New scenery project: Fantasy/Medieval Village! PART I

Hi guys! 

Sorry for the lack of posts these last few weeks, I have been busy painting my Warhammer/Marauder Giant (I'll finish him in a week or so...). I want to make a village in a big single base, with 4 or 5 houses, and out of that single base, I have my already painted 2 cottages (resin and plastic), scrachtbuilt Tavern, and the Warhammer manor, all of them finished. 

the project will include:

- Laketown house from Citadel, converted

- 2 laketown houses from Citadel, converted and joined into a bigger single building.

- Tabletop Workshop plastic townhouse 

-Tabletop Workshop plastic slightly kitbashed.

- small fences all around/ a couple of barricades

this will make a small village, "modular" with some additions out of the big base featured in this post.

I got some inspiration from this blog:

http://oldhammerinthenewworld.blogspot.com/2014/07/

I will do a similar sized base, but changing all the buildings of course.

the plan is this :

In the "blank" place there will be the double Laketown houses from Citadel.

Some of the slightly modified houses from the extinct Tabletop Workshop:

And a couple of barricades made of various bits in 28mm:

And out of the village base, there is a scrachtbuilt Tavern:

I built it from scracht, but using plastic bits from the Warhammer Manor house...

This Manor House:

These two big buildings (Tavern and Manor house) will complete the Village set I am building right now!

Additionally, there are a couple of cottages around, the first one, in resin, unknown manufacturer, and the second is plastic Renedra.

I hope you like it!!

More Fantasy "Speedpainting": Quickshade Orcs

Hello hobby mates!

I have decided to give my orcs a big impulse,  for 2 main reasons: 1) I need bad guys for my Warhammer Quest adventures and 2) I want a second (painted) army to fight my Empire forces.

I have some classic orcs since 1999 or so, and I have bought some 4th/5th edition orcs in the last 5 years, so nowadays I have a respectable force to play with (which needs to be painted!).

I want to paint my army in 2 painting standards; 

- tabletop quality for most plastic monopose figures, orc swordsmen & bowmen and  goblin  spearmen.

-good quality for metal miniatures and the first row of plastic miniatures in a unit.

I don't like to paint tabletop quality miniatures, but as I want to field this army "soon" so I thought a solution:

- prime the miniatures in grey

- airbrush the miniatures in goblin green or similar

- basecoat all the colours (light colours rather than dark)

- Army Painter Quickshade strong tone dip

- just a highlight for most colours, maybe two for the skin, 10 min aprox per miniature.

- matt varnish and base.

I have tried the previous method with good results in my humble opinion. It is just a tool to speed up the process of mass painting.

TEST MODELS:

primed and airbrushed

basecoated and given a coat of Quickshade

single highlight 48 hours after the Quickshade and BEFORE matt varnish

based and matt varnished, the miniature is finished and just need his shield.

Time of actual painting each miniature... maybe 20-25 minutes! 

But you don't paint just one, you paint in batches of 5-10 miniatures, so you can paint most basic troops in a month, and the result is nice enough (at least for me!).

Here are my first batch of speedpainted Orcs:

Cheers!

Front Rank conversions in 28mm for 1670' PART II

Hi guys!

I have just "reinforced" my late XVII Spaniards with 4 new pikemen for a Provincial Tercio in Franco Dutch War, or in League of Augsburg War, sorry for the slow update, I am working on several projects, so this one will be slower from now on, but  an advancing one though ;)  

Here is the unit painted so far:

And now the conversions themselves;  you saw them in the first April post here:

https://spanishleadpainting.blogspot.com/2019/04/some-conversions-and-minis-in-28mm-for.html

I used a Bicorne miniatures ECW pikeman, in order to depict an old fashioned coat along the newer longer coats... I modified him with a feather in his hat and a green stuff cravatte in his neck. As it is a Provincial Tercio, those were low budget units, roughly trained and equiped. I avoided giving them a full uniform, but "off white" grey or beiges are dominant with red.

the other 3 figures are modified scythemen from Front Rank:

I used mostly Vallejo and Foundry paints, with some Citadel, and tried some new tones, like the grey coat on the pikeman standing with his pike upright, I think the contrast is too strong for my taste, but I left him like that anyway.

I hope you like them!

Cheers

Warhammer Empire Crossbowmen

Hello Gentlemen,

This time I was motivated enough to take some pictures of my painted Empire Crossbowmen "regiment" I want to paint 2 more crossbowmen in order to have 12 in total.

They are miniatures from the early nineties, all the different models released indeed; 4 soldiers of the empire with crossbows, and all the "Tilean" crossbowmen released for the Empire (still have to paint 2 of them), plus musician and standard bearer.

I painted them in 2014 or 2015 I think, so my painting skills have improved since then... but I am still satisfied with the results :)   I painted them in Talabecland colours,  inspired by the 'eavy metal team pictures of the good old times. Although my army is "multi provincial" so regiments from all over the Empire! I like the colorfull army from 4th and 5th editions. I hope to take pictures of the whole army anytime soon.

now the pictures

The unit so far:

And all the miniatures painted:

I may substitute the flag, printed from the internet (low resolution design) with the proper flag (same desgin)  cut out from a 1992 White Dwarf I bought a couple of years ago !

I hope you like this little update of my Empire army!