goldbaek's blog: minis, painting and other ff-related stuff

[goldbaek]

Like the use of the Bones figure, especially the Tomb Guardian/Stone Golem. I've been eyeing up the Bones line (and the Bones II expansion that's due end of this year) and there's quite a lot of good stuff for BB there already and a lot more coming when Bones II lands!

Are your Tomb Guardians on a 25mm or 30mm base?

+1 on the Bones models!

They're actually on 40mm bases while the rest of the team will be on 30mm bases. The 40mm is measured at the bottom of the base - and the top (where the model is attached) is 30-32mm. The same of course goes for the 30mm bases.

To be honest, I do think that the 40mm bases are a bit too large for a standard size field but these huge models look ridiculous on 30mm bases... This is often a problem I encounter when using round lipped bases instead of "normal" bases: It looks cool but they require some extra work and they're often a bit too large for use on standard size fields.

[goldbaek]

Blood for the Blood God!

And without further ado, I present: My GW 3ed Chaos team (which I began painting way back in February...) with a GW 2ed Minotard.

[jonno]

Nice! So that's done with Dip?

Thanks! But nope. No dipping has been used on this model. All green and red colors have been applied using several layers of Green or Red Ink from Army Painter. The rest of the colors are btw also from AP as well as the Inks used to create shading.

I've been meaning to ask you. So you just applied the Green and Red ink directly on a white base coat? No use of AP layerpaints?

[goldbaek]

Nice! So that's done with Dip?

Thanks! But nope. No dipping has been used on this model. All green and red colors have been applied using several layers of Green or Red Ink from Army Painter. The rest of the colors are btw also from AP as well as the Inks used to create shading.

I've been meaning to ask you. So you just applied the Green and Red ink directly on a white base coat? No use of AP layerpaints?

Yes, that is correct. A white basecoat followed by 2 layers of green ink. Then some white touch-up before painting 2 layers of red ink (if there is any green paint on areas where the red ink is to be applied). And then skin, hair, base etc. using normal layer paints.

[jonno]

I've been meaning to ask you. So you just applied the Green and Red ink directly on a white base coat? No use of AP layerpaints?[/quote]
Yes, that is correct. A white basecoat followed by 2 layers of green ink. Then some white touch-up before painting 2 layers of red ink (if there is any green paint on areas where the red ink is to be applied). And then skin, hair, base etc. using normal layer paints.[/quote]

Cheers. I'll have to try that. Looks great.

[goldbaek]

Wood for the Wood God!

So. I am finally able to show you my painted Woodies team which only consists of GW 2ed minis. I'm quite pleased with the way they turned out so I'm counting on using them at a lot of future tourneys!

[jonno]

Looks great!

[goldbaek]

To be honest I haven't painted these models myself, but I wanted to show them off anyways

I've been a 49'ers fan for many years and I wanted to pay tribute to them by having a Human team painted in their colors. So I had this team painted by Axia-Fish and believe me, they look even better in real life!

[goldbaek]

Once again I'm going to show off some minis that I haven't painted myself. This time it's my newly painted Skaven team, 'Warped In Stone', and once again they're painted by axia. Love 'em!

[goldbaek]

It's been almost a year to the day that I started painting my Khemri team. But now I can finally say that they are finished. Complete. Another fully painted team. Woohoo!!!

The team consists of 4 Tomb Guardians (Stone Golems from Reaper's Bone range), 2 Thro-Ras, 2 Blit-Ras and 5 Skeletons - all the latter from Willy's Egyptian Undead range. Actually, one of the skellies is a Star Player (Humerus Carpal, I think) but he's probably going to be used as a normal skeleton in most matches.

Every single model is pinned on 'Paved Dungeon' resin bases from Tiny Worlds Wargaming - the TG's on 40mm and the rest of the team on 30mm. I wouldn't recommend using 40mm bases on any of your models as they are way too big for a normal sized playing field but the Golems are just so huge that they looked really ridiculous on 30mm bases...

And now for some pics - starting with the group mug shot:



The 4 Tomb Guardians:



The 2 Thro-Ras (dog-faced) and 2 Blitz-Ras (eagle-faced):



The 5 Skeletons including the Star Player (far left):

[horekim]

They look great - Hope to play them soon.

[Steam Ball]

Every single model is pinned on 'Paved Dungeon' resin bases from Tiny Worlds Wargaming - the TG's on 40mm and the rest of the team on 30mm. I wouldn't recommend using 40mm bases on any of your models as they are way too big for a normal sized playing field but the Golems are just so huge that they looked really ridiculous on 30mm bases...

25 and 30 mm classic edge bases should had been fine. Measure the usable dimension of round edge.

[axia]

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