i would like to be the first to congratulate you here on BOLS. You did a very good job and the are getting the most important part out of the game, fun. =) good job.
Gustav
· 5 months ago
They look great Bigred, an excellent theme, and I second the "have fun" point. Makes me want to start a dark elf army too (Aggh! Too many armies!) I trust that you are not done and will return for more Fantasy shenanigans in the future!
Ryan
· 5 months ago
I recently played Fantasy with a friend and it was actually fun. I started out a Tomb Kings Army a while back and was initially put off by all the movement restrictions of fantasy compared to 40k. To add on to that, Tomb Kings mostly function on rules that are exceptions to the norm so it was difficult learning the mechanics. But I've had more and more fun with it and plan to finish painting up the army as soon as I finish a couple more units of Orks.
Rob
· 5 months ago
Can you give your recipe for the cauldron of blood statue? I love it!!!
Bigred
· 5 months ago
1) Paint Tin bitz 2) Drybrush with Dwarf Bronze 3) Badab Black 4) Watery wash with a very light blue-green 5) Once the wash has "mostly" dried, buff it off the highlights of the model with a damp soft cloth. 6) Drybrush lightly with Dwarf Bronze 7) Final detailing as needed
Sister Sin
· 5 months ago
Great job! :) Druchii were my first Fantasy army and are still the largest with mini's dating all the way back to 3e scattered around in it..mostly the original plastic crossbow troops. :)
Fantasy is an excellent game. Again, great job! Most impressive.
Myu
· 5 months ago
I love the work you did on the cold one knights and cauldron of blood. And the bases. The models look COLD, not just 'this is snow, huzzah!'.
If you don't mind me asking, how did you do the bases?
Tom Harris
· 5 months ago
Hey Bigred!
Niiiice looking army! I particularly enjoy the cold one knights and the TWO war hydras (ouch!). Nice verdigris effects on the cauldron of blood, too.
Hmm... a bunch of projects in the pipe right now. Summer break has seen good progress on some Crimson Fists; I'm still hell-bent-for leather on painting an Apocalypse marine army because I was so impressed by GROOV3R's thunderhawk/devastator combination in Epic. That Thunderhawk (like most of the things I get from Forgeworld) is going to need some major surgey to correct some miscasting and mold lines, and I think it's going to take me about a year.
Next projects... Hmm. I hear there will be plastic beastmen in January; I'm contemplating a 40K beastman army, inspired by the Vraks renegade lists from Imperial Army books 5 and 6, "counting as" Imperial guard. I've got a few metal Bloodgors which will be color-testing models, and lots of plastic cadians to kitbash them with.
..and hey, if y'all have some painting article requests, let me know. I'm on summer leave for a few more weeks yet!
Tom (formerly SkarBoy)
Good luck with the Lord of the Rings (?) stuff. It's a really nice miniature range.
Gothmog
· 5 months ago
I really like the scheme you chose. Can't wait to see the banners.
I have an entire Blood Angels Army to repaint still, and slowly but surely I am wading through them. In addition I have an armoured company that would be done if not for a broken airbrush. Last but not least is my FW Thunderbold under repair. Unfortunately it took a tumble one day and so after that I was left with one choice. Stripping and repainting. Simple green for the strip though leaves the plastic undamaged, though it takes alot of time and scrubbing to get everything off.
On the back burner are my Guard and Brettonians, and a handfull of BFG and Aeronautica pieces (through I do have 4 painted Battleships and 14 Painted Cruisers and a bunch of escorts). Oh and my Blood Bowl ogres.
MercuryLamp
· 5 months ago
Nice work.
I also have a Dark Elf army that's complete except for the banners. I used royal purple and off-white as the two main colors for a brighter look than GW's black/purple scheme.
I plan to have the banners have oldschool style icons(the newer GW Dark Elves have lots of ideographs).
KINGS
· 5 months ago
I saw a round base... cannot use that at BFG. :/ BTW they look awesome and you really through that army together quickly. Double awesome!
~kings
Bigred
· 5 months ago
Thanks for the positive comments guys.
My rundown on the color scheme and basing:
When I started a Fantasy army I knew that I wanted to very limited pallette that was naturalistic in tone. It also had to be easy to paint, so mass production could be done without to much trouble. The winter environment of the Dark Elves just drew me in, so I chose a scheme based mostly on neutral winter tones of grey and silver. I wanted a very limited "heraldry color" so I went with Mechrite Red as the primary color instead of the more common purple you see on Dark Elf armies.
I tried to limit gold overall to officers, and cruellly to the sacrificial Dark Elf Warrior units who advance to thier deaths as the army's vanguard without even the use of shields. I've found that painting does affect foes, who often think the picket units are more imposing that their stats suggest due to their more elaborate coloring.
I kept a very tight clean paint style as I envision the Dark Elves as not being the blood-caked dirty villians, but vain, proud forces who would care about their battlefield appearance.
The bases are covered with black railroad ballast, then drybrushed Astronomican Grey, followed by a very light drybrush of light blue. Finally patches of glue are applied and flocked with GF9 "Snow" powder.
Only the slimy animals are dipped in glossy polyurethane floor wax, and the rest of the army is left matte to contribute to the "frosty" appearance.
MarcusZ
· 5 months ago
Regarding the slimy animals: is there any kind of dry brushing or washing beneath the polyurethane floor wax or is this just black? I'm currently building a tyranid army with a very similar paint scheme (black bodies, bone/horn colored claws/fangs and red carapaces), but somehow the black bodies (with gloss varnish on top) just don't look as nice as your hydras.
