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[cunningmatt]

I'm sure I've had school photos that came out that well.

[Dave]

For those of you who follow me on twitter I'm sure you knew that this was coming but I spent a few evenings last week building a WE dragon.  13 metal parts and 2 plastic wings takes a hell of a lot of pinning and greenstuff.  I also felt the 40mm base which was in the box was a little uninspiring so put it on a 50mm plasticard square and took the opportunity to add a bit of height to actually allow it to get base to base with infantry rather than sitting about 3" in front of them due to the position of the head.  Quite pleased with how the base came out as I've not really tried modelling greenstuff before and think the tree root thing looks reasonable.

Painting was 2 evenings, pretty simple stuff
Green - Basecoat cd'a Jungle green, wash badab black, highlight scorpion green
Belly - Iyander darksun, highlight with 1:2 darksun:bleached bone then bleached bone straight.  Wash with gryphonne seipa:baal red 3:1, reapplied some highlight to tidy up.
Bone - dheneb stone base, highlight bleached bone gryphone sepia wash, darkest area near roots get devlan mud wash
Wings - Dheneb stone, dheneb stone:white 1:1, white highlights. Wash gryphone:baal ~1:1 but diluted a little with water.

[fatolaf]

Stunning model, always liked it....

[Dave]

Cheers Ol, tis a lovely old figure if a total bugger to assemble.

Having listened to the latest Bad Dice I realised that I should really focus on the units Mark had identified in his army book review as having obvious potential.  Cue adding a load more Glade Riders...

I already had 7 painted so just done another 8 to get me up to 15 with 5 more on my painting table. 



Ignoring peoples' usual preference of counting pts in Skaven Slaves as a key way of disguising the costs per model I'll use my own arbitrary scale.  These are pointed at 9.6 Gnoblars each, a bargain I hear you shout, a musician on top costs another 3.6 Gnoblars.  So a unit of 5 with a muso rocks in at a healthy 51.6 Gnoblars.  Evidently a powerful unit...  Watch as High Elf players cringe to hear that the WE fast cav comes equipped, as standard, with both a bow and a spear.  In your face skirtwearers we get our bow included in the cost (at a small premium of a mere 2.4 Gnoblars) but don't suffer move and shoot penalties, but then skirtwearers get ASF, DE get hatred and their 'I win' button (or so I've heard).  Oh yeah and Glade Riders only have a 6+ save, meh.

I'm hopeful that in the rebalancing of the WE book when it finally happens these will drop to around 6 Gnoblars per model and it might actually be worth fielding them.  That along with my desire for 2-3 Gnoblar Eternal Guard (I've got 50 of them to paint at some point) and some other utterly broken combos to turn WE back into the filth they deserve to be (note I never played them in 4-6th eds when they were, at various times, meant to be dirty).

[Dave]

The purpose of this tutorial was for a clubmate who'd sent me something along the lines of the paintscheme I've done here.  He's not a big painter and was wondering if it would look ok and secondly whether he could do it across the whole army without it taking an age.  If memory serves his current 2400pts army consisted of 6 bulls, 8 ironguts, 4 leadbeltchers, 4 mournfang cavalry, 1 Ironblaster cannon, 3 characters and 3 sabertusks. So 26 ogres, 4 rhinocat thingies, 3 sabertusks and a chariot.  On that basis I reckon even the most unacomplished painter could get the army done in a few weeks. 

I did this model this evening between 7pm and 9.15pm including taking all photos, all drying time and getting it all uploaded onto photobucket.  For a single model 2.25hrs isn't exactly rapid but then I was doing a lot of messing about with other stuff (pictures and tweeting the whole thing) and coming up with the paints for the scheme as I went.

Step 1 Undercoat - In this case the skin colour is going to be red, so I went for halfords red primer


Step 2 Basecoat - Simple enough grey trousers, leather boots and straps, iron metals.
Trousers - Adeptus Battlegrey
Leather - Iyanden Darksun
Metals - Boltgun metal



Step 3 Highlight skin - skin is a bit flat so need some highlights
~1:1 Scab red:bleached bone thinned down and applied to all the raised areas



Step 4 Highlight Trousers - flat grey doesn't look great so want a bit of depth
Trousers - thinned down codex grey applied to all raised areas



Step 5 Shading - Yep that's it for the highlights, the entire model is now getting shaded with one colour, in this case I wanted to use black to darken the trousers, metals and skin all as one.
Badab black neat all over.



Step 6 Rehighlight - After quite a bit of drying time for the wash I picked out the metals with some new highlights to brighten up the edges.
Straight Boltgun metal, not quite drybrushed, applied as edge highlight to all the metals, particularly focussing on zenithal lighting areas (the top bits!)



Step 7 Base - ok you'll notice it sneaked into the last picture but just with some sand which was painted black, an intentionally dark choice.  But the model itself is quite dark which is why I'm now going to add some snow for a real pop contrast.

GW Snow flock & PVA roughly 1:1 I think, mixed into a paste and added to the base then the top is mashed about with a wet brush until I'm happy.  Then sprinkle the top with dry snow flock to give it a crisp coating.



Step 8 Skin - I decided I didn't like the skin as it was, the black wash was a bit uneven (dip may have been a better choice), so I highlighted/glazed it with scab red.

Scab red diluted down until a thin consistency but still enough to cover the uneven black wash and smooth out the skin.




And that was me done.  Now for the 'professional pics'

[fatolaf]

Really good Ogre there buddy, not bad for 2 hours work....

[cunningmatt]

Wow, lovely stuff!

Loving the Wood Elf Dragon, excellent basework and always good to see a curly tail. Plus loving your Glade Riders too.

As far as the Ogre goes 2 and a quarter hours is quick for some of us!!! It takes me that long just to think about writing the blog for it. Lovely work too

[Dave]

Finished off the glade riders and then set about some more people on horsies.  This time inspired by Mr Neil Peckett's trip into brets, we were chatting about them and schemes, so I dug out an old box I had to test out some schemes for when I get round to painting them.



Think I might try the purple scheme across a unit to decide if it'll work as a whole army thing.

Purple is hormagaunt Purple followed by a purple ink glaze (not the GW wash but the old inks)
Yellow is Iyander Darksun, highlights by adding white.
Metal is boltgun metal with a asurymen blue wash.
Wood & horse is something brown, by CDA, can't remember what!

[fatolaf]

Bretts looking great buddy, more horses to paint....

[Dave]

I happened to have 7 lying around so was just testing schemes whist I built up motivation to get back to the skaven, brets will be a while off yet before I start on them.