Last bit of pictures for a while and to prove that I have painted my whole 2 month project! Clanrats!! These out of all of them took the longest, as they include more colours and rat ogres. So why the rat ogres in the unit?
1. I was inspired by how cool Lizardmen units look with skinks and kroxigor.
2. I initially didn't want them to be a unit in the army, but have since changed my mind but going to make them out of the new minotaurs cos they are cooler.
3. I've been trying to look at how the army and each unit looks as a whole as particularly in fantasy it's more about the many where, more in the case of skaven, whereas in 40k its more about the individual. That's the way I see it anyway. So I wanted to make my units resemble the artwork more, a mass hoard of unruly different sized rats.
What do you think?
Ok so the banner followed the same principle of massed units and I thought it important to make him look a part of the unit and at the same time more important. Most fundamental though as far as the Battle Standard was concerned is that he isn't right at the front of the unit. Thanks very much for the inspiration Rich, I wouldn't have done it without your previous post.
I know the piuctures are out of order but technology beat me and can't work out how to move them!
When do we score?
Where is everybody as not many have commented in ages?
How do we judge the projects?
arrr thanks sam! They look really good, especially like what you've done with the standard and the rats surrounding him that looks especially good. (so much so that I fancy steeling the idea) I think what will make mixing the units work is getting the right balance, and so the numbers work well in bases (well maybe not so much the last point but I like the order of a unit). And being completely ignorant of rules in fantasy (having played a maximum of 2 games of it) I wouldn't know how the dynamics of a mixed unit would work. Great idea though mixing the units up
ReplyDeleteAgree the minotaurs are nice models, and flicking through the pages of white dwarf today fancy changing my army to them but that would be for models sake. Anyway! as for posting scoring etc. I think we should have a single post for everyone to put their 'done so far' pics in just 1 or two, and then let the james sort out the points. If he reads this in time what do you think!?
Seriously cool looking rats Mr Green!
ReplyDeleteI think the best thing is that everyone sticks up a picture showing the whole month's work, and then emails me a picture of their standard bearer and I'll put the whole lot in one post. My email is jamesseals1980@gmail.com