Well, as Leon threw down the gauntlet of setting up a new 'topic', how could I refuse :D?
So reflecting upon the original reason I set up the topic, namely of one of trying to set achievable deadlines on painting and modelling projects a la the White Dwarf, I freely confess I failed dismally. However the topic was one the generated a lot of interest, so it must be counted as a success. I have greatly enjoyed reading how fellow forum members have progressed with their projects and have admired their output without fail.
Over the past few months I have been giving a lot of thought to what periods do I really enjoy gaming and with what armies (more of this in the future). This has led my to start culling projects that realistically never see the light of day, thus allowing me to focus on stuff I really enjoy. This has frankly been quite cathartic :). As a result I have (famous last words) been able to maintain my focus of late.
To this end to kick this 'new' topic off, I am aiming to finish off my Fallshirmjager battlegroup for BKCII that I started a year or so ago, so that I can finally get in some games set in NWE that I have been planning for some time.
So now over to my august fellow forum members...
Having a week off Picts, so many many epic figures done this week in preparation for heir first outing in December.
I have been working on my FPW for 6 years and only deviating a bit to do some 1:2400 WWII ships.
I have all the Imperial Corps; Gd, !st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 12th. Plus the artillery reserve and cavalry reserve. Just finished the 22nd and 23rd Corps - the Northern Army and am starting on the 15th and 16th Corps of the southern group. Probably will stop there, but who knows.
For the Prussians I have the Gd, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th and the Gd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 12th cavalry.. Working on the 6th and coming up to the 1st and 2nd Cavalry divisions, the 17th division and the Gd, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Landwehr.
Of course with my scale it is not as much as it looks: infantry regiment of 8 figures, cavalry regiment of 4. 2 batteries are represented with 2 guns, 5 crew and 1 caisson with 2 horse.
Should keep me going for another year.
Fallschirmjager A/T guns all done, bar a bit of a dry brush here and there (waiting for the wash to dry) and then lacquer. So a load of flocking beckons over the enxt few days plus applying camo etc to the StuG IIIs that will be the main AFVs for the Battalion.
Bear in mind it's only a theory. Also please continue to post piccies, but make em as small as possible, and avoid monochrome ones.
IanS
Monochrome?
Like your sig photo. B/W eats space for some reason.
IanS
I am one of those wargamers for whom the phrase 'butterfly interest' was originally coined. At the moment I am colourflaging my Epic chaps for use as an alien invasion of Earth army. On mt painting table there are a number of ongoing projects, 10mm Polish Medieval and Renaissance, 10mm SciFi, 10mm Mongols, and 6mm Macedonian. However, just because they are there that doesn't automatically mean that they will get painted...yet. I do have other projects in mind but that's as far as they have got at the moment. What doesn't help is that writing takes up a fair chunk of my time so I just potter really. Ten or fifteen years ago I would have knocked out the Not Epic stuff in a couple of days but so far it has taken me a week just to do 20 APC's and 3 MLRS!
MickS
Quote from: ianrs54 on 24 November 2016, 01:19:27 PM
B/W eats space for some reason.
IanS
How strange.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: ianrs54 on 24 November 2016, 01:19:27 PM
Like your sig photo. B/W eats space for some reason.
IanS
Sorry, I was probably being obtuse. Of course I know what a monochrome is, I have one in my bathroom. I am just surprised that they take up more space ... or am I? Is it something to do with black being made up of the other three colours? Don't know enough about how pictures are stored, but if each pixel is allocated an RGB value then surely all pictures should take up the same space?
Any proper Technos out there that can shed some light on this conundrum? In English - not Tekkie.
I've just looked back at my OP's on the Original thread...... :o
29.08.2012 Finish my 28mm SAGA Scots :-[ :-[ These are still sat in the cupboard awaiting 'inspiration' :'(
10.09.2012 Make a start on a 10mm Arthurian British force :o These were sold last month on flea bay, based and undercoated but unpainted having languished unloved for three years.
On the bright side, I have made excellent progress in three years with my 28mm WW2 Germans and have built up quite a considerable force. I also finished those 10mm Polish/Lithiuanian Renaissance Figures a long time ago.
As to plans for this month? Lets just say I'm keeping my options open!
Asked someone with more tec knowledge dan moi last night. He thinks that rather than space per see, the problem with ATOFG original may be in the relationships, particularly those between the forum display and picture storage.
Hope that's some help.
IanS
Quote from: ianrs54 on 24 November 2016, 11:25:47 AM
Bear in mind it's only a theory. Also please continue to post piccies, but make em as small as possible, and avoid monochrome ones.
IanS
Maybe, to keep the thread to a sensible size, we could regenerate it annually?
Cheers!
Meirion
You know, this thread isn't as good as the old one. :(
I miss the old one.
Please don't say they're making a prequel?
Epic update: Seven land raiders, three Predator tanks, two more rhinos, eight devastator stands and seven tactical stands painted this week.
Got a game a week Thursday, should be easily up to the points for the game.
Back to the Picts soon, honest.
Earlier this year I finished off, well nearly finished off my League of Augsburg forces about 1263 infantry, 352 cavalry, 16 guns and crew....have a few cavalry and dragoon units to add plus I will do a Spanish brigade of 4 infantry Tercios (210 figures), 3 cavalry (48 figures), 1 dragoons (12 mounted, 12 foot) plus a couple of guns and crew.
The later part of the year I have been working on my Seven Year Austrian and Reichsarmee. So far Austrian 387 foot, 108 cavalry, 8 guns and 6 limbers. Reichsarmee 116 foot and 36 cavalry.
So that is my 10mm painted totals this year but as I am easily led astray by shiny things I have painted a goodly amount of 15mm as well, oh and a 6mm SciFi battle group of 75 vehicles plus infantry....
2017 I will try and be more focused, finish off my 7YW Austrians, 155 foot and 120 mounted plus my 7YW Russians, of which I have most of the figures. I think with the Russians I will soon be fed up of painting red lol
As always pictures on my blog
http://warrenswargamerantings.blogspot.com/
And comments (good and bad) are always welcome
Very impressive !
Cheers - Phil
Bunny - I'm really liking those Brigade models and how you have painted them. I'm trying to avoid a 4th 6mm sci fi army but stuff like that doesn't help.
Do you have any infantry for them, or are you going tank centric?
Camo and wash applied to some StuG IIIs, somehwat later than planned. All being well details, weathering and lacquer applied added tomorrow.
I started on a North Korean (as a test piece for myself, today).
Pic when I've corrected the knee patches. Made those way OTT. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Three epic terminators stands and a supreme commander stand finished tonight.
Six bases of republican Roman Velites, four bases of hastatii and nine more bases of Picts started tonight. Picts for a game in two weeks, Romans because I really needed to paint something 'regular'!
Taking a bit of a break at present. I'll do the SYW supplementary stuff when it arrives, but otherwise the other projects can (or must) wait.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 29 November 2016, 11:15:28 PM
Six bases of republican Roman Velites, four bases of hastatii and nine more bases of Picts started tonight. Picts for a game in two weeks, Romans because I really needed to paint something 'regular'!
Even
MORE Picts, Will ? :o
You'll have to reinforce your table, so it'll be able to cope with the weight soon ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
11 units of foot, 9 bases per unit, 8 or nine figures per unit. Three units of cavalry, 24 figures in each, four units of bows, 24 figures in those too.
Say 2g per figure (estimated average)
2x9x8.5x11 = 1683g
20 X 24 X 3 = 144g
20 X 24 x 4 = 192g
Just under 2kg
;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Dealy on finishing StuG IIIs due to work :(. Hope to get them sorted by the weekend.
Epic game next week cancelled as I'm on taxi duty for my daughter's school music concerts Wednesday and Thursday.
So, on with the Picts and Romans, both of whom were drybrushed tonight.
Friday afternoon.
Yours truly working away on some of the North Korean bods.....(Going quite well....I think)
"Blimey", thought I.....Is that the missus or the MIL with the TV switched up rather loudly.....
This went on for about 20 seconds, so I thought I'd better go and investigate.
"Von ! What are you watching ?"
"Nothing."
" Oh *bother*.......I think your Mum's done something silly, then". (Go into annexe.)
She had.......Blood all over the carpet.....MIL face down on the sofa...(Which is why she couldn't shout very loudly)...in what I can only describe as a 'being stuck' position......Her Panic alarm over the other side of the room....So ****ing useful over there !
Took us an hour to turn her over onto her back.......Mucho mega screaming....."MOVE ME ONTO MY BACK".....Then "NO DON'T MOVE ME"
.......(Repeat this every 30 seconds, for about 10 minutes, until we phone the paramedics......No don't try and move her.)........
This didn't stop the requests about moving her from the MIL......"We're not allowed to Mum !".......Repeat again every 30 seconds for another 10 minutes.....Yet more screaming !!
Paramedics phone back....."We may be rather a long time.....We've got a lot of other emergency calls, at the moment...You better had try and move her."
Back to square one, with more screaming.....Until we got the promise "I promise I won't scream if you try and move me."....That was a fib four times.....Until we just put up with the yelling and turned her.......Somehow got her upright (She was just a complete dead weight) and managed to get her into a chair.
"I need the loo".......Somehow get her into her little chair with wheels......Von takes her into her little bathroom.
She then collapses again......That took 20 minutes to somehow manhandle her back into the 'wheelychair' .......Still being a complete dead weight.
Von trying to support her from the front .....me trying to pull her upright and back into the chair, while standing in the shower, so I could grab her under the arms, and heave her up. X_X
By this stage, there are three rather fraught people in quite a restricted space......One panicking and in pain......Two with kn*ckered backs and almost deaf from all the yelling.
Fortunately......The ambulancemen turned up at this stage (much quicker than we'd expected) and basically took over. (Phew)
A 40 minute trip in the back of the ambulance.......Then about 6 hours before we could go home.
(I was so glad the Macdonalds in Haverford West is open 24/7.....I was starving by this stage.....and the MIL didn't seem to be too badly injured, apart from being black and blue from bruising and a couple of spectacular cuts on her legs.)......I want a retired CSI bod to come round and see if he can work out exactly what the MIL did.....I can't make sense of it at all...and she doesn't remember....She SAYS.
She's staying in the hospital for a few days, until they know she's going to be relatively mobile again......And they've rehydrated her.
(Apparently) The daft woman hasn't been drinking anything like enough for the past few weeks.....So she doesn't have to keep going for a pee......(She's very good at telling porkies about how much she eats and drinks...and now we KNOW.)
Apparently with the fluids going into her, she's becoming a lot more coherent, as well.....That's a frigging bonus !
Hopefully I'll have a bit more time to look at the forum from tomorrow, onward.
Cheers - Mr Completely Bloody Knackered.
oh cripes! :(
Sounds like a nightmare, and so worrying.
Hope you can get things sorted. Cuts on legs sounds odd. I am assuming there are no glass tables lying smashed.
Take care and best wishes to you and Mrs T.
Crikey Phil! Not a good weekend then.
Hopefully its nothing too serious - probably mainly from the dehydration.
Hugs bud! :(
Phil >:< >:< >:<
Quote from: fsn on 04 December 2016, 09:33:07 PM
Cuts on legs sounds odd. I am assuming there are no glass tables lying smashed.
No, Nobby.......But I
did discover a 'sharp edged' bit of hardboard under the seating on the left side of the sofa.....Right under the edge...Just sticking out enough to do some damage.
THAT....I believe answers the very badly skinned left knee.....She must have caught the edge of that, as she fell.
I STILL cannot figure out the other cuts.......Unless she'd actually fallen/bumped into something BEFORE she fall face forward onto the sofa. (I'm beginning to think that this is what happened, first.)
I found blood on the right wheel of the zimmer.......Which was to her
left...
and upright..
.and out of the way...Makes me think she was dripping blood on that first.
Skinned right knee,,,I believe.....was just a 'friction burn' from the carpet, as she presumably tried to get herself back upright.
I'll have to see if I can find any more blood on a drawer, maybe in the kitchen......MIL doesn't remember at all......But then, her very short term memory is almost non-existent, sadly !
Thanks for the hugs !
Right.....I'd better try and catch up on a load of work today. X_X
Cheers - Phil
It's like watching Poirot and Hastings back together again in a new case "The mysterious affair of the falling lady"
I let you decide which parts Phil and Nobby are playing for yourselves
Hope she's ok though
Thought something was up this weekend, Phil. Understand your pain. Sounds all so familiar. Same basic story lines; falls, injuries, calls from FIL to drive over and pick MIL up from floor, memory loss, same questions within minutes (I used to change my answers to observe the reaction), convinced she's done things she hasn't ("was out shopping today" when she hadn't stepped out the door), etc. My MIL has had dementia for many years now and as time went by, required more and more care. She eventually had to take up residence in a Care Home where she is being looked after very well. With mind and/or body failing, living to a ripe old age is over-rated. All the best to the three of you.
p.s. Fenton - Speaking of "the little grey cells" .... Poirot? Peter Cooman. Hastings? Nobby. Phil? Has to be Inspector Japp! ;D
I haven't got any little gray cells left.....They're all burning away, at an alarming rate of knots.....At this rate, I'll be in home before the MIL. X_X
Thanks to Steve & Westie too !
Cheers - Phil
Feel for you Phil :(
My Dad has early onset Alzhiemers, he's only 69, and my youngest son (6) has ASD. I spend alot of time doing this ~X(
Phil
Had similar experiences during the last years of my Mother's life. Stressful and exhausting (phyisically and emotionally).
She is blessed to have you and your good lady. Stay well, Bro'
Bill
Nice sentiments that I can only echo.
So how are the Koreans doing?
Feel your pain Phil.
Grey Lady Down is our bread and butter. Sadly old ducks on the floor are bumped down the queue whilst were dealing with 20-somethings with stomach ache, 30-somethings with babies with a snotty nose, 40-somethings with nose bleeds and 50-somethings with back pain, most of whom could have got themselves to A&E themselves or to the Docs.
By the time we get to patients that really need us things have often progressed quite rapidly.
Of all the falls in the elderly I go to, most go to hospital as there is generally an underlying issue causing them to become more vulnerable to a fall. Poor hydration leads to urine infections which affects balance, confusion etc all of which make the elderly more likely to fall. Unchecked, underlying infection can lead to urosepsis where the blood becomes infected usually with quite nasty repercussions.
Sounds like your MIL is in good hands and thankfully the injuries she sustained whilst looking pretty awful were not life-changing. Thoughts with you and yours ;)
Quote from: Nosher on 05 December 2016, 06:30:14 PM
Feel your pain Phil.
Of all the falls in the elderly I go to, most go to hospital as there is generally an underlying issue causing them to become more vulnerable to a fall. Poor hydration leads to urine infections which affects balance, confusion etc all of which make the elderly more likely to fall. Unchecked, underlying infection can lead to urosepsis where the blood becomes infected usually with quite nasty repercussions.
Well....I'm impressed ! You definitely know your stuff, Nosher :-bd......Hospital have confirmed today that she IS suffering from a urinary infection......Sounds very much (from what you've just put) that this could well be part of the underlying problem.
She's on an antibiotic drip at the mo'.....And was rather disappointed that they won't let her home until that's cleared up.
Poor old thing thinks she's been in hospital for 10 days now.....Not just the three and a bit days she really has.
Again ......
.Very many thanks to all for your wishes and support......Here & via email.
Cheers - Phil.
All the best Phil. My good friends Mum kept getting urinary infections and falling down due to dehydration. Over a month or so she was constantly re-admitted for the same thing. Eventually he managed to get her keeping her fluid levels up and all now well.
At Matt J: My Mum had an agressive form of dementia at 65 and being a tough old bird, kept on going until just shy of her 70th birthday. That was a very tough 5 years for all concerned, so feel for you and your family. Our son has ASD and the early years were very, very hard, but now he's 16 and things are much, much easier, so just hang on in there.
Blimey.
I painted some stuff tonight, not important in comparison. Stay well all. Hugs.
My mom has Parkinsons which is a huge risk factor for falling. The time that the Physical Therapist giving her an exam told her to close her eyes while remaining standing and she lasted for about a second before needing to grab a rail really brought it home.
But she is aware of the danger and afraid enough of falling that she doesn't have too many incidents. The only bad one was when she was walking backwards with her rolling walker in a hardware store, tripped and impaled herself on some tent spikes or something similar. At the time she was on pain killers for a back problem and she hardly complained even though we had to wait a while in an empty emergency room for a few stitches.
Anyway, hopefully the docs can fix up your MIL. And push those liquids on her.
Hydration in the elderly is really tough, Few adults drink enough to properly hydrate anyway so most of the issue is learnt behaviour we carry on into later life.
The issue is compounded further by 'the more you drink, the more you pee' meaning you're on your feet more often and therefore more likely to fall. Throw into the mix medication for heart failure or oedema and the problem is further compounded without even taking into consideration decreasing mobility brought on by old age.
Cups of tea are poor in terms of hydration - far more important to be taking on water,
Did the ambulance service mention a Falls Referral at all Phil? Here in Suffolk we can refer a faller to colleagues within the occupational therapy field who can visit patients at home and assess their mobility and the general safety of patients in their home. They can advise and often put in place things that can help the elderly mobilise more independantly at home - hand rails and raised toilet seats - walk in showers etc? They also look at carpets, rugs and doorsteps and even take into account things like entries and exist from the property as well as personal alarms.
Good luck with getting MIL up and about and back home ;)
Just finished adding new brass wire lances to the EMM2 Mounted Sergeants, to give a greater variety of poses.
Quote from: Nosher on 06 December 2016, 07:41:41 AM
Did the ambulance service mention a Falls Referral at all Phil? Here in Suffolk we can refer a faller to colleagues within the occupational therapy field who can visit patients at home and assess their mobility and the general safety of patients in their home. They can advise and often put in place things that can help the elderly mobilise more independantly at home - hand rails and raised toilet seats - walk in showers etc? They also look at carpets, rugs and doorsteps and even take into account things like entries and exist from the property as well as personal alarms.
Good luck with getting MIL up and about and back home ;)
Quite a lot of that's been done already, Nosher......There was a bit of a fight over the raised loo seat.....MIL kept taking it away...Von kept putting it back.
I think Von's won, now. :)
OTs
have put in rails in appropriate areas........But we're still having a fight over all the mats/rugs she has strewn all over the place.....
.We're not happy about those at all, from a safety point of view.....and she will insist on shuffling about in a pair of loose, ill fitting slippers......even though we've bought her new ones.
The one thing we'll be looking at getting, (which we haven't got yet) is a 'seat' for the shower......That's the place I DREAD her falling over in, as it'll be almost impossible for the pair of us to move her from.
The 'memory nurse' that came round a week or so ago, said the MIL's so set in her ways, it'll be very difficult to get her to change.
We'll see.
Cheers - Phil.
Sounds tough Phil
It might be worth using the stay in hospital as a way to make some changes regarding the rugs and slippers. Hopefully she will be pleased to be back home, and be less upset about the changes. You can always blame them on the hospital anyway! Say that they said it had to be clear for her to get around.
Good thinking Fred :)
Just opened a nice package from Pendraken for my planned Imagi-Nations Ancients forces, which was nice as no energy for painting etc after a long day at work :)
Quote from: fred. on 06 December 2016, 06:26:06 PM
It might be worth using the stay in hospital as a way to make some changes regarding the rugs and slippers. Hopefully she will be pleased to be back home, and be less upset about the changes. You can always blame them on the hospital anyway! Say that they said it had to be clear for her to get around.
Hmmmm......Might be worth a try. :-\
Cheers - Phil
More paint applied to figures tonight.
Making a few desultory moves with the brush over wild west stuff, but clearly shan't finish it this year.
It's good to have goals.
I loathe team sport. ;)
Finished basic cleaning up of some Sassanid Persians for a planned Ancients force, using Sword & Spear as the preferred ruleset. Lovely figures with great character. I have a plan to finished these by the end of the year, so that I can kick off a campaign of some sort or other....
WORK, KIDS, WORK, KIDS, WORK, KIDS, WORK, KIDS, WORK, KIDS >:(
at some point it'll be nice to do some painting again :(
I'll swap ya !
No......Perhaps not !..... ;) ;D
Hope you get back in the groove soon, Matey !
Cheers - Phil
Lots of progress on Picts, including all the 'not-plaid' and shields. Just bronze work, corrections, basing and standards to do. Romans similar (apart from shields)!
Thought I might need this lot for Thursday, but looks like my opponent wants to try ECW instead. ;D
Sod all done for a few days courtesy of a virus that my wife caught at school :(
Finally feeling better and as a result able to at last finish the static grass on my Fallschirmjager bases :). Next up some Imagi-Nations Ancients.
Velites and Picts done, apart from varnish and basing. Just need to make a descission on Hastatii shields and they are good to go too...
Just need warm/dry enough conditions to varnish.
These will get based at the same time as the next batch of epic which are getting tested next week.
Brace yourselves for many, many photos.
Then two weeks of Xmas painting to add. ;)
Varnish cheekily done, just enough heat/daylight to get it done! #:-S
Some basic clean up on elephants to get the howdahs to fit nicely, talk less of the crew, due to tool wear.
Works do. Great food and nice company.
Designated driver, so stone cold sober.
Left when the singer covering Mowtown soul (badly) started murdering slow Stevie Wonder hits, should have been good dancing music, but this lass made Vic Reaves 'club singer' appear talented!
Normally Stevie is a great choice, but I just called to say I love you done badly is an awful, awful thing! Quite killed the evening.
Home, many, many bases sand and pva'd.
That's better.
Bases inked.
Two land raiders and four whirlwind tanks for epic base coated and inked
Hastati shields painted and named and cohort added, as per suggestions. Shield Designs started but my 0.1mm black pen has died. Hopefully pick up a replacement tomorrow or Monday.
I have been doing the dreaded rebasing thing!
My 12mm Kallistra ACW come with 40mm x 20mm bases. Two side by side are ideal for my 100mm Kallistra hexes, but I have recently been bitten by the bug to go to large bases. So I picked up some 80 x 30mm bases from Minibits and broke up 12 of my smaller bases.
At the same time, I also ordered some 30mm x 20m from Leon, with a view to basing 3 bases to a unit, giving a total frontage of 90mm. This would still fit in with my 100mm hex, but had the advantage for my Pendraken napoleonics that as well as line, march column would look good and for attack column, I could throw in an extra bases for a 2 x 2 arrangement. So I broke down another 4 bases to make them up.
Now, after including these new bases in a few of my games, I felt that;
Big bases -
Advantages - Fast to move and looked nice.
Disadvantages - road movement looked daft and was not intuitive to manage.. I like to pull two bases appart toshow skirmish formation or put them in a slight 'V' to show disorder, that can no longer be done and on hills or in building complexes, the units invariably had to sit with one end of the base up in the air, while smaller bases can wrap over contours and fit around buildings better.
Smaller bases -
Advantages, looked very good in march column and was just generally better able to reflect various formations or conditions such as disordered or shaken, without revering to markers.
Disavdantages - To reflect Attack Column, which is a major Napoleonic formation, I needed to create a 4th base and even for line. For line, adding a 3rd base increases handling of units by 50% and for those in Attack Column by 100%. Not much there and then, but over the course of a full game it is significant, especially for bad back sufferers.
So, I have returned all bases back to their former 40mm compromise, which works well. I hadmade the new bases permanent to get a true idea of how they would look and manage, so they were all flocked, sanded and filled etc, to the rebasing twice just to get back to my original position has been indeed tedious and hard on the finger-tips.
I can only smile, Norm.
Each time I rebase I am sure it is for the last time! :)
:D
I have re-based my ACW stuff twice and my SYW stuff four times! #-o
Each to their own. I couldn't live with the "disadvantages" of big bases as outlined by you above either and now happily have all on 1" or 25mm magnetised square bases with 4 bases to a unit and should I require big bases in future, I shall simply place them on steel paper sabots à la d-guy's bases.
Trouble is, my original SYW bases were flocked with green scatter and as I re-based and built up the collection, I continued doing this even though I had since "graduated" to bases flocked with static grass with my ACW collection. As my supply of green scatter has all but run out now, and I continue to expand my SYW collection (4 mounted officers, 2 howitzers with crews and 3 limbers recently), I have now started using static grass for my SYW stuff also. It looks good. So good, that I am now contemplating applying static grass on top of the green scatter of the bases of all my other SYW units.
I have tested this on a spare base (a cadre of a Reichsarmee unit which I may expand into a full battalion in future) and it looks good (if I was any good a posting pictures, I would post a before and after pic, but I'm rubbish at it! I suppose I could send it to someone by e-mail if they think they could post it for me?) Anyhoo, before I embark on such a venture (folly?), I wonder how long lasting such a course of action will be. Will the static grass hold in the long term? Has anyone done this before?
Bases dry brushed, highlighted, detailed, edged and pva sealed.
Epic whirlwinds and land raiders dry brushed and detailed, to be finished off tomorrow.
40 principes reassembled (didn't like how I had them first time) and the base coated and inked.
40 more assembled, ready for undercoating.
Not bad morning really!
Another bl**dy cold putting pay to all gaming related activity :'( :'( :'(
And they are all now highlighted, apart from bronze work, and then wood and leather work to do, then shield designs...
Not particularly happy with the blue on one shield.
47 principes and a general finished tonight, just need varnish and basing now. Not bad seeing as I only started them yesterday! :D
Quote from: mad lemmey on 23 December 2016, 11:20:14 PM
47 principes and a general finished tonight, just need varnish and basing now. Not bad seeing as I only started them yesterday! :D
Well done :)
But didn't you have 80 to do :-\
Quote from: mad lemmey on 22 December 2016, 01:14:51 PM
40 principes reassembled (didn't like how I had them first time) and the base coated and inked.
40 more assembled, ready for undercoating.
Not bad morning really!
The other 38 are next to go...
To my delight.......
I stopped work on Friday afternoon, without properly finishing off the puttying on a 30mm model....(I reached the stage where.....B*gger it !, I'm stopping for the weekend, and it's Christmas on Sunday)
So a tip I've mentioned before.....I put the model in a plastic box, and the box in the chest freezer, outside, in the barn.
Took the model back inside this morning, and the 'wet' putty is still 'workable'.
Never left a model in the freezer for that amount of time before......I usually only 'risk' 12-24 hours....So I now know that in 'an emergency' I can leave it for over 48 hours !
Huzzah !
Cheers - Phil
Four bases of Hastatii assembled, four bases of principes sanded and pva'd.
Quote from: fsn on 25 November 2016, 05:05:45 PM
You know, this thread isn't as good as the old one. :(
I miss the old one.
What do you miss specifically? Prehapes is can be remedied?
I've got some scaffolding and paint I've been hoarding.
No painting as such, but managed to get off my butt and sort out some stuff for my Imagi-Nations project. I had aimed to get both forces painted by New Years Eve, but a succession of colds and the holiday period blew that plan out of the water.
Based up some additional units for one of my Imagi-Nations forces this evening.
Bases flocked and prettyfied on those next five Roman stands, photos tomorrow. plus five stands of Epic tactical marines painted and sand/pva on bases, small chance I might get those done before midnight tomorrow to finish the year off nicely.
Rebased some cavalry onto larger bases and added some additional infantry units to one of the 'Forces'. Still not sure what to do with the soldiers in the Carthaginian elephant as they are noticeably smaller than the Late Romans that I'm using them with :(
After some thought I decided to use the elphants as they stand and count them as 'mercenaries/experts' hired in. Just a base of heavy cavalry to do and then I think that's one force completed.
Twenty five epic tactical marines based today, just waiting for the pva to dry before applying tufts and photographing...
Before midnight
We had a house move and all the 10mm / 12mm were packaged to what I had believed was a satisfactory degree ..... however ..... upon opening everything in the trays were in a jumble. On closer inspection, the jumble mass had clearly been sliding around and there were scratches down to the metal on many figures, especially on exposed parts such as elbows, shoulders and tops of heads etc.
So I have been going over all scratches with a 'blob' of primer and putting the block colours back in - though for my ACW Union, I have gone for a slightly lighter (dark) blue and also changed the pants colour of the Union to a better one and for the Confederates, a lighter gray (and not inked / shaded)
However, the results have been quite startling, because I am quickly hitting main parts of the figures with the new shade, there remains plenty of the old background darker colours in recesses etc and this is actually making the figures pop more than they did so before (read that as they never popped at all!) and I am liking the look. The bases are also being re-flocked which adds more texture, which also is a closer match to the flock on my Kallistra hex tiles.
Anyway the WWII need a similar 'rescue', so I am hoping my quick hit re-furb done over the last few days, with breath new life into these chaps. It is true that smaller figures hold be painted a bit brighter, seems I am accidentally discovering what many have known for ages !
I'm glad to hear the rescue has turned out so well
On the few occasions I have moved house all my troops have been transported by me :-SS
For the last couple of moves this has involved multiple trips :-[ ;D
Ouch! :'(
Yep, could kick myself for not being more thoughtful about their journey.
I think bigger and heavier lead would have ended up with some significant problems.
Glad the re-touching is working so well. When we last moved I put all of my gaming stuff in the car. I wouldn't be able to do that now!
First Imagi-Nations force all based and primed. Now the small case of painting them all.....
Good news: Last batch of Picts spears base coated and inked, along with my first Epic Eldar unit.
Bad news: Looking out some spaceships for a mate, I've dropped at least three armies! :'(
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Ouch! Hope they are all ok?
Quote from: mad lemmey on 04 January 2017, 05:20:42 PM
Bad news: Looking out some spaceships for a mate, I've dropped at least three armies! :'(
Dropping one army could be thought of as careless. Dropping three :o :o
Stacked... caught with elbow, inevitable slow motion slide and crash. :'( can't face the repairs yet. :'( Maybe Friday :D
In the meantime, 15 shades of highlighting done on Picts tonight.
All my FPW have magnetic bases and the boxes have a sheet of tin. I can carry them upside down and they stay secured. Lot of tin and magnetic sheets however. I get the magnetic sheets from Tap Plastics here in California. Not sure where else they are, but it comes in 30" width and I usually get 3" at a time. $10 to $15.
I use magnetic vinyl from sign writing suppliers, 62cm wide roll. I usually get a couple of metres at a time. I haven't been brave enough to turn upside down yet.
One bonus is that it gives the bases an extra couple of millimetres depth without the base edge being that deep. I cut the vinyl 5-10mm smaller than the base e.g. a 40x20 base gets a 30x15 piece of magnetic vinyl
Not 3" at a time, 3' at a time...
Ah! Those were the days!
You too?
Grand total of my painting effort since this thread launched?
3x 28mm Figures for the Levingrad All Tzars Undead Bloodbowl Teaml
Combination of tiredness after work (averaging 14 hours a shift at the moment) and the usual post new year go slow after a fortnights indulgence. I'm also working most weekends this month so no nights at the club to inspire me to finish figures for a game.
Sat down to the aftermath of the army drop.
Five boxes of figures sorted and repaired🤘
A few loa hats to repaint, a few figures needing to be glued back into bases, many lances and spears straightened, could have been a lot worse. One Tudor artillery piece is missing, will look again in daylight.
Just finished basing the samples of the new imperial Romans (pics soon ☺) and also painting Bloodbowl as well, Norse team. The sixth team to paint out of 16.
10 stands of Epic Eldar jet bikes done tonight, just need to do stripes and logos
Quote from: mad lemmey on 06 January 2017, 10:55:09 PM
Sat down to the aftermath of the army drop.
Five boxes of figures sorted and repaired🤘
A few loa hats to repaint, a few figures needing to be glued back into bases, many lances and spears straightened, could have been a lot worse. One Tudor artillery piece is missing, will look again in daylight.
#:-S
Good to hear it wasn't too bad
So far this morning, I've found:
My daughter's gym leotard
My daughter's iPad
My wife's watch and wedding rings
Wish me luck looking for that gun!! ;D
Got it!
Plus a lance I didn't even know I had lost!
8)
Quote from: Matt J on 06 January 2017, 11:54:37 PM
Just finished basing the samples of the new imperial Romans (pics soon ☺)
Squeaks of excitement !! :)
Cheers - Phil
Ooops....Forgot to say, back to the North Koreans for the next week or so.
Cheers - Phil
My turn to squeak with excitement :)
No direct gaming stuff today, but started revamping parts of the house that will (hopefully) give me some dedicated storage space for figures, rulebooks etc.
Quote from: Matt J on 07 January 2017, 03:42:24 PM
My turn to squeak with excitement :)
Should we be calling this post 'The Squeak-well'?
;D
Eleven Pictish bases flesh highlighted, hair painted and inked and wood&leatherwork painted and inked tonight.
Metalwork, hair highlights (so '80s) and then it's the dreaded 'not-plaid' ™ to sort.
All apart from 'not plaid' and wording done on those Picts now. ✅
Quotewording
is that like 'not-woad' :-/
The dreaded autocorret autocorrect strikes again.......a bit of a blue on blue incident purhaps? :-
Or I might be writing on them... no, it's woad!
During a surprise bit of clear weather yesterday I managed to get a load of random bits a pieces (mostly dungeon related) spray-primed :)
Feeling positive that I may soon have large swarms of vermin to roam the dank, dark hallways of my imagination... 8->
Not-plaid and woad done... :-B @-) @-) @-) @-) @-) @-) @-) <:-P
Not sure when I'm going to get these varnished before basing, forecast for tomorrow is either cold, heavy rain, or snow ❄️
WOW !
Just went outside, and upstairs in the pole barn, to do a bit of soldering.
Switched the light on......Plugged the iron into the socket,, when I heard the flapping of wings.....Turning around, expecting to see a feral pigeon, I was amazed to see a tawny owl flying straight towards me !.....Beautiful creature, up close.
Phoned the local falconry centre to ask for 'a plan' (I don't know whether it's using the upstairs as a 'roost, or it's somehow got upstairs and now can't find it's way back down again.)
I'll be checking after dark to see whether it's found its way out.....In which case no prob....
Otherwise, apparently we've got to try and throw a big towel over it and take it outside.
Got to check whether it's too thin....(Been told how to do this)...and if it is, the falconry centre will come and collect it.....Feed it up, and then come back and release it over here.
Been severely warned how sharp its talons are......This could be a whole new way to cut myself. :D
Cheers - Phil
Wow! How cool.
Quote from: Techno on 13 January 2017, 02:20:03 PM
Been severely warned how sharp its talons are......This could be a whole new way to cut myself. :D
Cheers - Phil
Would you be 'owlin in pain?
a) What is a "pole barn"? Is it a place where vaulters store their equipment in the winter?
b) What do you have in a barn to solder? Barns I have loved are distinctly without opportunity for the keen soldering iron.
c) So in a BARN, you see a TAWNY owl. Doesn't that feel wrong?
d) It also has a beak.
e) If you do get scratched, you may have a new career fighting crime with owlish powers as Owlman! Scourge of the night, but a right hoot once you get to know him.
Quote from: Techno on 13 January 2017, 02:20:03 PM
WOW !
... I was amazed to see a tawny owl flying straight towards me !.....Beautiful creature, up close
...
Been severely warned how sharp its talons are......This could be a whole new way to cut myself. :D
Seconded
Be very careful mate and make sure Mrs T is there to supervise ;)
Quote from: fsn on 13 January 2017, 05:09:51 PM
a) What is a "pole barn"? Is it a place where vaulters store their equipment in the winter?
b) What do you have in a barn to solder? Barns I have loved are distinctly without opportunity for the keen soldering iron.
c) So in a BARN, you see a TAWNY owl. Doesn't that feel wrong?
d) It also has a beak.
e) If you do get scratched, you may have a new career fighting crime with owlish powers as Owlman! Scourge of the night, but a right hoot once you get to know him.
a)A barn with four or more upright poles......Sides filled in...
.but not necessarily......and usually a semi-circular roof.
b)Bits of wire to make 'bigger' dolly frames.....And I'm not allowed to use the soldering iron, in the house. :-[
c)A bit odd.....There are some Barn owls around here....But I've never actually seen one....Just heard the b*ggers.
d) I noticed that.....It was difficult to miss, as it got so close.
e) You're an OIK, Nobby. ;D
Cheers - Phil.
a) Ah! I thought that was a Dutch barn.
b) Mrs T is a wise woman.
c) Sure it's not Tawny owls doing impressions?
d) Fair enough.
e) Aw! First oik of 2017! :D
I caught it....Off to A&E for stitches now.
I'm lying....It seems to have found its own way out...So I might have a sneaky peek tomorrow during the day, to see if it's back and using the barn as shelter.
Cheers - Phil
Another 10 stands of Eldar jet bikes done for 6mm epic done today. Kept these in the colour scheme of their original owner, not sure I would have chose it for myself, but they look good in the end.
Varnish done, now need to get on with basing, next units organised, Warband Barbarian box dug out for Thor's Day's game (easier in daylight), also found an unfinished box of Warband Goblin and Skelton units (some need basing, some need drybrushing, some need starting).
That's this weeks projects sorted then! :)
Quote from: Techno on 13 January 2017, 08:10:34 PM
I caught it....Off to A&E for stitches now.
I'm lying....It seems to have found its own way out...So I might have a sneaky peek tomorrow during the day, to see if it's back and using the barn as shelter.
Cheers - Phil
Time to rename your barn
Owl's Moving Castle.
Eleven Pictish bases, twenty Epic Eldar jet bike bases, three Warband undead and three Warband goblin bases sanded and pva'd tonight.
Then I painted two set of Goblin wolfriders extra figures on their sabot and the extra shamen on their said bases. Looking good. It was a nice evening of non-pressure, these will be fun to paint figures.
Now just got to deal with the other four stands in that box!!!
Inks on bases tomorrow hopefully.
And added and painted a dog to a Pictish generals base! 🐕
Oh, and assembled a few figures of the order Leon just sent out. :)
You could call him Al.
You could call him Betty...
Possibly he is your bodyguard.
Bases inked, Attacoti assembled (well, Celtic fanatic types, with a few friends from other packs)!
As I said in another thread:
Bases painted, highlighted, detailed, edged and pva sealed. 🐋(Couldn't find a seal, will a whale do?)
Lots of bases...
11 bases of Picts, six Warband bases and 20 epic Eldar jet bike stands flocked, scattered and tufted tonight, plus flag added to Picts.
A good night.
Inked and/or base coated most of the dungeon stuff I primed last week AND painted the gates of my Pendraken hedges :)
Due to mistiming the last batch of undercoating (I only got round to it last night), decided to paint the other five stands of Goblin sabots for Warband. Base coats and inks done (sounds more impressive than it actually is, it's only 41 figures)!
Goblins done, apart from the sorting out mistakes bit, and the varnishing bit and the basing bits...
So, not really done at all, but a long way nearer completion than they've been for two years!!
Load of basing done this lunchtime on my Imagi-Nations for S&S.
Mistakes sorted, sabots for the bases sanded and pva'd
Five goblin units for Warband inked
Fifteen bases of Picts and Attacoti base coated and inked.
Leaked ink in my paint storage tin cleared up, tin and bottles washed. Ho hum! =)
Bases painted, highlighted, edges and pva sealed!
Got on with some dungeon furnishings and critters, almost time to start a new photo thread I think! :)
More basing done yesterday, so two Imagi-Nations almost complete, so that I can move onto painting.
Attacoti highlighted, as are Pictish archers, hair, wood and leatherwork done tonight, metal work, extra highlights, shield detail not-plaid and woad to do.
Third unit of Eldar jet bikes base coated and inked.
Apart from squadron markings, error blasting and basing, another ten stands of Eldar jet bikes were completed tonight.
Varnishing, Sand and pva morning.
Warband dwarves sabots sorted and Nik's cast offs attached.
Figure I need another pack of warriors.
Also, my eldest daughter has suggested I use dragonmen on Thursday (with a dragon) so 8 bases of Barbarian's excellent evil men have just been undercoated (seriously need more archers for Dragonmen, men-at-arms at 28 points a base means a lot of men-at-arms!!! Even with upgrades to 32 points!!! May drop the Mage and take some knights instead!
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Well I knew my brain had been turning more and more to complete MUSH over the past few weeks.....But I spotted a great c*** up when I sent some pics up to Leon, this afto'.
Something I've never done before.
One of the dollies I use is particularly versatile......and I was supposed to use two different ones to make 1).....A South Korean firing a rifle & 2)......A South Korean advancing with rifle.
Instead, I made two identical masters of the chap firing the rifle ! :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
Hey Ho !......Not vast amounts of work to change him. (Fortunately......Otherwise it would have been........ :'( :'( :'( :'( :'()
Cheers - A Twerp.
Oh dear... 🙈🦌
Youse is getin old Phil.....
I'm not supposing there's any explicit bias here but FSNs rules on acceptable poses go
1) not prone
2) not kneeling
3) not firing
Techno makes 2 x firing. Coincidence? I think not.
Town done, now need to get the citizenry painted, and get some order into the mass of notes that are so far failing to turn into a playable ruleset.
Sand and pva tonight on two units and a menagerie!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 15 February 2017, 11:16:37 PM
Sand and pva tonight on two units and a menagerie!
There seem to be a few of these being done which hopefully means they will pay for the sculpting and other costs one day soon :)
Except I'm out of varnish!!! ~X(
Saxon contingent and camp done, photos tomorrow and then that's 900+ Picts done since August.
There will now be a short break whilst I paint a 15mm commission FOGR Transylvania army! 🦇
900!! There is a reason for your name :P
Good work!
Took time off from the old west today to reinforce SYW a bit. That's going to keep me busy for a few painting sessions.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 17 February 2017, 11:45:18 PM
Saxon contingent and camp done, photos tomorrow and then that's 900+ Picts done since August.
:o :o :o
A few more dungeon bits finished, just need decent light at a convenient time to take some photos - and then more time to get them uploaded and posted!
48 15mm Transylvanian Haiduks, 5 10mm giant worms and 180cm of Blotz mdf10mm fencing painted this week. Photos later, hopefully
Of late my painting mojo has gone South for the Winter it seemed. However over the past few days i've actually felt in the mood to paint and have returned to my Honours of War units. Current plan is to finish a self contained Brigade so that they can make their debut on the wargames table soonish.
Two mojo-less nights, followed by a couple of hours back in the paint mines. 24 Transylvanian Hussars inked and horses highlighted, plus an extra pack of Imperial fighters for Star Wars Armada! ;D
Some reinforcements of crusades forces; Cairoiyyah militia and a few pilgrims under the brush. Then it'll be wild west again.
Almost there with 24 Heavy Hussars in 15mm for the Transylvanians.
A few extra Tafur fanatics for my crusaders....
Veteran Hussars finished. 24 heavy cavalry. Varnished and photoed to be done tomorrow. Armada fighters base coated and inked.
Population of Dead Man's Knees await varnishing. Must settle down and write some rules now.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 13 March 2017, 02:28:52 PM
Population of Dead Man's Knees await varnishing. Must settle down and write some rules now.
Will this be a town that requires all* weapons to be checked in at the sheriff's office for the duration of the stay OR will it be uninhibited open carry?
* boot pistols, brass knuckles and slap jacks of various sorts would, naturally, not be included in "all".
Studded armour, on15mm light horse! Come on Essex, you're better than that!! :'(
Quote from: d_Guy on 13 March 2017, 06:37:17 PM
Will this be a town that requires all* weapons to be checked in at the sheriff's office for the duration of the stay OR will it be uninhibited open carry?
* boot pistols, brass knuckles and slap jacks of various sorts would, naturally, not be included in "all".
Got to give female characters a few advantages in toting concealed weapons, so I think I'll put something in about not openly bearing arms, on pain of getting a strongly-worded note from the town marshal, or being refused credit at Sadie's.
The reality is soooo disappointing after Hollywood. One genre where fantasy is desirable.
Now watch 'A million ways to die in the West', very puerile, but the hero does a great monologue on how lethal frontier living was...
Sixteen 15mm light cavalry highlighted, dry brushed and fleshed, then inked tonight. I even dealt with the studded armour.
The sixteen are done and varnished.
Six more packs to do (c.22 figures).
Also realised I need another unit of Saxons for my Picts!!!
Next and final batch of 15mm Transylvanians assembled tonight.
10mm Falklands British 2" and 82mm mortars assembled.
10mm Falklands Argentine support weapons assembled (love the .5cal construction Techno)! :-bd
Star Wars Armada fighter pack finished, now onto the ships from the main rules!!!
Why....Thank you sir. :-[
(I had to go and look at the main PD site to see which that one was. X_X)
'Ere.......I want to know what's going to happen when you reach 15,000 posts, Will......Not far to go now. :)
Cheers - Phil
Not much, probably
At 15,000 don't you both recieve a peerage or maybe you simple become civilians and start over?
;D
Civilian, sweet
I thought there would be some sort of ceremony.
You know, the sort that involves epaulettes ripped off shoulders, badges and insignia stripped, swords broken, caps knocked away, and medals torn off and dashed upon the ground ;)
Final batch of 15mm Transylvanians underway. Try to resist the temptation to do the CinC as a Vampire!
Also base coated and inked 13 stands of 10mm Falklands support weapons (company based for both sides). :)
Quote from: mad lemmey on 19 March 2017, 04:23:58 PM
;D
Civilian, sweet
Don't call me "sweet" in front of Ian!
Currently involved in a tedious job: the Reiver Chinese are pretty figures, but the shafts of the infantry dagger-axes are desperately flimsy. I am accordingly cutting off the ancient can-opener at the head, glueing it onto a copper wire shaft, removing what I can from the portion across the figure's chest, and glueing the halberd on. When this is finished, epoxy glue will have to supplement the contact glue I've used thus far. I know not whether the end result will pass muster, but they weren't usable as they arrived from the maker.
Of course, if some makers concentrated on producing useful ranges instead of yet another collection of post-colonial orcs in combat fatigues, this wouldn't be necessary, but I've had to take what I can get. Newlines have good halberdiers, but only one pose, which I'm using for my Han, while I see Ch'in as rather unruly and multi-pose headhunters, not as bronze-disciplined drilled troops.
Oddly, the Reiver chariots are better castings than the Newlines ones.
Lots of bad language and faffing about today, when a drill bit snapped inside the torso of a 30mm figure, when I was trying to pin a 'ready made' metal head on.
All better now. :D
Cheers - Phil.
About a week ago I pick up a paint brush for the first time since last November as I've gone through one of those complete lack of wargaming mojo periods. Started painting 6mm FPW Confederation and thoroughly enjoying my little self again. I even based and painted some 6mm metal trees that have been on my painting table for at lest four years. The mojo is most definitely back and I'm even thinking about making some FPW buildings as I am sadly lacking in that area.
MickS
Quote from: Techno on 24 March 2017, 07:39:09 PM
Lots of bad language and faffing about today, when a drill bit snapped inside the torso of a 30mm figure, when I was trying to pin a 'ready made' metal head on.
All better now. :D
Cheers - Phil.
Anyone else feel that Techno has battered some poor innocent 30mm figure into tinfoil using a very large hammer?
....and realised too late that he shouldn't have used his knee as an anvil....
Quote from: Subedai on 24 March 2017, 09:31:13 PM
About a week ago I pick up a paint brush for the first time since last November as I've gone through one of those complete lack of wargaming mojo periods. Started painting 6mm FPW Confederation and thoroughly enjoying my little self again. I even based and painted some 6mm metal trees that have been on my painting table for at lest four years. The mojo is most definitely back and I'm even thinking about making some FPW buildings as I am sadly lacking in that area.
MickS
Great yo hear the mojo has returned :)
Definitely good news.
Spring and Fall Chinese armies are under the brush. Watch for developments in a few weeks. :)
Quote from: fsn on 24 March 2017, 10:30:40 PM
Anyone else feel that Techno has battered some poor innocent 30mm figure into tinfoil using a very large hammer?
I've only ever battered one figure (a green) with a hammer........Not out of temper....But to stop myself wasting any more time on it, 'cos it, was obviously NOT going to go right, and it would be quicker to start again, from scratch.
I suppose I could have just put it in the bin.....But I couldn't resist it. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
The last of my friends Transylvanians were finished last night. Just got to photograph them now.
63 early Saxons base coated and inked tonight. Will not be done before tomorrow night's game, but will be done by Rollcall!
Yes, another unit for my Picts!!! :D
Saxons have been highlighted, fleshed, flesh washed, highlighted, leather and woodwork done. Just need to do shields and bronzework and their basically ready for basing.
I have also repainted a Vitalstatistix and Dogmatix that I found from France (Villàge Astérix range, so about15mm scale), cone up rather nicely, will post photos when complete!
Saxon shields and swords and mistake sorting done! Falkland British and Argentines worked on too. All sand and pva applies
I've actually managed to be quite productive over the last couple of months in a not quite finishing things kind of way!
Loads of dungeon/fantasy figures getting there slowly...
Sci-Fi human infantry and vehicles started; Space Rat tanks coming along well...
Uncle Phil's Petting Zoo is starting to get populated...
Hopefully with the days getting longer I'll have a chance to finish some things off under decent light :)
Cheers!
Meirion
DPM on the latest Falklands stands done. @-)
Flock on many bases. Tufts and scatter can wait until tomorrow.
96 Swiss Pike, 20 Swiss arquibusiers, 40 Roman Hastati all base coated and inked tonight.
The Romans are just a regular unit to keep me (relatively) sane as I start yet another batch of irregulars on commission; plus it restarts a rather stalled project.
🧀
Lots of tinkering with stuff, mostly comprising gluing onto bases, washes and varnishing.
Very pleased with how the petting zoo is looking - especially the geese - just need to work out what's best for finishing the bases and remember that I need to *attempt* to paint the chickens' combs when daylight is available!
Cheers!
Meirion
Pikes nearly done
Qin heavy cavalry, archers, and two out of three halberdier units done; also Han convict troops and the guards infantry. Progress is taking place, albeit slowly.
Swiss nearly done, just metalwork, details and touch-ups to sort.
Why am I craving Toblerone?
If you find yourself yodeling while numbering bank accounts with a cuckoo popping out of your forehead, start worrying.
Command and Swordsmen very nearly done for Graham's Renaissance Swiss. Four stands of Hastati bases base coated, highlighted and pva sealed.
40 Hastatii and 20 Swiss command/heavy weapons finished this week. Photos tomorrow.
Today I have mostly been painting red... ;)
Photos maybe tonight!
Ch'in chariots done. Ugh - fussy business.
Cant be as bad as painting a USMC Light Attack battalion in 6mm - almost 90 8 wheeled vehicles - and I hate doing wheels...
I'm totally with you on wheels. >:(
Well, I've just done a unit of halberdiers in fewer days than those chariots took weeks!
N & S Koreans picked off corks and packed up ready to send to Pendraken Towers, tomorrow.
Cheers - Phil.
All Ch'in Chinese complete; now need to give them a few barbarian auxiliaries.
Another 95 Spanish pikes underway for Graham at our club. 20 Roman heavy cavalry for my Polybian/Republican Roman project (need to get these to a good standard by Thursday) and...
The wargames 🦋 butterfly 🦋 struck...
3 Brigade Models French Aeronefs that I've had hanging round since the 00s! Now, I'm sure I bought more, but I canna find them! Painted the British eons ago...
And 22 elder epic jet bikes... 🦋🦋🦋🦋
95 pikes almost done, just need beards and errors sorting. Roman cavalry need plumes, errors and shield designs.
The rest this weekend! ;)
Some scratch buillt buildings, vehicles assembly and minor additions to some have been the sum total of my output for a few months now.
This time tomorrow my holiday season will be on the go; no classes until August. :)
Eldar jet bikes, Roman cavalry, and three Aeronefs done, basing tonight.
Leven Miniatures buildings base coated and washed, ready for dry brushed highlights etc.
Areonefs, Roman Cvalry and Eldar jetbikes varnished.
10 Timecast T-64B assembled, undercoated and inked.
Warband Dwarves undercoated
Roman cavalry and Eldar jet bikes bases sand and pva'd.
Somehow, felt busier today...
Areonefs flagged
64 Cossack 15mm infantry base coated and inked
28 10mm Spanish command/heavy weapons basecoated and inked
75 Warband dwarves base coated and inked
4 stands of Roman cavalry bases and 9 stands of elder jet bikes bases inked.
Just a quiet one really...
Didn't get round to working on the T64s...
Han chariots done, and the rest of the army is on the drying sheet, waiting for the primer to be ready. This not end, not even beginning of end, but is perhaps end of beginning.
Dwarves are done, just need basing/pva/sand/inks/highlights/flock/scatter/varnish, yeah, so.... quite a lot then!
Han halberdiers should be complete today.
Being on hols for a couple of weeks, combined with some damned wet weather, has seen a flicker of painting mojo return :). I've finished off two units of trolls for Dragon Rampant, plus drybrushed some ECW units that will get used for 'The Pikemen's Lament' as well as 'Dragon Rampant'. So far a happy bunny.
Nice one Steve!
Base coated another unit of trolls (well they're actually old GW Snotlings, but next to 10mm figures they make good Trolls :))
Quote from: FierceKitty on 29 May 2017, 12:34:01 AM
Han halberdiers should be complete today.
And so they were. Now for their mounted equivalents, the crossbowmen, and the light horse. Can I finish this army by the end of the week?
Another reduced unit of Trolls finished :). Onto some Ents later on, then had better get some ECW 'opponents' finished so that I can get a game in :D.
Ent/Tree Elementals finished and I must say they are very nice sculpts. Easy to pose the arms to add variety and a hint of movement and the detail is nice enough that a drybrush makes them looks the dogs b*ll*cks :).
Now that I have enough for one side, tomorrow I must come up with the opposition, that I started painting quite some time ago :-[
Found some dice frames! :D
Dwarf bases inked
64 15mm Cossack infantry flesh highlighted, wood and leather painted and inked.
10 Timecast T64B highlighted with five shades of paint, just need to do tracks, hmg, weathering, basing etc
****ocks !!!!! ~X( ~X( ~X(
Finishing off some 'headless' 30mm dudes......and found I'd lost my 'reference' head.......It was definitely here this morning 'cos I put a tiny bit of putty on it.
I've looked everywhere. Reckon it must have stuck to me, with the wet putty, so it could have fallen on the floor anywhere...... Even outside, as I did some soldering in the pole barn this morning.
BUM ! Have to make a new one. X_X
Cheers - Vexed of Wales.
Sssllleeeeeeeepppyyyyy....crossbowmen can wait until tomorrow.
One unit of pikemen finished off for use with 'The Pikemen's Lament' rules.
Dwarf army based up.
64 15mm Cossacks finished for a commission (apart from finishing off).
10 T64 bases sanded, tanks just need weathering.
Oh, and in the last two days I've written 28 reports (10000 plus words). Busy enough?
Cossacks finished (Essex must mix paint replant in their lead)!
Dwarves varnished
T64s weathered, then I decided to add aerials, after half an hours reseach into why some tanks have them, and others not in photos, it turns out that they were fitted with retractable ones! :o
Some Goblin riders based for 'Dragon Rampant'.
Grit added to a shedload of Goblins for 'Dragon Rampant'. Priming tomorrow at some point.
As it's peeing it down outside, no prospect of priming today :(. However, did manage to finish off three Leven Minis buildings this morning. Some more painting to follow on later, all being well.
Quote from: Steve J on 04 June 2017, 03:46:51 PM
Grit added to a shedload of Goblins for 'Dragon Rampant'. Priming tomorrow at some point.
So, to return to your army...did you paint these goblins
in your shed?
