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[Old Dwarf]

All your Base belong to OD ! todays work:

Bases:

The actual painting has started with the bases.
I like brown bases for army Units (some do green
but I just prefer brown). I use Reaper Brown
(which does require 2 coats to cover the black base coat)
& then highlight a dry brush of Reaper Orange Brown.

When doing army type Units I like to keep it simple
no flocking/grass/sand (they look neat on display
figs but I've found don't hold up well in moving Units
around on Battle Boards.)

The Doom(s) Campaigns use mostly BoT5A 20mmx40mm
bases which hold 2 strands of figs back to back so I
need to paint the bases before the strands are glued on
otherwise there's no room to between the strands.
There are few 25mm round bases for special characters.

The Bases have been completed & were left to dry.
In the afternoon I dry brushed the highlight &
boxed them up as I won't need then until I get some
Units painted. It'd basically get your base coat brush
& go to it but these bases are thin & although I tried
to cover the edges when painting it didn't work.So I
had to take 40+ bases & pick them up & do the sides.
It's a small detail but it looks like Hell if leave the sides
uncovered or partially covered.

I am afraid the Pot of Reaper Golden Brown I use is getting
low & once the fig strands are put on the base I use
the same paint on the strand bases so I may not have
enough paint for them. But I'll deal with that once the
figs are painted.

I did base up the single figs that go on the round bases
(so their easier to paint) & the figs I'm using from BL2
which I had to cut off their BL2 bases & glue them on
to the 40mmx20mm bases. (the Giant goes on 1 & 3
Oruks go an other & 2 Ogres go on a 3rd.

I also discovered that the BoT5A bases have 5 holes
that the strands bottom bases snap into don't work.
The pegs seem a tad big for the holes & the amount of pressure
needed to force then in place would damage the
figures.So I'm simply cutting off the pegs & will glue
the Strands directly to the Bases covering the holes.
Also on the Bases that will only have 1 or 2 figs the uncovered holes
look odd.So I had some extra regular WarMaster Bases without holes painted up for those
figs.



OD

PS-Damn Found out I was 7 bases short so I had to do them
in the evening. Also I found the Reaper Webstore
& ordered a pot of flesh & Earth (looks like they changed
the name from Golden brown but the paint # is the same'

Double Damn Damn this thing has mushroomed .I found some more Source Info
on the Erethor Campaign that showed the Shadow Forces Rivalry so I added
a Section to the Campaign Rules to handle it.

However that also required me to create another army "Sunauel's Fell Army
so 12 more Units added to be painted. The Units are a mixture of the Fell
(controlled dead dead of Human/orc/Elves).Which means
13 more 20mmx40mm bases & 1 25mm round base.