Well almost….. As one lot is finished another lot is started.
I got these based up tonight, Although the Witch-lands are a frozen Hell; my lot have been sent south to attack the borderlands. Therefore no ice and snow….
As the lot above are finished, I decided that I had better make a start on another ten. These are better armed than those above with the majority having firearms.
The big thing is an old Ral Partha figure that has become either a statue or Golem.
Nearly there…
Nearly there with the militia.
I am a bit miffed that I forgot to check for mould lines on the older figures (aka the ones I built about 15 years ago). I decided to paint the hat and belt on the Liche a lot brighter than the dark ones on the other ones. It does seem to work so far. Still to wash and highlight as well as finish the red standard.
As an aside I managed to update my Ostarian flags. Both regimental and colonel’s.
These are taking forever…
they have a lot of open wounds etc that take a while to paint in. Same with the eyes 👀.
So far I have units of 8 with a Liche, and two standard bearers, the one with the red flag is based on Napoleonic Russian Militia who carried a religious standard rather than a regimental one.
As these are undead forces, an image of the Virgin Mary seemed a little inappropriate. I was going to come up with something myself then I came across a GW warrior of Chaos cloak which seemed to work. The second is a ragged flag or standard made out of Greenstuff which I rolled very thin then basically ripped/poked holes in it and wrapped it around the flagpole.
As a total aside I have redone the Ostarian flags and luckily my new Ultra fine Sharpies have arrived
This should make it a bit easier to add colours to the various designs.
HELP ME!
I am really getting into doing these, made more flags and painted nothing over the last couple of days, I think it is because they are so easy to do.
They look better curled and flapping than on the piece of paper. Obviously all of my chaps are holding flags in at the very least a strong breeze.
On the next one I might try to get a drooping flag. I am not sure whether it is possible due to the nature of the paper.
Regiment II
I had another bash at a regimental colour’s today.
Black and red this time
Instead of paint I gave these a go.
I used the brown on the reverse side to make a shadow, I may have overdone it in places.
Updated Regimental colours …
I had another go at the colours tonight. Much happier with the bat, however I have realised that the chain around its neck has blended into the background colour of the circle….
I may just get rid of it to avoid the problem – I didn’t have a very fine sharpie – to be honest I would have probably got a better result with silver paint instead of the pen.
the size works well with the colour bearer. I realised today that he is missing the top of his pole ( unlucky chap) so IÂ have added a bit of straw and will add a skull to the top.
Still got a lot to do to this chappie, not to mention the other seven.
Once the flag is glued on properly and shaped I don’t think it will look too bad for a first attempt.
What colour is a ghoul???
I spent rather a long time thinking about this, ghouls are mortal and not technically undead. They inhabit crypts and graveyards and the like but aren’t zombies. I watched a whole load of YouTube videos and quite a lot of people are painting them in a necrotic flesh type colour, rather than in a colour of someone/thing that never gets out in the sunlight.
I, therefore, am experimenting with a grey undercoat for the skin tone with a flesh coloured wash. We shall see how that comes out.
I managed to get the green looking the colour I wanted, it took a while!
I basically made another base coat of Phtalocyanine emerald with some khaki, then built up from there.
A few teeny steps forwards.
Managed to get a little bit more done this lunchtime, all the black covered again, red cords base coloured, they need washing to darken them then highlighted back up again.
I tidied up a some of the pant splodges where they shouldn’t have been. They are almost there.
Then onto two units of ghouls one for me and one for my friend for Christmas.
Busy, Busy, Busy
I had left the gunners at work, because frankly, in hurricane force winds I envisaged the power going off. Strangely it didn’t. So I messed around with the plastic horde. I made a simple standard from the bits box and a rather tattered flag with some green stuff.
The standard was a simple one, based on a couple from the Narodnoe Opolcheniye or peasant militia.
These seemed to have religious figures on them. Obviously an undead militia wouldn’t have this, so I added a cloak to the crosspiece to act as the banner. I am still trying to work out what to paint on it.
The flag is so tattered that I will probably just go for a solid colour, I am thinking red.
Managed a little bit of painting time this lunchtime, needed to go and get something for my good lady wife who stood on an upturned nail, as well as getting some more horse food in.
I did manage to add a wash to the skin, mainly in the recesses, as well as adding a pinkish hue to the wounds, unfortunately it dried a whole lot lighter than it looked on the palette. I will tone it down a bit later on this evening.
I also added another darker wash onto the blanket rolls, I forgot the cloak and the head covering.
They are coming along, which is what it is all about.
Bogenwald 