Waking Dead

So here’s what I’ve been working on.

First up is an Empire Pistolier champion, painted up in Talabheim colours. Interestingly I’ve gone for a slightly darker look to the traditional red and white, particularly as the white is much more of a cream colour (using Bleached Bone highlights over a Graveyard Earth base). Now, I’ve always been pretty rubbish at painting horses but I’m really pleased with how this one turned out. The picture doesn’t really do it justice, camera phone and all that, but I’ve started to try and do some blending. I’m still not really good enough to attempt true wet blending, so this is dry blending using built up layers of highlights, but its effective enough for me. And before anybody says anything I know I haven’t smoothed out the join on the horse’s neck, but these are tabletop standard and not showcase standard, and I’ve got 2000 points to paint so ya boo sucks to you!

Secondly I’ve got some Handgunners, again painted up using the same take on Talabheim colours. These are also magentically based using the tape and steel paper combination I talked about in my previous post. I’ve used the modular movement trays from Game Workshop again, but I’ve been trying to save the corners for bigger trays (this is a 20mm x 200mm gunline base). I’m going to cut up some of my older trays to get the corners for this and fill in the gaps with Green Stuff. Once its sprayed up black it should sit nicely with the bases. Anyway, I’ve got to finish the rest of my Pistoliers this week then I’ll get cracking on painting the rest of the Handgunners. After that? Probably the two wizards in my list to give me a break from painting alternate red and white patterns!