The Cornerfag Paints again! (AKA Not so very weekly)

Hello everyone!
Sorry for my lack of updates lately, I decided to take a little break from most things related to gaming in general, except my gaming evenings. But I'm back now, and I've brought some pictures of what I've managed to do since last!
First up, my skeletons.
These were with speed in mind, as I had promised myself to make at least ten of them per day, which made speed a necessity. The colour scheme goes as follows:

1: Spray white (Army Painter spray, the dull white).
2: Fill up areas where the spray missed with skull white.
3: Paint cloth in a thinned down Hawk Turqoise. If it's thinned enough, it will act like a thick wash and sink into the cloths' recesses, letting the white shine through where it protrudes and effectively create an automatic highlight.
4: Paint the rest of the fudging mini. (Essentially, I just randomized colours. For metallic areas I varied between Boltgun metal, Mithril silver, and Shining gold. For wood I used Scorched Brown, and for other things like scabbards and such I went with more Turqoise / Grey / Brown.
5: Paint shields as you'd like (I actually painted the Turqoise on the shields while I had Turqoise on my brush, and the black whilst there was black). Outline with w/e metallic.
6: Apply god liqui-- I mean Devlan Mud.
The result:






I'm pretty satisfied with them, actually...

And now
I'm sorry, but I just couldn't help myself
For some reason, I've gotten into another Infinity hype.
I just can't help myself because IT'S SO AWESOME
...
Well, either way
I painted up my Reverend Custodier (She is the sweetnoodles, dat mini).
It's done differently from my Tomcat when it comes to colours, and to be frank, I like Miss Custodier more. So she'll be the model for the rest of my "army"'s (well, not really an army since it's a skirmish-sized game...)colour scheme.
I didn't really have any technique when I painted her, it was more of a "paint this area, paint that area, highlight this area..." approach. Which, combined with the sweetness that is Infinity's detailed minis, ended up in quite a time-consuming project.
The main colours are: Space Wolf Grey, Warlock Purple and Blood Red. A mix of Chaos Black and Codex Grey made the cloak, watered down skull white stood for the Highlighting, and then some codex grey on the gun.
Turned out like this:




And that's all for me this week!
Keep rollin' 'em dice!

The CF's almost weekly 2!

Woot, already been two weeks?! I've been so busy. I still am, and I'll tell you why in today's almost weekly (which is, I admit, a little rushed).
I've been trying to expand my Black Knight units from 5 to 15. I'm almost there, having assembled 9 more horses (the tenth is going to be a Wight King, AWW YEAAHH).
Anyways, it's looking pretty good on that front, so I'm satisfied.


The other thing that's been keeping my busy and working is that my Mantic Games Skeletons and Zombies arrived! 120 Skeletons and 60 Zombies to assemble, and they're sadly not going to assemble themselves!

There's about 60 - 70 of the Skeletons in that picture. That means there's at least 50 left, as well as 60 zombies! -sigh-

But anyways, for today's topic, let's have a short review of the Mantic Skeletons, shall we?
The first thing that... stroke? Striked? Whatever, the first thing that straught me was the level of detail and armour compared to GWs own skeletons. Where GWs skeletons range from nude to loincloth+shield, Mantic's range from Loincloth+shield to chainmail, ex-clothing, pretty helmets, birds eating their flesh and shield. That's a plus for me. I've always wanted my skeletons to look like they're actual dead warriors, and now they do!
The second thing that came to me where the pretty little bits. It's not so much, but now I have 6 tombstones, 6 skeleton Wolfrats and 5 skeletons bursting out of the ground (a champion took the sixth skeleton for his hand weapon). It's just a little something that made me a bit happy anyway. Everyone loves bits!
Third difference I notices was their faces, and I'm not sure if this is positive or negative. It's the fact that the Mantic Skeletons have their faces slightly twisted into expressions (mostly anger from what I can see, or just seriousness), unlike GWs in this case slightly more realistic skeletons whom have little to no expression at all. But I have yet to decided if it's good or bad. It's slightly silly and unrealistic, but it adds character and make them seem slightly more frightening.
Another bad thing was that the MG skeletons weren't as well done when it came to the bones. To many ribs and such, not like a real skeleton. But that is countered by the extra armour, so I'm fine with that.
Next thing in the list of differences is the poses. GW skeletons has the pose of marching forward. Mantic has the pose of standing still.... More or less. Although you would believe it to look bad on the battlefield, it actually does not. If you want an example you're familiar with, look to the ranged infantry units in your army. In almost every case these will be standing on their place, not marching forward.
And the last thing (and the thing I loved the most) was the simple effectivity of assembling them.
Every lower part (from feet to stomach) is in one piece, for every skeleton. Then there are six complete upper parts, six upper part where you get to choose weapons (Spears, Swords, Axes, or a flail), and eight where you may customize a little bit (Choose head, gear for both hands, sometimes even pose the arms...).
So there's like the generic guys, the slightly generic guys, and the characterful guys. Yay!

I'm not even gonna bother telling you the price comparison. Let's just say Mantic aren't GW.

And for a final, a little size comparison between them and some VC models!


As you can see, they scale pretty well. The Grave Guard may look shorter, but he's hunched forward, and even so still more bulky than the little warrior, so he appears larger in any case.

All in all, it's a win for Mantic Games. I know where I'm getting my future Skeletons from, should I ever need more.


Now, as a final note is the thing that spurs me so currently.



The convent Gothcon is coming up! It's during April, 6ht to 8th I believe. And I decided to join their WHFB tournament. I need to have everything bought, painted and assembled by then!
I've made a rough list of what to bring, so that's planned. It includes be buying two Necromancers and my kitbashed Vamplord. That'll be a good 400 crowns. Some Direwolves are also needed, basing materials, new Movement trays and foam trays for my GW bag. Also spraypaint and more paint. I'm not even sure I'll have enough money. This will be rough.
But I'm gonna make it!