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Hi generals,

I have been lurking around for a while and I just decided to join the fun. As an introduction, I will present my troops from Altdorf.

Here a few shots of my pistoliers, the bases are not done and there is still two more young nobles that need a little bit of work. I have been doing those recently so they are so far the best painting job I manage to come out with.

All comments are welcome.





Porkix

Nicely done!! And welcome to the forum!!

Though one fluff question: you say it's your Altdorf forces, but I'm missing a bit the city colors of Altdorf here, predominantly Blue and Red, what I see here is alot of yellow aswell. So what is the story with these young nobles?

Yeap, these horses look way too yellow to my taste.

I was trying to reproduce this color...



any idea how to come up with it? I always end up with brown or yellow horses but not with this kind of "gold" rending...

Porkix

I'd start with a tan base then drybrush white, then inks/washes back over it again to mute the white down

Never tried tan horses, but dapple grey works well doing that.

Also, never tried this but how about applying the dapple colour with a sponge and not a brush, just dabbing it on.

Thanks for the comments.

I never really manage to master the ink/washes techniques and I use mainly layering and dry brushing...

Uryens: that's sound like a good idea to use a darker brown in the shadowed area, I would give a try and post the results...

For this result I start from a base of 6/8 white skull, 1/8 bestial brown 1/8 bubonic, then layered adding more bestial brown in the shadowed areas and more white skull and the highlight areas. Top link the layers, I dry brush everything with white skull.

Here is some shots of my swordsmen





I always mix an additional colour with the red and blue to differentiate each regiment and to add some diversity to my painting as well

Nice work.

OMG, it's an update and actually a question for you fellow generals.

I finally decided to re-base all my little guys and here is a picture of my test-rat-lab and my previous base "style" for reference.





I will fix the side of the base later to remove all the strokes but I will most likely do it on large scale when the full unit is done for example.

I think I will increase the amount of green and dead grass on the next bases but I kind of like the feel of this test..

What do you think? Am I on the good track here.

Porkix

A wash would do well on those horses, then you can always go back over some areas with the original color. Maybe Orgyn or Sepia, legs and underbelly possibly Devlan. You'd have to experiment a bit.

Awesome painting block nice 6th edition swords and I like the yellow horsies.

Thanks Fandir,

I still need to try an ink on the lower part of these pistoliers horses to see if I can get a more "palomino" look.

So there is one my spear block, the yellow sleeve. When not campaigning, the fellow are assigned to guard the south gate of the city next to the reik going to Marienburg. As many of them have relatives or are coming from the independent city, they choose to die their right sleeve in yellow.





the unit-filler "all the road lead to Altdorf"


I don't know why the pictures came up so blue...

Any comment is appreciated.

Porkix

Very nice work!

Your pictures are coming out so blue because you aren't using the correct white balance on your camera. In layman's terms you are probably using the wrong light setting on your camera. Try changing the lighting settings on your camera to one of the other ones, ideally it should match the lighting you are using. Your camera is compensating for the lack of blue light in your light source. If your camera can do a manual white balance that's even better, but you'll need to read your owner's manual to find that out because each camera is different. Also don't mix the types of lighting you are using. Use either all florescent, or all incandescent, or only sunlight. You also should be able to do some post processing to adjust the photos to reduce the blue.

Merry Christmas fellow generals,
1st here is my complete unit of pistoliers (I admit i didn't touch up the colour of the horses, so much things to do...)


Then here is my outriders: the wild fire of Sigmar that rain death on the enemy of the empire, love these guys.




Finally my version of the griffon templars knights stationing in Altdorf. I am pretty happy how they turn out.







C&C are welcome.

Porkix

I like the variety of bits you used to put together those Griffon templar.

Well done!