd previously had a test pack of High Elf spears but had found them a bit big and never finished them, but after seeing more of the range and the figures painted I rather like them now. And have bought various extras to fill out the ranks - though having counted up tonight, I've no idea what units I thought I was building.

Spears 4 bases painted, 39 single figures which will make 5 bases - which would give 3 WM units, but I really need 4 so they can be used for HC as well
Swords 2 bases - no extras??? I need about 32 to make 4 more bases.
Bows - 3 bases painted, 20 single figures which will make 3 more bases, so the right number for 2 WM units
Cavalry - 4 bases painted, 8 new figures which will make 2 WM units or 1 HC unit.


The ebay figures fit with the white and bright blue scheme of my Elves, but need a bit of tidying up and shading. And most importantly they needed re-basing, I'm not sure what glue the original owner had used (perhaps Uhu) but it had caused the plastic bases to warp! After a quick chill in the freezer and then a dip in hot water most of the figures came off easily. Rebased them tonight.

I sprayed the new Pendraken figures black and the weekend - so everything is ready for painting now. I only need to do about 12 spearmen to have 2 units ready, which is cool.

[fred.]

That's a really poor photo - and the painted figures with the nice flags aren't even my work  

[fred.]

Pendraken High Elf Cavalry

Have now got most of the colours blocked in on the Cavalry, even though the figures have a lot of white, I choose black undercoat to try to match with the painted figures I bought. But perhaps it would have been easier to black line white based coated figures 



Also got the spearmen's shields painted blue over the weekend - need to decide on a couple more shield logos

[jchaos79]

Really nice, for the shields of the elves go to japanese ideograms. I made one unit with the ideograme of Joy and it works really good.

If the ideogram is dificult you can always simplify it

[Annatar]

Yes something pseudo-japanese works fine for high-elves.

Painted the shield of my highelf, that came with the heroes booster pack, like this.

[mollinary]

Annatar,

Now that - I like!!!!!!!

Mollinary

[fred.]

Haven't got much painting done in the last week.

Played a game of HC on Friday night, the fords scenario from Saga, which generated a very different style of game, my Araby forces managed to rush forward in the first couple of turns, then put in enough shooting to stop the demon hordes. A good game.

Sunday I got the spray cans out and base coated some late roman era buildings brown. These have turned out to be very quick to paint with a couple of shades to dry brush the roofs and I've painted in the plaster walls with off white. With a bit of tidying up of the timber they should be done tomorrow.

[fred.]

Another week goes by...

Painted up my dark ages buildings (from The Baggage Train) - these painted up very easily and have come out looking rather nice (if I do say so myself)



Have added a couple of bases of High Elf cavalry to the figures I bought off of eBay - this gives 2 warmaster units. These are big chunky heavy cavalry figures.



Also have re-based the rest of these figures


I'm currently painting up some extras to bring these up to full units, and to add another unit of spears and bows.


The extra spears are nearly done, only a couple more colours to go.

[fred.]

Lots of gaming over the last week - as family is away on holiday.

Wed - Warmaster, met up with a new player (I watch / helped with this game rather than played)

Fri - Warmaster, the concluding part of a 4k a side Empire vs Lizardmen battle that we started a couple of weeks ago. Empire (me and Dave) just won, the lizards had spent most of the game retreating one flank, until finally the Empire knights crashed into their flank rolling up multiple units in 1 turn. In the centre it got a bit close as the Empire infantry made the mistake of getting stuck in and then getting squashed by a Stegadon and Carnosaur - who then made the mistake of charging a hell blaster frontally!!!

Sat - Hail Caesar - in 28mm with Rome vs Carthage - a first for me, playing HC in period and with the right scale figures. We did play with reduced distances as only had a 6x4 table.

Sun - Maurice - had a couple of play thoughs. Using Marlburian British vs Elves ( as my French aren't painted yet). A very different style of game to HC and WM with short moves, card activation and strict movement. But I quite like it. Not sure that any of my gaming group are interested in this period or style of rules.