The Tale of Fantasy Painters 2011-2012: Month 1 (Sept painting and Oct WIP)

[Malorian]

The Tale of Fantasy Painters 2011-2012: Month 1 (Sept painting and Oct WIP)


This is the thread where you post what you painted in September.

Please post nothing else for 1 week, and then after the first week of Sept please feel free to comment on the work of others.


Mission Statement:

It is the goal of The Tale of Fantasy Painters, and all Tales for that matter, to help fellow gamers paint their armies by providing them a place to find support and encouragement.


The Tale:

The painters involved have made a commitment to paint and post, by the last day of each month, approx 200 points of their chosen army. They do this each month for the next 12 months.

The way it works is that painting would begin in September and then in the first day or two of October a thread will be put up where you can post what you had done in September (this trend will continue for 12 months). You can include as much information as you wish, but some good things to include along with the picture are: the units, the total points for that month, conversions, highs and lows, plans for next month, and a number between 1 and 6. The number is important because it has to do with feedback.

A week after the initial thread is created you can then (and are encouraged to) add feedback on the work of others. Due to the large number of people who take part in these tales it is suggested that you only comment on those that have the same number as you. Of course if there are ones that really catch your eye, or you are a trooper and want to comment on them all, that is obviously awesome.

However, because people have real lives with exams, holidays, honeymoons, new babies etc, etc. They get two 'Jokers'. For two months within the year you can ‘play a joker’ and rather than post an update they can post "sorry guys couldn't get it done this month. Real life got in the way." But the other 10 Months they have to come up with (approx) 200 points of painted and based figures. That is 200 points for 10 of the next 12 months.

In twelve months time we will all end up with a finished 2000 point army.
(Or at least everyone who can see it through to the end ... it's harder than you think!)


Men and Boys:

Because this is harder than you would think ... As last year rather than try and hold everyone to 200 points a month I have decided to allow folks to join in and paint only 100 points a month. Whilst the goal for many remains getting a 2000 point army painted in a year the original and ongoing intention of this whole thing was to encourage and support folks to get stuff painted and 1000 points is better than no points! As a result we have two categories. 'Men' (painting 200 points/month) and 'Boys' (painting 100 points/month).


Frequently Asked Questions

Q : When can I join in? Does it have to be at the start or can it be any time?
A : Join in any time.

Q : Can I paint more than 200 points in a month?
A : Yes, but if you can do this time after time then you can probably commit to more. Feel free to sign up multiple times to reflect the amount of work you plan to do (for example sign up for Beastmen X2 and submit 400 points a month, or Beastmen Men + Boy submit 300 points a month).

Q : Can I paint less than 200 points in a month?
A : Yes. But we try to stay on track by painting more points in the next month to 'catch up'. For example if you only painted 100 points one month you could try and get 300 points painted the next month. Equally if you paint more one month you can take it easy and paint less the next month.

Q : What happens when I paint an expensive character?
A : This happens a lot. If your character was over 400 points you would simply paint him over two months (the sort of time your general deserves!) So You start posting him one month and post nothing the first month (unless you want to post WIP) then the second month you post the finished model and all the points get added on.

Q : What do I do when I'm done and the tale isn't over?
A : First thing to do is to include an army shot (everyone loves an army shot) and then it's up to you. Either stay on and paint a model now and then to take part, or start planning for the next tale. If you are really cocky then you can sign up for ANOTHER army is see if you can blitz it in time.

Q : Can I include a short narrative with each months post.
A : Yes. We love background stuff. Write as much as you like it will be read and enjoyed by many.

Q : Can I *insert something here that results in more painting*?
A : A thousand times yes!!!

Q : Can Doi drop out?
A : No he can't.


Signed Up So Far:

