On August 12 2009 14:28 mcgriddle wrote:
man i played a long time ago- dwarves and then my mom's brittonian army cuz it was fun painting (i didnt really ever get in to the game too much... took so long). Needless to say, your painting is amazing.

I could never get the eyes quite right. With the dwarves I would just say they are drunk

Eyes are a bitch in fantasy. For all normal troops I do very simple eyes. Paint the whole damned eyeball black, and add 2 little white dots to each side. Highlight/shade as needed. In my experience though, less is more when it comes to eyes, (unless you're crazy good). Often times I'll keep trying to get an eye right, and just make it a little worse each time, lol.

For my characters I often try to do something fun. Magic users will have glowing eyes, other heroes will have fun colored eyes, etc.

In 40k, it's easy. All of my dark eldar eyes are just brightening layers of blue->white. Pretty hard to screw up, hehe.

Haemonculus

United States6980 Posts

August 12 2009 05:43 GMT

#23

On August 12 2009 14:40 G3CKO wrote:
Needs more HOWLING BANSHEES

I have banshees in progress as wyches!

It's just hard converting them because shuriken pistol doesn't look anything like a splinter pistol, and banshees have WAY too much armor to be naked crazy space bitches.

Hadrian

50 Posts

August 12 2009 06:08 GMT

#24

Dark Elves FTW. I love the Executioner design, it is quite pimpin'.

Gotta stick with the Space Marines in 40k though.

MrHoon

10183 Posts

August 12 2009 06:15 GMT

#25

I was an oldschool Necron player back when I was young

then they remodeled everything to look cooler and added Pariahs and Wraiths

And then proceeded to price everything 5 dollars more D:

I wish I was rich

potchip

Australia260 Posts

August 12 2009 07:31 GMT

#26

Nice collection you got there.

I still have an Undead army, from perhaps 10 years ago, before they split it into like 3 races. Back then, plastic skeletons were the only basic regiment that are not clones of one another, and things were sort of affordable.

Well not that I was ever into the gaming side of warhammer, the logistics of actually showing up with your own army at a venue was too much for me. I did enjoy the painting aspect though. Nowadays I fulfil the painting addiction in scale modelling instead of war-gaming, which has become a rather expensive hobby (cost/value wise).

Old pictures under too much flash..

skeleton chariot

wraiths

used to be my crowning jewel, now a broken zombie dragon

skeleton horsemen

Olorin.SVK

Slovakia136 Posts

August 12 2009 09:00 GMT

#27

Archon on reaver-bike.
Am sooo glad we are not talking about SC, can you imagine that ?
On the other hand, nothing would ever be more epic than archon riding a reaver. :-D

LuckyOne

266 Posts

August 12 2009 11:39 GMT

#28

awesome

Bob123

Korea (North)259 Posts

August 12 2009 20:20 GMT

#29

It's a very nicely looking army

About Dark Elf imbalance, yes sure, if you don't use any kind of comp system, but then there are almost no really balanced armies. Not to mention how boring some armies are. Comp systems dominate the swedish scene, and I'm happy about that. It brings the armies a lot closer in terms of power, and the "boring" gameplay is restricted.

Liquid`Jinro

Sweden33719 Posts

August 13 2009 19:22 GMT

#30

On August 13 2009 05:20 Bob123 wrote:
It's a very nicely looking army

I took one look at the swedish comp form and said "WTF I'm not gonna bother with this". Even with comp you just end up with a new set of imbalanced lists anyway -.-
EDIT: Although to be fair, I know Warhammer Fantasy suffers much more from this than Warhammer 40k, with Daemons/DE/VC dominating everything (with, I guess, HE, Lizardmen and WoC doing ok as well). Whereas 40k has many more top contenders.

Anyway, very nice DE =] I'm in the process of painting up some Eldar, may post pics one of these days (one of these days in FA speak is similiar to "soon" for Blizzard - mainly because I tend to take forever deciding how I want to do something lol)... Nothing too special tho.

