A small BKC project

[stevothedivo]

Hint hint Mr. Leon....
http://thestrategon.blogspot.com/2011/10/bkc-painting-diary-i-introduction.html

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Hint at what ? 

IanS

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Looking great so far!

[Steve J]

Looks good to me.

[Hertsblue]

I was interested to see that you'd flocked the bases of your Germans before even undercoating the figures. Doesn't that make them a little difficult to paint? Or do you have a cunning plan? 

[nikharwood]

It's got to be "a plan so cunning you can pin a tail on it & call it a fox"...

Nice stuff punkskum - but I'm intrigued as well - I've never seen this approach before 

[stevothedivo]

I always have a cunning plan - it's called Wattyl Estapol.
I always start my figures off with basing, which is a rather odd approach I know - but it's a style I developed when I began using the Baccus Basing System some years ago.
By basing the miniatures first of all, I feel like "the bulk" is done. Reason I love Pendraken and smaller scales in general is the painting is actually not that hard for a good result (in my eyes at least...)
Once the base is "based", I proceed to paint the whole figure in its uniform colour, do the weapons/belts/boots, skin and helmet.
When I've tried the reverse I've forever ended up with half finished/unbased figures.
In this manner, painting directly onto metal then washing and highlighting - the application of a matte spray sealant like Estapol make the figures nice and matte, and in line with cockroaches to survive a nuclear holocaust. At around 10min per stand from start to finish, it's a system I've employed in recent years and hasn't let me down.
Little left of field perhaps - but why fix it if it ain't broke!
If now I could just find someone to play against as I've Pendraken Germans, Brit Paras and Russians gathering dust I'd love to post some AARs.
Unfortunately I've had little luck with that so I break them out from time to time to admire (I remember an email exchange with Leon about my purchase of a large French force - it never left the baggies, the tanks are done but the motivation dies off when you've no one to game against)

[nikharwood]

You definitely win the prize for the longest gap in replying 

Game solo - it's good for the soul (apart from all the times when you lose) 

[Hertsblue]

How can you lose? How can you win, come to that.