Testing a variety of color schemes for my new Arab army. The goal is to have a variety of colors scattered through out the army. All too often my figures are too similar - unity in an army is an important quality to have, but I seem to take it to extremes at times. So far I have found little information/inspiration for painting an Arab WAB army. Osprey has a number of tiles for the time period - I purchased Armies of the Caliphates and Saracen Faris. Both book depicted the solders of the period in a variety of primary (if pastel) colors with soft brown leather foot ware and gear. Darrel Hindley creates a very different view of the Arab world with a controlled pallet of white and blue - check the bottom of his Figure Painter blog page.
Of the 6 figures - I’m most satisfied with the three in the front rank. The primary color pattern is much cleaner than the three brown figures in the back row. I really like the red - but a whole army in red robes would look too much like some chaos death cult. On the next set of figures, I need to revisit the brown & see if I can create a softer result.
Paint List
All figures primed white and washed with a brown ink.
Spears: Vermin Brown (GW)
Bows: Tan Yellow (V)
Green: Orkhide Shade (GW), Snot Green (GW), 50/50 Snot Green/Ivory (V)
Red: Burnt Cad. Red (V), Flat Red (V), Beige Red (V)
White: Astronomican Grey (GW), white
Blue: Ultramarine Blue (GW), 50/50 Ultramarine Blue/Ivory
Flesh: Medium Flesh (V), Gryphonne Sepia (GW) (Borrowed this wash hint from Five Armies)
Brown: assorted combinations of Calthan Brown (GW), Iyanden Darksun (GW), Bubonic Brown (GW), Ivory, Sepia and Devlan Mud (GW)
When a dozen gamers get together and all think a new product rocks (and hell has not frozen over) - its time to pay attention. The new Citadel Washes received high praise over at Dakka - surprised by the response, I bought a box to try out the washes myself.
One of the problems with my painting style is a lack of shade - and washes are a perfect way of restoring the shade/mid range/highlight balance on a finished figure. Below are washed (left) and unwashed (right) pictures of the same Pirate model. I was able to try out most of the washes provided in the box set: shirt- Devlan Mud, pants - Badab black, vest- Baal Red, skin - Ogryn Flesh, sword - Asurmen blue. I’m most impressed with Mud on the tan shirt. Ogryn Flesh is a lot like the old Flesh Wash. Baal Red did not do much on the vest - I really should give it another try using the Leviathan Purple instead. Asurmen blue on the sword is a bit much for a “historical” pirate - but I supect that a mix of black and blue has a lot of potential as an armor wash.
Pair of metal Chaos Spawn from Games Workshop. The spawn on the right is converted with the head/torso from a flamer demon & has the back spines replaced with flamer arms.
Baegor the One Horned painted for the Adepticon Masterclass auction.
The figure is cleanly sculpted and cast with an attached rocky base. Detail on the model is crisp and easy to identify for painting. Cast in two pieces, the left wing is separate and requires assembly.
Assembling the wing joint was a bit of a chore. The figure comes with a small peg and hole as an attachment point. Not trusting the peg to hold the metal pieces together, I used (an over-sized) pin vise bit to drill a pin hole. The bit was much to large for the wing & ripped through the outer skin of the model. (Ever pin a Daemonette or anything by Rackham? It was sort of like that.) Plan B was to fill the hole with super glue and stuffed a ball of green stuff into the void. GS does a marvelous job of taking super glue and bonding metal parts together over large gaps.
Paint plan is white primer with GW brown ink base coat. Body is GW Dark Flesh blended to highlight with Vallejo Flat Red. Wings are GW bleachbone with GW brown ink wash. Details in light grey and bleachbone. Metals in bright silver and gold with brown ink wash.
Chaos Lord on mount. Weapon is a converted beastman sword with extended pommel.
Chaos Warrior Chariot. Look closely and you’ll be able to spot the halberd from the chaos lord kit.
A group of Minotaurs from my beast army.
The standard Doombull is just too small. Torso is from the Doom Bull miniature, legs and axe from the Blood Thirster, a claw from the Slaanesh greater Demon and a green stuff loin cloth.
Great Weapons are brutally effective in the hands of Minotaurs. This unit is my favorite group to play with - making it into both my beast and my hordes armies. Nothing says loving like a frenzied charge throwing 16, strength 6 attacks.
Two hand weapons just don’t match up with the damage of great weapon Minotaurs. Wish I had know that before buying the unit. Oh well, they still serve as a useful decoy unit that’s far to dangerous to ignore.
Adepticon 2008 Painted Objective Markers. Thanks to Cathy Wappel & Joe Adams for painting the Team Tournament & Championship markers. Thanks to Jamie Welling for sculpting and painting the Lord of the Rings markers. All other sculpting, casting and production credits to yours truly here at CTF.
All markers will be available as part of AdeptiCon 2008 – April 11-13 Crown Plaza Hotel, Rosemont, IL (Just outside of Chicago).
Archeo Tech: 40K Championship
Alien Artifact Collection: 40K Team Tournament
Camp Fire: Lord of the Rings
Ring Stone: Lord of the Rings
Beacon
Generator
The Weapon
The Shaggoth remains one of the best figures for the Beastman army - its a shame the rules don’t promote the model’s use.
This figure touches on both paint schemes found in my Chaos army. The torso is painted in the khaki tones found in my Beastmen forces while the serpent like legs/tail is a purple color with dark yellow highlights that is typical my demons.
Why bother with GW Spawn kits when you can create your own? Can never have too many spawn when playing with Morghur.
Plastic wolf with beastman upper body and green stuff scales.
Plastic wolf with banner pole head and green stuff scales.
The beast army box has a picture of men turning into beasts. What better spawn then a pair of Empire militia men being torn in two by the forces of chaos.
Archive GW Fiend.
