Well after a long break from painting and finding a job i finally found time and motivation to finish the dwarf miners and i even finished a unit of 20 night goblin archers !



Overall im happy with both units, the dwarves especially. I found with the goblin archers you get from the battle for skull pass boxed set that they aren't very interesting at all so i was a bit stumped with how to add a bit more colour to them. Im content with the banner bearer but i think i'll replace it when i get a box of night goblins to bulk out the 2 regiments. Since i like "clothy" banners.
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Well after completing the 2nd miner and my standard bearer, which took me ages btw. I have still low motivation in painting at the moment, maybe i need a change of pace or a break from painting. 

Since i know i want to paint more i decided i must be crazy and need a change from army building, so i dug out a couple phoenix lords and i will paint one of them. But the question is which one? Also i gotta prep the base to make them more interesting, <milliput at the ready> i finally found a place where they sell cork board, my local gaming store !!! after searching the whole town this is the only place which has any cork board.
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Well after 1 day of being lazy and just watching some anime (Heroic Age - very cool series with lots of fighting and big mecha) i managed to spark up some motivation to paint the dwarf miners i have, eventually completing one and about 70% done on a second. Keeping them in the same uniform as the dwarven warriors but giving them slightly less gold on their armour and more silver metal the first one turned out quite well (on the left of the photo). The second one is slowly getting there, still the metallics, the pouch and the candle to do, although i did start off thinking these were weird models with candles on their heads they are starting to grow on me. Plus i find myself spending loads of time trying to get their beards blended nicely so they don't look strange. Well its a good thing i enjoy painting beards or else a dwarf army really would be the wrong choice. Here's the sneak peek:...

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Well here is the completed dwarf thane, i was a little bit skeptical about using red on the dragon parts of his helm but they work well to pick out the model and they match his cloak nicely so yay looks good to me. Trying to keep him in a similar uniform with the dwarf warriors i painted and i gave him a grey beard to signify his age and experience to become a thane. The cloak gave me some problems where i blended up from scab red> blood red>hints of fiery orange and skull white but the end effect because i watered down my layers so much was a glossy sheen to the model, i keep finding this keeps occuring whenever i water down my paints alot. Oh well i gotta look into it and find out what to do, maybe some matt varnish will work....

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