Welcome to my painting log for my pendraken projects in 2014! It started off with Goblins but who knows where it'll end up!
As you may have read in a thread that was posted not too long ago, ( http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=9975.0) myself and my partner in crime Craig have embarked on a nostalgic trip down fantasy lane where we will use the large scale battle rules from Mantic Games - Kings of War.
I have assembled my Night Goblin Horde and arranged them on their bases so that I may paint them 'en masse. (This is my new favourite way to paint, and I even multi base my 28mm's)
I've went for scenic bases with a ruined building, columns and tree stumps to add a bit of character on the 120x60 'horde' bases, and ill be posting updates as I paint each unit!
I hope you find these posts interesting, and would gladly hear any feedback, good or bad!
Cheers(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/05/12/abequ6a4.jpg)
Excellent - they already look good ranked up like that. The ruins on the bases are a nice touch (well on the back one its more than a touch!!)
Good luck painting them - the hordes look very close together to get a brush in!
I tend to paint my open order (e.g. WWII) on their bases, but closer order stuff on painting sticks.
Are the catapults Pendraken? I have a few of these as was wanting some more, and had thought the ones I've got were Kallistra.
What Fred said! They look very nicely posed - and those ruins are a Really nice touch. Good idea on the dice frames, I keep thinking I should go that route :)
Quote from: fred 12df on 11 May 2014, 09:34:34 PM
Are the catapults Pendraken? I have a few of these as was wanting some more, and had thought the ones I've got were Kallistra.
It looks similar in parts to my 15mm Fantasy one:
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Cheers guys, yeah I went overboard probably on the monolithic columns haha, but it looks good!
I don't find it too much trouble as ive had loads of practice painting pikeman on the one big base for flodden, i just want to do it quick as i can and find this works best for me!
The catapults are from Kallistra big 10s range, impulse buy at carronade, but they fit in nicely!
Hi Ric - these look excellent! I think you have indeed had more difficulty than I did, fitting them all on the bases. The one advantage of the undead - no fat people!
Will look forward to more pics as and when you get the chance!
Craig
Aren't all goblins nocturnal?
Keep the piccies coming Ric.
Cheers - Phil
My God! I'm a goblin!
Progress report: Well thus far I've got everything undercoated, which was a disaster that I've posted (moaned) about on my blog, after a quick touch up with a brush I've begun base coating everything, completing my three 40-goblin hordes with just a wash and a bit of highlighting to finish them off, ive also base coated my Trolls and catapults and made a start on the wolf riders, im hoping to get everything at least base coated before the end of the day, with a view to completing them tomorrow!
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Looking good so far
I have given up on all those expensive primer sprays and just use a cheapo Grey Primer from Halfords works just as well in my opinion
Quote from: Fenton on 14 May 2014, 09:26:43 AM
Looking good so far
I have given up on all those expensive primer sprays and just use a cheapo Grey Primer from Halfords works just as well in my opinion
Yeah? Usually I find the Army Painter ones to be fantastic, but the PSC one was just awful, perhaps I got a bad batch, but i won't be using their stuff again!
Interesting...I bought the AP varnish and hated it...got lots of whitening on the models...Have gone back to my old and trusted Humbrol flat acrylic varnish, never have any problems no matter what the weather conditions
Excellent progress! The grey basecoat looks great, spray-can problems aside! Far better-looking than straight black, to see what's going on.
Really like the look of these 8).
Hey guys ive posted a slightly bigger update on my blog but I did a bit more work on my Night Goblin Horde!
From my blog:
" My night Goblin army has rapidly taken shape with the entire army based coated and flocked (because I couldn't wait to see how they'd look) and I will now methodically highlight each unit and embellish the bases with tufts and rocks, I also have some banners arriving for them to make them look 'proper'!"
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SPLENDID !!:-bd
Cheers - Phil
Nice work
I think on the undead post it was said that using one base for troop, 2 for regiment and 4 for a horde?
Is that two bases side by side for the regiment, so 12cm wide?
Cheers
Nice work fella!
Quote from: Fenton on 16 May 2014, 02:10:14 PM
Nice work
I think on the undead post it was said that using one base for troop, 2 for regiment and 4 for a horde?
Is that two bases side by side for the regiment, so 12cm wide?
Cheers
For a Regiment it's still 60mm frontage so 2x60x30 back to back to build a 60x60 square, making a Regiment.
Quote from: Ric on 16 May 2014, 01:58:04 PM
I also have some banners arriving for them to make them look 'proper'!
Goblins ... look 'proper' :o :-/
Excellent work sir.
