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    Tonight Michael I am going to be painting....

    Hello one and all and welcome to my plog. I have a large collection of models that need painting and a few opponents that have got use to me fielding armies of undercoated models will have a bit of a shock. . So firstly my lovely workstation.



    Yes I am a Mac user. No jokes or sniggering at the back. As you can see its relatively empty and clean. Bit of reshuffle led to that. Before it used to be covered in paints and models. Anyway on to the projects.

    Firstly is my Tomb Kings army. Last year my gaming buddies and I went through and built and painted an army in steps. 500 points, then 750points and so on until we had a fully painted 2000 point army.. I chose High Elves and I now have a 2000 point force fully painted and based. Well its five models and a bolt thrower short. However it looks nice. In the not so distant future we will be doing this again and I have gone for Tomb Kings.

    The next project will be Skorne for Hordes and Mentoh for Warmachine. Just got started playing these games and so will be working my way through units and factions. Eying myself a Khordor and Cynar army as well. These models have always been nice to look at, so we’ll see how well they perform on the painting table.

    Thirdly I am working my way towards a large scale re-enactment of the battle for Pleanor Fields using the War of the Ring Rules system. This will most involve painting movement trays and the odd model to make a formation. However there are a few pressing matters like a fell beast mounted Witch King and the forthcoming plastic Fell Beast and adding models to create extra companies.

    As a side to this company. I will be trying to clear my back log of LOTR models that I have accumulated over the years. Mainly thanks to the BGME magazine that GW released.

    Next up we have my historical armies. Currently I am working on two main armies. A Late War (1918) German army for use with The Great War rules set and a Scot Covenanter army for ECW and Black Powder. I will also be doing a British Napoleonic force as well, but that’s been put on hold until I see what is happening with the Warhammer Ancients rules set that has been recently promised.

    Finally we have the odds and sods section. I have a large number of models that I have brought just because they take my fancy. Things like 40k models, random Warhammer models that will become an army one day and bits and bobs I picked up from shows. Will come under this section. I am currently working on a Wood Elf Noble and the plastic Ork Nob that came free with a White Dwarf recently.

    So now that the boring post is over lets look at some models.
    Last edited by Baggers; 18-01-2010 at 20:03. Reason: Getting the photos to work.
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    Re: Tonight Michael I am going to be painting....

    So hopefully if the pictures show up. I show you some models. I've been working on my Tomb Kings. Firstly a unit of 20 Skeletons.



    I'm not a great fan of painting bone. However I am quite happy with the way these came out. Next up is the Hierophant Liche Priest. I am not to keen on the way that the gold has come out in the photo. Its duller in real life.



    Finally we have the bowmen. As part of the theme for my army (IE the story going around in my head) The Bowmen are the lowest part of the army and so have no coverings and so on. There are ten of them and once the basing is done I'll do some group shots.



    Next up for the army is a Screaming Skull Catapult and a unit of Tomb Guard. The Screaming Skull Catapult is giving me a lot of grief at the moment as its possibly the worst catapult kit available. Also I am going to be starting on the Germans for my WW1 army.
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    Re: Tonight Michael I am going to be painting....

    None of the pics are coming up for me. On the photobucket page, copy the IMG code at the bottom left of the box and just paste it in.
    Like this,



    Nice skellies!
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    Re: Tonight Michael I am going to be painting....

    Thank you for the advice and the comment on the Skellies.
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    Re: Tonight Michael I am going to be painting....

    Looks nice. Next time, base your models with some modeling sand before you undercoat them. It will make your life very easy.... If you undercoat it white, just some Devlan Mud Wash and you have yourself a desert underground.
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    Re: Tonight Michael I am going to be painting....

    Quote Originally Posted by Daniel36 View Post
    Looks nice. Next time, base your models with some modeling sand before you undercoat them. It will make your life very easy.... If you undercoat it white, just some Devlan Mud Wash and you have yourself a desert underground.
    I tend not to enjoy basing models at all. So do them in batches once their painted. Still haven't decided on how to paint the sand to look like sand yet. Anyway. Update time. I have not done any painting due to real life. However I have been building. Firstly this...



    Yep, the Screaming Skull Catapult. Never build one of these. They are the worst catapult I've ever had to put together and has taken me six weeks to put together. Next we have a unit of Tomb Guard.



    Its currently at 15 strong. I intend to add another rank to get it to twenty at least. And finally the last thing I have been building this week is some Warmachine / Hordes stuff.



    The only thing that is missing from that photo is the Titan Gladiator which is waiting to be greenstuffed as we speak. Thats all for the moment. Hopefully some more painting soon.
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    Re: Tonight Michael I am going to be painting....

    Sand will look like sand if you just throw Devlan Mud over it and perhaps add a drybrush of Bleached Bone. Not too fussy, you will be fine, I guess. Good luck!
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    Re: Tonight Michael I am going to be painting....

    The TK stuff looks promising.

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