Mens

Avian - O&G
BigJon - O&G
Blackheart - Brets
Caelas - Empire
colonel kane trine - Tomb Kings
colonel kane trine - Tomb Kings
colonel kane trine - Tomb Kings
colonel kane trine - Ogre Kingdoms
colonel kane trine - Ogre Kingdoms
colonel kane trine - Ogre Kingdoms
Confessor_Atol - Ogre Kingdoms
dagreenmoonboyz - O&G
DiddyKong -O&G
DiddyKong -O&G
DiddyKong -O&G (yes thrice!)
Djekar - WoC
Doi - Dark Elves
Doi - Ogre Kingdoms
Doomscape - DoC
Doomscape - High elves
Doomscape - High elves
Doomseer - Dark Elves
dwarfhold13 - O&G
EmperorNorton - Dark Elves
Fanny Crowbar - Dark Elves
Frejdruk - Ogre Kingdoms
Goat of Yuggoth - Vampire Counts
gogs78 - High elves
Green Feevah! - High Elves
grhino - Tomb Kings
gsmc - Skaven
Heqir - WoC
ironduke - Empire
JackDaw - Dark Elves
Jacktheripper34 - Tomb Kings
JohnnyG - Skaven
jonahmaul - Dark Elves?
Kaltherus - WoC
Kaos - Dwarfs
Kharn_21 - WoC
Lord Dan - Vampire Counts?
Mace1982 - High Elves
Malorian - O&G
Malvolion - Brets
Matt.Woods88 - Ogre Kingdoms
Morkash Gorehowl - Ogre Kingdoms
Nilo - Vampire Counts
nkicik - Lizardmen
Padz - Brets?
Perplexiti - Dwarfs
Perplexti - Lizardmen
piotrov - Empire
PumaDriftCat - Brets
Purplebeard - Empire
Purplebeard - Dwarfs
Richmt11 - High Elves
Richmt11 -
Rikk - O&G Orcs and Goblins
Rosstifer - WoC
RTGamer - WoC
Saulot - Brets
ShadowcaptainEthren - Brets
Shandowner - High Elves
someone2040 - SoM
Spar666rawk - Vamipre Counts
spikedog - Chaos Dwarfs
Tayrod - O&G
Tekore - Wood Elves
Thalenchar - Skaven
The Yak - Empire
Toshiro - O&G
Trustey - O&G
Trustey - WoC
unheilig - Ogre Kingdoms
zark the Damned - Dogs of War
z4carlo - Empire

Boys

Aenarion - Dark Elves
andrewdrexler - Wood Elves
Archis - Beastmen
Archis - Vampire Counts
Arduhn - Nippon
Arkarn - Vampire Counts
azhagmorglum - O&G
Braad - O&G
Bueno - Beastmen
Bueno - Tomb Kings
CaptainFaramir - WoC
Clobbersaurus - Empire
Clobbersaurus - High elves
DAGabriel - Tomb Kings?
Darnok - Ogre Kingdoms
DarthSte - Empire
DeathCat147 - Empire
Djekar - O&G
EmperorNorton - Ogre Kingdoms
Fabius Bile - Brets
Fabius Bile - Ogre Kingdoms
Gargobot - DoC
Great horned owl - High elves
Harvey - Lizardmen
Harvey - Skaven
iamjack42 - High Elves
Jardain - Empire
JonnyTHM - skaven
juicytomatoes - Empire
juicytomatoes - Tomb Kings
Kalterus - O&G
Kaos - Dwarfs
Malorian - O&G
Morglum Necksnapper - O&G
Mr. Shine - Skaven
Panzer Mk IV - WoC
Queekvondrak - Skaven
reddevil18 - WoC
Rutgar - Lizardmen
Setha - WoC
Shnerg - WoC
Stretchit - Ogre Kingdoms
Thalenchar - Empire
Thalenchar - WoC
TheMaster - High Elves
the_slosh - Beastmen
Tonny - Empire
vcassano - Tomb Vampires?
Walls - Empire
zujara - O&G

[MLP]

Here's the first 200 points of my 40 men-at-arms unit with Damsel.

1 Damsel lv2 105pts
14 M@A w SMC 97pts
Total 202pts



One thing I've learnt this month is men-at-arms are slow to paint not having a set uniform. Each peasant has a patchwork of different coloured rags!

Random number: 3

[Mace1982]

Ok so its finally here the finsihed product for month 1 and then onto the next lot of WIP.

Let me start by saying that i am really enjoying this tale so far and find it an inspioration to up my personal anti with painting,
anyhow enough digression I present to you my Sept painted allowance

My Lvl 4 High Mage AltainI'har (the branch of wisdom) 260 points

total painted this month 260 points D6 roll for comments 2









ok so those above shots are my front and back views of my mage and here are 2 close up shots

shot 1 the face


shot 2 the elemental base


comments and criticism are not only welcome but needed especially criticism it's the only way i can get better :-)

[Toshiro]

Army: 2000pts Expansion of OnG

Total Points for the Month: 175pts (Level 4 Night Goblin Great Shaman) + 115pts (Black Orc Big Boss Battle Standard Bearer) + 50pts (Level 1 Night Goblin Shaman) + 50pts (Level 1 Night Goblin Shaman) + 27pts (9x Night Goblins with Spears) = 417pts.

Total Points for the Tale: 417pts.

