Post by aarresaari on Aug 6, 2019 16:20:52 GMT
Hiya! This will be a blog about two painters progressively building new armies out of existing minis from their drawers. We've decided on a small escalation campaign, starting from 500 points and reaching out to 1000 or more. The armies will be Dwarfs (by me) and the Empire (by the Mate, whose account is yet unknown to me). In the spirit of a recent nostalgia tournament, we'll be using lists from the Ravening Hordes booklet and (I guess?) 6th edition core rules. Many aspects are still open, like the aimed progress per month, so we'll get to them as the first month proceeds. I myself intent to use only metal minis.
I'll start with my results from the last couple of days. It'll be just phone photos for smaller progress updates, but I'm planning to take proper ones of the finished units.
This will in the future be the Brewers Guild, a unit of Dwarf warriors with shields. Everybody except the one on the right are finished, about one per day. Most of these were unpainted or in white undercoat, but Bugman himself and the fella on the far left were painted in some distant past and with far too dark themes. I intended to strip them but had no accessories at hand, so I just went with the lazy road and tried to layer and highlight to get them to look more like the others. The outcome become a bit too thick and I'm hardly satisfied with it. I might still consider stripping them if they don't blend in with the rest of the unit. Otherwise I love the freshness of the models and how the greens and yellows turn out. That might take some better photos to really be seen.
I usually have time to paint about one model a day, so I think I'll get back to you later in the week. In the meanwhile I pass the torch to the Mate, who I believe has at least one basecoated regiment to share.
See ya!
