Travelling players/townsfolk

Heroes for Wargames is excellent, every Oldhammerer should get it.

Those pjs are fookin' ace :grin:
 
stone cold lead":3eruegoq said:
Harry":3eruegoq said:
Magnifient. You are a talented chap. I dream of producing minis like this.

Do you paint mid tone then blend the shade and highlights or start dark and blend all the way up?
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Start dark and blend up. I sometimes go back and darken recesses or add a little extra depth with a wash or glaze though.

I learned to layer from the old Heroes for Wargames book and that was all based on starting with a darker shade base coat and working up over it.
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Thanks for the answer.

I would say .... wherever you learned it from originally .... you have perfected it now.
 
Hetz":1tbtcc2x said:
Heroes for Wargames is excellent, every Oldhammerer should get it.
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Definately!

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heroes-Wargames-Stewart-Parkinson/dp/1850280274

Some great lead porn in it and considering the time some cracking paint jobs.

The 'how to paint' bit is pretty brief but the colour table is handy. I bought my copy when I was 13/14 whilst on holiday in Whitby or Whitely Bay or wherever it was (7 days on a caravan site). I couldn't wait to get home at the end of the week so I could try out the new style of painting. Up until then I'd been doing things the way they showed in White Dwarf (paint all your base colours, wash each area with a suitable ink and then drybrush highlights) which was rather messy, and from the step by step guides they'd do was also a big con! The following Saturday as soon as we got home I dug out a plastic Skaven (fantasy regiments boxed set of course) and tried out the layering technique. The quality of my painting improved massively with just that one model (sadly I no longer have it).
 
stone cold lead":16vvec87 said:
Hetz":16vvec87 said:
Heroes for Wargames is excellent, every Oldhammerer should get it.
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Definately!

51IgmKcJYCL._SL500_AA300_.jpg


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Heroes-Wargames-Stewart-Parkinson/dp/1850280274

Some great lead porn in it and considering the time some cracking paint jobs.

The 'how to paint' bit is pretty brief but the colour table is handy. I bought my copy when I was 13/14 whilst on holiday in Whitby or Whitely Bay or wherever it was (7 days on a caravan site). I couldn't wait to get home at the end of the week so I could try out the new style of painting. Up until then I'd been doing things the way they showed in White Dwarf (paint all your base colours, wash each area with a suitable ink and then drybrush highlights) which was rather messy, and from the step by step guides they'd do was also a big con! The following Saturday as soon as we got home I dug out a plastic Skaven (fantasy regiments boxed set of course) and tried out the layering technique. The quality of my painting improved massively with just that one model (sadly I no longer have it).
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Ooh, makes me want to check the Tabletop Heroes WD articles, because I think I got the layering from there. But still, my efforts are nothing as good as yours. Really top stuff that goes beyond technique and really draws out the character. Have you ever done any of the Talisman range?
 
Hetz":210hvh7h said:
Heroes for Wargames is excellent, every Oldhammerer should get it.
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Agreed. It's cheap enough on ebay as well, I got mine in as new condition (it even smelled fresh off the press all these years on!) for a fiver. :)
 
Holy jam sandwiches of doom those are fantastic.. I hope to one day get somewhere near this level. I will certainly try working from dark up. Thank you so much for sharing these.


Regards whisper
 
phreedh":2bextwo3 said:
stone cold lead":2bextwo3 said:
http://stonecoldlead.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=11463151
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So THAT is where I got the inspiration for my own Talisman pilgrim.
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I actually prefer your version though as it's a bit more muted. I copied mine from the game card anyway, like I did with all of those models (hence the dodgy colour schemes on a few).

Glad everyone likes the townsfolk. The client might be sending me some more stuff from his lead pile to do so there could be some more goodies to show in the coming months.
 
phreedh":34ohyqji said:
Just out of curiosity, what's your rate for a fig painted to this level?
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These ones were £23 a piece (except the halfling) although I did end up putting a little extra work into some of them.
 
Thanks for the nice words, guys. I wrote Heroes when I was working at GW / Citadel. It actually ended up being a pain - the text was hacked apart by the publisher, because it was 'too advanced.' Oh well. Mind you, I was only 19 at the time and didn't know how to fight my corner against and editor. In parallel I was writing Blood Bowl with Jervis Johnson - first ever game was played in the kitchen of my flat in Nottingham, I seem to recall. Fun times...

Questions about that era welcome!

Stewart Parkinson
 
archveult":z6y5s7jh said:
Thanks for the nice words, guys. I wrote Heroes when I was working at GW / Citadel. It actually ended up being a pain - the text was hacked apart by the publisher, because it was 'too advanced.' Oh well. Mind you, I was only 19 at the time and didn't know how to fight my corner against and editor. In parallel I was writing Blood Bowl with Jervis Johnson - first ever game was played in the kitchen of my flat in Nottingham, I seem to recall. Fun times...

Questions about that era welcome!

Stewart Parkinson
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Hi Stewart and welcome! Just joined the site myself. I'm sure there are lots of questions for you to answer, must leaf through my own copy of the book tonight and get back to you ;)
Martin
 
archveult":1qn0q9gc said:
Thanks for the nice words, guys. I wrote Heroes when I was working at GW / Citadel. It actually ended up being a pain - the text was hacked apart by the publisher, because it was 'too advanced.' Oh well. Mind you, I was only 19 at the time and didn't know how to fight my corner against and editor. In parallel I was writing Blood Bowl with Jervis Johnson - first ever game was played in the kitchen of my flat in Nottingham, I seem to recall. Fun times...

Questions about that era welcome!

Stewart Parkinson
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Hi Stewart :grin:

Even if the text in HfW was hacked up it still made sense to my 14 year old self (I picked the book up at the beginning of the 90's). Like I mentioned, that 'how to paint' section set me straight and is pretty much why I paint the way I do now.
 
archveult":2d1wn5m6 said:
Thanks for the nice words, guys. I wrote Heroes when I was working at GW / Citadel. It actually ended up being a pain - the text was hacked apart by the publisher, because it was 'too advanced.' Oh well. Mind you, I was only 19 at the time and didn't know how to fight my corner against and editor. In parallel I was writing Blood Bowl with Jervis Johnson - first ever game was played in the kitchen of my flat in Nottingham, I seem to recall. Fun times...

Questions about that era welcome!

Stewart Parkinson
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Welcome Stewart and thanks for writing such a fantastic book! 8-)
 
"I love the book as well

Any chance you have all of the original text?"

Sorry, been overseas for an age and a half (I work now in conflict resolution, which really means that I wander through refugee camps being effectively totally gormless, and occasionally bandage up a goat. At least, that's what it feels like.)

I do have the text, scribbled, crossed out and full of doodles. Plus some figurine studies, from when I got bored.

Why? To me, it is just paper and ink...

Stewart
 
archveult":2jab2371 said:
"I love the book as well

Any chance you have all of the original text?"

Sorry, been overseas for an age and a half (I work now in conflict resolution, which really means that I wander through refugee camps being effectively totally gormless, and occasionally bandage up a goat. At least, that's what it feels like.)

I do have the text, scribbled, crossed out and full of doodles. Plus some figurine studies, from when I got bored.

Why? To me, it is just paper and ink...

Stewart
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Hi Stewart,

any chance you could post up some scans for us to oggle? What do you mean by figurine studies?

cheers
Steve
 
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