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July 29, 2017July 29, 2017

Arachnorak & Forest Goblins

Haven’t posted for a while but have been busy painting. This is an effort to get all the recent paint jobs up on the website.

Approximately a year after the my wife purchased it for my wedding anniversary (another plastic year) I finished my largest and most expensive warhammer miniature. At only a year old this is pretty quick work on my part.

I decided to go with the web slinger (catapult) because, well it looked the coolest I thought. I put the shaman on the little tower and painted it separately as I had the pieces left over.

The Spider itself was done building up from a doombull brown to wazdaka red and then lots of black (army painter dark), brown (army painter strong) and red (carroburg crimson) washes with the odd red and black dry brushes to get the effect. I think this worked out pretty well.

When it came to painting the goblins, webs, feathers, wood, I started to get a little bored. It perhaps doesn’t look like it but there is a ton of detail in there and I kept finding bits I’d missed or weren’t done well. It was hard to quantify progress after an evenings (2-3 hours) work. Partly an issue with my slow painting but nevertheless I was very pleased when I finished it.

The base has some agrellan earth providing the crackled dirt in the corner. There is quite a lot of detail on the wood logs that hold up the spiders back legs and of course the literal handful of mini spiders. I also made a couple of puddles (under the spider and pretty much impossible to see in the photo) from layering up pva glue and black, green and brown washes. Turned out not to bad, hard to get rid of all the bubbles, takes a long time (layer at a time) to get the depth and you need to be careful with the washes as they can haze the pva.

December 30, 2016December 30, 2016

Green Knight

In 1996 Games Workshop released 5th Edition Warhammer and with it they re-released the Bretonnian army. As a young University student at the time the government was good enough to provide me a loan to cover living costs. Like most people I decided that I could probably live on 2 minute noodles and cheap sausages whilst putting that loan to better use. In my case I cleverly invested that money in Warhammer and in 1996 that involved buying a Bretonnian army, which was possibly my first choice when I started warhammer but since they had no models I chose Wood Elves instead. It was then that I bought the Green Knight. At the time possibly warhammers most beautifully sculpted model. The fact it’s still hanging around as a fine cast is I think testament to this.

At any rate my flatmate at the time (Hans) cleaned the model and undercoated it in matt white citadel primer. It then sat in my “waiting to paint” pile for what turns out to be twenty years. Part of the reason for the long wait was the fact that I sold my bretonnians before I painted any. I kept the Green Knight because I liked it but I had little cause to paint it other than it’s artistic merit.

This is perhaps the real reason for taking so long to paint it. I really wanted to do a good paint job and never really felt confident I could do that. I like to try to replicate or approximate the GW paint schemes and there is a lot of free hand on the Green Knight. Free hand is not one of my strengths. This became evident when at the start of the year I gave it a go. It was ok but I felt it did not do the miniature justice. I restarted it several times but just couldn’t get the free hand right. Eventually in disgust I tossed the model back in the cupboard. Six months later I pulled it out again and decided that I need to finish it. If I couldn’t free hand it I’d just paint it green and move on.

This is the result. All in all I think it turned out quite well despite the lack of free hand. It is still one of my favourite models.

January 10, 2016January 11, 2016

Wood Elf Glade Guard (Archers)

These are twelve of the twenty four archers you get in a wood elf battalion box. They’re from a second hand battalion box that was purchased so long ago I’ve forgotten. The box was pretty much as new except that all the sprues had been spray painted matt black. I prefer to clean and assemble the minatures before spraying them and this was a good reminder as to why. The mould lines were sprayed over making them difficult to see. The parts of the model that needed to be glued were covered in paint making them poor surfaces to fix and thus needed to be scraped. The minatures still needed to be clipped from the sprues and then cleaned up. All of which meant that most of the paint needed to be scraped off.

Anyway painted the cavalry and the dryads a long time ago (see previous blog posts). I was going to do all twenty four but just couldn’t bring myself to bite off so many and ended up doing only half of them. My own colour scheme, not totally convinced by it which is why I almost always follow Games Workshop colour scheme. They do rank up a little better than they are in the picture although I’ve had to number them because they do rank up only one way.