I smurfed it, naturally.

Finished up the warg riders. Totally failed to put some kind of fang emblem on their shields.   



Put some base coats on some more dwarves.

VERY nice. 

Cheers - Phil.

I particualry like the dwarves, very nice painting.

Looking resplendent

 

Quote from: Bodvoc on 01 January 2017, 04:07:23 PM
Top work, can't wait to see some based up and ready to play.

So about this.  I've been putting off buying bases because I'm not 100% decided on what to do. 

In theory this is a stand alone project and thus my fist instinct is to just do all the official unit bases multiplied by .4.   

The other way to go would be go with something standardized.  From what I gather for 10mm fantasy that's Warmaster basing.  From what I remember that ends up not being too different for the dwarves but in KOW  the orcs are supposed to have larger units because way back when GW put orcs on 25mm bases and Mantic has carried that forward in KoW.


I plan to get magnetic bases from Shogun Miniatures and he does custom orders so there aren't really any limits to what I could do.

Any thoughts or advice?

Used some washes and a very fine pen on the dwarves



Just remembered I need to do an edge on the axes.  Also I think I missed most of the cheek guards. 

Basecoated some orc archers



As usual, I still need to do the fur and hair.  I should really move to doing only non-mammal armies.

I DO like those ! 

Cheers - Phil.

Top work

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

I do like the Dwarves - what did you do  with the pen?

Regarding basing. Warmaster (40x20mm) was certainly the go to basing for 10mm, but I'm not so sure any more. The biggest downside to the 40x20 is that the bases are small so you just end-up cramming figures in, with bigger bases like Warband, KoW or Impetus then you get many more options for displaying your figures nicely, and can alter the density of troops to represent different types better.

Of the bigger based games (Warband, KoW or Impetus) only KoW has specific base sizes (for 28mm figures) the other two are base width driven so there is quite a bit of flexibility.

With KoW in 10mm we didn't bother with the slightly bigger base sizes for Orcs - mainly as we were using WM based figures and it need 2.5 WM bases to do the Orc frontage. For cavalry we did go a bit wider as they are on 20mm frontage. If you are doing bespoke bases then its probably worth going bigger, as certainly when playing 28mm KoW the bigger Orc bases make them very unwieldy as units. But if you don't it won't break the game.

I used the marker to blackline between the yellow and green on the shields and on at least some of the dwarves I did a line between their armor and sleeve.

Ordered some bases. 

Put down some metal on some spear dwarves.  Currently trying to decide if I should stick with the colors I've used so far or if I should try some red or maybe something else.

It depends on how many units you are planning to have and the look you want for the army

Unless you are going to have lots of units or want an 'assembly of various drawfen tribes' look I would stick with the blue/yellow and green/yellow colours you have been using

Perhaps use different blues, greens or yellows to add variety

One of the advantages of historical armies, these decisions have already been made for you