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Summerfield
Skeleton
*PANT* *PANT* *PANT*
Good lord am I getting BURNT THE HELL OUT on assembling Dark Elves.
Thank the lord i'm nearly done. Only 3 more dark riders and ... well all but 3 corsairs (seriously, screw the corsairs... awful kit).
Soon i get to be burnt out on painting
Good lord am I getting BURNT THE HELL OUT on assembling Dark Elves.
Thank the lord i'm nearly done. Only 3 more dark riders and ... well all but 3 corsairs (seriously, screw the corsairs... awful kit).
Soon i get to be burnt out on painting
Terrible luck about your friends OnG. Who steals models, anyway? I thought that was my one saving grace against burglars- I only own nerd stuff lol.
Anyway I found your plog through YouTube (didn't know this was you on carpe noctem) and it's great to see your models up close! They look really good from afar in your battle reports, but super sharp when I can see them individually. Great work, keep up the battle reports too, I've been a huge fan for a while. Nothing like beer and warhammer.
Anyway I found your plog through YouTube (didn't know this was you on carpe noctem) and it's great to see your models up close! They look really good from afar in your battle reports, but super sharp when I can see them individually. Great work, keep up the battle reports too, I've been a huge fan for a while. Nothing like beer and warhammer.
Oh how I know that feel - and how i similiarly lost against skyrim one day 
Charybdiss looks especially interesting, I'm waiting for some closeups 
Charybdiss looks especially interesting, I'm waiting for some closeups 
Burnanation
Crypt Horror
Got a TON of painting done this weekend - was amazing to get back into it... though I have to admit, I forgot just how much work this stuff is. My back aches from hunching over. All weekend and i'm only about 1/2 through my Witch Elves:
So much time devoted to painting every component black then going over with bronze and washes. Eventually a lot of that will become bright metal too. When I couldn't stand to paint witches any longer, I pushed along the cold ones. I think their flesh is almost fully done. Now moving onto the riders and boney spikes for color.
So much time devoted to painting every component black then going over with bronze and washes. Eventually a lot of that will become bright metal too. When I couldn't stand to paint witches any longer, I pushed along the cold ones. I think their flesh is almost fully done. Now moving onto the riders and boney spikes for color.
Kingside_Bishop
Black Knight
Great work on that cold one, its really hard to get the 2 tone for the underbelly right.
Whens the next update?
Whens the next update?
Pigeoneater
Poypul, I say Poypul
I'm liking those witches, very clean look. I have always been a bit of a fan of the clean crisp look - though could possibly do with some more shading on the hair.
Definitely! that's just the white primer so far. Going to go with a Slaanesh gray base, then build back up to white.
In the meantime I started working on unit-filler 2x2 blocks to stretch out my 20-count to a full 40-block-horde (including the cauldron). At $60 / box, no way am I going to buy more. Also, they don't rank up nicely at all. Seriously, it's like GW didn't even try. *facepalm*
In the meantime I started working on unit-filler 2x2 blocks to stretch out my 20-count to a full 40-block-horde (including the cauldron). At $60 / box, no way am I going to buy more. Also, they don't rank up nicely at all. Seriously, it's like GW didn't even try. *facepalm*
Solid work as always. I really do enjoy this clean look you got on your minis.
Looking forward to see that cauldron all painted up.
And congratulations on the kid
Looking forward to see that cauldron all painted up.
And congratulations on the kid
So because GW has priced the Witches STUPID expensive ($60 / box of 10), I'm only going to get 2 boxes (and only that much because i sold my brets). Went and bought some GF9 50x50 bases, cut them to 40x40 and made some unit fillers for the witch horde. Spacing them out gives 2 benefits:
1) a single witch can stand for 4, so I can increase my numbers.
2) Witches simply do not rank up ... i dont know what GW was thinking, but they do NOT rank up. Each of them bump arms, their flailing and leaping poses don't work together and their hair is so big, it pushes other models around. I think this could have been remedied if only some of them were up on rocks, leaping. The models look great, but they rank up just as poorly as Black Orcs.
Here's a pic of me planning out spacing (serious headache - i need to number the bases of each elf on the front & sides, honestly)
Spacing figured out, chicks glued on their new bases
Looking good ... with their dynamic poses (which are really nice looking, just impractical), you can barely tell i'm using unit fillers
Add in the cauldron: NOW WE'RE IN BUSINESS, BABY!
Ill start working on the bases soon - gotta find some terrain to put in there as well. In the meantime i started working on their hair.
Bitches gettin' their hurr did!
I'm using a 3 stage color scheme here:
- slaanesh gray will be the base
- pallid wytch flesh will be the mid-tone
- skull white will be the highlights.
This picture was taken in some bad lighting, so you can't really see the final stage, but left-to-right is the process i'm using. The goal is to have some of that nice slaanesh gray under the folds of the hair providing depth.
-luke
1) a single witch can stand for 4, so I can increase my numbers.
2) Witches simply do not rank up ... i dont know what GW was thinking, but they do NOT rank up. Each of them bump arms, their flailing and leaping poses don't work together and their hair is so big, it pushes other models around. I think this could have been remedied if only some of them were up on rocks, leaping. The models look great, but they rank up just as poorly as Black Orcs.
Here's a pic of me planning out spacing (serious headache - i need to number the bases of each elf on the front & sides, honestly)
Spacing figured out, chicks glued on their new bases
Looking good ... with their dynamic poses (which are really nice looking, just impractical), you can barely tell i'm using unit fillers
Add in the cauldron: NOW WE'RE IN BUSINESS, BABY!
Ill start working on the bases soon - gotta find some terrain to put in there as well. In the meantime i started working on their hair.
Bitches gettin' their hurr did!
I'm using a 3 stage color scheme here:
- slaanesh gray will be the base
- pallid wytch flesh will be the mid-tone
- skull white will be the highlights.
This picture was taken in some bad lighting, so you can't really see the final stage, but left-to-right is the process i'm using. The goal is to have some of that nice slaanesh gray under the folds of the hair providing depth.
-luke
Well it appears two congratulations are in order.
The first being for your son, congratz mate.
The second being a even more herculean task, finding the time to sleep and paint. lol
Keep up the good work mate.
They are looking great.
The first being for your son, congratz mate.
The second being a even more herculean task, finding the time to sleep and paint. lol
Keep up the good work mate.
They are looking great.
Nice work there. I like the cold one and well done with the jade statue that none seems to put on. Looking forward to seeing some batreps with this lot. Maybe I can finally get some ideas on how beat witchelves apart from throwing every diverter you have in front of them.