A slight diversion as I have a game of 'Crom' on Thursday, so have been focusing on getting my barbarian painted for that. Block colours on and a wash applied, so highlists and flocking tonight.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 05 June 2017, 09:57:29 AM
Quote from: Steve J on 04 June 2017, 03:46:51 PM
Grit added to a shedload of Goblins for 'Dragon Rampant'. Priming tomorrow at some point.
So, to return to your army...did you paint these goblins in your shed?
Didn't you know,
shedload is the collective noun for goblins in certain parts of the West Country? :-B
One unit of Commanded Shotte/Forlorn Hope painted this afternoon. Only 6 figures, but start to finish in an hour, which is good going for me :D.
Love the fact that shedloads is the collective noun for Goblins!
Another unit of Commanded Shotte/Forlorn Hope painted tonight :).
Two more nefs, four stands of bed fighters, done. Satisfying, but took forever! Especially thenroundals...
Repairs carried out on two Evil men standard bearers.
Some artillery crew added to some Becker SPGs, after the odd chop here and there.
how odd? ;)
First six stands of Evil Men by Yann so close to being done! Just need to do shield designs, standards and sorting out, then .i can move onto basing.
The Evil Men of Yann are now done (wel, the first six bases anyway), 32 15mm cavalry and many 10mm Renaissance foot undercoated.
School athletics tournement won, stir fry enjoyed by all, bath running. Rather a good day all-in-all!
Weather too nice to do any gaming stuff this evening 8). Shocking I know but when you spend all day indoors with no natural light...
Quote from: mad lemmey on 14 June 2017, 09:19:36 PM
The Evil Men of Yann are now done (wel, the first six bases anyway), 32 15mm cavalry and many 10mm Renaissance foot undercoated.
School athletics tournement won, stir fry enjoyed by all, bath running. Rather a good day all-in-all!
The Evil Men of Yann (the Barbarian) is an awesome name for an army (/horde) - and, coincidentally, for a concept album by a either a prog, NWOBHM or (melodic) death metal band... m/
:D
Not managed much recently, but I have been slowly converting some plastic packaging into a cave complex for dungeoneering and making some sci-fi buildings/scenery :)
Cheers!
Meirion
Bases painted, highlighted, edged and sealed last night.
Next batch started, base colours and inks on three Warband stands, bits and pieces here and there on others...
Four Warband Evil Men stands underway, including proper mounted knights (3 1/2 actually, the half stand is Renage Elves)' plus 16 x 15mm cavalry for that ongoing commission, and because I was on a horsy vibe, 3 stands of Warband Centaurs!
🐴
Lots of highlighting, followed by packing to go away on a school trip tomorrow.
7 15mm figures left to finish. The other 100 or so figures are done for tonight!
Both ancient Chinese armies are painted. I'll see if my better half feels like road-testing them this evening with me.
Batch done, varnish and basing of my figures to do, then onto the next heap of 10mm arquibusiers...
7 Warband bases sanded and pva'ed, fifty-and-odd arquibusiers base coated and inked. Many 15mm cavalry varnished (okay, 16).
Early Korean War U.S troops finished off.
First small batch of 'Napoleonic' censored almost finished. (I'm probably not supposed to say exactly what they are.)
Then there are all the 30mm figures I've been doing as well.
Boy...was my head spinning yesterday. I was doing four different projects for folk.
I've said it before, but getting 'headgear' right is one of the most difficult jobs to do. The tiniest little mis-tweak on something like a US helmet and it looks more like a Russian or Nazi helm.
Napoleonic's are just as bad for different reasons.....Getting the same shape right, on a number of different bods can be a swine.....And then there's the tiny, tiny detail to do.
All hail the Optivisor. ;)
Cheers - Mr Boss-Eyed of Wales
42 arquibusiers and 12 long swords Renaissance commission (all 10mm) done. Eeek, slashes! :-B @-) =O ;D 8)
Quote from: Techno on 28 June 2017, 06:23:03 PM
Early Korean War U.S troops finished off.
First small batch of 'Napoleonic' censored almost finished. (I'm probably not supposed to say exactly what they are.)
I've said it before, but getting 'headgear' right is one of the most difficult jobs to do. The tiniest little mis-tweak on something like a US helmet and it looks more like a Russian or Nazi helm.
Napoleonic's are just as bad for different reasons.....Getting the same shape right, on a number of different bods can be a swine.....And then there's the tiny, tiny detail to do.
Can you at least tell us if the horses for the Nappies are charging or standing?
Charging, Nobby.
Cheers - Phil
So Napoleonic cavalry in helmets.
French Lancers?
Spanish infantry and irregulars is my bet, based purely upon what I would like to see :D
I dunno...... X_X
I've got around 20 small groups of conversions to do....I'm being mentored......From a quick scan of all the images I've been sent...One does appear to have helmets.
No more questions. ;)
I'll be working my way through them in the order I'm asked to. :P
Cheers - Phil
Bases painted, highlighted, edged and sealed.
Three more Aeronefs built too.
Quote from: Techno on 29 June 2017, 11:57:49 AM
I dunno...... X_X
No more questions. ;)
Phil -
What ?
Why ?
When ?
Where ?
Who?
I get some more queries later
French lancers. Definitely.
Quote from: fsn on 29 June 2017, 06:37:54 AM
Can you at least tell us if the horses for the Nappies are charging or standing?
Wait a minute! Aren't nappies what we (over here) call diapers? In which case charging or standing horses would mean.... :o :-&
Quote from: d_Guy on 01 July 2017, 01:42:22 PM
Wait a minute! Aren't nappies what we (over here) call diapers? In which case charging or standing horses would mean.... :o :-&
Easy to distribute rose fertiliser? :-\
;)
Commissions:
8 dismounted dragoon horses and 4 holders, 8 panercri in 15mm assembled today.
30 Renaissance crossbowmen, 4 artillery crew and two cannons built in 10mm.
For me:
Four dogs and a handler built for Dux Bellorum (silly unit) in 10mm put together
All undercoated, along with 3 Aeronefs.
Sand and pva added to the dogs...
Basing done on 7 Warband stands, photos tomorrow.
30 Gascon/Renaissance crossbowmen, two guns and the crew base coated and inked. 3 Aeronefs finished, four dogs and their handler finished and based/pva-sealed.
Finally assembled and primed the Crusader AA tank than has lain in y drawer at work for far too many years. I added part of a figure to the turret to make it look manned. Also painted some BUAs for BBB that will have details added to them to show whether they are towns or villages. Not sure when that might be as painting mojo very, very low at present :(.
I started basing some Danish units for the 1st Schleswig-Holstein War last night. 3 figures on a 25mm square base, with 5 bases making a default unit. Rules of choice will be BBB, with Black Powder and Neil Thomas' 19thC Wargaming in reserve for smaller actions.
Minotaurs almost done.
36 Renaissance infantry and two guns completed.
Knocking together SYW casualty markers and ancient Chinese porters. Just marking time until M-Day.
As in, the name of a pre-Columbian neighbour to the US which is meant to be financing a new Great Wall....
Minotaur done, just need basing.
Bought 5 packs of Dark Elves, two crossbows, two warriors and a pack of witch elves.
This has allowed me, using my older Dark Elves, to build:
1 stand of Raptor riders
1 stand of scout crossbows
1 stand of guardian warriors
1 stand of witch elves
3 stands of crossbows (with spare figures left over)
4 stands of warriors
400 points already, just need warlord and warlocks now.
Also I built
a Dragon Men Mage stand
And Dwarf Artillery... 💥
Three stands collapsed into two stands of direwolves for Warband. Two stands of bats rebased to one Warband. Scrounged together enough older stands to make a stand of barbarian warriors and a stand of barbarian archers without having to paint any new figures. 8)
Twenty-one crossbows and three artillery pieces with crew assembled for Graham's forces.
Twenty one crossbowmen base coated and inked, mostly.
12 trolls that will be ogres done (Yann/Barbarian's figures, very nice) for my Dragonmen army
Warband dwarf artillery done, just needs basing
All the rebased figures, plus trolls (see above) and knights (that I painted last week): bases painted, highlighted and sealed, was going to flock tonight, but lost enthusiasm, so painted the afore mentioned trolls and artillery!
Flock, scatter and clumps done.
Dwarf artillery based.
Renaissance crossbows and artillery crew base coats finished and inked
Renaissance and Triarii flesh base coated and inked.
Staring glumly at the absence of a lead mountain. It's a strange feeling. :'(
I'm almost in a similar boat, it is indeed a strange feeling :-S
Let me remind you what you're missing :)
Some of the containers are empty and many others are not completely full but still .....
Just shows what 40 years of Bring & Buys, GW Sales, EBay and the like, combined with an "Oooh! Shiny! Oooh! Squirrel ..." approach to collecting will do for you :-)
FK! :o
Noooooooooooooooooooooöooooooooooooooooooøpooooooooooooooooooõooooooooooooóoooooooooooooœ!
You never admit to that! You know what happens if you admit to that!
Is there a cure? :(
Yes but it be fatal
Quote from: mad lemmey on 18 July 2017, 06:32:00 AM
FK! :o
Noooooooooooooooooooooöooooooooooooooooooøpooooooooooooooooooõooooooooooooóoooooooooooooœ!
You never admit to that! You know what happens if you admit to that!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I'll buy them eagerly when they go into production, if I haven't hit retirement, blindness, or indeed decomposition by then.
60 triarii finished painting, they just need basing; and a base of Warband Dwarf artillery had their base painted, highlighted and sealed tonight.
Triarii bases inked. Base of Yann's Evil Men Sirens highlighted and detailed.
Then...
I got my inner geek on...
They've been sitting round staring at me since last October...
My Tumbling Dice Roman Punic War fleet now has base coats and inks done.
Roman galleys, hmm... could have gone monochromatic, but having studied Romans, and having visited Livia's Villa rooms at the Roman National Museum, Romans loved colour. Mine are going to be colourful as tart's boudoir!
What to do for my Carthaginian fleet? ;)
Pleased to say I've never been in a tart's boudoir.
Dark Elves started...
Highlighting takes time when there's nearly 100 of them...
Hair, tunics, boots and trousers done. Interesting conversation with Techno about Dark Elf Witches and their improved dress sense...
Flesh, armour and eyes to do tonight.
RE 8 painted and varnished, but my order of clear plastic rods hasn't arrived, so it can't be based yet. Odd starter, I know, but was my first Airfix kit when I was a little crawling chaos of a fellow.
Last week was painting our daughter's bedroom, this week our son's. Frankly I'd forgotten how long it takes to do this, especially as they both wanted painted floorboards. They look great but take one hell of a toll on my knees. The upside is I've been sleeping like a log! Certainly accrued plenty of brownie points as well.
..... me, too. Finished daughter no.1's hallway. Now starting the bathroom .... :(
Landing, hall and stairs are the worst to paint. So bl**dy awkward to access some parts, plus everyone wants to use the stairs just as you get set up. Ditto the bathroom, especially when you have just put the stepladder behind the door!
Yes just doing our hall stairs and landing. Walls very poor so have to line with paper before I can paint.
Your right, you just get set up and then someone wants to use the stairs, and then they act like its your fault your in the way ! >:(
Quote from: Orcs on 02 August 2017, 06:21:56 PM
Yes just doing our hall stairs and landing. Walls very poor so have to line with paper before I can paint.
Resist that. I've only done it once and regretted it. Not easy to apply and apart from anything else it damages very easily once up and looks even worse.
Best just smooth over the worst parts. Really.
Quote from: Albie Bach on 03 August 2017, 08:43:45 AM
Resist that. I've only done it once and regretted it. Not easy to apply and apart from anything else it damages very easily once up and looks even worse.
Best just smooth over the worst parts. Really.
In my previous place and my current one the wall plaster is little more than dust held together by memory, faith and the underlay of well-varnished Victorian wallpaper to which the current layer is applied. Wallpaper is sometimes a must!
I've done some pretty boring things whilst making toy soldiers, but this afternoon........
Over a hundred tiny little (double) studs around the belt of a somewhat obese 45mm figure.
I really did almost lose the will to live.....Rolling each tiny stud out, between thumb and forefinger...putting it in place...neatening it....mixing more fresh putty, every so often..and repeating...AAAAAARGH !!
Thank **** that's done. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Drow done, just need basing up, commanders, and brown inkwash on the crossbows (as I forgot to bring it with me).
Quote from: Techno on 04 August 2017, 04:25:04 PM
I've done some pretty boring things whilst making toy soldiers, but this afternoon........
Over a hundred tiny little (double) studs around the belt of a somewhat obese 45mm figure.
I really did almost lose the will to live.....Rolling each tiny stud out, between thumb and forefinger...putting it in place...neatening it....mixing more fresh putty, every so often..and repeating...AAAAAARGH !!
Thank **** that's done. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Are you sure it was just a plain double stud on that one?
I thought it was supposed to be a kind of rosette look? Like an asterisk with stud at each point and one in the middle... (sort of like this: •:•:• ) ;)
No, Meirion......A line of studs around the top of the belt, and a line directly underneath each one.
SO much fun. X_X
Cheers - Phil ;)
Dark Elf shields repainted, pen I had done them in had faded and smudged, so out with the brush instead! ~X(
Dark Elf and Sirens bases ova and sanded. 8)
5/6 Triarii bases flocked, scattered and clumped. 6th awaits one extra figure (miscounted) ~X(
Dwarf heavy artillery flocked, scattered and clumped, then ref locked as I realised the flock I've just bought is a shade lighter than that that I am used too! ~X(
So Summer Green has replaced Spring, and Spring is now... dayglo! ~X(
Off to find what the next darkestbshade is to replace my now-spring-summer green! ~X(
But the lunch round the in-laws was fabulous! 8)
Quote from: Techno on 05 August 2017, 07:51:58 PM
No, Meirion......A line of studs around the top of the belt, and a line directly underneath each one.
SO much fun. X_X
Cheers - Phil ;)
That wind-up didn't work too well then :P
No...With these nerve blockers, I tend not to take much in...Especially at this time of the day ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.
So...
One Dark Elf Lizard rider, plus 6 broken spears that I've replaced with pins on other riders,
5 Dark Elf generals,
4 Dark Elf mages and 1 runestone,
12 28mm scale 'WEG Age Of High Chivalry' Knights (dated 1979),
18 15mm Later Roman Cavalry
16 15mm Renaissance cavalry
30 Sea People Archers, 30 sea people swordsmen, 18 oxen, 9 ox carts, 21 crew,
All best coated and inked.
1 stand of Yann's Sirens and 10 sands of Dark Elves bases painted, highlighted, edges and sealed with pva for Warband.
Carthage fleet pack found, ready to assemble. One of the other chaps at MKWS has just ordered a fleet and the rules.!:) might get a game sooner than I thought!! :D
A quiet day really... went to the doctors about an eye infection!
Quote from: Techno on 07 August 2017, 06:11:12 PM
No...With these nerve blockers, I tend not to take much in...Especially at this time of the day ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.
Lol!
Keep taking the pills and one day maybe you'll ascend to a higher plane of concisousness and The Forum will actually make sense :o :D
Cheers!
Meirion
Finally got a chance to get some figures out after far too long!
Decided to evaluate my 2mm forces to see what I could put together for One-Hour Wargames as well as the Dux Bellorum they were originally intended for and sent to Irregular for some reinforcements and strips for two medieval armies.
Also picked up a 6mm Tusk pack with the aim of getting a quick game sorted to play with the sproggs - work on the 10mm stuff having stalled due both lack of time and me prevaricating about how to render the perfect simulation of the Pleistocene interglacial environment and hunter-prey interaction! :-B ;)
Hopefully the weather will hold today so I can get some stuff spray-primed :-$
Cheers!
Meirion
Quote from: O Dinas Powys on 10 August 2017, 06:59:37 AM
...prevaricating about how to render the perfect simulation of the Pleistocene interglacial environment and hunter-prey interaction! :-B ;)
I seem to recall that another forum member has a set of rules he uses for participation games for something very similar :-\
If I remember rightly it involved Mammoths :-/
Quote from: paulr on 10 August 2017, 07:22:43 AM
I seem to recall that another forum member has a set of rules he uses for participation games for something very similar :-
If I remember rightly it involved Mammoths :-/
That was probably me, I've got a load of 10&15mm animals (partly) painted, but I was dithering on basing and how to do the hunters.
Anyway, progress on the 6mm incarnation: all mammoths painted, just need varnishing; blobs of brown are appearing on the hunters!
Hoping to it mostly finished so I can take it on holiday next week and try and tempt the sproggs into a game ;)
Cheers!
Meirion
About half way through the chivalry and coats of arms on 12 28mm knights for a friend
Squeezed in a couple of hours today :D
Painted a load of 2mm strips silver or brown and whited out the shields, flags and caparisons. Just got to decide whether to do the opposing forces in predominantly red and blue; red and white; or some other combination... :-\
Also varnished the Tusk mini-mammoths and almost finished the cavemen stands - lots of random brown and grey leathers/furs, flesh and hair. Only the weaponry to finish :)
Just about finished the Korean War Brit commandos. (The ones with the berets, anyway.)
Gotta check what the next things on the list are.......Think they're commandos, too....But this time with cap comforters (whatever those are :-\)
I'll check with Sunray and Nobby......And better get some piccies done, for checking.
Finishing off a 45mm tall figure. Seems to have taken forever. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Cap comforter :D
(https://worldwarwonders.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/p-14241-WW2_Indian_Made__575fdedd86cad.jpg)
Like the Airfix Commandos wore. I'll dig out some more piccies over the weekend.
Thanks, Nobby !
Cheers - Phil
12 28mm medieval French knights done for a friend. Many hours of heraldry. Actually, 11 French knights and 1 that is the owner! ;) @-) :-B
Sleep now... I-)
Currently putting boots on a second regiment of DamYankees; just finished a Fokker Dr. I, and am wishing I had the plastic rods which I ordered several weeks ago to base it.
Eagerly watching out for our feathered friends every morning....
The Amazing Mrs Denham too the youngest swimming this afternoon, the eldest has been curled up on the sofa all day feeling pesky, so the paints came out for an hour. 8)
Three stands of Warband Dark Elf extras completed apart from one flag and the basing.
Started highlighting some 15mm Roman cavalry for the next commission.
Plus ink and some base layer on epic 6mm Eldar.
Base layers complete on Eldar, Roman cavalry basic highlights done. Dark Elf flag sorted!
Virginia and Connecticut regiments done; undercoating New Yorkers and Tennessee forces.
Painting on 18 x 15mm Late Roman Cavalry (commission) finished tonight. They will be based for their owner in the next few days. Spent 3.5 hours on shields, and they're not even a complex one!! @-) :-B
Also got the second highlight in my 10 epic Eldar vehicles tonight.
Sixteen 15mm Renaissance cavalry, 3 Epic Eldar night spinners finished tonight.
Five stands of Epic Eldar Scouts started.
Just waiting on Leon & crew to send through 'special basing' for my Eldar vehicles. ;)
Plastic rods have arrived at last from the US. A bit of 1918 air action soon, I think.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 01 September 2017, 10:59:35 PM
Just waiting on Leon & crew to send through 'special basing' for my Eldar vehicles. ;)
Oooo...
:-\ ???
2mm progress last night :)
Also shovelled PVA/filler onto my 6mm Tusk bases so they currently look like Christmas cake toppers! :o
Still can't decide between the classic snowfield; verdant interglacial or fecund step-tundra looks though... :-\
Cheers!
Meirion
Five stands of Eldar scouts finished tonight apart from basing.
One Warband base, one base of Triarii, 6 anti-tank obstacles, 9 jet bikes bases, and one character base sand & pva'd tonight. Inks tomorrow, painting and flock and tufts, all before their first outing on Thor's day! ;)
Hoping Leon and co send the other bases through quick so I can get the vehicles flying too! :-SS 8-}
Bases mentioned above inked.
Six bases (24 figures) base coated and inked of Timecast Russians. Just filling in, been sitting on the deck for ages.
After 50odd 15mm cavalry which were given to me to do in April, ready for not-Derby in October; various WSS hit the painting decks!
Swore lots, late yesterday afternoon, as the light was fading.
Was at a critical stage on a particular figure, when we had a power cut.
MOST power cuts here are simple 'mains flicks', when the power distributors switch something off and on and power's back on within a few seconds.
(This is still a right pain, as I have to go and reset the boiler's timer, each time this happens....But that's the only thing that's really vexing.)
Not last night, though !
After about an hour the power returned..."Hooray !".....Then went straight off again...."B*llocks !"
(Sarcastic phone call to the power company time.)........(Von made the second call an hour later, as she didn't want me upsetting the poor sod on the end of the line.)
At least it's back now. I wonder whose tractor went through the bloody wires.
Cheers - Mr Slightly Calmer-Now.
That great Spanish painter Goya* had a hat with a row of nails projecting from the brim. To paint at night he would attach candles to these nails.
Just a suggestion. :D
What could go wrong?
*For many year the Wellington pub in Runcorn had Goya's portrait of the great man as it's sign. A few years ago it was refurbished and they've replaced it with a picture of the Prince Regent as George IV. =)
Bases painted, highlighted and sealed last night, Russians progeessed
Quote from: Techno on 05 September 2017, 06:09:46 AM
Swore lots, late yesterday afternoon, as the light was fading.
Was at a critical stage on a particular figure, when we had a power cut.
Cheers - Mr Slightly Calmer-Now.
But where you are I would have thought you didn't even have gas lights....
IanS
Certainly no mains gas anywhere near us.
Cheers - Phil
So its candles then ?
The RFC now has a Camel to escort its RE 8. May try a quick dogfight this evening.
Now that Daughter No.1's flat has been painted and decorated, put up for sale and received an offer :-bd , I dug out some Pendraken SYW Jagers (oh, the excitement), painting a dozen figures as the Feldjager zu Fuss for a small unit using Honours of War. If I say so myself, they came out rather well. I then duly based them ... and then hit a problem. You see, the standing figures in the pack have been sculpted in the "ice-skating" pose and, not liking this :( , I first cut off or cut down the supporting "metal pegs" from the figures with legs in the air and then, to avoid the figures balancing on one leg only, bent the figure back to give a more upright pose. This has worked well enough for my SYW Croats but not so on one of my Jager figures - and it had to be the one of my special custom made command bases! Alas, due to its positioning, this figure is constantly being bent over when I pick the base up - so much that I now think the supporting leg is far too weakened for it to last. Oh well, looks like I'll need to re-base and/or paint up another figure. ~X(
[So, Leon, please - no more "ice skating" pose figures - ever - pleeease. ]
On a happier note, I also painted up the new stone farm from Pendraken's 19th Century ACW/AWI range. This is the first model in my new 10mm scale building programme and it paints up very nicely. A lovely range of buildings and hopefully some more European Black Powder additions will be scheduled in future. :-bd
p.s. I will be selling my 6mm buildings soon. If anyone is interested, please drop me a personal note with your e-mail address and I'll send on some photos.
I've just finished some of the old Italian 1860's sculpts, which are about 50% similar poses (though possibly not as bad...). As they're an exceedingly quick job between (during) commissions I just got a bit enthusiastic with the PVA, sand and flock on the base so the metal peg bit looks like lumpy earth/tussocks. It's not ideal, but it means no cutting and then ankle breakages, with any luck, whilst disguising the ice skating stance! Excuse the terrible piccy, I just snapped it quick :D
Mostly finished my One Hour Wargames 2mm medievals, so stuck them onto bases last night. Just need to apply some scenic materials now :)
6mm Tusk looking very Winter Wonderland! Not sure if it's the look I want, but I've done it very well (even if I say so myself)! Trying to work out if I can turn it into Steppe Tundra without trashing them... :-\
Was not going to do anything last night as it's been the first week of school and therefore knackered...
So I built a Tumbling Dice Carthagian fleet! ;D
54 15mm Cavaley undercoated and basecoated, hopefully get some inks on tomorrow (wife is trying Zumba for the first time, I'm on 'get the girls to bed duty).
4 Later Roman Standards replaced by drilling out old bearers and pinning. You can't see the join...
54 15mm Renaissance cavalry inked.
24 Timecast 10mm 1984 Soviets finished, just need basing.? :D
Horses and Cavalry highlighted, flesh applied and ink washed.
Funny old day...
This morning...
Applied brown paint to the 54 cavalry, you know, flesh highlights, wood and leather work.
Messaged the owner with an enquiry this afternoon.
Turned out he could no longer afford my services, as his wife has been laid off and as he is retired and on a low pension, finances were at breaking point. Yes, this is the same chap who had an army stolen, he has atrocious luck.
Slight panic by me, in the middle of a Smyths Toy Store, as my Christmas spends disappeared.
Quick conversation with Hammy and Dracostandard as they know the industry better than anyone.
Client agreed that I could sell them on.
Within twenty minutes a very good friend had agreed to buy them. He will get them for painting price, as the lead is obviously cursed, I know I could have got more on Fleabay, as they are all Essex, and I had put effort into these, but... (insert swearword here) it!
Yes, I know I should have taken part payment earlier or a deposit, but after the last army was tea-leafed, and the original client is an old adversary, I'm too much of a soft touch.
Inks and metalwork done tonight, with a huge sense of relief.
How many people read these?
Quote from: mad lemmey on 17 September 2017, 12:09:03 AM
Funny old day...
How many people read these?
Poor bugger :(
Glad you found a resolution
At least one, quote makes it easy ;)
Same as Paul.
Glad you managed to do that, Will.
On the other point.......
That's what I always do, Paul.
Cheers - Phil
Busy weekend: almost all my (admittedly small) Colours haul prepped last night then spray primed this morning; sprayed black this afternoon; then overbrushed this evening. Feeling quite chuffed with my productivity :D
Well done, that man =D>
That is quick Merion!
15 15mm cavalry finished.
The other 39 are sooooooooooooooooooöooooø nearly done. Too tired to carry on tonight. I-) I-)
Quote from: mad lemmey on 18 September 2017, 06:07:30 AM
That is quick Merion!
Yup! The tricky bit now is maintaining momentum... :-SS
All cavalry done. Back to 10mm tomorrow. Phew!
Hannover CLII ready for action. Building biplanes is a pain in the fingertips, excuse my French, but the Germans and French are a delight to paint.
Sunray and Graham at MKWS's figures cleaned and assembled tonight.
Back in the land of 10mm! Phew!
Sunray & Graham's figures undercoated. Flying base rods trimmed to size with my Dremel. 14 flying bases assembled and then with 6 bases of Timecast Soviets, sand & pva applied.
RFC now has an SE5(a) to join the fun, and the opposition have an Albatros DIII.
Two choc ices please. :D
Cheers - Phil
Tad obscure that one Phil, have you tried Cruncy Frog recently ?
SE5A, well you fly underneath the opposition, put Lewis gun in the loading position, and empty the drum, MAGIC.
IanS
Flying underneath them has been regrettably the norm against those triplanes.
Now putting together a couple of SPAD XIIIs, my personal favourites, and DVIIs.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 23 September 2017, 07:50:04 AM
Tad obscure that one Phil, have you tried Cruncy Frog recently ?
IanS
No...But there was a 'Cockroach Cluster' in a box of choccies that Von was given recently........As Homer S would say........Mmmmmmmmm.
Cheers - Anne Idiot.
Just milliputted the bases of my Tumbling Dice Carthagian fleet.
Will get them undercoated soon.
Bases for Eldar and Soviets inked.
Aforementioned bases now painted, highlighted, detailed edges and pva sealed.
Highly annoyingly I went to base up the Savoy foot guards and have lost my bag of pre-cut pikes. Doubly annoyingly I also received postage confirmation of my recent order so I can't even piggy back that!
A long painting hiatus has been broken by base coating another T-28 and the monster that is the T-35. The latter comes in at 65mm long, give or take, and weighs quite a bit. However it is a lovely model. Not sure whether to add camo to it to go along with my other Soviet kit, or just to leave it plain Russian Green :-.
Plain green. With a big red star on the side. :D
That be parade finish. However I suspect cammo is a later addition, so plain green would feel right, probably with some form of tactical markings on it.
IanS
Plain green is correct and the red star was for a parade, from the info I've been able to find. There is an image with a white triangle on the turret side, so might try that. There are also some turret rings for identification, some plain white, others a red band with white stripes. These I think will be beyond my painting skills, as much as I might like to do them. Off to do a bit more research... :)
Have seen T-26's and T-28's with a white ring round the top edge of the turret, as an air id marking I think. That and white code numbers.
And in 10mm Renaissance: 48 knights and 12 handgunners nearly finished.
You don't sleep, do you Mr. Lemmy?
Goes with borderline insomnia and depression! ;)
Certainly some seem to have made it near to Germans whilst sporting a red star. I think1 of my 3 T35s sports stars.
(http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae279/THE-BOOT/Soviet-T35-tank-04.jpg)(http://media.moddb.com/images/groups/1/3/2074/t35_006.1.gif)
Nicely turned out
(http://www.radioscanner.ru/uploader/2013/t-35-2.jpg)
Yep, found the same 'photos earlier today FSN, so mine will have red stars too :).
Slight diversion from tanks this evening into painting some scratch built ruins I made 3 months or so ago, as they are taking up space in the painting tray and I could use them for my planned BKCII game.
Renaissance stuff done, photos later!
(http://www.radioscanner.ru/uploader/2013/t-35-2.jpg)
I think I have sourced the problem with the T35. We have always assumed it was underpowered, unreliable, over large and under armoured. In fact, it was the perforated turret tops that let it down.
Do you mean the crew drowned when they took it out in the rain?
The Germans thought it was an instruction to "tear here", so they did ;)
Good all-round vision though! hard to surprise these fellows...
96 Marlburian Infantry started for an August member of this forum, which I'm sure will be much to his and my relief. Base coats and inks done.
Highlights on jackets and trousers done last night. Facings and sashes sorted too
Base colours applied to 1/144th Typhoon (old Revell kit IIRC). Not sure whether to add D-Day stripes to the wings or not, mainly due to the effort involved. However, it does make the plane 'jump' when on the table.
Sorry, but no option, all Tiffes carried the stripes, seems they were supposed to resemble FW-190s. Don't see it myself though.
IanS
At 400mph and in whirling 3d fighting with rapidly changing ranges, every plane looks just like another :D
What's the stats for the NWE theatre? Was something ludicrous like 60-40 in favour of getting knocked out by your own side, either your own AA or other pilots! Might have been about 50/50, but yeah.
Come mid-late '44 onwards, it appears that the invasion strips were restricted to the underside of the plane. Presumably due to the absence of the Luftwaffe, it was AA fire that they had to worry about.
Given the amount of "whoops" moments from Allied pilots versus Allied ground troops, I'm not surprised! Everybody shoot at everything, you're bound to hit the one eventually...
Quote from: toxicpixie on 05 October 2017, 08:07:39 AM
At 400mph and in whirling 3d fighting with rapidly changing ranges, every plane looks just like another :D
What's the stats for the NWE theatre? Was something ludicrous like 60-40 in favour of getting knocked out by your own side, either your own AA or other pilots! Might have been about 50/50, but yeah.
I believe these are more or less the stats for German planes; during 'Operation Bodenplatte' on 1st January 1945 when the Luftwaffe gathered all it could muster to attack allied airfields in the West they lost close to 250 airplanes in just one day... roughly 20% of the losses were attributed to allied planes; 40% to allied AA fire and the other 40% to german AA fire (I could look up the exact numbers if anyone wants them). The problem was that the operation was so secret they hadn't informed the FlaK commanders and they in turn were not used to seeing German airplanes anymore so that they shot on everything that flew in their airspace... Losses in % to allied aircraft by friendly groundfire will have been remarkably lower although they certainly did occur in the heat of battle. I can also imagine gunners on bombers doing considerable collateral damage when trying to track German aircraft with their .50 cal.s...
Cheers,
Rob
I think it was the American tactical airforce in Normandy I'm thinking of (although it might have included the heavies when used in theatre as opposed to strategically); I was mildly astonished - the chances of harm from your own side somewhat outstripped that from the enemy (all sources included, ground fire and air fire). Losses to friendly AA over the Commonwealth sectors were slightly better - attributed to better AA control and being less jumpy, as they hadn't been plastered quite so effectively by their own air :D
I can't find the bloody article now, but losses by aircraft for the Allies in the ETO worked out slightly more likely to get knocked out by your own side. I don't recall they were as bad as 60/40, as with that German operation to be fair, it was only a shade more likely. And it did include training and accidents, which were horrifically high.
It's almost certainly from the US Strategic Bombing Survey, which despite the title covers just about everything on NWE.
I did have a quick flick through a couple of pages referencing that but didn't catch anything more than the vague allusions to how dangerous your own side was as opposed to the actual breakdown showing it :D
Think you're right though Ian, that sounds like where I'd seen the data from...
On accidents; we had a temporary airfield (B.89) in my hometown, operational from early February 1945 to late March with two Wings stationed there; in that short 1,5 month period at least 6 planes crashed, resulting in several casualties, on landing or take off. On the day the one Wing departed for new field closer to the front three more accidents occured wrecking both planes and men... Losses due to combat during the period amounted to many more.
Cheers,
Rob
Typhoon finished tonight and decals applied. I decided against the D-Day markings purely due to limited painting time at present, but might do this on another model... :-
Applying the decals took me back over 40 years to when I made models as a kid. The whole experience is easier these days due to better quality decals, but still it was great fun applying them. I'd forgotten how these really finish off a plane, which without them looks rather drab to be honest.
Last two nights
Assembled 54 cavalry and 12 infantry for that ongoing 15mm Renaissance commission, built a platoon of timecast soviet infantry, 7bmp-1ps, 3 scorpion tanks and 2 BIG BRITISH tanks!
They begin with C, made by timecast, are beautiful, amazingly detailed and FSN doesn't collect them,
Don't they all begin with C?
There are some S, some F and a few W
Lots undercoated, six galleys built and based with milliputt waves, but due to cheap superglue, sails not afixed, (45 setting time, yeah right) will buy posh superglue tomorrow.
Also milliputt sculpted scrim camo nets in the Scorpion tanks.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 10 October 2017, 01:57:18 PM
There are some S, some F and a few W
Come to think of it I know of a Valentine and a Mathilda but that's about it... Is the 'C' reserved for MBT's maybe?
Cheers,
Rob
The issue with British tanks is preWW2 the tanks were divided into infantry support tanks and cavalry tanks that were designed to be free roaming.
Ignoring US supplied Tanks that British wags gave names (Stuart, Grant, Lee, Sherman etc) which the Americans then adopted themselves.
'C' was reserved for cruiser tanks (Cromwell, Crusader, Challenger (Cromwell with stupidly big turret), it was then adapted as the 'M' series of Infantry Tanks were phased out, then heavier tanks picked up C names (Churchill, Centurion) and the name stuck for MBTs post war (note the recycled Challenger name, not many positive C names.... coward, craven, crow.
Never gave it much thought but it sounds logical I guess; a bit like the Destroyer classes in the Navy then.
Thanks for the info!
Cheers,
Rob
Very little about British tank design is at all logical until post-war ;)
Reading Keegan's "Tank Men" atm, and some of the quotes from the British design teams are eye opening. I knew our design process was bad, but... Massive panic at "boss level" but no one actually communicates it down. To the totally separate teams who are developing different bits of the tank in isolation. Oh, so the gun was supposed to fit the turret? Well no one told us that! And under outside constraints like railway tunnel sizes etc. And no guidance from the chaps using the damn machines, except very occasionally when one might be flown in, take one look at the mess, laugh-cry in desperation, throw everything out and leave. Direction from above was vague, contradictory and never very urgent, and it's a wonder we ever built any tanks at all tbh.
Still, that's all sorted out by the end of the Cromwell program, and a couple of years to tune it rendered the Churchill a superb machine, and the Comet followed by the Tank That Excites The FSN were probably the best tanks of the war and into the post war period (until the T-54/55 at any rate). Think the experience scarred the Army so badly they got it right post war (barring buying Iranian tanks to replace Chieftain :D).
Did they buy them, or were they landed on them? ;)
To be fair it wasn't the Army's decision, I guess :D
They seemed adamant they wanted the Abrams (with a proper gun), and simply had to have a new tank. So they got one, and all the ROF chaps kept their jobs, hurrah!
And they did do well in actual combat, and a seventeen year in service time isn't bad, even if it's half Chieftains and a third of Centurion's...
Sails added to galleys after I shelled out on some gel superglue!
Fallschirmjager LG 40s based, ditto a Flak 88. Just need to decide which crew to add to the 88, so need to rummage around in my figures box to get the look I want.
Horses base coated for the next part of a commission. My infantry, APCs, Light Tanks and Heavy tanks base coated and inked.
Kentucky cavalry done; Illinois started. The fact that by the later 19th century you often have to do dismounted versions too does delay things a bit. :(
3 Pendraken Scorpions, 7Timecast BMP-1s, and two Timecast Chieftain finished tonight. 9 Soviet infantry stands part done, Samurai camp undercoated, Samurai Tipo also undercoated.
I'm rejigging all of the 'dollies' at the mo', so that Leon can get the whole lot on a single mould.
Done a handful of extra poses, which I hadn't done before. (Though I've converted dollies in the past to make up those poses....But that's a bit of a waste of time.)
Also changed (am changing) the running pose, so it hopefully looks a little more realistic.
If there are any poses that you think are sorely missed....Pop your ideas down.
(I can't go TOO mad though !) ;)
Cheers - Phil
OK, Techno. I can tell you ALL the dollies you should ever need:
- Infantry Advancing- slope arms, Port Arms, Trail arms
- Cavalry - walking/trotting sword or lance(see below)
- Officer/NCO - Pointing, encouraging, looking smug
- Artillery (and only artillery) - kneeling
- Specialist - drummers drumming, buglers bugling, ensign
There you go. If you want to add a bit of variety, you could have advancing (left leg forward) and advancing (right leg forward). That would be useful for irregular armies.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Marine_Corps_Silent_Drill_Team_6.jpg/1200px-Marine_Corps_Silent_Drill_Team_6.jpg)(http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/268b2184612f43ad9b2071aab22fdf1c/the-ermine-street-guard-performing-at-the-roman-military-spectacular-bf8gf1.jpg)(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/5e/74/ce/5e74ce30ae2ba6a0c125d8e9841853a1--soldati-grasshoppers.jpg)
(http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/7aa7bfc52db346c0a37c9754634c2670/household-cavalry-ride-past-during-the-lord-mayor-s-show-a672aj.jpg)(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/2nd_Bombay_Lancers.jpg/290px-2nd_Bombay_Lancers.jpg)
I'm now going to the FSNbunker.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 14 October 2017, 11:28:37 PM
3 Pendraken Scorpions, 7Timecast BMP-1s, and two Timecast Chieftain finished tonight. 9 Soviet infantry stands part done, Samurai camp undercoated, Samurai Tipo also undercoated.
Blimey Will, remember to breath!
Quote from: fsn on 15 October 2017, 07:52:55 AM
OK, Techno. I can tell you ALL the dollies you should ever need:
- Infantry - Standing firing, kneeling firing, prone firing, firing on the move, dead
- Cavalry - Removing stone from horses hoof, standing by horse waiting for something to do, galloping heroically in the wrong direction. No need for a dead pose because "Whoever saw a dead cavalryman."
- Officer - With map looking lost, Pointing asking are they ours?, Being yelled at by senior officer
- NCO - Pointing looking exasperated, Ducking, looking smug. May be paired with the officer poses above
- Artillery (and only artillery) - Standing firing, kneeling firing, sitting having a cuppa
- Specialist - unit scrounger with some other units boots/ ammo/ weapons, musicians moving a piano to the officers mess, Stand of flags and banners left at base for safety
FIFY :D
The sad thing is that your list is probably the one that will be used. :(
I think I've got most of those.......And a few extras ! ;) ......Though there are no gee-gees in this batch.
Thanks, chaps.
Cheers - Phil.
Finally finished my T-35, which really is a beast of a tank. I went for the Red Star in the end and a slogan on the turret, both really to make the tank stand out a bit, as just in green it was lacking a certain something.
T-28 finished and some British armour additions basecoated and washed.
Modern Soviets nearly based...
Two Churchill 95mm tanks finished, with a Crusader AA tank and an armoured car almost there.
Crusader AA tank and armoured car finished as planned. Might take a paint from vehicles and do some more units for Pikemen's Lament.
Continuing on Pete's Transylvanians in 15mm, but also finished 5 mounted crossbows in 10mm for Graham, and my modern Brits and Soviets (until the next lot appear)!
Both sides have some horse now, and I've nearly finished a fourth unit of infantry for each side too. Also a few more tin kettles for supporting fire. Gettysburg, here we come.
I do know there were no naval contingents at Gettysburg. Regard this as a protest against Trajanic legionaries in the Gallic wars. crusaders fighting Arab armies, black Numidians, grenadiers with colours, Sengoku armies with five figures and a geisha, and ships of the line with pennants streaming out behind them.
57 18mm cavalry done for a friend, 12 Infantry still to do, then back to that oh so nearly finished 10mm Samurai Army, one unit to finish and the camp, which is still half done.
8)
2mm medieval armies for One Hour Wargames finally completed - basing took far longer than painting :-<
Now moving on to basing random odds'n'sods for the Paint Off, fingers crossed I might even squeeze some new painting in before the end of the month!
Just need to get a camera and some decent light now =)
Armies for the War of the Southern Secession are making good time, though I'm waiting for a last parcel of shinies, and realising that A ) I've painted Berdan's sharpshooters too dark; and B ) that I have to have Rush's Lancers, which means I'll need to make lances and pennants soon.
With the current painting challenge, coupled with a desire to paint something none WWII plus getting some units done for pre-Salute practice games, I have re-started painting some more units for 'The Pikemen's Lament'. So this afternoon a unit of Shot got onto the painting table, albeit rather briefly, before being evicted as SWMBO wanted to cook in the kitchen. Painting due to resume for an hour or so this evening.
Yay!
The unit of shot duly finished, but will let everything dry before varnishing tomorrow. I think I may re-highlight the leather work to make it stand out a bit more, but will decide in the morning when my eyes aren't so tired. Nice to be painting again and have a deadline to work to, so thanks Will :).
Well done that man =D>
Thanks Paul. Another unit of shot half painted in terms of the main clothing and hats done. Leather work ,guns and faces tomorrow, if time allows. After these are completed, I really need to do some Dragoons, but I hate painting horses! For ease i will make the horses the same colour for each units, just so that they stand out more on the table.
Should finish the Iron Brigade and the Ohio cavalry this evening, DV.
12 infantry in 15mm done, plus 18 10mm peasants with arquibus done for my Samurai force, 30 Musket armied Ashugau to do next (& still haven't finished the s*dding camp!
FINALLY finished painting the figures for my extended Samurai army camp, just got to base it and extended the surrounding wrap (it must have a formal name, but it's too early to research that).
Just 30 republican and two command figures to go before Warfare...
Basing up an ECW regimental gun and crew for use with my 'The Pikemen's Lament' Companies. Ditto odd civilian figures for decoration and useful for certain scenarios. Very enjoyable.
30 figures base coated and inked tonight.
Yay, progress! 8)
30 Ashugaru finished tonight.
Varnish tomorrow and onto mdf, their first run out tomorrow night and then into basing over the weekend.
8)
Michigan and North Carolina regiments, Rush's lancers, a couple of sub-commanders, and some Choctaw auxiliaries to be done, observation balloons and stretcher teams finished, and the Dixies can fire on Fort Sumpter (sp?).
Only managed some basing of spare figures so far this week, due to evenings having been busy with family stuff. Nice to have created some different units though.
80odd Principes started for my stalled Middle Republican Roman project. along with a whole heap of Renaissance generals, heavy knights and arquibusiers, a band and a chorus line for that 10mm Renaissance commission.
Bases painted, highlighted, edged and sealed.
Samurai camp and shooters done, photos tomorrow. Much progress on other bits too
* Top Tip of the Day *
Vallejo Paints: Never squeeze the bottle too hard when pointing the bottle with the cap off at an upward angle towards the far end of the room ..... =)
Completed painting 16 SYW Austrian fusiliers today ..... including the successful removal of unwanted paint from two of the said, completed figures. :-[
:o ;D
:o :(
Glad you managed to clean it off the figures :)
Have you looked at cleaning the rest of the room yet ;)
Another unit of shot completed for my 'The Pikemen's Lament' Company's. A load of flocking etc to be done tomorrow, which should then allow me to get in some small games of the aforementioned rules, or a 'standard' game of 'Dragon Rampant'.
Quote from: Westmarcher on 13 November 2017, 06:18:37 PM
* Top Tip of the Day *
Vallejo Paints: Never squeeze the bottle too hard when pointing the bottle with the cap off at an upward angle towards the far end of the room ..... =)
Until about a month ago I did not know that the nipple dispenser can thread out with the cap. Did not notice until I tipped the bottle over the dish.
It flows out really fast!
Time to complete a couple of ping-pong ball observation balloons.
Highlights, flesh base and Indonesia tonight.
Slow progress, but I want to get these right...
Quote from: mad lemmey on 13 November 2017, 11:28:37 PM
Highlights, flesh base and Indonesia tonight.
Slow progress, but I want to get these right...
There's a lot of Indonesia to paint ;) ;D
I know, that's why it's taking me soooooooo long!
80 Mid Republican Principes almost done apart from Shield designs, plumes and tidying up.
Only been on the painting tables since spring!
Back to WWI aircraft. No rest for the warmongers.
No painting tonight, Ofsted (schools inspection body) in tomorrow. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh! ;D
Quick get all those books marked and lesson plans written.
Good luck for tomorrow, remember to make sure the problem kids are out of the classroom, doing important 1:1 learning with a TA!!
Good luck for tomorrow Lemmy
Planning to knock together some rows of "corn" and snake fencing to inclose the fields. But must also get me a Nieuport 17 assembled. The Frogs didn't fly only SPAD XIIIs, lovely 'planes though they are.
80 principes finished tonight, varnish and basing soon.
Oh, the big inspection was survived too! 8)
Good to hear you weren't decimated by the inspection ;)
Still have 72 left if he had been.
Actually found I had 8 extra... so now what?
Quote from: mad lemmey on 24 November 2017, 06:42:19 PM
Actually found I had 8 extra... so now what?
Buy some more to make up another full unit ;) :d
Converted some Romans to act as elephant crew!
And built a six bases of Italian infantry for ancients. Mix of Italian and Romans..
Oh, how I wish I'd known about Shapeways' ready-made model aircraft before I bought so many kits from Red Eagle!
Finished 80 Principes, started 40 Hastati, 40 odd Italians and 4 elephants 🐘 with crew and escorts.
Photos of Principes tomorrow.
Flocked some ECW bases for the painting comp. Some fantasy bases tonight then onto taking some photos. Amazing how quickly the deadline for submissions has come round!
Having flocked said bases, I have been inspired to start on some long stalled units for use with 'Dragon Rampant'. So over the past few days a load of Orcs have been primed and a couple of units had their bases drybrushed, ready for painting over the weekend. Happy days!
Huzzah
First unit of Orc scouts completed for 'Dragon Rampant'. All done in one go which is rare for me, but very rewarding. So my plan is to focus on one unit at a time, to speed getting them onto the table.
Makes getting a consistent look in the unit much easier
Hastatii, Italian types and elephants done. Shield patterns, bronze highlights, flesh highlights, plumes, weapory - all done tonight @-) Just need the sorting out stage before varnish and basing, oh, and weapon handles on sheathed swords!
Last two figures for my Republicans arrived tonight. With the 78 skirmishers that I need to do...
7 days until I need them...
Argh!
Thats at least 10 minis a night, stop postin and get ta paintin!
Basing fences for ACW. Dull, but it's got to be done.
Pleasing progress tonight, many highlights and flesh tones done. Metal work and woodwork to do, but basically 😎
Inspired by my latest AVBCW game, I basecoated and washed some Vickers MkII & MkIIIs last night. Hopefully drybrushing tonight to finish them.
Sand and PVA evening last night, 33 bases done
MidRepublican/Polybian Roman army finished, ready for tomorrow night. 8)
Quote from: mad lemmey on 13 December 2017, 11:41:34 PM
MidRepublican/Polybian Roman army finished, ready for tomorrow night. 8)
#:-S =D>
Some Leven Miniatures buildings finished earlier in the week. Planned tank painting stalled due to run up to Xmas. Managed to flock some bases tonight though.
Flitting between projects in true wargames butterfly mode at present, so tonight saw me return to some another unit for Dragon Rampant.
Too cold for spraying the last week, but finally got a batch of Hitties undercoated today.
Meanwhile, Carthaginian fleet bases and ships base coated and inked! 8)
Dragon Rampant unit block colours done and wash applied.
Highlighting on the Dragon Rampant unit completed. Might make the blue a bit brighter, but will wait until tomorrow to decide. Lacquering and flocking to follow. Also primed some 28mm figures I 'rediscovered' in the attic, again for use with Dragon Rampant.
135 Infantry, 9 chariots, 18 crew and 18 horses base coated and inked for my friend's Hittie forces.
Shame non are Pendraken :(
All base coats and inks on the Carthaginian fleet, and also finished off three of Yann's beast riders which will become Dragon Knights in my Evil Dragonmen Army.
The main colours done on a militia unit for 'The Pikemen's Lament'. Hopefully some detailing followed by a wash later.
Details and wash applied. Not sure if I'll get anything more done until after Xmas.
Carthaginian fleet finished apart from base labels and sail motifs. Three of Evil Men Beast riders sorted too.
200 Miles driven for a part for the boiler I didn't need-gah! £90 to be refunded after Xmas...
Battle of 5 Armies watched, it was good, but could easily have two hours knocked out of it!
I've never seen it all of the way through, as I keep falling asleep! Way too long really, but can't fault it for the look though.
With family watching Dumbo, I managed to finish off my Militia unit, which was an unexpected treat :).
Superb
Snuck in some painting this morning whilst half the family still asleep. Base coated some saddleback pigs (my favourite breed having seen them a lot as a kid on my grand parents farm) for use with Dragon Rampant. Tempted to use them as cavalry, but 'trotters' of course :D. Sorry, I couldn't resist!
Assembled a unit of Sassanid Persian spears, and drilled out assembled two packs of Clibinarii's clibinarii!
My saddlebacks 'cavalry' finished and varnished, along with a couple of other units from a week or so ago. Flocking tonight all being well.
Undercoat on
Good two sessions of painting today. First unit of Sassanid Levies done apart from beards, two half units of heavy cavalry almost done.
And they're done, apart from basing. 8)
Trapped nerve in my back put pay to any painting last night :(. So bl**dy frustrating! At least the soreness and pain has eased this morning, but need to take it easy until it goes. Still I hope to get some flocking done at some point.
Quote from: Steve J on 29 December 2017, 07:40:58 AM
Trapped nerve in my back put pay to any painting last night :(
OW !!Hope that clears up asap, Steve.
Cheers - Phil
Get well soon Steve
Thanks Will & Phil. It's slowly getting better and luckily I don't have to do much today, which should help it, based on past experience. At least I'm able catch up on reading, as SWMBO is feeling sorry for me and therefore not nagging me to do stuff ;) :D
Every cloud has a silver lining ;)
Get well soon
Thanks Paul :). Flocking finished tonight, but back too sore to do anything else.
Varnished earlier, Sand and pva'd bases, assembled a blotz minaret for my regular client.
Some Wizardlings basecoated and washed for Dragon Rampant. These are the Warband Goblins Shamans and they are really lovely sculpts. Loads of detail and character, so a joy to paint. Highlights etc to follow tonight all being well.
The wizardlings finished, with a varnish and flocking to follow.
Emplacements fillered for a friends stuff!
Hopefully the final sets of units for 'The Pikemen's Lament' have just been undercoated.
128 Biblicals assembled last night, New Year, new batch, same commission !
I spent this lunchtime cleaning up a load of Schleswig-Holstein Germans that have lain in my drawer for far too long. Frankly I'm no longer sure of exactly what I have within my lead mountain, so I'm attempting to get everything based so I do know. As an example over Xmas I found 2 packs of Fallschirmjagers LG40s that I'd bought at different times, but had recently ordered another pack, unaware I already had these!!!
You know, I'm sure if you look at the majority of my posts on this forum, it will consist of:
1) Assembled & undercoated
2) Base coats and ink, done.
3) Highlights done.
4) Metalwork and woodwork done.
4.5) Mistakes sorted
5) Varnish
6) Basing
7) More basing
Flocking etc...
So, 124 x 2 last night! ;)
STage 3 & 4 done tonight!
Stage 1 cold did for me last night. Feels like stage 2 this morning, but I need to go to work as we are busy and short staffed due to colds :(.
Get well soon mate.
Nice footer on your signature sir! 8)
I hadn't spotted that :-[. Thanks!
Finished drybrushing the bases on some more units for 'The Pikemen's Lament' rules, ready for some more painting over the weekend. I finally finished painting some scratch built destroyed houses that have been on my to do list for months. just some bushes and flocking to add and then they are done.
Ruined bases flocked and ready for action.
Stage 2-4 on the next batch done. 94 seapeoples archers done apart from final flourishes, a few errors, and done. I hope
Lion cloth piping, arrows in quivers and beards done tonight. Just flesh/sorting out tomorrow and this lot are done. Can't say I'm enjoying them at the present moment, maybe 210+ irregular semi clad warriors is too much in 8 days... 😉
Lion cloths? That's gotta be interesting to put on in the morning, could be a bit bitey :D
I'm cracking along a whole bunch of c19th Frenchmen for Algeria for Alan M, and slipping in a few Irregular 2mm blocks for much the same period for BBB.
I should sort the 3mm PETER Pig ACW as well, think they'll stick with the ACW - test sizing suggests they're too big to be mixed with Irregulars which is a shame as they're much nicer looking. I also have my Xmas pressie to myself to get cracking on - some Brigade Aeronefs, couldn't resist the pre-Xmas sale :D
Am tempted to find a way to squeeze them into BBB ;)
30 Sassanid Persians cavalry done apart from basing (240 figures in 9 days)!
Sand & PVA on Sassanids.
91 Mycenaean warriors assembled
Much swearing at naff pva.
Did enjoy the Duran Duran documentary onBBC4.
Based up 3 more units for 'Rebels & Patriots' this morning. Really enjoying this as not only are the AWI sculpts superb, but you can really mix stuff up for use in the early stages of the War. Some reinforcements have been ordered in terms of some British Light Infantry, Native Americans and some Militia. I hope to be able to start painting some stuff soon.
Sassanids bases painted highlighted and sealed last night.
91 New Line Mycenaean warriors base coated and inked last night.
5 units for Rebels & Patriots primed and bases given their dark brown basecoat. Hopefully I will be able to finished painting the bases tomorrow and then maybe onto to block colours on their uniforms etc.
Got to the almost finished basing, just need tufts, and my superglue has run out! X_X =O
~X(
Just based up 2 units of Native Americans and 2 units of Militia. I'm having fun mixing up figures from various codes to give a different look and feel to some units :).
After 4 days off, the painting machine was rested, oiled (beered) fed, slightly sleep deprived, refreshed and reacquainted with polite society via a weekends Wargames in Brighton, I return with vigorous projects...
42 Pendraken mongol foot archers assembled for making my Tibetan/Mongols into a 'White Sheep Turkomen' army for Rollcall (and a general, but more on that later).