Conversions: My night goblin great shaman is a the champion from the night goblin set with the arms of a regular goblin standard bearer and the banner from the night goblin set. My black orc bsb is a regular black orc with both the banner from the black orc set put together and the skull banner from the chariot set as his head. The two night goblin shamans are regular night goblins with altered hands, one with the musicians parts with the metal cut off and one with a mushroom from the musician pole in his hand.

Highs and Lows: It was a lot of fun doing all the models this month, also it felt great to finish my 50 strong unit of night goblins with spears. The month had no lows.

Plans for Next Month: Finishing my unit of 50x night goblins with short bows and paint my goblin big boss bsb.

Dice Roll: 1.

The Fluff: Can be found in my battle report thread The Tale of Arghuz Orghid.

The Units:
My new Wizzla model, the Night Goblin Great Shaman.


Badaab, the Black Orc Battle Standard Bearer.


Night Goblin Shaman #1, yet to be named absent recognition on the field of battle, he was named Ragnik in the last game, but a mortar shell ended his career in a gory manner.


Night Goblin Shaman #2, also yet to be named absent recognition on the field of battle.


One of the unit filler of my Night Goblins with spears.


And the full unit of 50x Night Goblins with spears.

[juicytomatoes]

Joker me this month for Empire... didn't allot enough time to paint these guys...
ARMY : Empire (of Nippon!)

UNIT: Halflings armed with Naginata (counts as Halberdiers)

BUILD/CONVERSION: Out of the box

STILL TO DO: 8 more Halflings!

HIGHS & LOWS:
Highs - finally started painting a horde army
Lows - painting horde armies

POINTS: just 60

DICE ROLL : 6

[juicytomatoes]

ARMY : Tomb Kings

UNIT: Mounted BSB

BUILD/CONVERSION: The original metal banner was too top-heavy, so I used the plastic parts from a sphinx to make the banner.

STILL TO DO: Nil.

HIGHS & LOWS:
Highs - continuing from the previous tale where I finished 2000 points means I can paint more characters and monsters!
Lows - Nothing at this point!

POINTS: 142

DICE ROLL : 6

[colonel kane trine]

Ok so 1st post-lords and heroes

I really enjoyed painting all of these as it was a nice break inbetween my big core batches!

Points-1629


Army highs- getting so much done


Army lows- nothing really

Background- tomb king raseptra, grandson of the crimson king is readying his hordes against the ogre kingdoms. He seeks to reclaim the death mask of the crimson king and avenge the death of his grandfather.

[Zujara]

Goblins (Boys)

UNIT: Goblin Warboss with Wizarding Hat, Extra Weapon and Light Armour

BACKGROUND/THEME: After reading Malorian's battle reports using the Wizarding Hat on an Orc, it looked like so much fun I decided to do a goblin army using it!

BUILD/CONVERSION: Goblin Boss with Club, The Wizarding Hat was built with greenstuff

HIGHS AND LOWS: Hat came out better than I had hoped since I am inexperience with green stuff. The arm holding the club has a nasty habit of breaking off during painting but is now firmly pinned!

POINTS THIS MONTH: 171

DICE ROLL: 1

[colonel kane trine]

Ok so next post-core


Points-1188

[Great horned owl]

ARMY: 1000 points High Elves

BACKGROUND: This army defends the kingdom Avelorn, in the north of Ulthuan. After centuries of fighting *many elves have died. Especially in Avelorn, on the border with Nagarythe. The remaining elves mourn for their dead brothers and sisters. I imagine them defending the last shrines and sacred places.

UNIT: Repeater Bolt Thrower

BUILD/CONVERSION: the elf with the sword lost his blade years ago. The metal was too thin to pin it back on. So I gave him a new plastic hand. The old sword pointed straight ahead, this one more upwards.

PAINTING: The High elves have changed the colours of their clothes. They wear darker colours, like the shadow warriors. This is a token of their great sadness.
This first unit was a tester for my army colours. The dark brown leather and tan robes will be the unifying colours. Each unit will have different spot colours. In this case light blue sashes and red gems.

BASING: Micro Art 60 mm wasteland base.

STILL TO DO: pinning the models to the base (for now I stuck them on the base with GS) and varnishing.

