Baldur the White

After reading the story of Baldurs return to the world in the domination book I was instantly struck with the similarity to the return of Gandalf the white in the Lord of the Rings. I decided that I would like to paint up eBaldur with a white colour scheme. This would give me the chance to see if I can use the techniques I have been using a lot recently to paint green robes to paint effective white robes.  I used to really struggle to paint white robes in my black templars army (my first army) and it was partly this that made me want to try again.

The base looks a little weird in pictures due to the angle of the log - this looks quite good in person when you can turn the model around etc. I really wanted to give him an 'epic' base as the new epic casters do not have the same board presence as the old ones which came with pre-supplied 'epic' bases.

Now I have pBaldur and eBaldur painted perhaps I need to get some wolds painted up....

Heres a work in progress Megalith (as you cant really have Balder without his favourite pile of wold rocks).

P.S. Now we know why they call him 'Balder'.

Some more painting - Plastic Feral Warpwolf

I know I promised some more battle reports in my next blog but putting up pictures is a much easier way to fill a page.

I have done quite a bit of painting recently and have a lot of models half finished. I am hoping to use the Easter bank holiday weekend to get most of these finished off and posted here so expect a few posts.

First off I wanted to post images of the new Feral Warpwolf that I painted fairly quickly this week. It was a great model to paint as the skin gives you some lovely space to work with.

You may also notice that I have tried something new with the base (using insta-mold to create some interesting carved rocks).

Painting pKrueger

Over the last couple of weeks I haven't got in as much painting as I would have liked but I was pleased to add pKrueger to my list of painted circle models. I have liked the look of his rules for a long time. I have never been completely sold on the model - I love all of the pieces individually - the flowing robe, the levitating legs, the billowing cloak and the force lightening style hands but something about the way it all sits together always makes me think something isn't quite right.

That all said it was an absolute JOY to paint and I am very pleased with the result.

As usual I struggle to photograph the greens properly but hopefully I will be using him down at the club in weeks to come.

Bolton Portcullis Tournament

I had a good time yesterday at the monthly Bolton Portcullis Tournament. After reading on Dave blog of the last trip across from the Hull guys I was keen to attend and as Hull City's match had been postponed I was able to go without missing out on using my season ticket.

I had 4 good games with local lads who played; eCaine, eLylth, eSkarre and pHexeris. I took a pKaya list and a pKrueger list and managed to get one win to three losses.

I was also very pleased and honoured to be voted the 'best painted' and win some store credit. This is the first painting award I have won and I am encouraged that my painting is getting better and it gives me new enthusiasm to try and improve further and get some more serious painting time in.

I have taken a quick snap of the list that won the best painted award below (even though you have probably seen most of the models already in the previous blog posts).

PS I should point out the whitemane (far left) wasn't painted by me (thanks Jim!) but the rest of the models are entirely my own work.

Stonekeeper UA and Shifting Stones

I am pleased to be able to bring you some pictures of my unit of shifting stones which I completed last week. I have been using the stones for a couple of months but have finally added the Stone Keeper UA to the unit. My common/garden shifting stones are notorious at the club for being an example of my tightfistedness not to buys some model stones and have confused my none gamer friends - "Why would you paint stones to look more like stones when they are already stones?".

Hopefully the UA along with his own garden stone are enough to persuade doubters that I will splash out occasionally!

Warpwolf Stalker

I managed to get my Warpwolf Stalker painted in time for the York Inter Club Challenge this weekend (more on that topic later).

I think he's looking pretty good and I got to use some of the larger basing clumps on his base as there was plenty of room. Im trying to be a little less subtle with my shading as I am finding that when I take the models down to the club and out of the natural light that I paint in that it can be hard to spot that I have done any shading at all.

The skin is painted with the Reaper Dark Elf Skin Triad and the golds are a mixture of  Reaper Antique gold, New Gold and Devlun Mood. The sword I painted using darker shades of the Reaper Metalics range which I found helped me to create contrast between both halves of the blade. In the past I have used the brighter metals and found them too close to each other.

I also marked the bases with white lines for now but I intend to do something a bit more interesting on these when I have more time.

All feedback welcome.