Great personality on your archers.
I would suggest you get down to business by painting a bigger block.
In the same quality of course.
Got a lot of state troops on my desk ready to build. The sheer number of sprues is a little daunting to say the least. I'll be working on these soon, but doing something else to keep the motivation up at the moment (see below for peeks).
Awesome minis
I've have a little question though , which purples do you use for the cloth? Just i've been wanting to get a colour like that on some of my 40k minis.
I hope you post some more of those awsome minis too
Thanks, purple was done with:
Black Undercoat, Liche Purple, 50/50 Liche/Warlock Purple, Warlock Purple, 50/50 Warlock/Bleached Bone. This was all then given a glaze of 50/50 Liche/Warlock with a touch of Vallejo glaze medium to blend the colours a bit. Bought some foundation purple to try out on the next few instead of the Liche Purple so we'll see how that goes.
Anyhow, on with the real meat of the post (and what you all came here to see).
I've not, as I promised previously, been working on any blocks of troops. To be perfectly frank, they scared me. Instead I've been working on these:
Not yet completed and no crew done as yet, but hey, it's progress at least. Better pics will be taken once crew and movement trays are done.
Speaking of movement trays, I did a new one for my archers and cast a few up in resin. Came out pretty nice to be honest. Not painted it yet so here's a nasty bare resin pic for you. If there's any interest I'll put some up on ebay. Sensibly, I decided to make the outer borders 1/4" so that 2 trays placed together make up the perfect layout for larger units.
Also made some nice little artillery trays with space for any of the empire artillery pieces and slots for crew too. They measure 80x100mm which seemed to fit well with all the crew and leave space for the obligatory barrels, cannon balls and powder monkeys. Not sure if it's a little too big for gaming purposes though. What do you guys think?
Anyway, thanks for looking as always. I look forward to your comments.