But the brainwashing operated by the White Dwarf magazine still works: even so many years after their publication, when I go through the pages where Mike McVey explained the making of his wood elves army, or Andy Chambers showed his skaven horde, the same old reflex comes again and again: "Hey, what if I painted an army?"
For the admirers of the Dwarf people, two issues were particularly inspiring (and still are): in March and December, 1991, Wayne England exposed his incredible Imperial Dwarf army, painted with some basic but efficient principles: simple colour schemes, grey beards on a black undercoat and a nice selection of Citadel and Marauder Miniatures models. The result was impressive, and I think it made me buy all the blisters I could find including a model painted by Mr. England.
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All right all right, probably 2013 and 2014 too :o)
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This article was also a huge inspiration to me and is certainly one of the reasons I hold dwarfs so dear. I can't wait to see your work progress...you can do it mate...one figure at a time!
ReplyDeleteHi Blue (and welcome to my 1st follower ^_^),
DeleteWell I will try: this blog is supposed to force me to make frequent updates and paint more than ten dwarves a year!
I remember one of those issues vaguely as well, always inspired me, still does, a simple paint scheme can always make any army look good if it's neat and consistant.
ReplyDeleteHello, I know this was up a while ago, but I'm trying to do just a unit of these guys: http://oldhammerinthenewworld.blogspot.com/2016/05/collecting-oldhammer-style-long-search.html
ReplyDeleteBut this was always amazing!
Nice. I'll check your progress then :)
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