I just realised that I haven't posted in a couple of months - mostly because I have ground to a halt, hobby-wise! I got most of the way through an Empire Knight unit for Warmaster and thought it looked superb. Here's the finished test strip with a coin for scale.
Alas, I burned myself out and felt I must do something different, having spent so long doing nothing but Warmaster.
Then an unfortunate thing happened - I got excited about another army and game system!
So I have been on eBay and on the GW webstore and have some lovely Lord of the Rings armies of Good - namely "Fiefdoms" and Gondor. Essentially, Fiefdoms is a catch all for allies of Gondor - including all the things mentioned in the books that didn't even get a nod from Peter Jackson in the films.
I love the idea of having a pool of troops to make a small army or warband in a similar scale to a SAGA battle but with fantasy elements. LOTR focuses less on units but rather each individual model and it's placement and luck in combat is important, with different elements able to support one another.
I splashed out on nice resin bases from Mico Art Studios and faffed about basing them and prepping them, then the first thing I did was make a huge cock up!
I went to undercoat them with this grey spray paint I got from GW.
Well, apparently, the non black and white colours that GW have are not actually primers like the ones from rival companies are.
They are still meant to be sprayed over primer.
So now I have 10 infantry and 6 cavalry which look OK to the naked eye but I'm googling and getting mixed answers from people who say it will peel and others saying it's fine. After leaving it for a day the paint did not scrape off even when scratching my nail across it. My current thinking is that - I can't be bothered properly stripping all these fellas, so I'll only strip the metal models as metal chips so easily.
Then I'm going to buy an Army Painter white and blast them all with that. When I finish painting models I always paint on Vallejo Matt Varnish in a few coats, so I'm hoping that will be good enough to secure against my indiscretion.
Always read the fine print, kids!
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