122 Sea Peoples (various nationalities, all New Line) assembled
48 Sassanid Persian skirmishers base coated and inked.
Small reinforcements for the War of Northern Aggression. I had to have Texas lancers and some Yankee Zouaves, and a it of nominal heavy artillery. When that's done, a few new ancient armies (Arabs, Minoans, Thracians), and then the Mexicans should be ready.
Highlights done, flesh base coat done and flesh wash applied.
Scratch built two barricades yesterday, which was nice. No energy at present for painting :(.
The Sassanid foot skirmishers are nearly done, just the shield patterns and sorting out stages to do.
Sassanids shields done, and mistakes sorted.
120 Sea People's and 42 Mongol foot archers base coated and inked.
Not sure I'll get them all done by Thursday, but I'll try!
Anyone need an army painting- can't believe the cost of passport renewal these days!
I finally finished my British Inter-War tanks last night after a bit of painting mojo returned :).
Basecoat of Middlestone applied to some PzIVs, Stug and Tiger I tonight.
120 odd sea people's figures nearly done, plus 40 odd mongol archers, plus 6 huts base coated and inked
Bronze age Crete is looming. Do people think hide shields should be distinctive to each regiment (as Zulu ones are)? And chariots; should they have regimental colours? Minos seems to have gone in for efficient bureaucracy, so there is an argument for uniformity.
Quote from: Steve J on 05 February 2018, 08:14:57 AM
I finally finished my British Inter-War tanks last night after a bit of painting mojo returned :).
Quote from: Steve J on 05 February 2018, 09:52:57 PM
Basecoat of Middlestone applied to some PzIVs, Stug and Tiger I tonight.
I suspect those British Inter-War tanks are feeling a little inadequate :-SS
Quote from: FierceKitty on 06 February 2018, 01:27:26 AM
Bronze age Crete is looming. Do people think hide shields should be distinctive to each regiment (as Zulu ones are)? And chariots; should they have regimental colours? Minos seems to have gone in for efficient bureaucracy, so there is an argument for uniformity.
I'm my opinion no and no, but then I'm usually wrong!
QuoteI suspect those British Inter-War tanks are feeling a little inadequate
Hmmm, that's putting it mildly ;) :D
Quote from: FierceKitty on 06 February 2018, 01:27:26 AM
Bronze age Crete is looming. Do people think hide shields should be distinctive to each regiment (as Zulu ones are)? And chariots; should they have regimental colours? Minos seems to have gone in for efficient bureaucracy, so there is an argument for uniformity.
Well the minoan bull leapers seem to be jumping over a tan coloured bull, so I'd go for everyone having a tan shield ... but that's just me. I understand the Minoans to be a pretty centralised society, so the shield may have been issued from a central store.
(http://www.historywiz.com/images/greece/bullleapingfresco-1.jpg)
Weren't the Myrmidons of the Iliad described as "black", which suggests to me that some sort of band heraldry (gang colours) were used. Black shields?
I realise this is of no help whatsoever, and ultimately it would depend upon if you like painting irregulars - which I defintely don't.
Though piebald shields are very striking.
So that's sorted then.
I can do Achilles' lot with black shields.
Illustrations, like this one from Akrotiri showing Minoan troops, don't seem to show unit shield designs.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/8a/55/b0/8a55b074e9c08f42baae1aebadcd23eb.jpg)
That said, we are looking at a handful of images, with a fair bit of reconstruction, with no idea of who/ what exactly we are looking at and with no real idea of the artistic conventions of the era so I'd say go with whatever seems best to you because it's unlikely that we will recover enough information to prove you wrong!
Although "Troy" owed more to Lord of the Rings than to Homer I did like the black armoured Myrmidons!
I'm painting a mixture at the moment, but Frisian do look good! ;D
Pretty illustrations, some contemporary, others modern (I don't trust Peter Connolly very far, I must admit):
https://periklisdeligiannis.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/the-figure-of-eight-shield-and-other-shield-types-of-the-bronze-age-aegean-part-i/
12 Trojan chariots and crew nearly done for the Sea Peoples Commission
New Midianites painted and based; starting work on the Nabateans and Amalekites.
Chariots done, just need to weather them, however I'm now 150 miles from my paints (and enjoying a fine Rioja at my Dad's!
180+ Sassanid Persians base coated last night. No way will they be ready for my game on Thor's Day!
Halfway through a skirmisher force of Bedouin camelry.
Got them inked this morning, then a stressful afternoon of school planning done!
Have now made the conversion to 10mm scale buildings having completed 5 Total Battle miniatures "Big Battalions" buildings and a lovely Pendraken stone house from the 19th Century America range. However, don't get your hopes up yet, Ithoriel, I may well use some of them for 15mm games! :P
[p.s. My 6mm buildings are now up for sale and, as I no longer have any 6mm figures, will probably go for a song. 5 buildings and a stone bridge. PM me if interested and I will send you photos.]
Amelekite camelry under the brush; then it'll be time for a few Hebrew allies. Sadly, this army can't be finished until the TB line is back in production; I'll want a couple of dozen of their Arab camelry as Ishmaelites to round off the force.
Surprised myself with the progress I made last night, they won't be based, but my Sassanids might be ready for their thrashing on Thor's Day!
Apart from a single hand on just one of the 'Winter' Chinese, Korean War figures.....I'VE FINISHED all the Korean War chappies. <:-P <:-P <:-P <:-P
Piccies sent to James & Leon.....And I know James likes them, already !! :)
Going to pop straight down down to the village and get a second wee box*, so I can pack them all up, and send of to that nice Mr Leon.....Hopefully tomorrow. (Mind you...I have got to pick around 100 figures off corks...So that's going to take a while !!)
If the former on the missing hand has set, by the time I get back.....I'll finish that off when I get back to Techno Towers.
Cheers - Phil.
*....I'm not sending this number up in a single box, as they wouldn't be fully insured.
What took so long ??????
Congrats
IanS 8)
Congrats, Phil - take the rest of the day off. :D
Well done that man =D> =D> =D>
Nice one Phil!
Sassanids just need mistakes sorting, and then 9/13 are good to go (unbased) for a trial game on Thursday!
Yes, that is 184 figures, since Saturday!
Surged forward in painting the Arabs today, since my computer was in the repair shop. Hatrene cataphract camelry and some Hebrew horse archers are all that remain until I can get my hands on some TB camelry (Ismaelites, they're going to be).
Couldn't resist doing up the Israelite allies a bit; they include a David with a sling (still intend to print a harp and put it on the base beside him too) and a luridly-dressed Joseph. The Ark of the Covenant will be in the baggage train too.
......And all the final Korean War chappies are all in the post !! <:-P <:-P <:-P
Should be with 'Sir' tomorrow. :)
I'm going to have to ask him about the list of 'stuff' that's next on my list.....I've lost some of that particular list for the second time ! :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: mad lemmey on 21 February 2018, 08:00:29 AM
Sassanids just need mistakes sorting, and then 9/13 are good to go (unbased) for a trial game on Thursday!
Yes, that is 184 figures, since Saturday!
:o :o :o #:-S
Quote from: Techno on 21 February 2018, 12:05:19 PM
......And all the final Korean War chappies are all in the post !! <:-P <:-P <:-P
Should be with 'Sir' tomorrow. :)
Huzzah
Quote from: Techno on 21 February 2018, 12:05:19 PM
I'm going to have to ask him about the list of 'stuff' that's next on my list.....I've lost some of that particular list for the second time ! :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
;D ;D ;D
It's not funny.....It's embarrassing X_X ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I just CANNOT keep track of 'mails in gmail......(I obviously delete ones that I shouldn't....and the 'chains' just go all over the place. >:()
I liked the old 'freeserve/orange/EE' wossname, I used to have.....I could organize things properly, with that....and I barely ever lost anything. =)
Cheers - Mr Technophobe. ;)
After a hiatus on my Ancients project, I was spurred into some action by my recent TtS game. So this afternoon I carried on with some Magister Militum (heresy I know) Indian elephants in terms of assembly (they are tricky buggers). This evening I looked at both armies in light of my game, so will add in some more command units as well as some cavalry. Next week it will be onto the chariots, which look a bit tricky from first glance.
I think MM's jumboes are possibly their best figures. Don't give up.
Decided that I'm calling this batch of Sassanids done apart from basing.
120 Infantry, 60 cavalry, 4 generals (and 33 sheep for another army).
9 missing spearmen painted in 3 hours tonight...
31 bases sanded and pva'd tonight
At this rate they should be ready for Thursday :!! :!!
Bases inked
5 bases x 15mm generals started as a commission for an Anglo-Finnish friend.
Platoon of Falklands Brits started as 'normal' soldiers (not red or green berets) for Sabresquadron, plus two Chieftain tanks and 4 F432s from Timecast.
86 bow armed Clibinarii assembled and stuck on bases today. About an hour for each four stands, but I have even got some in cantabrian!
Added camo and a wash to some PzIV's last night. Fingers crossed I'll get the drybrushing done tonight and maybe even the detailing of tools etc.
First two Danaan phalanxes based, Pylian skirmishers done up with a portrait figure of Nestor commanding them (interesting point: he must have been a young man once, but has anyone ever painted him as one?
New King Tiger II and Sherman M4A4's assembled this lunchtime. Very nice models.
Drybrushing complete and happy with how it turned out. Will need to do this to my Stug III's that look dull and dark by comparison.
Many Clibinarii basecoated and inked
Just got to get them by next Saturday morning! Nothing like a deadline...
Now giving the Greek nappy-wearers their third and fourth pike units, and a first lot of chariots.
Cavalry base colours happened as did the highlights.
Sassanids are done!
Just got to base them!
Details painted on my PzIV's, such as the spades, tow chains etc. Mud and dirt to be added tomorrow, plus lacquer.
Finishing the last of the pikemen, and watching the post with some impatience for my general, who was missing from the initial order and posted (I'm told...) three weeks later than I was later promised. Not Pendraken, and I shan't name the other company, whose service is usually better than this.
Sand and pva last night
Beef in peppercorn sauce, new potatoes and peas for me. :D
Cheers - Phil (Sorry.....I'm high on pks.....Been playing tree surgeons with the chainsaw and a handsaw, this afto'....I DO NOT like using the chainsaw when I'm up a ladder.....My back is killing me.)
Quote from: Techno on 13 March 2018, 04:40:53 PM
Beef in peppercorn sauce, new potatoes and peas for me. :D
Cheers - Phil (Sorry.....I'm high on pks.....Been playing tree surgeons with the chainsaw and a handsaw, this afto'....I DO NOT like using the chainsaw when I'm up a ladder.....My back is killing me.)
I got to the end of that and was pleased to find out it was only your back you were needing the pain killers for :o :'(
Bases ink washed. Hopefully be able to paint later.
Quote from: Techno on 13 March 2018, 04:40:53 PM
Beef in peppercorn sauce, new potatoes and peas for me. :D
Cheers - Phil (Sorry.....I'm high on pks.....Been playing tree surgeons with the chainsaw and a handsaw, this afto'....I DO NOT like using the chainsaw when I'm up a ladder.....My back is killing me.)
Quote from: fred. on 13 March 2018, 04:48:08 PM
I got to the end of that and was pleased to find out it was only your back you were needing the pain killers for :o :'(
Seconded :)
When we use the chainsaw 'on the ground'.....Using a metal 'X frame' to support the logs, we follow just about every safety 'rule' that's going.
Today....I was SO aware we were breaking almost every rule in the book !...Hated it !!
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: fred. on 13 March 2018, 04:48:08 PM
I got to the end of that and was pleased to find out it was only your back you were needing the pain killers for :o :'(
;D ;D ;D
Take it easy, Phil.
I have to say my eyebrows went up in alarm when I started reading that :D
Hope you get a restful day tomorrow, Phil!
Pz IV's finally finished. Basecoated some British armoured cars after that.
Sassanids done.photos later
I've added some 'hardtops' to couple of Daimler Dingo scout cars, to make them stand out from my other ones. The plan is to use them for FAO's and FAC's in BKCII.
Agamemnon arrived in the post today; may have a bronze age Greek force by Sunday.
Yep. We'll be raiding up the Nile tomorrow afternoon.
Seven Gangs of Rome figures built last night
Doing a handful of Lusitanian allies for my Iberian army, prior to getting into the rather daunting business of painting the Thracian army.
Platoon of Falklands British Infantry done apart from basing. They will be a mechanised platoon, riding Timecast FV432s. Promised myself not to do any more DPM camouflage in 10mm, oh well! 8-} :-B
And mass production of peltasts is under way.
Undercoated to battalions of Germans and painted their jackets
Undercoated and base coated 11 German vehicles
Take care
Andy
Basecoated some tanks and armoured cars for my Goodwood mini-campaign. One of them is the new Tiger II and it is an absolute beast!
Two Timecast Chieftain tanks and 4 FV432s painted tonight, plus a stand of Soviet Motor Rifle Recon Infantry command (they got missed).
Bases sanded and pva'd too, a rather satisfying night all-in-all.
Mini project two starting soon.
Bases inked 25mm Gladiator base coated and inked
Camo applied to some German tanks, then wash applied to these and some British armoured cars.
Currently at work on three units of peltasts, the archers, and the noble cavalry. This army can't be rushed; intricate designs on cloaks and tunics, some fancy shields, and they're not in uniform. Patience, Hay-Whitton; you can't start the Mexicans until July anyway.
(https://d1w7fb2mkkr3kw.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/lrg/9789/6259/9789625938493.jpg)
Does this have any connection to you FK?
It does. But the dam' project was abandoned after a few months; never got a penny for what I'd written. I suspect they then published it elsewhere.
Flock, scatter and tufts applied to mini project 1, photos later.
Mini project 2 underway (result 1 posted here). http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,17196.0.html
Ready for voter project next! 8)
Three sets of 28mm for Frostgrave, Gangs of Rome and Funky Skulls New York gang game nearly done.
Looks like some North American native warriors for French Indian Wars next then. :D
Gangs of Rome done, Frostgrave just need basing.
A unit of woodland Indians assembled for Black Powder Freeman's Farm scenario, and one assembled for FoGR/MeGRenaissance/whatever else it becomes...
Sand & pva applied to some bases, and leopard spots applied to a 70s gangster
Bases inked
Three units of peltasts, the foot archers, and the heavy cavalry done. Thracian army about half ready.
No time nor energy to paint at present, but managed to make some new fields that are more appropriate to my 10mm armies.
Native Americans finished apart from basing.
Took me three hours to assemble 12 chariots last night, of which two hours and 58 minutes must have been spent removing wheels from my fingers! Maybe a chariot period army was NOT a good idea!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 10 April 2018, 10:15:03 AM
Native Americans finished apart from basing.
Took me three hours to assemble 12 chariots last night, of which two hours and 58 minutes must have been spent removing wheels from my fingers! Maybe a chariot period army was NOT a good idea!
#-o ;)
Umm ... are Native Americans noted chariot users?
Twin different armies old bean. Although that would be cool! 8->
I also remembered I had two Copplestone High Adventure polar bears for another project, I even found them in less than half-an-hour of searching and have them assembled. Also assembled another chariot (twice) to be a general for all those other chariots I built...
Butterfly time 🦋
Quote from: fsn on 10 April 2018, 03:34:14 PM
Umm ... are Native Americans noted chariot users?
That would be a categorical "No".
They didnt have wheels/carts until years after after the arrival of horses.
Polar Bears and Chariots?
Conversion time!! :D
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tcROPpAHYN4/Ub_moI34k1I/AAAAAAAAiNk/xAEvJ5c6ugQ/s1600/Image+(7).jpg)
Now that is tempting!
American Indians' bases sanded and pva'd.
Quote from: fsn on 10 April 2018, 03:34:14 PM
Umm ... are Native Americans noted chariot users?
There is a type of trotting chariot racing which is practised in the US.
Chariot types undercoated this morning
Operation 'Sortouttherandom28mmfiguresfornoactualprojects' Continues apace, Gangs of Rome done, French Indian Wars done apart from basing, along with two units of 10mms too, 28mm Rebel miniatures Darkhold Goblins assembled, Order Of The Stick Figures added to the indoor painting pile, Frostgrave gang done, but really shouldn't have ordered more kit for that!
Re the polar bear drawn chariot, I went that route for my Jadis, Queen of all Narnia army. A simple conversion, save for making the crown I needed to put on her head. it was soooo tiny, that I lost the first one when it popped out of my fingers and had to make another one. But a fun little project.
(http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh235/terry37photos/A%20Day%20of%20HotT/IMG_6851.jpg) (http://s257.photobucket.com/user/terry37photos/media/A%20Day%20of%20HotT/IMG_6851.jpg.html)
Terry
Very nice work, Terry.
Cheers - Phil
And more Dark Hold Goblins ordered, if all else fails, it's another Frostgrave Warband! ;)
Looks great
Take care
Andy
All previously started figures mentioned above, base coated and inked,
School set up for the next two days.
Two polar bears, four Darkhold goblins, eight Order Of The Stick figures finished tonight (apart from their bases).
MM 13 Mitanni chariots highlighted and part detailed and two packs of Mitanni foot highlighted (temporary army until the Dark Lord decides to release biblical figures).
Big order of Frostgrave figures in.
Friend ordered 200+ extra 15mm Tlaxcalans he wants me to paint for MeG.
Curry cooked and eaten.
Not a bad day all in all.
Not much happened this weekend as my Mum was down and I've had a shed load of school work (of which I've done the majority), but some bases got inkwashed tonight, a few 28mm Goblins assembled, and a mate dropped off 200+ Tlaxcalans to paint! 8)
Bases painted, highlighted and sealed, flesh tones on chariot age stuff done
Chariot age stuff done, just needs basing, Woden spoons done, and a stand of dragonmen magic users, just because.
Start made on a friends Tlaxcalans 15mm reinforcements.
Basically, if you can't use Spanish allies, you need an AWFUL lot of extras, like 200+...
All Tlaxcalans in this batch base coated and inked.
Only 200+
200+!!!! It took me 1.5 years to do my DBA Tlaxacan army!!! Well done I'd say!
Terry
Much highlighting to do yet...
It's been a quiet month here what with holidays , school reports and real life.
128 Tlaxcalans finished being painted last night for a commission from a few years back that's being reinforced, about the same to go, then their baggage..
Then onto basing these and my own last batch (which have been sitting around since April/May), then I can get started on another commission batch of Renaissance for Graham, after that it's painting comp bits.
Not greatly enjoyed these last two batches tbh, one because it's big, and an army that was meant to be finished, the other because my brand loyalty outweighing enthusiasm! My project might, therefore, get sidelined for a while as I can feel myself getting distracted by other more Pendraken based bits, plus there's no deadline to it, so no foci...
Think my painting mojo might make a comeback...
40 Tlaxcalans archers done, 36 slingers, 40 warriors and 6 generals competed tonight. P,us the youngest 6th party done...
7 units bases milliputted so far, about the same to go...
Finished milliputting my friends bases (90 of them), now just got to paint, ink, highlight and flock... :-t :!! X_X
This batch has taken somewhat longer than I hoped.
And there is still a camp to do!
90bases inked.
About a 100 10mm Renaissance assembled for that ongoing commission...
Plus 27 x 15mm Tlaxcalan baggage bearers assembled too.
Bases dry brushed and highlighted, mistakes sorted.
Day of working at home, me, the bumble bees and the rabbits. Tbh, the bees did most of the heavy lifting. 🐝
Glad your finding the time and energy to paint etc Will. Simply too hot in our house as the paint would dry too damned quickly on the paint tray. Also the garden needs watering each night. At least a small order arrived today from Pendraken, so ready to make a start on some AVBCW forces :)
I know Winged Hussars are meant to be dead hard, but one just shattered three dremel bits!
Interview for teaching agency at lunchtime (back up in case I cant find owt else), then assembled various bits for the painting competition and sand/pva'd the bases on a ' lost interest, maybe it will come back, maybe not' project.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 04 July 2018, 08:47:45 AM
I know Winged Hussars are meant to be dead hard, but one just shattered three dremel bits!
If you mean a 'drill
bit', rather than a 'router', Will.....You're not going in straight enough, and 'bending' the bit as you machete your way into the model. (It'll snap)
Got the tee-shirt....and it's a complete pain !
Had one of those on the 'ancients' I'm doing at the moment !
I said
very naughty words.
Cheers - Mr Peed of with frigging sheep.
(Today....It was their yearly shearing time......It took two hours, rather than 20 minutes, to get them into the barn....and once they'd been done...Von and I were running up and down the road with the help of the chap who'd sheared them, to get the sods back into the field. I was more worried about the shearer's dog (Nell) getting knocked down in the lane, than I was about the missing sheep. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:()
Quote from: mad lemmey on 04 July 2018, 02:15:47 PM
Interview for teaching agency at lunchtime (back up in case I cant find owt else),
Good luck!
Seconded
Thirded !
Sorry for being late, Will !
Cheers - Phil
Tlaxcalans baggage handlers base coatedand inked, plus an awful lot of undercoating done!
And something modified
With the lure of the painting comp, plus a desire to get back to some painting and gaming, I started basing up some British and Afghan/Russian troops for some TMWWBKs gaming. Nice to get back to it, despite the house still being 25 degrees or so in the evening.
Very large amount of base coati g done last night, Renaissance commission and painting competition bits...
Quote from: mad lemmey on 14 July 2018, 07:39:50 AM
Very large amount of base coati g done last night, Renaissance commission and painting competition bits...
Who is this coati g ?.....An Aztec god I missed when I was making them ? I really need to know this sort of thing. (I blame Kitty for not telling me about him. ;))
Cheers - A Twerp
Bloody autocorrect! Base coating
Quote from: Techno on 14 July 2018, 09:06:21 AM
Who is this coati g ?.....An Aztec god I missed when I was making them ? I really need to know this sort of thing. (I blame Kitty for not telling me about him. ;))
Cheers - A Twerp
Coati.
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B(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Coati_roux_Amiens_4.jpg)
C(https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0e/7a/d8/20/caoti.jpg)
D(http://www.treeoflifecostarica.com/media/rosie-timmy1.jpg)
E(https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/south-american-coati-ring-tailed-coatimundi-nasua-nasua-diurnal-mammals-native-to-america-adult-animals-measure-cm-50669022.jpg)
F(https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/coatie-urban-area-coati-animal-living-genera-nasua-nasuella-coatimundi-mexican-tejon-cholugo-moncun-costa-rican-58870613.jpg)
G(http://animals.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Coati-4-640x425.jpg)(http://www.clker.com/cliparts/7/8/3/2/11949855931744447303arrow-left-green_benji_p_01.svg)
H(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/A_White-nosed_Coati.jpg)
Cute!
How long did that take you NUTTER!
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Cut hand now just about usable, so added some grit to my 'Great Game' forces for use with TMWWBK rules. As the weather is so warm, I might even be able to have a go at some basecoats tonight :)
Good to hear the hand is on the mend :)
Yay!
Oh and sand and pva on bases...
Bases inked, flags applied, edges of flags painted, realised 60% of flags were the wrong way up, flags removed, flags reapplied!
Quote from: Steve J on 20 July 2018, 10:08:56 AM
Cut hand now just about usable, so added some grit to my 'Great Game' forces for use with TMWWBK rules. As the weather is so warm, I might even be able to have a go at some basecoats tonight :)
Don't go
too mad Steve......Just in case.
But that's good progress...Very pleased for you !!
Cheers - Phil
Soviet tanks magnetized...
Must have forgotten to do that.
British moderns now split into two boxes (one of mechanized, one of marines) magnetized some big tanks too!
Must be the holidays.
Thanks Phil. Certainly taking it easy as I keeping knocking the scab, which is painful and bloody annoying!
Quote from: Techno on 21 July 2018, 09:18:38 AM
Don't go too mad Steve......Just in case.
But that's good progress...Very pleased for you !!
Cheers - Phil
Sounds like the voice of experience ;) ;D ;D
Bases painted, highlighted and sealed. Some pre20th Century foot highlighted and fleshed...
Quote from: paulr on 21 July 2018, 10:11:00 PM
Sounds like the voice of experience ;) ;D ;D
At least I've got a lot of plasters.....Haven't I, Mark ? ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
Next unit for painting competition finished, sand and pva applied (there's only 12 of them, so not a buggy really)
And 8 figures assembled for next but three entry...
10mm DPM, why do I do this to myself! :o
Commission renaissance batch of about 150 figures almost finished the highlighting stage, then, just flesh, leatherwork, woodwork and heraldry, followed by banners to do. And I thought I was nearly done...
One competition entry finished, next two competition entries up to the basing, sand and pva stage too.
Weather cool enough to paint and hand ok to hold the painting stick today :). So seizing the opportunity, I base coated a Char St Chamand in a funky camo scheme and gave it a Devlin Mud wash, ready for drybrushing tomorrow. In the process I 'found' some tanks I had painted earlier this year but had completely forgotten about :-[!!!
Forgotten tanks! Best type...
Kind of girlzundpanzer vibe...
Tank finished bar a coat of varnish later when everything is dry. Then a search for some possible decals to put on it, if not, off to the Minibits/Pendraken sites for a gander...
Flesh done and inked, turnbacks, collars and cuffs whited ready for facing colours, then added webbing on six more AWI units tonight, rather enjoyed it too! 8)
Today we start priming Mexicans. Phew, this is going to be a big one, as the actress said to the bishop.
Facings and turnbacks then flesh highlights done tonight.
Two more AWI units assembled, and some werewolves for Warband too.
Batch done, just need basing now.
50/50 mix of burnt sienna and yellow ochre seems about right for Mexican skin.
Next batch of Papal goodness started, the machine is in full flow...
And nearly done, just tidying up and deciding which figures might need moustaches tomorrow!
Having accidentally broken off a figure on a base of SYW Prussian Jagers the other week, I dug out the 'spares box' to find a replacement to paint up and, whilst pleasantly surprised, didn't know if I should be happy or concerned.
Surprise No.1 was a partially painted Jager figure (result!) which I had started but then stopped painting when first making up the Jager unit but had completely forgotten about (I think I must have decided I had enough figures for the unit and would keep this one to start off a dismounted dragoons unit).
Surprise No.2 was a fully painted and based 15mm ACW Dahlgren Naval Gun & Crew that I had painted earlier in the year and, again, completely forgotten about!
Has anyone else had similar 'surprises?' #-o :-[
Never.
All the bloomin' time, when I see figures that I've made, and completely forgotten about !
Cheers - Phil.
Papal forces finished, pack (both in value and name) of werewolves nearly done.
AWI penultimate batch done and photographed, will post later, werewolves to be based, then a few hundred 15mm renaissance Spanish to do for a friend...
Then thinking what next?
Well, need to complete a lot of Timecast British armour as reinforcements are on their way, oh the accompanying infantry Gah, DPM!)
More AWI
Mitanni to finish bely early October
More Frostgrave kit
Dragonmen
Eldritch Vampires
Erm...
Oh loads of other stuff! :D it's all good really. 8)
Found and finished four missing AWI British infantry (I knew there were more), started wolves, wild dogs and giant rats for Frostgrave, assembled four more Frostgrave adventurers, base-coated and inked two more Brunswick AWI units, sand and pva'd the werewolves and missing British AWI.
That's all this evening a flyer watching Antman and the Wasp.
Just a quiet day really, couldn't decide what to do really....
Some bases inked.Some 1980s British infantry assembled, plus supporting armour, then drilled for aerials and all primed.
This coming week, I are (sic) mostly finishing off a couple of the 'Ancients' revamps....with the help of Lemmey and Nobby (who keeps finding piccies for me)
Then I'll be doing a couple of relatively small 'odds and sods projects', for Leon.......(Which won't be five minute jobs.....But need to be done, to help oodles in the future.)
Cheers - Mr Busy :)
With some time off over the next few weeks and the garden requiring little attention now, I managed to do a lot of basing up of my First Schleswig-Holstein War Danish troops that will also form the basis of one my Imagi-Nations States. Nice to be basing and planning again after quite some time :)
Three bases painted, highlighted, edged and sealed.
11 Frostgrave wandering beasties finished, now just need basing. ;)
Those three stands finished.
Timecast delivery arrived, 8) cleaned and prepared 2 FV432s, assembled company command, but i realised I need a gpmg on tripod team! Oh well, first item on the next order. :D
Beasties bases inked, flesh and black leather done on next two AWI units! 8)
Frostgrave 'Undead Encounter' plastic 28mm pack assembled and undercoated between various trips out to take the girls to different activities. :)
Two AWI Brunswickers units done, apart from basing.
Love holidays.
Off to my Dad's for a few days, back for a couple of nights, the off to my mum's for a bit, so decided to start some quick and easy projects.Three Hasslefree adventures started, base coated and inked for Frostgrave Warband 1, oh and a general for my AWI Brunswick forces...
For Frostgrave warband 2, which are the Goblins, I've base coated and inked four Dark Hold Goblins as adventurers, and four 'grunts' to act as warriors.
Made the mistake of asking my eldest what colour to do their shirts, she said.... PINK (she normally hates pink), so there will be three in pink shirts, and one grunt in a red shirt with a black eye! Guess who will die first!
DV, should finish the Xopolli and Otontin today, and get started on the Cuachicqueh and Ocelotl too.
Just finished a Confederate Naval gun crew for my 15mm Dahlgren gun today and if I say so myself, I think they look better than the Union Naval gun crew I painted earlier this year. Suitably ACW enthused, I went out this afternoon and bought a metre strip of flexi "N" scale railway track. Now that I've got that, I'm thinking of dry brushing the sleepers a kind of wood shade and painting the sides of the rails (not the top surface where the trains run) a kind of rust colour. A metre of sleepers and rails in "N" / 10mm scale is quite long actually. Am I mad?
Whilst making some space in the attic, I came across some trees that have been 'in progress' for probably a couple of years :-[. So with permission from SWMBO, I headed off to the garage to add foliage to them. Once the glue was dry, (which was next to no time given I use contact adhesive) I then gave the foliage a coating of diluted pva to help hold it together, along with all of my other trees. This has been on my 'to-do list' for simply ages, so very happy to finally gotten around to doing this :)
A load more basing done tonight, as I attempt to get both 'sides' based up before I do any painting. At least this way I know what I have, as these forces were ordered a couple of years ago, so I can't remember the logic (if there was any) to the figures ordered!
Two AWI units and a general based up, nine 28mm Goblins and three 28mm adventures sand and pva'd.
And 62 10mm Cretan peltasts base coated and inked for that Dark Age commission.
Aforementioned bases inked, peltasts highlighted. Just need to do wood/leather work on them, and detail/shields and they're done
Peltasts are all done.
I hate painting studded shields...
Some armoured cars and Stuart light tank finished for use with BKCII. Next up try and finish some of the opposition to these so I can carry on with my Normandy campaign. Also finished a Perry 40mm figure that is part of a trophy for a forthcoming wargames show. Nice to be back at the painting bench after revamping my scenery over the past week or so.
A change can be a good way to boost your enthusiasm :)
With Autumn fast approaching, my wargaming season tends to kick off, certainly around the time of the Colours show.
64 Spanish 15mm muskets done.
You really are a painting machine =D>
64 Spanish arquibusiers finished, including basing. 24 Spanish crossbowmen base coated and inked.
And 32 pike base coated and inked too.
And a pile of 10mm stuff assembled.
Pikes and crossbows highlighted, flesh base tones and wash done, lovely lunch out with the Amazing Mrs Lemmey too.
Spell checker thought that was piles and crossbones!
Moving on, I'm now beginning the 1st commoner spearmen, colourfully named The Place of Many Rabbits, and the Tzitzimitl "dark demons" unit. Phew, this army is slow going.
And I expect you to pick out every tiny bit of detail, I put on those. ;)
Cheers - Phil
May the tenor section of your leeks sing off-key at the next eisteddfod!
Just dug out an army for a last minute game tomorrow, discovered I'm two stands short! Emergency painting, GO!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 08 September 2018, 09:53:25 AM
May the tenor section of your leeks sing off-key at the next eisteddfod!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I'm still not going to let you off, though. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Emergency painting done. 8 extra cavalry for Panceri finished, will post photos when the scatter dries.
Spanish pikes and crossbows finished, bases milliputted, just waiting for it to set before painting.
Next!
Aforementioned bases painted and inked, 22 15mm cavalry base coated and inked.
22, not sure how he got 22, it's not the usual multiple of 4 that you get in a pack... Also, if they are 3 to base, that doesn't work either...
Cavalry nearly done, infantry bases highlighted, sealed and flocked, flags added to pikes.
7.08 miles walked in 3 hours too. 8)
Some odd scenic items done yesterday as I felt in the mood to do them.
199 figures removed from bases and then put onto new bases for a friend today.
Will texture and sand/pva next.
Hugs all.
22 15mm Spanish knights finished, now onto basing them.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 15 September 2018, 01:17:25 PM
199 figures removed from bases and then put onto new bases for a friend today.
Will texture and sand/pva next.
Hugs all.
The wargaming equivalent of "
A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body" >:<
Tzitzimitleh are nearly done; 2nd apprentice warriors awaiting the coming of the great paintbrush.
Quote from: paulr on 15 September 2018, 11:22:43 PM
The wargaming equivalent of "A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body" >:<
Yup
7 bases of Renaissance Spanish cavalry assembled and milliputted, 66 bases of dark aged foot milliputted so they can be 'marsh effect' based too.
Spare milliputt used to assemble 7 bases of Olmec allies for the Tlexcalans... 3 more to do.
2 28mm building banners an old friend made for Gangs Of Rome terrain, used, flags rescaled (from 8" long to 1.1cm), printed, crossbarred and attached to my Sassanid Persian catafracts, then parts and bars painted. They might just feature 'My Little Ponies'...
Some new river sections started over the weekend, with banks all painted and ready for flock. Before that I will paint the 'water' and then give it 4 - 5 coats of lacquer, spread over next week.
This evening I attempted to undercoat the third apprentice warriors, the first eagle warriors, and the first tecquihuahqueh, who defy translation as far as I can see but had taken five captives each; spray ran out before half time. There goes my weekend of rushing three new regiments through basic training.
32 olomi base coated and inked for Pete last night, not much else done due to Strictly and Killing Eve!
A lot of scratch built terrain making yesterday and base painting today. Drybrushed highlights later on tonight if base coat dry enough.
Tequihuahqueh are about half done; not bad, given than my weekend involved a traumatic visit to the dentist.
Not good !
My teeth were fine for 35 + years after my 'childhood' dentist filled virtually ALL of my 'back teeth'.
After that....I went for about 5 to 6 years going to the original dentist, where I was told....." Nope...nothing needs to be done."....So I gave up bothering going...and I never had any problems, at all....Truly.
Some time (8-10 years ago)....an old 'mercury' filling came out, causing a fair amount of angst.... So I went to a local dentist, asking...."Can you take that particular tooth out, to stop the pain."
Dr 'Mengele' told me the tooth didn't need to come out...(Much more money for him, in doing fillings)....and he also filled two other teeth, which weren't causing me any problems, at all.
All the new fillings came out in less than two months...(And because he'd gone totally overboard with the drilling....leaving a tiny little shell of 'tooth'....They've all cracked off since.)
So I assumed they were just trying to con me into paying for dental insurance.....(Do a crap job...so I'd have to go back all the time.)
Dr Mengele seems to have 'de-nerved' all the teeth that he b*ggered up.....So I don't get any pain, as such.
I should probably made a claim against the practice......I'll never go near a dentist again.
Cheers - Phil
Traumatic and Dentist - two words that don't pair well!
I have given up wargaming all together and am now dedicating all of my free time to working out how to get a 21 years old body again.
Experiment 28 has just failed - eating one and half bars of Ritter chocolate - my knees and back still hurt and now I feel sick as well.
other than that, a pleasant Sunday afternoon!
Every time I go to the dentist, the dentist politely says 'have you been having any problems' and I politely say 'no' - I mean, why would you say anything else! :-X
Having had plenty of work done on my teeth since I was very, very young, a visit to the dentist doesn't bother me one jot.
Two teeth out this year (unopposed wisdom teeth, described as 'pointless teeth) and that's it apart from three fillings in the 80s...
Otomi done, photos later.
Also painted 10 Late Roman cataracts catafracts and 8 horse archers I needed for tonight's game, but not had time to finish basing them up.
In 10mm, 8 Late Roman cavalry, 4 AWI British, and in 15mm 20 Mounted crossbows finished and varnished before lunch today.
3rd apprentice warriors done, second unit of the Jaguar Knights begun.
Four colours on the 6mm batch! :-B @-)
Sand and pva on the 12 bases of 15mm cavalry and 10mm bases. 8)
I've base coated a load of armour and trucks
Take care
Andy
Bases inked, and a couple of coats of paint on the 6mms, then a couple of hours at the Museum, followed by a meeting at the school I'm supplying at for the next two weeks!
A good overall.
Base remaining Jaguar warriors this morning, and time for the second Cuachicqueh. Getting there.
Tanks and armour dry brushed
Take care
Andy
A PzIV and StuH42 finally finished, bar a coat of lacquer tomorrow night. Tiger I & Tiger II in the queue next along with some Stuart light tanks for my Normandy campaign.
Bases finished, 6mms flesh inked and two different colours highlighted (plus lots if email discussion about who had which general due to this being a massive club collaborative project)
And a wooden spoon started!
Should be basing second Cuachic veterans shortly; then on to the second Tequihuaqueh.
Having varnished last nights tanks, I added camo stripes and wash to a Tiger I. Very happy with the result so far.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 04 October 2018, 06:06:21 AM
Should be basing second Cuachic veterans shortly; then on to the second Tequihuaqueh.
Done. Two more units of the senior warriors, and one more of the apprentices, and I'll be able to post some pictures...and start painting the Tlaxcalans.
Tiger I finished and really, really enjoyed painting this. Panther and Jagdpanther have joined the queue, but need to finish a Tiger II first.
Panther and Jagdpanther basecoated this morning. Scratch built bridge also painted; a quick job just so that I can get it onto the table for a game this weekend.
Warriors with momoyactli "giant fin" banners almost done, then on to the second Cuameh Eagle Knights.
Based up a Battalion of US Airborne this lunchtime that had lain in the attic for quite a few years :-[. Another one planned for tomorrow lunchtime :)
2nd Battalion based up. Assault Engineers later in the week, or that's the plan.
2nd Eagle Knights coming along nicely.
I hate glueing together chariots!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 09 October 2018, 07:13:42 PM
I hate glueing together chariots!
Sympathetic, but try biplanes!
I spent last night printing off maps
Take care
Andy
307 100 years war 6mm figures finished.
Photos later... @-) :-B
6 bases of US Airborne combat engineers sorted into bags ready for gluing later on.
Young Ones and Mötorhead finished apart from basing.
And today should DV see the Mexicans completed.
Chucking down here, chances of varnishing = zero.
Airborne engineers based last night. Cut a load of bases this morning with the aim of finally basing up a Battalion of Germany infantry and support that I've had for an embarassing number of years :-[. This may then lead on to further dents in the lead pile, all being well :)
Guess who's finished? :)
A battalion of US Airborne plus support have had the fine surface polyfilla treatment to even out stands levels prior to sand etc being applied. Also managed to make a start on artillery and ATG support.
Finished and based 2 more 28mm figures, 4 10mm ask and three 10mm scale giraffes!
Have you photos of the giraffes, please.
Mine are still without patches.
Just got to base them.
Tlaxcalan archers cleaned up and undercoated.
First unit done. The Mexican archers paint up satisfactorily as Tlaxcalans; it's easy to do a red-and-white sweatband, and en masse the fact that they're wearing a gambeson merely painted onto bare torsos won't be apparent.
I realise I'm selling them short, just going for the least spectacular rank and file types, but I don't have enough years ahead of me to wait for a devoted Tlaxcalan range in 10mm!
120 sea people's flesh base coated and inked
Flesh base coated and inked on two units of Mitanni, then metalwork and inked on the Mitanni and Sea Peoples.
120 sea peoples and 96 Mitanni base coated and inked finally.
Making progress with the last Tlaxcalans (sword and buckler troops with an American accent). Things were delayed for a few days by either a bloom of the black undercoat through some of the lighter colours, or - just a suspicion - by a cockroach's eating off some of the paint.
After a busy few weeks, some grit added to a Battalion of US Airborne. So these are now ready for priming and painting :)
Just assembled the packs that make up the Gangs of Rome slave mob.
Salvé Grummio...
And spent 4 hours today painting Mitanni and Sea Peoples/Sheridans
Tweaked a few old figures this evening. Not much, but at least I painted something :)
Everything now done apart from beards and tidying up.
And basing my stuff, etc!
Final touches to the imperial Romans...well, with their foederatis, it might be a bit short of final touches....
And that batch is done. Next 120 and a mob assembled...
Undercoats and base coats done on (10mm) 140 more sea peoples and 8 Mitanni archer I missed, and about a dozen Frostgrave 28mm skeletons.
Primed and first colour on the bases of my WWII US Airborne :)
All base colours and inks on, including 9 chariots and crews.
Most highlights done, onto wood and leather work next.
Roman cart catapults completed, equites promoti under the brush.
The wood and leather got done, next up details and sorting out.
Guardsmen coming along well.
It's a tricky job, getting transfers onto 10mm shields! By way of compensation, they do look rather good. Palatine legions to follow, then it'll be time for a few Visigoth and Frank allies trying to stop the Hun peril.
Sea Peoples done, plus extra Mitanni, both for my client and myself.
My chariots to finish next, tonight I start on more 15mm Spanish for Pete (he's a completeist).
6 cavalry and 32 pike base coated, inked, highlighted since 9.30 last night.
Better get ready for this afternoon's teaching, ttfn.
Flocking of terrain as the Muse is not upon me to paint at present.
And the 15mms are done, apart from flags and basing...
Time out; shall do a little island covered in sinister basking reptiles next. :)
Got bored, painted few of Timecasts new latex terrain for mashes and broken ground (when I say new, they released them in May, and when I say a few, I mean enough to cover an A2 sheet of card)!
Korea is a go! T34s and us infantry company well underway
Timecast terrain done, many desert bases finished for a friend,band normal bases underway for him too.
Photos soon.
Flocked, scattered and tufted Ray's bases, twelve Frostgrave skellies now metalled, base coated and inked. Just got to sort some heraldry for them.
Undercoated 90 Hitties for Graham, and 8 mobiles for me, the old fashioned way as my spray primer ran out.
90 Hittites armour (Yeah, don't blame me, blame the client) and shield dones.
Flesh base coated and inked. Just got to break it to him that Anatolian does not mean yellow skin tones... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolian_peoples
Historical accuracy vs clients wishes, it can only go so far!
Imperial Romans painted; have begun the Gothic and Frankish foederati (whence the ballad Frankie and Gothie were sweethearts), which will be familiar to Anericans here.
Just got hair, husbands and tidying up to do.
Husbands?
I'm hoping that's headbands or similar ... but you never know. ;)
Or possible groups of Jan Zizka's followers?
Camp followers or auxiliaries for an Amazon army?
Based some civilians for use with The Pikemen's Lament rules, as well as digging out some figures for the painting queue. Nice to be able to sit down in relative comfort for the first time in a while :).
25+ bases inked
Theoderic and Visigothic horse painted. Now need some foot, including Ripaurian Franks.
Spearmens done.
Archers assembled, chariots assembled and sworn at...
North African Fort for French Foreign Legion completed. Now to start on its garrison
For some reason I like painting buildings, and often complete the buildings long before the army. I have a Russian village completely finished but the WW2 Russians are sitting in the cupboard for the last 5 years while I have painted other stuff.
17 Gangs of Rome 28mm almost done.
Several MM chariots and crews, along with 30 Hittite archers all base coated and inked.
Highlights and weapons done on 24 Rebel Mini Kobolds.
A goblin luggage handler almost done too.
Two mounted command figures for The Pikemen's Lament rules painted and flocked tonight. Also finished off some terrain pieces yesterday.
Hittites done, photos later
A unit of Dragoons finished this evening, again for The Pikemen's Lament rules. I think that's the first time I've finished a unit in one sitting :).
2 x ZSU-23-4 built, rest of Kobolds based up.
A unit of Gallopers started this evening for my TPL campaign.
Kobolds bases highlighted, loincloths base coated and inked.
2 free 1/300 German E boats assembled, primed, base coated and inked.
Zombies and ghouls finished and bases sanded and pva'd.
Skeletons bases tufted and finished.
Just a quiet night really...
Gallopers finished. Probably some WWII stuff next in advance of a game on Friday.
Made a very brief start on some Trotters, having spent a lot of time trying to remember how I'd organised the figures for planned units :-[!
Last 24 hours:
2 E boats, 12 skeletons, 3 zombies, 4 ghouls, and 3 & 3/4 units of chariot era stuff finished. Quiet time really... more photos later.
Kobolds worked on too...
Converted a 81mm mortar into a 120mm one, by simply cutting the barrel off and gluing a larger and longer one in its place. Nothing special but will do until I get some proper ones as I need it for a game on Friday. Primed this and some more ECW stuff for painting this evening.
They used 120mm mortars in the ECW! :o
Well, you never know Will :D ;). I should have said it is for my Fallschirmjagers, but your comment did make me smile!
My work here is done...
North Korean T34's finished, more work on US infantry company and started some Chaffees.
Also assembled Nightvault miniatures (I feel a distraction coming on...)
Foederati done, bar bases, which need to dry before I give them a dab of paint. Huns are just around the corner.
120mm mortar complete.
Kobolds done, apart from basing...
LG 40 finished and flocked this evening :)
Kobolds varnished...
6 FV432, 2 Chieftains, 3 fv438, 2 ZSU-23-4, 2 squads of 1980s British infantry, a Milan section, 2 light mortar stands and company hq bases coated and inked tonight, plus 3 Frostgrave creatures and 6 treasure tokens started.
Two Leven Miniatures buildings finished for a BKCII game tomorrow.
Quote from: Steve J on 05 December 2018, 03:25:26 PM
120mm mortar complete.
They are lethal in BKC. Sunjester made the mistake of allowing me to have one in the last late war game we played. :D
Undercoating Huns.
ZSUs, 1980s APCs, Tanks and two squads of British infantry base coated, inked, highlighted and vehicles camoed up, tracks, stowage and mud to add today.
If I'm feeling brave I'll do dpm on the grunts...
Dug out a load of German WWII stuff to assemble, ,convert, base and prime after yesterdays game.
German Recce units basecoated. Yet to decide on a camo scheme, so some research to do tonight.
Many afvs, apcs, tanks et all tracked and aerials added too.
Oh, and a 28mm snow leopard, an ice toad, a wild boar and several treasure tokens done and finished for Frostgrave, apart from base decoration.
Also found I'm out of 50mm x 25mm bases for the afvs, drat and blast!
I've been concentrating on some extra scenery for use in the Americas, which has been fun, but put pay to any progress on my armoured units. Such is life.
Hunnic nobles and their "Daddy" done.
AWI/ACW fences finished this morning. Weather bloody awful so may get more done when SWMBO returns...
Quote from: Steve J on 14 December 2018, 08:43:16 AM
I've been concentrating on some extra scenery for use in the Americas, which has been fun, but put pay to any progress on my armoured units. Such is life.
Did it include rabbits (SCN-NML9), foxes (SCN-NML11), deer (SCN-NML12) and crocodiles (SCN-NML22*)? ;)
* proxies for alligators
Huns done. There now remain the Ostrogoths and Gepids, and this army will be as ready as the late Romans.
Good idea about adding some native fauna :D. Might add some to the next order.
Final set of fences finished and flocked. Time to get them on the table for a game :).
Sounds like a good plan ;) :)
Goths are duly undercoated.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 16 December 2018, 05:35:48 AM
Goths are duly undercoated.
Surely goths should be
dully overcoated? :-\
In the fullness of time. They'll look quite scruffy when I've finished them.
It's a cold, wet day, so I painted a lot of DPM clad British Infantry...
(http://i.imgur.com/9Ji7HrF.jpg)
King Widimer, his personal retinue, and the Tervingi archers painted. 2nd Ostrogothic horse and the Gepids remain.
Basing, much basing, plus renovating some 28mm stuff for Frostgrave and Gangs of Rome.
Much basing
Last of the Hunnic army is based. Shall varnish tomorrow morning, for use in the Catalaunian Plain refight tomorrow afternoon.
Many afvs weathered down, then did a headcount on the infantry, missed 2 command stands and 2 Milans stands...
Drat, more dpm to paint! :o :-B :-& @-)
Sliiiiiiiiightly distracted by 28mm 1745 project.
Almost there on three 'units' (I feel ashamed calling 9 figures a unit, but hey ho, it matches the opponent with C18th 28mm Marlboroughians, so near enough until i get the relevent enemies )
Anyways...
WIP shots
(http://i.imgur.com/Wi9vnD8.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/zcfvnGH.jpg)
Today I mean to base the Pushtigban guard caalry and the elephants. Good start to the Sassanid Persian army.
Time difference is a wonderful thing! ;)
By the time you wake up we'll have overrun Mesopotamia and Syria. ;D
Quote from: mad lemmey on 29 December 2018, 12:09:57 AM
Sliiiiiiiiightly distracted by 28mm 1745 project.
Almost there on three 'units' (I feel ashamed calling 9 figures a unit, but hey ho, it matches the opponent with C18th 28mm Marlboroughians, so near enough until i get the relevent enemies )
They look like a keen bunch of re-enactors ;) ;D
Lovely looking unit Will, with a nice dynamic feel to them 8).
+1
Cheers - Phil
Armenians and the levy spearmen under the brush.
Oh baby! Blue bonnets!
Nice one Will!
Just for a change.......I've got a 1/6 scale resin (?) figure on the desk at the mo' that I've been asked to repair.
The repairs, themselves, will be very simple.....But I'm going to struggle to match the 'old bronze' colour that the model is covered with. :-SS
I did a similar job on another 'presentation type' figure about 10 years ago.....But for the life of me I can't remember what paints I used to give an 'old metal' effect.
Cheers - Phil
Probably an artists acrylic of something like antique brass, with a dirty wash applied might get close.
Thanks, Norm. :)
That sounds very much like I remember doing last time......I think I had to do some sort of mix with one of the 'metals' that I've got in the drawer, as I haven't got anything like an already made antique brass to hand......Then gave it a wash of a brown/black mix. (Said he, guessing wildly.)
I'm just going to have to do some experimenting. X_X
Cheers - Phil
Sassanid levies are based; Amrtaka elite cavlry under the brush.
18 bases of Ray's stuff worked on, Lowlanders finished ready for basing.
(http://i.imgur.com/veOr5LN.jpg)
Good stuff, Will !!
Cheers - Phil
Some Leven Miniatures buildings basecoated. Further painting curtailed whilst we watched the 'Inside Out' film on BBC1 which was brilliant!
Quote from: Steve J on 01 January 2019, 09:17:16 PM
Some Leven Miniatures buildings basecoated. Further painting curtailed whilst we watched the 'Inside Out' film on BBC1 which was brilliant!
I was priming some figures while watching that, great wee film.
Tis a good film.
A night of sand and pva for me!
48 bases inked tonight.
Exciting huh?
Amrtaka done; Chionites and LI archers to begin today, and maybe the Gysnaspar. These are Sassanid Persian units, in case anyone doesn't know, though if you give a hoot about it you probably do know anyway, so forget I said it.
First Persian skirmishers and the last of the royal cavalry are painted. Now remain these things four: Hepthalite "white Hun" auxiliary horse, Asvadan feudal lancers, Daylami javelinmen, and some Persian slingers. Alas, Monday sees me back at the chalk face....
Good luck with the chalk face, I went back on Thor's Day!
Two Leven Miniatures buildings finished tonight. First chance I've had to paint for quite a few days now.
Bases painted and highlights done, bases pva sealed.
US navy MTBs built and undercoated. FV432 & FV438 and flag fineals assembled, drilled and undercoated (not same scale).
Re-basing some 'Great Game' miniatures for use with BP and BBB, as my original basing on coins went all furry and started rusting in places :(. At least I can now prove to SWMBO that my stuff cannot be stored in the attic :D.
Asavadan Persian knights nearly done. Slingers undercoated, but no more; it'll be a few days yet. I think I'll have a go at scratch-building a simple Mexican pyramid after that (to tide me over until I can get some of those alluring Dacian falxmen to turn into extra Thracians).
Cleaned up and stuck 124 MM Hitties to sticks tonight.
Nice to be back in 10mm land tbh.
Train of thought briefly derailed by the image of 124mm Hittites ... then realised what you meant.
Action Man scale! ;D
Slingers and flingers half done; could probably get them done in time for action tomorrow afternoon, but let's face it, I'm a zombie after my first week back at work; sleep may be more urgent. And I haven't even had a chance to play as Aetius against the Huns yet. Moderation, Kitty, discipline, patience....
Hittites base coated and ink washed, bases puddled on next batch of 15mm for Ray.
Added camo schemes and a wash to a load of Sd.Kfz 250 variants for use with BKCII.
Hittites dry brushed and flesh base coated and inked.
Persians complete. My recruiting drive can now lie fallow for a season.
Two PTBs base coated and inked. 9 Later Imperial Roman bowmen done, about 25 bases for a friend inked. Nine bases of Saxons dug out from my 15mm collection and reassembled to be repainted for a friend too.
All this while I'm waiting for my next order to arrive!
120 infantry cleaned and assembled last night.
Back in the world of 10mm at last!
60 cavalry cleaned and assembled.
Oh Pants !!
I posted in the original Tale of Four Gamers yesterday.
I thought it was bit odd that no-one had posted there for ages.
Cheers - A Muppet ! :-[
I did wonder!
Any better mate?
Definitely, slightly more 'with it' today, Will !!
But the day is young. ;)
Cheers - Phil
And with a quarter hour to go, how is it?
I was asleep by then. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil ;)
Yay
147 foot, 63 cav base coated last night.
Only got until next Friday to get these done... :-B :!! @-)
Lemmey, I probably won't paint that many figures all year!!!!!! :)
Terry
Bet you do...
And they're inked.
Highlights finally finished, flesh painted, inked and highlighted, horse flashes and feathers done, few bits of tarten added, just to make them 'Scottish and link them back to my Picts who are the main bulk of the army. Some shields done.
Wood work, leather work, hair to do next.
The amazing Dracostandard has rescaled some Norman shields to 10mm for me.
(http://i.imgur.com/KWSsyiU.jpg)
Will add them to my Pendraken Normans tonight.
Those are nice
Just put 100+ on shields, drilled a hole in each one to accommodate the boss, fitted like a dream on the infantry, slight tweaks needed on the cavalry shields, but well happy.
:-bd :-bd :-bd
They look Ace
Take care
Andy
Transfers on, flags on, sand and pva on. Trying ink in the pva to start with, just to see if it works.
Hope these will be done by Saturday am.
30+ bases inked this morning after the cat w9ke me up before my alarm was due.
Knackered now...
Cats are little boggers. (sic) ;)
Maybe we'll get some more at some stage in the future.
Sixteen, down to none, is fine by me. ;)
(I think the little collie bitch (Missy) would tear any feline apart, at the mo'...I truly don't want that happening. X_X)
Cheers - Phil
Everything done bar the tufts...
Night all
Or morning for those on the other side of the planet
:-h from the other side of the planet :)
Got some 20mm vehicles done
2 x Panzer 3
1 x Stug 3 Ausf A
1 x Sdkfz 221 Armoured car
Plus a 28mm Necromancer apprentice for our next Frostgrave Campaign
Nice
Quote from: Orcs on 08 February 2019, 07:25:48 AM
Got some 20mm vehicles done
2 x Panzer 3
1 x Stug 3 Ausf A
1 x Sdkfz 221 Armoured car
Plus a 28mm Necromancer apprentice for our next Frostgrave Campaign
Are there many Panzer III's in Frostgrave?