HIGHS & LOWS: High: this is the first time I have painted wood grain. I’m happy with the result.
Low: A BIG FAT MOULD LINE!! How did I miss that? GRRRR..
Low: because of those helmets it was difficult to paint the faces (I weep when I think of all the helmeted heads still to come)

POINTS: 100 (spot on)

DICEROLL: 5

[Purplebeard]

ARMY: Dwarves - 2000pts (MEN)


UNIT: The White Dwarf

BACKGROUND/THEME: A Hold of Dwarves living in the far north of the world, in a region under the terrible influence of Chaos. Led by the ancient and dwindling Purplebeard family, they fight to survive against the unending tide of Chaos. Many Gnomes live and fight alongside them too.

BUILD/CONVERSION: Old Citadel figures - White Dwarf 3rd (and best!) edition.
STILL TO DO: Varnishing and painting a gem.
HIGHS & LOWS: High - going beyond my normal paint job. Happy with the result.

POINTS: About 500
TOTAL POINTS SO FAR : 500


DICE ROLL : 6, but I'll try and comment on as many entries as I can!

The White Dwarf - my favourite version.

Er - I'll still be painting 2000pts on top of this guy for the Dwarves. I'm aiming to push through all the characters before Christmas, and do war machines and footsloggers after. Some of my stuff is part-painted, so that will make things easier. I have a few nearly finished Miners and Hammerers from last year's Tale, but they weren't counted in my totals so I can carry them forward guilt-free. At any rate, I'll need the boost, as I'm not a fast painter really.

Nothing has been done yet for my other forces, but I'm all caught up now. Here's what I want to do:

WoC (2000pts)
O&G (1000 or 2000pts)
Gnomes (Counts As Empire)(1000pts)
Imperial/Marauder/WK Dwarves (Counts As Empire) (1000 or 2000pts)

I know that 9-10k is unrealistic for me in a year, so does anyone have ideas on which I should choose?

[Lord Dan]

Army: 2,000 points of Empire
Theme: Sylvanian Vampire Hunters!
Unit(s): Great cannon (100), 10 handgunners (80), and some base work on my existing units of swordsmen, wizards, and pistoliers (the remaining 20).
Conversion: Cannon has a shortened barrel, green stuff on the candles, and some jewelry chain on the front. The cannon crew have bitz and bobs, and all have green stuff in the form of armor or neck protection of some kind.
The handgunners have the blunderbusses from the militia set, with extended barrels using the shafts of the empire spears. I created the bayonets by cutting the "spear" portion from the halberd tops and cutting them to size. Like the cannon crew, almost everyone has green stuff armor.
Highs and Lows: Coming up with zombie killing conversions is always a blast, and getting a chance to try out my OSL skills on the cannon was both challenging and fun. For some reason the handgunners took a really long time to paint, and I'm not entirely sure why. I'm hoping going forward I can pick up the pace, especially as I move in to painting blocks of swordsmen.
Points this Month: 200

[colonel kane trine]

Next up-special+rare

Points-1160

I really enjoyed painting these! The necro/stalker set is probably my favourite tomb king box.

[colonel kane trine]

Ogres

As a break from tomb kings I decided to start a small ogre force.
Currently I own 1 ogre and thats it!

Tyrant
Points-210 (havent added any upgrades yet)

This model is my favourite maneater model so I had to paint it!
Next month I wont be painting anywhere near that much!
Im aiming to finish some tombguard,2nd skelly horde a casket and some chariots aswell as whatever ogres I buy today!

[andrewdrexler]

Army: Wood Elves
Category: Boys
Item: 10 converted Glade Guard.
Point: 120 of 1000.
Months 1 of 12, 0 Jokers
Dice roll: 3

The Good (Highs): Finally getting this army off of the ground. I burned though the first unit in a short amount of time due to some lucky days off. Bow strings and arrows came out very nice and the basing is top notch. Color scheme is diverse enough to not be repetitive, but very reproducible with looking too regimented.

The BAD (Lows): Realizing that I had not picked up a brush in the previous 8 months and I need definte work on my skills. Paints needed to be thinned, new agitators added, etc. Realizing that Night shift SUCKS to try to get any painting done (by the time I get home I am crashing, then sleeping is rough, by my days off I am too groggy to paint much).

The UGLY: I don’t like the way that some of the braids painted up. They look too smooth and almost tentacle like in spots. The next time I am working on GS I will add more texture.

Picture did not come out right, but here you go (going to make a light box for next months entry.



and top down view

[Fanny Crowbar]

Dark Elves : 2500 POINTS (MEN)
MONTHLY TARGET: 250 pts
THIS MONTHS TOTAL : 250 pts
JOKERS USED: 0

UNIT: 10 Dark Elf Warriors with shield, full command and Magic Standard (100 pts)
Dark Elf Master with heavy armour, sea dragon cloak and Magic Weapon (123 pts)
Cold One Knight (27 pts)

BACKGROUND/THEME: Watch this space!

