Am still chipping away at Macatai; really struggling with this one as I'm hopeless with greens.

So I'm making a start on my month #3 entry which is a specialist. I've opted for Macatai who wears the armour of a defeated giant preying mantis.

Finished the base thus far and made a start on her mantis caripace armour.

Started to add some flesh tones as well as garment base colours. Still a long way to go yet and am struggling with this one; it's fighting me.

Month Two Results - Deckhands

Here are the results for month two of ToG - Deckhands.

Month one Results

Month one has come and gone - here are the results and images.

Despite recent arrivals managed to burn the midnight oil to get my second pirate deckhand finished for month 2.

Here they are with their pirate queen boss.

Had Friday off this week, and a bit of time on Saturday to kill whilst looking after Tristan, so decided to lay into my deckhands for TOG 2015 Month #2. Decided to go for some Temple Guard to compliment my leader Xicoa. Here's how I got on:

Goblins Leader - Month One

Month one of my ToG has been completed. I've painted up Gront - a sort of Orc Pirate Sniper. Firstly - a huge model - I mean much bigger that my biggest Pirate model - it dwarfs Big Jenny!

As I am doing with all my models - an undercoat - I did until recently use Army Builder Black spray to achieve a good coverage and I've always used Black as a undercoat - its very forgiving! 

However, I have moved on and am using this stuff from Halfords - Grey Primer.  You get more for your money and its a lovely coverage. Just use it as you would for GW or Army Painter stuff.

Below - Gront Undercoated.

At this point I was going to do the Goblins with an overall colour scheme that involved Orange. Never done an orange army. Not going to do it this time. Didn't feel it fitted with Goblins and I think it might of ended up looking like alot of Day-glo jackets. It was painted over.

Below. Final Gront. I've found that purple seems to be my colour for Freebooters Fate. My pirates are a mixture of Black and Purple.  For the Goblins I've included a good few colours.

• Purple - its a good contrasting colour with the Goblins Green skin. Also purple will be used as a colour for some of the Gribblies that the Goblins seem to collect.
• Yellow - this is a nice colour for anything that needs a highlight on a dark model. Also contrasts well with purple.
• Brown - wood etc - you can get away from it in Freebooters Fate.
• Grey - just a nice neutral colour for basic materials.

I'm using GW paints for ToG - always tend to since personally, I like alot of their colours and inks.

I'll try to put some more bits on when I get to it.

Month 1 of tog ready arrrr!

Had a good painting session tonight and got the pirate queen done

Had a good run this morning and finished off my Xicoa:

Started to get some colour on her garment, mainly Bleached Bone with a Seraphim Sepia wash and then highlight. Added some gold to the jewlery and other details.

Finished. Highlights and shading now finished.

More progress on my Amazon leader Xicoa:

Did a bit more on the head dress; quite a detailed mini this one.

Next made a start on the base.

Thought I'd post some WIP shots of my Amazon leader thus far:

Skin added by shading the Palid Wytch Flesh base coat with watered down Rinox Hide.

Next went to work on the head feathers. Each feathers' chosen colour was blended out to Palid Wytch Flesh at the tip.

So it begins...

SDS ToG 2015 has started today!  Entrants into the Tale Of Gamers have until the first tuesday of August (04/08/2015) to complete their Leader model for their faction in Freebooters Fate.

So please either email me any photos or take your Boss figure down to the club.

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Scouring the net for a few ideas for my pirate crew and here is what I found:

Going to try and make the pirates look like a unified crew unlike the brotherhood who are all in different schemes as befits the fact most of them are loners

Colour Charts and picking Colours

Hi guys. Whilst not at the club tonight, i thought I would slap something on the blog for ToG. Choosing colours is one of the basic starting blocks of painting a force /army/faction.

I tend to go for contrasting armies so thought I would chuck a good page that looks at colours and contrasts for a theme that you might be thinking of -
click here

Goblin Gribblies

Since my Goblins will be ordered en masse in September, I thought I would start to gather some images I could use to help on the Giant Crabs and Octopus that two of specialists wield.
Note the purpleness of them. My wife will be happy ...