Armies on Parade: Gathering the forces together

Well, I had to supply GW with some images of the army as it is now.  I wish I could have done this at the Bunker, since it has way more natural light than I can muster here.  Plus, the cameras we have are really supposed to be for taking super close ups of small things.

Here is a collection of those images.





Here are some views of the lower level:










I tried to fool around a bit with capturing the Ushabti guards:




And some shots of the upper level:


Run for your lives!






Look into the light!




Still more work to do!  I may have to leave out the last 3 chariots, since the Necro Knights just get covered up way too much.  That is a bummer, since I wanted to have that whole chariot unit and its bases to provide that design which is repeated throughout the tomb.  We'll see...

More Spoilers... What's that in the sky?

I promise that there will be Tomb Kings pictures at some point today... really I do!

However, here are some more sneak peeks at a new item coming down the runway... one of those Forgeworld Storm Eagles.

Here are some early views:







A few things I will say.  These things weigh a ton!  Huge hunks of resin.  And they don't exactly play nice with the original plastic kit parts.  I still have the tendon injury suffered when I was trying to put this together (long story).

Now for some images of the smaller parts that have been painted:








A big contrast to what they looked like a few days before. :-)

Switching to the Interior Decorator hat...

Well, a change of plans today.  There was a request by GW to have photos of the June 3oth winners for their own blog, so I needed to spend some time in the tomb.  Some of you may remember where I last left the tomb interior, waiting for the final decorations.

Here are the 3D items I wanted for the inside, along with some pieces for the big chariot unit...


Once those were all painted and glued into place, it was time to start painting some of the designs inside:

As with everything else in the lower level, it was very difficult to get at it!


I had to do some serious contortions to get my hand in place with the brush.


I attempted to repeat as many motifs from the miniatures and the bases as I could onto the walls.  They had to be larger in scale than I would have liked, since it's going to be very hard for people to see them in the first place.


While 50% of the people who look at this will probably never notice all this work on the inside, I can feel satisfied that I have been giving it a try!


There is still more to do on this level, but it should be good enough to take those display pictures that were requested.
 

Stay tuned for more!

Spoilers!! Life outside of Armies on Parade

Yes, I realize that my unhealthy obsession with Armies on Parade continues unabated... and will only be ramped up more with just 2 weeks remaining!!

Here are a few peeks at things that will come up after this madness is over...

A new Undead team (sample zombies):






And...

I will finally getting around to doing the photography on my favorite Blood Bowl team of all time.

THE MIMES of MORIA!



Yes, they are French.  And they are Mimes.  LUTIN NATION!

Work in Progress: Necropolis Knights

Once I had the bases painted, it was time to start working on the Knights themselves!  On Wednesday I started by laying down the initial colors, keeping the color scheme of the Stalkers in mind:


Obviously, the bodies of these serpents are completely different from the Stalkers.  It did create some heavy duty thought process to figure out how to make them look similar.

There was a very fun happy accident in that the bodies of the snakes intertwine with the design on the bases!  Unfortunately, 99% of the folks looking at this at Games Day will never see it.



As usual, the idea was to lay down all the colors as quickly as possible, using a technique that I posted yesterday.


I decided to go with more of a metal look to the backs of the hoods, leaving the front to have more of the color...




In keeping with the shaded basecoat technique, I continued to lighten the colors everywhere, using my trusty #4 flat sable brush!!


I tried to get everything to the glazing stage by the time I had to pack up.  I was pretty much there after 7 hours...


Over the last few days, I did the dark glazes on both the knights and the serpents:


Today I did some more of the details on the knights... the serpents will be next.




So this is how it is left for the time being.  Hopefully by Sunday the snakes will be done as well!!

Girls just wanna have fun

Or, they just want to whack you with a giant sword!  I have not checked out lately if Brigade Models has made any new additions to this line since they purchased it.  Does anyone out there know what they have (or have not) been doing with it?  It was always a fun line of miniatures to paint.  Every sculpt was clean, with none of those "mystery blobs" like you get on a lot of miniatures...

More Bow Ushabti!

Well, the celebrations have concluded.  The smoke of the fireworks has faded away, the cake eaten, and time to move on to post 501!

This post brings the return of the Tomb Kings for Armies on parade with more bow Ushabti.  This leaves me with two more to paint.