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What's on your paint station?; What are you working on right now?
Topic Started: Sep 19 2010, 09:46 AM (384 Views)
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Well as mentioned in a thread elsewhere, and for pretty much everyone to see half the time I'm at the club, I'm working on my Warhammer Empire Averland army.

However, I am also working on my Warmaster Ancients 10mm Early Imperial Roman army. I was hoping to go to a WMA campaign weekend at WHW in October, but unfortunately it clashes with my niece's 2nd birthday party. So my aim with that is to try to get it painted for the campaign weekend in the Spring. So whenever I have a game of WMA arranged, I'll do a little bit more painting for it. So tonight and tomorrow I am likely to add a bit more paint to six little men.



Anyway, back to my Averlanders. They've been languishing in an 'only just started' state for what must be ten years now. I've abandoned the Halberdiers that I had assembled for the army, half the halberd heads have snapped off, etc... But basically I just prefer the new models. I've also pretty much abandoned the wizard that I put together for it, but that's largely because the model is such a 'mare to get into a unit.

So of that original army, it leaves two cannons, a mortar, hellblaster, six knights, and engineer with long rifle and a mounted hero that I do intend to paint. In addition to this I have a 7th ed. army that I put together just prior to 8th ed. being released, which contains a lot of knights, three units of them in fact (in addition to the unit that I've already got), one of five, one of six, and one of 9-10. In addition to this a unit of five pistolers, five outriders and a captain on pegasus, and of course an old mounted wizard model that's been pressed back into service and a Luthor Huss model to double as a WP/AL.


Since 8th has come out, I've expanded an already assembled unit of the new halberdiers into a full 50-strong horde. Built a new wizard, re-positioned a Warrior Priest on foot on it's base and started using a hellstorm that I've half assembled.




So that is roughly the figures that I intend to paint. The cavalry army is supposed to be a 'dip job', but I may reconsider this. Either way I have decided to concentrate on getting my mortar, cannons and the six knights that I've already started on finished first. Then I might induldge in a character, probably the mounted hero (even if I hardly ever use him) before enbarking upon the epic trial that will be painting 50 Halberdiers, which I am pretty certain that I want to paint 'properly' rather than dip. I'm just going to keep plugging away at them, and may decide to basecoat the army first before finishing it off with inks, etc... Which would allow me to use it in tournies, etc... But not have to compromise on the eventual standard of painting...
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And here's the crew:

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You can see the rest of my pics of this, my first ever fully painted (barring some varnish and static grass for the bases) unit for Warhammer, depsite having played the game for 20-odd years... Anyway, Twitter+iPhone app is bloody great, so here we are: http://twitter.com/stommed


I'm hoping to get some photos of the stuff in the cabinets up on my twitter stream tomorrow. If I can get my SH terminator test piece based up tonight I'll enter it in Golden Demon to gain entry an hour earlier, or failing that maybe I'll enter an old Warmaster brigade for the sake of it...

Either way I'm interested to see what Warhammer stuff Rick has been involved with at Forgeworld, and of course whatever the new DE stuff is, plus any other interesting bits and bobs. Once I've done that I'll probably hang out with at whatever Warhammer Historical tables there are...
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Nice paint job there. I fancied doing an Averland army myself but ended up painting them in Stirland colours.
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Well apart from my Blazing Suns the rest of the army looks a bit rubbish. I've been as close as I can get to 'speed painting' them for the Throne of Skulls this weekend, so most of them are barely base coated in foundations, and not all that neatl at that. Heck you can see the mould lines and flash on some of the metal models I've pressed into service...


Stirland eh? That's Averland's poorer Northern neighbour.... ;) Anyway, would be good to see your army, I'll be at the club on Monday with my Warmaster Empire army (primarily Reikland), almost certainly the week after as well for that matter, indeed each and every week...
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Hold on, that's Tom isn't it? In which case I have seen your army, for some reason the colour scheme registered as red and white in my mind, obviously I wasn't paying enough attention....
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No it's not Tom. I only just found a flyer for the club the other day and being as I live pretty local I thought I'd check out the forum and club.
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Ah ok, sorry about that. I know that Tom is into his FoW and the like, and quickly seeing that a recent registration email address had Tom in it, without checking facts I put two and twelve together to reach seventy four... :huh:

Anyway, thanks for the compliment, much appreciated. I do tend to be my own worst critic though, and most annoying of all I tend to assemble my models quickly with litle though, with the intention of painting them quickly, but then get carried away and do a character paintjob on R&F, and poorly assembled at that.