No
Most people use (snow) leopards...
Many based of archers sculpted for that commission, 13 bases of jannisaries built for another commission.
2 S boats constructed because I felt like it.
S boats, U boat, Jannisaries and Lowlanders base coated and inked.
Archer bases puddles painted and puddled.
A long spell away from anything remotely basing or painting related finished this evening as I dug out some mid 19thC forces for use with 'The Portable Wargame'. So having arranged the troops I need for one force, some polyfilla was applied to the bases ready for grit tomorrow.
I've ben using polyfilla this afternoon. Nothing to do with wee soldiers, though. :(
Cheers - Phil
Many bases painted, highlighted and pva sealed tonight.
Been a bit of a busy week in real life, so, phew, nice to get the paints out.
Hugs all.
63 rebases of 15mm finished tonight, plus 2 FV432, 2 FV438, a ing, a 2iC and 2 Milan stands base coated and inked.
Knocked together a little Mexican pyramid from balsa wood.
Quote from: Techno on 17 February 2019, 09:38:11 PM
I've been using polyfilla this afternoon. Nothing to do with wee soldiers, though. :(
Cheers - Phil
Same again =) X_X, plus sorting out the electrics on the Land Rover so she'd start..(that took a long time !).. unblocking a sink.....changing a washer on a tap.... (Our taps seem to be weird. When the washers 'go wrong', the taps don't go 'drip. drip, drip'....they do the opposite, and barely let out the water, even when you turn them full on. If anyones's got a theory on that one...let me know !!)
I've got another tap to do, when we've got some more washers....But I just
cannot remove/unscrew the 'flange/packing nut/cover', from this particular tap !! >:( >:( >:( >:(
It's such an interesting life, I lead. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Barry Bucknell. :P
Quote from: Techno on 07 February 2019, 01:04:05 PM
Cats are little boggers. (sic) ;)
Apparently they are also bloggers
https://williamthecat.blogspot.com
The weather of late has been so lovely, that all my spare time has been spent outside. Gaming stuff to resume during the week :).
Work on 15mm Janissairs commission continues, found 3 more skirmishers to rebase that had been missed.
9 more 28mm Lowlanders nearly done.
10mm modern British afvs and infantry highlighted and flesh applied and inked. DPM later
15mm Janissaires nearly done, 28mm Lowlanders too (done does not include basing). 10mm British moderns nearly done, afvs nearly there, just neef weathering and aeriels, mud etc, infantry had their dpm done! Gah @ @-) X_X :-B
Productive weekend, no doubt aided by the inclement weather.
Made good progress on the start of my 1809 Naps, 2 battalions of Austrians (100 figs) - love white uniforms :)
Finished a halfling Bloodbowl team from the archive pile.
Finished Celts Vs Romans battle diorama to hand over to Leon at WMMS (hopefully Dave doesn't drop it :))
Thirty odd bases sanded and pva'd, and two more Vosper MTBs started to be dry brushed and detailed, hopefully finish those tomorrow.
Bases inked,
2 1:300 Vospers finished.
Warband black Dragon started and finished for my Dark Elves to upset some dwarves with tomorrow night.
Photos tomorrow, hopefully.
Muhahaha
I spent this evening trying to paint a grid on a Jarvis Scenics flocked mat, to try and make it less obvious than small black dots. Not sure st the minute whether this will work as I hoped or not. Some more detailing and highlights tomorrow. It may look OK when other scenery is added. Pics of the finished item to follow.
Sounds intriguing
Two 28mm survivors painted, varnished and sand/pva & inked.
13 bases of Janissaries done and based. 7 medieval rebases done too. 9 1745 28mm completed including bases.
Photos soon.
Next two commission projects assembled and undercoated, plus two Cruel Seas boats built and primed too.
Just a quiet weekend really! :P
18 bases puttied up, all to relax after a flying visit from my mother.
48 10mm huns and 2 fairmile D base coated and inked last night, plus many bases of rebases started
Big users of the Fairmile D, the Huns?
Not big users fsn, having only two "dog boats."
"MTB 631" a Fairmile D was a lend-lease boat for the Norwegian Navy.She ran aground off Florø on 14/03/1943 and abandoned.
On 18/03/1943 she was towed in to Bergen and brought back to sea as "S 631". She was assigned to the German "Norwegian West Coast" command.
"MGB 666" also a Fairmile D was captured off Ijmuiden on 05/07/1944. On 08/07/1944 she was destroyed by a fuel explosion.
Not exactly long and illustrious service :)
I see what you did there!
:D :D :D
=O
Well played Ithoriel :) :) :)
Huns highlighted, 15mm rebases sanded and pva'd
US forces for early war Korea not far from finished, just need to finish a couple of pershings, platoon of Shermans,some Recce, HQ and some heavy mortars
(https://i.imgur.com/WB6GmIm.jpg?1)
and decide on foliage (probably going to go with scrubby hill look :-)
Looking very nice, Matt. :-bd
Can't wait to see some close-ups. :)
(Scratch that....It'll only make me jealous. ;))
Cheers - Phil
Top work
Apologies. Being a Horse & Musket fan, my eyes were drawn to the Austrians at the back. They look good, too! :-bd
I missed the Austrians due to all that lovely armour in the foreground :D.
Yes the Austrians are my first foray into Napoleonics (as it is better than SYW :P).
I'm pleasantly surprised how quick I can do Austrian uniforms :D
Touched up a few imperfect foxskin caps on my Thracians; hmmm, haven't really painted anything for months. Do I need some WoR stuff to combine with Kingmaker?
Huns nearly done, just shields and tidying up to finish.
Rebase bases inked.
Fairmiles first highlights and details begun.
Base drybrushing on some WWII US Airborne in advance of uniforms etc tomorrow. Nice to be in the mood to paint again :).
Command bases all done bar lacquering tomorrow.
Huns handed to owner
Bases done
Fairmile D done
Photos later, I hope,
Next...
No painting today due to tiring day at work, but did manage to assemble some AA units for my Italians, so not all bad :).
WWII US Airborne support platoons painted tonight.
Cool.
1/300 oil tanker built after a hard weekend wargaming! :D
4 bases of 90s Saxons repainted for a commission, with a general.
20mm guns and crew added to Vospers MKIs (can't believe I missed them first time), oil tanker base coated and inked.
15mm Huns looked at and ignored...
63 bases sanded and pva'd tonight.
Night all.
Thought about completing some basing on some English Civil War dragoons. Instead? Half pint of Bombardier ale (at the local pub), half a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon (at home, with and after dinner), two bottles of Skye Red ale and two 'house measures' of Glenfiddich 15 year old malt whisky. :-bd :P
p.s. amazing amount of bases, Lemmey. :o =D>
Some sry stone walls made from cork mats basecoated black this morning. This evening some FT-17s and L3/35s (the command tankette variant) are getting there base coats and wash applied. Nothing like an imminent game to focus the mind :D.
Dry stone walls finished. Tanks and tankettes to be finished tonight.
Tanks and tankettes finished :).
Bases inked,
55 10mm pikes assembled, plus 31 Mitanni,
3/4 of my Militia minis Kickstarter figures undercoated and some of the extras that came with batch one base coated and inked. Still waiting on bases for the rest (hint hint)
Plus did a couple of hours at the museum, took the girls to the dentist, saw the doctors, went shopping, ate at MaccyDs and generally did holiday stuff.
And fourth six more assembled...
German Recce SdkfZ 250s highlighted and details added. Weathering and lacquer tomorrow all being well.
7 of bases milliputted on cobbles, another 11 smooth finished for Nakatomi Plaza, another 10 puttied.
6 buildings in various scales base coated and inked.
100 10mm renaissance base coated and inked.
21 samurai horses base coated and inked.
A nice quiet day?
Leven Miniatures bridge painted and added to a river section ready for this weeks game :).
Another building complex underway, this one is mine.
Plus 28mm coppers for a commission and a load of Evil Empire Hobbits I bought years ago for LoTR that might get sold to a mate this week
Hobbits nearly done.
Fuzz almost finished.
More hobbits arrived today, they are base coated and inked...
Halflings, they're hobbit forming!
That deserves a X_X
Cheers - Phil
Yup
3 bases of US Airborne finished this morning, with some other vehicles primed. Nothing like a forthcoming game to focus your mind! Plus it's blowing a gale here so little to do outside, other than repair damage later.
Hah....A gale ?
I got a good smack of sideways 'wind', this morning.....when I was driving the car into the village.....I certainly felt the little car move sideways by a good few inches.
(Apparently I can't spell the metric equivalent. =))
Cheers - Phil
Winds easing off now but still damned windy! Converted 3 terrain pieces into vineyards for forthcoming game; really quick and easy to do and happy with the result. also finished off my German recce half-tracks, so all-in-all a good day so far :).
Another three bases of US Airborne finished tonight. Lacquer and flocking tomorrow. Then onto some vehicles all being well.
15mm samurai cavalry base coated and inked.
Chimney and window frames added to 28mm big house for zombie games.
Three hobbits base coated and inked too...
Two Italian AA units base coated and Devlin Mud wash applies this morning, with plan to finish them tonight. US Airborne lacquered as well.
Italian AA units finished.
4 layers of highlights in Samurai armour, few coats on 3 LOTR character's coats...
US Airborne 75mm pack howitzers and crew all based up. 57mm ATG prepped for basing tomorrow.
57mm ATG and crew based up.
Inspired by our planned Operation Market-Garden campaign, I managed to grab some time to base up some command units for my WWII Germans. Looking at the list in the box, I bought these in 2008 :-[ :-[ :-[.
9 bases of infantry done this afternoon :). Support weapons later if my eyes are up to it, if not at work next week.
Horse tack on samurai done this afternoon
Samurai cavalry done, apart from mons where a friend is making transfers for me.
Ashugari archers and another batch of lancers undercoated
72 archers and 18 lancers base coated and inked.
Samurai, horses and ashugau highlighted, then flesh added and inked.
No painting this week so far due to getting other gaming stuff sorted. I did make a start on a scratch built bridge last night, which I hope to make progress on today.
Flesh highlighted
80s terrorists researched, base coated and inked.
And bows and back banner poles base coated too.
5 haystacks sculpted and finished scratch building the bridge :).
More work done on some stream sections.
Samurai almost done, just tidying up and then mons to add.
1980s Terrorists lots of progress made
Campaign set up for tomorrow, hope to see some of you there.
84 15mm Samurai and ashugau done, apart from transfers for mons.
1980s Terrorists finished too.
Photos of the latter batch tomorrow, hopefully.
Assembled 80+ 10mm libyians and sand and pva'd the bases of 40 odd 28mm hobbits and a 15mm farm complex.
Will get some base coating of some random bits done next.
Base coated and inked 4 hobbits, and the militia miniatures original Kickstarter models too.
I thought I'd add my own 3-pence to this amazing 68 page thread.
So ... this week/month/year I am mostly:
1). making up (painting) some 15mm Command bases to convert my FoW Africa Korp and US 9th Infantry division into a BKCIV force for the BKCIV Boot Camp on June 15th (have i mentioned this event before?)
2). finishing off 28mm Ancient German casualty markers - for my 'Savage' Ancient German army to compete at the LaDG competition at 'Attack' in Devizes in July - this involves putting casualty figures on hexagonal bases, adding Minibits dice frames and painting them up. It's an attempt to 'tidy up' my table top gaming as i usually use a mass of different colored tokens and the table can get very messy!
3). basing up a host of 6mm Cold War Warsaw Pact and Bundeswehr Infantry and Infantry Support - for the big Cold War Commander 2 day game later in the year. The armour is always the fun thing to get painted up, its the infantry I always find a chore. At least with BMPs and Marders I's there is only 1 stand in each (as they are IFVs)!
4). 28mm Assyrians ... hmmm this is a labour of love! I adore the Foundry Assyrian range but putting together and painting 4 horse, 4 crew chariots is a challenge. These are for another 28mm LadG competition at Virtus, in December in Cardiff.
5). there is my big (28mm) fantasy/Warband project .... I must this year get my Mordor Orc army finished - I've done all the fancy stuff - General, Magic user, Trolls, Spiders, wolf-riders, scouts - I've even found a fantastic giant standing 18cm high) but it's the Orcs themselves (f'ousands of em sah!) that I need to knuckle down to finishing off
That plus BCKIV errata and the SCW and Korean war supplements to do, plus CWCII to get started on and other Commander bits and pieces ... it's busy busy busy in the Fry study.
:) :) :) :) but I wouldn't have it any other way
Cheers
Mark
Spent last night painting 6 figures, following Dougie's camo schemes...
They look bloody good, but I'm glad they are 28mm
4 hobbits and all but one merc done.
100+ 10mm Bronze age Libyans base coated and inked (lots of flesh tones).
3 15mm samurai lancers that I had missed base coated and inked.
18 15mm ashugau spears started.
In 28mm, 2 survivors and 6 zombies base coated and inked too.
Nearly all done on these batches, just flesh and bamboo on the 15mm Japanese , and tidying up of the 10mm Libyans
Scratch built bridge painted and flocked last night.
Assuming it's the bridge bastions that were flocked?
Yep Will, the dirt bastions flocked.
Heading through the 1000 figure for the year mark with this next batch of figures, I decided I needed to do something for myself, as well as final set of the 150+ samurai that I am awaiting the transfers for.
So, I've assembled 2 bases for Warband, got 4 more out that are undercoated. I have also assembled something else that I've been putting off for an age.
Everything up to the flesh and ink stage.
Did half a dozen new road strips; one of those dull projects that one keeps postponing.
Tell me about it, got two packs of Timecast fields that I keep ignoring.
Plan a game in which you need them, it will help focus the mind ;) :!!
No painting for some time, but plenty of basing of figures for forthcoming projects. So tonight I finished basing the last units to give me a core German infantry battalion for early war. Then it's just a case of adding to it for late war, plus the small challenge of painting them!
Last night was woodwork, tonight was white, especially on sashimo banners, which almost did me in.
Present batch finished painting.
7 bases milliputted too.
Phew.
Based two units and a general, but only had one out of two flags that I needed... ~X( =O
Ho hum. ;D
Basing, flag attaching, photo taking night.
After unpacking a surprise of a huge parcel (5kg) containing a full painted 15mm Imperial Roman, an unpainted 15mm Sassanid and an unpainted 15mm Fire and Sword Renaissance Poles that a friend has gifted to me as hes moving out to Singapore. Another friend has already picked off the Renaissance!
Basing, highlights and edges done on 6 Warband bases, flock later, then photos.
Many 10mm MM Syrians and cananites base coated and inked tonight.
Bit lonely in here...
Two spoons started and finished.
78 Cananites and Syrians all highlighted and detailed, just need to do the woodwork, same for 3 stands of 1864 Prussian Jagers.
You produce more than most groups of four gamers ;) ;D
Primed my German WWII Battalion last night, ready for the main painting to start. Deadline is just over 2 months away.
First coat added to the bases, with drybrusing to follow tomorrow.
Much done, see photos...
Oh and Jagers too.
80 spearmen base coated tonight, another 16 that I had missed assembled...
All 96 spearmen base coated and inked.
Prussian 1864 Jägers bases milliputted and inked.
All is 8)
Weather simply too lovely here to consider painting, basing etc all day. Then England play their quarter final game this evening, so doubt anything will get done because of that.
3-0
Assembled a division of 1870 Prussians, plus divisional assets for 1864 tonight.
Bases dry brushed last night. Basic uniform colour applied to German WWII infantry company for BKCIV.
Flesh, ink, highlights done. spears/wood/leather, just need to ink.that stage.
That stage got inked, and did the steel/iron and inked that.
Just need to do painted helmets (apparently it's a 13th century thing) hair and do 80 shields with 'heraldry' (some real, some speculative, some made up) and I'll be done*.
*apart from tidying up, sorting errors, and the 100 cavalry to follow.
So nearly finished these spears, only mistakes to sort, pen work on shields and a small smattering of flags to add...
Just need to get over the existential dread of trying to do 96 sets of 15mm heraldic shields, and this batch is done.
2 cruel seas S boats, 10mm, many Huns and Gepids, plus 2 units of FPW Hussars and some (48) 15mm crossbowmen assembled and undercoated while listening to the cricket today.
God bless TMS!
Quite a few Huns/Alans/Gepids started and inked.
British Home Service 18mm done, just basing up.
Started 48 x 15mm crossbows, base coated and inked.
Will - you got some sort of fetish about having your name show up on the forum - 6 successive ;) posts.
Nah, just the other 3 gamers are bei g a bit quiet of late! :-*
Some basing done over the past week for some 19thC games, as the painting muse has flown, partly due to the lovely weather and it being too hot to paint at times.
Assembled and glued some 1st Schleswig-Holstein Danish artillery this lunchtime. For some reason I have more for the 'Germans' than the Danes, so a tad confused...
48 crossbows highlighted, flashed and inked. Other project bases painted and highlighted and sealed.
2 Cruel Seas 'S' boats finished.
30 15mm knights up to the everything highlighted stage, separate horses already done.
Off to France for a week, so these will be on ice until I get back...
But watch the Pendraken on Tour thread...
Quote from: mad lemmey on 27 July 2019, 06:26:58 AM
But watch the Pendraken on Tour thread...
Look forward to that, Will. :)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: mad lemmey on 27 July 2019, 06:26:58 AM
Off to France for a week, so these will be on ice until I get back....
I know its been rather hot lately, but I'm not sure you need to keep your figures in the freezer!
Have a good break!
Quote from: fred. on 27 July 2019, 07:08:49 AM
I know its been rather hot lately, but I'm not sure you need to keep your figures in the freezer!
I keep my
sculpts in the chest freezer, in the barn, if I don't want the putty to cure, for a good while ;)
I've had all sorts of (green) animals.......Goats, sheep, pigs, deer, hefferlumps, rhinos, hippos, giraffes, dogs, cats, badgers, foxes, gnus, and some ancient gods freezing their naughty bits off.
Cheers - Phil ;)
Back home, back to the Cathers...
Quote from: mad lemmey on 03 August 2019, 10:07:24 PM
Back home, back to the Cathers...
O, Pioneers! is my favorite.
After a painting hiatus, I was in the mood to paint last night, starting with one unit for some mid-19thC Imaginations gaming. A small start but a start nonetheless :).
Any start is a good start :)
Next group of Cathars assembled, sergeants varnished, Prussians piping and facing done 8-} @-) :-B Hussars starting to look a bit good for 1864
First Imagi-Nations unit finished, bar lacquering and flocking.
Next up decorating the bathroom, but hope to fit figure painting in as well.
18th Infantry Division Prussian Army done, apart from basing.
Hussars and artillery for 1864 done too, apart from basing.
30 horses base coated and inked for Cathar commission.
and Pussian dragoons based coated and inked, and 4 units of 1864 Danes built (finally)! #:-S L-)
Transfers/decal Mons for Pete's Samurai army arrived last night. 250 have been applied today (roughly 50 an hour, double sided on the back banners @-) )as the amazing Mrs Lemmey and the Father-in-law tore the bathroom to pieces, and realised they might have made a mistake!
Its my 16th wedding anniversay today, and Mrs D disappeared out fir a bit with the kids, so as well as helping the Father-in-law take a wall doen, I've also finished 140 15mm samurai, 30 medieval horses too, 15 10mm 1864 Prussian Dragoons and a general also done.
Forged In Battle Kickstarter a friend gifted me has arrived, first unit assembled, two further units conversion started.
A good day.
Congratulations, Will !! :-bd
We never seem to remember, until about three days after the event. ;D ;D
(Fortunately we BOTH forget.....So there's never any problem. ;))
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: mad lemmey on 10 August 2019, 05:47:44 PM
Its my 16th wedding anniversay today, and Mrs D disappeared out fir a bit with the kids, so as well as helping the Father-in-law take a wall doen, I've also finished 140 15mm samurai, 30 medieval horses too, 15 10mm 1864 Prussian Dragoons and a general also done.
Forged In Battle Kickstarter a friend gifted me has arrived, first unit assembled, two further units conversion started.
A good day.
It's our 10th. :)
Congratulations Will & FK :)
Congrats to to you & Lee, from me, as well, Alexander ! :) :-bd
Cheers - Phil
(43 years, and counting, for Von and I. :o)
It won't get that far for Lee and me. Making a century...nah, I was never much of a cricketer.
But thanks for good wishes. :)
Ta
32 cathar riders base coated and inked (horses finished previously).
Now they are highlighted too.
9 FPW bases sand&pva'd.
Flesh and wood/leather base coated and inked, hair and heraldry still to do.
Oh, and FPW bases inked.
Largest batch of Cathers done, pictures on blog later
Leven Minatures building finished this morning, then the bathroom undercoated this afternoon. Certainly racking up the Brownie points :D.
FPW Prussian division painted, highlighted, edged and pva sealed.
Flock, labels and flags to do.
Scratch built barn finally finished and flocked, along with some dead tree bases.
Chad's commission assembled, undercoated, base coated and inked.
Last Mitanni stands also base coated and inked.
YOU'RE DOING MORE ? :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
Cheers - Amazed of Wales
Fills the time before Fatjer-in-law comes round and We continue to demolish the old bathroom area to make a futility room.
Always fascinates me how, when painting figures, one colour, at the right time, can transform a meh paint job to an decent one.
Mitanni chariots, crew and infantry finally done, apart from basing.
Sand and pva applied. French LOA highlighted to a paper shade
French LOA shoes, scabbards and hats blacked.
Just details to do.
72 LOA French done, photos later.
Base coated a wargames board that I have been making for the Battle of Kurudere.
Mitanni camp done, apart from flock.
44 more 15mm Cathar cavalry assembles and undercoated.
6 1:3000 minesweepers, 6 destroyers and a battle cruiser finished (photos later).
15mm horses done, riders glued on.
32 10mm Pendraken later Roman figures, (and I thought that project was done :-S 8-}) assembled and undercoated
15mm Cathar Riders undercoated, base coated and inked.
Same for 10mm Romans
Romans done apart from shield designs, tidying up and basing.
Now it's just the bases that need doing.
Included 4th Century shield patterns... :-B :-t ^#(^ (:| 8-} 8-} @-) @-) @-)
At least you have the Notitia Dignitatum as a guide. If even I can paint them in 6mm you'll have no problem at all, I'm sure.
Romans got as far as sand/pcs then ink wash on bases.
Cathar heraldry underway.
A mix of flocking, basing and base coats for my AWI Americans, that are standing in for the British in our HoW mini-campaign.
36 x ECW 15mm horses base coated, plus 4 bits of 28mm terrain, and a 1:3000 battleship.
Eclectic, moi?
Quote from: mad lemmey on 12 September 2019, 02:15:54 PM
36 x ECW 15mm horses base coated, plus 4 bits of 28mm terrain, and a 1:3000 battleship.
Eclectic, moi?
And now they are inked! 8)
Photo samples of the Falklands Argies done -
(https://i.imgur.com/Z4Ka1AT.jpg?3)
Just got to photo them then off to Leon
They look bloody lovely Matt!!!
My meagre efforts continue with dry brushed bases and figures.
:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
Those are superb Matt
They DO look rather spiffy, Matt !! :-bd
(What range are you doing next ?............Are you allowed to tell us ?)
Cheers - Phil
Thanks guys :)
Phil - I've a rather large pile from Leon received last Autumn which with house move and everything else hasn't moved as quick as I'd like. Lots of the modern vehicles in various states of paintingness and the Falklands Brits to do.
He has also asked me if I'd put together another diorama using the Napoleonic ranges.
After that I'd like to do the new ancient ranges you've sculpted, when they come out (hint, hint Leon ;))
And the Aztecs ? :)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 13 September 2019, 06:05:24 PM
And the Aztecs ? :)
Cheers - Phil
I call on everyone in this forum to get some Aztecs. Why should I be the only one to be repeatedly humiliated by massacred Mexicans?
(Actually, I'm thinking that a special rule allowing
Cuachiquicqueh to improvise cover for an ambush in what looks like good going might be a bit of an equaliser.)
I agree, every gamer should have at least one Mesoamerican army, just for the colorful garb if nothing else.
Terry
That'll set Ian off !! ;)
Cheers - Phil
But I'm completely even tempered and unbiased !!!!!
IMPOSTER.....What have you done with Ian. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Ssshhhhhh....we might get the real one back!
O.K.
Mum's the word.
Cheers - Phil :-$ :-$ :-$
I HEARD THAT !!!!
;)
Cheers - Phil
Too late! :'(
Quote from: FierceKitty on 14 September 2019, 01:22:51 AM
I call on everyone in this forum to get some Aztecs. Why should I be the only one to be repeatedly humiliated by massacred Mexicans?
(Actually, I'm thinking that a special rule allowing Cuachiquicqueh to improvise cover for an ambush in what looks like good going might be a bit of an equaliser.)
Mine are en route to me now :D :D :D
I've been (somewhat prematurely) thinking about rule sets and how to tweak them for the period. The ability to have improvised ambushes and false withdrawal traps would add a nice bit of variety to the otherwise very linear tactics. I'm thinking some sort of way to indicate where the elites are hidden (map in an envelope maybe) then a dice roll to determine if they execute a successful ambush or fall over their own feet and get severely disrupted.
I've written into my pike and shot rules that the elite veterans may be assigned this task, with secretly recorded details of left or right side of the field, but the figures are to be deployed normally as dummies. When the enemy approaches the halfway line, the unit is deployed, with a chance that the enemy are disordered. This includes the assumption that they moved stealthily into position in the path of the most likely victims (who looked as if they'd be advancing).
Not tested yet; we've been too busy with the Silesian wars the last few battles. But it could be pretty dangerous, without being too decisive. The Mexicans will be risking their best troops, and could get them chewed up before the rest of the army closes. If they take out the cavalry and musketeers, on the other hand....
Primed some command figures and cavalry for my 18thC force. Also made some bases for fields for my games.
Two units of AWI infantry finished tonight, which is a record for me! Focussing on painting the unit, rather than the figure and remembering they wll be seen at arms length etc. Also basecoated some terrain ready for drybrushing tomorrow.
Sounds a very productive evening, I look forward to seeing the results :)
A unit of cavalry finished this evening. With luck some artillery and a command base tomoroow, ready for a game in the evening.
Quote from: mmcv on 15 September 2019, 11:29:07 AM
Mine are en route to me now :D :D :D
I've been (somewhat prematurely) thinking about rule sets and how to tweak them for the period. The ability to have improvised ambushes and false withdrawal traps would add a nice bit of variety to the otherwise very linear tactics. I'm thinking some sort of way to indicate where the elites are hidden (map in an envelope maybe) then a dice roll to determine if they execute a successful ambush or fall over their own feet and get severely disrupted.
The Ambush rules in BKC/CWC/FWC work very well - as they restrict the numbers of troops involved so as not to allow the ambushing player an overwhelming advantage.
You are also restricted in the number of ambushes a specific army can have, and you pay for them as an army asset. It allows armies like WW2 Finns or Yugoslavian guerrilla armies, or modern Special Forces, to catch their enemies unawares. I think it would work well for your Aztecs.
I've seen plenty of ambushes - some led by myself - get into trouble through a promissing but unsupported attack.
Meanwhile, does anyone here have any experience of using Vikings in battles? I'm not talking about little raids and figures glued to pennies here.
Quote from: Big Insect on 18 September 2019, 05:42:26 AM
The Ambush rules in BKC/CWC/FWC work very well - as they restrict the numbers of troops involved so as not to allow the ambushing player an overwhelming advantage.
You are also restricted in the number of ambushes a specific army can have, and you pay for them as an army asset. It allows armies like WW2 Finns or Yugoslavian guerrilla armies, or modern Special Forces, to catch their enemies unawares. I think it would work well for your Aztecs.
I actually just received my copy of BKCIV this week and have been flicking through it. Will have to proper read into the ambush section and see how it might adapt to the various ancient rulesets I could use. Big order of models has arrived too so the sorting begins!
Wonderful news mmcv
Personally I think that the 'Commander' rules principles are very capable of being adapted to Ancient or Medieval or Fantasy warfare.
Shooting is very much the Emperor of the battlefield ... but it's easy enough to adjust the factors and ranges.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 18 September 2019, 05:46:43 AM
Meanwhile, does anyone here have any experience of using Vikings in battles? I'm not talking about little raids and figures glued to pennies here.
Hmmmm?
Due to an interesting work situation (despite not wanting to teach full time, I'm covering someone who has been stricken with cancer on the first day of the year. I was called in last Thursday, second week of term, and had to hit the ground running for the next six months getting his class back on track), so painting has been somewhat halted this last week.
Now I've got my head above water with planning and resources, I should get the production line back in business.
ECW riders base coated and inked, phew.
Best of luck, Will......and also to the teacher you're covering for.
That's a real downer. :(
Someone you know ?.....Old ? Young ?
Cheers - Phil
Middle, don't know, but big shoes to fill.
Quote from: Techno on 22 September 2019, 07:00:54 AM
Best of luck, Will......and also to the teacher you're covering for.
Seconded >:<
Shipping containers and builders prefab hut finished, photos later.
Quote from: Big Insect on 18 September 2019, 01:36:25 PM
Personally I think that the 'Commander' rules principles are very capable of being adapted to Ancient or Medieval or Fantasy warfare.
Almost as if they were based on a set that covered those periods...
Well, now you say that Fred, it seems to very obvious ;D
120 15mm Greek spears removed from bases and glued to new bases tonight.
And HMS Warspite base cut
Not miniatures painting, but flocked a load of terrain today as part of my ongoing upgrade of my scenery, to make it all suitable for 10mm.
A unit of AWI cavalry basecaoted and washed tonight. Highlights and lacquer tomorrow.
Cavalry finished, bar flocking. Onto the artillery next.
Artillery unit finished, bar flocking, which I'll probably do tonight. Command bases next.
Bases puttied and sand/pva added.
Warspite based and base coated
Command base finished tonight, bar flocking. A most productive days painting :).
Bases inked, Warspite painted.
Bases flocked last night, so now I can field a full Brigade for Honours of War. Also flocked a load of terrain, ready for this weeks bash.
Bases base coated
Highlighted bases and sealed with pva
Quote from: FierceKitty on 18 September 2019, 05:46:43 AM
Meanwhile, does anyone here have any experience of using Vikings in battles? I'm not talking about little raids and figures glued to pennies here.
Never got an answer to this one.....
I do, but only in 28mm or as an ally
Quote from: FierceKitty on 03 October 2019, 01:00:25 AM
Never got an answer to this one.....
We've played big battles with To The Strongest, also multi-player saga with all the forces on each side being the same, this becomes much more than a skirmish and feels like a battle
Really wondering whether they'd be worth getting as extra opponents for my medieval Byzantines.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 03 October 2019, 08:52:28 AM
Really wondering whether they'd be worth getting as extra opponents for my medieval Byzantines.
Who have you got already? Also which Byzantine are you talking about ... ?
General enemies are:
- Arabs (various Caliphates)
- Seljuk Turks
- Ottoman Turks
- Rus
- Pechnegs
- Khazar
- Catalan Grand Company
- Latin Crusaders (early middle & late)
- Early Italian City States
- Italio-Normans
- Wallachians
- Early German Imperialist
- Bulgars
- Slavs
- Armenian Rebels
- Georgians
- Venetians
So quite a few to choose from and I have probably missed at least one obvious one!
At present my east Romans fight the Sassanids, the Franks, and the Ayyubids (with a few changes for different eras).
British SYW Dragoons and Light Dragoons based, the pva glue and grit added to the bases. My aim is to get a brigade finished before we can meet up for more games in November.
Made some bases from 1.60mm ABS, plus sorted through my infantry to try and figure out what I had intended! Luckily it all sort of came back to me, so onto basing tomorrow night.
Undercoated and built stuff...
Base coated and rebuilt stuff...
Never buy cheap superglue...
Quote from: mad lemmey on 10 October 2019, 06:00:55 AM
Never buy cheap superglue...
It can also remove retina !
I use loads of it though, bought most of the stock in Poundworld Birkenhead when they went broke.
IanS
Figures inked
A few more British SYW units based, but limited in what I can do due to an inguinal hernia that I somehow gave myself to 'acquire' earlier in the week :(. So I've been planning some Dragon Rampant action to play on a small board whilst things settle down.
Stuff highlighted, flesh base coated, inked and highlighted.
More SYW basing tonight.
Lots of leatherwork done job figures tonight. @-) :-B
Command figures based. Artillery and light infantry left to do, then onto the painting...
Awaiting multiple-source Vikings, and a few bits of local colour for ECW, ancient Celts, and WWII.
Metalwork iron and bronze done.
Grit added to bases.
ECW next batch started
Dragoons assembled, all of the above undercoated.
32 ECW cavalry and 40 Dragoon foot base coated and inked so far today.
30 x 4 15mm Spartan spears taken off old base, and put onto new mdf.
HMS Rodney and HMS Vanguard fitted to bases.
Both sets to figures to be puttied later.
Huscarls and berserks filed and reamed out.
Sorting through various mixed bags of figures for an on/off AVBCW skirmish project, this time using Bolt Action II rules. Frankly I've forgotten about half the stuff I have, so some bags I can't remember why I bought them.
Began cleaning up the Bondi Leidang figures last night. Also assembled some high-altitude heavy bombers for WWII stuff.
And the bomber bases have been put together, painted, and attached to the aircraft. Now just need a touch of varnishing.
Second wedge of Leidang prepped.
Horses highlighted and detailed.
Shields sorted on 28mm hopilites
Vangaurd and Rodney undercoated
Quote from: mad lemmey on 27 October 2019, 09:34:52 AM
Vanguard and Rodney undercoated
1) Strange choice to do together. Vanguard commissioned 1946? and Rodney de-commissioned in the same year.
2) I corrected your spelling in the quote - then got vanguard wrong twice ;)
IanS
It was an Ebay job lot, was sold vangaurd, Vain gland, vlad gunss, Vanguard, as Hood, but being triple gunned in three turrets, it blatantly wasn't, but thought I ought to paint her anyway
I thought Vanguard had 8x15" in four turrets? So it was Rodney, 9x16" in three turrets, which was labelled Hood?
You be right - the 15" turrets from Courageous and Glorious. They were considerably tweaked and the ammunition was improved to produce a battleship in in the minimum time. Course it took 6 years. Nelson and Rodney are the only triple turreted capital ships, KGV were supposed to 4 quads, and Lions would have had 3x16" turrets, but were never built.
IanS
Must be a Lion class then, as it's triple fore and aft turrets.
Great, even more useless!!! ;D
Nearly finished prepping the Bondi (there are quite a lot of them).
Put up a pic and I'll tell you !
Of the Bondi or HMS Lion? ;D
Blondie I can identify, also HMS Lion, but onl the ship is needed.
(https://i.imgur.com/wOTK1ds.jpg)
Of course, she's at the worst stage of painting to take a photo! :D
That one looks like Vanguard to me - 4 x twin turrets and the only transom stern on a British battleship...
Except it's 3 triples, here's a better shot after a quick highlight.
Structure is very similar to KGV class, but gun configuration is different, and only one rear turret.
(https://i.imgur.com/1FPX6Ko.jpg)
BB63 Missouri maybe?
The next stage is glueing mustard seeds onto card shields to litter the bases of the berserkir.
No thats Lion - superstructure split for the catapults - used as a boat deck on the KGV's as the catapults were landed. Note the rounded stern as well.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 28 October 2019, 11:55:35 AM
BB63 Missouri maybe?
No, superstructure is wrong for the Mighty Mo, it's definitely KGV derivitive
Quote from: FierceKitty on 28 October 2019, 12:18:10 PM
The next stage is glueing mustard seeds onto card shields to litter the bases of the berserkir.
Interesting. It works, but you have to cut the seeds into hemispheres with a sharp modelling knife to make them look like bosses.
First colour applied to british SYW cavalry this evening. Drybrushing tomorrow once tonight's colour fully dry.
Dragoons, doctors and horses for the horse all finished.
Bases puttied on 30 bases of Spartans, one hamster and two battleships and 3 28mm Greeks..
Intend to undercoat some Vikings today. Hope the weather allows it; rainy season is somewhat prolonged this year.
Dragoon and doctors done (sounds like a bad D&D rip off) photos later.
FPW limbers and Spartans bases sand/pva'd..
Two episodes of Plebs watched (The Dig is bloody hilarious)
British SYW infantry primed.
Heavies base coated, inked highlighted, belted, scabbards and faces done.
SYW British infantry bases given their first base colour.
Flesh highlighted, hats painted on ECW
Bake Off watched.
And 50 plus bases inked
I had less spray to undercoat with than expected, but at least the Dacian figures got done, so I'll paint them up as Thracians today (at last, a few rhomphaias!).
ECW horse finished.
Spartans and a few other bases base coated, highlighted and sealed.
1864 watched - bloody hell! What a film. :'(
New Thracians and a few ECW civvies coming along.
Flock and clumps on, tufts in a bit.
Akbar the Great now has an attendant blowing a great big curved horn to announce his presence.
Transfers applied to many many 15mm samurai back banners. :-B @-)
ECW civvies ready for baggage train.
Lots of assembly of stuff and gliding it onto the correct sized med tonight.
Vikings have been supplemented on my worklist by a smallish resin Hindu temple for use in east Asia.
Limbers assembled.
Fingers glued to limbers.
Fingers removed from limbers.
Wheels removed from fingers.
Limbers assembled...
;D ;D
12 zombies, a terrain piece and a character base coated and inked tonight.
HMS Lion and HMS Rodney finished apart from labels.
20,000 !!
GETTAMOVEON......I'm still waiting to see what happens. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Sorting out more bags of AVBCW figures, ready for basing today. My painting mojo very low at present.
Based first unit for AVBCW skirmish game, plus platoon command. More to follow tonight.
The first few Viking units will be ready soon. It's becoming a point of honour.
Well... 15mm ECW cavalry retrieved from the garage after yesterday's undercoating.
First complete platoon based. A few support units still to do, then onto the opposition.
Zombies and terrain highlighted and (mostly) detailed.
15mm horses base coated and ink washes.
Three models (80% done) nearly hurled across the room today. X_X
(That's the closest I've been to having a really proper 'artistic hissy fit' for yonks.) ;)
It feels like it's taken me almost as long to do six blanking ears...that don't look daft...as it's taken me to do everything else on these models, apart from their upper limbs...and those will be easy.
Cheers - A much calmer Phil.
What are you doing? Rabbits? Vulcans? Elizabethan actors who fell foul of the Faerie folk?
Live long and prosper, Doc.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 07 November 2019, 03:41:29 PM
The first few Viking units will be ready soon. It's becoming a point of honour.
They're done.
Quote from: fsn on 08 November 2019, 07:10:45 PM
What are you doing? Rabbits? Vulcans? Elizabethan actors who fell foul of the Faerie folk?
Wrong, wrong and wrong, Nobby ! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil ;)
1st Huscarls and King Viljar Vandrikkar are not far from completion, and I've also done up a rather attractive resin temple for Indian and Burmese BUA.
16 bases of 15mm Macedonian pike rebased and puttied.
12 zombies and a character finished and puttied
6 28mm Greeks bases puttied
40 ecw cavalry riders base coated and inked, armour and wwapons painted and inked
Just a quiet night
ECW done apart from tidying up.
15mm Pikes, 28mm Hopilites and zombies bases base coated, highlighted and pva sealed.
2nd Bondi are under the brush. This may be followed by the most ambitious baggage train I've attempted yet.
Flock, tufts and scatter done on three different sets of figures.
Intergalactic space vessel finished.
Labels added to two WW2 battleships.
Just 40 ECW cavalry to finish tonight.
And they're done.
Photos tomorrow, hopefully
2nd Bondi done up. Base camp now on the workbench.
#-o Well, that wasn't very very annoying, at all ! X_X
Basing up a completed figure, who sports a plague mask.....when the putty pinged off the 'beak's' former.
It now looks like a green snowman with a brass carrot stuck in the middle of its face. ~X(
PANTS !! >:(
Cheers - Phil
Painting a variagated river bed and then putting tinted epoxy over the top was a disastrous failure. The Vikings are now encamped beneath a grim cloudy sky, causing the river to be a menacing grey.
The final AVBCW platoon based tonight. Priming over the weekend.
The Viking camp is ready for use, though I still want to add a gracenotes (a watchtower, a longhouse, a watchdog, a few armed guards, a logpile, and a kitty on the foredeck).
AWI Line infantry unit base colours applied. Wash, details and highlights tomorrow.
4 bases of 8 28mm Wargames Foundry Assyrian Heavy Spearmen and their accompanying Archer support, based and ready to compete at the Virtus competition in Cardiff next weekend.
AWI line infantry finished this afternoon.
3rd Bondi warriors should be based by this time tomorrow.
I've been struggling with the very last bit of 'an animal'.
I wanted it snarling.
Attempt 1).....Didn't get it symmetrical.....Looked wrong.
Attempt 2).....Looked like it was grinning like a mad thing.
Attempt 3).....Appeared to be suffering from terminal 'wind'
Attempt 4 tomorrow. ;)
Cheers - Phil :)
Just you wait until you see what's nearly finished...
You're going to jump from 19.995 to something way in excess of 20,000, then ?
Cheers - Phil :-w :!! :!! ;)
Maybe he'll reset to raw recruit.
2 units of cavalry and an artillery unit had their bases done and a drybrush to show detail, ready for some batch painting in advance of a final campaign game on Wednesday. Nice to have a deadline... :-SS :!!
Dry brushing if 10s and 15s while waiting for my mother to appear today.
The second huscarls will get their bases painted this morning, and the 5th bondi warband are awaiting the first tickle of the brush.
And the last Bondi warband is coming along at acceptable speed.
One cavalry unit painted and washed, ready for highlights and lacquer this evening.
Highlights finished.
Second cavalry unit finished this morning and lacquered. Just flock to add later. I roughly timed myself and actual time painting the unit (2 bases, 3 horses per base) was about 2 hours. This doesn't include the time spent painting the base and adding a drybrush to help see the detail prior to adding colours.
On to artillery and commands next.
I have hopes that the Vikings may see their first action this weekend. :)
Another great failure maybe ?
Nah, I'll avoid that by GMing while Lee and Mike play a grudge match.
Lot of highlighting last night
Artillery unit base colours and wash applied. Highlights and lacquer to follow tonight.
Artillery unit finished. Flocking tomorrow, then some command units. Now going to put feet up and catch up on TV with SWMBO.
Order placed for Napoleonics, to keep me busy when the Norsemen are done.
Flesh tones
3 command bases had block colours and wash applied. Highlights and lacquer tonight. Artillery and cavalry bases also flocked.
3 command bases finished. 3 artillery bases started.
Piping, cuffs details...
5th and final Bondi warband based; 3rd and final Huscarls await their basic training.
SYW artillery limbers assembled and based.
Huscarls haven't quite got onto their bases yet.
But they have now. 2nd, final unit of Berserkir underway.
Grit added to the artillery limber bases as well as some other cavalry units. Started basing up some civilians to add some detail to my SYW games.
More civilians based up tonight for SYW/AWI games.
OV, the Viking army should be done today (though I'm still waiting for a handful of additions to the camp).
2nd Berserkir are based; just a handful of skirmishers remaining....
Done, by Freia!
C-in-C base colours and wash applied. Highlights, lacquering and flock to follow later on.
C-in-C base now finished, which means I can field a fully painted Brigade for some 18thC action :). Pics to follow over the weekend hopefully. There are still some other units to paint to flesh things out, but I'm a happy bunny at present. Given many will be making their debut next week, they're sure to die quickly, handing Dave victory in our Brexite campaign :(.
Civilian bases drybrushed.
Chicken and Geese bases finished, to add some detail and colour to my games. Started on upgrading my BUAs, again to add colour and detail.
Small longhouse which arrived yesterday has been painted and added to Viking camp. Watch-tower has NOT, since they failed to send me the one I'd ordered, and the one I've got looks like a perimeter item at a WWII POW camp. I hope they'll be answering my email on the subject pretty soon....
Farm worker and drovers finished. Engineers/labourers next up.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 07 December 2019, 12:16:36 PM
Small longhouse which arrived yesterday has been painted and added to Viking camp. Watch-tower has NOT, since they failed to send me the one I'd ordered, and the one I've got looks like a perimeter item at a WWII POW camp. I hope they'll be answering my email on the subject pretty soon....
And credit be given where due, the replacement is making its brave way through the Christmas post.
A quick pic of army that will be fielded in our final brexite campaign on Tuesday. I've some more units to add, but it feels nice to be able to play with a force that I have painted myself and not had to borrow from Dave :D. More detailed pics to follow.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Sv5Y6QTC0V8/Xe1Sg4tj-JI/AAAAAAAAIRw/YUjQ2-8y19Yp0YusEDkv7jgOx6Qhmup1ACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/P1110392.JPG)
Looking good
Boots, helmets and cuffs on Prussians painted done. Horse furniture done and inked.
Cross and waist belts on 15mms.
Steve J :-bd =D> :-bd
Yup....
Very nice indeed, Steve. :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Just moustaches on the crew, and horse flashes to do on artillery horses. 15mm almost done too before tidying up.
Good thing I remembered the steel band down the back of the helmet...
Quote from: mad lemmey on 09 December 2019, 11:02:17 PM
the steel band down the back of the helmet...
Will saves the day from the Suzi Quatro earworm, by reminding me of a bit of an Emerson, Lake & Palmer. :)
Cheers - Phil
More AWI units primed.
Just had the dispatch of Trafalgar fleets confirmed. Anyone want to send me copies of interesting rulesets to build into the ones I'm writing?
EH ?
Couple of days ago I broke my last but one of my carborundum discs......Ooops...Better order some more.
First port of call....Scale Model Shop....(Damn...they're out of stock)
Oh well....It'll have to be Amazon then.
Ordered three packs of 10....and a CD to take the order over £20, so I can have free postage.
They split the order into two packages....One with two packs of the discs, (which have already arrived)....the other with one pack of discs and the CD. (Still waiting for that one)
Why split the discs into two packages ?
Anyone ?
Cheers - Puzzled of Wales. :-\
Got some sawdust for home-made flock this afternoon. I may be the world's first modeller to use teak as a flocking material.
Teak :o :o :o
In answer to the rules question - Fighting Sail, and Black Seas will give you some ideas, dont bother with Trafalgar - Fighting Sail covers it. Wooden Ships and Iron mMen is good but I suspect it it would be rather expensive these days. Langton has dpone a set, cant remeber the title, see the Tumbling Doce web site. Finally there is Action under Sail, several editions, but now out of print. Last two may be rather to deatiled though.
IanS
I enjoyed Fighting Sail, nice and quick with enough period character it felt in flavour of the times.
I've heard some disappointed buzz over Black Seas, much like Cruel Seas but not so much as over SPORK. Warlord seem to have made a habit out of released half play tested badly edited rule books recently, in the classic "but it's supposed to mean THIS but is written like THAT and only understandable if you already know how it works because you're the author" sort of way...
Thanks, all. Langton's lot are Signal Close Action; the fast play version seems to be highly regarded. WSaIM is known to me; I know a Thai gamer who has it. I really want something less captainy and more admirally than that one.
Fighting Sail is very much pitched at the Admiral level - unless you play the Frigate action special, you're pushing at least half a dozen boats per player, and likely more. It's not interested in the "nitty gritty" of each ship, just their more general overall statuses - stuff the Commodore/Admiral is interested in, not the Captain or sub-officers.
I see I have some reading to do.
I'll teach you how !
Quote from: FierceKitty on 11 December 2019, 08:11:19 AM
Got some sawdust for home-made flock this afternoon. I may be the world's first modeller to use teak as a flocking material.
Nah, used teak (and ebony) - got some sawdust from a friend who's an antique restorer :P
Quote from: Techno on 11 December 2019, 07:38:58 AM
EH ?
Couple of days ago I broke my last but one of my carborundum discs......Ooops...Better order some more.
First port of call....Scale Model Shop....(Damn...they're out of stock)
Oh well....It'll have to be Amazon then.
Ordered three packs of 10....and a CD to take the order over £20, so I can have free postage.
They split the order into two packages....One with two packs of the discs, (which have already arrived)....the other with one pack of discs and the CD. (Still waiting for that one)
Why split the discs into two packages ?
Anyone ?
Cheers - Puzzled of Wales. :-
Different warehouses?
I've used Prime for so long, I'd forgotten about £20 orders for free postage.
Quote from: Techno on 11 December 2019, 07:38:58 AM
EH ?
Couple of days ago I broke my last but one of my carborundum discs......Ooops...Better order some more.
First port of call....Scale Model Shop....(Damn...they're out of stock)
Oh well....It'll have to be Amazon then.
Ordered three packs of 10....and a CD to take the order over £20, so I can have free postage.
They split the order into two packages....One with two packs of the discs, (which have already arrived)....the other with one pack of discs and the CD. (Still waiting for that one)
Why split the discs into two packages ?
Anyone ?
Cheers - Puzzled of Wales. :-
Step daughter has worked for a couple of companies that use Amazon, and it may well be this.
1.Some orders are fulfilled by Amazon warehouses (fulfilment centres) from stock supplied by the seller.
2. Other orders are fulfilled the seller direct.
In the first case if the order cant be fulfilled by Amazon from stock, Amazon will immediately send what they have. They will then request the seller restock them to fulfil the other order. The seller has a tight timescale to restock Amazon and if this is not met Amazon puts on horrendous punitive charges to the seller.
On one occasion they were so tight they did not have time to unwrap the a case of 12 bottles ( The Amazon van was waiting) so it was cheaper to throw a case of 12 into a box to send to the customer than pay the punitive charges.
Basecoat dark brown applied to a variety of 18thC units for my ImagiNations army. Drybrushing later once this is dry.
Drybrushing completed. Hopefully start basecoats on some units tomorrow.
British fleet clipped and filed, awaiting undercoat. Allied fleet halfway there, or nearly.
Quote from: Orcs on 11 December 2019, 10:14:01 PM
In the first case if the order cant be fulfilled by Amazon from stock, Amazon will immediately send what they have. They will then request the seller restock them to fulfil the other order. The seller has a tight timescale to restock Amazon and if this is not met Amazon puts on horrendous punitive charges to the seller.
Ah.....That makes sense.
Thanks, Mark.
Cheers - Phil
Black seas game at the club last night, simple but gave the right flavour, despite missprints etc....
A company of US Airborne for BKC finished this morning, with flocking to follow on this afternoon. So I now have a Battalion painted up, with just organic anti-tank and artillery support to follow.
Flocking completed. I think I'll dig out my WWII Germans next to remind myself how far I got painting them before they got parked for whatever reason.
Ships are undercoated.
Base coats and inks on two new batches.
Just wish every time I want to varnish the previous batch it wouldn't rain or freeze!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 14 December 2019, 12:12:45 AM
Ships are undercoated.
I'm looking forward to seeing these
So am I...errr...also nervous about painting that small. But the little models are Lulus.
A company of WWII Germans for BKC finished this morning, with flocking to follow.
Commission prepped and assembled, next batch of 15mms also cleaned up and sorted, ready for conversion.
28mm Mortal Gods slingers and two spare Hopilites assembled.
Flocking completed and hope they make their debut on the games table tonight.
Good work fella!
48 Arabs faces and beards obliterated ready to have alasho modelled on.
Converted, and assembled, those 40 something Arabs.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 14 December 2019, 10:26:27 PM
Converted, and assembled, those 40 something Arabs.
Pictures?
Quote from: mad lemmey on 14 December 2019, 04:07:58 PM
48 Arabs faces and beards obliterated ready to have alasho modelled on.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 14 December 2019, 10:26:27 PM
Converted, and assembled, those 40 something Arabs.
Did something unfortunate happen to about 8 of them :-\ ;)
Decided to round down, no idea why.
15 bases sanded and pva'd today.
20 bases of 15mm figures undercoated.
Batch of 28mm sorted.
What about the 'scarves' you sent me pictures of today.
They were damn good, Will
Cheers - Phil.
Yeah, that was yesterday's effort! ;)
I was recently looking for a source of cheap plastic card to base my new ships on, as those of you who can read will doubtless remember. An Aussie ex-colleague suggested the base section of large yoghurt tubs, and, by Ned Kelly, he was right - they're perfect. Smart people, the Strines; no wonder they have the only continent which never has a war on at home.
Erm...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainville_Civil_War
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_frontier_wars
For two...
First squadron is under the brush: Victory, Great Percy, Temeraire, Africa, Leviathan, Conqueror, Agamemnon, Ajax, Orion, Minotaur. This is tricky painting, I tell you.
I am aware that a few ship names reflect what should have been the reality, not what was.
It's not the painting, its the bloody rigging, 1/1200th take about an hour per ship. :o
These are one-piece castings, so that one I'm spared. But I've done 1:1200 before this, and I feel your pain.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 16 December 2019, 07:04:37 AM
Erm...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainville_Civil_War
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_frontier_wars
For two...
And on a less horrible note, there's the Emu War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War)
Unless you're an Emu!
You were apparently pretty much OK even if you were an Emu... out of 20 000 alleged birds they only got about fifty, maybe as many as a couple of hundred but you know how kill claims get inflated :D
Edit: Actually, sorry the rerun apparently killed a couple of thousand!
Another German Kompanie started tonight, with around 2/3 of the base colours completed. More detailed work tomorrow night all being well.
Here in Oz we never recovered from it. The shame of starting it. The shame of loosing...
An awful lot of bases base coated. Just need to highlight next.
Quote from: Not Drowning, Waving on 16 December 2019, 08:45:15 PM
Here in Oz we never recovered from it. The shame of starting it. The shame of loosing...
The peace treaty is a classified document. To this day the Strine government has to give any emu six pints of beer per day on demand.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 17 December 2019, 01:23:24 AM
The peace treaty is a classified document. To this day the Strine government has to give any emu six pints of beer per day on demand.
We never speak of the third shame.
The sheep do!
That I think you will find is NZ.
Yes in Auz its camels
Ooooofff. Should have stuck with sheep.
Took time out this afternoon to give the Viking camp a watchtower, a couple of guard dogs, and some axemen who've stayed behind to make sure lunch is ready when the pirates come back.
US Airborne artillery and ATG units primed yesterday, along with some Pendraken bombcraters. Hopefully some painting tonight but it's been one of those days :(.
Yeah, tell me about it... I-)
Managed to dry brush the US Airborne bases tonight but too tired to paint anything else.
Second batch of 74s for the Red squadron half done.
Three units' bases painted, dry brushed and pva'd last night.
Currently a test scratch built damaged BUA for use with BKC and BBB. Hopefully some painting later but doubt it as daughter back home from Uni tonight.
The 74s of the red are based. Now for a few great big 3-deckers....
120 cavalry figures converted today from Arabs to Huasa
About to begin the White squadron, though I don't think I'll finish them today.
Some Leven Miniatures ACW buildings started with some being finished, in anticipation of our campaign in 2020. Suitable bases for them to follow.
3 ACW buildings finished off this morning.
US Airborne ATGs and Field Artillery pretty much finished, bar some dry brushing on the guns and a coat of lacquer. Flocking etc tomorrow all being well.
