Company halt!

Well, it's been quite a while, but I was hoping to get a few more items and paint a large group in one go. Instead, I found that I haven't much out (I.E. so easily accessibly, I don't even need to get up OR open anything) to paint, except for the three Kataphrakts for the steeds that I completed some time ago. So, I gathered them up, sorted out which paints I would need, etc, then proceeded to realise that I may as well paint any others I have - I remembered that I only had three pikemen (metal) and one swordsman (also metal) left otherwise, so grabbed them up and glued them to bases. So, I managed to complete another 7 models and that means I have painted all of my Easterling stuff so far! However, I still have no commander/Epic Hero, but I traded with spuds4eva on One Ring to get an Easterling command blister which should arrive in a couple of days. Until then (and once they're done), I'm finished temporarily. Not because I want to be, but beause I haven't the money to get more stuff and I plan to start a WotR Tale of X Gamers (either 2 or 3) and ask for a couple of characters for my birthday (at Easter - fitting I should get Easterlings ;P ).

I will try to sort out an army shot soon, as well as the riders on their steeds!

P.S. Just remembered I have one more Kataphrakt, but haven't yet stripped him - will get to it when the command blister arrives ;)

Company advance!

As part of the Monthly WiP thread on the One Ring, I decided to paint up 8 Easterlings with Spears and Shields (80 points exactly for SBG), which is conveniently a company of Easterlings with Pikes (35 points for WotR). I believe that I'm also the first to have finished for the month (for the second month running!) and only have another 3 with spears left to paint :D

Fuel for the fire

Well, I actually have managed to get some more models done, so have a few pictures. In addition, I managed to find my list of what I currently owned and how many I needed, but it needed updating, as I've said before - unfortunately, although I went through all of the models, I didn't find the time today to take pictures of them in massed ranks: still, I have less than a dozen non-cavalry left to paint up (which are likely to be my next entry for the WiP Community thread), so you'll soon get to see everything i have and ALL of it in paint!

Without further ado, a list of what I have and how many more are needed:

Pikes: Total needed - 64 (62 with the command choices), Have - 25 (11 unpainted), Need to get - 37-39 more.

Swords: Total needed - 64, Have - 23 (1 unpainted), Need to get - 41 more.

Bows: Total needed - 48, Have - 23, Need to get - 25 more.

Steeds: Total needed - 12 (11 with the command choice, although it will likely include a conversion), Have - 5 (3 riders unpainted, 1 overall needing stripping/painting), Need to get - 6-7 more.

A few more bite the dust!

Well, I've taken over a week to actually get these pictures onto my laptop, let alone poste dup onto the blog, which was further set back by a meeting I had over the weekend in Manchester (as awesome as it was :D ).

Anyhow, apologies for being late (I say that far too often!), but it is all here! A test run of an Easterling Kataphrakt rider, as well as having completed a few more standard Easterling warriors. So, hee's the overall effect of my Easterling Kataphrakt: any thoughts or comments? Yet to see how it works on a Desert Yellow Steed though, but I feel less iffy about the hoof colour now, which is good - still comments/criticisms are always welcome!

It's not just the models shown that I completed though: I also managed to do the legs for the other horses (which are pictured in previous blog entries), even though I've not started on the riders.

I know that I said I would post pictures of the whole army so far and maybe an army list, probably a count up of how many I have and how many are left to go, but I haven't had the time, the lighting, nor the space to do so. Still, it's likely to be done in the next few weeks!

Another piece of tiny news!

Sorry all, I got sidetracked this time around by The One Ring's community WiP challenge, which I entered with my Dwarfs. You can find out more info over on http://minesandmodels.blogspot.com/

Anyway, on to Easterling/Rhunish news! As I said, this is something quite minor to you guys, but it's of great benefit to me. I can't actually find my army list (the one that I'm planning this army to) because it's a sheet of paper and we've had a couple of tidy-ups since then (I won't have thrown it away, it's just I don't know which location it's ended up in).

That sound slike bad news, which it kinda is (but at least I have it somewhere!). However, the good news is that I found something that I've been looking for for a while: I found my list of how many Easterlings I have (specified by weapons etc), how many I need overall and how many until I reach that goal. Unfortunately, it's a little out of date because I have since obtained a couple of sprues, a few randoms and a lot of a dozen or so metals.

Once again, that will be time-consuming for me to count them all out again and then update the list (probably stick it on my computer as well), but it has the advantage of me thinking "I might as well use it to finally get the 'army so far' shot that I've been wanting to take for a while".

So, that's something to look forward to! Until then, here's a couple of pictures of a prototype Pink Horror of Tzeentch that I came up with (Skull White, then Leviathan Purple all over, Ultramarines Blue tentacles, Golden Yellow eyes/glow, Ice Blue flames/sucker-finger hols with Tentacle Pink flame-tips, Fortress Grey nails/teeth, Chaos Black tongue [with 'Ardocat Varnish on top], Dwarf Flesh "inside horror", Scorched Brown base).

Tiny update!

Apologies to all for not having posted for a while. I got a bit sidetracked with Chaos Dwarf Radio (which can be found here: http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=8076 ) and, more recently, auditions, as well as a miniseries for Chaos Dwarf Radio based around Chaos Dwarfs in 8th edition.

I have done a little work on my Easterlings. I collected up my metals and snipped off the flash and I have now spray painted them. Within this were: 4 plastic pikemen, 7 metal pikemen, 3 metal swordsmen, 4 riders and 2 horse legs (lol).

Next step is to take pictures and paint them. I also have a sprayed sprue, missing one or two to paint. I'm thinking that I might get some more bog-standard guys done (the 4 plastics at least, maybe the sprue as well) to get the bulk of what's left done and then do the riders as a treat to you all for putting up with largely the same pictures (excepting the recent horses).

Then you get to see the riders on their horses (and I'll do their legs at the same time, although I seem to have misplaced one). The following update would be the metals and then I will take a group shot of everything and see how it all looks.

Not sure when I got them done, but I completed two (I think) metal pikemen a while ago as well.

Might need a character for the army soon, lol. I did bid on a standard bearer recently, but somebody sniped me on it after 3 days of winning!

Tally ho!

Only a slight update for now. I still need to find where I left the legs (well, the three individual legs) and get them painted up and glued on, but I was just testing the paint scheme really.

Anyhow, the basic premise was to have the darker colours of the straps and tassles, with the darkness behind the gold as well, countered by the lightness of horse-skin and tails.

The colours for skin are Fortress Grey and Desert Yellow (not combined though). The straps/saddle are Scorched Brown, the hooves are Shadow Grey (although I'm still not 100% sure of it working...), tassles are Liche Pruple, the tail is Kommando Khaki (to match the spear-hafts, arrows and bows), the armour is Chaos Black with Burnsihed Gold on top and the silver armour (name has slipped my mind right now) is Chainmail.

I tried to make them fit the current paint scheme as much as possible, but feel uncertain about the overall effect. Having said that, it could be because I haven't yet added the riders and there may not be enough contrast, annoyingly. I was hoping to avoid having too much dark, since the cloth ont he warriors is all black and purple. May have to reconsider the horseflesh (as well as the hooves, which I'd usually do in Fortress Grey, but that had become a skin colour).