With the holiday on Monday and the bottom of my driveway being flooded on Thursday I got quite a bit of work done of these guys this week. The red is finished and I've started on the spear hafts as well, putting down their base coat.



I'm hoping to be able to finish the spears next week and start the leather as well. Then there's touch-up, decals, protecting and basing. They definitely took a lot longer than I thought though, I think next month it'll be chariots and bolt throwers. Something a bit easier.



The red was a Machrite Red base coat followed by a Russet Red and two light coats of Blood Red, each covering a smaller area than the last. I also edged the tops of the shields with Burning Orange I believe.

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That's some good blending action, Lou.

Thanks chief.

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fake him away, toys

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I think it was "bake":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX1I5WRrpzY

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ok.
do what the kid says

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Some 6mm stuff will be painted for the comp, but otherwise it's the elves for the rest of the year.

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How did you do those spearpoints? I love the way they aren't snapping off.

Also, are you deeply annoyed by how every other strip seems to have the same guy with an arrow in his shoulder, or does that only bother me?

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The spears are silk pins, cut to about 1cm long. I snip off the stock ones then drill into the hand with a ~.5mm drill bit and glue them in there with some super glue. It took a while, and you can't lean on your army at all, but I'll take that over the bending/breaking stock spears any day.

Given the affect of shooting in WM (annoyance) I think it's rather fitting to have an elf yanking an arrow out of his chest. The expression of the guy next to him is my favorite though, "Woah man! Are you OK?!?!"

So I guess it only bothers you... Although I was anal retentive enough to make sure I had an even distribution of the three regular strips. Also, I didn't like the command strip with a horse on it. It's an infantry unit, no horses allowed!

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Kudos for that mass painting and it that quality too. Great work, nice to see the elves in good hands!

I also like the arrow guy, especially since he breaks up the otherwise repetetive line of spearman stand attention.

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Nice. I'd taken to trimming mine for a bit more stability, but I've got enough broken ones I'm definitely going to be supplementing with your method.

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I finished the spear hafts and leather this past week and began the touchup. I'm hoping to finish the painting on these guys over the weekend so I can work on the transfers and the basing the next. The plan is to have them done by next week's photo session, but I'm ready for them to be done now.

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Why do you post this here Dave?
I always resisted to start a 6mm Fantasy or WW2 or naval Tabletop
now things got difficult
excellent work here
the command stand is awsome

Just to be clear, these are the 10mm Warmaster figures.