My first completed
Clan War figure and, as tends to be the way with prototypes, one that I am not terribly happy with.My first completed
Clan War figure and, as tends to be the way with prototypes, one that I am not terribly happy with.
Essentially the problem is that the armour needed a much darker basecoat, under the existing blue, in order to bring out some of the detail.
That said, the result is acceptable for "one of the masses". The only ink is on the flesh, so there is no major delay whilst waiting for multiple ink washes to dry. The light blue clothing is pale enough that there is no real gain in highlighting, saving a bit more time.
Fourteen of this figure are to be found in the Daimyo Edition boxed set, and seven of them are destined to look like this. When I come to do the remaining seven, in addition to first painting the armour a much darker blue, I will take a pair of pliers and twist the head to face more in the direction of the bow.
Colours (Games Workshop Palette): Dark Flesh, Skull White, Chaos Black,
Burnished Gold, Bleached Bone, Flesh Wash, Space Wolf Grey, Fortress Grey,
Enchanted Blue, Bubonic Brown.
For reasons that now escape me, when I started these figures (quite some time ago), I chose to join many of the bases together. Probably the idea was to make it easier to move models around the table top, stand them on slopes, position them into archers row, et cetera. Now, I'm not so sure it was a great idea. If nothing else it does make deployment a lot faster, with 14 figures taking up only 6 or 7 bases. In future, I would probably stop at three figures per base, as the four man base is a little too unwieldy. (The image clearly shows two figures in the front row sharing a common base. The four archers in the back row also share a single base).
The movement tray is from the standard Games Workshop off-the-shelf pack. For £3.00 you get eight trays: four 8 base (2 x 4) and four 12 base (3 x 4).
The blue of the armour is being misrepresented in these images (probably due to the flash) and is in reality several shades darker than you see here. If you look closely you'll notice that many of the heads now face in the same direction as the bows.
---Steven