I mean the crewman on the left does in my view look bloody awful, one of these days I really should carefully assemble an army with lots of forward planning. For example for WH, maybe theme the army with architectural unit fillers, interesting basing schemes and ideally a unique theme.



And before I forget, welcome to the forum and hopefully soon, welcome to the club.
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No problem.

Yep, I think you are too harsh on your own work there. But then I'm the same when it comes to my work. On the other hand I think of all the crazy plans I've had in the past concerning what armies I would collect and paint. Most of them end up still in the box they were bought in 10 years later.

I thought those crew chaps looked great. And anyway, think grey plastic or your painted guys. Hmmm no contest I think. I've started to come to the way of thinking that any paint job is better than nothing. And if they are painted to a good standard such as the ones in your photo then it's a big bonus.

My Stirland army only amounts to a unit of 10 handgunners, 15 spearmen, 5 Knights Panther, a engineer with Hochland long rifle, a Captain and a partially painted great cannon and crew. There is a pile of about 7 or 8 boxes of Empire plastics still gathering dust in my loft that will most likely never see the light of day.

As for popping down to the club, are you guys open on Sundays still?

The other thing is I notice most of the stuff is WFB or 40K. Does anyone game anything else such as historical? I have a fair bit of 28mm WW2 which I love dearly. And its painted up which for a lazy wottsit like me is amazing.
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For the rest of January we are still on Monday evenings, 7:30-10:30, although the doors open basically as soon as I get there so we usually get 10-20 minutes of pre-session setup time. In February we're moving to Sundays, 3:30-7:30, the same deal with setup though, so in effect 3-8, and at least for the time being with no increase in subs for the extra hour as we're optimistic that numbers should increase enough to cover the shortfall.

Historical, well yes there are some of us that play the odd historical wargame. I personally play Warmaster Ancients, indeed if you look hard enough on the inside cover you'll find my name somewhere, I think listed as help with playtesting or something, the same with the WMA Armies book, but I had nothing to do with the Medieval suppliment, which is of course why it needed such a large FAQ ;) There's also one more amongst us that plays WMA, as well as Warmaster itself of course.

Tom certainly plays historical wargames. I've seen him playing I think FoW against Dennis, and Axis and Allies a few times. I'm not sure what else he might play, but the move of the club time to Sundays is likely to screw up his ability to attend as he's the manager of the GW Brent Cross store and Brent Cross doesn't close until 6pm on Sundays...


We will likely have a general 'lock-in policy' though. Basically you really want the club to remain open beyond 7:30pm and you can persuade a committee member to stick around, so long as everyone present agrees to cover the extra rent that will be due (£10ph), then there is no reason why we couldn't stay open until as late as 9 or 10pm...
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That sounds great to me. I've not got a problem with the GW games. I'm knee deep in Night Goblins after all (and long may that continue). It's just that I'm even more nuts about historical gaming.

Warmaster Ancients really appealed to me but the wife got the hump when she saw the size of them and claimed they were a waste of time. :o That means I have another rule set gathering dust. What do you collect for Ancients? Any hundred years war stuff by any chance?

The hours on Sunday seem like a good move to me. Monday would be a bit of a rush. I'll have to see if I can talk any of you folks into trying Rules of Engagement. If you have a gamer who likes FoW I might be in luck.

Thanks for the quick reply by the way.
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What do you collect for Ancients? Any hundred years war stuff by any chance?


Nope, I'm afraid not, I don't think I've even read the WMMA book actually, just glanced through it. I've got an EIR army, about 1k at the moment, but with plans to expand to 1.5k as playing the same game against Rich's Germans every time was getting a bit repetative, it would certainly be nice to have another one in the mix so to speak...

If I ever get around to doing a 2nd WMA army I think that I'd like to either do Huns/Mongols, or possibly something medieval with lots of knights. Either that or a skirmisher horde...
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