24th Cathayan Expeditionaries

[Zodiac]

I just got another 30 spearmen, I have trimmed them and will undercoat and start painting them friday as it looks now. When they are done, I will have 85 models done, whoopie, a third...

You know, the real truth is, that when an army is painted you must stop.
You cannot, I REPEAT you CANNOT finish another army.
You know why?
It will make me cry, so stop painting and go play outside. Its not funny anymore!

[Mephistofeles]

It will make you cry if I finish another army after this one?

Why is that then?

(By the way, I'm planning on starting to convert a turn-marker, captured- banner-tokens and Misscast-markers next week)

[Arhalien]

Warhammer is 'heroic' 28mm scale, meaning that weapons, heads and hands tend to be exaggerated and out of proportion.

Have to agree. Sword from the HE archer champ is about a head shorter than an elf archer. The bows on the elves don;t seem to fit this theory though, as longbows are meant to be taller than their wielders.

I really like those models, and the red lacquered scheme looks good as well. Keep it up!

[LordGoatee]

They look good!
I agree about the proportion stuff, and these do seem a little more... (I don't want to say realistic because it's fantasy anyway)

Cool!

[Zodiac]

It will make you cry if I finish another army after this one?

Why is that then?

(By the way, I'm planning on starting to convert a turn-marker, captured- banner-tokens and Misscast-markers next week)

I never finish one! :P Just a joke though.

[Mrlemonjelly]

This is certainly an interesting army theme, and they're very well painted. I can't help but think you've washed them a bit much though (The dark patches are very dark and gloopy looking).

[Mephistofeles]

Zodiac: Of course I understood it was just a joke :P By the way, I've never managed to complete an army before, I have been playing this since I was a small kid (in -96) and this is my first real army...

Mrlemonjelly: They are actually not washed at all, they are dipped, and they are far less dipped then what they "should" be, since I tried to avoid the "gloppy" effect. It's hard though.

[Easy E]

Great thing about this army is you can also use it for Historical gaming. Two armies for the price of one!

Job's a good 'un.

[||-MARKO-||]

I tried to avoid the "gloppy" effect. It's hard though.

nice army theme, and well painted too. you said you wnated to avoid the gloppiness, id say you could try painting the original colour over the dipped colour, ot give some depth and act as highlighting. it will also take away the gloppiness of those areas to some degree...

marko

[Mephistofeles]

nice army theme, and well painted too. you said you wnated to avoid the gloppiness, id say you could try painting the original colour over the dipped colour, ot give some depth and act as highlighting. it will also take away the gloppiness of those areas to some degree...

marko

Well, there is the fact that then I would almost spend as much time on each model as if I didn't dip, and I just won't cope that on all 220 of 'em...

And then there's the fact that I don't know how well the colours would stay on the bistrot laque I've dipped 'em in...

[Mephistofeles]

Well, now another 30 spearmen are done, and I thought I'd update this log on my proceedings:

I have now finished (painted, dipped, based, ranked and equipped) 60 spearmen, 10 free company, 12 handgunners and 1 cannon with crew.

The Cannon have been mounted on a display base, with one crewmen lighting his fuse-torch and one holding his hands over his ears. The Display-Base is a simple one which is just a square base covered with sand, painted and flocked.
Pictures of the Cannon with crew will be posted ASAP.

I have just (this past sunday) ordered 12 handgunners, 12 Free Company, crew for another cannon and officers for my next two Spearmen units.

I plan on finishing those by the end of next weak, at least I'm planning on ordering new ones that friday.
My painting schedule has been accelerated, my original plan was to paint one unit each month, but my last 30-man unit was done in 9 days, and the two 10-man groups before that was done in 3 weeks I think. I'm therefore planning on finishing these two 10-man units in roughly 1½ weeks.

After those guys are done, I'm moving on to the Greatswords, which I'm immensly looking forward to painting! I'm going to use these models to represent them: http://www.perry-miniatures.com/images/sam54b.jpg
I just have to come up with a good way to differentiate them from eachother, since there are only 6 variants. Any ideas?

That's all for now, hopefully there will be pictures of the Cannon by the week-end, we'll see.

[Calgar]

Ace job on those Cathayans, truly ace indeed!

[Arhalien]

I'll say it again, those Perry Minis are nice. Are they plastic or metal?

[Mephistofeles]

Calgar: Why thank you, I do my best ^^

Arhalien: They are super-sweet! They are all metal, all of them, even the horses. And they are super-nicely priced to, 6 pounds for 6 of 'em, that's nice IMO.

[Zodiac]

I'm looking forward to seeing the greatswords.. just a thought from me:
Paint them all in their own heraldry, they will look rag-tag, but like gentlemen

BTW: Did you try the testors dull coat?

[Arhalien]

Calgar: Why thank you, I do my best ^^

Arhalien: They are super-sweet! They are all metal, all of them, even the horses. And they are super-nicely priced to, 6 pounds for 6 of 'em, that's nice IMO.

mmm, one pound a model. Pity that they probably wouldn't be allowed in a GW store, or I might try an army of some kind out of their minis. Although, I do find metal models a real pain,they just break too easily.

[Mephistofeles]

Zodiac: I'm planning on painting them in different colours, at least so that no identical models have the same colours. That will go a long way I think. Plus the fact that I realized that I won't be getting that many duplicates, since I will have a unit of 25, with 3 different command models and 6 different sculpts for the other ones, it will look like this:

Models: 1,2,3,4,5,6, + (S)tandard, (M)usician and (C)hampion

Unit:

1 M C S 2
3 4 5 6 1
2 6 1 3 5
3 4 5 2 6

Or something like that. Each model will only repeat 3 times, and in very remote locations from eachother. Then they will be painted in different colours as you suggest. Piece of cake ^^

And no, I have not yet had the time to try the dull-coat, but I think I will. Anybody who knows where I can buy it?

Arrhalien: Here in Sweden we don't seem to have that many actual GW-events, and all tournaments I've checked allow non-GW-models

They don't seem to be breaking that easily for me (pure luck I guess), and when they do, they are easily glued together again

[bobert the great clen one]

u must update u muuuuust (gets eaten by zomies )

woot! im undead !!!

woot!!!! 500th post!!

[Arhalien]

Seconded, please update this mephistopholes, I want to see more! They are all very good!

[Mephistofeles]

The reason why I have not updated yet is because there was problems with my credit card for my last order from Perry, but it seems to be fixed now. I will take pictures of the finished cannon and some group pictures of the whole army, they are over 500 points now