Empire Generals - Finished

Well this is embarrassing... I finally completed a couple of generals for my Warhammer Empire army.

The one on foot is only five or so years old but the mounted one made his first appearance on Khaki Drab in July 2012.

I've been playing Warlords of Erehwon recently which led to a resurrection of the project. Of course in the time that's passed the Old World has been destroyed and replaced with the Age of Sigmar, though GW are trailing the original Warhammer's return.


Three years, maybe I'll get them all done by then.

Everything is contrast paints except the metallics and the lettering on the shield. The Italia theme was entirely accidental!

Blood Red Skies - Test ME109

I bought Blood Red Skies (BRS) last year when I visited the Warlord store in Nottingham. I have in mind for it a day by day Battle of Britain Campaign but as with all my projects there are so many distractions out there!

This is my first test piece for BRS an ME109 out of the starter set. I used Vallejo's Luftwaffe Colours Pre-war to 1941 boxed set for paint. These are designed for airbrush, and I did use my airbrush to do the undersides, however I found the paint excellent for just brushing on though some of the darker colours did require two coats.

The colour scheme I got from the Air Power magazine dedicated to the ME109 and reflects a common pattern used until mid 1940. I have two flights of 109s to paint and the second will be a later 1940 pattern, more grey than green.

Transfers were also purchased from Warlord.

Contrast Paints - Third Try

Another Star Wars Legion figure, this time one of the main bosses Darth Vader himself.

I'm almost embarrassed at how little time this took; including undercoating about thirty minutes.

1. Spray Painted in Grey Seer
2. Liberally covered in Black Templar Contrast paint
3. Painted luminous buttons and light sabre in white
4. Spiritstone Red and Waystone Green on the buttons and sabre
5. Bit of silver metallic on the sabre handle
6. Tidy up
7. Finally texture paint and ink wash on base

Rather pleased with the results - black I find is very hard to do.

More Celts

Fast on the heels of my first batch of Celts, the second batch is now complete.

 

This means I have finally finished the Warlord Hail Caesar starter set which was given to me in 2013!

All of these were painted in batches of six. I took four colours (red, blue, green and cream) and varied trousers, shirts etc. with each colour. These were the last to be started before the GW Contrast paints became available.