Previous months for me were busy with work on war-games hobby.
I'm still paint my Warriors of Chaos army and finally manage to finish 5 Knights and convert Chaos Sorcerer Lord to Standard Bearer on foot.
Additionally I was working on some terrain and tutorials that I want to publish on the blog. I created also a Facebook fan page where I post latest pictures of things that I’m working on.
Probably this blog will be just a place to publish tutorials and my thoughts about wargaming.
Time is going and going and my army's are growing.
Finally I want to do some playing and need to buy my a case to transport my miniatures.
The choice is big: Battle Foam, KR Multicase, GW miniature cases.
I did a small research and view some you tube reviews and I already decide that I will not buy GW case as comparing to other it is overpriced and as people mentioning not good foam quality.
Battle Foam has good reviews and big variety of cases and foams but the pricing is also quite big comparing to KR Multicases.
I think that I will go with the last company buying the card case and foams for start. If everything will be ok I will buy another case for my Dwarf Army and Lotr of the Rings High Elfes Army.
That's why unit after unit my Dwarfs will get cleaning. I have a problem of picking the army style. I completely diss like the style of random colors painting that GW presents on the web.
I like my old dark green but better I like black with silver and gold that I did for Longbearsd and probably will go in this direction. So a lot of work with the Dwarfs in front of me.
Update - DECEMBER - MAKK WARHAMMER FANTASY ESCALATION 2013
I could not resist and during last weekend totalwargamer.co.uk had a 30% discount on miniatures. I bought box of Skullcrushers for £25 ! and box of Knights for £14.
So together with shipping I paid £42. So a great deal for me and my grooving army.
Resuming after shopping I will have total of 6 Skullcrushers and 10 Knights.
And a new month has come and update to my Warriors of Chaos army.
This month I bought a Knights of Chaos box. I want to have a solid block of fast units that can reach my enemy quick and kill in combat. With 3 Skullcrushers, 10 - 12 Knights and a Chariot hope to achieve that.
Maybe this month or second I will buy one more box of Knights and a Lord on horse to have hard and fast unit.
Still I have to think of a BSB on horse and how to convert available unit to stand out from normal banner bearer.
November escalation update a bit late as I still don’t have all that I want to buy this month.
First I bought a Chaos Chariot and will assemble it with two mounts to fit as my Core choose in army. One picture of my work on the figure here. More to come as I already finished the wagon but still mounts, Charioteer and Warrior to do.
I have still £35 pounds left from previous months and can’t decide what to buy next.
I’m thinking Chaos Knights or Chimera. Well i will have both in some period of time but hard decision. I would loved to paint the Chimera model but the Knights will give me more bits and maybe I can finally start some conversion that I want to do to my Chaos Sorcerer making him my Infantry BSB.
Terrain tutorial - Simple & easy toilet paper rocks
This tutorial I did three years ago and it shows how fast and with small amount of money do stones and rocks terrain elements for your game.
Sorry for my english and names of products if something is not right or not understand leave a comment and I will try to explain or improve.
What you need:
Toilet paper
Something hard to make a base (like a cardboard box that you can get in a supermarket)
Hobby knife
PVA glue (glue from flour)
Adhesive tape or better Gaffer tape
Modelling sand - 2-3 different sizes
Static grass
Water
Paints - I will write the colours that I used for this tutorial but I did not use the Citadel paint as it is to expensive to paint so large areas. I just both big white paint and colour pigments and mix them to get the right colour. You can buy some small starter of acrylic paint in Homebase or other store.
Base
First you have to prepare a good solid base. I cut a 25cm x 15cm rectangle from cardboard box and give him a irregular egg shape.
Because the cardboard has not nice looking sides I used Gaffer tape to cover imperfections.
Making rocks
It is very easy to make a toilet paper stones. You just simply take as much paper as you want and squeeze it to get the shape as you want. To prevent paper to roll out or broke - simply veneering it with Gaffer tape. Latter the paper will be wet so you have to keep in mind that it will be little smaller.
Wet work
When you have the stone shape as you like you are ready to start gluing. To make the cost even smaller you can prepare a glue from flour day before.
First put a lot of glue on the base and set you stone. After that water down the PVA glue and using a big brush add the glue on the stones.
To cover the Gutter tape take one sheet of toilet paper and put on the tape and using brush spread the water down glue. Working this way add additional toilet sheets to get best cover.
Work with the brush to get rid off all dots on the paper to moment when you get good cover of all the rocks. No place should be left dry.
Waiting
Second stage of creation is to add additional small rocks and sand to make our terrain look better. Just use whatever sand and stones you want and spared them across the places you like on the base.
Now you have to wait that the glue will dry creating hard surfaces. You can speed up the process just take from your mom or sister hair dryer and start drying paper rocks.
Painting
Explaining the process of painting will be to long so I shorten it to the colours that I used and name of the technique. Remaining I did not use Citadel I just give the name of colour.
Undercoat the total terrain in black.
Stones:
1. Downstone - cover all the rocks. In my work one layer of paint did not cover good. I had to make 3 layers of grey to cover the rocks.
2. Administratum grey - using Drybrush technique cover the rocks.
3. White Scar - using Drybrush technique cover the rocks. This is the last layer so don't push so much the brush just a thin layer. But if you want your stones to be more bright do 2 - 3 times the dry brush.
Base
The steps are the same like with the rock but the colours are:
1. Mournfang brown
2. Zamesti desert
3. Ushabti Bone
Finishing
When you are happy with all the painting it is time to finish the terrain by adding some static grass. I additionally added static grass in places where I saw that the paint did not cover well some elements and hide the bungle.
Hope you like the tutorial any comments will be nice.
Finally work on my first Skullcrusher is done. I have the colour schema and bases style that I want to apply to all my figures. Today some photos of Skullhunter.
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