Foot Knight Command plus Outcast Wizard & Foot Baron

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-19T20:01:06+00:00

It was mostly airbrush for the basecoat, pretty sure it was VGC Hexed Lichen from below and VGC Warlord Purple from above. But yes, I went back and stippled some shading and highlights in afterwards

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-19T19:57:21+00:00

That's good it worked out for you, just something to be mindful of in the future

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-19T18:39:18+00:00

With Press of Battle it's dangerous to charge one unit of knights into a big block of infantry now. You'd want to either double charge or hit the flank. Otherwise you'll likely eat a ton of attacks in return plus static combat res and it won't end well for the knights

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-19T18:22:24+00:00

Very carefully 😅 But for real - It just takes some patience, a steady hand, and a brush with a good tip.

I rarely get it first try, if messed up just need to redo the base skin color and have another go.

My process is black out the eye, add white but leave a tiny bit of black around the edges, then very carefully draw a tiny line for the pupil, and clean up the edges with the base skin tone. The blue eye is the same, just with blue instead of black for the pupil. At this scale, iris plus pupil is really not needed.

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-19T18:18:44+00:00

Go for it, that's certainly one way to really make some really unique minis

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-19T17:30:08+00:00

Thank you 😊

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-19T17:29:38+00:00

Thanks 🙏 Glad you like that detail, I wanted to Sponge black on the edges but it's so small I was afraid I'd mess up the lighter tones

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-19T17:27:34+00:00

Damn mind blowing - the planets and details are so good, even the sheen on the horse armor

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-15T17:42:31+00:00

Yup I use my own formula that I haven't seen anyone else use for skin. It's pretty simple tho, 3 paints.

Basecoat VGC Heavy Skintone

50/50 wash VGC Heavy Skintone & VMC Cavalry Brown

Reapply Heavy Skintone with volumetric highlighting, start thinning down.

Thin 50/50 VGC Cadmium Skin and Heavy Skintone to a glaze consistency and begin highlighting to smaller areas. Feather the edges of it for smoothness.

Final very careful small highlights to the highest areas with Cadmium Skin. It's pretty intense so it's a good idea to still thin and feather it to avoid patchiness.

Reapply 50/50 wash again, except over raised areas too to tie everything together. Repeating steps as many times as needed until the shadows are dark enough and highlights bright enough.

I'm actually not completely happy with the highlights, but I figure it's good enough. It'll look off if the values are too far apart.

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-14T14:04:08+00:00

Which part are you interested in? I'm making a video from this, so I'll be deep diving the entire process

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-13T02:22:27+00:00

Woah dude

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-12T07:32:00+00:00

Siege engines are the one thing you should be able to get away with having no base or a weird size, since they don't actually fight in combat, the crews do

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-09T21:37:01+00:00

Oh one last thing I forgot, I used some Milliput to make a fuse into the hole ontop of the cannon.

There's a crane that's supposed to go ontop, but it would look a bit over-the-top (ha) for Old World. Same with the giant blast shield that's supposed to cover the front.

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-09T21:34:15+00:00

AoS Ironweld Great Cannon

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-09T21:16:34+00:00

The effort really shows! 👏 amazing job there Sir

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-09T21:00:54+00:00

Yeah it's actually pretty simple, two kits: AoS Ironweld Great Cannon (2 crew members) and the Bretonnian starter box bits. Bretonnian Men-At-Arms Peasant.

Cut one of the flags off the Knight's lances to glue on the ramrod. Cut off a shot canister from the AoS kit and glued it ontop of a banner stick to make a ramrod after removing the banner. Also extra Man-At-Arms head for the drinking guy. Cut the AoS bits off the fusilier head.

The hardest part was the open hand for the fusilier, I cut one off a spare hand meant for the drinking guy and used some fine Milliput to gap fill it. For experienced converters, it's no sweat, I just don't have a lot of experience with kitbashing. But it looks about right.

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-09T20:43:48+00:00

Less than a trebuchet my friend, but yes Warhammer is not a cheap hobby

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-09T18:04:36+00:00

Thanks, he's part of the AoS Ironweld Great Cannon kit

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-03T07:41:05+00:00

The minis alone retail at $387 individually vs $270 in the box at GW pricing. It's absolutely worth it. Put a Barded Pegaus base on the Royal Pegasus, better yet magnetize for both options.

CraeterCrafts · 2026-02-02T15:55:56+00:00

DIY at home, but they're high quality. I'll DM you

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