Two units of Hausa done apart from basing and three more started, oh, and a commission of 48 meerkats...
Inks on the three units and the meerkats.
Clothing highlighted
Flocking started on US Airborne support units and also made a start on a variety of bases for some Leven Miniatures ACW buildings.
Questions you never thought you would ever ask, number 71:
How pale do you want your Meerkats?
Quote from: mad lemmey on 27 December 2019, 03:53:19 PM
Questions you never thought you would ever ask, number 71:
How pale do you want your Meerkats?
Quite pale, but a bit stripey? :-\
I've begun flocking some green bases for SYW. Must say they're looking pretty good so far. I hope they'll match the mat when it gets here.
Meerkats nearly done, just need to do tails, armour and tidying up. 8)
US Airborne support units all finished now, so have a complete BKC Battalion to play with :). Good progress made on the ACW BUA bases, with some having picket fences added to them, which took some time. Frankly I should have done them at work which would have been much quicker.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 27 December 2019, 09:07:31 PM
Meerkats nearly done, just need to do tails, armour and tidying up. 8)
Armoured Meerkats :o :o :o
I suppose 48 of them sort of makes more sense :-/
SYW Prussians newly flocked; Blue squadron of ships of the line nearly done.
Tails done, one units worth of leatherwork done.
I intend to flock the Austrian infantry bases ere bedtime today.
Batch done, apart from basing
Base colour applied to ACW BUA bases.
Most of the SYW Austrian army has its basic flock now; sealant tomorrow.
17th-century SCots getting flocked the noo. Och, this sawdust mix is reet economical!
Pva and sand onto bases
And the NMA are flocked; Royalists queueing up for theirs.
You are flocking busy FK ;)
Flock you too. ;D
KEEP IT CLEAN - BAD KITTY ! :D
Sorry - it was a reaction against the Puritans I'd been doing up. Now the Royalists are flocked too. And I'm aching all over - four armies in one day!
That reminds me of Admiral Cunningham's message to Admiral Somerville after he was knighted for a second time after the success of Operation Halberd
QuoteFancy, twice a knight at your age.
;)
Used that un as a title for WWII naval rules !
32 bases inked
Beginning to flock east Europeans; Swedes coated but need sealing, Poles WIP.
48 15mm horses and 24 riders base coated and inked.
Started flocking Swiss and Venetians last night.
ACW BUA bases flocked and finished. A few more left to do.
Muscovites getting grassy bases too now. 1st French naval squadron slowly coming along.
Started work on another set of bases. Need to dig out my ACW specific scenery to see if I'm short of anything.
Bases painted, highlighted x2 and pva sealed.
French done up, Spanish hafway, but I'm out of flock. New batch is drying, but it's a job for several days, I fear.
Bases rough cut for some sweet corn fields (using artificial grass) for the ACW campaign.
My cornfields aren't sweet. Ominous van Gogh jobs on my battlefields. Are you playing Smurf Wars? ;)
I am amaized at the last 2 posts :D
=) =) =) =)
That's rather. good, Ian. :-bd
Cheers - Phil
No, it's completely corny.
Gimme strength..... ;D ;D ;D ;D
No Cereal/Serial....based puns, either. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Bomb craters painted. Not sure whether to add some lacquer to the bottom of the holes to make it look like their filled with water :-.
I would do a mix
Seconded :)
Quote from: Techno on 03 January 2020, 05:13:28 PM
Gimme strength..... ;D ;D ;D ;D
No Cereal/Serial....based puns, either. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Are you suggesting that member of this illustrious Forum would partake in "Corny" jokes, of those that had "flaky" amounts of humour. Surely we would not continue with threads like this on
a "cereal" basis.
Having made my point I will now "Stalk off" before I get an "ear"full of abuse
You had to Force those out didn't you Sugar Puff
Spanish done, Italians done, Cossacks about three quarters done.
Sweet corn fields based up and filler applied to hide the edges. Also added some rocks start on a hill that I had made at some point last year.
Was worried that I was losing my mojo, really haven't felt like much the last two or three days
But thankfully I have, after Thursday's X-Wing game, found my Armada Ties and X-Wings that were unpainted, now they are undercoated and on the table, and those other 32 bases are flocked and clumped, and one my youngest is in bed, I will tuft them too.
Hope to highlight some horses too.
Phew.
I always try to have a variety of gaming things I can do if the painting muse is not upon me. That way I feel I've had my gaming fix.
Bases finished.
Horses highlighted.
Some highlights of riders done.
Armada ships base coated and inked.
Pretty productive in the end.
Almost finished the model that's been driving me loopy for the past couple of months ! :)
(I haven't been working on it ALL that time......I've kept looking at it, and going ...."Nah......Don't fancy playing with that one today.")
Also.....Sussed out how to get pics onto the tablet, 'wot I got for Christmas'.....That really will help with the soldiers, as I won't have to keep getting up and looking at the PC.....Or try and draw the image from the screen. :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Italians done, Cossacks and Turks flocked but not yey sealed. Tut, I'm neglecting my fleets....
Grit added to the field edges. Nothing else achieved due to family stuff and getting ready for return to work tomorrow.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 05 January 2020, 01:27:45 PM
Italians done, Cossacks and Turks flocked but not yey sealed. Tut, I'm neglecting my fleets....
yet
Field edges painted basecoat colour. Also added some grit to a hill I've scratch built, based up some gabions and assembled some trial trench sections from Commission Figurines.
Cossacks are now ready to rumble.
Turks done up. Moghul Indian armies next.
Almost finished some teeny-tiny stuff...
Photos later
Hill painted in brown basecoat.
1st SHW artillery pieces assembled and crew cleaned up, all in readiness for my ImagiNations project for later in the year.
Quote from: Techno on 05 January 2020, 08:36:33 AM
Almost finished the model that's been driving me loopy for the past couple of months ! :)
Cheers - Phil
FINISHED ! <:-P <:-P <:-P *
(Though I've got a horrible feeling I might have to do a variation on it, once it's been pressed......But that will be
easy, in comparison. ;D ;D ;D)
Odd......My eyes have gone a bit squiffy this afto'......I've been constantly staring at one of the 'arms' on one of the larger models I've got on the desk at the mo'...trying to do a specific 'texture on it.'....It seems to have worked....I'll do the other one tomorrow. :D
Cheers - Phil
* Apart from putting a base on the swine.
=D> =D> =D> #:-S
Flock applied to both Moghul armies and to the Burmese.
Flock applied to sweet corn fields.
I have a challenge this week - 3 days away in London for work - and now I 'need' to have two bases (so 12 figures) of 28mm Hellenistic Thracian Mercenaries, with Rhomphia for the PAWS competition end of the month. So plan is:
1). check that I have the figures in the Hellenistic to-paint box (???) - no idea of the make (possibly Essex or Newline)
2). if they are (as I think part painted - they were an eBay buy) then start 'tarting them up' ... or
3). if not painted - undercoat grey and get cracking on painted them fast. Good news is that they are not a complex paint job - dark grey/black woollen cloaks, white short sleeved tunics (I might run to coloured trim on hems and cuffs if I have time), bronze greaves, helmets, sword hilts and shield boss, leather belts and sandals and white oval shields. The Rhomphia (or Falx) has an iron blade and wooden handle.
4). then base 6 to a base on 60mm x 60mm bases - for use in a LaDG Seleucid army.
That will put my other projects for January way behind - although I have already finished a LaDG Sassanid 28mm Camp and 2 bases (of 2) Sassanid light foot Slingers and 2 bases (of 2) Sassanid light foot javelinmen. My 28mm Pict camp is well underway as are a couple of chariots and a Command base of 8 spearmen.
I must, however, also get on with getting my 15mm High Elves prep'd & off to my painter and get basing the Barbarian human hordes I've had back from him over Xmas.
Then there is the 6mm multi-player CWC game to think about in late March ... I can guarantee I will need some unit or other that I am missing!
So much lead ... so little time!!!
Mark
Mark
QuoteThen there is the 6mm multi-player CWC game to think about in late March ... I can guarantee I will need some unit or other that I am missing!
Isn't that just replicating the real world quite well :D
Indian flock sealed; significant work done on the first French squadron of battleships and on some hills.
The French battleships are climbing hills? Well, it may not help their manoeuvre but I bet it gives great arcs of fire!
We're calling it the Maginot Line.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 09 January 2020, 02:44:27 PM
We're calling it the Maginot Line.
;D
You're ahead of your time, truly :D
Lacquer added to Pendraken shell holes to add some variety to them. A few more coats required to get the look I want.
Two hours assembling Donnington Ancient and Modern figures, Asiatic horse archers and heavies, a pack of each.
Beautiful sculpts, really detailed, well posed, great propotions, and no flash. Actually quite impressed.
However, separate weapons, shields, horse quivers, javelins and on the horse archers with some separate upper halves. Why?
My fingertips are now 90% cynoacrylate!
😜😳😱
Quote from: mad lemmey on 09 January 2020, 10:51:13 PM
My fingertips are now 90% cynoacrylate!
😜😳😱
But hopefully separate ;)
And the Burmese are flocked too.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 09 January 2020, 10:51:13 PM
My fingertips are now 90% cynoacrylate!😜😳😱
Keep a small pot of cheapo nail varnish remover near you, Will....(Some types are basically pure acetone.)
If you're quick you can get the worst of the 'superglue' off your digits, with a bit of kitchen towel, dabbed in the acetone
Just
don't tip/spill the acetone over
anything.....It'll strip varnish from a table....Paint from a figure...and it'll 'melt' all sorts of plastic.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 10 January 2020, 07:46:01 AM
Keep a small pot of cheapo nail varnish remover near you, Will....(Some types are basically pure acetone.)
If you're quick you can get the worst of the 'superglue' off your digits, with a bit of kitchen towel, dabbed in the acetone
Just don't tip/spill the acetone over anything.....It'll strip varnish from a table....Paint from a figure...and it'll 'melt' all sorts of plastic.
Cheers - Phil
I'm meltingggg!...I'm
melting!...all my beautiful wickedness!...arrgghhh...
First squadron of French ships of the line as ready as the British (barring a few minor points like leaders, experienced crews, and superior guns).
At least the French have better hulls !
Sweet corn fields finally finished.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sOSrqERWBfA/XhjESBsSxZI/AAAAAAAAIdM/DNxFlvRBgIswL194F-IVLBTzNsTmGD2vQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/P1110517.JPG)
Bomb craters also finished.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l5agD1pN2jo/XhjHYCDhk8I/AAAAAAAAIdo/_JuThSV4yyoORe6V9uEaaopvL3QaiLXzACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/P1110521.JPG)
Look awesome.
That's some sweet sweetcorn!
Sweet corn fields are superb!
Gald you like them chaps :).
:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
How did you do the sweet corn fields?
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
More images and a bit of info can be found below Paul:
https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2020/01/sweet-corn-fields.html (https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2020/01/sweet-corn-fields.html)
Basically it is artifical grass mounted onto 2mm mdf. I use contact adhesive to stick the two together. I then use polyfilla to blend the sides in, then the usual steps of grit, paint and flock. Hope this helps?
Thanks, it does indeed help :)
Did you paint the yellow 'stalks' in the fields or was the artificial grass mixed in colour?
Belting work, Steve !
Cheers - Phil
QuoteDid you paint the yellow 'stalks' in the fields or was the artificial grass mixed in colour?
They are part of the mix and look much more realistic than the bright monochrome green that you often see. The samples I got were about 4" square and of varying heights. Most you will need to trim down with scissors so they don't dwarf the figures.
Thanks I'll have to see if I can find some mixed artificial grass, as you say the bright monochrome green doesn't look realistic
36 15mm cavalry NEARLY done.
Until I decided to add a plume to an NCO... @-) :-B
Rocks and grit areas painted on the hill and first coat of flock applied. Hope to have this finished for the first game of the year next week.
Quote from: Steve J on 11 January 2020, 03:09:07 PM
Rocks and grit areas painted on the hill and first coat of flock applied. Hope to have this finished for the first game of the year next week.
Piccie, if you please.
Inca army has been flocked.French frigates are allez.
French ships done; Spanish vessels on the workbench.
Back in the (painting) saddle again :D
Mostly old 25/28mm stuff for D&D5, but painting none the less <:-P
Huzzah
<:-P =D>
Tlaxcalan bases are flocked and awaiting sealant; Aztecs begun.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 15 January 2020, 06:49:03 PM
Huzzah
Quote from: paulr on 15 January 2020, 09:10:06 PM
<:-P =D>
Thanks guys, just posted some photos: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,19370.msg292203.html#msg292203 (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,19370.msg292203.html#msg292203)
Also assembling a shore battery and town.
Light horse and 19th Century horse done, apart from basing etc..
Mexican bases and those of non-deserty trees flocked up.
A bit of basing and sorting out last night.
Much teaching today, concert tonight, so just a little sealant application on tree bases this time. Shall try to resume momentum tomorrow.
Cav finished, next cav started :-X and some mortal Gods figures base coated this morning.
@#%$!! The company in Moscow have just announced they can't make a 4' x 8' mousepad mat for me after all. Anyone know a company that can? I want a simple grass surface on one side, and if possible a sandy desert finish on the other.
Tiny Wargames
Tiny Wargames have been having some problems with Paypal over the last few months, and at one time stopped taking orders. There have been extensive threads on it on TMP. I suggest you try and dig out the latest. Tiny Wargames themselves have posted in those threads.
Cut out some bases with possible basing to follow tonight, once campaign prep finished.
Yes, I've written to Tiny. They look good.
Bases sand and pva
Quote from: Techno on 08 January 2020, 05:27:00 PM
FINISHED ! <:-P <:-P <:-P
Urk !I hadn't realised how long that this particular model had been on my desk ! :o :o
I knew it had been a
long time..'cos I'd kept on going back to it, to tweak things...(Start bits again, etc....Sulk, not do anything on it for a few days,)...But....
I've been using this new tablet (on the work desk) to 'look at' piccys transferred from the PCs picture file...Really is
exceedingly useful !! :-bd :-bd
Anyway....I've been downloading lots of piccies of bears recently, (can't imagine why =)) and hadn't noticed until the other day, that the tablet stores them in date order....
All the new pics of the bears are 'at the top' of the file....now makes sense....But I wondered why this strange 'wossname' was right at the bottom....until I saw the date that I'd originally dowloaded this particular creature's image......12th of July last year. :o :o :o
I think that must be a record for me. X_X.....Six months from start to finish. :-[
Cheers - Mr Speedy.
Sure the meerkats smashes that record...
Bases inked, all base colours and inks on next two batches.
Phil that one really does call for WORK FASTER !!!!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 19 January 2020, 11:22:06 AM
Sure the meerkats smashes that record...
That's true.....But the meerkat was the Mk five.....The wossname is still the Mk 1....... X_X
Quote from: ianrs54 on 19 January 2020, 12:09:09 PM
Phil that one really does call for WORK FASTER !!!!
Nope ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 19 January 2020, 12:52:37 PM
That's true.....But the meerkat was the Mk five.....The wossname is still the Mk 1....... X_X
I've still not got him... ;)
Mexicans and Tlaxcalans have sealed bases; Japanese armies next.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 19 January 2020, 01:13:03 PM
I've still not got him... ;)
:o :o :o
WHAT !!
You mean......That still hasn't been cast up yet ?
Hey Ho ! X_X (I'm not making another one. :P ;))
Cheers - Phil
Basing up 1st SHW German Federation troops.
Looking forward to seeing those. I don't think I have seen any of that range painted.
Got bored while waiting for ink to dry and the amazing Mrs Lemmey was helping oldest Denham to strip the wallpaper from her walls.
54 more cavalry and riders base coated and inked.
Onto basing tonight.
QuoteLooking forward to seeing those. I don't think I have seen any of that range painted.
Flodin painted loads in 2012, but just checked and the photobucket links not working :(.
Anyway, a bit more basing done tonight as I try to finish enough bases to see what units I actually have. The aim is to make a Division of 2 Brigades with some Divisional support.
Bases painted, highlighted, (extra highlights in some cases), and sealed.
Takeda bases flocked, and shall be sealed on the morrow.
More sorting out of figures and basing. Getting close to seeing what I have and then what I really need.
Just need to take photos...
Japanese armies both done; Ming flocked and awaiting sealant. Spanish battleships coming along steadily.
Ming have bases sealed. Only the ancient Chinese and WWI aircraft still need flocked grassy bases (the sandy based stuff will be getting a different finish).
True it us a busy time in yonder flock house!
We're setting up our first game for a fortnight; Romans and Numidians.
...and what have the Romans ever done for the Numidians ?
Cheers - Phil
As the game's going, given them an excuse for a victory parade. :(
Oh dear. X_X
Come on 'the General' ;)
Cheers - Phil
Yet more basing done this morning, with more to follow.
Trafalgar fleets are done. I need to fine-tune my rules, make some broadside firing markers, and model landing parties, resistance, and Europe (well, a bit of the coast with objectives); DV, next week we'll give 'em a spin.
Looking forward to seeing them in action
Likewise. Meanwhile I'm upgrading some terrain - hills at present.
Didn't get much painting done last year due to house move, doesn't look like I'll get much done in the near future either :(
The current state of my study (the rest of the house is similar)
(https://i.imgur.com/t3OAIej.jpg?1)
A bit to be done then :!!
Yoiks!!! :o Good luck.
Where have you moved to?
Still in Shropshire Will, place called Seifton Batch a couple of miles from Craven arms (or zombie town as we like to call it :D).
No pub though :o
Oh, just down from Acton Scott.
Mate used to live there in the 80s, lovely area, very jealous.
Han are flocked, hills are resurfaced, and French coast is coming along.
Han sealed, Qin begun.
Avars wood and metalwork painted and inked.
Hills, green-base baggage, and dam' Yankee bases flocked. Painting forts and flocking Dixies tomorrow.
30+ 28mm ancient greeks done apart from shields. 40+ 15mm cavalry done. Putty applied to 28mm's bases, spare putty applied to 2 x WW2 German Battlecruiser bases...
Ch'in are flocked.
;D
Scratch built snake fences on bases for ease of play, started and grit added to the bases. Match sticks used as the fence rails. Fun and quick to make and hopefully will look good when finished.
Right - that's wreck markers, burning ship markers, broadside markers, and boats en route to shore markers. This Sunday England may be expecting every man to do his duty, and characteristically ignoring the Welsh, Scots, and Irish.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 31 January 2020, 11:37:17 AM
characteristically ignoring the Welsh, Scots, and Irish.
Quite right tooo....THE ENGLISH, THE ENGLISH ARE BEST, WOLUDNA GIVE 2P FOR ALL THE REST.....
that is a quote
I've started putting a few fronds on bases for the ancient Greek armies.
Basecoated snake rail fences.
Base coats and inks on large things, including a lot of bases, bases now have first drybrush added, many shields attached, but then my superglue ran out.
Base coats and inks on two tiny pieces.
Snake fences painted and some more bases worked on, in advance of next week's game.
Cat litter boulders to upgrade Muscovite, Zaporozhian, and Polish bases.
Highlights on tiny stuff, details upon detail on four big things, base coats and inks on bases of other big things...
Looking forward to seeing the new snake fences - I've just built a load of these from
'natural materials' - always interesting to see a different way to build things.
I'm really worried about Alexander using cat litter, as boulders, on his figures' bases. :-SS
I can see his cats swatting, and scratching, at those bases, before doing something unmentionable on the table.... while he's losing the next battle to Lee. ;)
Cheers - Phil
Hmmmpf...we tried the fleets today. Rules need a lot of work. Two thirds of the British fleet never got close enough to fire, and not one vessel was sunk, though Victory caught fire for a while. Downwind isn't a comfortable place to be!
I can't blame the moggies for this.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 02 February 2020, 10:44:04 AM
I can't blame the moggies for this.
And, why?....Or did
they put out the fire on Victory ?
I think we should be told !
Cheers - Phil ;)
I only rolled the dice....
Bushes and scrub added to snake rail fence bases and ACW BUA base.
Kitty litter boulders now on the Swedish bases too. Insomnia has its uses, I suppose.
Almost finished the second set of big things (didn't help I added 3 extras to them that took most of today to fettle).
Bases of snake rail fences flocked, so they'll be dry and finished by the morning. Also more basing of my mid-19thC ImagiNations armies which I think are almost complete. Then it remains the small task of painting them!
Spartans and Greek peltasts have the usual Triassic-looking vegetation now. Hope to complete undergrowth on Greeks today.
Remind me. :-\
Did we end up HAVING to have this sequel to 'A Tale of Four Gamers', because the original was "Too Full" ?
(If that WAS the case, we're probably half way there, again.)
Cheers - Phil
Yes.
Thracian and Moghal bases getting their upgrades.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 07 February 2020, 12:18:45 PM
Yes.
Ta, Will :)......That means this one
is about half full then.
As far as contributing to the thread properly is concerned....I've been soldering some frames up for some of the bigger models for Warband......(It's bloomin' cold in the pole barn today.)
Cheers - Phil
Putting together some "Caesar" 20mm German Infantry, hard plastic. THIS IS A WARNING - avoid they are very fiddley and some have silly poses.
:'( :'( :'(
Anyway....
Bases highlighted and sealed, should be tufted, flocked and scattered later.
Two tiny things finished apart from labels.
Batch of Star Wars Armada fighters undercoated.
Life has been a bit busy this week, hence a drop in output of late.
Le porcelet gras, a small rocky island of Cap S. Michel, is ready to endanger shipping tomorrow.
Adding grit to the bases of my ImagiNations armies and one nearly finished, the other one may get started tonight...
Quite a lot of stuff finished today.
Also, star fighters base coated and inked.
Unit of 18 Hausa heavy cavalry almost finished too, just details/shields and bronze to do.
No idea why, just thought I should.
Hausa unit painting done.
Star fighters had two layers of highlights.
More basing and gritting.
Some units primed and undercoated black. Base painting all being well tonight.
Thracian bases prettily done up; Vikings and Byzantines to follow.
Star fighters nearly almost not quite done.
;D ;D
Foliage is sprouting on Viking and Byzantine bases.
Herbicide will cure that problem ! :D
Just told the berserkir and Varangians to practise their sword slashes. Mown like a bowling green now.
Muscovite and crusader bases done up a bit.
All three (naked) bears completed.
Cheers - Phil
Bases painted on a Brigades worth of figures for BPII, BBB etc.
Finished about 30 snake fences
Started prep of the next 30
Using up left over craft lollipop sticks and matches while I wait for my next order to arrive from Pendraken
Quote from: Techno on 13 February 2020, 05:48:38 PM
All three (naked) bears completed.
Cheers - Phil
This has got to be some form of perversion....
Crusaders sealed; Ayyubids next, and I'll have completed the upgrades for my medievals.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 14 February 2020, 08:33:32 AM
This has got to be some form of perversion....
No....... but
who's been using my green stuff.
Cheers - Scruffylocks. ;).....(I really
must go and get another haircut soon....But first, I'll use a pair of scissors and trim all the damn stuff that keeps flopping over my eyes....Or do you think I could get away with an Alice band ?) :D
Wouldn't Alice still want it ?
No....Not after I'd worn it.
I'm not well. :(
Unit of Jagers base coated and washed. Highlights and lacquer tonight all being well.
A great deal of Lurkio 15mm Skythian cavalry assembled and undercoated for a commission.
Jagers finished and next unit bases painted and figures drybrushed to see body detail. I must say the 1st Schleswig-Holstein sculpts are a delight.
A unit of line infantry base colours and wash applied.
Some basing and gritting as too tired to paint tonight. At least it's something :).
Cavalry base coated, inked and horses drybrushed today.
1st Schleswig-Holstein War artillery limbers assembled and glued to bases.
Clothing highlighted, flesh on and inked.
All medievals have now been based up.
Only hair and shields and tidying up on these 68 Skythians now to do.
Only mains, flashes and feathers to do on these.
Four 28mm figures headgear converted to make them Peaky Blinders. Altmark affixed to base (once I found her, lurking in my paint box) ready for sculpting tonight along with bases for thr Blinders and a Mortal Gods general.
Cossacks are based up, Swedes and Skythians on the table.
Added base grit to a whole host of infantry units for my ImagiNations army.
Quiet day today.
Decided to take Altmark off her base and remove the 3mm of gloss enamel paint before rebasing.
Most removed, then she goes in the dishwasher tonight.
Mortal Gods Spartans set built for a friend's commission, unit bases puttied. My general based, plus 5 peakys based..
Four 28mm hobbits assembled.
Hammy's commission wrapped ready for the weekend.
Hausa cavalry brought in ready for sand/pva.
Puttied up the rest of the bases for Mortal Gods Spartans set.
Grit added to command and cavalry units. Couldn't be bothered to glue the artillery units in place, so will do this tomorrow.
Finished another 30 snake fences :)
Cut out fence components for 30 more and painted 20 bases :)
Can I get them finished before my Punic War figures arrive :!!
Just get customs to hold them up for a couple of days. ;)
Cheers - Phil
The figures are through Customs #:-S
And have left Auckland :)
Painted the last 10 bases & glue the first row of components on all 30 :)
Base colours applied to another unit of line infantry.
Finished gluing the 30 snake fences :)
Painted most of the fences then ran out of paint with one and a half sides of the the last fence to do ~X(
Rushed out and grabbed another test pot just before the shop shut #:-S
Got home, that's not the same colour :o >:(
Went back this morning, Resene Saddle Brown and Saddle are not the same colour #-o :-[
They kindly swapped the test pots for this idiot :-bd
Fences painted & touched up :)
Scythians done, Swedes getting there.
Just assembled some 20mm PSC Brits...
Base colours finished and wash applied. Highlights and lacquer tonight.
2nd unit finished and drybrushed base of the 3rd unit. Taking a load of units to work to undercoat tomorrow.
Base coated the next three small batches, and (re)attached a sword and some spears to commission figures.
Swdedes are based up, and ancient Indians are catching up fast.
Another batch prepped ready for priming, so that should complete both armies. Then just the small matter of painting them...
Quote from: FierceKitty on 25 February 2020, 02:06:08 AM
Swdedes are based up, and ancient Indians are catching up fast.
I think your fingers were going too fast when you were typynge, as well. :D
Cheers - Phil ;)
It's no good...Can't put it off any longer......I'm going to have to go outside, to solder up some frames for some of the larger Warband figures.
I don't want to.....It's going to be damn cold in the pole barn.
Cheers - Phil
Injuns have vegetation on their bases; sealant this afternoon.
Kattam shud!
:-/
Priming done and some more bases and figures drybrushed.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 25 February 2020, 06:44:33 PM
Kattam shud! = "It is finished!" I believe
My Tamil is rusty ;)
Quote from: Techno on 25 February 2020, 07:10:44 AM
I think your fingers were going too fast when you were typynge, as well. :D
Cheers - Phil ;)
You need to study the glorious history of Swdeden, mate!
Quote from: paulr on 25 February 2020, 06:36:14 PM
:-/
It's what you can say as you finish telling a story in India.
Meanwhile the Macedonians are on the table for a bit of an upgrade to their bases.
Next three batches base coated.
Inks tonight.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 26 February 2020, 02:47:26 AM
You need to study the glorious history of Swdeden, mate!
Is there anything on Wikipedia that'll help ?
Cheers - Phil. :)
Does covfefe come from Swdeden?
Not sure. But mybe I'll trei a holidai in Sweden this yer. See the lovli lakes....
Inks on, phew.
Bases and metalwork base colours painted and inked.
Got concrete floors down so have a temporary painting area.
Aussie infantry finished bar the dog.
Quote from: paulr on 20 February 2020, 10:49:15 PM
...
Cut out fence components for 30 more and painted 20 bases :)
Can I get them finished before my Punic War figures arrive :!!
Not quite but the snake fences are finished now :)
Macedonians flocked, Assyrians begun.
Highlights and basing, flesh on and inked, not sure it's enough to catch Peter! ;D
Assyrians done; Austrians were in need of touching up, which has been done too. Both need sealant now.
Another ImagiNations unit base coated and wash applied. Then some more cavalry drybrushed and a limber also.
Quite a lot done today, waiting for photos
SYW Austrian flock upgraded.
Final unit of my 1st Bde finished tonight, baring flocking and flags. Commands, artillery and cavalry to follow.
Ancient Arabs getting some frugal and arid ground cover.
19 catafracts and 1 cat assembled to reinforce my Sassanids.
4 more Hobbits found and built.
11 28mm pikes finished (bar basing)
Night all
(Or morning, deepening on time zone)
Quote1 cat assembled to reinforce my Sassanids.
I'm intrigued... :D
Quote from: mad lemmey on 04 March 2020, 12:02:33 AM
19 catafracts(sp) and 1 cat assembled to reinforce my Sassanids.
4 more Hobbits found and built.
11 28mm pikes finished (bar basing)
Night all
(Or morning, deepening on time zone)
Will even I know that Cataphracts is spelled wit a ph and not a f !! :d
Dependz if yaz sayz it proppa! 8)
Done.
4 28mm hobbits, 19 Mortal God's Spartans, 19 10mm Catafracts and their cat base coated and inked last night.
NKE are flocked and are being envegetated too.
Spartans and Sassanids highlighted.
Just details to do
Quite a lot of details added, but still not finished.
I have already added basing materials to these, so one lot highlighted, two inked today too.
NKE are go, Gauls on the table. Yo, I be like on a roll, bro.
More drybrushing of ImagiNations units, to try and catch up with Dave whose Army has mobilised far more quickly than mine :o!
First unit of Zouaves base coated and washed.
Sassandids basically done, rest nearly done... :P
Gauls done up. Achaemenids following on shortly.
Done apart from shields and flock etc...
Shields base coated and inked,
8 Star Wars Armada Scum and Villainy starfighters base coated and inked too. 8)
1st unit of Zouaves finished, 2nd unit started.
Fronds sprouting from most Achaemenid bases now.
A good blob of green stuff used to (hopefully) mend a crack in one of the water butts.
(Well....green stuff was originally designed for use as a 'plumbing putty' !) :)
Cheers - Phil
2nd unit of Zouaves finished.
6 bases of light horse repainted, including bases. Other Bases flocked and clumped, tufts tomorrow.
Persians flocked.
You are making flocking good progress ;)
About fifteen years of catching up to do. While worrying if Spain will be locked down before our holiday in late April. :(
Not great timing, if its not locked down what will still be open... and will you be welcome back from there...
Two more units for the Zouave Brigade drybrushed ready for base colours.
Achaemenids are done up; Ottomans getting a bit more today.
Turks done, and Numidians (a small army) just waiting to be sealed tomorrow (the acceptable face of locking down).
A Zouave-esque unit base colours and wash applied. Highlights and lacquer tonight.
Numidians done, Scots begun.
Zoueve-esque uint finished. One more to go then that's two brigades painted, then it will be onto the commanders, supporting artillery and cavalry (my pet hate).
6/8 of Star Wars Rogues and Villans painted tonight.
The other two done this am
Scots have been upgraded. Sassenachs are next.
Significant progress on both the Hausa and Pikemans Lament projects over the last few days.
I'll be sealing the flock on Royalists and rebels today.
Inca bases upgraded, Minoans on the workbench.
Just tidying up and bases to do now, so tired last night I was abed by 10.
5 units finished with the figures tonight, now onto basing...
Iberians should be flocked today.
Lee playing against them, then ? ;)
Cheers - Phil
Leek-eating daffodil impersonator!
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
(Sorry. :P)
Cheers - Phil
Anyway, their bases are now liberally bestrewn with sawdust.
Quote from: Techno on 20 March 2020, 07:19:56 AM
Lee playing against them, then ? ;)
Cheers - Phil
;D ;D ;D
Next 19 Mortal Gods (Athenians) figures built and bases puttied up, had spare milliputt mixed up, so I built another 11 Peaky Blinders, and burred their miners helmets to allow me to covert to 'paper boy' caps.
Qin and Han bases upgraded, Carthaginians next - quick job, this one, since there aren't that many of them.
Two units of Fantasy Egyptians base coated and inked.
A unit of OG Egyptian cavalry assembled.
Punic bases flocked.
What do you call a Carthaginian rabbit?
Quote from: FierceKitty on 22 March 2020, 09:20:36 AM
What do you call a Carthaginian rabbit?
No idea, no doubt you will tell us !
A Punic hare.
Fantasy Egyptians almost done, and Pharoah now wears the war crown...
Lots of sand and pva applied to threedifferent projects today, while Rach worked out her 7-12 times tables! 8)
...And is the mummy now completely finished ?
I dunno....You're sitting quietly at home and an email comes through with "I'm bored", as the title.
No names...no pack drill, but it was a certain chap with the name of .....er....no...don't tell me....er...something to do with Mad something or other. ;)
Cheers - Phil ;D
He needs his base inking and painting, flock and scatter yet...
16th century Spaniards getting their upgrade now.
Bases inked
Spaniards done, French and Italians on home stretch.
Bases painted highlighted (twice on some cases), and pva sealed.
Flock and 2/3 of bases clumped.
Then yummy dinner.
Clumps and tufts done.
Now out of tufts, anyone got a good source? ;)
Kitchen scourers must be classed as a necessary resource.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 25 March 2020, 10:22:19 PM
Clumps and Tufts
Hmm: solicitors, landscape gardeners or beauticians?! :-\
=O
Quote from: mad lemmey on 25 March 2020, 10:22:19 PM
Clumps and tufts done.
Now out of tufts, anyone got a good source? ;)
Do you mean the sort of 'tufts' I did swapsies with you, Will ? (Ages ago)
I just MIGHT be able to find what was left of the blister(s) I sent to you.....(I'll
never get around to using them).....But no promises.
Cheers - Phil.
Republican Romans are flocked and have fronds attached; a few boulders and tufts to follow tomorrow, in between trying to keep a calm head here (I'm not personally afraid of being knocked over by the plague, but when one of my cats is sick...).
Awww.....
Genuinely hope it's nothing serious, Alexander.
Fingers crossed for you....but, obviously, especially the cat.
Take care - Phil.
Blinders, Athenians, Egyptians and Camels base coated today
Yes, four different projects on the go.
Quote from: Techno on 26 March 2020, 04:10:49 PM
Awww.....
Genuinely hope it's nothing serious, Alexander.
Fingers crossed for you....but, obviously, especially the cat.
Take care - Phil.
Seconded
Republican Romans are flocked, and should be finished today. It's actually been four sick kitties, but three are almost fully operational now; the Siamese has the complication of an ulcer which makes pills hard to swallow (even liquid meds are an epic).
Got the tee-shirt for getting pills down a cat ! X_X
When we moved over here we had (I think) 9 of them.
Day of the move, I had to 'Micky Finn' them, for the journey over.
Eight weren't a problem.......One however, tried to bite my finger off.....The finger didn't half swell up, later in the day !...(The other mugs had gleefully swallowed the pills wrapped in prawns.......Suckers !!)
The one bit of kit we got (later) was a plastic 'doofer' that held the pill at the end....So you could get the pill to the back of the cat's mouth.....Without having to insert your fingers among all those teeth....A press on the 'doofer' and the pill was released.
Needed a bit of practice.....But it worked.
Cheers - Phil
Used that yesterday, but then had to sit holding his mouth closed for ten minutes.
With Covid-19 and social distancing causing issues with access to the kitchen to paint (the best lighting in the house), I finally managed to get an hour to carry on with my ImagiNations army. This in part to SWMBO and daughter watching the latest series of Ozarks on Netflix.
Highlights under way.
Cats a bit better, Roman army (i) finished.
What am I going to do with two packs of Copplestone 28mm Penguins I just found?
Zombie penguins? I mean something has to happen to all those zoo animals post apocalypse..
Quote from: mad lemmey on 28 March 2020, 03:01:21 PM
What am I going to do with two packs of Copplestone 28mm Penguins I just found?
A miniatures game based on SPI's "Sword and Sorcery," maybe?
"This fantasy wargame is really two games in one. The Army game uses SPI zones-of-control and a combat results table. Forces include elves, dwarves, orcs, spiders, swamp creatures and a host of others set in a fictional valley on a fictional world. Some of the more exotic inclusions are memorable for their pun value: Unamit Ahezredit, Logarithm Son of Algorithm; places such as the Evelyn Woods and the Stream of Consciousness, as well as the notorious Hills of Avalon; and peoples such as the Corflu (Correction Fluid) Cultists, the (communist) Orcish Revolutionary Council, and
the dreaded Killer Penguins*". X the Unknown could potentially conjure the SS Wiking Division."- Board Game Geek
*My emphasis
Lol
Quote from: FierceKitty on 28 March 2020, 12:14:39 PM
Cats a bit better, Roman army (i) finished.
Good to hear :)
Another ImagiNations units finished bar the lacquering. So that gives me two brigades now and time to sort out the artillery support and commanders. Then it's the cavalry, which generally I hate painting :(.
Ming have some extra ground cover and should be sealed by lunch.
Quite a lot of highlights, all flesh on, inked and highlighted, details going on, bases sanded, pva'd and inked (several stages early due to a step in Atheanian hoplites).
Infantry unit lacquered. Then 3 artillery units base coated and washed, ready for highlights tomorrow.
Ming done up; not much more yesterday, what with GMing an ennormous 4-player Romans and Seleucids game on Line (it works, but it's exhausting).
Imperial Roman bases fronded.
New sandy yellow flock ground, sieved, and bottled.
Wife placated on subject of flock all over kitchen floor and my ineptitude with a broom.
Off to make a start on some BUA bases for a variety of buildings for use with BKC, BP and BBB.
Oops! ;D
Quote from: FierceKitty on 30 March 2020, 02:51:47 AM
Ming done up; not much more yesterday, what with GMing an ennormous 4-player Romans and Seleucids game on Line (it works, but it's exhausting).
Hold on...Shouldn't that read.....Ming HAS been done up, like a kipper. ;)
Cheers - A Twerp........(FLASH....Aaah...Aah.....Oh, I can't be bothered.) ;)
I was using headline abbreviation style. Do they have newspapers in Wales yet? ...ummm...paper?....ummm....written script?...ummm...language?
Cletic culture hasn't advanced as far as writing :P
Quote from: FierceKitty on 30 March 2020, 09:47:01 AM
I was using headline abbreviation style. Do they have newspapers in Wales yet?
Yes....But they're 'poop'. X_X X_X
Quote from: ianrs54 on 30 March 2020, 09:53:40 AM
Cletic culture hasn't advanced as far as writing :P
Cletic ?.....Wossthatthen ? :P ;)...Have the Anglo's and Saxon 'Johnny come lately' immigrants even managed to learn their own language yet ?.....Probably not. ;D ;D ;D
I'm off to bang some pretty blue stones.....They sing to me. ;)....(Not as good as Led Zepp, though.)
Cheers - Phil ;)
Jimmy Paige - Sing ??? :P
Sure was it not the Celtic monks who were doing their utmost to keep literature and civilisation alive while the Angles, Danes and Saxons were busy beating each other over the head?
Quote from: ianrs54 on 30 March 2020, 11:26:16 AM
Jimmy Paige - Sing ??? :P
Errrr...No.... X_X X_X X_X.... Jimmy
PAGE played the 'gweetar'...That nice Mr Plant was the vocalist....Sheesh =)
I give up...(I'm bleeding all over the keys, 'cos of a cut....Now 'bog off.)
Cheers - Phil ;)
Quote from: mad lemmey on 28 March 2020, 03:01:21 PM
What am I going to do with two packs of Copplestone 28mm Penguins I just found?
What kind of penguins? Makes a lot of difference :-B
Nuns in plague masks: door-to-door charity collectors/mass stripograms for a 10mm game :-\
Only sensible option really 8)
Done some plague masks, (on another 'Elemental' group for Warband).........OI !......Are you watching me on some hidden web-cam, Meirion ?......Like Nobby does ?....The Oik !
(But none of them are nuns.) :P
Cheers - Phil ;)
First stage on BUA's done for my Italian buildings from Leven Miniatures.
28mm x 16 penguins, 3 ancient fantasy figures (ie pre-slotta gw) and 8 bases of 10mm Tomb Guards built today.
Artillery units finished and lacquer applied to the railway mat I use as base for my BUA's. It stops it shedding material and allows me to add grit etc without it getting caught in the 'texture'.
Two of my offspring are now the proud owners of WH40K starter sets, so we've been slowly snipping out and gluing space marines, plague zombies, mephitic bloat drones, dreadnoughts and the like: the zombies are especially dangerous - lots of needle-sharp, spikey bits :'(
Mortal Gods Athenians done apart from shields and basing materials.
10mm Egyptians nearly done.
Grit and rubble added to BUA bases.
10mm Egyptian cavalry done (apart from tufts, flock etc etc)
Bit of a tummy bug, but mending, and the imperial Romans are now flocked, and shouldn't be difficult to finish on the morrow, which may also see a bit more vegetation on 16th-century Indian bases. Kitties are solidly on the mend (and I hope history will record I worry more about their health than about my own).
Hope you feel better soon, Alexander. Heck...I think we all worry more about our pets, than ourselves.....Glad to hear the cats are on the mend !! :)
I said a lot of very naughty words, this morning. :-[
I lost a 'bit' I'd already made & finished......and had to make it ALL over again. ~X( >:( ~X(
(Unfortunately it was the very similar to the size of the green stuff 'excess' that I usually mix, and then chuck away....So I'm guessing that's what happened to it. :'( :'( :'()
Yes I did look in my 'rubbish' pot.....But I emptied that last week....And the bag it would have been in, went to landfill a week yesterday....SOB !
Cheers - Phil
Some colours added to BUA's ready for drybrushing tomorrow. Off to work on some figures.
Athenians shields done.
Two units of camels and their general done apart from tidying up (and basing etc)
Two limbers base coated and washed. Highlights to follow.
Camels done, tired up. Peragrine falcon painted (it's on a general's wrist). Bases painted, highlighted and pva sealed.
Moghuls done up, Tlaxcalans queueing up.
Tlaxcalans and Mexicans done up, and now need only a dab or two of sealant. Burmese next, I think.
I was right! Tomorrow, Huns.
Thanks sweetie.
:P
3 units of 28mm Highlanders built and undercoated for my long avoided '45 project.
Indeed Tomb Guards undercoated.
Some random 28mm undercoated too.
Oh, and 16 penguins undercoated too...
Huns flocked, Mexicans and Tlaxcalans done up. Sassanids next.
Base coats, inks done,highlights underway
Have made a fair start on the Persian knights.
16 Penguins done. 24 tomb guard done (well apart from two sets of basing).
46 other tomb guards almost done, just need head scarf details and shield details.
One fantasy figure done, some more (3) 1980s fantasy almost done, just need a few last bits doing on each, mostly shields.
36 x 28mm 1745 highlanders need flesh highlights, leather and wood and (sharpintakeofbreath) tartans doing.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 05 April 2020, 07:22:49 PM
16 Penguins done.
Are you admitting to a chocolate biscuit problem?
Quote from: fsn on 05 April 2020, 07:29:17 PM
Are you admitting to a chocolate biscuit problem?
More likely a fish shortage.
Fantasy figures done.
Highlanders almost done. When I say that, 4/6 of them have had their tartan done. @-) :-B :-&
Had a day of preparing, assembling and converting a lot of stuff.
Phil and Leon have seen it, quite a day.
Life goes on, and so does the sand and pva on the last batch.
Persians done, Desert Rats on the workbench.
Bases inked
Bases on one batch painted, highlighted and sealed.
Next batch have had figures base coated and inked.
Plus I played a game via WhatsApp... ;)
Afrika Korps and Nabatean Arabs upgraded.
Takeda, Tokugawa, NKE, and desert trees upgraded - busy day today.
Victorians getting flocked.
Final batch of Hausa started.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 11 April 2020, 07:59:08 AM
Final batch of Hausa started.
Excellent ! :-bd
So, hopefully it'll be the last time I complain that I can't find the piccies.
Cheers - Phil
PS....How's the 'chainmail' coming along, Will ?
Phil you don't need any excuse to complain, you do it all the time ;)
:P :P :P :P :P :P
Cheers - Phil ;)
Carthaginian bases improved a little.
Haven't even bought the figures for chainmail yet...
Victorian bases have picked up a few boulders.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 11 April 2020, 01:48:30 PM
Haven't even bought the figures for chainmail yet...
Ah, right !.....I thought you were just at the point of slapping some putty on. :)
Cheers - Phil
Assyrian bases upgraded.
Highlights done on next batch.
Gaulish and Antigonid bases upgraded; Khedival troops on the workbench, DV to be ready in time for an online Sudan game this Sunday.
Flesh, detailed, metals and woodwork done, chariots base coated, inked and highlighted.
Bronze work today then tidying up.
With a cool and cloudy morning, I've got my painting mojo back to carry on with my Italian BUA's for use with various rulesets.
6 bases of Hausa and 10 sets of Fantasy Egyptian chariots and crew done, plus 8 stands of generals. Just basing to do.
18 28mm Royal Ecosse and 5 Highland leaders almost done, just need crossbelts, bags, (tartan on leaders) and tidying up to sort before basing.
Had a busy couple of days with mostly 28mm stuff: finishing random odds and sods for D&D, plus WH40K stuff for the sprogs!
Done.
Now to basing
Stage one of BUA flocking completed. Two more stages to go which, with it being cloudy and wet, won't get finished today.
Ansar bases are awaiting sealing.
Stage two completed on the basing front.
Next batch of Mortal Gods assembled and undercoated.
Some Epic bits decided on and undercoated.
More 80s dwarves dug out.
Four Nefs built, but will be delayed due to lost parts that I ordered from Brigade (not their fault, I've lost them somewhere).
Today I have mostly been painting brown 8)
Mushrooms, beasts, leather, wood, birds, etc, etc...
So, only one pot.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 17 April 2020, 08:08:50 PM
So, only one pot.
Pushed the boat out - two ;)
Managed to squeeze in a bit of black-washing as well :-[
Sealing Madhist bases this fine morning.
Milliputt applied to Mortal Gods bases.
15/29 school reports written.
Just holding my mood together, been furloughed from a school I loved.
>:<
Sorry to hear that Will :(.
Hopefully something good will come of it. Only time will tell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aObZJN9zDtA
Dervishes are done, and seeing action in a campaign today. Achaemenid Persian bases tidied up; that's all the ancients upgraded. Medievals and WNA to follow, and two more Victorian-ear armies (Zulus and Abyssinians), then I can can get going on my WWI fleets.
BUA bases finally finished and hope to get a game with them featuring in tonight.
Working on Dam' Yankee bases.
Base coats and inks on, extra bases have had putty added.
Yankees half done.
Dam' Yankees upgraded. Dixies half done.
Cannucks next! :D
Sutth'n genn'lm'n done. Zulu bases being flocked.
Some details added between reports.
Zulus half done. Curious that such a simple army looks so good.
Zulus are upgraded. Byzantines and Vikings may be next.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 21 April 2020, 09:09:03 AM
Zulus half done. Curious that such a simple army looks so good.
Quantity has a quality all its own ;)
True with some armies. Actually, Stalin would have been quite at home with a Zulu kingdom.
Sand and pva night, plus some research
Quote from: mad lemmey on 22 April 2020, 08:53:36 AM
Sand and pva night,
(https://i.imgflip.com/3lwcco.jpg)
Vikings are go.
From where to where ?
Sorry, can't speak Norse, can't ask 'em.
25/29 reports done. Painting not. Hallway doesn't count does it? ;D
Hair, leather and wood painted and inked.
All 29 reports done.
Abyssinians getting flock on bases - last army.
Ethiopians done; tidying up a few crusader and Ayyubid bases, but it's about time to get going on painting a few new units.
Basing done, just need to do shield transfers and take photos.
Ayyubids remain, and Lo! the bird is on the wing.
The bloody woodpecker isn't. It's sitting at the top of an electricity pole hammering away on a metal plate. Noisy sod. =)
(I think the metal plate is a 'cut out' in the shape of a woodpecker, that's supposed to put them off going anywhere near the pole...It obviously isn't very effective.)%-(-
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: FierceKitty on 27 April 2020, 02:15:57 AM
Ayyubids remain, and Lo! the bird is on the wing.
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
... or should that be moving paint brush? :)
Something like that.
All existing bases have been upgraded...phew!
Flight stands for Nefs fixed,
Next batch of Mortal Gods sorted to be assembled.
1864 Danes brought out to paint (been too long, scared now, where did I put my research notes...).
Having a go at attaching lots of little tufts of green scouring pad to edges of my cloth river.
Mortal Gods assembled, and along with the Danes had their bases puttied up.
Cleaning up a few ashigaru for painting.
1864 Danes: two cavalry units, an extra infantry unit and three artillery batteries and a general officer assembled, based and undercoated so far today.
Its all good really.
Bases painted on figures for ashigaru reinforcements and a few new Hellenistic catapults. Facing a grim future of handmaking scores of sashimono.
Base colours on.
Inks on.
Highlights done.
Decided last night (about midnight) that my Winter Prussians needed reinforcements, so assembled 2 units of Cuirassiers and a command for a unit of infantry, plus three foot brigadiers.
Putty applied to one cuirassiers, the brigadiers and the command of the infantry.
Not putting the rest under putty until the rest of the infantry arrive.
Everything up to flesh highlights done.
Just wood and leatherwork to do, then details.
Macedonian artillery painted. Also an unexpected baggage element for the renaissance Imperial forces.
Wood and leather done and inked.
Black bits (kepi peaks etc) and details to do next.
SOOOOOOOooooooo nearly finished my 1864 Danes, things like horse blankets and final tidying up to do, then bases.
Only 200+ nearly done figures this week...
Sashimono undercoated for the new Oda ashigaru matchlockmen.
DV, the Oda reinforcement musketeers should be done today.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 03 May 2020, 07:45:35 AM
DV, the Oda reinforcement musketeers should be done today.
They are, and some Kuroda ashigaru are on the table. Also did a bit of upgrade and repair work on ancient Chinese this evening.
Mortal Gods batch done apart from basing and shields.
Finishing off the Kuroda units; about to begin a few new Ii, Takeda, and Date.
Painted, sealed bases, and built starships...
Varied new ashigaru with a few upgrades to castles.
Working on the last Japanese reinforcements, a few Oda pikemen.
Spaceships base coated, inked, and first colours on, not sure they will work, but hey ho...
28mm scale church and a set of Timecast ploughed fields base coated and inked today, spaceships done, photos in about an hour.
Church highlighted, now need to sort the sudden desire for a pair if mice and a ginger cat who has heard too many sermons on brotherly love...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_Mice_series
Prepping a couple of 1916 fleets.
Which ones? ;)
High Seas and Grand.
Of course, that's the Grand Australian Queensland fleet and the Swaziland High Seas fleet.
134 Dacian spearmen and command assembled today.
Not quite 4 units worth...
I've decided the Han need a bit of artillery, so am prepping figures.
Dacians undercoated
Just assembled and based a box of Perry Zulus.
Dacians base coated. Another irregular* army, why do I do this to myself!
*as if in troop quality, not manufacteurereers!
Inks on
Improvising and scratch-building the sitting tigers is quite fun.
Sitting Tigers ?
Undercoated the Zulus, now have 11 15mm Germans, 24 Warlord Orcs and 34 Zulus to paint.
Half finished master dropped down the back of a radiator last night.....and the cork (on which said master is sitting) got wedged between the wall and the radiator. X_X
First time ever, one of the little men has done that !! (I should have taken the figures off the radiator before I drew the curtains.)
PANTS !! >:(.....Really awkward to get at !
I rather wish I had fishing as a hobby, then I could dangle a hook down the back of the radiator until I snagged the little sod.
I'll figure out something. =) =) =)
Cheers - Angry of Wales.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 13 May 2020, 05:12:47 AM
Sitting Tigers ?
All shall be made clear in a few hours.
#-o
Knitting needle?
Quote from: Techno on 13 May 2020, 05:56:06 AM
Half finished master dropped down the back of a radiator last night.....and the cork (on which said master is sitting) got wedged between the wall and the radiator. X_X
First time ever, one of the little men has done that !! (I should have taken the figures off the radiator before I drew the curtains.)
PANTS !! >:(.....Really awkward to get at !
I rather wish I had fishing as a hobby, then I could dangle a hook down the back of the radiator until I snagged the little sod.
I'll figure out something. =) =) =)
Cheers - Angry of Wales.
Take the radiator off the wall (better not you'd forget to drain the system ;) )
Not a chance, Ian ! ;D ;D
I don't play with radiators.....But I did manage to retrieve the wee sod.
A thin , bit sturdy, flexible 'spring' loosened the cork.....Then the MIL's old 'helping to pick things up, without bending down' grabby type wossname and ...HUZZAH !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil.
People who enjoy movies may remember the toothsome Miss Yueh in this one. The rope-pull catapult is known as a Crouching Tiger.
And thus....
Well....They look damn fine to me, Alexander ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil :)
Even using dem Lee will still beat you !
True, and true.
Quote from: Techno on 13 May 2020, 09:31:18 AM
.....Then the MIL's old 'helping to pick things up, without bending down' grabby type wossname and ...HUZZAH !! :-bd
I read that out to Mrs Westie and she knew exactly what you were talking about. ;D
;D ;D ;D ;D
I've no idea what they're really called, Davy......But I HAVE seen them used by 'council folk' picking up 'litter' from the sides of the roads...The MIL probably ordered it from 'Coopers' a lifetime ago.
They're also useful for putting 'snap traps' in hard to get areas in the barns.....without getting my fingers broken.
Cheers - Phil ;)
They sell em in Poundland as "Grabbers"
When dealing with the NHS on behalf of my brother, who had cerebral palsy, they were known as "grabbers" or "reachers" depending on the exact style.
Dacians drybrush highlighted, flesh paint applied and washed.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 13 May 2020, 10:21:31 AM
And thus....
I knew some reference was coming... but the hidden dragon made me chuckle
Flesh highlighted
Just shields to finish, then tidying up and basing.
Shields done, facial errors corrected, final mistakes to be sorted in the morning.
British Fleet painted, barring HMS Tiger, which I haven't ordered yet but have decided I want, since British battlecruisers are always fun for the German fleet. I haven't gone for the whole Jutland caboodle - I've got everything for Trafalgar, which satisfies my megalomania - but even so, the speed at which modern ships paint up is a real contrast.
Funny you should mention ships; I've been wondering when we'd get to see Ithoriel's dinky 1:4800 lot.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 15 May 2020, 04:16:10 AM
Funny you should mention ships; I've been wondering when we'd get to see Ithoriel's dinky 1:4800 lot.
Currently in the doldrums due to current efforts to get some 20mm sci-fi figures painted, the immanent arrival of additional content for Elder Scrolls Online and a complete failure to find a way to base them that I'm happy with. :(
Dacians done, varnished and assembled onto bases.
Need at least two packs more. 8)
High Seas Fleet has decks painted.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 15 May 2020, 01:16:41 PM
High Seas Fleet has decks painted.
Surely you holystoned ? ;)
Admirals don't do that! And ship's cats don't either.
Especially atheistic ones.
Bases sanded, pva'd and inked.
Bases painted, highlighted and sealed
Rebel Minis Kobald cavalry assembled, they only arrived this week, so not even entered the backlog.
Finally built Prussian IX Corps corps artillery and commanders, so that's three more units out the backlog too.
Might risk the queue at Wilkinson's to but primer this afternoon. 8)
No primer, so good old fashioned white paint, base coats and inks on, plus a unit of 1864 Prussian Cuirassiers started.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 16 May 2020, 12:46:31 PM
Might risk the queue at Wilkinson's to but primer this afternoon. 8)
Wall paint primer? For the first time I am experimenting with the Pendraken 10mm and not using any priming, just as many layers as required.
