Daniel36's Log - Vindar 136th and other stuff

[aenimosity]

I don't mind the banner myself. If anything I think it should be a little bit dirtier.

I reckon the beastmen look good. It could be the camera but to me it doesn't look like the eyes stand out enough.

And why aren't you painting your own stuff? I like the wood elves. Surely you have some more lying around just waiting to be painting.

Looking forward to more.

[bluewolf74727]

love the beastmen the banner looks good though i didn't think beastmen cared enough to clean it other than that good job looking forward to seeing more


BlueWolf74727

[Daniel36]

Tehehhh, my friend to whom these models belong thought the exact same thing. Piont taken... Some washes will do it good enough justice, methinks.

[Durek]

Great stuff. The paint scheme is unique for the guard and the raider conversions are very neat. The city fight table however is amazing.
Our little gaming group has just started with some terrain building for City Fight. Subscribed !

[Gargobot]

I think the banner looks great, the Centigors too.
And it seems that Bachelor Party was totally awesome. ^^

[The boyz]

Good job on those Centigors Daniel36, I like them. The freehand on the banner looks very nice.

[folnjir]

Nice Centigors, what can we expect next?

[Daniel36]

@Durek: Thanks pal! Be sure to steal all the ideas you like about our City of Death to use in your own.

@Gargobot: Yes it was... Yes it was... Though I cannot remember much of the last couple of hours, mind you... :P

@The boyz: Thanks, I wasn't really sure about the banner, but so far everyone likes it, or at least the freehand. It does need some dirtying up, but that's not a problem.

@folnjir: What can we expect next? Hmmm... That really depends. Right now, I am contemplating the following things, in no particular order:

- Finally finish my Orlock Necromunda gang
- Build a spore / mushroom forest for Necromunda
- Finally finish that darn cave system for Warhammer Quest
- Do some more work on my Wood Elves
- Start work on my friend's Minotaurs
- Epic Death Guard
- Regular Death Guard
- Order and paint up stuff from www.tabletop-world.com for a Fantasy table

Too many projects, always adding more.
Harrumph...

[aenimosity]

I'd love to see more work on your Wood Elves and Death Guard. They've been my favourite so far.

[Daniel36]

Sure thing! I have actually been working on Wood Elf stuff that I haven't yet shown.

However, I have to admit that my Death Guard army has taken a pretty big break. I am not sure when I will continue on those.


Though I should start painting this guy, don't you think?


So these are my ASSEMBLED Glade Guard. They are three units of ten men, with a musician for each unit.

The front row has three pretty much finished models.





Not sure I like the green. It's a basecoat of Orkhide with Snot Green highlights.

I had also been experimenting a bit with Catachan Green highlighted... I decided on this scheme for this unit (I will paint each unit completely different), but I am not sure if it was the right decision. What do you guys think?

[Daniel36]

So yeah, my house has pretty bad lighting, so that is why I have to use the flash, which is pretty... flashy...


This model is actually pretty exciting. It doesn't show well on the picture, but on the base is a skeleton of a horse, slowly being reclaimed by the land. I thought of that while reading through the Wood Elf book again. In it, it tells about how the trees use their branches to pull the dead into the earth. Pretty cool idea.


Speaking of the dead, this will be one of three Spirit Hosts. My friend Jeroen and I made this together. It's for his army. I am not going to paint them, but I like the look of the base. We're going to do a bit of marshland on it, methinks.


So I finished the bases on the Centigors, and dirtied up the banner just a tiny bit. If you look closely, you can see what I have been working on today, in the background. Hehehehhh...
So uhmm... I need to thank Spikedog for the bases. He did his bases this way on his new Skaven, and they look awesome. He did a better job than I, but that's okay...
Check his Skaven here:
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showth...=67889&page=30


And my Treekin are now four strong. I haven't yet finished painting the last one, and I found out a lot is wrong with the first three, so I will need to get back to that too... But I like how the bases are turning out. Birch seeds look really nice, though I will use them only sparingly. Again, the black chips idea is stolen directly from Spikedog.

[BoyMilla]

Can't quite make out the skeleton horse on the base but I love the idea!

The green on your glade guard looks good to me.

I'd vote for finishing your orlocks next, it's only a few models and it feels good to get things done and dusted!

Keep it up mate!

BM

[Putty]

awesome stuff.

your bachelor's rpg party is a smash!

welcome to the husband's club xD

[aenimosity]

Everything is looking really good. I can't wait to see how the Nurgle daemon turns out. Did you make the base yourself?

I don't mind the green that you've used for the WE, however it's a tough call on whether to make all the units a different colour. On the one hand it's visually interesting but it also may detract from the unity of the army.

I've decided to redo my Eldar sometime in the future just because there's no unifying markings/colours between the different aspect warriors. It's an annoying decision to come to when I'm halfway through the army.

[Daniel36]

@Boymilla: You know, I kind of let myself be lead by whatever my friends are working on. Right now, my best friend is slavering away on his Vampire Counts, and we have been battling several times in the past weeks, so my Wood Elves will get most of my attention, possibly including some more woods for the battle table.

