Battlescale Irish buildings

[pierre the shy]

I got inspired and painted up some recently delivered Battlescale 6mm crofts and a ruined church today in anticipation of some upcoming W3K Irish battles that we are planning.

Gave them a quick wash in warm soapy water to remove any resin gunk and primed them yesterday, today painted them up and applied a Agrak earthshade wash. They are a joy to paint and I'm very happy with the end result...as good as the picture on the manufacturers website, even if I do say so myself.

Cut out some card bases to mount them and got out my test pot of paint I use for base colouring (waiouru green) to find someone hadn't screwed the lid on properly, so the remaining paint had completely dried out     

So off to local stockist to get a couple more testpots tomorrow, as well as some suitable blue testpots for the pre-dreadnought bases that came in the same order as the Battlescale stuff.

Next stage is to tackle the remaining Battlescale stuff sitting on my work top that I have been stairing at for far too long.

I'll take some pictures in due course.     

[Steve J]

Looking forward to photos of the finished articles .

[paulr]

You have been busy

[Glorfindel]

Really interested to see how you get on as the recent Aughrim article inspired a look at the same buildings.   

[pierre the shy]

No pressure then   I hope they live up to people's expectations, most of my stuff is "wargame standard" at best.

We're looking at mid 1640's battles such as Benburb with purhaps 5 - 6000 per side. The later 1690/91 battles had more than 20,000 per side. That Aughrim refight looked great and was, IIRC, covering one part of the battlefield. Clib's 10mm LoA range is very nice indeed and covers the 1690's troop types well.

I don't think you will be disappointed by the Battlescale buildings Glorfindel - their celtic buildings have come up very nicely.

I'll put up some pictures once completed.

[d_Guy]

Be sure to keep water away from the card stock. 

[pierre the shy]

I got some more paint and have flocked the bases tonight. Just need to add some suitable tussock clumps and then hopefully take some pictures tomorrow, which is supposedly going to be sunny and get to all of 12 degrees C.     

[pierre the shy]

And here we are finally....

The ruined church:







The Irish crofts:

Front


Back


I've based them to fit within the 150mm squares that we use when playing "For King and Parliament" (church ruin is 120mm x 120mm and crofts are 60mm x 60mm). Irish churches tend to have large walled enclosures which will be depicted with separately based stone walls which I already have. 

I'm sure that the models will see service on other fronts and time periods

On to several more C17 related Battlescale buildings now.

These have a been a real joy to paint and base up. 

[d_Guy]

Very nice looking. 

[Ithoriel]

Looking good!

[pierre the shy]

Looking good!

Thanks 

But shouldn't you be fast asleep now? 

[Ithoriel]

I go to bed between 2qm and 4am and get up between 10am and midday. One of the joys of retirement is going to bed when my body thinks it's tired and getting up when I wake rather than living my life bound by the artificial construct we call time

[d_Guy]

Hear, hear!

[paulr]

    

[pierre the shy]

Fair enough

I'm not quite in that zone yet myself