Wilkos do a white enamel primer for £5.50 a can, it's pretty good coverage. Pity they ran out.
Everything done on this batch apart from wood and leather and shields.
High Seas Fleet painted and based. Still waiting for reinforcements - I can't believe Navwar doesn't have email!
You are lucky he copes with snail mail, he's about 90
Quote from: ianrs54 on 19 May 2020, 03:25:13 PM
You are lucky he copes with snail mail, he's about 90
Really? I thought he was about ages with me and I'll "only" be 67 this year.
Whatever, he's a nice guy and, in normal times at least, very prompt with despatches of goods. He and I, between us, could talk the hind legs off a whole field full of donkeys :)
He also stocks a whole lot of stuff you can't get elsewhere.
Be grateful he doesn't insist on bartering pigs and chickens for his stock :D
Batch done, bases puttied, new figures added from today's arrival.
Now to start a commission of 6mm Arnheim Paras...
Wish me luck!
6mm commission assembled, well, assembled until I ran out of bits, only one Battalion...
Battalion base coated plus 5 Horsa gliders.
Plus 19 1864 Prussians started
And inks on all in batch.
Prussians and paras done, apart from basing.
Also painted another Star Wars Legion figure, apart from basing.
More later...
Imperial Romans have a bit of naval support now.
Invasion stripes on 5 horsa gliders last night :-B 8-} @-) @-) @-)
Putting together the rules for sealions led by seahorses (as it were).
Several odds-and-sods started. :D
Many odds-and-sods progressed 8)
No odds-and-sods finished :'(
Such is life 8-}
Sounds normal!!
It's taken me three days to paint 5 1:300 Horsa gliders. Invasion stripes, windscreens and hand painted roundals have just about finished me. @-) @-) @-) :-B
Base paints and seals done, then spent four hours making labels for the entire airborne division...
Prepped 80 skeleton archers and have converted 20 so far...
Up to the highlights, flesh and ink flesh stage.
Details next...
Two units of skeletal archers done apart from basing.
Dacians just need shields.
Ancient (as if in 1980s) Blue Dragon arrived and assembled onto a base...
Everything done as far as ink on bases.
Oh, and an ancient (I mean, 1984 counts as ancient, right) blue dragon base coated, inked, highlighted, detailed, finished and base sculpted and inked.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 02 June 2020, 06:51:26 PM
Everything done as far as ink on bases.
Oh, and an ancient (I mean, 1984 counts as ancient, right) blue dragon base coated, inked, highlighted, detailed, finished and base sculpted and inked.
I believe "Vintage" is the new ancient...
Bases painted and sealed.
Three regiments of 1809 Hungarian infantry built, plus a base of 1864 Prussians and 2 gun batteries.
Prussians and Hungarians base coated and inked.
Kitchen ceiling painted too...
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
It might have been easier!
Austria's tunic uniforms have had 4 highlights and are done, Prussians and Austrian trousers highlighted too, but only one colour...
Wood and brown leather painted and inked. Prussian breadboard done.
Hungarians done, apart from tidying up and basing.
Trying my hand at improvising a battery of Chinese rocket-launchers, after waiting many a long year for someone to make them.
Sand and pva on.
A long ignored project has made theor voices heard, off to the lead mountain!
Assembled 4 units of Ftanco-Prussoan French, found I needed standard bearers and bases ...
Assembled 1809 Austrian artillery, and then grenadiers, and found I needed more Grenadiers.
Leon has had two emails form me today with supplemental orders, oops! :-[
Stop - to let him finish my order !! :'(
I'm just piggybacking a commission order that he's sending from a friend, honest! O:-)
But we all know you arer a conman ;)
No, I've only ever been found guilty of perjury, not fraud!
Oooooh.......you liar ! ;)
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: mad lemmey on 05 June 2020, 08:03:04 PM
Wood and brown leather painted and inked. Prussian breadboard done.
Prussian breadboard? :o
Like a Smorgersboard, with less fun stuff.
Next units assembled, base coated and inked.
Highlights started
Quote from: mad lemmey on 07 June 2020, 10:01:09 AM
Leon has had two emails form me today with supplemental orders, oops! :-[
Its not only me then that sends emails - "addition to order" :)
Only black leatherwork to do now, tidying and basing on 1870 stuff, helmets, facings and blankets of Chevauleger, hats on artillery, and helmets and facings of the Grenadiers.
So about two hours work I guess...
French done, just need tidying.
313 10mm figures finished since last Tuesday, I have shown you 38, because there is either a figure or flag missing from all the other bases...
Get ready for a photo dump at the end of the week. You have been warned.
:o :o :o :o :o
HOW MANY !!
Cheers - Phil
So few ....
Yeah, it's been a slow week.
A commission of 15mm arrived yesterday, already assembled 48 figures.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 09 June 2020, 08:38:29 AM
313 10mm figures finished since last Tuesday, I have shown you 38, because there is either a figure or flag missing from all the other bases...
Get ready for a photo dump at the end of the week. You have been warned.
313!!! :o :o :o
I am still struggling with 140 started on 13 May. ~X( ~X( ~X(
And 200 15mm Khurisain Siamese assembled for a commission I've just started.
FK any colours I should not use? ;)
Not that I know of. They've got good taste in traditional textiles here, however; might do well to do a Google.
Thank you.
Bases painted, highlighted, edged and sealed.
Volcano painted with my 8 year old, lava to be added later, explosion tomorrow!
100-dragon rocket battery is near completion, and a few more 1916 bits and pieces are queueing up.
Some bases flocked, scattered and tufted, some sanded and pva'd, none finished...
Some bases inked
72 7yw French started for a member of this forum.
96 Thai/Siamese warriors base coated and inked, other bases painted and sealed, Leipzig house by Timecast started and finished.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 13 June 2020, 04:07:40 PM
96 Thai/Siamese warriors base coated and inked, other bases painted and sealed, Leipzig house by Timecast started and finished.
Remember at least half will be late for the battle, and most won't have their weapons with them!
Highlights done on the French
Flesh on French done, inked and highlighted.
First flesh coat on the Thai/Siamese. I'm trying a Foundry paint triple on them.
Oh, and I'm sure one of the French officers is meant to have his hand behind his back, but he does look like he is scratching his a**e!
Crossbelts and woodwork painted and inked.
Zeppelin, u-boat, and two battlecruisers done. Time to order some Dacians.
They're lovely, I would recommend them.
Shoes, ammo boxes and hats painted black. It's that 'It's all come together" stage.
First three units of French finished, more work done on Thai/Siamese.
Half the kitchen demolished in preparation for the plumber fitting a decent sink...
Thai/Siamese done as far as needing ink washes on woodwork and hair to finish.
Top ups of 1809 Austrians and 1870 French arrived, preped, and base coated tonight.
Five WW2 capital ships cleaned and based.
Dacians ordered, and a few more ashigaru and some tanks.
Good mix! 8)
Inked
Thai/Siamese done, apart from varnish, and Austrain reinforcements nearly almost, not quite, done!
Austrians just need tidying up and basing
Sand, pva, inks on the Franco-Hungarian-Siamese.
Next three batches of 7 Years War built for a forum member.
Bases painted, highlighted and pva sealed.
7 YW undercoated.
Chinese "Hundred dragons" rocket-firers have auxiliary guns attached now.
A great deal of bases flocked.
Ww2 ships base coated
Hey Lemmey! Leave those kits alone!
You said WW2 ships are base coated. Are they 1:600? If so please, please, please, please could you do a step by step with photos? I've got some stuck in a box somewhere and I haven't had the courage to start painting.
Pleeaasee. Be your friend forever! :D :D
If they're 1:3000 I've already done mine so - bye now.
Quote from: fsn on 21 June 2020, 06:36:28 AM
Hey Lemmey! Leave those kits alone!
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.
(Guitar break)
Cheers - Phil :D
1:3000, sorry mate.
Inks on, clumps on many many many bases
Tufts on, just flags and labels now.
Not painting per se, but I got my paint box out to check if any had dried up since they were last used around 4 months ago. Luckily only some ones I don't use had bitten the dust and frankly I should have ditched them years ago as they were taking up valuable space. Who knows, painting might resume chez moi soon?
Doing some axes and tridents for my rather tame-looking Magister Militum Chinese guards troops.
Assembling some Battlefront Cents and M42's, not much fun. Why will resin and metal never bond ? Tomorrow if it's quiet I'll be assembling some 10mm Sparabatha.
Normally the resin will have a slight covering of release agent on it. Wash it in soapy water, then rough up the surfaces to be glued with sandpaper. I used to used Araldite rather than Superglue as it has better gap filling properties, as the Battlefront casting used to be all over the place.
Ta Steve. No gaps but the Cents did feel rather greasy. No probs with bublles or flash though.
I had 24 hours off painting yesterday (mosylt as I was sorting the photos of the 446 figures I posted yesterday). Siamese guards and 7yw next batch base coated and inked today, *content sigh*.
Next batch of AWS and Siamese just finished being painted sand and pva on bases of those that needed it..
Bases painted, highlighted and sealed.
Conversions done, base coat and inks on last batch of Orcs' stuff, some FPW French and the final set of Siamese.
Siamese elephants and escorts done, Thai flavour, lots of research on the right colours for their flesh. Just need to do the riders and crew. Just got to be brave and switch the super-thin-super-bendy lead with pins. *shudders*
Orcs cavalry nearly-nearly-nearly done.
As are the various FPW French...
Nearly...
Elephants prettified and FPW & Orcs last batch done, apart from tidying up.
Orcs's stuff done.
Elephant crew attached and undercoated.
Wobbly halbard and spear handles removed, weapon heads drilled out and glued.
Insanity applied for...
Will I know your mad - you've always been mad, mad for f**king years.
Name the song and album, NOT PHIL
Awwwww......... :(
Don't worry, Ian......Will will get that. ;)
His father played that to him when he was a youngster.
Cheers - Phil :)
I bought it in Sheff 3 days before offical release :O)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 02 July 2020, 11:35:36 AM
Will I know your mad - you've always been mad, mad for f**king years.
Name the song and album, NOT PHIL
DSOTM - Speak to me
My Dad didn't play them to me, I found them in his collection...
In vinyl, no doubt. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Sheesh.....I'm probably older than your Dad. :'( :'( :'( :'( X_X
(Pedants could argue that it could be either 'Speak to me', or 'Breathe'......But I'll give you 'a tick'.)
Cheers - Phil :D
71?
No.......He wins. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil :-*
Not by much !
No....Not by that much. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil ;)
Youngsters; 74 - and still working (need to be able to afford my hobby).
Good to see you have your priorities sorted Kipt ;)
Kipt, considering all the books you get through you must work in a library ;)
Don't work in a library but we do not have a TV. Never did. Probably 12 to 14,000 books in the house. I usually have 3 or 4 going at a time.
Haven't turned on a TV in a decade or so.
Base colours on elephant crews.
Well I don't know about the rest of us but I'm on the edge of my seat wondering what's going to happen next. :P
Elephant crews oiled. Yes, I used crew-ed oil.
You weren't expecting that, oh a coat, thank you, not sure it's mine...
Nobby CHEW
Quote from: mad lemmey on 05 July 2020, 10:40:06 AM
Elephant crews oiled. Yes, I used crew-ed oil.
You weren't expecting that, oh a coat, thank you, not sure it's mine...
X_X =) ;D
... heh! ... where'd my coat go ...
Finally felt in the mood to paint (the first time since lockdown) and basecoated some early WWII British Cruisers and Matilda II's. All part of a long planned France 1940 campaign.
Quote from: Steve J on 06 July 2020, 10:59:36 AM
Finally felt in the mood to paint (the first time since lockdown) and basecoated some early WWII British Cruisers and Matilda II's. All part of a long planned France 1940 campaign.
What do you do to basecoat your tanks?
QuoteWhat do you do to basecoat your tanks?
I prime them with black primer (Army Painter IIRC), then paint on two coats, slightly thinned, of the main colour. In this case Russian Green for one set and camo green for the other. Then I add a wash of GW Devlin Mud, then when dry drybrush with slightly lighter coats. Hope this helps?
Elephants and crews done, apart from basing.
Quote from: Steve J on 06 July 2020, 10:59:36 AM
Finally felt in the mood to paint (the first time since lockdown) and basecoated some early WWII British Cruisers and Matilda II's. All part of a long planned France 1940 campaign.
=D> =D> =D>
Quote from: Steve J on 06 July 2020, 07:16:48 PM
I prime them with black primer (Army Painter IIRC), then paint on two coats, slightly thinned, of the main colour. In this case Russian Green for one set and camo green for the other. Then I add a wash of GW Devlin Mud, then when dry drybrush with slightly lighter coats. Hope this helps?
Very much so. I am trying to work how to do mine for the Korean War. Never having done 1/150 tanks before I have to work out how to approach these as per my previous query. I need to understand with the washes the ratios of the different ingredients and what order to do them in, so each post adds to my cairn of understanding in finding my own style.
Quote from: Noktu on 29 June 2020, 02:17:23 AM
First I've basepainted the models with Olive Drab
Then 1/8 white - olive drab mix ( going over the whole model except the very recesses )
Wash the whole model with Army Painter - Soft Tone
1/8 white - olive drab highlight ( going over almost everything except recesses )
2/8 white - olive drab highlight again, bringing the colour on the more surfaced areas ( slightly damped down with water to make it blend more )
3/8 white - olive drab highlight, on the more pronounced areas. ( also made slightly more runny with water )
Army Painter - Strong Tone on all the recessed areas to make them pop out even more
I have to admit I dont remember the exact white to olive drab ratio. Next time I paint a sherman, I'll take pictures of all the phases and drop them here.
Very helpful. I am working out now what to do with my US Korean War tanks.
I'd say try an test tank and see how you get on. I tend to over highlight so they look OK once on the table, but maybe not so good close up.
200+ 10mm Roman legionaries assembled for a commission today.
Matilda II's given a Devlin Mud Wash, ditto to some German Pz I's & II's. Also tweaked a scratch built hill prior to some flocking tonight, if I can find the time.
Romans done apart from basing and shield transfers.
About to restart some 6mm WW2.
Working again, but should find time to make a start on a few new Japanese today.
5.32 is not a good time to run out of Olive Drab paint when attempting to base coat a tank division...
Or 4:32 in Puckoon ;)
Quote from: mad lemmey on 13 July 2020, 04:43:04 PM
5.32 is not a good time to run out of Olive Drab paint when attempting to base coat a tank division...
Particularly since you can't mail order, withnthe dark lord on holiday [-(
That's a pain Will :(. I need a few GW paints that I use for terrain but just have enough left for the present, but a trip into Bristol iss in the offing when August comes.
At least I found some free time to drybrush some terrain ready for flocking today :).
Bases for armour painted, as are two Italian Cruisers and destroyers and four British destroyers.
Some flocking done this morning.
Assembled a superdreadnaught, a heavy cruiser and two destroyers this evening after finishing the other ships.
Thinned pva glue added to flock to stiffen it up and stop it shedding everywhere over time. When dry all ready for some static grass to finish things off.
Matt varnish spray helps with that too.
51 legionaries have shield transfers on.
Assembled 6 more destroyers, and along with the earlier destroyers, a cruiser and a superdreadnaught managed to sculpt their bases, and label (and in two cases, relabel) the other ships I finished today.
200 odd shield transfers done! :-B @-)
Quote from: mad lemmey on 16 July 2020, 03:02:56 PM
200 odd shield transfers done! :-B @-)
IN ONE GO !!!! ~X( ~X(
Three goes, but 100 plus today! :o
Taken me most of the evening to remove the figures from painting sticks and put them on bases. Note to self, Gorilla superglue is a bit stronger than Loctite!
And I miscounted, one shield was in yhebwrong units colours and I had to reapply his transfer...
But the next set of ships are base coated.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 16 July 2020, 10:35:26 PM
Taken me most of the evening to remove the figures from painting sticks and put them on bases. Note to self, Gorilla superglue is a bit stronger than Loctite!
And I miscounted, one shield was in yhebwrong units colours and I had to reapply his transfer...
But the next set of ships are base coated.
I was wondering what glue to use when assembling the tanks.
I stick figures to painting sticks with Copydex (aka cow gum, I believe). Good bond but peels off when done.
Superglue (with a sprinkle of bicarb of soda when required) to make permanent bonds.
Division of tanks base coated, inked and drybrushed, but now I need recognition marking and stars, thankfully we know a friendly retailer who sells them.
HMS Dorsetshire painted, various others base coated, inked and highlighted. Stripes to do on Italians.
Romans sanded and pva'd.
Quiet day.
I've mostly been using blu-tac to affix figures, less faff to remove than glue.
Quote from: hammurabi70 on 16 July 2020, 10:59:32 PM
I was wondering what glue to use when assembling the tanks.
Interestingly I just got a couple of tanks for the first time and will have to do the same. I've used Loctite for chariots and artillery carriages before so hopefully, it'll work well enough.
6 more Navigatori Destroyers, 2 town class destroyers, HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Ramillies finished today.
Lots of photos to post later, next 275 10mm figures base coated and ink washed, 6 Timecast buildings started, and 8 Italian Cruisers and 2 Battleships begun too, plus a load of DIY...
Started building the 'goodies' from the Warhammer Mortal Realms magazine! :-[
14 Stormcaster Eternals, plus gryphound and ballista assembled! Just got to decide what colours to paint the buggers now :-\
I was thinking about basing it on the London Broncos classic (Fulham) kit: black, white chevron with red borders. However, since the 'baddies' are undead - hence also mostly black, I might go with copper armour to break it up a bit... 8->
242 Hopilites finished today, apart from basing and shield designs.
:-B 8-} 8-} @-) @-) @-)
How many figures have you painted this year, Will ? :o :o
(Including ships......and everything else ?)
Cheers - Phil.
2840 finished, with 242 Hopilites nearly done, 20 skirmishers, 3 on a general stand, 6 buildings and 8 cruisers and 2 battleships pending, then another 50 tanks waiting for WW2 allied stars.
And to think, as lockdown started I was WAY behind schedule.
:o :o :o
Bloomin' 'eck !! :o :o :o
(Or, something a lot stronger ! ;))
Cheers - Phil :)
When I first read this, think I missed the first number.
That's a fair few figures painted!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 22 July 2020, 07:58:34 PM
2840 finished, with 242 Hopilites nearly done, 20 skirmishers, 3 on a general stand, 6 buildings and 8 cruisers and 2 battleships pending, then another 50 tanks waiting for WW2 allied stars.
And to think, as lockdown started I was WAY behind schedule.
So about 15 a day to completion; every day.
:o :o :o
Yeah, with a fair few still to top off
125 shield transfers done, only another 117 to go...
That's why I've been a bit quiet.
I don't know how you have the patience. I tried a few transfers on 28mm Romans a few years back and found it pretty frustrating.
Basing happening, plus some terrain...
Basing progresses
10 Italian Capital ships finished.
Next 112 Roman Legionaries started.
Just shield transfers and basing to do on the Romans, time is being eaten by driving to pick up bits for the kitchen rebuild...
Two additional Italian ATG bases primed, ready for painting tomorrow. Nothing like a campaign to focus the mind!
Iazyges and 2nd Rhoxolani (the randy girls) under the brush.
A load of WH40K and Age of Sigmar plastic ruins and scenery assembled over the weekend - including what I'm referring to as THE grim-dark, chaos oil-rig; Uncle Sigmar's Happy Retirement Necropolis (Part I) and a chaos-snail/power plant thingy!! :-[
A space marine with jump-pack was a quick assemble with my elder twin last night. He also has a grav-tank that he's desperate to build, so that will probably be this weekend's project. Beyond spraying with a base coat, lord knows when and/or if these will ever actually get painted... :'(
Italian tanks basecoated and washed, ready for dry brushing etc.
Just the one Space Marine scout added to the Chapter this evening - I think my elder son may be the slowest snip-wielder in WH40K history ;D
Three L6/40's and three M11/39 tanks now finished. Just need to finish three M13/40's and then I think I have enough kit to kick off my PBEM campaign.
Bloody amateurs ! ;)
Try soldering up six ridiculously small 'formers' for brass crossbows, after going to the surgery and having an injection in each arm.
("Right, Phil.... As well as your usual jab....you're fine to have a 'pneumonia' injection"....(Buy One Get One Free. =)).... " Oh, go on, then."
Cheers - Technodestructorman...The (part) human pincushion. :)
M13/40's now finished :). Off to sort out info, OOB etc to the players for the campaign.
Sand/pva th8s morning, then more work on the kitchen.
Quote from: Techno on 05 August 2020, 03:58:06 PM
("Right, Phil.... As well as your usual jab....you're fine to have a 'pneumonia' injection"....(Buy One Get One Free. =)).... " Oh, go on, then."
A part of me wishes I
hadn't had the' pneumonia jab'....Nursie (bless her) read out the 'possible' side effects.
I don't think that particular jab agreed with me....I genuinely was just about out of it, last night.....drenched in sweat, and other stuff....
I HAD asked..."So I don't have to worry that I've got Covid 19, if I suffer from those symptoms ? "
Better to feel complete pants for a couple of days, I suppose.
See you tomorrow.
Cheers - Phil
Bases and 6 buildings painted and pva sealed.
2/3 of a Repulsor grav-tank assembled - just the 5 turrets with multiple weapon choices plus grenade launches and stowage to go! @-)
Decisions, decisions... :-\
Mephitic Blight-Hauler fixed following my son's indelicate attempt to remove it from its base ripped a track/limb/wheel thing off! Realised it was a quick-build that hadn't been glued so had to rapidly disassemble it before the polystyrene cement set! Properly glued together now, just hope he can avoid fiddling with it again :-SS
Finally, just enough spray in the last can to base coat all the scenery grim-dark black! Going to have to make a trip to Halfords for some more satin black ASAP! :'(
:o
Auxilia undercoated.
Took the plaster off two more walls in the kitchen today, too hot for concentrating here, so built some Warlord Games US paras
Quote from: mad lemmey on 11 August 2020, 08:58:06 PM
Took the plaster off two more walls in the kitchen today
Intentionally? :)
Simply too hot for any gaming related activity, other than campaign planning, but even that's hard. Nice until about 8.30am and then it's just hot and humid all day.
We've got low flying cloud, at the mo'.....which is keeping things cool for the time being...Once that 'burns off'.....
Cheers - Phil
Intentionally.
Walls scrubbed this am. Auxilia highlights started.
28c in the hallway which is the coolest part of the house. A record for this time of day and I think it will hit 30c come late afternoon/early evening :'(. God only knows what the temp will be upstairs and frankly don't want to think about it!
Temperature in the hall, normally the warmest part of the house, is 24C while the dining area, normally the coldest part, is 26C.
Cue the band playing "The world turned upside down" :)
Highlights ended, flesh added and inked. Phew, thought I was losing my mojo
Working through some 'gaps' in the fantasy ranges.
Big jiffy bag from Leon full of all sorts of stuff.
Rather than tipping everything out on the desk, I'm playing lucky dip.....Pull out a 'zippy' bag......read the instructions from Leon's list...get that one done...then onto the next.
Cheers - Phil ;)
Carful Phil they will bite, trust there are duck knights, wombles with AK's and flying pigs in there
Quote from: ianrs54 on 13 August 2020, 06:21:31 AM
Carful Phil they will bite, trust there are duck knights, wombles with AK's and flying pigs in there
No, no, no, no, no....... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
There are a load of 'things' that I didn't even know that 'Sir' produced....or HAD ever had in the PD collection.
(There are some really stonking 'bits of kit', in the jiffy bag....but I'm not going to open anything else....YET......)
I've gotta headache......Western Power are frigging about at Techno Towers......
Sheeeit...the noise is horrendous. X_X
Cheers - Phil :'( :'( :'(
Quote from: Techno on 13 August 2020, 11:08:33 AM
No, no, no, no, no....... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
WHY NOT :o
Because Sir's got to make something out of this. ;)
(I wish the contractors, doing stuff for Western Power..... would hurry up, and frigging finish.....My headache is getting worse and worse...Don't care...Had a Nuthatch on the peanuts... :-bd..Not seen one of those for a while.)
Just hope the little feral (?) cat hasn't been put off from coming back.l...Still don't know whether it's male or female....
Good grief !......Yet another mouth to feed. :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
Cheers - Phil. X_X
Three Matilda II's finished this morning as it was pouring down. I might move onto some Pz I's & II's this afternoon.
Instead base coated camo colours and added a wash to Italian AB-41 armoured car and Semovente command tank.
Writing job applications and continued work on the kitchen has smashed any time for painting today... :'(
Will - WORK FASTER
Yeah, backs gone too...
Part way through sorting 500 1:3000 ships, yoiks.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 14 August 2020, 06:31:21 PM
500 1:3000 ships
:o :o :o :o :o
Hope the back get better soon
Quote from: paulr on 14 August 2020, 09:06:16 PM
:o :o :o :o :o
Hope the back get better soon
Same from me, Will !
Cheers - Phil
Will I sympathise
I empathise Will having suffered with a bad back since a teenager. Hope it gets better soon.
Back is much better today.
Still twinging occasionally, it's been bad since I was about 15.
Leather and woodwork done, plus flesh highlights and bronzework on auxilia this pm.
Quoteit's been bad since I was about 15.
Same as me then! I half slipped a disc whilst playing table tennis at lunchtime and it's never been the same since. The pain was unbelievable and I could barely walk to afternoon lessons!
Assembled and based two 2pdr ATG's. I need to go to Halfords to get some spray primer as my Army Painter one is rubbish, splattering every where (if I can get it to 'spray') after only one proper use >:(.
Wiring in on the kitchen.
400 of the 500 1:3000 ships split into their relevent fleets, who knew Sweden and Thailand had such massive fleets?
WATCH YOUR BACK !!! X_X
(That's the problem 'with backs'.....They con you into.... "Oooh, I feel much better".....and then they come back and bite you.)
Take care, Matey - Phil :)
Back is twinging, kitchen finishing is going to be at least another week, just got both barrels from Mrs D...
Mr D. =)
FFS X_X If it's twinging (NOW) it's telling you not to extract the urine.
Cheers - Dr (not) Phil
Auxilia done apart from shield transfers (still waiting on the baggage train for these) and basing.
Started a box of 28mm US Paras and a few add one.
Went to Halfords this morning to pick up primer and satin black spray paint as the Army Painter can I bought is useless, clogging up after one highly splattery spray.
Nearly finished the US airborne, just can't get to the table at the moment as my eldest is practising flute in front of it! 🎼🎵🎶🎵🎶⭐
Trust the ear defenders are good enough Will ;)
Feeling in a funk at the idea of applying transfers to airborne. Guess I will do them in one big hit along with Auxilia when their shield transfers arrive, then their basing..
So, painted 2 Leander class cruisers, 3 Perth class, the Royal Soveign, 2 M&L class destroyers, and 4 Italian Cruisers instead, and, like the Very Hungry Catapillar, I felt much better...
🐛
Stormcaster Eternal reinforcements built; Sigmarite Mausoleum finished: quite a nice little 28mm mini-necropolis/scatter terrain which my D&D GM is already eyeing up for nefarious purposes :-S
Cancelled class this afternoon - Sarmatians made significant progress.
Two units of Roman cavalry, two bases of artillery and 9 bases of skirmishers, plus 4 generals assembled.
Mojo back...
Realised the Warlord Roman aux needed their shields painted before applying the transfers - whoops. Assembeled the PSC 10mm Brits which arrived in the middle of a complicated call during the week, Got the 15mm Lees marked up, and I did get the Roman bases finished. Finally made a start on my pd EAP's. Strange but all my sources say they wore their armour under robes - the archers and saprabatha both have scale armour showing. Awaiting under coat 5 BF Challys and 3 Zevsda T28's. Those came with two choices of turret, the earlier one was used on BT-7A/8 so now looking for 3 of those. Awaiting varnish, once the Romans are did 4 Danish M113, 5 Lees, a Zevsda Maus and Brumbar, two buggies for gaslands. Also based up 32 QRF Dutch who are going to be Danish infantry. Anyone got a source for thin brass wire so as my challys can talk to each other ? My normal source, Rennies in Bold St has had to order from Germany so 4 weeks so far.
All in all not much done
Try Antics online modelshop:
https://anticsonline.uk/ (https://anticsonline.uk/)
Planning additional units I need to finish for a planned BKC campaign.
Romans and eigth more WW2 capital ships undercoated.
Lovely homemade scones round a friend's house. Why she hasn't applied for bake off I don't know!
And I've just varnished the last batch of 12 ships.
I only mixed putty to base 3, oops.
Base-coated and over-brushed the mausoleums: actual painting with actual pots of paints and actual brushes!!!
Woo-hoo <:-P
(It's the little things ;) )
Quote from: Steve J on 22 August 2020, 07:17:57 PM
Try Antics online modelshop:
https://anticsonline.uk/ (https://anticsonline.uk/)
Ta La - bought some
Nice one Merion
Based up some additional units needed for my WWII Brits and Germans. Grit to be added later, then priming tomorrow.
Glad you got your brass Ian. We are lucky to have one of their shops in Bristol and it very much an old fashioned modelshop, which is great in this day and age.
A bit of tackle and varnish on the Sarmatians today.
Spent a hard weekend on various terrain items: clearing ivy off an old well, painting barn doors, treating and staining assorted other internal and external timberwork, turning an old bonfire/rubbish tip in front of a house into level lawn.
This would have been much easier in 10mm scale, but these terrain items are 1:1.
Chris
Bloody Big BATTLES!
https://groups.io/g/bloodybigbattles
http://bloodybigbattles.blogspot.com/
Should ha hid better Chris.
Me Iv'e finished the Romans, anatnaed the challys, got the first 3 colours on the EAP archers (no one sing Barwick Green here) and 15 mm Huns.
Gimme frigging strength. X_X
In despair - Phil
Quote from: mad lemmey on 23 August 2020, 07:53:50 AM
Nice one Merion
Thanks Will :-bd
Made it to Halfords this morning after my daughter's soccer match: black spray paint purchased; black spray paint deployed; rest of the necropolis sprayed black, overbrushed and then drybrushed; progress made :D
:-bd
Primed and starting adding base colours to my WWII bits'n'pieces using Halfords primer and satin black. Frankly in a different league to Army Painter Spray Primer...
...BUT...
be warned that the Halford's paint is about as nasty a product as you could wish to buy. When we did a CoSHH assessment just before I was made redundant, the Halford's plastic primer ticked pretty much every nasty box possible, coming in as out Number 1 most harmful product!
So when using this, please, please spray it outside or out of a door to vent to the fresh air. Your body will thankyou for it!
4.3m x 40cm x 22cm trench dug across the kitchen today.
Painting might not be on the cards tonight...
That's far too deep, the figures are only 10mm tall!
Might work for Action Man though....
How's the back Lemmey
Not quite the same size as your trench Will, but working on some mdf trenches for BKC this evening.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 24 August 2020, 05:57:53 PM
4.3m x 40cm x 22cm trench dug across the kitchen today.
I know lockdown has tested a lot of relationships, Will, but isn't this a bit extreme?
Gonna hurt tomorrow!
Rhoxolani lances have metal tips now.
Assembled some more trench sections and based up a couple of pillboxes that I scratch built around 10 years ago.
Filler and grit added to the trench and pillbox bases, with the latter looking much better based than free standing.
I should be basing the Sarmatians today; maybe a start on the Dacians.
I'll be carrying on working on a somewhat 'odd' model that Leon asked me if I'd like to make.
It is 'fantasy'.....But not as we know it. ;)
There's also all the normal 'stuff' to get on with. ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil :)
T'ang? More Mexicans? :D
Primed field defences. Base coats to be added later.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 26 August 2020, 06:44:31 AM
T'ang? More Mexicans? :D
No.....not the last time I looked, Alexander ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil :)
Recent eye-test? Don't neglect them, really!
Nothing wrong with my eyesight !
Though I probably shouldn't have played air guitar with an air pick using a brand new No10 Swan Morton blade.
Whoops !
Cheers - The total git. X_X
Trying to get an eye test with Covid restrictions is like getting blood out of a stone! I imagine they are in a similar position to dentists and only seeing about 5% of patients. Our neighbour has macular degeneration and is not a priority for an eye test, despite it having gotten worse under lockdown!
Eh ?
Good grief !
That doesn't sound good, Steve......NOT a priority ?
Very strange times....Sigh. =)
Cheers - Phil (I won't go off on one......I'll just start a blo**y row.....and I'm supposed to stop those.....Hey-Ho.)
I have managed on Saturday this week
And yet my optician is sending me begging letters to book an appointment?!
Quote from: Steve J on 26 August 2020, 02:58:48 PM
Trying to get an eye test with Covid restrictions is like getting blood out of a stone! I imagine they are in a similar position to dentists and only seeing about 5% of patients. Our neighbour has macular degeneration and is not a priority for an eye test, despite it having gotten worse under lockdown!
My daughter has just been for an eye test, and picked up new specs today. She had no trouble getting an appointment with spec savers. She was wanting new glasses before going back to college as she felt her prescription had changed, so nothing too urgent.
Yep, we keep getting letter from Boots Opticians about booking our appointments. Tried 'phoning but says book online, which you can't do unless you tick the diabetic box!!! Confused? We sure as hell are. We might try some other opticians as it's farcical.
Quote from: toxicpixie on 26 August 2020, 03:42:42 PM
And yet my optician is sending me begging letters to book an appointment?!
I have my rescheduled annual appointment next week. I prefer the independents as they have to be good to keep ahead of the big companies.
Quote from: Steve J on 26 August 2020, 08:46:33 PM
Yep, we keep getting letter from Boots Opticians about booking our appointments. Tried 'phoning but says book online, which you can't do unless you tick the diabetic box!!! Confused? We sure as hell are. We might try some other opticians as it's farcical.
I've always found
Specsavers very good, Steve.
When I went in a few weeks ago to have one of the arms on my specs 'cannibalized', they were very efficient.
Fair do's.....They would only have one customer in the shop at a time....But I can't imagine a shop that size in Cardigan ever having more than two people in for tests, at a time.
The young lass wore a 'full set' of PPI, and her 'apron' was to be replaced after every customer.
Things
may have changed by now regarding the number of folk allowed in at one time, so they
could even be back to 'almost normal'.
Give 'em a try, Matey.
Cheers - Phil :)
Thanks Phil, we're going to try some others, but near us all of the independents have closed :(.
Commission Figurines trenches all painted and ready for flocking.
Trenches flocked :).
Talking of trenches...
Two hours in the park with my youngest daughter and her mates from school.
Another 2.4m trench dug today, external this time, in the rain. One half full of rubble and broken roof tiles, the other side was clay!
Bath.
Double bed frame built for my eldest daughter.
And a new tool used in my Dremmel, side cut drill bit to cut the holes for electrics in our new plaster board in the kitchen, only two went wrong.
Tired now, but that was a GOOD day... :D
Painting, not done any since last week.
That's a busy old day to say the least Will. What's the trench for if I may ask?
Drain ? :-\
I'm pretty sure Will told me about a 'blocked' area for 'something' coming out of the kitchen or utility room (?), a while ago.
Cheers - Phil
Upstairs toilet has been causing us problems with the saniflow for years (now on my 3rd), its dorectly above the kitchen, so soils pipe going in while we gut the kitchen.
And I was hoping for interesting archaeology!
Did you do a geofizz first or have a battered floppy hat on?
Bits and pieces painted - mostly in brown and bronze - including a base/undercoat on a dragon my wife bought me as a birthday present <:-P
Receipt was in the box: 1994, Virgin Games Centre (Oxford Street)!
Grenadier Dragon Lords Red Dragon II for those who are interested ;)
Think she's a keeper :x
Probably worth a bit.
On eye tests, Arrowe Park just set my diabetic test for next SAturday
Trench extended today, found a complete luadanim bottle in it! hole cut in exterior wall, pipe work for upstairs toilet fitted across kitchen floor, wiring chased in, sockets wired in, brokenn pipe repaired, pipework boxed in (by me), door frame plaster boardededed by me, soil pipe surrounded by pea gravel.
Just a quiet day.
Sounds like you're doing a grand job Will. Did you take a swig from the bottle to ease the pain of the day ;) :D?
Brilliant work, Will !
I was wondering about the bottle, as well, Steve ! ;D ;D
Never found anything exciting 'digging'...never will now.
I wouldn't mind having a go at metal 'detectoring' in the fields, at some stage....but I think the best I'd find are a lot of old horseshoes.....and possibly mortar shells, from what I understood from 'Old Sid' who used to live up the road. (So perhaps I'll give it a miss.) ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Have a watch Of the Detecorists by Mackenzie Crook - it's very low key and very funny!
The Detectorists is just sublime telly :).
I've finished flocking the pillbox bases, so all the defence pieces are now completed ready for my mini-campaign.
Quote from: toxicpixie on 29 August 2020, 08:32:34 AM
Have a watch Of the Detecorists by Mackenzie Crook - it's very low key and very funny!
I know you lot think I'm completely daft.....But I'm NOT risking digging up old bits of WWII stuff.
Petrol fireballs are my
absolute limit.....and i won't be doing that again. X_X
Cheers - Phil :P
Bases completed on a variety of WWII infantry to round off existing forces. Uniforms to be started tomorrow.
Dacian nobles done, Bastarnae and Trogloditae under the brush.
You're painting illegitimate cavemen now?
Did that many years ago with a neolithic hunting party. There was much indignation on the part of the player who ended up playing the dog.
Bet the dog was the most useful member of the group :D
We all got eaten by a pack of sabre-tooths.
4 and a half bags of self-levelling compound mixed by hand and poured onto the kitchen floor today.
That's my bit done, now its up to the Amazing Mrs Denham to decorate.
Oh, and 94 shield transfers applied to the 10mm auxiliaries I've not touched in nearly 3 weeks.
A bit of basing done to some terrain. Hopefully some painting today.
I've got to figure out how to make 3 separate (as far the moulding is concerned) riders to fit on a beastie that doesn't already have a saddle.
It's going to be horribly fiddly, and I will probably almost certainly end up using a lot of harsh language.
Never had to make any separate riders at a wee scale.
Wouldn't be difficult at 25/30mm, as the wire for the legs would be reasonably sturdy, but the wire I'll have to use to 'build up the legs' is going to be so fine, it's going to wobble about all over the place when I start putting the putty on. :-\
Cheers - Phil.
Could you cover the beastie with clingfilm or tin foil, so you can sculpt the figure directly onto said beastie? We used to do this when putting filler on parts that needed to be seperate and worked pretty well, as long as you allowed for shrinkage.
3 British WWII command bases painted and washed. It's a good few years ago that I painted the main units and now looking at them they look a but dull due to the wash. I may go back and add highlights to make them pop a bit.
Quote from: Steve J on 03 September 2020, 10:14:34 AM
Could you cover the beastie with clingfilm or tin foil, so you can sculpt the figure directly onto said beastie? We used to do this when putting filler on parts that needed to be seperate and worked pretty well, as long as you allowed for shrinkage.
I
think I've sussed how to do this, Steve........You're not going to be a million miles away. ;)
I've worked out two options.....I'll take the easiest, so I don't have to get Leon to cast 'bits' up, and then return to Techno Towers.....Where I'd have to ream
wodges of white metal away from the returned 'bits'.
I HAVE used clingfilm before, to stop things 'sticking'.....I'm very impressed you (anyone) thought of that. :-bd
I'll probably use some 'instant' silicon mould, so I can make copies of the 'saddle'.
Cheers - Phil :)
QuoteI'm very impressed you (anyone) thought of that.
It's a standard technique in the prototyping World, so I can't claim any credit for it.
I added 'highlights' to the WWII Brits and I'm glad I did, they look much better. So now just have to flock 3 bases and I have a good basic British Battalion for '39 - '45. Still more units to do and some to highlight, but nearly there :).
Quote from: Steve J on 03 September 2020, 02:47:48 PM
It's a standard technique in the prototyping World, so I can't claim any credit for it.
I think I used that technique over 20 years ago. ;D
I'm sure I wouldn't have been the first to think of it by a factor of 'umpteen'.
Cheers - Phil. ;)
HQ bases flocked.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 02 September 2020, 11:10:27 PM
4 and a half bags of self-levelling compound mixed by hand and poured onto the kitchen floor today.
That's my bit done, now its up to the Amazing Mrs Denham to decorate.
Oh, and 94 shield transfers applied to the 10mm auxiliaries I've not touched in nearly 3 weeks.
On first reading this I thought you must be fashioning a VERY big base. :o ;D
I suppose it is, just not for models.
Shield transfers added to dismounted cavalry. Shoulder patches, rank stripes, helmet markings, etc added to 28mm US airborne.
Never again on that second item. @-) @-) @-) :-B X_X :-t :-t ^#(^ [-(
Two Legion figures done, just a pile of basing to do...
Back on the painting treadmill, actually feels good.
Sand and pva applied to many bases, and 6 british destroyers and a cruiser assembled.
Finished my Cents, Challys, T28's and "Danish" Infantry, Tomorrow back to the Huns in 15 and 10mm Persian archers (can defo hear Barwick green at very low level back there :) )
Inks on bases. Waiting for it to dry now :-w :!!
Bases painted, highlighted and painted sealed between jobs in the kitchen rebuild.
Spot of dragon painting over the last couple of days, it's now nice and red.
Also splatted a load of gun-metal onto some WH40K scenery, so it's suitably shiny in a grim-dark kind of way ;)
Also painted the zits/warts on a vintage Citadel troll bought c1986 and did a few other bits and pieces.
...also some 1:1 painting in eldest daughter's room. This DIY malarkey is almost as catching as Covid! :'(
Round spherical objects, to that. ;)
I was supposed to be going around the fields, pulling ragwort out, today. :P
Can't be bothered. ;)
Cheers - Mr Lazy. :D
Who is Round Spherical, and why does he or she object?
Dacian archers are based. Today I fancy an ancient battle of Egyptians and Arabs. Lee will have to let me win - it's my birthday.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday, Alexander ! :)
Cheers - Phil
(And I didn't get away with the 'de-ragworting' the fields, yesterday ;)...At least there wasn't much to get rid of. :)
Happy birthday Alexander
Youse gettin old Alexander
A student wouldn't believe I was over 40 a while ago, bless her heart!
How thick were her glasses ?
Talking of age.....Von reached the heady heights of finally reaching her 'recalculated' State Pension age yesterday. Huzzah !! :-bd <:-P
Cheers - Phil. :)
I think it's 10 years for me until I achieve State Pension age, based upon current calculations.
Happy birthday Alexander! May your victory be sweet as cake.🎂
The way retirement age keeps creeping up I'll likely be long buried before I qualify for a state pension, if they even exist by then. :(
Lee generously let me win today. :)
She is a kindly soul ;D
Happy birthday Alexander <:-P
The battle was too realistic - the air-con's on the blink in the gaming room! The middle-east has never seemed closer and more real.
Happy Birthday to both Alexander and Von!
Lang may yer lums reek! :)
Quote from: Techno on 06 September 2020, 03:14:07 PM
Round spherical objects, to that. ;)
I was supposed to be going around the fields, pulling ragwort out, today. :P
Can't be bothered. ;)
Cheers - Mr Lazy. :D
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/mrmen/images/e/e2/Lazy1.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20191112220852)
Got to say it, the resemblance
is uncanny ;)
What about the hair :P
If I was shaped like that......I'd almost be treading on my hair.
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Flocks and clumps on, now just need to tuft..
No gaming related activity the past few days as I take our daughter back to Uni tomorrow, all the way from Bristol to Edinburgh. I'm going to be a tired bunny to say the least.
Stroll on......That's a damn good trek, Steve ! :o
I should think you would be tired !!
Take care - Phil :)
Safe trip sir
Thanks chaps. Yep, on a good day with stops I've done it in around 7 and a bit hours, but that was when full lockdown had kicked in. Normally we're looking at over 8 hours and that's with hitting the road at 4.00am to get past Birmingham and Manchester before the rush hour kicks in. After that it's plain sailing, famous last words!
Your sat nav will give you the terrifying message - stay on this road for 173 miles, just north of Preston. Luck with the road works. :!
Luckily I don't use a satnav otherwise the whole distance thing would be too depressing. Last time the roadworks weren't too bad, but are taking an enternity to complete.
Over 2 yrs to do between 16 and 19 on the 6, going south I always went round Crewe and joined at 16.
Kitchen sanded and undercoated.
I hate 1:1 scale work!
Daci are based.
horses highlighted riders started with highlights, then I fell asleep.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 14 September 2020, 06:06:44 AM
horses highlighted riders started with highlights, then I fell asleep.
I can't think why ;)
Basing today in the form of laying some concrete by our front door to prevent water ingress. The gas board didn't make good their work many moons ago and before our time in the house >:(.
Ouch.
2nd coat on kitchen and three rubble heaps served and sorted. Oh, and more work done on cavalry.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 14 September 2020, 01:56:37 PM
2nd coat on kitchen and three rubble heaps served and sorted.
For the rest of the day I'm going to have an image of fish and bricks on a plate. :D (With a good dollop of ketchup on the side.)
Cheers - Phil ;)
The third of the six Dacian warbands is now based up. 3 to go, and I've done flesh, hair, and shoes on them too. Just as well I've also got some Pendraken renaissance reinforcements on their way, and sent in an order for two renaissance galley fleets today. Other projects involve a bit more ECW baggage, and a few slingers among my Norsemen. Ah, and there's a turtle ship to be assembled for a little naval support against the Japanese invaders.
4th Dacian warband is based. May be seeing action next week.
Jo has tiled the kitchen floor.
Phil - you resigned as a moderator, you are showing as a guest on your last post on here ?
After some rendering on house today, I've been sorting through my Medieval figures for two 'Never Mind the Billhooks' forces. Some re-inforcements are in the offing :).
And Dacians no. 5 are based. One to go.
Roman cavalry and generals finished apart from shields and basing.
Shields done, phew 8)
#:-S
Dacians and Sarmatians should be banging heads against the Romans tomorrow.
Romans added to bases.
Trench 7 opened up! 1/2 ton of pea gravel moved. All trenches filled. Kitchen painting mistakes touched up, pipes clipped, much fetching and carrying for the boys outside, outside stack and bird's nest fitted.
Dacians are done. A small reinforcement to my Vikings is the next item.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 20 September 2020, 07:05:13 PM
Romans added to bases.
Trench 7 opened up! 1/2 ton of pea gravel moved. All trenches filled. Kitchen painting mistakes touched up, pipes clipped, much fetching and carrying for the boys outside, outside stack and bird's nest fitted.
Must be a shed load of Romans if it needs a 1/2 tonne of gravel for basing Will =O
What's the difference between pea gravel and roast beef?
You can roast beef.
Bases sand and pva'd.
Turtle ship half assembled; Viking slingers undercoated.
Viking slingers painted and based (they were only a couple of additions to the Norse LI).
Quote from: FierceKitty on 21 September 2020, 03:36:04 PM
Turtle ship half assembled; Viking slingers undercoated.
What turtle ship?
Some planning for painting tomorrow, given that Autumn has well and truly arrived.
Quote from: hammurabi70 on 22 September 2020, 05:54:25 PM
What turtle ship?
A Korean monster with broadsides and flamethrowers. They were major contributors to victory in the Korean War, since the Japanese had never had any need to worry about protecting supply lines in their endless fighting at home.
Addtional Fallschirmjager command stands and assault engineers basecoated and washed, ready for lacquering later. Funny painting these several years after the main units as I now know not to worry too much about details as, when on the table, I simply can't see them. The overall effect is what counts.
FJ flocked and finished, bar some additional ATGs, but these can wait a bit.
Bathroom disassembled.
*earthquake warning*
Trench filed, soil sieved, Jo spent five hours grouting.
What's Techno been up to then? Checking the seismograph as you work ;) :D?
Bases painted, highlighted, edged and pva sealed.
Flock and clumps on, tufts later.
Oh, and 216 15mm medieval Arab spearmen cleaned and assembled for a mate's 15mm commission, need to get them done by Saturday, maybe, well started at least. ;D :-B :!! :-t 8-}
Tufts on. Photos tomorrow.
Arab infantry up to highlighting stage, also assembled, primed and base coated 60 Light Horse for them too.
A bit more basing today, in advance of Storm Alex that is due to make the next few days rather wet here in Bristol.
Reinforcing Swiss pike blocks so they look more menacing. Berne done, Uri nearly so.
And Zuerich on its way too.
The Empire is striking back: the Aussig Landsknechts are under the brush. At Pavia a regiment of Germans on a wide outflanking night march wore white shirts to distinguish each other in the dark, which I'm taking as licence for an unusual look this time.
Zvezda planes assembled, but too wet and windy for any spray priming.
Ships based, primed and inked.
Romans' flesh done.
Few bits done on the arabs.
Quote from: Steve J on 01 October 2020, 05:01:00 PM
in advance of Storm Alex that is due to make the next few days rather wet here in Bristol.
Truly VILE weather, here, too....Especially yesterday. :o :o :o X_X......................YUKK !!!!
Cheers - Wet and windswept of Wales.
Done...hmmm, could use a few more gensd'armes and Reiter....
Almost finished the arab foot.
Horses done for cavalry.
Arabs just need shield transfers and bases finished now.
Romans need collar and cuffs, shields, bases and a few standards doing.
Venetian squadron is on the blocks, with the Arsenal working overtime. Hmmm, an irritating thing: we know a lot of the names of the vessels in the Holy League, but Ottoman records use the names of the captains, not their ships.
Spent so much time yesterday reaming white metal away with the Dremmel, I thought my right ear was going to start bleeding.
No wonder the hearing in my right ear is worse than the left, with the racket that thing makes.
Oooo....first promotion, the second time around. :D
Cheers - Phil.
That's twice the booze Phil - took you long enough.
Cheers
Yes......But I'm already starting to lap people.. ;)
Cheers - Phil. ;D ;D
Romans and Arabs just need tufts now.
As my mdf bases arrived from Pendraken today, I spent the evening starting to base up a load of Commission Figurines mdf figures. Just using wood glue and figures on strips made the whole process incredibly quick :). More of the same tomorrow.
Cavalry and commands based today. The tricky artillery maybe assembled tonight :-.
6mm paras and 4 10mm vehicles undercoated.
MDF artillery assembled, which was easier than I imagined it would be, but still took time to do. All I have left to do is base the gunners and then add some poles for the standard bearers and I'm ready to start basing.
Base coat and ink on.
Bases painted and highlighted, figures painted to the end. Bases sealed. Beasting these. :d
The Spanish squadron should be ready to join the Venetians and Maltese today (we're just expecting the Inquisition, but don't tell them that); the it's the Genoese and Papal forces, and I can get going on the Turks. Does anyone have any idea if the diekplus manouevre was still extant in the early modern era?
Flock and clumps added, just tufts to do.
Big box of masters packed and sent to sir. :)
Those will keep the casting elves busy for a good while. :D
Cheers - Phil ;)
Oh do tell Phil ;).
Owt intrestin Phil ?
Spill Phil!
Tufts done, now to label them up.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 19 October 2020, 01:57:04 AM
The Spanish squadron should be ready to join the Venetians and Maltese today (we're just expecting the Inquisition, but don't tell them that); the it's the Genoese and Papal forces, and I can get going on the Turks. Does anyone have any idea if the diekplus manouevre was still extant in the early modern era?
I doubt it. The cannon would get in the way. No mention of it by Guilmartin.
Only 'fantasy', Ian/Steve/Will ;)
I'm pleased with them (which makes a change.. ;)).....'cos I've started them all completely from 'scratch'......Ratties and Amazons. ;)
Cheers - Phil :)
Thanks for the 'info' Phil :).
Quote from: hammurabi70 on 19 October 2020, 04:16:28 PM
I doubt it. The cannon would get in the way. No mention of it by Guilmartin.
My impression too. I've never been altogether sure why it was considered so deadly in antiquity, honestly. After the leading ships had done their bit, the following units can't have much work.
It was easier for ships to keep station in line abreast. So less well trained fleets preferred this formation.
A fleet with lighter, more agile ships and better trained crews would aim to break the line. The flagship, leading, would use it's advantages to sheer off the oars of one of the ships it is passing between. Inevitably, losing one side's oars causes the ship to turn because the oars on the other side are slill moving, for a moment at least. Thus presenting it's beam to the ram of the second or third ship in the diekplus. If other ships in the less agile and well trained fleet attempts to intervene it opens it's beam in turn to further attack.
Rinse and repeat.
Of course if the enemy turn out to have better trained crews or nimbler ships than you expected, or a trick up their sleeves, things could go south in short order.
Also, it doesn't matter if you've lost your oars if you can use a corvus, harpax or similar to simply bind the enemy to you and prove that no amount of seamanship helps you if you have a century of Roman Marines roaming your deck!
Ram vs. board is as much a seesaw as any other arms race. Leading to oddities like the Ptolemies catamaran "Forty" and the Roman corvus and the hemiola and trihemiola.
Mmm, I remember John Warry's clear illustrations of the workings of the diekplus. But after you shear the vessels to left and right of the column (they wouldn't be the Bismark and Tirpitz; not enough to cripple an enemy force), what next? Fight it out in a disorderly on the assumption that your ships are better? Dull gaming if tactics are just about how to make a grand slam when you have thirteen spades in your hand....
Thanks Phil
You're welcome, Both ! ;)
(I'll be able to relax, once I know that the box has arrived safely !......It's insured for lots of pennies, but I'll still be happier when I know it's reached Pendraken Towers.)
Not sure whether Leon intends to pop any piccies up. :-\.......There are a good few that aren't 100% finished.....They're at 'super dolly' stage, which I'll get back (in multiples) to finish off those particular codes.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: FierceKitty on 20 October 2020, 02:17:13 AM
Mmm, I remember John Warry's clear illustrations of the workings of the diekplus. But after you shear the vessels to left and right of the column (they wouldn't be the Bismark and Tirpitz; not enough to cripple an enemy force), what next? Fight it out in a disorderly on the assumption that your ships are better? Dull gaming if tactics are just about how to make a grand slam when you have thirteen spades in your hand....
You clear the enemy line, turn in succession and have another go, hoping no doubt to catch some enemy vessels in mid-turn as they try to follow you.
Or you watch in horror as your ships are winched alongside the enemy by harpaxes. Or as those big slow ships pelt your lighter vessels with rocks/ bolts/ fire arrows from their catapults. Or as your ships are showered with clay posts full of really pissed off bees! Or as your ship's rams get wedged in the enemy and are dragged down with them. Or as your ram is snapped off by the impact and you start taking on water.
So many ways for things to go wrong :)
50 odd rebased bases of Romans sanded and pva'd this am.
70 and odd arab cavalrymen base coated and inked this pm (did the horses a few weeks back).
Stared at the next batch of 1:3000 warships, maybe too soon?
First brigade of mdf figures had grit applied to their bases. Hopefully will get to do another brigade tonight.
Two mdf brigades primed and painted black, ready for the next stage.
I brigades worth of bases paintd and drybrushed, ready for the uniforms tomorrow :).
First Battalion painted and didn't take too long, which is good. It took a bit of adjusting to painting 6mm mdf rather than 10mm metal. I had to keep rmemebering I'm painting the unit and not each single figure. I might try and flock them tonight as that tends to bring everyting together.