The big bases look marvellous. I went a similar way for something i've got brewing...http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/something-lot-more-orc.html (http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/something-lot-more-orc.html)
Cool blog Luddite! I did find it quite funny that we are both using the troll captain model as out commanders! Mine is clearly a Goblin on some serious mushroids though!;)
Quote from: Ric on 16 May 2014, 03:43:09 PM
For a Regiment it's still 60mm frontage so 2x60x30 back to back to build a 60x60 square, making a Regiment.
Thanks..deep down I thought that was what was meant
Very nice, KoW and your basing really do get a proper "hordes of the things!" Feel going - both endless undead & goblins - thaaaaasands of 'em!
Righty ho then! That's the painting and basing done, just waiting for flags yo arrive, but even without I'm pretty happy with the way they've turned out!
Hopefully no one will mind of I phot spam the heck out of this post!?!
Pumped up from the ingestion of far too many mushroids, Ragnar Bonecrusha' is by far the largest of all Goblins, and an easy choice as leader because they are all to scared to stand up to him!
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Next up is Gobwind, a wizard that is more a danger to himself and his friends than the enemy!
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Next are two 'fleabag troops'
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Then two Spitter regiments:
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Then the bulk of the army on three Sharpsticks Hordes:
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The evil giant Hodorn!
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A group of smelly rock Trolls:
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The heavy support in three rock lobbers:
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And if you'll permit me a photo of Ragnar's Roughnecks in all their glory!
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Again, sorry for the huge photo spam, hope it's ok Leon!
Looking really good
Still waiting for Luddite's rules to appear *hint hint*
Very nice indeed! 8)
*Really* nice - I love the big unit effect for the Horde bases, especially so with the scenery built onto the base and around the units and with troops clambering all over with pointy sticks everywhere. You can never have too many pointy sticks.
I really like the extra work you've done on the single based leaders - makes them stand out and looks really good. Massive hordes with champions at the front. Also, Ragnar should lay off the mushroids and have a quiet lie down for a bit...
Very nice indeed !
Cheers - Phil
Completed another couple of bits for the Goblin project! This time it's an Army standard bearer and some wound counter bases.(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/05/23/debysygy.jpg)(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/05/23/8ymejy9u.jpg)
Next up will be the Goblin Mincer (think snotling pump wagon), just waiting on the glue drying!
I love that standard - *really* cool.
Quote from: Ric on 23 May 2014, 01:11:33 PM
...some wound counter bases...
Those are an interesting idea, I have been thinking about how to keep track of suppressions in ITLSU. Had been thinking about dice frames on one stand of each company but you need to keep track of suppressions this turn and overall. That would need two frames plus 2 figures on a 25x20mm base which would be getting cramped.
Some bases with just 2 frames on which you can put with a company that has suppressions makes sense :) Leaves the other companies un-cluttered :-\
Japanese with really big standards often have a couple of assistants holding what are effectively guy ropes to steady the things. Perhaps your goblin would appreciate some help too?
Here's one holding the ropes himself, for some reason. Perhaps the painter can explain the advantages, since he posts here too?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aTKdG314pHI/TTv50Ku5X_I/AAAAAAAACPc/3IrPuTL2YJs/s1600/P1220012.JPG
Quote from: Fenton on 19 May 2014, 01:28:13 PM
Looking really good
Still waiting for Luddite's rules to appear *hint hint*
Indeed...
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Ice Cold in Alex, right?
Brilliant film 8). John Mills said it took about 4 takes for the famous drink sequence pictured above, which was filmed in the morning. The rest of the day was a bit of a blur IIRC :D.
BTW the Goblin standard bearer is wonderful 8).
One of the best films ever made... that and Casablanca must be two of my favourites ever :)
I quite like the idea of separate bases for dice holders. Got to be better than our current "balance a tiny dice somewhere on the base and hope it doesn't roll off" or stick a tiny piece of paper by the unit...
Casablanca is just sublime :).
Perhaps this makes the point more succinctly. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd7HTlkzS28 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd7HTlkzS28)
Ice Cold in Alex is a great film but as I've never seen -or even can be ar*ed to see- Casablanca I'll pass.
I've added something rather big to my Goblin force, and although it is not a pendraken model I have used part of a pendraken kit in the conversion! no prize for spotting it other than a 'well done' i'm afraid (yes I'm a cheap git!) ...let's see who can tell me what I've used!
Apologies for picture spam!
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Excellent sir. =D>
Hubba. Awesome! Is it the dice frame & base?!
