Finished Army Pictures

Finally got the video uploaded. I suck at taking pictures so have fun. Go to a tournament I am at in real life if you actually want to see them in some proper lighting.

Enjoy the awesome music!



I'll be at Misty Mountain in Burnsville on the 12th of June, and then in Phoenix games in Wayazata on the last Saturday of June.

-Krox

(That's right, 2 video posts)

Painted Models add +1 to hit, right?

Check it out!!



This was a lot of fun to do, and I am really happy with the results.


@Drathmere: Whatcha think?

-Krox

Army Progess plus New list

Two things. First after my ten game review I have decided that my army list at all levels needs to be re-evaluated. Second I am not frustrated with painting! (at least not currently.)

Army Progress

Well, I just finished a post about my army painting progress and what I wanted my blog to be about, but blogger said I could not post it because I had an exclamation point and a question mark next to each other in the post title.

When I fixed that, it just started to bug out and my video got wonky. So I am redoing the whole dang thing, but the muse has left me so I just have the video:



Basically it just said, "I like doing battle reports and I will stop procrastinating the upload of my tournament etiquette videos. Also I need to practice painting more but it will be a long road so I am just going to go ahead and paint my army to the best of my ability and try not to get too frustrated"

-Krox

Firewarrior painting and picture taking.

First off I am pretty happy with the results so far, but it is still taking forever, but that is probably just me. I am painting whole squads at a time and I am still on the first squad. This picture was taken after i just did the devlan mud wash on the armor and badab black wash on the cloth.









Here is another shot that is a little bit better. It is going good so far and I haven't even gotten to the detail work. It is taking a while and my ADD and painting are pretty close to being in all out war with each other, so I am taking a little break to post.

Any advice on how to get better photos? I need to figure out how to manually focus the camera, but it is my wife's and she is at a baby shower, I will ask her when she gets back, but if anyone has any other picture taking advice let me know. (camera is an olympus C-750)

Painting Update

Following Drathmere's advice I changed how I am painting my firewarriors, and so far it seems to be going well. They are looking better and it is encouraging so it is getting a little bit easier to get motivated to paint. Hopefully I will have some time so I can put up some pictures by Sat.

Painting can be BORING and fun, but when you are painting Firewarriors it is boring.

Anyone who has tips on painting fire warriors, let me know, because I would like some.
I am going with a little variation on the standard Tau paint scheme, nothing too fancy.

In that picture they are all base coated up and I have the backs of them painted a dark red color.







There is a shot of the armor. I am pretty sure I will have to do a couple of passes to get a more even coat. Then it will be on to highlighting. He is not even close to being done, because all that black (or most of it anyways) is going to be the Tau brown color.

I like having painted armies (my lizardmen army is fun.) But painting the same basic model over and over gets boring. Maybe I just need to throw a painting party or something.