Hoi,
The Old World is pretty much my main focus this Challenge as I have predicted at the start. While I am beavering away on my own armies (Brettonians, Dwarfs, Middenheim and Dogs of War) and my Mordheim project, I have also accepted another commission for an Orc and Goblin army.
The first unit for this army is the one you see down below. Personally I love Night Goblins and these newish models are great to work with. The owner has asked me to give each unit one distinctive colour accent to recognize what models go in what unit, as you can see this unit's spot colour is red.
Now in order to get these done asap I used a lot of tricks learned from this tutorial which I can not reckommend enough:
Yes yes, I know technically she has more or less slapchopped the figures, but hey it works great!
For my own Middenheim army I have been painting these handgunners and I really like the way they turned out.
The blue is far lighter than is usual for Middenheimers but I like it a lot and I will stick with this for most of my more regular Middenheim units. When painting these I took some tricks from this tutorial and I can also assure you it is very helpfull!
Again, working out the points is not hard on this on: 34 x 5 is 170 points so that means I am well past my 1000 points target for this Challenge and I am very very happy with that, since I did not succeed in scoring my goal for the last 2 Challenges.
Cheers Sander
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Congratulations on beating your Challenge Goal! Your Old World stuff looks great and the colour choices are aces! The minis look very vibrant and will be fun on the game table
170 points for you
Cheers
- Sarah
Love the goblins, a real treat to see
ReplyDeleteCheers!
DeleteGreat work on these Old World units.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tom!
DeleteLove the hand gunners. Very nicely done.
ReplyDeleteThanks Adam!
DeleteEspecially like the Middenheimer handgunners. I can see those looking great in my Italian Wars collection.
ReplyDeleteThey would, wouldn't they? Although the limited amount of poses is a bit meh...
DeleteAlways love to see more Old World stuff and these are just terrific. Especially like the Night Goblins, though the handgunners are pretty darn swell too! :)
ReplyDeleteThe Gobbo's are my favourite to, the gunners will be a detachement to a larger regular unit.
DeleteLoving your Old World stuff mate. The larger bases for the Empire troops make them look much better. Can't believe you painted the EYES on rank and file!
ReplyDeleteCheers, yeah first I hated the fact I needed yo rebaee everythjng, but it does make for better spacing of the figures. The eyes are really simple: I use black templar contrast to fill the eyes up and when dry, I only paint a small dot of white in the eye corners. Really easy!
DeleteNice work on those units! I'll have a look at that ork skin video.
ReplyDeletePlease do, it really worked well for me!
DeleteExcellent Old World art, shiny and bright colours as they should!
ReplyDeleteYeah I love the old skool look!
DeleteLove the goblins Sander and the checkers really pop. Well done.
ReplyDeleteThanks Bruce!
DeleteGreat work on these fellows Sander. Have to agree, the Night Goblins seem like a ton of fun!
ReplyDeleteAnd I love to see the older plastic Empire hand gunner figures! The newer ones (like, relatively speaking - as in the range of plastics that has been re-released) are...just a bit weak. These classics look lovely under your brush!
Thanks Greg, I haven't had the "new" ones in hand so can't comment on those, but I am happy with how these turned out!
DeleteLove these, especially the goblins
ReplyDeleteMuch obliged Peter!
DeleteSome big noses on those Orks's!
ReplyDeleteYeah that's pretty much everything that comes from under their hoods :-)
DeleteWow, these are nice, Sander! The handgunners are great but I really like the goblins!
ReplyDeleteCheers Martijn, more will follow next week!
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