Fred's 2015 Painting Diary

[toxicpixie]

I haven't even flicked thru the livin rule book let alone played Epic for an alarmingly long time, but iirc 'nids used to be lose-lose-WIN BIG when you just went in unchecked

[fred.]

Had a bit of a tidy up tonight - my painting mat had so much dried paint and sand on it, it was getting quite abrasive, and I was worried that in progress models might get scratched.

So this is what it looks like now

Shiney!!


This is what I took off the painting desk - enough to fill a whole layer of a Really Useful Box


That is rather too many projects to have on the go at once. 28mm for KoW - which were supposed to be quick wins. Some 10mm Jacobites, 8th Army tanks, two Tyranid Bio-Titans, some 6mm DAK aircraft, and a few random terrain bits.

I also found loads of cocktail sticks and bits of skewer used for mixing paint and moving filler around on bases.

[Techno]

That cutting mat is FAR too clean, Forbes ! 
(Or have you turned it upside down ?) 
Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Perhaps. Flick back a page to see what it used to look like - a big brown mess....

[fred.]

Various updates from the last few days or so

Played KoW2 with the latest beta lists on Friday night. Elves vs Men, 3000 pts a side - was a great game, initially seemed to be favouring the Men, but the Elves fought, back and eventually their shooting really told taking off a log the KoM infantry in the 4th turn. The work during the beta on the Army Lists has been great - and all by volunteers.

Made some wadi sides on Sunday from Foam board - they look fairly good - but forgot to take photos, and its too cold to go and get them from the conservatory now. But need to make a whole bunch more, as this was only 4 pieces each about 10" long.

Put together some flight stands tonight from some clear acrylic rod that arrived at the end of last week, the base is a large washer, and a Pendraken MDF base. With a magnet at the top of the stand, and another on the bottom of the plane.


Although the planes are 1/300th I think they look pretty good with the 10mm tank below

[Techno]

Looks good to me, that man ! 
Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice Fred

[fred.]

Thanks chaps.

After loads of procrastinating these flight stands were dead easy to make and seem to work well

[Matt J]

They look great Fred, consider that idea nicked. I was going to ask where you got the rods from but Amazon seems to be my friend 

[fred.]

I got mine from eBay. Mainly as I could get singles fairly cheaply. These are 3mm which are quite bendy, and I don't think would work if much loner than the current 15cm

[fred.]

Managed to grab a couple of quick photos of the wadi pieces



Need a something to fix the sand in place, and maybe a bit of dry brushing on the dark steep walls.

[fred.]

Not done a lot of painting the last couple of weeks - I seem to have spent a lot of time working on our groups home brew fantasy rules, these had been parked for a while as we have played a lot of Epic Armageddon in the first part of this year. But we have got back to fantasy gaming the last few weeks, which has led to a major review of the rules as we haven't played them for quite some time.

Did do a bit of modelling of the weekend - made up some curved sections of wadi. And stuck together another half of the Perry 28mm Afrika Corps box set - so although two desert projects, both in completely different scales!

Did manage to get in another game of Warband with my eldest daughter (well 2/3rd of a game, we ran out of time)

We played Lizardmen against Dragon Men (looking rather arabic in this outing)


The deployment, lizardmen in woods, dragon men in the distance.


Towards the end - both sides have lost a few units on the left flank. The Men are pushing forward in numbers on the right. The lizards are tying to back off into the woods to gain a defensive advantage as they were all forest walkers.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good looking game there!

[Techno]

....And nice piccies, too !
Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Thanks chaps

Good looking game there!

I think you are being generous, but thanks anyway! It was a fairly quickly put together one, and half the units are just blu-tacked to sabot bases