Thank you all for your kind comments.
@Count Von Bruno: Yes, there are a lot of them, and I did have a slight sinking feeling in December looking at my painting table full of Squats waiting to be painted!
I really wanted to keep that Rogue Trader feel to the army and I am glad you liked it, and also the conversions and subsistutions. I decided I wanted to tie the army in with my Rogue Trader Ork army and have them as adversaries with a common theme, the World War 2 -esque vibe. I also wanted to keep the certain individuality to the Squats which you have in your Squat army.
@Cheetor: Yes, it took me about 3 months to do. Once I settled on a simpler uniform colour they were a lot easier and quicker to paint. Glad you liked the idea of the group shots and then a selected few, I felt it was the best way to photograph the whole army without having to do hundreds of photographs.
I started doing a few rear shots on some of the Iron Claw Goblins a little while ago, but I have decided to do more of them recently. It occured to me that a lot of people might not have or have seen the miniatures anywhere other than catalogues or in blogs. So if I take rear shots then people can appreciate the miniatures more and sometimes be suprised by some of the sculpting that they might not know about.
As I am an old Rogue Trader player I do tend to appraoch the older armies from a purist point of view of not wanting anything post Rogue Trader or contemporary in them. That is'nt to decry those who do, it is just I like to keep them all retro. It also helps that I can because I was collecting them at the time too!
@theottovonbismark: glad you liked the theme. I thought it would be fun to give them a theme to tie them together,giving them an identity, and acting as an opposite to my 'German' style Space Ork army. It also amused me that they are a little (excuse the pun) piece of Brighton and Hove in the 41st millennium.
I posted this on the Space Dwarf forum on how I approached painting the army :
-It did also help that I simplfied the paint scheme, but I have always been a fast painter when I have the time.
The key was to pick an overall block uniform colour, and then one colour for the equipment and pounches. That meant that the main bulk of the painting was quick to do, and then it is only a case of doing the flesh, knives, and guns in batches which is simple. Once that is done I can take each miniature individuality and just add the few individual details such as perhaps the occasional different coloured knee pad or item of equipment/goggles. Then give them a quick ink wash as I go.
The Warlords, Hearthguard, and bikers required a little more time, but the same basic pinciples applied.
It is the undercoating and varnishing that takes time (as I do all that by hand rather than spray), and the basing that took a couple of evenings.
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