As I work my way through the gold edging on the armour of the Executioners that I rarely take into a game... I find myself wondering... why the HELL did I decide to do this?
I painted this one some time ago as a test piece... well now I'm more than half-way through the unit so I'm committed.
Because it looks awesome!
The greatswords look excellent. The feathers especially (I personally hate painting feathers, so cudos!)
For my money, I'd like to see a thin edge highlight with bleached bone on the yellow. But they do look good as-is, the edge highlight will just make them.. 'pop' visually.
For the base, use some medium or small slate that you can paint up in grey (Charadon then drybrush Adeptus, codex, fortress), then use the new textured GW paint... the dark brown one and drybrush that up.'
Then use the white textured paint and mix it in with some of the snow flock and you'll be set!
Or if you want super-sparkle snow, go and grab some marble dust from a hobby shop.
But they take so LOOOONNGGGGGG!Originally Posted by triple_double_U
I've already stuck on some driveway gravel and dirt. How dark is the dark brown textured paint? About the same as scorched brown?
Damn GW, they've already removed that great article on snow bases (or at least I can't find it if anyone knows where it is).
Marble dust - sounsd interesting, and expensive...
Nevermind, I found the snow article
Piccies of the Executioners all finished, except for the flock. I'll be doing that all-together once I've painted the sorceress and BSB
So that's 11 Executioners including Champ and Musician = 150points
So Ben's done his quota for the month, how are the rest of us going? haha. Keep them coming, they look great, I like the gold on their armour. Is 12 enough you reckon? I have trouble picking a good unit size for executioners, they die easily but they're also a big target it seems.
I'm going to keep going because all of this stuff was already half-painted. I'm going to finish the sorceress, and also get a bunch done on all those slaves!
Thing is, I rarely take them in games. 12 is enough that they can't be ignored I guess. And it's not many points... they've only really taken down a couple of flanking monsters, and they did kill a character or two.
Like we were talking about the other day, I reckon I'd need a bsb hag in there with the always strikes first banner, bulk them out to 27 to give 4 ranks of 7 and that would make them a real force, but then they'd be 504 points for the lot... and they're only T3 with a 5+ save.
Hey guys,
Ben linked me up over Facebook. Since I'm really only just starting my Orcs and Goblin army (Only 10 models painted so far) seems like the ideal time to join in on a painting challenge!
Nothing too fancy in my army. The idea behind the starting force is well... nothing fancy! Orcs, Goblins, Trolls, maybe a Giant or two down the track. But all the common stuff! None of these outlandish Savages or Cave dwelling goblins. We'll see how it goes. The core of my army is based around a big unit of Orc Big 'Uns, with some Arrer Boyz, Black Orcs and Goblins making up the remainder. So I've got a bit of everything in the army, from the bashy to the shooty as well as some chaff.
Anyway, the quick list I've written up which scales down somewhat nicely from my planned 2k points is as follows
Orc Warboss, Shield, Armour of Destiny, Sword of Striking, Potion of Strength
Orc Shaman, Level 2, Dispel Scroll
Orc Big Boss, BSB, GW, Talisman of Preservation
40 Orc Big 'Uns, Shields, Standard Bearer, Musician
20 Orc Arrer Boyz, Musician
2x5 Goblin Wolf Riders, Shields and Spears
24 Black Orcs, Standard Bearer, Musician
Rock Lobber
My painting plan is probably to combo the cheaper stuff with the characters. Painting cheap models is never thrilling. A lot of time for potentially little points in challenge terms (Thank god I'm leaving my 60 Goblins out of this >.>). So I'm currently thinking of doing some Wolf Riders and one of my characters for the first month, and then we'll see where it goes from there.
Hey Mathew, good idea!
Also, we should have a rematch! Either my Dark Elves take on the Orc & Goblin menace... or your Beasts take on my Skaven... what do you reckon?
I suggest doing bits on the really low points models each month, supplementing your main painting goals. Then towards the end it will be a little bit of work to knock them off all at once.
That's an imposing number of models!
Welcome!
That looks like a lot of orcs...! Enjoy.
Hey Guys,
This is what I am planning with my slaves (front left 2 darker scheme models)
Reckon they fit in alright with the other colours in the army... I've got a clanrat, plague monk and stormvermin there.
Appreciate some thoughts.
They look good. The skin and eye colour look good, and they'll fit well with the rest of the army
Perhaps a little too much like clanrats, but I think that's the models not the painting (but then again your clanrats don't use the same models, so its not really a problem). Unless you were keen on rusting up their gear a bit...
Okay so here's the sorceress.
Looks good Ben.
The hair colour is good, it'll stand out well in the unit
The Skaven Slaves look rather good, though I think their weapons look dilapidated enough at the moment. The sorceress is good too, the blood red boots are fitting.
By the way I mentioned the army challenge to Alex and he showed some interest. It may help him get his Tzeentch army on the table.
Looking good, Ben! I like the glyphs on the sorceress, i'm a long way from free attempting free hand painting!
Heres a couple of early chaos dwarves, conversions are gonna need a bit more work to tie in with the Forge World characters, but the paint scheme is -almost- what i'm happy with
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Looking good, Ben! I like the colour you got for the sorceress' hair!
So i'm gonna be pretty behind for the majority of this competition, but i've got two Chaos Dwarves converted and experimented with the paint scheme. I'm close to happy with the colour scheme but would love to hear some comments critques!
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