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Nadir Steppe Riders¶

I started to batch paint the riders, but their clothing and equippment is too un-uniform, so I gave up on that approach and continued to paint single models. The first two are done:

Published 2016-07-06 10:27:12

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The ponies are done, next are the riders.

Published 2016-06-23 10:34:59

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After painting all the leather parts, all equipment on the animals was repainted black; it will be painted together with the riders.

After that, all areas were given a wash.

Published 2016-06-14 10:40:47

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Today I added the black and brown areas of the piebald/skewbald scheme. I have the ponies set up in three columns according to the base grey they were painted in. For the blobs I choose three colours as well (black, dark and medium brown), and painted the models in rows in the same colour. This way each base grey has each blob colour once, for maximum diversity.

For the distribution of the colour, I painted these sitting in front of Google image search.

The manes and tails were painted as looked good according to the pattern on each horse, with either using the blob colour, black or white mixed with some tiny dots of different browns.

Published 2016-06-08 10:11:07

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Nadir Steppe Riders¶

I started to paint the ponies. They will all be piebald or skewbald, so I started by painting all of them white - or rather in grey, as a shade colour. I painted the base colour in three different greys, and will paint the black/brown blobs in three colours as well, combining each grey with each black/brown to get the most variety into the unit.

I also came up with the background story of this unit:

Nadir - Pony Shoe Tribe

The Nadir are a nomadic people living on the steppes to the east of the Hegemony - also called the Dark Lands. They live in tribes, each tribe's wealth being measured in the number of cattle they posess and can keep alive; which means to find them water holes and grazing grounds.

As the good spots often are already occupied by other tribes, clashes between tribes are common. Also increasing one's own number of cattle orse women often happens by taking them from other tribes - which of course resist.

For a long time, the tribes suffered a lot from the other tribes as well as from those, that the Dark Lands got their name from - Goblins, Beastmen, Hobgoblins and all other kind of creatures.

Some years ago, the prophesized uniter seems to have emerged - ilKhan Ulric Gemmell. He managed to mitigate hostilities between tribes (by for example assigning time slots to the usage of the most sought after water holes) and managed to have the tribes act together to a certain degree; for example with combined raids of several tribes against dangerously large groups of Goblins. There is still a long way to one united people of Nadir, but the first steps on this difficult path have been taken.

Gemmell also got into contact with the neighbouring humans. Trade agreements have been concluded, as well as military alliances been forged against common enemies. One of the units of Nadir sent support against evil raiding creatures is Nogsta's company of light horse. Their tribe, the Pony Shoe Tribe, had good contacts outside the Nadir people anyway, as their grazing grounds were always near to their non-Nadir neighbours and trade relations were always good.

Anyone knowing where I "borrowed" most of this background from?

This unit represents the Border Horse allowance of the Oldworlder Ally Contingent. They can be armed with spears, shields and/or bows, all of which can be found amongst these models.

Published 2016-06-07 23:30:29

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An der Faehre Village Guard Rebasing¶

Rebasing Done!

Published 2016-06-07 11:15:31

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Today I finished the camel. On to the ponies.

Published 2016-06-06 10:32:52

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The horses (and the camel) were given a quick basecoat out of a spray can, as I didn't find the time to get out the airbrush. After the bases were done, I started by painting the camel.

I started by painting the main fur 72.061 Khaki, the dark fur and the hooves 72.744 Dark Fleshtone and the light fur with a mix of 72.061 Khaki & 72.046 Ghost Grey. Fur the muzzle I mixed black into the mix.

The Khaki was given a wash of 72.092 Brown, the dark fleshtone a wash of 73.201 Black. Both areas where then highlighted in the base colours.

The khaki was then highlighted further with a mix of 72.061 Khaki & 72.097 Pale Yellow; the dark fur was lightly drybrushed with 72.744 Dark Fleshtone & 72.061 Khaki.

To tone the yellow done a bit, I applied a light glaze of 73.203 Umber Wash.

The light grey parts where highlighted with 72.046 Ghost Grey.

Finally, the grey parts were washed with 73.203 Pale Grey Wash.

The red cloth was painted as follows:

72.772 Red Terracotta
73.203 Umber Wash

&

73.201 Black Wash
72.772 Red Terracotta
72.712 Scarlett Red

Published 2016-06-03 11:48:31

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An der Fähre Village Guard Rebasing¶

This is a short revisit of an already finished project. With the second unit of the Oldworlder Ally Contingent I started to use metal bases instead of the classic plastic ones. So the bases on the village guard have to be replaced.

Removing the plastic bases was no problem, only some boots need to be repainted as the Vallejo basecoat sticked so well to the sand, that pealing the sand off the base also ripped the paint off some of the boots in one go. But this will be quickly repaired.

The plastic bases were marked on the bottom as the models only align in certain positions. With a Dremel I cut the markings into the metal bases, then painted them. There is some kind of protective coat on the metal, so I wasn't sure if the cutting would make the metal susceptible to rust.