One other friend is like me, he always has ten things going on at the same time, and those are incidentally in the same categories as mine, but we can never get ourselves to be working on one thing. So Wood Elves it is for now.

Those Orlocks are kind of easy to finish though. I really should get cracking on them soon.

@Putty: Tehehhh, thanks! So far I am enjoying this little club! Contrary to popular belief, I have more time instead of less to work on my miniatures now that I am a husband.

@Aenimosity: You see, a lot of people say that it takes away the unity in the army, but does it really?

I mean, take a look outside (wherever you are). Trees are never just one colour green. Especially if you take a look at any forest, you will find such an enormous diversity in colour, yet it's still one forest.

My Wood Elves will be aspects of nature for each unit. These Glade Guards are going to represent the trees as they blossom in Spring and Summer. My Wardancers unit is an aspect of night/twilight and some purple flower, I guess. Each Dryad unit will represent a different sort of tree (some real, some fantasy), which I basically steal from the GW website. (The white ones are Ghostwood, the red ones are Redwood).

You already bring the next example. Eldar have different colours for each unit. Try painting them all the same... It's just not really Eldar that way.

And of course they need something to unify them, and don't worry, my Wood Elves will all be somewhat unified.

Ooh ooh, new example! How 'bout them Power Rangers? (He did NOT just throw in the Power Rangers? Yes he did! YES HE DID!)

I also remember playing Dark Omen, on the Playstation and PC. The units in that game were all differently coloured, but it looked fine. It even made it easier to distinguish them, yet it was one army.

But we will see how it turns out. So far I like how my Treekin and Dryads all look distinctly different, plus it keeps me motivated, not having to paint the same colour over and over again.

Oh, and that Daemon Prince base, it's from Micro Art Studios. So no, I did not sculpt it myself.

[spikedog]

Nice looking bases you have there. What a good idea those contrasting stones are and I notice you use birch seed as well on your bases, I find the two together really bring out the bases. Keep up the good work

But seriously, good looking models you have in here. I really like your Centigors, I want an excuse to get some for my Beast army but can't justify the money at the moment. I am hoping for plastic versions with the new book.

[Daniel36]

Tehehhh... Well, the birch seed idea was NOT stolen from you, as it turns out. I already had that stuff a long time... That idea was stolen from a friend.

But yes, I am very thankful to have stumbled onto your log, because my bases look so much better now.

And I think the Centigors will indeed be plastic soon! So just a little bit more waiting, and then you'll be ready!

Thanks again!

[The boyz]

I quite like the green on the Glade guard, looks good to me. As for painting each unit a different colour, I say go for it. After all, if they are all being based in the same way, that will help to unify them and tie them altogether.

The Treekin and Treeman are looking rather impressive. I particularly, like the idea behind the base for the Treeman.

[Daniel36]

Yeah, I'm starting to like the green more and more. I guess it'll work...

Thanks for the comment. The idea behind the Treeman base excites me more than the Treeman itself! I am glad I found a cool way to add some spice to its base, because I believe that good basing is half the miniature. I'm not a great baser (nor an exceptional painter), so whenever I come up with a cool idea, I get pretty excited. Most of my good ideas are usually for friends' stuff as well, hahaha... So I am glad this time it's for my own stuff.

So, not that I am anywhere near finished with my first group of Glade Guards, I would like to know everyone's opinion on the following colour choices for my next two groups of Glade Guards:

The first one is going to be Autumn style, similar to Anardakil's Wood Elves
http://www.warseer.com/forums/showth...=52009&page=23

So kind of like this GW example:


And the second one is going to be Waystone Defender Night Watch style, like this:



Will mix in fine with the first one, don't you think?

I really need to get some stuff done. I already have new ideas floating through my brain, it's not even funny!!!

[Daniel36]

I was just going to edit this last reply, but the thing I came up with now is such a revelation, that it needed its own reply.

You see, I had another idea for my Wood Elves.

Instead of giving each of my core units a different colour, I came up with the following idea:

Browns

Yeah, just that. Units of which the clothing are painted in many different heus of brown, ranging from Scorched Brown to Bleached Bone, with everything in between. Green will be the off colour for which I apply detailing.

I haven't painted up a model this way yet, but I want to, to see how it turns out. I guess my (red) Lord already looks a bit like what I am envisioning:


- where the red should be replaced with brown.

I really need everyone to help me make a decision. Am I going for different colours for each core unit, or am I going for this monochrome way of painting things.

I'm not sure if (should I go for the browns) my Wardancers are going to be repainted in brown though, I kind of like them purple. Since they are "Special" I don't really need to do paint them the same, in my mind. My Treekin and Treeman won't be brown, so why should they? At least SOME colour in the army wouldn't be bad.

Seeing as I have way more experience (and enjoyment) in painting brown that in painting green... I guess I should go for it.

I will update you when I have a test mini out, but what do you guys think?
Colours or Brown?