(I don't know why, but I still can't use disqus on this computer. if I try to log in the page reloads with a "?success" added to the url but I'm still not logged in. Happens with all pages that use disqus. only logging in at disqus.com directly works on this computer)
Bigred
· 5 months ago
Straight black, with they poly on top. The key is to get as much of the excess off the model so you get a glossy yet thin coat that accentuates the surface texture and gives you all those nice reflections.
If you let it dry with to much on, you get a "thick candy shell" that obscures some of the surface texture.
I either glue small minis (like plaguebearers) to drill bits and dip then spin them quickly in an empty bucket with my power drill to throw the excess off the model. For larger pieces like the Hydras, I whip them around by hand to get as much excess off, then stand them on end for a while on an abosrbent material so the excess will drip off with gravity before the poly sets.
BlueRonin
· 5 months ago
Congratulations BigRed, good job! :) Looks great!
Dooley
· 5 months ago
OOoooh pretty
TSINI
· 5 months ago
very nice, im not a great fantasy fan nothing against the rules or whatever, just doesnt float my boat (a stick is a stick, whether thrown, jabbed or fired from a bow lol :D), but ive always admired the large armies that you can field.
current projects: well with uni just coming to an end, its all about getting my valkyries together and converted (and painted and based for the iron halo competition), then its onto the grind of painting everything else
All Comments
2) Drybrush with Dwarf Bronze
3) Badab Black
4) Watery wash with a very light blue-green
5) Once the wash has "mostly" dried, buff it off the highlights of the model with a damp soft cloth.
6) Drybrush lightly with Dwarf Bronze
7) Final detailing as needed
Fantasy is an excellent game. Again, great job! Most impressive.
If you don't mind me asking, how did you do the bases?
Niiiice looking army! I particularly enjoy the cold one knights and the TWO war hydras (ouch!). Nice verdigris effects on the cauldron of blood, too.
Hmm... a bunch of projects in the pipe right now. Summer break has seen good progress on some Crimson Fists; I'm still hell-bent-for leather on painting an Apocalypse marine army because I was so impressed by GROOV3R's thunderhawk/devastator combination in Epic. That Thunderhawk (like most of the things I get from Forgeworld) is going to need some major surgey to correct some miscasting and mold lines, and I think it's going to take me about a year.
Next projects... Hmm. I hear there will be plastic beastmen in January; I'm contemplating a 40K beastman army, inspired by the Vraks renegade lists from Imperial Army books 5 and 6, "counting as" Imperial guard. I've got a few metal Bloodgors which will be color-testing models, and lots of plastic cadians to kitbash them with.
..and hey, if y'all have some painting article requests, let me know. I'm on summer leave for a few more weeks yet!
Tom (formerly SkarBoy)
Good luck with the Lord of the Rings (?) stuff. It's a really nice miniature range.
I have an entire Blood Angels Army to repaint still, and slowly but surely I am wading through them. In addition I have an armoured company that would be done if not for a broken airbrush. Last but not least is my FW Thunderbold under repair. Unfortunately it took a tumble one day and so after that I was left with one choice. Stripping and repainting. Simple green for the strip though leaves the plastic undamaged, though it takes alot of time and scrubbing to get everything off.
On the back burner are my Guard and Brettonians, and a handfull of BFG and Aeronautica pieces (through I do have 4 painted Battleships and 14 Painted Cruisers and a bunch of escorts). Oh and my Blood Bowl ogres.
I also have a Dark Elf army that's complete except for the banners. I used royal purple and off-white as the two main colors for a brighter look than GW's black/purple scheme.
I plan to have the banners have oldschool style icons(the newer GW Dark Elves have lots of ideographs).
BTW they look awesome and you really through that army together quickly. Double awesome!
~kings
My rundown on the color scheme and basing:
When I started a Fantasy army I knew that I wanted to very limited pallette that was naturalistic in tone. It also had to be easy to paint, so mass production could be done without to much trouble. The winter environment of the Dark Elves just drew me in, so I chose a scheme based mostly on neutral winter tones of grey and silver. I wanted a very limited "heraldry color" so I went with Mechrite Red as the primary color instead of the more common purple you see on Dark Elf armies.
I tried to limit gold overall to officers, and cruellly to the sacrificial Dark Elf Warrior units who advance to thier deaths as the army's vanguard without even the use of shields. I've found that painting does affect foes, who often think the picket units are more imposing that their stats suggest due to their more elaborate coloring.
I kept a very tight clean paint style as I envision the Dark Elves as not being the blood-caked dirty villians, but vain, proud forces who would care about their battlefield appearance.
The bases are covered with black railroad ballast, then drybrushed Astronomican Grey, followed by a very light drybrush of light blue. Finally patches of glue are applied and flocked with GF9 "Snow" powder.
Only the slimy animals are dipped in glossy polyurethane floor wax, and the rest of the army is left matte to contribute to the "frosty" appearance.
(I don't know why, but I still can't use disqus on this computer. if I try to log in the page reloads with a "?success" added to the url but I'm still not logged in. Happens with all pages that use disqus. only logging in at disqus.com directly works on this computer)
If you let it dry with to much on, you get a "thick candy shell" that obscures some of the surface texture.
I either glue small minis (like plaguebearers) to drill bits and dip then spin them quickly in an empty bucket with my power drill to throw the excess off the model. For larger pieces like the Hydras, I whip them around by hand to get as much excess off, then stand them on end for a while on an abosrbent material so the excess will drip off with gravity before the poly sets.
current projects: well with uni just coming to an end, its all about getting my valkyries together and converted (and painted and based for the iron halo competition), then its onto the grind of painting everything else