Hello all, it's been a very long time since I've posted anything of mine in this forum, but given the quality of critique I've had before from you fine outstanding (ruthless) chaps I thought I'd post here in the hopes of getting my army constructively slated!
Basically I'm trying to paint this army up to as high a standard as is realistically possible, without it being impractically slow: I am aiming to paint 300points a month, so in 6.5 months the theory is I should have a completed 2400 point army.
I am no great shakes at gaming, I really enjoy it, but tactical genius I am not, I plan on attend a few tournaments (havign attended a grand total of 1 a couple of years back), but but I'd be really happy if I could win a best painted award some day. The theme is 'On the Eve of Winter' with the idea being I can break up what I hope is a very chilly looking army with some warm autumnal colours here and there, as I love it unconditionally hawk turquoise will be everywhere I can manage!
Finally I am looking to push some skills which I feel hold my painting back with this army, attempting to get out of my comfort-zone, they are;
- Bright colours, I want it to get noticed
- Nice clean obvious edge highlighting (a real weakness of mine, I love how the 'Eavy metal guys did their woodies)
- Painting an entire army, for myself!
- The dreaded freehand banner, luckily I will only have one or two to do
So without further ado here's some pictures, don't hold back on the thoughts/ideas/criticisms, that's what I posting them here for
Test Dryad (I changed my mind afterwards)
Test Archer (I also changed my mind somewhat afterwards, I want this army *bright* as I tend towards dull)
Test Dryad with blue spite, and with unit (back rank are being drybrushed to save time)
First 300 Points (all but finished)
250 of my next 300 points:
Scary Banner, jeering at me and my lack of freehand skills
In particular specific questions are:
Spites: What colour do I do them? On my test-dryad I did it icey-blue, but I changed y mind and made my dryads more than colour, so I'm not sure if it'd stand out enough now (is that a bad thing? They're stll going to be a very pure bright blue, which nothing else will be)
Basing: I'm re-doing the dryads to ake it look soother, I want it very snowy, after the first fresh dump (that sounds bad..) of the year, but I'm not altogether happy with it, I'm going to try and integrate the top of the movement trays with the black rims in my next unit, which I think may help pull things together.
I changed my ind on the browns after the first rank of archers, the back rank is how they're going to be.
Cheers for looking/reading my waffle, now hit me up with your thoughts!
Byron
Basically I'm trying to paint this army up to as high a standard as is realistically possible, without it being impractically slow: I am aiming to paint 300points a month, so in 6.5 months the theory is I should have a completed 2400 point army.
I am no great shakes at gaming, I really enjoy it, but tactical genius I am not, I plan on attend a few tournaments (havign attended a grand total of 1 a couple of years back), but but I'd be really happy if I could win a best painted award some day. The theme is 'On the Eve of Winter' with the idea being I can break up what I hope is a very chilly looking army with some warm autumnal colours here and there, as I love it unconditionally hawk turquoise will be everywhere I can manage!
Finally I am looking to push some skills which I feel hold my painting back with this army, attempting to get out of my comfort-zone, they are;
- Bright colours, I want it to get noticed
- Nice clean obvious edge highlighting (a real weakness of mine, I love how the 'Eavy metal guys did their woodies)
- Painting an entire army, for myself!
- The dreaded freehand banner, luckily I will only have one or two to do
So without further ado here's some pictures, don't hold back on the thoughts/ideas/criticisms, that's what I posting them here for
Test Dryad (I changed my mind afterwards)
Test Archer (I also changed my mind somewhat afterwards, I want this army *bright* as I tend towards dull)
Test Dryad with blue spite, and with unit (back rank are being drybrushed to save time)
First 300 Points (all but finished)
250 of my next 300 points:
Scary Banner, jeering at me and my lack of freehand skills
In particular specific questions are:
Spites: What colour do I do them? On my test-dryad I did it icey-blue, but I changed y mind and made my dryads more than colour, so I'm not sure if it'd stand out enough now (is that a bad thing? They're stll going to be a very pure bright blue, which nothing else will be)
Basing: I'm re-doing the dryads to ake it look soother, I want it very snowy, after the first fresh dump (that sounds bad..) of the year, but I'm not altogether happy with it, I'm going to try and integrate the top of the movement trays with the black rims in my next unit, which I think may help pull things together.
I changed my ind on the browns after the first rank of archers, the back rank is how they're going to be.
Cheers for looking/reading my waffle, now hit me up with your thoughts!
Byron
