Field of Glory Dark Ages Armies

Here are some shots of two Field of Glory Dark Ages armies were working on for a customer. The first is a Norman army and the Second is an Anglo-Danish army. They will appear much darker in these photos due to the black bases sucking up a lot of the light. The final flocking will lighten them up quite a bit.

We'll flack and finish these up this weekend. Once they are completely done I'll take more pictures and perhaps do a comparison. It should illustrate why I hate taking pics of stuff before they are completely done as they just don't look right.

All figures are Old Glory 15's.

First up are the Normans. These are the spearmen:

Next are the Norman archers:

Here are the Norman command stands.

Dismounted Norman knights:

The Norman knights:

Next we have the Anglo-Danish army. The first pictures are of the Huscarls:

These are the Anglo-Danish slingers and javeliners:

These are the Anglo-Danish greater fyrd. Since these come from the upper classes we made the clothes a bit brighter and the shields have more patterns and variety:

 The poor-quality fyrd, or lesser fyrd. These are the lower class warriors, so we made the clothes a bit darker and ruddier. Also, the shields are simple with only one color:

 The lesser fyrd arranged in a line as a shield wall:

Finally the Anglo-Danish command stands:

More High Elves!

Well, here we go with some more High Elves.  This happens to be the last of this batch for the Isle of Blood box.  This was yesterday's project: High Elf Mages, Sword Masters of Hoeth and Lothern Sea Guard.

This is the whole lot of them.  The thingies on the blue bottle lids are the mages and one flag.  When I can't hold onto something I put it on a bottle cap that has the blue tacky putty on it.  This helps me let it dry without leaning it on something and then having it fall over.

 

You can see that things are only based coated and only the Mithril Silver is washed in Badab Black.

For the two Bladelord Kalaer figures I've decided to make them stand out, one in Red (Model Color) and one in Ocher (CVC).  The red will eventually be highlighted with Red (CVC) and Vermillion (CVC) and the Ocher will go to Ocher 15 and Ocher 11 (both CVC).

Sea Master Althin stands out in the same reds as above.  The blues are the same as on the Reavers, Regal Blue.

Yep, I haven't gotten far with these yet.  I was on a roll yesterday, started around 9am, took a break at lunch, then ended at 5.  Oh, and don't forget that I messed around in between with bathing, getting drinks and Facebook.

Too much school work for this evening so I might not get much more done this weekend.

High Elves Reavers - Finally Finished!

So, it didn't really take me this long to finish them.  I just had tons of other stuff to do and I've been working every day now as a substitute English teacher.  Here are the finished products from roughly where I left of in the last post.

Here they are with the base Burnished Gold color added as well as the Regal Blue.

Now I've added the skin tone of Golden Shadow (Reaper M.S.), pseudo-Dallimore Golden Highlight (R.M.S.) and wash in Ogryn Flesh.  The Feathers are in Stained Ivory (R.M.S.), highlighted in Creamy Ivory and washed in Sepia wash.

Now, I've added Red (Cel-Vinyl Colors) to the feathers and they are to be washed in Leviathan Purple.  Red (Model Color) has been added to the gemstones and will be detailed in Red (CVC) and Yellow Orange (CVC) with a white accent dot.

You'll notice that the white has been added to the enamel inlays on the horses gear.  I used Gray 1 (CVC) and White (CVC).  The blue enamels are just Regal Blue and Deep Sky Blue.

This is a pretty good close-up.  You can really see how taking the time to do the gems is important.  They really seem to glow.  Eventually, after a clear matte spray, they will be glossed to make them extra shiny.  I also add that making sure you put a dot of white in the horse's eye is important.  The eye will also get a touch of gloss when it's all done.

The various stages of the blue are as they are in the White Dwarf for the High Elves: Regal Blue base, pseudo-Dallimore on Enchanted Blue, then p-D a mix of Enchanted Blue and Deep Sky Blue (they call it Ice Blue in Citadel Colors) and a final tiny highlight of Deep Sky Blue...just a sliver.

My number one suggestion is this.  Don't go overboard with colors.  Sometimes we think that colors will go well with each other and they don't.  Because I didn't feel like thinking about color choices I went with what the White Dwarf offered by way of pictures.  I changed things a little and since I don't know exactly what they used, I used comparable colors from my own paints.

Another nice color combo for these would have been purples instead of blues.  I've seen some people do High Elf armies in purples (royalty) instead of blues (nobility).  Perhaps you'd do it just to make these Reavers stand out.  Another thing to do would be to make the gems different colors.  That wouldn't be too much, it wouldn't distract from the model.  Technically there are two units of Reavers here, I was going to make the gems of one unit green and the others red.  In the end I just chose to make them all red.  I could have done the same with the feathers to differentiate the units.