Hi toxic, it's just a 40x40 mdf base with one of the minibits frames glued on, I think these wee frames are fantastic for keeping track of things! (in this case it'll be nerve)
That dragon looks well 'ard. Like the chains.
Scary and cool! 8)
Cheers guys! Btw the howdah is made from an acw wagon base which means I'm totally counting this as a pendraken conversion...
Landing on my doorstep yesterday with a big ol' Pendraken 'thud', the next units for my goblin horde have been based up, I'll undercoat them later on and hopefully have them painted by the weekend!
More fleabag troops, two regiments of mawbeasts (squogglers) and a Sharpstick Slasher (mammoth)
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/06/04/aqe4avu6.jpg)
As well as the top up of goblins I also got a mound of wood elven goodness, which is now based too!
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Also, big thanks to Leon for changing my thread title for me!
Lovely jubblie!
I like the look of those big bow units, looking very LotR :)
Lot of interesting ideas there, and I didn't realise til now that it was Carlsberg they were quaffing in Alexandria.
Well, after a fairly productive evening I've basecoated the entire wood elf army and the Goblin mawbeasts, ill hopefully get a chance to finish shading and basing tomorrow!
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Really looking forward to seeing this 'gang' completed ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Love the scenic touches on your bases.
Very cool. What are the figures bottom left of picture 1?
They are male and female centaurs, amazons spear and sword women, and gnomes!
Love those Maw Beasts!
And the big Wood Elf "rockman & fungus" bases - what unit are they representing?
Cheers toxic, those are going to be forest shamblers. I could have went with just dryad types but I thought it might look more interesting with other elemental stuff in there! The centaurs, gnomes and amazons are sylvan kin regiments.
*goes off to download the army lists
:D
The beauty of fantasy is that you can slip a few different bits and bobs in :)
You are really great!!! Two armies in nearly two months!!!!
I've a question for you... i see warpaints in your photos... what do you think of them?? Do you prefer them or vallejo model color??
Thanks :)
And again congratulations!!!!! =D>
Thanks very much for the kind words! I have so many projects on the go that when I get the chance, I paint as fast as I can!
I honestly prefer the ap warpaints range, I think the colour from the bottle is just right and it's consistent with the spray undercoats which I pretty much use exclusively.
That being said I often use the vallejo model colour when I want to achieve a mixed colour, they seem to mix together better for some reason!
Great start on the elves - and on the extras for the goblins. You really are cracking on with these armies at speed!
toxicpixie - the KoW army lists are well worth a look as they have a few different and fun units in them. But I think the free pdfs are a bit light on fluff and description of the units, they are mainly just the stat line
So I was waiting for the paint to dry on my elves when I remembered that I'd got acw flags delivered in my last order so with a quick flocking and the addition of flags ive pretty much finished one half of my acw project...
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The other half looks pretty daunting, and I may have to put some of the union units into the confederate army to give me balanced sides but ill get to it at some point!
Elves are pretty much flocked now and I started highlighting one of the sylvan kin units..longest part was brushing on the stong tone 'quick' shade though, it took forever!
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Dude, you're putting the rest of us to shame!
Look good, impressive speed :S
Yeah, the KoW freebies are stats only but the piccies of *everything* on the site give a lot of shiny :)
Finished the two shamblers regiments with a little base embellishment and some lichen on the dryads. These guys are the heavy infantry of my wood elf force!
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They've turned out very well!
Interesting use of the water elementals, but it works well
The grooving treeman, always looks better with a bit of added foliage, looks less saturday night fever!
Very nice! 8)
Spot on :D
Cheers guys! I'll be honest I've never really figured out the best way to apply lichen, I just stick it on and hope for the best!
I like those a lot ! :-bd
Just out of interest....Does anyone know what type of lichen that is ?.....There's bucket fulls growing on some of the trees out here......But it seems very 'brittle' in its natural state.
I assume it's treated with 'something' before it's sold as a scenic item.
Cheers - Phil
Very nice indeed 8). I had some lichen and only one of the colours dried out. The others are all fine. No idea why :(.
Quote from: Techno on 07 June 2014, 06:53:19 PM
I like those a lot ! :-bd
Just out of interest....Does anyone know what type of lichen that is ?.....There's bucket fulls growing on some of the trees out here......But it seems very 'brittle' in its natural state.
I assume it's treated with 'something' before it's sold as a scenic item.
Cheers - Phil
Glycerin! That what I heard,think you mix it 50/50 with boiling water and let it soak for a while, then I guess you could add dyes of some kind to get the required shade.
I might give that a go.....
Be fun to have a bit of an experiment....Thanks Ric.
Cheers - Phil