[Archive] Dînadan's blog (updated 21/12/15)

Dînadan:

More minor updates.

Had a tiny blob of putty left after some sculpting so decided to add a teeny rune of Hashut to the bull head on the BC banner:



WiP shots of characters:







Sorry for the low res-ness of the pics; blooming naff iPad camera :stuck_out_tongue:

Admiral:

Highly interesting sculpts. Well done!

Dînadan:

Thanks - just hope they look good when they’re finished :slight_smile:

Dînadan:

Played my first game with this army tonight using the fandex mentioned in my first post against Brets (unfortunately I forgot to take pics so can’t give a full turn by turn battle report), and got completely annihilated. By the end of turn one, I had lost a bull centaur and four warriors and my opponent had lost a mere two peasants. All seven models were killed by my opponent :(. By the end of turn five I only had a Sorcerer-Prophet and a Daemonsmith left and by the end of turn six they were both dead.

Still it was an enjoyable game, and my biggest problem was extremely poor rolling more than anything. Also, in hindsight I could probably have bunkered up a bit tighter; on my side of the board was a small cottage and two hedges forming a _| shape and I’d deployed my blunderbusses behind the hedge parallel to my board edge to benefit from the defensive position with the warriors protecting their left flank and the bull centaurs deployed alongside the stable between it and a rocky outcrop; in hindsight I think I should have deployed the blunderbusses where I’d deployed the BCs, the warriors behind the stable (where their flanks would be protected by the stable and the board edge) and tried to squeeze the BCs in between the blunderbusses and the short board edge to flank charge anyone going after the blunderbusses.

Fuggit Khan:

Some pretty cool sculpting skills you have…one of them looks just like the grandfather of my wife. Seriously.

Keep up the good work, I’m enjoying your stuff :hat off

Dînadan:

Thanks Fuggit :slight_smile:

Found some of the BfSP goblins when I was tidying up my painting room Sunday, so may have a go at converting them into hobgoblins at some point. Have also bitz ordered some thing to try and kitbash a Dreadquake, so hopefully will have some pics of that up soon.

Bloodbeard:

I’m looking forward to seeing those faces painted. Sculpting a face is pretty hard, with some paint they’re gonna look great.

Nothing like completly unique characters.

Dînadan:

Thanks Bloodbeard :). Sculpting faces isn’t too hard I find; I think the key is to take you’re time while doing it. With the faces on the above minis what I did was do a very basic face, using a bladed sculpting tool and gently pressing in lines for the mouth and eyes, then gently pushing the putty arround to get the lips, nose and more defined eyes and the using the other end of the standard GW sculpting tool to pressing the cheeks. Leave that to dry, then do the beard. When that’s done, use a small sausage of putty for the lower lip. When that’s dry, another one for the upper lip. Leave to dry, and add some more putty to do the nose, leave to dry again and add some more for the brow and if need cheeks.

For anyone looking to develop their sculpting skills, I highly recommend getting one of the tool sets from Heresy Miniatures - having a variety of tools helps a lot :wink:

Dînadan:

WiP painting shots of the BB stuff:

Hobgoblins:















Minotaur:



Bull Centaur:



Chaos Dwarf Blockers:











Dînadan:

The bitz I ordered to kitbash a Dreadquake Mortar have just arrived :slight_smile:

furrie:

it looks interessting, can’t wait to see it bashed together

Dînadan:

Thanks - just toying arround with how exactly to put it together now. One idea I’ve got which I probably won’t use is to have it firing down at the ground, so that instead of lobbing shells, it instead fires some sort of daemonic burrowing device.

Bassman:

Nice army. I love to comeback after few months and see that big hats are still fashionable.

Keep on with the good work!

furrie:

Nice army. I love to comeback after few months and see that big hats are still fashionable.
Keep on with the good work!

Bassman
There big hats, they are always fashionable.

Dînadan:

Thanks Bassman - agree with furrie, big hats are always fasionable.

Dînadan:

Finished the Bloodbowl team - take a gander at The Uzkulak Skulltakers:









Also, an update on the BC standard bearer:







Just need to base him now; hoping to enter him into a painting comp at my local club tomorrow :slight_smile:

Yodrin:

Nice BB team!

Your BC standard bearer looks great!!!

Dînadan:

Thanks Yodrin - just hope they perform well in my clubs BB campaign which is starting in a fortnight.

I’m really pleased with how the standard has turned out - only took two attempts to get the runes right :D. Metaphorical cookie to anyone who can translate the runes :wink:

ClawLeader:

I could be wrong, but… It says C litres x infinity which is less than gold fish.

Great work man, what are those models you’ve hacked up between the legs?

Abecedar:

No it must be “7 sidewise smiles is infinitely taller than a goldfish”.

Great BB team. And love the BC standard.