I started browsing the top rated Eldar images on coolminiornot recently, and I'm not sure if they did more good in terms of inspiration than they did harm, by way of intimidation :D
(Actually, I know they did more good, I don't really have any hang ups about not being able to replicate the work of professionals on my first go lol)

These are NOT mine, but they are truly amazing:

http://coolminiornot.com/156016
http://coolminiornot.com/208842
http://coolminiornot.com/168000

ToT)OjKa(

Korea (South)2437 Posts

August 13 2009 19:36 GMT

#31

that falcon grav tank is sick

i remember in my old codexes they had a page or two with just amazingly painted models, i remember a wraithlord looked sooooo good

nttea

Sweden4353 Posts

August 13 2009 19:40 GMT

#32

I have a half painted dwarf army lying around somewhere, i never even had the patience to play the game more than a few times. Let alone paint the damn army.. too much work.

Bob123

Korea (North)259 Posts

August 17 2009 09:40 GMT

#33

On August 14 2009 04:22 FrozenArbiter wrote:
http://coolminiornot.com/156016
http://coolminiornot.com/208842
http://coolminiornot.com/168000

Wow :o

Manit0u

Poland17792 Posts

September 05 2009 17:20 GMT

#34

Ok, I finally found some time to get a couple of pics (which are really bad quality, sorry for that but I'm real noob when it comes to photographing). Note that I didn't do any work on the bases yet, I like to paint my whole army and then do all of the bases in one go.
I don't have much time on my hands now but I'll try to post more pics when I finish at least one whole squad.

So far, the only 2 things I was working on recently:

Ultramarines commander (used him to practice a bit, I've had a pretty long break in painting):

And my Steel Crusaders sergeant:

DrTJEckleburg

United States1080 Posts

September 05 2009 23:51 GMT

#35

My brother and I used to love playing this when were younger(sadly we had to use mostly paper as that stuff was just too expensive for us). We played mostly the original Warhammer and then the re-makes started coming out with new rules and battle books and we just lost interest. Warhammer 40K was really fun to play too, plus most of the models were plastic so we could afford that. We bought Gothic(space version of WH40K) at the Games Workshop HQ in Glen Burnie but we never even played a game of that, sadly. The guy that was working there was so awesome, he convinced us to buy it.

I still have a beautiful Lord of Change in a box some where and my brother's Screaming Bell was on my headboard for a long time(now in storage!). I'll get some pictures up later, really nice stuff OP, what rule set are they on now? Like #3? I wonder where all my original books are.

ahswtini

Northern Ireland22212 Posts

September 06 2009 00:08 GMT

#36

Woah you glossed those too, Manitou?

Boblion

France8043 Posts

September 06 2009 00:35 GMT

#37

I played skavens when i was a kid

I don't play anymore but i still love to watch beautiful stuff ( Golden Demons awards <3 )
Stuff like that for example

http://www.minivault.com/DeathwingGM.htm

weaksauce

369 Posts

September 06 2009 04:32 GMT

#38

freakin awesome terminator marines. I remember playing orc vs my brothers space wolves, and theyd be like half his army cost haha.

DrTJEckleburg

United States1080 Posts

September 06 2009 04:43 GMT

#39

This thread reminds me of the games "Final Liberation" and "Chaos Gate", haha, those games were pretty buggy and sort of weird but fun to play since you'd already played the tabletops.

Manit0u

Poland17792 Posts

September 06 2009 07:19 GMT

#40

On September 06 2009 09:08 ahswtini wrote:
Woah you glossed those too, Manitou?

Only parts of the models (armour on the commander, sword on the sarge and of course all the gems/eyes etc.). I'm still experimenting with new things ^_^

I'll try to also post my Mordheim warband later on. I didn't use any Warhammer and/or Mordheim miniatures for it which paid off. Got Ringwraith as a vampire, Gandalf as a necromancer and some very nice ghoul miniatures by ex-Citadel modeller.