My "Craft"

[mat_mantra]

Part of the problem is the wash i use.  It's a quick and easy way to bring out depth and fill in some holes, but the darker pigment tends to stick around, and it dries pretty quick as well, which means sometimes i get a little more shading than i bargained for.  Still, whats a good mix for the red?  90/10 paint/water?  less or more?

[Border Reiver]

Probably about 75/25 paint water.  Percentages aren't important - it's the smoothness of the finish so find what works for you and go with it.

[Jace]

Linking to images because if I don't it will break the forum wall and I'm not gonna be that asshole.

Orc Battle Standard Bearer painted for friend/commission
Orc BSB reverse side
Orc BSB front side
Orc BSB banner detail
Orc BSB front detail
Orc BSB banner detail back

[clockworkjames]

Little guy looks so happy and shit.

Remind me to post up pics of a 40k squad - The Last Chancers.

Is cool.

[Verergoca]

Oh, hey, a toy soldier thread!

I do have a bunch of things, am currently trying to be in the process of repainting my spacemarines!

Here are a few pictures. (have since painted a wee bit more )


The whole army as it shall be.


The big boss


Finished squad

And here is a guy showing off the chapter symbol thinger. (Which ive grown to hate. One happy sun is fun to do. 5 is sort of ok. 36+ the bigger ones i will have to put on the tanksies... Less so. Guess that teaches me a valuable lesson about freehand logos...

[Border Reiver]

36 suns are annoying - Try over 72 dog's heads (the crest on my Bret men at arms' shields)!

[Jace]

You think 72 dog's heads is annoying? Try over 144 hammers (damn stunty army).

Also, pictures forthcoming of my progress on my Daemons of Slaanesh army. I have 17 days to finish painting about 40 models. FUCK YEAH DEADLINES

[Verergoca]

Well, played my first game with the army last saturday. Lets just say i need a bit of practice (but, Siege shells shooshting at buildings, is fucking cool!)

[mat_mantra]

For some reason, I just dropped 300$ on bugs over this last weekend, so expect to see some Tyranids soon

[Jace]

I really need to finish up my Daemon models so I can start on my necrons, and then finish those so I can start on my warmachine, then finish those so I can start on my hordes, then finish those so I can start on my extra models I have lying around, then finish those so I can do commissions, then finish those so I can start another Daemon army.

[Rozen]

WOW! This used to be my craft for a while when I was 18 and playing D&D with some serious people. My Aunt and Uncle used to own a Hobby shop and it was crammed with awesome stuff. They had a pretty hardcore setup with a case chock full of miniatures. I would buy the Games Workshop magazines just for the painting tutorials in the back. Happy nostalgia.. sadly I don't have the miniatures anymore, I left them for the gamers.

[Sir Tacopuss]

lookit me soldiers

wow, those are nice. you did quite well on the custom paint scheme imo.

At the moment I'm in the progress of enlargening my Iron Warriors Chaos Legion from ~1000 Points to something around 2500. My to-do-list includes 30 Marines, 15 Terminators, 3 Obliterators, Vindicator (The new plastic one, very nice kit), Basilisk (well FU new codex, i'll keep playing by the 3rd edition rules) as well as a terminator warsmith with corrupted servitors and a dark mechanicus based on the metal enginseer. I'll post some pictures as soon as I finish some models, but atm I'm still sorting out what bits I'm going to use... need some more terminator bits, especially heads and arms.

[Seductivpancakes]

I really like your  Lotr Dwarves Border Reiver. I play Harad and Morder list. I'm starting a Gondor and allies army soon. I like how the metallic paints came out. Do you have a 500 pt list for your Dwarves? I hope it doesn't include Dain who is the bane of my army.

I also really like your converted Bretonnian lord. I think thats a very good conversion. Pretty amazing mini.

I have maybe too many armies. I play Orcs and Goblins, Bretonnians, Warriors of Chaos, Space Marines, and Chaos Space Marines.

[Border Reiver]

I have several 500pt lists for my Dwarves - some of which include Dain, others Balin, some Gimil, and others just have a bog standard Dwarf Captain. 

[Jace]

Too bad all of those lists just come up a bit short.
I've also heard that the Dwarf army in LoTR is quite beardy.

I'm sorry. I used to play Dwarves in fantasy so I know a lot of these.

[Border Reiver]

And after a hiatus resulting from computer issues (the work computer wouldn't let me load to photobucket)

I now present

Galadriel's Fountain


and The Dunland Troll (counts as an Isengard Troll for game purposes)

[Border Reiver]

It's been a while but here are some converted chaos dwarf warriors (made from BFSP warriors)



My lord on a Great Taurus

[Jace]

Oh look a bad picture from my phone of Capt Bartolo Montador:


I put the hole in his hat and positioned it to make it look like it was flying off.

[Llewellian]

I really envy you guys to be that steady with your hands to paint such tiny things with great detail. Especially having the stamina for whole armies.

I am better at building landscapes, costumes and 1:1 scale theatre background props and such things ^^. I blame that to my big sausage-hands.

A friend of mine was into that Warhammer Miniature stuff too. Until he decided to make it "bigger", since he is already metal & foam/latex designer. A full wearable Warhammer Chaos Champion Costume. Got him the attention on that Games Workshop Convention "Reenact your Miniatures"

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=301142909&albumID=30581&imageID=2941495

[LeeC]

I used to play back in the day. I have since quit but man was it fun. Nice armys all!

[Headwoünd]

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=301142909&albumID=30581&imageID=2941495

Alter Schwede Oo


I'm also impressed by the artwork and how you guys give them detail on such a small scale.

[Border Reiver]

And now, the Children of Hashut - 6 Bull Centaurs with Great Weapons and Full command





It's been a while since I last posted here.  might have to post some of the better ones as well.

[LeeC]

Border I am really interested in what and where you got that warrior with the shield on page 1.  Looks great!  And love the brets!

[Border Reiver]

Thanks, the Brets are my first army (started seriously painting minis in this scale around '95 or so), but ar in the midst of a repaint to bring them up to my current ability, as are my Chaos Dwarfs.

Which warrior with a shield are you talking about? 

[LeeC]

[Border Reiver]

The figure is a stock Citadel figure called Dunland Chietain from the Lord of the Rings range.  To him I added a shield made of epoxy putty (Greenstuff) that I sculpted into the rough shape of a typical Celtic oval shield.  The Painted pattern on the shield is based on the designs from the Battersea shield (the original being bronze covered wood). 

the size of my force means that I have two guys who are similar (hell it is the same model as the range is somewhat limited) so to differentiate between the two at a glance, one guy has golden armour and a purple cloak - to indicate his higher rank.  I try to keep the colours somewhat natural for these folks as they are supposed to be similar to pictish/celtic/germanic barbarians.

[Border Reiver]

And now for a little somthing I've been thinking about for a while (because I am a geek) - a Kollossus






because some warlords want the latest thing in daemon driven transportation



And in case anyone's wondering - the runes state "Lord Kurgan Grudgebear gathered for Hashut - 1 giant, 24 orcs, 20 goblins" - I've started a running tally of what casualties are caused in the battles that it has been used in.

[Prince of Space]

These are fantastic.  I've always loved miniatures and have wanted to try this type of painting for a while now.  I'd really like to try a dragon...

Also, I *love* the bases you have on some of them.  I really like to ogle train-set miniature gravel/grass/moss and when I get to see it used I get all tingly.