Painting Exchange: 40K Officers and Chaos... Person
Things have been a bit Team Yankee heavy lately, so I'll save our last battle report for a few weeks' time. As Facebook friends will know, I've been busy lately with my Masters' disseration (The Challenges of Brigade Command for Volunteer and Professional Officers in the American Civil War... anyone fancy a read? No?) Despite this I've been busily painting away, most recently on three models for Zzzzzz.
Quite how the pair of these lovely models fit into the intricate and lovingly-crafted background fluff of Zzzzz's blog is beyond me, but I was just happy to paint them. There was also some Chaos-shaped chap, whose name I was unsure of, but who was an absolute delight to paint. They were a nice chance to try a one-off project and experiment with some new techniques.
Red is not an easy colour to paint, but it looks fantastic. The bronze was harder - mine has settled in its pot so it took two attempts to get it right.
Officer Number One. I went for an Imperial Russian-inspired theme here (using my RJW Russians as an inspiration), with bottle-green trousers and a nice white tunic.
Officer Number Two. As Zzzzzz so delightfully put it when I asked if he wanted them in the same uniform: "Paint them differently. How else are they supposed to give conflicting advice?" I went for a Germanic theme here, but with gold trim so it wasn't obviously German. If I'm honest I wasn't too pleased with the face - I never am. But if anyone asks about his weird twisted expression, just tell them he has duelling scars.
Ed
Quite how the pair of these lovely models fit into the intricate and lovingly-crafted background fluff of Zzzzz's blog is beyond me, but I was just happy to paint them. There was also some Chaos-shaped chap, whose name I was unsure of, but who was an absolute delight to paint. They were a nice chance to try a one-off project and experiment with some new techniques.
Red is not an easy colour to paint, but it looks fantastic. The bronze was harder - mine has settled in its pot so it took two attempts to get it right.
Officer Number One. I went for an Imperial Russian-inspired theme here (using my RJW Russians as an inspiration), with bottle-green trousers and a nice white tunic.
Officer Number Two. As Zzzzzz so delightfully put it when I asked if he wanted them in the same uniform: "Paint them differently. How else are they supposed to give conflicting advice?" I went for a Germanic theme here, but with gold trim so it wasn't obviously German. If I'm honest I wasn't too pleased with the face - I never am. But if anyone asks about his weird twisted expression, just tell them he has duelling scars.
Ed
Wow! Love the Kharn fig. Yer right about that red, looks everso effective and he'll never complain about blood splatter.
ReplyDeleteThose officers are extra cool. Where are the sculpts from?
Haha exactly, like the British tankers chosing black overalls.
DeleteThey're part of a series from Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/822163699/astropolis
Great painting.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the dissertation- I know how much time they can take up, just waiting on my final result now.
Cheers,
Pete.
Pete.
Thank you kindly Pete - yes, I find myself at a bit of a loose end now! What was yours on?
DeleteMine was entitled 'Paramilitarism and Reprisals in the Anglo-Irish War', was fairly pleased with it inthe end. Have you decided what you are going to do post MA?
DeleteCheers,
Pete.
Sounds interesting, and rather heavy! Excellent, it really is a massive sense of achievement when it was done. Nothing specific yet, I'm looking into the possibility of taking it further, as I feel there's more work to do on the subject, but I am taking a few weeks off first.
ReplyDeleteLikewise - I'm taking it easy for a bit whilst I decide on what to do next- l also want to expand upon my MA so will look around for a PHD.
DeleteCheers,
Pete.