FranticPea wrote:

I'll try and find pics.

Both Brass games are great. I prefer Lancashire even though Birmingham has a bit more teeth.

Mainly because that's where I live (until Greater Manchester eat bits of Lancashire), but I also just prefer the simplicity of it compared to the fancier, more complex Birmingham game.

I still haven't opened my Christmas copy of Taverns...

Quacks is on my shelf and gets a regular run out. Dead simple to teach and pretty quick to rattle through. It's good fun.

Well this all bodes well.

Well.

Hahaha omg. I brought a squig hopper in the week off ebay after I had the idea to reverse the colours and do a blue gobbo on a green squig.

Finished Fecula and the rest of the Wurmspat. Fun Warband.

Nice, they look great and I bet they look even better in person.

Tempy wrote:

Thanks guys! I think photos help a lot, good light box really adds to the vividness of stuff, but at the same time it really shows up your brushwork - mine can be quite wonky :S

That's because you paint so much stuff! Really smooth layers take an age to put down. 

Smoothness is arguably less important than colour placement, and takes less talent to get right. If you were doing a painting competition, or just trying to paint a full on show piece, with more time I reckon you could have the best of both worlds.

Dry brushing is unfairly maligned, it produces great results from a skilled hand. Pity it doesn't work well on space marines.

Imagine you wanted to get into AoS but no one had made a guide about it but then suddenly had made a guide and you knew that person and it was a good guide they had written imagine that?

WELL NOW YOU DON'T HAVE TO

https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/miniature-wargame/how-to/how-to-play-warhammer-age-of-sigmar

Paging Dr. @ShabbyMcCrabby I have finished the second lad from your excellent Secret Santa box! Also this only took me 3 weeks, although a full week of that I was on holiday.

Same deal as last time, minor conversion work to file down the nurgle symbol on his paunch and shoulder pad (really need to sort my warband logo out at some point), removed the combi bolter and replaced it with the normal one out of tbe chaos terminator box and small did the same with the plague sword, swapped it for a regular power axe out of the normal chaos terminator box.

Overall im happy with how hes turned out, I tried out some freehanding doing the flames, and I like how his tentacles have come out, the eyes are a bit crude but I dont really paint eyes, they are my painting nemesis, but these are pretty big compared to normal so I thought I'd see what I could do. The bone colour highlights are still a bit chalky and I really don't like how bland the power axe looks with just the metal axe head. Also I don't know how I mangled the barrel drilling so badly. But I'm a firm believer in stepping away from your models when they're finished and applying lessons to your next mini, don't go back if you can help it.




At least the mangled bolter spawned Cleetus the Warhammer friend, when I dropped the pics in the hobby discord. Behold the glory.

Pretty colours only for Slaanesh's best boys.

It's a really great article Temps, really well explained for someone like me who is familiar with oldhammer but knows nothing of the new setting, the steampunk dwarves and all that makes way more sense now, also the gran alliances sound like a really cool way of organising forces and soup lists.  I was almost tempted to go and look at some minis to buy and then I remembered my current pile of shame but then I remembered that it would deffo just be slaanesh demons I'd start with in AoS anyway and now my wallet is looking at me and it is perspiring profusely.

No sarcasm, any readers are nice to have!

Looking good tiger!

If you want to get some contrast to define the hair and the gold you have a couple of options imho.

Shade the recesses of his hair at the base with a more reddish colour and/or try highlighting or dry brushing the helmet with a lil bit of a silver or silver/gold mix to get some more colour separation.

Or for something even simpler you could try carefully applying a black wash along the edge where the helmet and hair meet to create a bit of separation by introducing a dark shadow.