The Yantar 8th A.K.A. Why didn't Bonehead do this while he was building and painting them?

[The Pounder]

Nice WIP pics!

 

How many do you own?
 

 

[Bonehead]

Ten horsey lads in total. I was thinking I'd like some more to make a proper platoon of them, but now I've found out how much work they are to paint, forget it.

I'll just do some light artillery or something.

[Tallarn Commander]

Looking nice! My Rough Riders took about 3 times as long to paint as it took me to paint a Tallarn infantry trooper.

Edited March 26 by Tallarn Commander

[Bonehead]

I think these are going to come in somewhere around the 7-8 times as long to paint range- for half as many. Man alive, there's just so much detail on them.

Managed to get a bit of minor progress in this week, as predicted, green and brown highlighted.

Flash:

No Flash:

We're getting there...

[Bonehead]

Mid-week painting progress?

Yeah, don't get too excited, it's just the eyes, and blacking in the metallics.

Still, with a bit of luck I'll be doing the horseys before the end of the week.

No flash:

Flash:

I think they're really starting to look pretty decent by now. Let's hope I can get the horseys as good as the riders.

That said, I'll definitely be taking a break once I finish this squad. Got backed up traitor guard for the baddies to finish.

 

[The Pounder]

Coming along nicely! Not too far from completion.

 

I’ve just finished building my first 5 Deathriders. 
 

I know what you mean about needing a break, they were a big investment in time.

 

 

[Bonehead]

Well, if mine end up looking as good as your command squad, it'll be worth it.

[The Pounder]

Thanks man, I’m sure you’ll nail it!

Edited April 10 by The Pounder

[Bonehead]

Nailing it non-confirmed.

But, I've made some decent progress. One of the horseys has served as a test model and I used up some of the mixes I made adding a little more detail on a few of the others.

First lesson learned: Mixing black with the zandri dust to pre-shade and add a darker muzzle is alright, but it would be better to add some brown to that mix. Probably quite a reddish brown. Second lesson learned: mixing reikland fleshshade with nuln oil is alright as a way to come up with a shading wash for the horse, but good old agrax is probably better on its own. Maybe diluted a little with wash medium.

It was late afternoon and the light was a bit funny, washing things out a bit, so my blending was abysmal, but I think it should be pretty easy to bring it back into spec with a little care.

Also having a bunch of reference pictures of horseys right there on a screen did help a lot:

Flash:

I'm thinking I might drybrush the mane and tail with black to get a nice effect going. We shall see. Rergardless, it's not bad for the first horsey I've ever tried to paint.

Here's the others, alongside him. The blending is more obviously bad in this shot (on the one with literally any blending at all on it):

And without flash:

I really do think the colour combination absolutely works.

 

[EmprahsStrongestGuardsman]

They turned out really nice. I like the choice of colours for the horse too.