An Army of Bros

Finally finished up 1000 points of brotherhood a few months ago but never bothered to take pictures for some reason!  Well better late than never.  Also get to preview a new city board that I'm working on and will have a full tutorial eventually as well!

I've had the minis for this army since 7th edition Warhammer Fantasy but kept putting off painting them for one reason or another.  Thankfully KoW has multibasing so the chore of painting up peasants is lessened slightly!  On top of that the army is playable unlike the poor Bretonnians..

I painted up the Green Knight a long long time ago but a new base is always welcome.  Now he's conscripted as a redeemer exemplar.

I wanted all the infantry to look like it belonged to the knights via colors.  I can imagine that the nobility would bring along a contingent of lower troops or militia to a gathering of forces.

For the peasants I went for an easy trick of priming white, running a sepia wash over all the minis and then filling in the rest of the colors with washes.  The sepia wash gives the other colors a bit of shading to work with and creates a more faded colors look keeping them suitably dirty.

Ah the knights.  Each one with individual heraldry and for the most part painted up separate.  There really isn't a nice easy way to batch paint these at all and it was super slow going.  It took more time to do one regiment of these than it took to paint my first 1k of Empire of Dust!

And there's the whole 1k points along with a bit of the new city board.  I love how this army looks on the table but fear how long it will take to paint the rest...


And as a final aside I painted up this little chap for our recent 40K Tournament.  We have been running short on terrain and did a fundraiser tournament to fund two new boards and terrain for them. Some of our community including me volunteered to paint up peoples minis for a prize as well as others getting to choose the theme and colors to be used on the boards.

I'll be doing a full tutorial on the boards and terrain eventually but have some other sci fi projects to finish first.  Here's a preview of just what insanity I'm working on for 40k though...

Spoils of War

Since I have a decent amount of projects on the table right now that are half finished I thought I might as well show off a few older projects.  Since these are older pics please excuse the even worse camera work than normal.

For a while I was providing prize support for local tournaments in the form of free painting services.  These random assortment of models are a result of just such a crazy idea.

First off the always fun looking mangler squig with a few mushrooms to top him off!

This was oddly enough my first tyranid model ever which was a fun new experience.

A few of the skaven from the fantasy starter set.

Yes the same player got another model as a prize but I just knew it needed some glowing pink lights!

speaking of pink here's a guardsman named bob, no relation.

And finally a night lord chaos marine.

It was certainly fun each month to have some kind of random model to paint out of the blue.  Never hurts to keep things random and interesting that's for sure.

I help with prize support by providing painting of a single model for 40k/fantasy tournament winners in my town.  This month was a doubles 40k tourney which resulted in a tie for the prize so here are the first two models.

Believe it or not this is a requested paint scheme.  I can't help but feel responsible though as it was enjoyable...  This unfortunate guardsman is named Bob by his owner, no relation.

Sometimes no matter how hard I try I just can't help but add a little glow to a model.  I'm seeing a therapist for it but I don't think its helping any.