From BruceR: Fleshing out the Force, More Braganza's Besiegers (56 points)

Back from somewhat sunny California (still warmer than North Dakota) and once more into the deep freeze (so to speak at -4 F).  Nice little break from the temps and now back into the downslope of the challenge.  

I am taking a Dogs of War force to Adepticon end of March to play Warmaster and need the requisite 4 units of bows.  I had ordered them early on for the Challenge and when I started to paint realized I was short about half the stands.  Oops.  back to the interweb for reinforcements.  They arrived while I was away and I started on them as we recovered from traveling this past weekend.  

I took a different approach to the troops this time.  

The prints come as 2 figures on a base front and back rank.  I placed most groups of 2 on popsicle sticks and also tried 2 stands of 8 on their bases for painting.  Not sure which method worked best.   

I gave them the black undercoat and as they are mostly armored, I decided to slap-chop them and use metal speed paint for the armor.  This seemed to speed up the process, without a downgrade in finished product.  The pouches, bow strings, bows, limited flesh, shields (these probably took the most time) and I think makes the unit pop at this scale, were done with acrylics.  I did go back and hit the helmets and shoulders with acrylic gold as I find the speed paints seem to dull the figures down somewhat.

I've started using Monument Hobby Pro Acryl Brown Earth Fine basing texture for all of these 10mm bases, a light dry brush and add clumps of flock.  

I will be using them as simply crossbows so they do not get the pavis bonus or armor bonus.  Simply ranged armed humans.  I think they look better than simple crossbows so play for looks and fun I say.

So, here are the 7 stands to flesh out my required 12 stands.

1st Unit:

I smeared some basing pumice on the shield by mistake and
figured normal weathering for campaigning so didn't sweat it.

2nd Unit w/ additional stand:

The force defending the hill:

The four units completed during the challenge.  

Points for the week:

7 Stands of 8 10mm figures at 1pt per figure          Total 56 pts  

Thanks for looking.  Hope all are enjoying the challenge and keep those brushes up as the finish line is in sight.  

Bruce

 

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Sylvain: The demonstration of your painting skills, by picking up so many details on such tiny figurines, just blows me away. I will add 2 points for the flag. Seeing you army would be a good enough reason to travel to Adepticon. Extraordinaire!