Movement trays and odds & ends.

Truth be told, there has not been alot of painting progress lately. So I have decided to answer a couple of questions I have been asked.


The first one is "What kind of base coat do you use?" For basecoat I use Rust-oleum Specialty Camouflage in either 1917 Khaki (for light/bright colors) and 1918 Earth Brown (for dark colors). I know many people are like "OH MY GAWD!!! NOT RUST-OLEUM!!!!" Now normally I would agree, but with these paints they go one nice and thin (hides no details what so ever), it dries quickly, and the Khaki matches spot on for GW's Komando Khaki with the Earth Brown it matches GW's Graveyard Earth.

While on the subject of paints I was asked "Do you use GW paints on the bases?" The answer is no, no I do not. For my bases I used color "bathroom" sand, cheap craft paint (see pic), and Woodland Scenic's flock.

Now I am going to talk about movement trays. No a person does not need to have these, but i would hate to play a game without them. Also yes you can buy movement trays but I do them this way because they are much cheaper. The materials used is a "thick" Tenet Parking sign, old pieces of sprue, some super glue, and basing materials.

I trim the bumps off the sprue and make a square around the bases I plan to use for the unit. Then I glue them down one piece at a time, taking care not to accidently glue down the bases as well.

Then I trim away all excess sprue and the sign as well.

The bases are then laid back out in the tray.

At this time I also number the bottom of all the bases to make it easier to rank them up to lessen the amount of time it takes to setup before a game.

I hope this answers some questions people may have had and though I respond to everyone as soon as I get em, if I get enough questions I will do another post like this.
Thank you all for your support and please stay tuned for another post soon.
Manny

Time for some Dwarves! Feel the thunder!!!!

Well I have finally finished up the first unit of Dwarves for Jenn's fledgling Warhammer army. I present to you a unit of 16 Thunderers lead by a champion with pistols, a banner bearer, and a musician. I tried to give each little guy some personality while still maintaining a look of unity. Sorry for not getting these up sooner, I have had these finished for a while. I just finally got around to finishing up the movement tray. Thanks for looking, now some pics! :)

(Click each pic for bigger version)

Group Shots

And now some closeups.

The command section.

One thirsty Dwarf!

And some "red shirts" (Star Trek reference) 

Thanks for looking, next up will be a unit of Skeletons for Helen's Vampire Counts army. 

Till next time,

-Manny-

Release the hounds!!!!

For this update I present a unit of Chaos Hounds. These guys are straight up out of the box with a quick paint job threw on em. Plan for them is to move quickly up the flank and hopefully maneuver them into position to act as a supporting flank charge for my Chaos Knights.

Here are the pics, for some reason the fur turned out looking flat in the pics. The hide on the hounds varies a bit from hound to hound for variety's sake. (click the pics for a bigger view)

From the front.

Sides

From the back.

And now a few close ups.

Thats it for now. My next update will be a unit of Dwarf Thunderers. I know what you are thinking, "Dwarfs don't go with Chaos." And you are right, they don't. ;) In addition to my WoC army I have also taken on painting a Dwarf army (for my wife) and a Vampire Counts army (for her best friend). I will paint one unit of Dwarfs, then a unit of VC, followed with a unit for my WoC. Then just keep repeating that cycle till they are all finished. Should also keep me from getting burnt out.
Thanks for looking, all comments and feedback appreciated.



Now with 100% more magic!!!

I know it is hard to believe but here is another update!! This was a quick task since there was only two models to paint. I decided it was time to add a little bit of magical punch to the army so I added these two sorcerers, one with the mark of Tzeentch and one with the mark of Slaanesh. At a later date I plan to also add a sorcerer with the mark of Nurgle as well.

For my two magic users I used the two faced Tzeentch sorcerer that I acquired from a friend as part of a trade. Since, in my opinion, there are no suitable models in the Warriors of Chaos line for a sorcerer of Slaanesh I decided to "borrow" one from the Dark Elves line since they also have what is known as the Cult of Slaanesh in their fluff, I used the new plastic sorceress models that was released for Storm of Magic.

Also I gave each one of them at familiar on it's base. I may not give them a familiar every time, but atleast this way they are always there if needed. For the Tzeentch one I used the familiar provided but for the Slaanesh sorcerers I used the mini demonette familiar I picked up a few years ago.

Now onto some pics! (Click the pics to see bigger versions.)

First a couple of group shots.

Now for individual shots. First up is the Sorceress of Slaanesh. I decided to go with a Drow theme for painting Dark Elves to make it stand out from their Elven cousins.

For my Sorcerer of Tzeentch I painted it in pretty dark and drab colors so it would also make a good double as one with the mark Nurgle. If I had it all to do over again I would have painted the robes green though rather than brown.

Thanks for looking. Comments and feedback is appreciated.
-Manny-

One step closer, Chaos Knights finished.

I decided to add a unit of five Chaos Knights to my fledgling Warriors of Chaos army for two reasons. Reason number one is because I think I could use some fast moving hard hitting calvary. Reason number two is because they came in the army box. ;)


I painted each knight a different color along the same lines as I did my Chaos Warriors. I think that even though they are all different colors they work well together. To help them flow I made the trim on the armor bronze in color and made the horses all black with red eyes. I also gave them full command with a banner showing thier allegiance to Khorne. Over all they are built straight up with just a couple of small conversions along the way.

Now some pictures. (Click on the pics for a bigger view.)

First up is some group shots.

Front.

Back.

Sides.

Now for some close up shots.

Well thats it for now. As always I appreciate all feedback. Thanks for looking, hopefully the next post will come pretty soon since next on the list is a pair of sorcerers, hopefully they won't take to long to finish up. 





My Marauders are finished.

After almost two months I finally have another unit for my Warriors of Chaos army finished. I introduce my unit of 20 Marauders with full command. My goal is to have the whole army finished by October so my painting style for this army is a "quick and dirty" style, but I still think it looks pretty good.

They are mostly all box stock with the exception a few small weapon conversions and head swaps. The sprues came with too many helmeted heads for my tastes so I used some empire knight heads I had laying around. For my fluff the warriors of my tribe are marked by the gods from birth with fiery orange/red hair so all hair and beards in the army is painted as such. (and no I do not have red/orange hair myself ;) ). Also I posed the models on the sides of the unit so they look like they are watching the flanks, even though it means nothing in game terms I like the look it gives the unit.

Now on to some pictures (click on a pic for a bigger view). First up is some whole unit shots.
(please ignore the banner pole, it has since been fixed. I tried to make it look old but it turned out weird and I forgot to fix it before taking the pictures.)

From the front.

Close ups -Front

Sides

Rear

And here is the start of the next unit, 5 Chaos Knights.

Hopefully this will not take as long to get finished. Please stay tuned for updates and all feedback is appreciated. Thank you for looking,
Manny