More work on my army

Well it's been a few months since my last post and I'm sorry but will leaving the army and finding a new job and getting settled as well as a few big painting commissions I had to put my guard to one side.

But now Iv turned my attention back to them and I have finally decided on a colour pattern for them, so hear are a few pics of the progress so far

I'm sorry about the picture quality but it was getting late.

I'm block painting the colours in as my intention is to DIP them using the Army Painter Dip.

As soon as I have them ready to DIP il post some more pics

The other stuff

So why has it taken over a year to get the guard army started?

Well I moved house twice got married and had a lot on in work and there were other painting bits like these

These are a current bit of work and not quite finished :)

Had a dabble in dystopian wars :)

Painted a lot of saga bits for fleebay :)

And for my friend Dave at WarGameStore 

Still chipping away with my vampire counts army but 90 zombies are TOTALY finished along with 75 skeleton warriors :)

Painted a lot of fames of war for me and for friends

Dipped a lot of FOW too :)

And got into bolt action :)

And along with all this 

Had major stomach operation

Got married

Got an asbo cat

Got a silly dog

And in 5 months this little person will arrive :)

So I've had a good excuse to put the project to one side but now it's seems like a good chance to kick start it into life and get it going :)

To Dip or not to Dip

So as I'm getting ready to start painting my new army I'm finding myself torn on the decision "should I dip them?"

 I've used the Army Painter dip loads of times now with great effect on 15mm upto 28mm but most of it has been rank and file so lots of models with little detail.

 I find the army painter primers are very good, both value and quality and come in a good selection from white and black primer through a decent selection of colours that match both 40k like blood angels, space wolfs and ultra marines all the way through to German grey for FOW or Bolt Action.

The dips come in three shades 

Soft tone.

Strong tone.

Dark tone.

Although there are a fantastic product and will deliver fantastic results for a decent painter it can feel like you are cheating or being lazy.

So this is my conundrum, do I make my life easy and just dip or do I put the effort in and paint my guard and use the standard method and take my time and build up the layers of paint and apply washes and highlights?

                           Or

Do I venture into that dark dark mysterious world of

Oil washes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!