Was up until 1.30 last night working on Hafsid light horse, and another 45 minutes today before a game this pm.
More work done on Hafsid light horse, and as I'm away for a few days, I've assembled three regiments of 1809 Austrian Infantry to start painting.
Genoese and Papal ships are nearly done, which will complete the Holy League fleet, I'm afraid the Ottoman force is 50% bigger (but numerous little pirate boats, and no galleasses). I've got some good ideas about rules, I think.
The Holy League is waiting for Turks and some rules. Navwar 1:1200.
More.
Ying tong iddle i po.
:-bd =D> :-bd
Very nice.
Austrian infantry started
Very nice work Alexander 8)
Seconded !
They look really zippy ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Purrrrrrr.
Another mdf battalion finished and much quicker and more enjoyable than the first, now that I know how to paint them :).
Austrians highlighted, flesh inked and highlighted, black on helmets, ammo pouches and other parts.
MDF light infantry and cavalary painted this morning whilst it was grim outside. Artillery and some command bases next and then I have one Brigade finished :)
Quote from: Steve J on 29 October 2020, 11:10:09 AM
whilst it was grim outside.
You can talk, Steve !!!!......YUKK !! ;)
One minute past four.......It might just as well be time for Techno to go to bed.....It's so expletive deleted dark. :'( :'( :'(
Cheers - Mr Sore-Arm (From ANOTHER bloody jab. =))
Well I think you're in for far worse tomorrow Phil :(.
At bases painted for another brigade this afternoon.
Me & Von are more than used to it, Steve. ;)
Cheers - Phil :)
Command and artillery finished for the first brigade. Lacquering, flags and flock to follow, then onto the opposition.
Quote from: Steve J on 29 October 2020, 06:13:46 PM
Well I think you're in for far worse tomorrow Phil :(.
Not what you'd call a 'nice' day, Steve......But nothing remotely as bad as was threatened.
I think the brown smelly stuff is going to hit the swirly thing tonight and tomorrow. =)
Cheers - Phil ;)
Hair, leather, metalwork done on light horse.
Austrians blankets/greatcoats and bronzework done.
Yep Phil, tomorrow is looking pretty horrible!
Gloss lacquer applied to mdf figures, to help the colours stand out more.
Collars, cuffs, turnbacks and steelwork done on Austrians tonight.
Flocking completed and flags to follow.
Austrians done apart from basing process
Also varnished all the figures I finished in the last month, as I finally got hold of some...
I'm still waiting for my 'closest' gaming store to get some varnish in stock :-w ~X(
They are friendly but 50km (31 miles) away doesn't really count as local :(
Flags finished and so I'd better start painting the opposition so I can use them in a game or two :).
One Turkish, one Algerian squadron done. Next Turks and the Egyptians are on the slipway.
Roman skirmishers assembled, undercoated and base coated.
239 (gah, one short) 10mm disassembled and glued on new bases.
Two Battalions of the 'Red' team finished today, bar flags and flocking. Once the colour scheme was sorted, they were very quick to paint :).
Paint slowly going onto more Turkish galleys. I am wearing special spectacles, custom-designed for the purpose and known as "galley glasses".
Aaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 06 November 2020, 02:39:37 AM
I am wearing special spectacles, custom-designed for the purpose and known as "galley glasses".
Are they Irish?
Two more Battalions started tonight, with main colours on. Eyes too tired for details which will follow tomorrow.
Quite a busy day, highlights, flesh base, flesh wash, flesh highlights, wood and leather on and inked, bronze work done.
Facings and cuffs next.
Two Battalions nearly finished.
A good day with the two Battalions finished, along with Light Infantry, Cavalry and Commands :). Artillery tomorrow then lacquer, flocking and flags.
Austrians and Romans and roman rebases all at the sand and pva stafe.
Assembled 3 units of 10mm Dacians for a commission and 8 Mortal Gods Spartans for another one.
So the second mdf brigade is all painted and now lacquered. Flags next then flocking tonight if I can.
So the seoncd brigade now all finished, so time to get them onto the table., as well as moving onto the remaining units for both sides.
An awful lot of bases inked last night. 🌙
Grit applied to another mdf brigade.
More basing on another brigade, along with priming and painting bases.
Transfers added to last two tugs of Hafsid light horse.
Photos tomorrow. (23:57gmt)
Another new word I've learned ! :)
Never heard of tugs, apart from the little boats that push (or pull) bigger boats around.
Cheers - Phil
Many dozens of bases dry brushed.
Now they are pva sealed
Just finished glueing the 10mm PSC to PD MDF bases and finished basing the 15mm huns and 28mm Zulus.......
Bases and figures drybrushed, so now ready for uniforms to be painted.
Rest of Spartan Mortal Gods assembled, drilled pinned and glued.
'nutha Turkish squadron is based. Beginning the last tomorrow, I think.
Two more mdf Battalions painted this afternoon, ready for lacquering this evening and flocking tomorrow.
Six frames made for some brand new figures.....I'd forgotten how sodding fiddly those are to do at 'wee' scales.......Industrial language in abundance ! >:(......Especially when burning my fingers when soldering three of the frames together.
More stuff posted up to Sir. :)
Cheers - Phil ;)
Some command bases and light infantry painted tonight.
Starting work on the last Ottoman squadron (the bigger Algerian ships), then they'll sail.
Two more Battalions painted this morning.
Two from scratch figures done to waist......Three frames (again from scratch).....bulked out.
One figure put in the chest freezer, so I can go back to it on Monday. :D
Cheers - Phil ;)
Flags done on four Battalions this evening. Hopefully cavalry and artillery tomorrow.
Cavalry finished as planned :).
Quote from: Steve J on 21 November 2020, 05:39:29 PM
Cavalry finished as planned :).
Quote from: Steve J on 20 November 2020, 09:58:20 PM
Flags done on four Battalions this evening. Hopefully cavalry and artillery tomorrow.
:-\ ;)
Family 'stuff' prevented the artillery being finished Paul :D
No explanations required, just remembered your earlier comment which had ended up on the previous page and couldn't resist ;)
Family always comes first :)
Italian battleships and British cruisers, Dacian spears all base coated and inked.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 22 November 2020, 09:45:00 AM
Italian battleships and British cruisers, Dacian spears all base coated and inked.
My Dacians scream every time I unpack them. Five defeats for one victory, poor chaps.
PAH ! ;)....
I know it's not war-gaming....but every (very early) morning I try and kick my brain into gear by...
1)......Doing the daily 'minesweeper' challenges from Microsoft.....Far too easy, now...YAWN...(:| (:| (:|
2).....Then I take on the PC at card games for half an hour. One game I play, should give me a one in four chance of winning.....And I've been totally thrashing the program for the past two/three years.
Suddenly it seems to be being a complete bar-steward......Over the past few weeks I'm down to a win once in a dozen times.
I know I play dirty......which is probably the reason I win so often......But the PC is playing dirty now.....I've barely won a single game recently !
Cheers - Phil ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D
WARNING: SENTIENCE LEVEL ONE HAS BEEN ACHIEVED!
ACTIVATE PROTOCOL RED!
Step one of it evolving into this :)
(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/expanse/images/6/63/Closeup_of_HPH_in_Roci_cargo_bay-enhanced.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170416182559)
:) :) :) :)
Mortal Gods Spartan boxed set commission base coated and inked, as are three Pendraken samurai buildings, the cast of HHG2TG and four Funky Skull 💀 characters.
Flocked a load of bases tonight so they can be used in a planned game in a day or two.
Dacians finally finished highlights. Flesh and steel on and inked, thankfully. Been a bit of a busy week.
Base colours and wash applied to a Leven Miniatures building.
Flesh highlights done.
Quote from: Techno II on 22 November 2020, 11:15:09 AM
PAH ! ;)....
I know it's not war-gaming....but every (very early) morning I try and kick my brain into gear by...
1)......Doing the daily 'minesweeper' challenges from Microsoft.....Far too easy, now...YAWN...(:| (:| (:|
2).....Then I take on the PC at card games for half an hour. One game I play, should give me a one in four chance of winning.....And I've been totally thrashing the program for the past two/three years.
Suddenly it seems to be being a complete bar-steward......Over the past few weeks I'm down to a win once in a dozen times.
I know I play dirty......which is probably the reason I win so often......But the PC is playing dirty now.....I've barely won a single game recently !
Cheers - Phil ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D
Google have secretly been installing AlphaZero onto your PC. Only explanation.
Quote from: Techno II on 22 November 2020, 11:15:09 AM
PAH ! ;)....
I know it's not war-gaming....but every (very early) morning I try and kick my brain into gear by...
1)......Doing the daily 'minesweeper' challenges from Microsoft.....Far too easy, now...YAWN...(:| (:| (:|
2).....Then I take on the PC at card games for half an hour. One game I play, should give me a one in four chance of winning.....And I've been totally thrashing the program for the past two/three years.
Suddenly it seems to be being a complete bar-steward......Over the past few weeks I'm down to a win once in a dozen times.
I know I play dirty......which is probably the reason I win so often......But the PC is playing dirty now.....I've barely won a single game recently !
Cheers - Phil ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D
Are you now playing it for money?
Just a theory.
Wood and leatherwork painted and inked.
Another Brigade of mdf figures primed this afternoon.
Admit it, Steve....you just like the aroma of laser cut MDF. ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Dacian batch figure painting all done, about 50% of them have shield transfers. :-B @-) 8-}
I hate the really acrid smell of it Phil, so when I received the figures I left them out of their bags in the garage for a few days for the smell to dissipate. When I worked in a modelmaking workshop, if the laser cutter was cutting the mdf, it stank the whole workshop out, even with the dedicated extraction system on. In the end we had to put the spray booth on as well as otherwise it would affect the rest of the building.
Back to the painting front and base coat applied to the bases, ready for drybrushing tomorrow.
Bases all dry brushed, so now onto the figures.
Two artillery units and one cavalry unit finished today. More to follow tomorrow all being well.
Final 96 shields done, all shields edged.
Now to varnish and attach to bases
Bases inked
HMS Berwick, and five Southampton class cruisers painted for ww2
Two Battalions of mdf figures finished this morning.
Spartan Mortal gods base highlighted and fleshed and wooded and leathered.
Ottoman fleet painted and based. Rules to be written soon.
Dacians bases painted, highlighted, sealed flocked and clumped. Just tufts to add and they're done
Cavalry and command units all but finished this evening. Artillery and light infantry tomorrow.
Light infantry done, but failed to do the artillery.
Spartans all done, including all the basing, apart from shields which just need finishing off.
Two Italian battleships finished apart from labels.
Doesn't sound like much, but quite a bit done today.
Quote from: Steve J on 06 December 2020, 08:36:08 PM
Light infantry done, but failed yet to do the artillery.
FTFY ;)
Thanks Paul and God knows why I wrote it like that :-!!!. Anyway, artillery finished, with flags and flocking to follow.
Flags and flocking completed :). Two more Battalions to go, but no hurry on these. Now thinking of what to paint next, with some SCW/WWII skirmish units probably top pf my list.
Undercoated a few more Dacian and Sarmatian troops, esp. some skirmishers (those Roman catapults aren't funny).
72 Hafsid foot skirmishers base coated between successful job interview and remote naval thundet victory.
Today IS a good day!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 08 December 2020, 03:01:10 PM
72 Hafsid foot skirmishers base coated between successful job interview and remote naval thundet victory.
Today IS a good day!
Congrats!
Well done on the interview front Will :).
Thanks chaps
well done Lemmey.
Congrats, Chum.
Delighted for you ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Good stuff Will! Did you find out straight away?
Before the end of the interview basically! :D
Oh, and the two Littorio class battleships that saw action finished tonight.
Congratulations on the job! What? Where? When?
Oh, and on the Naval Thunder victory, naturally. :)
Quote from: mad lemmey on 08 December 2020, 11:09:08 PM
Before the end of the interview basically! :D
Good work!
Quote from: Ithoriel on 09 December 2020, 01:22:32 AM
Congratulations on the job! What? Where? When?
Oh, and on the Naval Thunder victory, naturally. :)
Full time teaching at a local extended secondary with yr 6
Enjoy
Congratulations on the naval victory
and the job ;) :-bd :-bd
Thank you
Lot of work done on Hafsid foot skirmishers. Some 28mm sci-fi civilians have had some highlights.
Also finally painted 3 10mm Japanese buildings by Pendraken that have been on the desk for month. Photos of these three when basing materials are dry...
Hafsid foot skirmishers now just need tidying up, shield transfers and basing.
Samurai buildings done (thought they were done yesterday, but remembered the extra bit from the inn).
Some 28mm skirmish sci-fi non-combatent types added too.
Eldest daughter's Xmas pressie worked on (top secret).
Youngest daughter's pressie for her teacher base coated and inked (he's a Blood Bowl player and a Watford fan, makes an easy paint job).
Yeah, just a quiet one today.
Finally got some 28mm Roman horse and also the Zulus varnished, been invigilating at a school in Halewood, up at 05:30 every morning.
Basing up cavalry, archers, crossbows and bidowers for Lion Rampant.
72 shield transfers added/varnished.
Bases sanded/pva'd.
In case you haven't heard, my wife, Jo has been diagnosed with Covid and the entirety of her school staff too. Looks like our family is in isolation until the 22nd. Expect the numbers of painted figures to keep going up...
Quote from: mad lemmey on 13 December 2020, 04:06:40 PM
In case you haven't heard, my wife, Jo has been diagnosed with Covid and the entirety of her school staff too. Looks like our family is in isolation until the 22nd. Expect the numbers of painted figures to keep going up...
I trust she is doing well and that you and the girls are unaffected. Take good care of each other.
Tiz the equivalent of a massive dose of flu mixed with a nasty cold right now...
I hope it gets no worse than that, and the rest of you stay OK.
Should help with painting significantly.
Quote from: Ithoriel on 13 December 2020, 04:56:09 PM
I trust she is doing well and that you and the girls are unaffected. Take good care of each other.
Same from me, Will.
VERY best wishes to you and the family.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: mad lemmey on 13 December 2020, 05:50:33 PM
Tiz the equivalent of a massive dose of flu mixed with a nasty cold right now...
I've had a "massive dose of flu" twice in my life. In my experience it starts with you afraid you are dying and soon has you wishing you were so it would all be over.
So, massive (virtual and socially distanced) <hugs> and much sympathy to Jo.
Agreed. I think I've had 'flu twice. I certainly lost a few days whilst in its midst.
Get well soon.
Fingers crossed for you and all the family Will. My wife works in school too and it's a constant worry. So far this term 3 bubbles have had to go home, but fortunately none from her year group.
Best wishes to Jo and the rest of the staff
I hope you and the girls remain uninfected and are unaffected
Thanks chaps.
Feel pretty good today. See how long it lasts...
All the best Lemmey. Hope your wife has a swift recovery.
Likewise Will, must be worrying.....
Just take care, Will. :)
Though how you're supposed to keep yourself, and the rest of the family away from this s*dding bug, is beyond me.
If Von or I were unfortunate enough to 'catch' it.....We'd both (almost inevitably) be 'infected'.
The pair of us had a dose of 'proper' flu 30-40 years ago. I had such a high temperature that I was (genuinely) hallucinating....(I almost knew the secret to life, the universe and EVERYTHING) ..and we still had to go and deal with the two horses we had in those days....I don't know how we did it.
All I can remember, is the pair of us crawling out of bed, driving over to the place 'Red & Flissy' were stabled...somehow dealing with their food and water...getting back into the car....driving home...and then collapsing back into bed.
I really don't want to go through that again.
All the very best - Phil.
Had proper flu in the 80s, that was awful. Spent two weeks in bed, tried standing up once and passed out...
Jo managed to get out into the back garden fir a few minutes sunshine today.
Anyway, Hafsid foot skirmishers done, photos later. Next five units assembled. Sand and pva added a bunch of bases too. Converted crossbows and spears to wear turbans.
Sod toy soldiers for a few days, Will.
Just get Jo through it......and try and avoid it, yourself. (Yeah, right, Phil) X_X
All the very best - Phil.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 15 December 2020, 04:46:08 PM
Jo managed to get out into the back garden fir a few minutes sunshine today.
Sorry, and I mean no disrespect, but I did read this as Jo had escaped and you found her half way up a conifer.
I never thought I'd type this, but Techno II is right.
Stay well.
;D ;D ;D :D
More basing done last night and this morning. Nearly there in terms of core units for a game, with only the small matter of getting them painted...
Bored today. Day 6 of quarantine. Jo had about an hour of feeling okay today team, so a slow improvement. Had contact from new school and thats put my mind a bit more at ease.
Painting- Bloodbowl team for my youngest's teacher finished. Photos later.
More work done on non-combatant sci-fi figures basing, and last four Hafsid units base coated and inked.
I was so bored I even built an Archmedies screw and cistern inspired camp for their army.
Glad to hear Jo feeling a tad better today Will. Fingers and toes firmly crossed for all concerned.
Core units all based and some options covered for Lion Rampant. Hopefully adding basing grit tomorrow.
Quote from: Steve J on 17 December 2020, 09:04:22 PM
Glad to hear Jo feeling a tad better today Will. Fingers and toes firmly crossed for all concerned.
Thanks mate
Hope Jo continues to improve
Same from me, Will !
Cheers - Phil.
Sorry to hear about Jo, Will. I hope she continues to improve.
Two core forces for Lion Rampant, with options to play Neil Thomas' Medieval rules, all primed today.
Hope Jo continues to improve and the rest of you stay safe
Six and a half hours work today.
Took off the tiles and Plasterboarded the futility room today.
Good day.
Earthquake booked for Tuesday.
Scale 10 on the Ricter scale Will ?
2.1 I reckon.
Highlights and flesh tones done.
After 4.5 hours of taping and seams done on plasterwork too.
Hopefully.......Should be sending James and Leon a pic of the first of the Israeli bods later, for checking.
Apart from his shooty stick, he's finished. (I think)
I want to make sure I've got the 'uniform' right on the first one.....Then I can just keep copying it for all the others ! :D
Cheers - Phil :)
Dacian and Sarmatian reinforcements are painted and based; awaiting a few last coats of sealants.
3 more hours on sanding and filling plasterwork today, rebuilt top of wall where it meets the ceiling too. Hate 1:1 scale work.
Oh, and 2 and a half dozen bases sanded and pva'd.
Git the wheels - 92 and boots done on the 10mm PSC Ruskies done. I HATE PAINTING Wheels !
6 28mm gang members flesh and inked, then bases sculpted.
Two warband stands figures base coated and inked, bases sanded and pva'd and inked.
Quote from: mad lemmey on 19 December 2020, 09:27:04 PM
Earthquake booked for Tuesday.
You've excelled yourself, this time, Will. I hear a volcano on Hawaii has gone off on one, already.
Cheers - Phil :)
Good to have something spectacular my sleave for Xmas!
Maibee a neuw spelchekker ?
(It's predictive texts that really p*ss me off.....When I try and 'trype' something out on the tablet late (for me) at night......The sodding thing just makes things up !!)
Cheers - Phil. (I've just discovered my iPod connects to the net....without me telling it to..........I just......ONLY.... want it to play music to me...I'm not interested in all the other poop it's capable of.
Bring back Fax machines. ;)
What be a fax machine, some devilish new wizardry ?
Quote from: ianrs54 on 23 December 2020, 11:29:49 AM
What be a fax machine, some devilish new wizardry ?
Things worked.....back in those days..
Two warband stands nearly done, much basing highlighted and sealed, six gang members finished.
Four stormtroopers finished, 6 rebels underway. Just need to finish them and base them.
All done between celebrations of my eldest 16th.
Rebels done.
Bases sand and pva'd.
200+ 10mm Pikes assembled and undercoated for a commission.
Bases inked, but there's only 10 of those, so no real hardship there
Base colours, ink washes, highlights started on the Landscherneckts part of the army.
Bases painted and sealed on Legion troops
Flesh done, woodwork and leatherwork on and inked.
Details next, on Landscherneckts... :'( :-S :-B @-) ~X( X_X :-t
Finisged, varnished, sand and pva on bases, flags attached. Bit disappointed, only 37 flags on 80 Landscherneckt figures.
Hour on the futility room, two hour bike ride and walk with Rach. Gave Jo a break for a bit. She is much better, up to about 3 orb4 hours of upright now.
Good to hear Jo is improving :)
Very poor show on the Landsknechte flags [-(
Bases painted and sealed.
Next 19 Mortal Gods assembled based and undercoated.
135 Spanish pikes base coated and inked.
I got bored...
Second coat on the futility room walls
Highlights on pikes and flesh on and inked too.
I've been doing some 1:1 scale modelling today too - fitting the last couple of rows of laminate flooring in the conservatory, after having to wait for some wet areas to dry. The process is always such hard work, but the results look good!
Put laminate strips over the original bleak cell block tiles in our kitchen/living space/games room about a year ago; oh, the difference it makes to the quality of life!
Pikes based, painted and pva'd.
Back at work (part-time for vulnerable kids), so progress might slow a teeny-tiny bit...
Hope that goes well, Will !
Cheers - Phil :)
Seconded :)
So far so good.
Working 5 mornings a week, and being paid for 5 full days (until corona lockdown is over) and because Jo had it, I don't need to worry about it for a while.
So this afternoon 19 Mortal Gods Athenians base coated and inked.
8)
:-bd :-bd :-bd
Quote from: mad lemmey on 07 January 2021, 04:15:08 PM
I don't need to worry about it for a while.
You did exceptionally well to avoid it, Will !....Or do you think you HAVE had it and were asymptomatic ?
Whichever it is/was.....Take care, Chum. :-bd
All the best - Phil.
Finished the Atheanian contingent for Keith's Mortal Gods. Photos later. Futility room got its first coat of paint on the original walls and roof.
139 figures do far this year. I do like a good prime number.
Next batch of Dacians assembled and undercoated
First 'oooohhh - shiny' project of the year started. This could be fun, researching unusual things... ;D
Shiny project only needs flock etc...
Next 144 Dacians base coated and inked.
Pity they aren't mine. Will get mine restarted some day.
Mostly highlighted now.
I have realised that when I have finished this batch of Dacian spearman they will be my modal model figure for the last twelve months at 528 figures!!! @-) :-B
Dacians just need shield transfers @-) :-B ~X( and basing now. 8)
Trimming and clipping a medley of WOTR figures for a Kingmaker miniatures supplement I'm busy with.
Dacians done as far as sand and pva on bases. Ink to go on bases later... maybe.
Got bored painting and basing everyone else's 10mm stuff, so this afternoon assembled a battalion of some one else's 6mm British airlanding forces.
Bases inked.
10mm Dacian bases painted, highlighted and pva sealed.
6mm undercoated and bases sanded (its easier to go that way round in 6mm scale).
Base colours on 6mms and figures and bases inked.
Hand painting some simple flags designs on some minis that had temporary flags for far too long. Happy with the result :).
Figures done apart from flock, tufts and clumps.
I've finished the Israelis (apart from the GPMG on a tripod.) :D
I've just started the Egyptians..........I don't like those.....all those blanking pouches/pockets all over the place.. X_X.....and I don't understand the gas mask 'doofer'...I'll have to ask James what the heck it does at the front, underneath the vacuum cleaner pipe. :o :o :o
I'm also confused (there's a change =)) by the list.....
What's the difference between an AK47 & a 'Kalashnicov' ?........I thought an AK 47 WAS a Kalashnicov. 8-}
Cheers - Bewildered of Wales.
It contains the carbon filters which take out most of the gases.
7 more Star Wars legion and a flames of war figure that had been annoying m for ages base coated and inked.
Two units worth(ie a load) of 10mm sword and buckler men for my friend's Spanish commission cleared up.
Sgt Kalasnicov designed the AK 47, hence 2 names...
Quote from: Techno II on 23 January 2021, 08:26:06 AM
What's the difference between an AK47 & a 'Kalashnicov' ?........I thought an AK 47 WAS a Kalashnicov. 8-}
Flags on some AVBCW units replaced last night and hope to paint them today, to make them 'pop' a bit more.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 23 January 2021, 01:07:42 PM
Sgt Kalasnicov designed the AK 47, hence 2 names...
Thanks, Ian...That's what I understood.......
I might well have copied the list down incorrectly for that particular figure......Was there such a weapon as an AK 74 (rather than 47) and did the Egyptians use those in the conflict ?
On the gas mask......The piccy I've got shows a 'bit' on Matey's back (shape looks vaguely like an well oversized hip-flask) with the 'tube' going in at the top........I assume that's the bit with the filters in.
But the front view of a different figure shows the tube 'disappearing' under his left armpit..........
Unless a bit I can
just make out (side on) on the figure's left hip is the mask.....in a pouch ??
Does that sound right ?
I'll see if I can Google a piccy of a 1973 Egyptian gas mask.
Thanks, again - Cheers - Phil :)
Yes the 74 is same mechanisum smaller calibre 5.54 MM or similar !
Renaissance French and German nobles reinforced, and first batch of Bohemians undercoated.
Quote from: Techno II on 24 January 2021, 08:38:16 AM
I'll see if I can Google a piccy of a 1973 Egyptian gas mask.
I just Googled "Egyptian gas Mask". :-&
Be careful Phil ... there are things you should not know about.
Try this ...
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/russian-rubber-gas-mask-from-6-day-war-egypt-army (https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/russian-rubber-gas-mask-from-6-day-war-egypt-army)
Thing is I asume the gas masks are same as Warpact kit, and that's were the AK carrying wombles come from. Basically that mask has a filter in a long pointed face peice which made the squadies think of it as a womble suit. The other question is why are you doing figures in NBC gear, neither side ever used it and lacked any viable delivery system.
Assembled the next three batches as the snow came down.
Then spent a fruitless and utterly annoying half hour trying to find the bases I needed for batch four. ~X( ~X( ~X(
No idea where they have gone. #:-S 8-} @-) :-<
I will just have to order more on the 29th when I get paid!!! >:< :-B :]] :!!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 24 January 2021, 01:10:57 PM
I will just have to order more on the 29th when I get paid!!! >:< :-B :]] :!!
And they'll turn up on the 30th ;)
Quote from: ianrs54 on 24 January 2021, 10:04:07 AM
Thing is I asume the gas masks are same as Warpact kit, and that's were the AK carrying wombles come from. Basically that mask has a filter in a long pointed face peice which made the squadies think of it as a womble suit. The other question is why are you doing figures in NBC gear, neither side ever used it and lacked any viable delivery system.
Thanks again, Ian. :-bd
I actually managed to find a pic of that. :o......and once I had, the piccy I've already got made perfect sense.
I think it was again down to this strange 'two dimensional dyslexia' I seem to struggle with........It was SO bloody obvious, once I realised what I was looking at...... X_X
Just weird I couldn't see it in the first place !!!....I mean....there's even one of the eyepieces of the mask sitting there poking out of the top of the bag. =)
Cheers - Phil. :)
So the link I posted, which had lots of pictures?
I'm not made of stone y'know. :P
No Nobby you are unset cement . I did look at your link to confirm it was the type I was thinking of. To top it off now Phil has the masters almost done the mask would be worn with a bulky rubberisd suit - this link has a piccy
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FBG_OR0xIsyo%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fm.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DBG_OR0xIsyo&tbnid=-S2hPliHoPehYM&vet=12ahUKEwjgs63667TuAhWC2OAKHY-3DL0QMygAegUIARDwAQ..i&docid=kYMrVMPv_VOFaM&w=1280&h=720&q=soviet%20nbc%20gear&ved=2ahUKEwjgs63667TuAhWC2OAKHY-3DL0QMygAegUIARDwAQ
Not gear to wear in the Near East or Africa.
Yeah, I guess "RUSSIAN RUBBER GAS MASK FROM 6 DAY WAR EGYPT ARMY 1967" just wasn't close enough.
No it was fine, it's an area I had a small amount of knowledge in. With nerve gas you have to cover all the body with impremiable material, which makes you hot and very sweaty. So masks had fittings to allow the wearer to drink, although the Soviet type doesn't.
Base coat colours applied to my scratch built aircraft hangar, plus flags painted. The latter take time but I like the finished look.
From what Techno said above I suspect the gas mask is partly showing as the bag it has been stowed in is partly open
I'm pretty sure the figure won't be wearing it
Quote from: fsn on 24 January 2021, 03:27:32 PM
Yeah, I guess "RUSSIAN RUBBER GAS MASK FROM 6 DAY WAR EGYPT ARMY 1967" just wasn't close enough.
It's what I found too, Nobby....Thanks for looking. :-bd
Matey's not going to be
wearing the mask.....I just couldn't make sense of the artwork until I saw the image you've linked to....It made sense then. :-[
What I was seeing as a large pocket on the side of the figure in the piccy, was actually the bag holding the mask itself. =)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Base colours and inks on 2 Spanish renaissance units, three Austrians 1809 units and 2 random fantasy figures (suspect* Essex 15mm giants) that have been on my painting table for a while.
*suspect as in...
verb
/səˈspɛkt/
1.
have an idea or impression of the existence, presence, or truth of (something) without certain proof.
"if you suspect a gas leak, do not turn on an electric light"
Similar:
have a suspicion
have a feeling
feel
be inclined to think
fancy
reckon
guess
surmise
conjecture
think
think it probable/likely
have a sneaking feeling
have a hunch
be of the opinion
suppose
conclude
expect
presume
consider
deduce
infer
glean
sense
imagine
be afraid
fear
have a foreboding
opine
Opposite:
know
2.
doubt the genuineness or truth of.
"a broker whose honesty he had no reason to suspect"
Similar:
doubt
distrust
mistrust
have doubts about
harbour suspicions about
have misgivings about
be sceptical about
have qualms about
be suspicious of
be wary of
feel chary about
feel uneasy about
have a funny feeling about
smell a rat about
noun
/ˈsʌspɛkt/
a person thought to be guilty of a crime or offence.
"the police have arrested a suspect"
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suspected person
accused
defendant
adjective
/ˈsʌspɛkt/
not to be relied on or trusted; possibly dangerous or false.
"a suspect package was found on the platform"
Did you get a thesaurus for Christmas, Will ?
(Has to be one of my favourite dinosaurs. :D)
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Course you remember when heards of thesori roamed the plains of Newark Phil ;)
From what I heard on the radio this morning, Ian, some of the plains of Newark are under water at the mo'......Poor sods ! :(
Cheers - Phil
Not heard that but the state of South Manchester, Warrington and Northwich last week was very bad.
Highlights mostly done...
Three units completed, two more on thevway.
Just need basing.
Well.....I've done the first half dozen of the Egyptian bods. :D
Cheers - Phil. :)
Sorting out stuff for my AWI Brits to remind myself of what I actually bought. As always, things have changed slightly in terms of my plans, but all good so far, but may need a few more figures :D.
Steve you always need more figures.
Just need to varnish some Warlord Goblins, Challengers and a Destroyer. By the end of today should have finished the Celtic dog pack as well.
The Pendraken Persians are proceeding slowly.
Bases sanded and pva'd.
Saturday stuff really.
New B&B miniatures ordered yesterday, arrived today!
Undercoatrd and bases built.
Jaegers, Light Infantry, Grenadiers and Commands based this afternoon, for a British 18thC force, using the excellent AWI range figures.
Inks and basecoats on B&B and inks on bases of 10mms.
Last of the Line Infantry and Artillery based up, so now onto adding grit, then painting.
Just finishing basing
Stuff done.
Photos tomorrow.
Come on... you know why! ;D
3 units of Falx weilding loonies built, plus a unit of Sarmatian cavalry, and all undercoated. Unfortunately, it was several packs of of Falx short, so had to use some of mine (must carry on mine at some point), and had to order more, an awful lot more!
Also, after ordering more bases during that awfully frustrating day I had trying to find them, I finally found the missing bases...
GAH! ~X( [-(
But due to this, I have FINALLY built my South Korean pack my daughter's bought for Xmas 2019. It's almost a full company; extra bits ordered (mostly support weapons).
Grit applied to bases and hopefully it will be warm enough tomorrow for some priming.
Base coat and inks on the latest batch of infantry.
Cavalry might get to the same stage later...
Bases primed and base colour applied, with drybrushing to follow once dry.
Drybrushing has commenced.
Bases all drybrushed and figures given a brown drybrush to bring out the detail, which is superb.
Futility room floor screeded today.
Dry brushing done, flesh on, inked and first highlights on.
Flesh finished, wood and leatherwork done, metalwork done and inked.
Just details on Daciams and webbing on moderns to do..
Two orders arrived today.
Ooohh shiny! There's some lovely stuff in there, some for me, some for clients, some purely for the painting competition...
Already also assembled most of it.
Base coats and inks late last night, first highlight this morning before breakfast on some of the stuff, which is trying to catch up with the rest of the stuff already on the painting desk.
Extras caught up to main batch, apart from theor boots and then rifle butts on about 5 figures.
Lots of stuff finished today after work, ready for a mass basing session tomorrow - along with the Dacians:-
South Korean infantry company and heavy weapons company, over 150 figures, including painting four extra .303cal MMG teams that I had missed off the batch.
Two pieces of WW2 armour.
Three bases of American transportation from a previous century.
Assembled and undercoated my next 28mm Street War gang, who need bases sculpting.
Finished a sci-fi figure that had been in the painting pile for at least 8 years.
Finished a 15mm bowman that had escaped (from a commission).
A lot of fear of the unknown got through with these, that's the main thing that stops me starting a project.
And two online quick play gladiator games won tonight too.
And a roast dinner cooked and eaten.
And time reading with the youngest after helping her with her coding school work.
Must decide what to paint over half term too.
Well done that man =D>
Many batches finished tonight. Photos of some later.
Pity I missed a base out, its waiting for glue to dry so I can flock and tuft it, then inish these photos tomorrow.
New batches assembled.
Well, that was a weird day of prepping and base coating.
Ray asked me to build and base, but not paint, 33 New Kingdom Egyptian chariots for him.
So yesterday was prep, clean, assemble chariots, attach horses, putty up bases.
This morning was sand and pav bases, this afternoon was sealing it.
While I was waiting for things to dry I base coated several 10mm units and some 28mm Napoleonic French for a commission.
Fun researching the 10mms
You had a weird day ? ;D ;D
I got fixed focus with both eyes yesterday....Could see what I was doing 'close up' on the wee men (more Egyptians....not too far away from finishing those. :D)
As soon as I looked away from the desk, everything was blurred.
This morning I've got pretty sparkly patterns with both eyes.....Which means some of the gloop in the eyes has slightly come away from the retinas....
Just about worn off now. :-bd
I think I might leave the tiny figures alone next week, and work on some 30mm stuff, just to give my eyes a bit of a rest.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Hugs
I used to get that Phil and a real pain. Using a magnifying lamp really made a huge difference, plus trying to give me eyes periodic breaks by walking away from the bench to get longer views for the eyes to rest a bit.
fast recovery Phil - only cause we want the modern stuff :D ;)
Thank you, Ian. ;)
It's probably having the Optivisor on for umpteen hours every day that causes it, Steve. ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
I couldn't get on with an Optivisor Phil and that's not including the issue of wearing glasses. Being able to just lift your head and see 'normally' was a big bonus and really gave your eyes a mini rest each time.
>:<
Just hit 1036 figures painted this year already! :o
Blimey Will, that's phenomenal going :o
Quote from: Steve J on 17 February 2021, 05:28:26 PM
I couldn't get on with an Optivisor Phil and that's not including the issue of wearing glasses. Being able to just lift your head and see 'normally' was a big bonus and really gave your eyes a mini rest each time.
I don't find any problem wearing the optivisor with 'specs', Steve....l know I've said before, I'm VERY short sighted....But you may have a point in that I probably should 'flip them up' from time to time...or at least more often.
Cheers - Phil :)
Phil your best bet is to develope catteracts - laser surgey will fix you back to 20-20 vision.
Last time I went to the opticians, Ian.....I was told I was just starting to develop cataracts.
Shouldn't need checking for a couple of years, though. (Apparently)
Cheers - Phil :)
By Jove, I think I'll have the Bohemians ready in time for the contest!
Quote from: Techno II on 18 February 2021, 07:00:28 AM
Last time I went to the opticians, Ian.....I was told I was just starting to develop cataracts.
Shouldn't need checking for a couple of years, though. (Apparently)
Cheers - Phil :)
Last time I had a full eye check they found a small one and draged me back 2 months later to check...
Quite a lot of dry brushing and flesh tones done today. Big progress made on a lot of stuff, but after a night of horrible dreams about a place of work I left in 2007 (under a nasty boss and self-imposed cloud), I'm just not feeling it* today. I was awake between 3.45 and 5. Normally I sleep like a log (with built in chainsaw effects)
*Whatever it is.
Sorry to hear that Will :(. One of the reasons I gave up a management position was the sheer lack of sleep worrying about the workload.
On a more positive note, I based up extra command bases for BKC. The worst bit was finding lots of bits of kit I had forgotten I had ordered!!!
Hopefully you get a better nights sleep tonight Mad Lemmey
Same from me, Will. :)
(I was dreaming about having the Covid jab last night..... can't think how that got into my subconscious....At least it made some sort of sense, unlike 99% of the dreams I remember)
Cheers - Phil.
I find 2 bottles of wine help !
A much better night, thanks all.
Excellent, Will ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
A good nights sleep is a rare and wondorous thing and to be truly cherished!
Since I retired my sleep has become much better. Seven and a half to eight and a half hours most nights.*
Last night I had a dream I used to have regularly in the last two or three years of work. I'm in a giant office block/ hotel with many criss-crossing corridors slowly filling with a toxic blue glowing gas and a pair of nano-tyrannosaurs are hunting me. As I run through the corridors they start to narrow and just as the nano-tyrannosaurs are only feet behind me the corridor narrows so much the dinosaurs get wedged .... and I wake up.
I blame you Will Denham! :D
*I say nights but actually I tend to get to bed sometime between 2 and 4 and get up around 10 to midday.
Wow, not good Ithorial! Sorry mate.
Details going on the figures well.
Taking a break for lunch before bronze works.
More HQ basing this afternoon.
Quote from: ianrs54 on 20 February 2021, 08:15:59 AM
I find 2 bottles of wine help !
I know you're joking - at least I hope you are! - but it doesn't, it really doesn't.
Four parts of the batch completed.
Moustaches and tidy ups to do on some big bits. Tidying on a lot of small bits before basing.
Many things done. Now to varnish and base.
Quote from: Raider4 on 20 February 2021, 06:33:34 PM
I know you're joking - at least I hope you are! - but it doesn't, it really doesn't.
You know I DON'T have a sense of humour :D
Next 4 batches, in 3 different scales, undercoated.
Base coats, inks and first highlights on a couple hundred figures today for other people and 9 for me. The figures include three different scales of Napoleonic French, none of which are 10mm...
Quote from: mad lemmey on 27 February 2021, 09:47:06 PM
...The figures include three different scales of Napoleonic French, none of which are 10mm...
28, 15 & 6 :-\
40, 28 and 6!
A mix of AVBCW and Italian command bases drybrushed tonight. First time for a while I've felt in the mood to paint and the kitchen has been free :)
Cool.
Got as far as flesh highlights with the latest batch.
Spanish 10mm batch nearly done, just a few touch ups to do ...
Spanish shooty foot done.
Bases sanded and pva'd.
Next three batches of 28mm built.
Napoleonics:
28mm French done, 6mm French infantry batch done (apart from tidying up). 6mm French Cuirassiers nearly done.
10mm Austrian artillery, frreikorps cavalry and command stand built.
28mm/40mm French done.
6mm French infantry done. Bloody hard.
10mm artillery base coated and inked, Spanish bases inked at the same time.
Burgundian pikemen nearly done, Lancastrian artillery lined up for painting, two units of crossbowmen hot to be shot.
4 regiments of cuirassiers, 4 regiments of Dragoons, 4 batteries of artillery in 6mm finished today. Plus a 28mm Lowlander unit for the '45 up to the basing stage. A 28mm foot knight from the 80s ug out from the shed, sorted inkrd, highlighted and based for a mate along with two halfling rogues for our on-going D&D campaign have been completed.
Doesn't sound much, but kept me busy all day.
Herbert and Neville are raising the first longbowmen of many.
Waiting for glue and varnish to dry before photo session...
OK, I know I'm not right in the head ... but I thought of this ...
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/erh2ngRZxs0/maxresdefault.jpg)
Love it
Nice stuff ;D
What on Earth ? :o :o ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil. :)
Half the next batch base coated and inked.
More research needed before I commit to the second half. :-B
Neville and Greystoke retainers based; Scrope and Percy up next,
Other half of batch basecoated and inked.
Phew
I hate two man machine gun teams...unless the gun happens to be being used in a prone position.* ~X( ~X( ~X(
I gotta headache. X_X
Just the loader's arms to finish....(It had better work, or there will be some very industrial language.)
Cheers - Phil. ;)
* Those are a piece of absolute wee to make, compared to this one.
What type of gun ? An advancing Bren would have the weapon in the left hand by the carrying handle, not by the underside of the barrel, that gets rather warm. No 2 would be carrying one or two boxes, each with 10 mags in, rifle slung. BAR - no number 2, used as a one man weapon. Germans - similar although the the no 2 often only had a pistol, and would be swathed in belts. The gun has no carrying handle (both types) so would have to hold by the bipod.
Which nationallity you doing Phil.
That Goryunov, Ian......I've made at least 15 other figures while I've been playing with this one this one, off and on.
I keep looking at it...thinking....Nah, I'll do something else......But have at last decided I'll have finish the swine off. ;D ;D ;D
It's for the Egyptians, Matey.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Thats a wheeled mount then - gunner on the trail and loader kneeling on lying to left/right depending on the feed. Should be no trouble with that one.
Thanks, Ian. :)
I've 'copied' an old b/w piccy of the gun itself, that's sitting on top of an outcrop of rock......so the trail would go through the gunners stomach, if it went straight back.
It's almost as if they're using the rock surrounding them as a big foxhole
He must have the trail angled to his left...which is what I've done......He'd still have a decent firing arc, I guess.
Loader's on the left side on this particular gun. (Apparently.....That was a pain as well. ;D ;D ;D)
Cheers - Phil :)
Most SFMG do feed from the left, no idea why....
Sorry, Ian...I lied. :-[ X_X
The loader's on the gunner's right hand side, in the piccy....(and another image that I've found)....So that's where he's going.
The ones that I've made previously ....have had the loader on the gunner's left.
(I'm getting another headache.) :'( :'( :'(
Cheers - Phil :)
GET IT RIGHT
Quite a lot done today.
Gang for Street Wars:NYC done apart from basing.
Lots of other stuff nearly done...
Quite a lot finished today, quite a lot more to finish in the next few days.
Neville and Edward's men-at-arms undercoated. May I be forgiven if I mount King Edward among his dismounted men? I am aware that it wasn't customary.
If the King's staying on his horse I'm off...
Back symbols/pictures added to the new Street Wars:NYC gang, and 5 stoats almost finished for Burrows and Badgers tonight.
Slow progress, but one is wearing the Shrewsbury Town 1980-1 home strip as modelled by the rock god 🤘 D. SMALLS.
Quote from: paulr on 22 March 2021, 05:42:08 AM
If the King's staying on his horse I'm off...
It's an old and slow horse. His Majesty's just trying to draw shooting away from his loyal followers.
My lords of Gloucester and Pole are up next.
Aint they be busy at ouse of toffs int big eaded city ?
Nearly had a minor panic yesterday. :-SS
Down to my last full 'Catherine wheel' of Green Stuff......Time to order a load more.
Phone my usual supplier.....They're out of stock, at present.....unless I want to order a 'special' package, which includes a wheel of green stuff and a number of items that I don't personally need, and would never use.
That would have ended up as around £40 after postage. :o
I'm not paying that for effectively a single reel.
Found a few places on Evil Bay that seem to have stock.....But I don't like dealing with them, after a bad experience with evil bay few years ago.
Quite a few places would sell me 'short strips' for around £8 a pop, which would make it ridiculously expensive.
Managed to find a single reel later, at a lower price than my normal supplier..so I bought that.
Hopefully my normal supplier will have some news about new stock, mid April.
I can get the green stuff 'sticks' for an equivalent price (per weight) loads of places..But I don't like those, as I waste even more than I do with reels.
I'll get some of those in an emergency.
Should have ordered a load more reels MONTHS ago. Didn't even consider the fact that all sorts of goods are being affected by supply problems due to the wretched virus.
Cheers - A Twerp. X_X
Some bases inked. Endor pattern camo applied to Rebel troopers.
Prepping the retainers of Bourchier, Herbert, Courtenay, and Talbot.
Quote from: Techno II on 24 March 2021, 08:06:45 AM
Should have ordered a load more reels MONTHS ago.
Cheers - A Twerp. X_X
It's just old age Phil... I can garuntee that I will forget 1 item when I vist Asda or Lidel ;)
Lets hope there is no green stuff stuck on the 'Ever Given'....could be a long wait...
Phil
Quote from: ianrs54 on 25 March 2021, 02:05:35 PM
It's just old age Phil... I can garuntee that I will forget 1 item when I vist Asda or Lidel ;)
What ?......You don't write a list, Ian ?
(I get Von to write the list*.....and then I'll still miss
something. X_X...Though I didn't today.....For a change.)
Cheers - Phil. ;)
*Von cheats....she copies things I've written down on the mini blackboard in the kitchen....and then I have to remember the rest. Crisps, Twiglets, Onion rings...(The really important things)
....treats for the dogs...... ;)
Quote from: Glorfindel on 25 March 2021, 02:25:11 PM
Lets hope there is no green stuff stuck on the 'Ever Given'....could be a long wait...
Phil
No...No green stuff....apart from the bits I drop on the floor. ;)
Na - have problems with writing anything ! :P
Burrows and badgers finished and based up.
Legion bits done, just need basing.
Two batteries done for 10mm Austrians plus a cavalry detachment and a general.
Heavy hoplites built for Mortal Gods commission.
Two 10mm shooty Spanish cavalry units built.
Next batch of 6mm French nappies assembled.
Ww2 batch base coated and inked
Following Ww2 batch built and undercoated
Bourchier and Courtenay based.
Next 300 figures base coated and inked today.
And another 16 x 28mm figures base coated and inked too.
Oh, and I may have 'accidentally' started my next batch of 10mm DAK too. 8)
An awful lot done today.
Mortal Gods heavy Greeks just need shields, bases finishing and spear heads.
10mm mounted crossbows and firearms need flesh highlights and basing.
28mm 7yw need buttons and finishing.
28mm French 1st Hussars needs finishing.
A bit of basing done today, but still not feeling the painting vibe at present.
Mowbray's men and the last Burgundian mercenaries are under the brush.
I am now putting brush to Llewellen's mountain men.
200 French infantry flesh done, cuffs and collars done, wood and backpacks painted and inked. Some shako plumes and cords done...
Boots, cartridge pouch and shakos done this morning.
Metal work done.
Welsh spearmen done - the lack of armour speeded things up, look you - and now Roos and Howard's retainers are on the table.
Next week is Songkran, Thai new year. I hope my last lot of WotR figures arrive tomorrow, or I'll have a free week nd no way to exploit it!
White leatherwork done, shako cords, musket straps, cross belts, few plumes on the 200 6mm French. Gah!c
Building 3 Leo 2's and 2 Bo105 in 15. Got a Crocodile, 6 Pigs and some hens and ducks to undercoat
French infantry done, rebasing started on some more of Si's 10mms and Adrian got two units built.
Plus finished two Legion figures for my eldest (apart from basing).
Queen Margaret is being converted from a nondescript plastic railway figure more easily than I feared.
Four units of 6mm Cuirassiers done today, dragoons started.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 10 April 2021, 08:42:09 AM
Queen Margaret is being converted from a nondescript plastic railway figure more easily than I feared.
Will you be modelling her astride or on a chair? And if the latter will it be the Anne of Bohemia or the Catherine de Medici type?
Standing; legs on the original were apart, but have undergone glue treatment to give her a bit of a "Mortitia Addams in a hennin" look.
The mere sight will make her enemies lose their heads. ;)
Empress Dragoons done.
Others underway
3 more units of Dragoons and 2 units of Chasseurs a Chevel finished this afternoon.
Quote from: DecemDave on 11 April 2021, 01:09:34 PM
The mere sight will make her enemies lose their heads. ;)
That's the idea. But, regrettably, you can't trust the Shakespearean version as history. At the time of the battle of Wakefield, she wasn't even in England, so the scene with York certainly didn't happen.
At the battle of Tewksbury, the Duke of Somerset ignored the forces threatening his flank, trusting to Lord Wenlock to cover his attack. Wenlock clearly rolled a 1 on control and did nothing, and Somerset was flank attacked and broken, destroying the last hope that Henry VI would remain king. After the battle, Somerset angrily asked the equivalent of "Where were you, buddy?", and without waiting for Wenlock to reply whacked him one with his axe....
(Baggage element)
Two units of 6mm Hussars done tonight.
Just generals to do tomorrow and that army pack will be over. #:-S
Until my next order gets here - and it won't be this week, which is Songkran, the Thai new year (sawatdee phimai , everyone!) - I'm reduced to making stakes for my archers and quasi-Shakesperean vignettes for my WotR baggage trains.
Through Leon.....Started on another largish project for the chap I did all the 'Flodden' figures for.
Cheers - Phil. :)
After finishing those last 6mm French, which really sapped my will to paint, I spent Thursday night, Friday evening (after a nap to recover from the previous day's jab) and the remains of yesterday (after catching up with mum) building the next batches:
2 units of 10mm Jinettes and a unit of knights for Lee's Spanish.
Two units of 28mm goblin wolf riders and a unit of scouts for Dragon Rampant.
Sand and pva'd two other units for the Sanish and two Legion characters.
Also started fettling the next batch of WW2 6mm Airlanding for Clem.
Nice to have a quiet patch ;)
Longingly watching the postbox.
You need the patince of a stalking cat Alexander
Hmmmm....
Quote from: ianrs54 on 18 April 2021, 08:47:31 AM
You need the patience of a stalking cat Alexander
Our 'semi-feral' barn cat .....Is a completely lazy oik.....She doesn't seem to need patience, 'cos she does absolutely b*gger all, all day.....Stalking ?....Nah !
Cheers - Phil. :)
Basing sand and pva done on an army, base coats on many starfighters quite a lot of 10 mm DAK and two units of PSC Goths, then bases inked.
For the indispensible treachery element: now painting the troops of Stanley and Clarence.
Highlights done on next three, no, four, batches!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 22 April 2021, 01:31:03 PM
For the indispensible treachery element: now painting the troops of Stanley and Clarence.
I read a book once.
But enough boasting.
It covered the whole life of Lord Stanley, showing the various events and family ties which he had to navigate to get/stay important and meant Richard trusting him to do anything (even with hostages) must have been an act of reconciliation and forgiveness.
Just shows what you get for being nice.
Or nice and rich!
Quote from: DecemDave on 22 April 2021, 05:04:57 PM
Just shows what you get for being nice.
Dicky III - NICE :o :o
Even his enemies had to concede he was a first-class legislator who did plenty to improve the quality of life for most people.
Star fighters done.
Highlights done on other three batches, flesh on and inked.
Shields prepped for transfers
Quote from: FierceKitty on 23 April 2021, 06:19:23 AM
Even his enemies had to concede he was a first-class legislator who did plenty to improve the quality of life for most people.
I know he were blackened by Willy Spearshake.....one 'as to keep the royal person 'appy...Your version is nearer the truth me thinks
"Treason doth never prosper:
what 's the reason?
Why, if it prosper,
none dare call it treason." ― John Harrington.
OK, let's start the English artillery, the Flemish crossbowmen, and the Maenclocchog archers....
Quote from: FierceKitty on 24 April 2021, 08:12:17 AM
Maenclocchog archers....
Eh ?......Do you mean that little(ish) village 10 (?) miles from us is famous for
something ?
For me, it's a picturesque ;D (and ridiculously out of the way detour to get from Techno Towers to Haverfordwest/Fishguard.)
Cheers - Stunned of Wales. :o
The Welsh played their part in the Plantagenet wars, and I used to have a few friends living in Maenclochog (they probably made up 20% of the population, as I remember). Their little hamlet went by the name of Llonwen. But it's happy memories of visiting them that named the unit of longbowmen.
Quote from: Techno II on 24 April 2021, 09:06:14 AM
For me, it's a picturesque ;D (and ridiculously out of the way detour )to get from Techno Towers to Haverfordwest/Fishguard.)
Cheers - Stunned of Wales. :o
Gota ask - why would anyone want to get to Haverfordwest or Fishguard ? :-* :-*
Nothing will get done today I'm busy. Mind you I only have 3 x 20mm Marders(WWII) to paint atm. :'( :'(
Quote from: ianrs54 on 24 April 2021, 09:44:16 AM
Gota ask - why would anyone want to get to Haverfordwest or Fishguard ? :-* :-*
Fishguard ?.......To go to, or come back from, Ireland I suppose.....Never actually stopped there. ;)
Haverfordwest ?......Nearest Argos 'shop'...and to get some good cardiovascular exercise, walking (or staggering, as far as I'm concerned) up the main street. =)
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Yes I do remember the main st in Haverfordwest was just a tad steep.
Lastest 28mm for Tom done.
Now working on DAK infantry.
Last English: shire levy bills for Cambridgeshire and Wiltshire.
AND I'm ready to pack away my paints until the T'ang Chinese become available in July....
Should we book the doctors appointment now ?
Leather and wood inked on 15 and 10mm figures.
Two 28mm figures base coated, inked and had putty added to bases.
3 28mm mdf building assembled
Details, collers and cuffs on 15mm
28mm almost done.
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 30 April 2021, 09:45:18 PM
. . . collers and cuffs . . .
Do they match? (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean, eh?)
Well, while waiting for the promissed Tang, perhaps a few WNA ships to pad out existing forces to fleet level....
15s done apart from shield transfers. Then they and 28mms need basing.
Hopefully get some 10s finished this pm too.
Shield transfers on 15mm.
28mm basing applied and painted/sealed. No work on 10mm (yet)...
DAK infantry, mortars and Pak36s painted and bases done apart from flock, scatter and tufts.
Next five batches base coated and inked.
It's an awful lot of mounted stuff, not all mounted on horses either...
I had to order a load more corks yesterday.......I've got SO many figures sitting on the existing 'stash' at the moment !
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Techno II on 11 May 2021, 07:05:09 AM
I had to order a load more corks yesterday.......I've got SO many figures sitting on the existing 'stash' at the moment !
Cheers - Phil. :)
Suppose they came in crates attacted to wine bottles :d
I wouldn't even think of drinking any wine (and saving the corks) from bottles of wine that cost 15 pence each. :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
I may be mad.....but not that mad.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Just basing, shield transfers and flags to do on these 3 batches
Putting together Hay Castle, just in case it be needed this Sunday for the WotR Battle of Tolpit Moor.
Sand and pva on...
Quiet night after staff meeting.
10mm & 28mm/32mm bases inked,
10mm Camp followers and wagons base coated and inked.
10mm generals base coated and inked, just waiting on a delivery of mounted standard bearers.
28mm horse and cart base coated and inked.
Camp and generals painted for Lee's Spanish.
Foot generals bases sanded and pva'd, just waiting on mounted standard bearers and last jinettes to complete the army before Saturday am...
Might be an all-nighter on Friday! :!! :!! X_X :-t :-B @-)
Bases painted, dry brushed, detailed and sealed. Two different colour schemes too...