BUILD/CONVERSION: Converted command group using parts from the Warrior, Cold One Knights, Corsair and Daemonette Kits.

PAINTING:
Black: Base of Chaos Black, highlights by adding increasing amounts of Codex grey. Final wash of Badab Black.
Gold: Shining Gold base. Wash of Gryphonne Sepia and Leviathan Purple mix. Highlight with Shining Gold then Burnished Gold and finally a 1:1 mix of Burnished Gold and Mithril Silver.
Purple: Base of Liche Purple, highlights by adding increasing amounts of Space Wolf Grey.
Skin: Base of Dheneb Stone followed by a wash of Devlan Mud. Highlight with Dheneb Stone and highlight by adding increasing amounts of Skull White.
Hair: Base of Scab Red. Highlight by adding Blazing Orange.

BASING: Sand painted Charadon Granite. Drybrush with Dheneb Stone and wash with Devlan Mud. Army Painter snow then glued on in patches.
Rocks are painted Codex Grey and drybrushed with Fortress Grey then Skull White.

STILL TO DO: Loads! I'm currently working on my Dragon.

HIGHS AND LOWS: Glad I've finally settled on a colour scheme. I've had so many Dark Elf armies that I've not been happy with only to settle on the colour scheme I had 22 years ago

DICE ROLL : 5

[gogs78]

Army - High elves.

Points target per month - 200.

Painted this month - 240.

Models painted - 14 Phoenix guard including full command.

Notes - Had hoped to finish the full unit of 20 but still happy with what i have here.

Next months plans - Finish Phoenix guard (another 6) Battle standard on foot and start White lions.

0 jokers used.

Dice roll - 5.



So, heres what ive been up to..................

[Roostmanuva]

Army - Vampire Counts

Painted this month- 200

Models Painted - 25 Kit bashed Ghouls (mostly mantic ghouls and zombies, a few bits from the lovely flagellants kit)

Good bits - Made my first ever movement tray and I quite like it. Also pretty quick to paint.

Bad bits - First time photographing minis really show up mistakes damn mold lines

Dice Number 5







Obviously the fourth picture is way off in colour but wanted to give a birds eye view.

[Kaos]

Wow, must be the most awsome start of a TOFP yet or what? Lots of great stuff! Anyway, comments later.

Army - Dwarfs (Yesh, tastes foul to paint stunties but a greenskin needs enemies to fight that are not green sometimes)

Points Painted- 359p

Models Painted -11 Dwarf Slayers and a Daemonslayer

Good bits - Awesome hair and beard!
Bad bits - Hmm... Im not sure. Oh, i need to give them some serious protection against chipping.

Dice Number 2



Bad pic, but anyways.

Cheers-Kaos

[dwarfhold13]

ARMY: 2500 pts - Wurrzag's Savage Orc Roaming Party

BACKGROUND: This army is on a mission, and that is to seek out whatever treasures they can find. They salvage what they can and don't really keep much baggage around, surviving on what they encounter. The party has recently stumbled across a tiny lizardmen outpost, and taken the opportunity to recoup in the dense jungle foliage.

UNIT: Savage orc shaman, 2 savage orc boar boys, 6 savage orcs.

BUILD/CONVERSION: boar boys and savage orcs out of the box. Minor conversion with the shaman on a piece from the arcane ruins box.

PAINTING: I'm really trying to take my time on this army. I've never successfully done it before, but I'm after painting comps this year. There may be a few touch ups that I decide to do later, but for now, I'm going to wait for more of the army to come together to see what stands out too much or not enough. Most of the steps are posted in one of my two plogs, either here or on 'da warpath'.

STILL TO DO: Basing is the big one, also tattoos and varnishing. I have an order for 130 dollars worth of brass leaves that I still need to order, so even if I did the basing, it wouldn't be complete. I checked micro arts, and they are just too busy for me to match to a display board. I'll probably save this month worth of basing for what i complete for next month as well and see if I can't get those ordered.

HIGHS & LOWS: The highs are that I can see great things in this army and have a grand picture in my head of what the outcome might be.. the lows... skin takes FOREVER when you layer it.

POINTS: Shaman (155), Orcs (74 counting xtra weap, mus/standard), Boars (40)
269 total

NEXT MONTH: Most of what you've seen already. 3 more boars, finish unit filler, finish troll, and 3 bolt throwers. Try and get basing done and perhaps start making movement trays.