Counts long and winding thread of improvement and excess.

[count zero99uk]

Hi all, didnt think id be posting again till monday but whilst tidying some bits away i found these halfpainted dwarves (15mm btw)

Think ill get these finished sooner rather than later, i know the horses will not look like horses but kathrynloch's stuff has at least let me know what they should kind of look like

Get these finished and ive just i think 5 bases of blades to do and its another finished project OMG!!!!

Take care all.

 

[kathrynloch]

They're on ponies!!!! lol! How cute! Hey they're so small, just threaten them with a paint brush and they'll dive into the appropriate color.

Seriously tho, you can probably get away with a base coat, a couple of glazes and some highlights on the ponies but it depends what colors you want to paint them.

 

[count zero99uk]

there allmost all done should get them finished today and posted up

There not great, but its been fun doing them.

Then 20 15mm dwarves to clean.

 

[count zero99uk]

Here we are almost done.

Next shot will be them all on there bases

Nice plane bases to match the rest of there army.

 

[Hasdrubal]

Ah, the joy of 15mm scale. Great for painting lots of models fast!

 

[count zero99uk]

Ok here we go.

Now to clean these up

Here is the rest of the army if your interested.

 

[Broke n English]

The dwarves look well funky, I've never seen those before Keep strokin' those bristles ^^

 

[count zero99uk]

What a week

Dwarven army is finished

[Pic of badly painted 15mm dwarves that look ok on mass]

so yay.

My 2 boxes of Dwarf Kings Hold have arrived Undead Rising and Green Menace. The figures look great.

And got the Space Marines from Assault on Blackreach cleaned and undercoated.

So first things first, no pics because my dear mother has kidnapped my camera and taken it to spain. I need a new one anyway with an ok macro function on it, the pics never looked quite right on that one. Suggestions would be great (im UK remeber)

Secondly -- Space Marines, i have no idea what colour to do them. I thought Ultramarine and to just simply paint them like they are in the box for an easy life, or try to find a chapter into which i can incoporate the red battle damage armour article onto. But the problem with that is finding info for the markings and such. Not really ever played 40k, read the books though. Im doing it for my nephew hes 9

If someone could suggest a nice bold colour scheme with a tutorial/guide for what goes where that would be fantastic.

In the future weeks ill be asembling and painting the mantic minis for Dwarf Kings Hold, got a nice selection of Dwarves, Skeletons, Orcs and Elves. The skeletons and elves have really impressed me as they are very slender and well sculpted.

Anyway going to go shoot things on Borderlands
Take care.

 

[kathrynloch]

For your first horses you did a great job! You have a very solid foundation now. I really like them!

My first suggestion would be to work on neatness. Those things are tiny, tiny, tiny!!! So they are really tough! I struggle with neatness and accuracy too. As for a camera, it depends how much you have to spend. Perhaps try searching Ebay.uk. You're right when you say you need a macro setting. For right now one that is on close-out or on sale would probably work quite well for you.

Visit GW's website, they have articles on how to paint certain chapters. Also search the great wide interwebz - you will find a lot of sites with great info! Lexicanum is one that's fantastic!

 

[count zero99uk]

Just a quick update, got my spacemarines started. The Tactical squad is all basecoated blue and im about to start the proper painting of it now.

All the other SM stuff out of Assault on blackreach is cleaned and undercoated.

Do have a quick question though, weapons, i see from the internet that the main bolters are now mainly metalic and they dont have the red housing on them. Can anyone tell me why this happened/why?

Cheers and ill get some photos up when there done, the camera is still in Calpe.

 

[count zero99uk]

Another quick update since my last post things went well rather poopy

Trying to cope with depression has been a long and ongoing project of its own. Im hoping i should have some stuff to post in the near future though.

Ill be putting a post up else where as my paints seem to have seperated quite badly and im looking for the best way to reintegrate them

 

[TrystanGST]

I've heard a lot of people add some sort of agitator (read BB) to the paint pot.

 

[count zero99uk]

Right got some paint on some miniatures, i know its not a 10 but hey my stuff never has been (looks over at his avatar) just wanted to share, they are mantic models from there Dwarf Kings Hold set.

Im happy with the cloth and the bone needs some more work, going to do some highlighting and a wash see how it turns out. Ive a lot of these to do so as long as its ok for the table im happy.

Ive a couple of models I want to look really nice, but ill show them of later. Just getting the brushes to work again atm.

 

[Stewsayer]

Hi Count,

The cloth on the Skellies looks very nice mate. Well done.

 

[kathrynloch]

Nice job flexing those brush muscles again! I hear ya - don't paint for a little while and it can be tough to get back into the groove. The cloth does look nice! It also looks like you're reviving your paint well too.

 

[count zero99uk]

Thanks for the kind words

Right having looked at the pics ive noticed i missed bits of cloth. I am the only person who does this? You are there 5 inches from the model and yeah thats all done move on to the next and then when the photo is taken and you look at it a day later your like, how did i miss that~??????

Anyway its raining a lot today so no natural light so i doubt ill be painting. But i do have a stack of paper buildings to cut out and glue (world works games) for our All Things Zombie game on Friday.

Tata all o/

 

[TrystanGST]

Throw a nice brown wash over the bones, and give a light highlight of bleached bone/menoth white/off white and call it a day!

 

[count zero99uk]

That was the plan Trystan Hopefully ill be able to get some painting done tommorow, nasty throat issue today erg

Anyway take care.

 

[count zero99uk]

Well here we are, bone done, cloth tidyed a bit, wood done. The mantic sculpts are soooo nice.

Really like how the bone has turned out on these. My hope was to get an aged bone look, these guys have meant to have been in some old tombs for ages.

Next thought is the metal, do i try and make a rusty effect or not. Was thinking natural steel then some kind of red/orange wash and a copper drybrush for highlight, any thoughts on that?

 

[count zero99uk]

Ah well had a lucky escape the other day thanks to my good freind. Had got into a rut worrying about how to do the rust so that i wasnt doing anything So today ive just made a start on them. Atm they have VMC Natural Steel over all metal. Thats drying completely then ill badab wash then stipple with some brown and orange see how it goes. \o/

Photos later today.