Warmaster High Elves test painting.

Still not sold on the white undercoat, even with the black wash it is still acting a bit meh, metal on white just isn't adding up.

I'd need to think about washing the metal and that is a PITA. Oh and you need to cover up residual white so that means painting the staffs brown... doesn't seem like much but with the amount you need to paint in warmaster it sure as hell adds up.

Although reviewing the pics it does help keep the whites bright and the blue edging/gloves quite vibrant... it's just the metal that is annoying me.... 65% keep as is..... 35% change to black is my current thinking..............

Some pictures below but its looking like I might grab some time with my spray can at the weekend....grr.

Gotta find a balance of JFDI and something I am super happy with, my massive painting backlog (not including stuff on the way) should be enough for me to JFDI ! :)

still to do on them:

• red gems on spears?
• skin?
• rest of shields (duh)

marneus Calgar, hair, metal, armour, leather part 2

Hi there,

some more updates. all the below points have now been done since last update.  He is complete except the base.

I am starting with ice blue then highlighting that up by adding white.  Then I'll be using my crushed glass mixed with water effects. then a quick dust of crushed glass.... contrasting black base.

As with all projects, I am freaking desperate to get it finished to move on to the next thing :D 

• skin highlights
• gold highlights
• make the black black then highlight.
• highlight the green areas.
• hair highlights.
• eyepiece.
• BASE (looking forward to this.)

Marneus Calgar, hair, metal, armour, leather

Hello,

Marneus Is getting very close to completion.

todays done list:

• hair basecoat
• armour highlighted and completed.
• metal basecoated.
• leather completed.
• details made white.

to do:

• skin highlights
• gold highlights
• make the black black then highlight.
• highlight the green areas.
• hair highlights.
• eyepiece.
• BASE (looking forward to this.)

Oh and I have got a High Elves Warmaster army. I count it as a fair bit over 1.000 points.

• 3 units spearmen
• 3 units archers
• 1 unit chariots
• 1 unit bolt throwers
• silver helms
• the other cavalry
• general on dragon
• general on giant eagle
• general
• wizard
• hero
• 10 casualty markers.
• the rulebook
• giant eagles...

think thats about it... and for 40 quid!! 

I have started work on the spearmen... The previous owner has used a white base coat.... I don;t really like this but I dont seem to get any daylight hours to paint very often.  

The compromise is to black wash the miniatures then paint.  It might end up working really well as it adds shading and depth but doesnt dull the colours too much.....

Marneus Calgar - Cloak

Spent ages on finishing off Marneus' cloak tonight.

It is finally done. Colours involved: black, blazing orange, blood red and scab red.

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves on the process:

Marneus Calgar Cont'd... Plus basing materials

Good evening,

Work continues apace (kinda) on Marneus.

I have used a leather colour on the strips that hold the ultramarines symbols around his waist.  Added in some green details, I decided on that colour for the tassels to go with the green detailing on the shoulder pads.

Yeah...tassels... I know, not very butch.. meh.

Also washed that brown colour with agrax earthshade and detailed some more gold on the sword and shaded with the same.

A blue wash has been added to the white details as well.

Getting near to the point where I can no longer put off starting to highlight the cloak and armour.  Once that is done things will really fall into place.

I also took delivery of my big basing materials pack which I snagged from eBay.  I will let the pictures speak for themselves. I think it is 21+ bags of different gubbins.

Some of the stuff looks the same but it is just a similar shade really.

Bonus picture of my basing materials drawer... I have a prep/paint additives drawer and two little paint drawers :D

200TH POST!!! | Marneus Calgar... green/white details, blacking out etc...

Welcome to my 200th blog post. that's approximately 0.005 of a post per day for a couple of years lol.

It contains some more work on Marneus Calgar,

• Skin wash - Ratskin flesh and reikland flesh shade are ideal for the skin. Probably the best colours I have used ever for skin... famous last words...
• blacking out metal details... exciting stuff...... still makes the model look a bit sharper and more complete.
• white details - hate doing these, quite a few layers of progressively thinned paint till it covers. :)
• green details - couple of wreathes, one on his shoulder pad and one on is shin.

The wash has brought down the shine from the gold (thank God) I don't want to muck around with the nice matte finish too much if I can help it. 

Anyway coming together nicely I just cant wait to get the armour and cloak highlighted then we will really be cooking with gas. Should be some time for some painting as well.

Oh and a package arrived... I think it is my massive basing materials pack! Wait 'till you see the state of this! bargain!