Today is the start to a new goal. I have been invited to attend a local "Escalation" tournament, in which there will be three rounds. The first game starts at 500 points, the next at 1000 points, and the final round will be a standard 1500 point game. This sounds perfect for me to test my new Guard army in a more competitive setting, and also serves as a new motivator to have my force painted by the time of the competition, which takes place August 22 this month. Hopefully the scheduling works out, but I plan to attend, and so I begin my work on preparing for it.
First project nearly complete for the month is a Regimental Standard Bearer. I opted for a simple standard, quick and easy-like. I still have lettering and decals to apply, but this serves as a sufficient base to work with. I expect to be done with this fellow by tomorrow, and be working on another veteran squad (or possibly a chimera) by then.
I will be posting my new proposed lists for analysis when I draw them up. I am unsure yet as to the restrictions that will be placed on the way the points are spent in the lower-level games, but only the standard force organization rules apply then I already have a good idea of what I will be bringing to the table.
Until next time,
--FP135
For a quick and simple standard, he's cracking mate. I love the heavy weathered look, how did you do it?
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Which part, the metals or the standard? Usually, my answer is to use COPIUS amounts of badab black washes. For the metals, I use a base of tin bitz with mithril silver stippled over the top, finished with a heavy dose of badab black!
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