Thanks guys.

I managed to finish up the painting on the archers this week and get them on the bases (which are magnetized ). Soaking the cardboard strips in a little bit of water loosened up the white glue enough so they just pealed off.



I would have started the basing on them last night but the sand I have is a little too fine for 10mm I think. I'm going to see what else I might have laying around before I commit to anything.



Next up are half of my spearmen (spearELVES to be racially considerate...). There's more of them per base but they're armored much heavier than the archers so I'm hoping they'll go quicker with less paint having to be put on them thanks to them being silver already.

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I got some RR ballast really cheap a while ago - you can have some for a small fee

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I wouldn't dream of taking back the ballast, not until your EC are done... ::cough:: ::cough::

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I'm pouting.
It's a desperate and counterproductive plea for attention for my blog. The only things you people are interested in is "progress" and fancy pictures of "new" stuff. Why can't you all just peruse it repeatedly and shower me with praise more often?

Besides, it's much easier to show up late to painting night and say snarky things like "you missed a spot", and "cool... what is that supposed to be?" than actually paint

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I started work on my first four units of Spearmen this week. The silver is basecoated, washed and drybrushed, and the flesh basecoated and washed as well.



I also did the white basecoat on one of the strips while I was waiting for the flesh wash to dry. I ought to be able to get the white and flesh done next week hopefully.







I also worked on the basing for the archers a bit, thoughts? I'm planning to hit these guys with another coat of dullcote and then maybe use some static grass or flock, haven't decided which yet.

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*Is amazed the silver basecoat works so well*

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The pointy ears are getting their skirts dirty

I think they need some static grass to make 'em more touchy-feely-happy (i.e. more elfish). Lookin' good.

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Didn't manage to get pictures taken last week until last night, so here we are. Not much progress last week, the white basecoat took a lot longer than I thought. It was the command strips that slowed me down.



Hopefully the white highlights will go quicker this week but it already looks like I'll be painting these into September though.

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Work continues on the Pokey Brigade, but better yet, I finally got around to finishing the bases on my Archers.



I used the Silfor 2-4mm grass tufts on these (late summer/early fall). The bases I did with Charadon Granite, Graveyard Earth and Dheneb Stone over some medium grit sand that Matt gave me (there's your plug... ya jerk).



As to the pokey brigade, I finished their white this week and started on the red.



Here's the command strip. The red really starts to liven up the model when all you've done so far is white and silver.

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The central archer in the first pic has flesh on the edge of his helmet.

I really enjoy these, BTW.

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Can you circle him for me? I can't find him.

Every time I take a close-up I find something else I missed. Like an eye or something...

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I hope this was the joke I took it to be, when I scrolled back up I LOL'd hard

Really likeing your work Dave, Warmaster may not be my thing but these are really nice, especially so in the group shots.

Thanks CS. Warmaster has definitely grown on me. Seeing a bunch of painted armies arrayed for battle definitely made me want to make my own. I'm hoping to be able to do my own army shot by the end of the year.

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Still working on the red for these guys. It's going to be "that color" for the spearmen. The shields are the most time consumrng, mainly because of all the little nooks and crannies where you have to get the shadow.



I was going to paint the backs of the shields that were visible through the spearmen but after one strip I was getting annoying at how many times I was hitting their elbows that I've already done white. So that put an end to that...



I'm going to see about a design for the decals this weekend. Next Monday is a holiday so hopefully I'll be able to get a bit more done next week.

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Whoa !! Lots'a Elves !!!! Nicely done !!

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