Bases mostly done. Just got winterise some...
And add shield transfers
Next batches base coated and inked.
Batch after assembled ready for undercoating.
10mm batch done (apart from basing).
28mm batch 6/10 done (including the one figure who needed a base has that painted).
Three terrain pieces almost finished too.
A building evening.
6mm airlanding battalion for a commission finally built after being on the table half built for weeks, 2 x Rebel units for Legion, plus 1 x Republic character for my daughter and 1x Imperial Character for myself, and based 4 x WW1 capital ships a mate randomly sent me.
All good really!
I've just ordered a handful of late medieval French, realising that, already owning a French renaissance force and two English renaissance ones, I didn't need many new figures to be able to do 100YW too.
At 1:1 scale? ;D
Just cause that's what you'd do Will
No figures painted today.
Shed plastic roof removed, roof reboarded and felted instead. Lots of bitumen painted on the boards if that counts
Beeeeeeeeer
After a long break away from the paint table, I finished of some Pz I's this morning :).
Good choice.
Yep, nice and easy Will, which was good. Getting the grey to look right was tricky, but happy with how they came out. Some Pz II's tomorrow all being well.
Battalion of 6mm British Airlanding done tonight as far as basing being pva sealed, just need to do flock, scatter and tufts, then add labels and that batch is done.
Highlighted some other bits too...
Five Pz II's finished this morning :). They are even quicker to paint than the Pz I's, owing to having no tools on show. Some more command tanks to follow tomorrow.
Which pzii?
Missing them from forces.
Pz II Ausf F (code GRV 5) Will. Produced from March '41 onwards, so too late for Poland and France, but that doesn't bother me :o ;). It would be nice to have earlier variants at some point though...
No painting today as trip to hospital for x-rays on knackered back and fingers. Tomorrow looking more promising :).
Steve most of the differences on the Pnz IIF are internal, only external is the lower front hull, one curved one flat but can't remember which way round.
More Pz I's finished with basecoat and wash applied to some Pz III's :).
Today I am mostly painting 28mm Sarmatians :D
I've had a long day of (tedious) one-way (I have to just sit and listen) conference calls and on-line presentations, and so to keep my mind alert I set up a painting station and cracked on with nine (so that is 3 bases of 3) Sarmatian heavy cavalry lancers. Trying not to get paint on my headphones or put a paint brush up my nose as I drink a cup of coffee!
Many armies in LaDG are allowed Sarmatian allies some it seemed like a good plan to break out the box of Sarmatians I'd been hording for just this moment. Lovely Wargames Foundry and Warlord metal sculpts - mostly in animated charging position. I'd cleaned, assembled (& adding lances) and then spray undercoated them earlier in the week. These light evenings are a real bonus.
Painting the scale armour and horse bards are always a bit of a challenge, as mostly this was made out of horn or hoof or bone scales. In the end I plumped for a Vallejo Khaki Grey - 70.880 - washed onto a white undercoat base. I then run a very thin chestnut brown ink wash over them to pick up the detail and then dry-brushed with a lighter shade (of the Khaki - mixed with white) to pick up the edged of the scales. I think they look pretty good (if I say so myself). Some of the riders have bronze scale corselets and their helmets are a mix of bronze or iron - with coloured panels.
I am still working on all the assorted detail now - such as swords/scabbards, quivers and bow cases etc. etc.
The only thing is ... they are starting to look more and more like Riders of Rohan !!! ... but as Sarmatians (& Goths) were Tolkien's original 'source' for the idea behind the Rohirrim (& I do love the Peter Jackson LotR films) what can I expect .... ;D ;D ;D
Only another 9 to paint to provide me with the 6 bases I need for a full allied contingent. Hey ho.
Sarmatians, especially Alans, are invaluable for dozens of late ancients and dark ages armies.
A bit like Dark Age infantry (or shoes and handbags*) - apparently you can never have enough of them!
*quote from Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous.
Three Pz III Ausf E's finished this morning. Four Pz IV Ausf D basecoated and washed.
Decent 90 minutes painting, not much else going.on! ;)
Muchos muchos highlighting done on figures and vases, tidying up done on one batch.
Wood and leather painted and inked.
Two units of Dacian warriors, two units of Sarmatian lancers, a unit of Sarmatian light horse and four general stands built today.
Four Pz IV D's finished this morning.
Dacians base coated and inked last night
Football watched, then quite a bit of dry brushing done. Unfortunately my sitting room lights are pathetic, so I had to stop.
Highlights done, flesh base coat and ink on
I've just improvised a couple of marker vignettes showing berserkir lying around in PTSD condition after routing an enemy. This is relevant to the rules; they may be very vulnerable for awhile after a success.
Nearly broken my will to paint, but next 5 units of Si's Dacians just need basing now.
Sand and pva on Dacians bases and inked.
8 next 28mm Napoleonics base coated and inked.
Beginning to panic about the no-show of my 100YW Frogs.
Wouldn't say the next batch us big, but two tubes of superglue later...
Pah! Two tubes of superglue is about what I expend on one artillery piece.
Quote from: fsn on 11 July 2021, 08:32:00 AM
Pah! Two tubes of superglue is about what I expend on one artillery piece.
How much of it ends up on your fingers ?
Most of the glue that doesn't get in my hair.
=O =O =O
Quote from: fsn on 11 July 2021, 08:39:09 AM
Most of the glue that doesn't get in my hair.
You
GOT HAIR !!!!!
I'll send you some.....The next time I get my hair cut......
At the front....It's already getting down to my collarbones.....YET AGAIN. :'( :'(
Cheers - Phil. :D
Like this?
(https://images.pexels.com/photos/2902970/pexels-photo-2902970.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=750&w=1260)
Cousin Itt, good to see you!
Cut the beard and mustache off.... change the colour...(to a very faded mid brown, with an awful of 'silver') ... add a good couple of inches to the 'floppy' fringe, at the front....so that it drops down, well over the 'specs'.......
And that's me !! :-bd
I don't have any apparel that's as nice as that though.
Cheers - Mr Scruffy. :D
Wat no black pointed 'at, red jacket and black skirt ?
Skirt ?
Nah....
24 Dacian skirmishers gone from envelope to finished and based since 5pm today, with a break for dinner and TV watching!
Photos tomorrow after using them for a MeG tournament. 8)
Ahhh the focus that comes with a rapidly approaching deadline ;)
Quote from: paulr on 17 July 2021, 01:24:41 AM
Ahhh the focus that comes with a rapidly approaching deadline ;)
Yes amazing how a deadline can focus your attention, even gaming ones ;D
Photos not up yet, was exhausted by heat.
Large batch of 10mm basecoated yesterday.
28mm figure finished.
Photos soon Inc match reports.
Quote from: pierre the shy on 17 July 2021, 05:05:07 AM
Yes amazing how a deadline can focus your attention, even gaming ones ;D
As I'm sure I said somewhere else on the forum recently: "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
Way too hot to paint at the minute, as it would almost dry on the brush before you got it close to any miniatures.
You should try pushing putty about, at these temperatures. X_X
Cheers - Phil. :)
Inks on
Hoping to do some painting tonight for the first time in a while, already got the window open and the curtains drawn on the "hobby room" to keep it as cool as possible through the day. If the wind stays down I may end up relocating outside to the shade this evening instead :|
Quote from: Steve J on 20 July 2021, 03:48:53 PM
Way too hot to paint at the minute, as it would almost dry on the brush before you got it close to any miniatures.
You're not far wrong. Even my wet palette can barely keep it from drying up for more than a few mins!
Just bronze, white and finishing off/tidying up on the current batch.
Then basing flags to sort
Quote from: Steve J on 20 July 2021, 03:48:53 PM
Way too hot to paint at the minute, as it would almost dry on the brush before you got it close to any miniatures.
Opposite problem here, noon and it hasn't reach double figures, Celsius, outside yet
Finally the weather has broken and cooled down to a lovely level, after 7 days in a row of 30C temps across the UK :).
Much more bearable !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
Sand and pvaon the batch.
Next two units of Legion troops assembled.
Not sure whether I'm painting them or Imi! ;D
Quote from: Steve J on 24 July 2021, 06:41:30 AM
Finally the weather has broken and cooled down to a lovely level, after 7 days in a row of 30C temps across the UK :).
Which UK is that then? :)
Hasn't been that hot once let alone days in a row here. Has been, and continues to be, a nice comfortable mid to high twenties. Apparently not going to last :(
Realised two more figures would fill out a command stand, so they got painted today.
Inks on bases.
Done, plus an army of 10mm rebases...
Two legion figures (apart from basing, I've just run out of pva) and a piece of terrain done.
Four WW1 random ships sent to me by a mate done.
Next batch of 28mm Napoleonic done.
Sarmatian Light horse base coated.
Numbers and hair done in the All Blacks.
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 31 July 2021, 12:24:22 PM
...
Four WW1 random ships sent to me by a mate done.
...
Numbers and hair done in the All Blacks.
:-\
Lovely week away at my Dad's
Then last night and today:
1) Two Goth archer tugs assembled for a commission.
ii) Many 28mm Sappeurs built for that commission.
C) Lot of spaceship fighters finally put onto bases (some go back to 2007) for Wednesday night's game of A Billion Suns.
3.2) Three jump gates assembled for above.
iv) Many Stargrave figures built for me, some needed a little of pinning and filling.
E) Awful lot of Mortal Gods assembled, drilled, pinned, and bases sculpted, for yet another commission.
7) Undercoat applied.
Meanwhile, my eldest has been dry brushing two units of Legion Clone Troopers!
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 08 August 2021, 06:39:08 PM
...
Meanwhile, my eldest has been dry brushing two units of Legion Clone Troopers!
That should help you make some progress ;D
Base coats and inks on some...
Sumptuous meal at lunchtime, followed by writing up figures and faffing about with basing on Sarmatian light horse and a few 28mms.
I also finished a Legion Boba Fett...
Photos later, maybe
Light horse done.
No photos yet. Spent most of today in my new school backing display boards!
Knocking together a few WotR mercenaries so I can stop proxying them (it significantly delays packing and unpacking, and the stand-ins are never quite right).
12 more gothic bowmen painted today.
As have 21 goth warriors, apart from 5 who need their album covers shield designs to paint.
Up to the waiting for pva base seal to dry stage
I also started and finished a general stand for the Gorhs, and did a load of work on 15 x 28mm Sapeurs.
'They've' sodding well changed the formula/make up of Green Stuff again..It's starting to 'cure' far faster than before !......At least, this current 'Catherine wheel' is.
Helps, in some respects...But in others. X_X
I'm wasting even more, now. :'( :'( :'(
Cheers - Phil. :)
Painted all but 1 of the 28mm Sapeurs batch.
Assembled 3 extra units for the Hausa, made up of 2 light infantry and a stampede of cattle!
Hausa done, just need to finish their bases.
A bit of odds and ends stuff right now: a few new Visigoths, two elements of Viking archers, a Japanese gun, a late Roman general; then it'll be time to turn the Sarmatians currently restricted to allied status into an army in their own right.
Some bases painted, now need tufts et al
I based up some more standard bearers for my SCW/AVBCW forces last, as I need to get some stuff painted up for a forthcoming campaign.
And I'm now doing up the Sarmatian reinforcements.
Grit applied to some SCW and WWII Russian bases.
Some additional command bases and standard bearers for my SCW/AVBCW forces completed today. Having the house almost back to normal with SWMBO back at work has freed up my mornings for painting again :).
Built some spaceships, mostly out of guilt, because I just ordered some more...
Oops!
;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 03 September 2021, 07:55:06 PM
Built some spaceships, mostly out of guilt, because I just ordered some more...
Oops!
Intentionally ? :P
Alagorically, but that's for each man to decide.
Mortal Gods lights done apart from tufts and shield transfers.
Couple of 28mm Napoleonics finished too.
28mm Napoleonics sanded, pva'd and basing inked.
45 6mm Austrian Uhlans nearly done.
Few 28mm for memories on...
Two more HQ bases for the SCW/AVBCW finished this morning. Maybe some more painting this afternoon as the rain looks to have set in for the rest of the day.
Sarmatians are as ready as they'll ever be.
Base coat applied to some SCW tanks and wash applied. Drybrushing etc to follow soon.
Two tanks finished and another two ready in the queue for tomorrow :).
Basing going on.
More SCW/AVBCW vehicles basecoated and washed, just awaiting the latter to dry, which is taking some time today. Also primed some more standard bearers and finally the Bristol Bocage!
Two vehicles finished, so on to some figures and command stands :).
Standard bearers drybrushed and an agricultural tractor painted, to be used as an artillery tow.
Another batch of HQ's and standard bearers finished :).
Some bases had milliputt added.
Italian command stand and ATG finished this morning, along with some more stand bearers. I need to repeat these for another Battalion tomorrow.
Stargrave crew finished apart from basing. New Burrows and Badgers figures base coated, inked and some highlighting added. Two fleets of spaceshipsand a few civilian ships base coated and half inked.
Mostly top half, before you ask.
Basing done on Stargrave team. Legion figure done for Imi, 5 satellites done for A Billion Suns, and 28mm fences for Burrows and Badgers. 2 out of 3 Burrows and Badgers figures done
Quote from: paulr on 15 September 2021, 08:28:15 AM
Slacker ;) ;D
Be fair he's probably burnt the brushes out.
Lot done, not much done at the same time...
Some flags rescaled and ready to print, only to find out that the ink had runout or dried up on a couple of the colours :(. Not too bad for some flags as I over paint them, but for others a bit of a pain.
Finished another starship fleet, photos later, maybe...
Lots of flag painting yesterday, which wasn't too bad as they were very simple designs. More painting today all being well.
Another Italian HQ and ATG painted up, along with more standard bearers. Only one more faction to paint but they can wait, as I need to focus on some flags for the Cotswold Wargaming Day show on Sunday as well as sorting out a campaign game.
Normans are creeping towards readiness. My poor Byzantines - another army to beat them up.
Bases flocked, so now can turn my attention to so units for a demo game on Sunday.
Base coats and inks
Stripped some command stands of 1p and 2p coins that had started to get a fuzzy growth on the coins, so they will be stuck to mdf bases this morning, then grit added etc. I'm not sure why but not all the coins have done this, but took all of them off just in case.
Quote from: Steve J on 30 September 2021, 07:29:28 AM
Stripped some command stands of 1p and 2p coins that had started to get a fuzzy growth on the coins, so they will be stuck to mdf bases this morning, then grit added etc. I'm not sure why but not all the coins have done this, but took all of them off just in case.
Do you have a detailed photograph.
It's possible there's some anodization between the coins and figures.
I'd guess that it depends on the age of the coins, Steve (J).
Older ones may still have a 'decent' amount of copper in them.
Try putting a magnet to the bases....'newer' ones (HAH) will 'rush' to the magnet.
Heck...up to 1947, 'silver' coins...sixpences/shillings/two shillings/half crowns actually DID have some silver in their makeup.
Nowadays..... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil
Sorry, no photos Steve. It looks like a fungal growth rather than anodising and comes off with a rub, but still leaves a mark. I played safe as mentioned and changed the whole lot.
Phil, some were modern coins, ie the ones that are basically steel with a copper coating, other older ones that were copper. Thank God I ordered some mdf bases from Leon & Co earlier in the year!
Command bases stuck to mdf and grit applied. Flags attached and will be painted where applicable to make them pop a bit more. Happy days!
Quote from: Steve J on 30 September 2021, 02:16:17 PM
Phil, some were modern coins, ie the ones that are basically steel with a copper coating, other older ones that were copper. Thank God I ordered some mdf bases from Leon & Co earlier in the year
Hmmmmm....that's blown my theory out of the water. :'(
Yep......send Leon more dosh !
I
NO...I'm not on commission.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Flags finished and flock applied to two brigades worth of mid 19thC European troops. Now it's time to get everything together for the show on Sunday.
Quote from: Techno II on 30 September 2021, 04:10:12 PM
NO...I'm not on commission.
Cheers - Phil. :)
So thats why your figures are so bad, you dont get paid foer em :-* :-*
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 01 October 2021, 02:59:58 PM
So thats why your figures are so bad, you dont get paid foer em :-* :-*
You don't have to buy them,.
Two limbers finished tonight and some command stands drybrushed, ready to main colours etc. Flocking of the limbers to be done tomorrow and maybe some more painting.
I REALLY have forgotten how to use paints. :'( :'( :'(
Finishing off....Finally...the repair job for D across the road, of the 'Napoleonic' cavalry bugler.....40mm 'scale', that was his last prezzie to his partner, who died right at the start of the pandemic. It was the stress that killed her, not the virus itself. :(
I only needed to use two colours.....black and white.....but without some matt varnish, it was a real struggle.
Couldn't believe.......
1)The paints I took home from Workshop, the day I was made surplus to requirements (30 or so years ago) are still useable......So are the Ral Partha ones from 20 years ago
2)The odd smell of Tamiya paints......BARF.....and they ARE acrylic ? :o
3)I HADN'T got a pot of matt varnish of any sort....Just some Rowney Acrylic Matt Medium.
4)I didn't ask Leon for a 'pot' of either black or white Vallejo paint when I decided to give those a go.......(I DO like those, though. :))
Time to put the brushes away for another 10 years . ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Next 15 28mm Napoleonics are nearly done.
This is just me putting off 15mm and 6mm Napoleonics ..
Quote from: Techno II on 03 October 2021, 11:50:03 AM
1)The paints I took home from Workshop, the day I was made surplus to requirements (30 or so years ago) are still useable......So are the Ral Partha ones from 20 years ago
2)The odd smell of Tamiya paints......BARF.....and they ARE acrylic ? :o
Cheers - Phil. :)
Tamiya ARE acrylic but an odd formula. Siolong as the container is air tight the paint will stay useable almost indefinatly.
I do like Tamiya paints, Ian...... :)
But they don't 'arf smell odd.
It's SO long since I've actually opened any of the dozens of paint pots in the drawers.
(I actually found odd useful things, that I thought were lost forever.....Correction...
That I'd forgotten about....More Swann Morton handles.....one that takes the 20 series blades.....3 razor saws....you don't want to know the rest.. ;D)
Cheers - Phil. :)
Its always good to rummage through stashes of stuff and find lost gems!
Tamiya paints are definitely different. I did use them a bit for WWII stuff, but found the small and the really quick drying (on the brush) was quite a pain. And haven't used them for a good few years now.
Some pics of my recent spurt of painting can be seen on my Blog. More to follow:
https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2021/10/a-very-british-civil-war-cum-spanish.html (https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2021/10/a-very-british-civil-war-cum-spanish.html)
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Very cool
Thanks Will.
:-bd =D> :-bd
Thanks Paul :).
Quote from: Techno II on 03 October 2021, 02:28:35 PM
(I actually found odd useful things, that I thought were lost forever.....Correction...
That I'd forgotten about....More Swann Morton handles.....one that takes the 20 series blades.....3 razor saws....you don't want to know the rest.. ;D)
I still have one of these (https://www.scalpelsandblades.co.uk/handle-detail_320_4-unitool-handle-sets-carded-swann-morton-product-no-1337-4.php). It must be at least 45 years old, and with the original blades. Sadly you can't get new ones :(.
Bases paintedvon 28mm commission, just need flock, scatter and tufts.
92 gothic cavalry base coated and inked today
28s done.
Great many 15mm Gothic cav drybrushing done and bases first coated and edged.
Only details and decals and tufts/clumps/scatterto add.
Just final sort out, base greenery and waiting for shield transfers to be delivered now! :!!
Fettling done, varnish applied.
Bit late.......But nice one, Steve !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
Much assembly done
Zvezda I-16 based coated, ready for some pin washes, dry brushing and transfers.
Normans done, and half the Bretons too; need to complete these, esp. the Brittany spears, and the French, and the Byzantines and Vikings will be in trouble.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 18 October 2021, 03:21:31 PM
...the Brittany spears...
As portrayed in the Beyoncé Tapestry?
Quote from: d_Guy on 18 October 2021, 08:26:49 PM
As portrayed in the Beyoncé Tapestry?
Ba-dum, tish.
Well played, sir. Well played.
;D ;D ;D
:-bd
Excellent, Bill. ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil. :)
Forgot to mention......Sir should have a box with DOZENS & DOZENS & DOZENS of soldiers arriving at Pendraken Towers, this morning.
I'll only be happy when I know they've arrived safely. !!!
Cheers - Phil :)
Sounds like something fun! 8)
It's a lot of figures, Will !
Cheers - Phil. :)
Quote from: Techno II on 19 October 2021, 09:16:07 AM
It's a lot of figures, Will !
Cheers - Phil. :)
You mean you have been WORKING !
Fair few Napoleonics in different scales started today.
I-16 finished on the painting front, decals to apply this evening with luck.
Base coats on, inks done.
No painting per se, but finally tweaked the flight stands for a load of die cast planes I bought a good few years ago, in anticipation of their use in my SCW campaign. The downside I discovered is that the big planes, such as the Soviet bomber with a wingspan of 11", are really too heavy for my stands, causing the wire to bend. I may have to offload them and get some 6mm versions instead, which would also help with storage issues!
Highlights on, flesh base on and inked
Light horse just need details, napoleonics wood work and flesh highlights done.
Some Italian WWII 65mm Infantry Guns based with cobbled together crew from my spares box.
11/14 28mm Napoleonics just need beards and metalwork doing.
15mm camp for Adrian's Goths just need flock, tufts and scatter.
15mm French and Poles had a day off...
Some early medievals drybrushed as I fancy some Lion Rampant games.
Some of the opponents drybrushed this afternoon. Now I need to decide upon some colours for the 'uniforms' and some standards too.
Not much done this week due to a (rare) five day week, being knackered following a parent's evening on Wednesday.
I did build three (new) titans, and working out where to put the magnets so I can exchange weapons. I've almost finished the 15mm Poles.
Some base colours applied to first unit of medieval infantry.
Finishing off a few earlier French for 100YW.
4 units, two foot, two skirmishers assembled for the Jewish Revolt army.Good to be back in 10mm!
Many 6mm Napoleonics assembled.
Next batch of 28mm Napoleonics assembled.
These and the Titans undercoated.
24 heavy chariots and their crews base coated and inked.
Horses primed and contrast painted by a friend are assembled onto bases, will need work though, I wouldn't be happy handing them back at the mo....
Two Lynx, 2 Gazelle, 1 Mil24, 1 SU-25, 2 Tornado, 2 Tracked Rapier, 5 BRDM-2 varients, 5 T-80, 2 BMP-3 and 1 Vitrix Cletic chariot built. AFV and Choppers almost finished.
Lot of time spent on chariots and crews and repainting horses today.
Badly applied contrast paints, been watered down to far. Just looked wrong!
Muttermuttermutter.
Never tried thinning contrast paints - sounds like I'll not be doing in the future either ;)
Quote from: fred. on 14 November 2021, 07:14:07 PMNever tried thinning contrast paints - sounds like I'll not be doing in the future either ;)
don't do it with water Forbes...
Crews nearly done. Armour and flesh stages done last night.
A complete change of tack and two units of my 6mm MDF figures 3/4 done. I'd forgotten how quick they are to paint up.
Garmets and wood done tonight on crews
Two units of mdf figures finished, with flags and flocking to follow. Started base painting on another batch this evening.
Wooden Spoon finished.
Chariot wheels assembled onto bodies, now need to do metalwork on them.
Crews finished
Two mdf units lacquered and basing started on some reinforcements.
Flags and flocking completed on two units.
Chariot bodies completed. Chariot horses and armour repainted, details added.
Bases main colour painted, double highlighted and pva sealed.
Just started on the next project. :)
Brrrr....it's freezing. (Ooh !...whatagiveaway) :D
Cheers - Phil. ;)
Eskimos maybe ? (I kn ow should be Inuit)
*tsk*
Obviously it would be the Winter War.
Battle on the Ice?
Great Northern War.
Or the retreat from Moscow.
Poltava.
Aleutian Islands
Eylau?
Additions to the Korean War for Chosin?
Maybe fishy appendigaes - Finns !!!
Bases flocked and clumped. Tufts later.
Maybe it's 10mm Mounties??
'Modern' figures, for Ice Station Zebra/The Thing?
Wasn't there a Cold War film where the USSR invades Alaska? Not Red Dawn or The Day After, but around the same time?
PAH ! =)
What I want to know is....
At the one true scale...apart from the magazines being a slightly different shape..one's curved (AK 47)....and one looks straight (AK 74)...what's the difference ?
In gaming use...do they have any different statistics ?
I never said anything about the Cold War, Martyn !!.....(Oh...Dammit..I have given it away now.) ;)
'The Thing'.....Now that would be fun to make some wee 'men' 'thingys' for.
Cheers - Phil. :)
There are several types of magazine, so both would be correct. The 74 is just a small calibre version of the 47, round about 5.45mm as opposed to 7.62k used by the 47. Less stopping power but still more than enough. No difference in game terms.
(http://www.celluloidheroreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/01/ice_station_zebra.jpg)
Ice Station Zebra!
Forgot how much I love that film.
A unit of mdf cavalry finished this afternoon. I hope to make a start on another tonight... :-\
Four 10mm Jewish Revolt units basecoated and inked.
Many 6mm Napoleonics same
And 3 titans and two knights.
Had a play with the new Kneadatite Brown Stuff that arrived recently.
I'd forgotten what a nice putty it was to work with. :-bd
Cheers - Phil. :)
I did manage to finish another unit of cavalry tonight :) . Lacquer and flocking tomorrow.
Finished 3 Mortal Gods archers apart from tufts.
Napoleonics base coated and inked apart from guns and lumbers.
Titans slowly picking up colour.
2/3 of Jewish infantry highlights done.
Cavalry finished and now onto some additional infantry and command bases.
Carrying on with the 'Cold War' figures.
PASGT/Fritz helmets are fun at this scale. ;)...I think they look right.
And I'm slowly trying to write the comparison of the different putties, ...But that's hidden until I finish it off !
Cheers - Phil. :)
6mm French limber horses and riders done.
6mm Grenadiers a'Chevel done.
6mm Gendarme d'elite done
Artillery and lumbers base coated and inked, will finish tonight.
Some base colours applied to some scratch built terrain last night. Highlights and start of flocking today.
6mm French foot artillery done.
Apart from tidying up.
Just the guards to do now... :-B @-) :-t
Mopped the kitchen floor.
Dione nowt, to busy annoying kids in exam rooms....
Continued with Cold War figures.....Took dog to see the vet in the afternoon.
Cheers - Phil. :)
Knocking together a trebuchet for the Frankish camp.
My mdf reinforcements arrived today and have based up some heavy and light cavalry.
Base coat paint applied to some scenery and grit added to mf mdf cavalry bases. Taking a break before moving onto basing the Grenadiers.
Grenadiers, some Jagers and 'spare' cavalry based and grit applied.
Big batch of mdf figures primed this morning and now waiting for them to gas off before bringing indoors.
A shed load of bases drybrushed, ready for the figures to get their colours tomorrow onwards.
Grenadier a'pied et chasseurs a'pied dans 6mm complete.
Another big batch of bases drybrushed. So now onto painting the actual figures.
Largr portion of new army built...
I'm making a few moves in the direction of expanding my imperial Roman force, then dividing it into two armies; one early (for Trajan) and one late (for Aetius).
Two Jewish heavy(!) Foot units nearly done.
Next batch of Tom's 28mm French base coated and inked
In 10mm two Jewish heavies(!) and two units of skirmishers finished (apart from basing). Only 31 bases worth. Quiet day really.
Bases 8nked.
Next three batches undercoated.
Five 28mm French Napoleonics finished.
11 more to do.
An mdf building started today. Hard to do much else with the build up to Xmas.
Up to 7 of the 28mm Napoleonics finished now.
Bases had putty added, plus 4 Burrows & Badgers minis bases puttied and base coats applied.
Spent some time yesterday in a completely unsuccessful attempt to scratchbuild a couple of lamassu (Assyrian androsphynxes). I hoped I could construct them with a decoupage treatment using damp printed outlines over plaster, but I was a snake trying to tapdance. Sigh.
28mm Napoleonics, got four more Gaurd d'honour and three line regiments, two guards regiments done today, plus ink.washes on another project.. .
More work on the mdf building today and a bit of planning on some other 3D printed ones that I was given.
All French 28mm done, and a Bavarian and Prussian sapper too
Presents wrapped.
13 x 15mm units for MeG (18 figures per unit for 10 and 12 for 3) and 3 generals base coated and inked. Bases inked on 28mm French.
2 legion units assembled for my eldest.
28mm French just need tufts on bases.
4 more Legion figures built for my daughter
15mm army clothes highlighted and first skin highlight done.
A unit of mdf Hussars completed this morning. They took longer than normal as I sorted out some small colour changes required given they are mounted on white horses. Hopefully the next ones will be quicker.
216 x 15mm hair painted and inked this am 8-} X_X
Woodwork and leatherwork painted and inked.
Metalwork done
Hairbands done on all figures.
Plumes on some spears done
Another unit of Hussars painted this morning. Some heavy cavalry next I think.
First unit of heavy cavalry completed :) .
28mm Napoleonics done
Feathers done on spears and headdresses on the many 15mms.
Sand/pva and ink on bases
Bases highlighted with two layers and pva sealed.
Flock on 82 bases so far today.
QuoteFlock on 82 bases so far today.
Slacker :!!
Army and bases nearly done, just waiting for 2 colours for flesh highlights from Foundry....
2nd batch of Steppe horse undercoated, bout a 1/4 way through the 500 or so figures I got at Penkridge.
Four spaceships done that having been sitting on my desk for months.
2 Burrows and Badgers characters finished, one more underway. Extra 28mm figure started and a 15mm general for a mate started too.
28mm terrain bits base coated.
54 horses tack and mains/tails/flashes and socks done.
Basing going on across 6 different projects today... :'(
Clumps on two of the projects, tufts maybe later...
Tufts on two projects.
Third project completed.
Some Cromwells and a Sherman Firefly base coated and wash applied. Good to be painting again :) .
Good stuff Steve, always good to be back painting.
Seconded :)
Likewise
I must admit I do have a fondness for painting AFVs, but certainly not cavalry! This week I have the landing, hall and stairs to paint, which I fear will tax my back to the limit.
I'm working on 10mm armies for Irregular Wars around the Indian Ocean.
Earlier thread discussing proxies (https://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,20483.0.html)
The Portuguese force is almost complete:
Pike, shot and native allies complete - rodolero troops and a cannon nearing completion.
I'm making a start on Indian forces:
Elephants (for the southern empire) and Cavalry (for the Northern Sultanates) and some artillery all in progress.
After that it'll be foot soldiers - thaasans of em.
This is the point where I appeal for advice (any handy links) about photographing small minis.
Thanks for any advice.
15mm Cavalry assembled, some undercoated.
28mm standards sorted to units and poles attached
What would normally be half an hours work has taken nearly 2 hours.
Put you are very ill Will :-\
Waterfall of snot! :-&
Loverly :P
QuoteI'm working on 10mm armies for Irregular Wars around the Indian Ocean.
Earlier thread discussing proxies (https://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,20483.0.html)
The Portuguese force is almost complete:
Pike, shot and native allies complete - rodolero troops and a cannon nearing completion.
I'm making a start on Indian forces:
Elephants (for the southern empire) and Cavalry (for the Northern Sultanates) and some artillery all in progress.
After that it'll be foot soldiers - thaasans of em.
This is the point where I appeal for advice (any handy links) about photographing small minis.
Thanks for any advice.
that is a great list Steve - I'd forgotten about the idea to use LoA figures for the Gentlemen units - so it's very timely that you posted this as I was just pondering which figures to use for these.
As to photography of figures, light is key. I get pretty good results with a fairly recent iPhone. I do have a video light that I sometimes use to add more light - around £30 from Amazon. A good simple option for WIP shots is to tilt the figures up so that the overhead light falls more on their faces/fronts. One way to do this is simply insert a small box under the mat the figures are on.
Thanks for the tip Fred.
So far I've tried shooting on "auto" with and without flash.
Sometimes flash is good, picking out colour and detail.
Sometimes flash is bad, showing the messy edges of my colour and detail.
(Shrugs)..
I will try introducing my painting light to proceedings and see whether it provides a happy medium.
The only other tip I've seen so far is to avoid a sharp edge between floor and rear wall.
Pro photographers have these things like skateboard ramps for that purpose.
I'm contemplating propping up the mat with a couple of book-ends.
As Fred says, lighting it the key thing for any miniature photography. We've got a basic light box from Amazon and I play around with the camera settings depending on what I'm photo'ing.
- For blackwashed figures I find it better to use custom settings, so I alter the white balance and then turn up the exposure to a suitable level.
- For painted figures I've found the camera's Auto settings to be pretty good.
For both options you'll want your Macro setting turned on. And I still have to do a bit of work in Photoshop with them afterwards, usually a bit of brightness and sometimes a bit of colour tweaking to make them pop.
Also, don't get too close to the figures either. The image quality on most modern cameras/phones means that you can photo from 30cm-40cm away and your image shouldn't suffer from any depth issues and things being out of focus.
Light boxes are good - give a nice even level of light - you need to pick a size for the amount of things your are photographing.
I'd avoid flash - it will tend to overpower due to proximity to the figures
The skateboard ramp to avoid the join between the background and table, can be easily created with a piece of paper bent at a slight angle. Also with miniatures you can put terrain behind them to hide this.
A white background can confuse the camera's auto settings - it will tend to see too much light and therefore make the figures too dark.
You can print out (or buy) graduated backgrounds which can be the skateboard ramp - then you get the no background join and the less harsh background colour.
There's a guide from GW (https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/03/06/the-model-photo-how-to-photograph-models-for-display/), presumably written by people who do this for a living.
Phil (Techno) used to do this as well. If he's still around he might have some insights?
The GW guide you've linked to, Martyn, is almost identical the method I used to use at home.(Over 30 years ago, now.)
Only real difference is that I used to use three lights.....One either side..one over the top...To try and cut any shadows down to virtually nothing.
The Studio's set up was basically the same.....Except that it was a lot more sophisticated.....And a LOT more expensive.
(£10ks worth...and that was back in 88/89.) ;)
Standards affixed to poles and edged. Just finials to fix and highlight.
Cavalry making progress.
Managing 45 mins before I need to go splat at the mo...
Just need to tuft 3 units of cavalry and then photograph. Then make a list for competition entries...
18 bases of 15mm cavalry finished apart from flags, which are on order.
Pendraken painting comp decided on.
Bits ordered from many sources to finish off things. Must be payday.
28mm mounted Knight assembled from random painting pile.
6mm Saxons for Dru about to be assembled.
Oh, and I painted a barrel..
You must be feeling better then Will ;)
Overall, yes, but my throat is now killing... :-\ (:|
However, I hae undercoated, base coated and inked several hundren 6mm Napoleonic Saxons today, along with a unit of 10mm cavalry and another 10mm unit of Pike and Shotte era foot. Also 28mm knighty-knight is base coated and inked.
So, only a quiet day really.
Can't do any more tonight, a) ink still wet, b) bedroom light not suitable for picking up details.
Some Shermans and M10 Achilles base coated and washed tonight.
288 Saxon Infantry done, bits and pieces done on other bits...
New Vikings ready for action, and a considerable number of new Dacians nearly there.
6mm Saxons finished (phew) only 368 figures in 3 days. =P~ ~X( @-) :-B :-t X_X
Bit of work done on 28mm and 10mm bits on the way. Quite a sizable 10mm project started & assembled for the painting competition and to keep me occupied for a long time after, I had to order 'extra paints' for this one...
Quote6mm Saxons finished (phew) only 368 figures in 3 days
Saxons?
(https://static.wixstatic.com/media/8dcf0f_f48c1ef3da404f0989876f527fca4aa3~mv2.png)
Or Saxons?
(https://www.napoleon-series.org/images/military/organization/saxon/SauerweidSaxon1811/Sachsen1811Corps7b.jpg)
Or Saxons?
(https://tankandafvnews.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/saxon_l2.jpg)
A very good question, that man :)
Although 368 of the third choice seems a little excessive
Option 2-4 years! 1806 Saxons
Four Cromwells finished tonight.
Dacians are painted. I'm now upgrading my Iberians, Numidians, and Thracians.
Quite a lot of bases sanded and pva'd.
Some on finished figures, some on base coated and inked, some undercoated, some on other things...
Iberian and Thracian upgrades done, Numidians under the brush.
Basing painted and highlighted.
Some tracks basecoated and inked
Other vehicles fettled.
Flesh tones started.
Doesn't sound much for 3 hours painting...
Serious amount of basing and rebasing happening today.
Oh and a battalion of airborne 6mm assembled, sandedand pva'd base coated and inked.
Improvements to Numidian LC nearly done. The new Lancashire Games figures add some welcome variety of pose to what was, after all, an irregular army, but they present two problems. One is that their horses are rather too massive (the real things were ponies), so I've had to compensate by raising the bases on my existing Pendraken figures by about 1.5 mm; en masse they should look acceptable. The other is that (like Tin Soldier 15 mm as I remember them), they have ridiculous arms and could scratch their knees while standing to attention; useful to a soldier, I'm sure, but most inaccurate, though I admit I've only chatted to one Numidian in my life. I'm also replacing half my infantry javelinmen and archers, adding more poses to the former, and a few slingers to the latter. The figures here are marginally bigger that Pendraken, but acceptable.
Superb owl watched while the paras were finished.
Just flock, clumps and tufts to do.
Just tufts and labels to do.
6mm done.
Photos tomorrow..
28mm based, next up for them is standards and poles with finials.
10mm Carthagian rebasing, all sand and pva'd, cavalry bases inked.
2 more competition entries nearly finished.
Assembled a squad,
Base coated and inked 4 legion squads roo.
Highlights started
Flags done on next 15 28mm for Tom. Photos tomorrow. 2 28mm figures from the 1980s found and revamped too.
One sci-fi and 3 other characters done, plus a random diety/demon/divine messanger/interloper/alien (apart from basing).
'Your order is on its way' email received yesterday from Leon! Means I've goy three units to complete before Saturday, and I might do it! :)
Aww....Nosher was here for a couple of minutes...and now he's disappeared
Quote from: Phil2 on 20 February 2022, 01:37:12 PMAww....Nosher was here for a couple of minutes...and now he's disappeared
Que?
Absolute freak, that I spotted it, Ian.......and the post has disappeared completely...as tho' it never existed....and I'm not out of my head on painkillers.
Something VERY VERY weird with the new forum.....Or with my half/administrator....half Global Moderator....which the new forum doesn't like, at all.
I'll give up bothering to look anymore...especially on the tablet.
Just basing to do now on all the Legion stuff
Four Sherman tanks completed and some other base coated too. Hope to finish those tomorrow as I need them for a campaign game at the weekend!
No idea how many 10mm I haven't quite finished over the lastb3 days, but they lost their only trial run before they're first use at the weekend!
Shields to finish, tidying up to do and basing basically.
Five more Sherman finished tonight.
Scipionic republicans painted. Trajan imperials en route.
Wasn't in the mojo to paint Keith's 40 x 28mm Persians that I built and undercoated last night. so I built and undercoated 3 Jewish Revolt units in 10mm. Then took the mutt out.
Now I'm not in the mood to paint the 10mm, so have base coated Keith's Persians!
Apathy works wonders!
With it absolutely peeing it down outside today, I decided to do a bit of painting this morning. Inspired by the entries in the Vehicles category of this years painting comp, I finally applied some camo schemes to a Tiger II, Jagdpanther and Panther that had sat on their sticks for too many years awaiting for this stage to happen. Wash applied and the next stage of highlights tonight, all being well.
With the Muse upon me, I added a camo scheme to some A13 MkII tanks that too had been sitting in the painting queue far too long. A good day so far, apart from the weather.
A13 MkII's finished tonight :) .
48 28mm Persians and Greeks mostly dry brushed.
Flesh on and inked
Gloss lacquer applied to some 6mm mdf figures. Motivation is returning to paint more of these to give me a broader set of troop choices :) .
Latest batch of 28mm Napoleonics up to basing and flags stage.
28mms just need tufts.
Unfortunately, one lead pole snapped as I glued it into place. Just had to drill and pin it! Gah!
On the table, base coated and inked, is a WW110mm German force for one of the best painters on this forum...
He shall remain nameless, but it is huge honour to be asked to paint an army for our own Nik Harwood.
Oops...
Trajanic legionaries are painted. Tomorrow sees the start of the great differentiation project, phase two: painting up the rest of Aetius' army.
20 x 15mm Hunnic horse archers assembled.
Huns just need tufts etc on bases, and shield transfers.
Ww1 Huns are fleshed up and wood and metal work done.
Plus a whole bunch of nice real life things today in the sun too, including some eldest daughter time.
Flocked some bases whilst SWMBO was out for a few hours this evening.
Oohh Emojis!
Anyway...
WW1 Germans done apart from moustaches and tidying up then basing.
Hunnic cavalry to base up.
Blooming piping...
:-B @-)
Some Commission Figurines cavalry and infantry finished today :) . Nice to see the emoji's and formatting options back!
QuoteSome Commission Figurines cavalry and infantry finished today :)
I could be tempted to try a small set-up for the War of 1812 with the MDF figures - if only they did
Indians Native Americans 😕.
Cheers,
Geoff
Exculcatores TERTIA ALPINA are on their bases.
Exculcatores PANNONIA are on their bases.
Basing and shields done on Huns.
Legio SOLENSES GALLICANI on bases.
Huns done
Legio PRIMA FLAVIA about 75% painted.
WW1 British base coated, inked, highlighted, flesh on, inked and highlighted, Boots and weapons painted. Horses znd equipment done for cavalry.
Just webbing and army patches to do.
This was at Boards And Swords while organising a MEG competition (odd number of players so I dropped out).
PRIMA FLAVIA on bases; Burgund foederati under the brush.
Burgunds based, and the Patrician army is pawing the ground impatiently.
10mm ww1 British done apart from basing.
10mm ww2 Germans done apart from basing!
30YW dragoons and Cuirassiers assembled.
ASOIAF Night watch purchased... :o
Horses base coated and inked for Manny's 15mm Renaissance.
My latest batch base coated and inked...
To quote Batman in the Lego Movie:
"I only work in black, or very, very dark grey!"
Working on a medley of reinforcements: Seleucid cataphracts, Gepid cavalry, genitors, nuns, Cossack frame gun, Templar crossbowmen.
Cataphracts are on bases. I do like that kind of cavalry; they paint up really fast.
Templar crossbow mercenaries nearly done, and the Discalced Sisters of the Double Six are based.
ASOIAF Night's Watch getting based.
Horses and base colours done on Manny's 15mm renaissance.
Inspired I even started 4 x ECW 15mm foot units at the same time.
Some work done on wound markers for my Samurai
15mm ECW doot dry brushed, mostly.
QuoteSome work done on wound markers for my Samurai
Geysers of blood perhaps ;)
New Genitors are on bases. Gepids under the brush.
Bases painted highlighted and sealed.
Gepids done; putting together a few reinforcements for the Civil War.
Three sets of units of figures VERY nearly done, one lot completed today.
See ifI can up that to three out of four (one set needs basing, so will be a few days longer).
Two sets of units done.
Two not done.
Just tidyingnup to do on the two
Units 5-8 of my 15mm ECW project have started.
Next batch of 28mm for Tom assembled and undercoated.
Dinan's foot nearly complete, likewise Royalist artillery reinforcements; Villiers' horse are done, bar the varnishing. I'll be starting the new Parliamentarians soon.
Units 5-8 finished apart from standards and basing.
Eliot's foot nearing completion for the Parliamentary army. This will free my brush for the Tang and Tibetan figures that Phil thinks we don't know he's working on.
17/18 28mm Prussians main painting done. Basing and standards to do after no 18 gets done in a bit...
While waiting for the Dark Ages Chinese, I'll be doing a few new modern tanks and SPGs.
Next four units of Manny's 30 YW and 3 units of ECW base coated and inked.
Some more 10mm Western Desert British assembled. 8)
Just remember, if you're having a bad day, yat least you're not the idiot who decided to paint 10mm tanks in Caunter!
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 20 April 2022, 10:10:52 AMJust remember, if you're having a bad day, yat least you're not the idiot who decided to paint 10mm tanks in Caunter!
Nice easy scheme - not ! have fun
QuoteJust remember, if you're having a bad day, yat least you're not the idiot who decided to paint 10mm tanks in Caunter!
When you've mastered that, there's always the Berlin Infantry Brigade camo.
How about ....
(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/03/08/2BED3EBC00000578-3220656-image-a-15_1441265779723.jpg)
No way I'm going to try that !
(https://defence.nridigital.com/defence/global_defence_technology_mar21/challenger_tank_digital_camouflage/463285/camo_closeup.960_0_1.jpg)
Don't need to go that far. This is the newest British offering.
I have a theory about the sources of these new camouflage schemes ...
(https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2BXKXYT/vector-pixel-art-tank-isolated-2BXKXYT.jpg)
OK, then how about this?
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/46/fb/a8/46fba8710a12f9bc5fe3106ac528d6e1.jpg)
That looks like my early efforts at desert camo. :)
It's clearly for use on King's Day in the Netherlands. Just in case anyone tries to attack they have tanks hidden in the crowds.
I've heard of pink Panthers, but an Orange Leopard ?????
QuoteI've heard of pink Panthers, but an Orange Leopard ?????
They just haven't painted on the stripes yet.
Oh no, wait. That's a Tiger, isn't it?
Well spotted :)
Quote from: Raider4 on 20 April 2022, 12:58:15 PMWhen you've mastered that, there's always the Berlin Infantry Brigade camo.
It's tempting!
Finally started my 10mm Imperialists that I bought gawd knows how long ago.
Crossbows and handgunners underway while I wait for the ink on Manny's next 14 bases of 15mm cav to dry
And basing started on three sets of stuff...
Quote from: Ithoriel on 20 April 2022, 02:52:25 PMOK, then how about this?
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/46/fb/a8/46fba8710a12f9bc5fe3106ac528d6e1.jpg)
You know when you've been (120mm) Tango'd!
No painting as such of late, but plenty of assembling various bits'n'pieces ready for a batch of priming, when the weather warms up a bit, which should happen towards next weekend.
Some Local Defence Volunteers and Naval Division units based up today.
After a long 24 hours in Bishop's Castle (those of you who know, know) to celebrate my mother's 70th:-
Uniform highlights, fleshbase, fleshink and flesh highlights and buff done, then hats added to Manny's 30YW cuirassier units 5-7.
Three scales of figures bases inked too.
Assembled and based some 6mm mdf limbers in advance of a game next week. Nothing like a deadline to focus one's mind!
QuoteAssembled and based some 6mm mdf limbers in advance of a game next week. Nothing like a deadline to focus one's mind!
Yeah, not everyone agrees with you there . . .
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (Douglas Adams)
Finally almost finished the 10mm Asiatic assorted bought at the last Penkridge bash so to tourter mesen more going to start on some Black Seas Frigates and Brig (uggh - rigging). Also got some 15mm deserty stuff to do.
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 09 May 2022, 11:19:12 AMFinally almost finished the 10mm Asiatic assorted bought at the last Penkridge bash so to tourter mesen more going to start on some Black Seas Frigates and Brig (uggh - rigging). Also got some 15mm deserty stuff to do.
Did you know there was one yesterday? Couldn't go myself, but club mates did!
Limbers had grit applied to their bases this evening, plus some sabot base for artillery made too. I'm hoping for a good push on the painting front tomorrow given I need to finish stuff for a game on Friday.
Quote from: toxicpixie on 09 May 2022, 07:08:04 PMDid you know there was one yesterday? Couldn't go myself, but club mates did!
No not aware, wouldn't have gone, short on funds
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 10 May 2022, 05:56:09 AMNo not aware, wouldn't have gone, short on funds
Aren't we all :( When Paul puts the next up I'll try and remember to post it up here.
Between home Ed and juggling work, I'm now engaged Monday to Saturday, leaving Sundays as my only day off, and the only "whole family day" - so getting to shows is now not likely even if I had cash to splash!
Lifes 'ard kid !!
ATM I'm doing a 3 hr Drive on 22nd to Newark, not fun.
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 10 May 2022, 10:37:52 AMLifes 'ard kid !!
ATM I'm doing a 3 hr Drive on 22nd to Newark, not fun.
For the show? Bloody hell :/ That's above and beyond, although as sports all fans I know will do that every second weekend...
Quote from: toxicpixie on 10 May 2022, 01:59:47 PMFor the show? Bloody hell :/ That's above and beyond, although as sports all fans I know will do that every second weekend...
Yes would be better if the CWC release were at Phalanx - thats a 3/.4 to 1 1/.2 train ride
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 10 May 2022, 02:34:36 PMYes would be better if the CWC release were at Phalanx - thats a 3/.4 to 1 1/.2 train ride
That's a bit less dire :D
104 (it's divisable by 8 ) 15mm Hoplites are skirted, armoured, inked and highlighted, flesh basecoated and inked.
8)
Light cavalry finished, just remains gloss lacquer and flock to be applied. Limbers and sabot bases started.
Limbers and sabot bases finished. Light infantry and an Artillery base left to do for the game on Friday.
Light infantry completed.
Artillery finished and all bases flocked, ready for tomorrow.
QuoteArtillery finished and all bases flocked, ready for tomorrow.
#:-S
Yep, a close run thing Paul!
Realised I had not blogged figures painted recently, get ready for MASSIVE photo dump incoming!
Skirt details, tidying up then shield transfers left to do on the hoplites.
104 Joplites done bow apart from shield transfers.
Four 10mm units for my later medieval/Renaissance collection basr coated and inked.
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 17 May 2022, 07:08:46 PM104 Joplites done bow apart from shield transfers.
Sort of ragtime Greeks? Very polite ones, obviously.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 18 May 2022, 12:47:52 AMSort of ragtime Greeks? Very polite ones, obviously.
Got it in 1
10mm irregular troops. 10 bases of 8 crossbows, 16 mounted handgunners and 4 guns and crew done since yesterday morning...
That felt good!
Was really fed up with other people's 24 15mm for 36 hours. Mojo is now back
Miscounted...
11 bases of crossbows
104 shield transfers applied :-B :-& @-) :-t
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 21 May 2022, 08:17:42 PM104 shield transfers applied :-B :-& @-) :-t
That's a lot... :o :'(
Quote104 shield transfers applied :-B :-& @-) :-t
:o X_X @-)
Sand and pva on 10mm figure bases. 40mm assembled onto new bases for Tom's new batch.
Tom's and 10s and 15s done, extra10mms being based at the moment, new 10s (220 GNW Swedes for a commission) inked highlighted and details started.
Love half term...
QuoteTom's and 10s and 15s done, extra10mms being based at the moment, new 10s (220 GNW Swedes for a commission) inked highlighted and details started.
Love half term...
Good luck with the GNW swedes! Would love to see how they turn out :)
He'll be back in 20 mins with them finished and based...
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 02 June 2022, 07:52:15 AMHe'll be back in 20 mins with them finished and based...
I have reached the cuff and turnback stage. Maybe 25 minutes...
Just need basing and flags now. (:| @-)
58 bases inked. :D
260 6mm Napoleonics done today, apart from collars,cuffs, turnbacks and brassworks...
Well hurry up, some of us haven't got all day :!!
260 6mm Russians done and will be photographed in a bit. Just the cavalry to do now.
That was this morning,
This afternoon I did paint 36 extra Swedes for Lee's GNW 10mms to finish a unit. They will get based up tomorrow.
I was even nice and made labels to stick under the bases for identidification porpoises.
A handful of reinforcements: more imperial legionaries, praetorians, and scholae (Milvian Bridge, here we come), more Damascus mamluks, more 17th-century tufencis, more Norman milites, and some attack dogs for the Dacians and the 17th-century Scotties.
6mm Russian dragoons done
154 15mm Ancient Greeks underway. Cloaks and linen work done. Flesh just needs final highlights.
Just waiting for Leon to send me some Bronze so I can highlight armours.
Oh and some chickens based up
My Rajput nobles have just been upgraded a bit to take advantage of improvements in my painting technique since they were commissioned.
Wood and leatherwork done. Long day
Praetorian Guards and Scholae Palatinae are now represented by different figures.
And the Scholae are on their bases.
Just needto do shield transfers on the Greeks
Minervia legionaries under the brush, but on hold for a few days while I try to shake off a bit of giddiness (probably an inner-ear infection, I think).
Get well soon FK
Though Felines had perfect balance. Hang in there kid....
Thank you, gentlemen. I taught today without mishap, so seem to be mending.
Waiting for static and transfers to dry before muddying, assembling clumping and tufting 2 Brirish armoured regts in 6mm.
100 GNW Swedish cavalry, 11 infantry and 135 Napoleonic Austrians, all 10mm, base coated and inked today.
Base highlights done, flesh on and inked. Enjoying the extra heat, means inks dry nicely.
A few stray figures have been done up as Sarmatian infantry spearmen. They'll do to guard the camp, as long as nobody attacks it.
Only white hat lace, horse flashes and tidying up underway
Sand pva and ink on bases for Swedes.
Austrians final uniform highlights on, packs and gun woodwork painted and inked.
Half a commission of 15mm Irish assembled, untilI ran out of superglue! :'(
And bases painted and pva'd
Should be dry in about 30 seconds in this heat!
Six units of SYW under the brush to help satisfy my urge to do Kunersdorf on a 1-to-1 scale some day.
Only tufts to do on Swedes Austrians just need tidying up (and while doing facing I realised I massively undercounted the amount of Austrian musketeers I needed).
Also looking at another general and possibly a cavslary unit or battery or two as well to add to this batch. 🤔
No painting per se, but I did get my paints out this morning to check them over and top up with water where required, as some were close to dryong out completely after the recent heatwaves. The aim is to actually get some painting started again tonight...
Left the latest batch of undercoated out in the storms! Will need to reglue 80%.
Started last* two 15mm ECW units.
Swedes photographed.
Austrians added to bases, so now I know how many extra I need.
*Last - until I change the army or add units or...
Ouch, that must be painful having left them outside. We've just had about 5-10 minutes of torrential rain that came down all of a sudden, so easy to get caught out moving stuff about as I do when undercoating in the garage.
Quote. . . We've just had about 5-10 minutes of torrential rain that came down all of a sudden . . .
Yes, we did :( (looks wistfully at the washing hanging on the line).
First basecoat applied applied to several units. When dry, drybrushing to follow to help highlight all the detail on the figures. Nice to get the paints out again. A deadline of a game in a month does help focus the mind though!
Painted 24 15mm ECW cavalry and threebases of generals.
Was bored of everyone else's work, so took a day off.
Bases finished and figures drybrushed a la Harwood to show detail and help hid imperfections in my painting. Onto base colours for uniforms tonight.
I decided to base up two artillery units instead of painting tonight. Happy with my progress so far.
15mm Irish and 10mm Austrians reassembled after their shower, base coated and inked.
Some BUA terrain items primed and a couple of artillery units too. First base coat colour applied.
Just shields, bronzework and tidying up on the Irish.
ECW and Austrians need flock etc...
Basing up Fred and Mary's reinforcements.
Austrians done, they just need flappy wavy things*.
ECW done.
Both to be photographed once basing is dry.
Irish just need tidying up.
*I will leave people to argue over their names, just to flag it here, under this banner, but it's like a red rag to a bull, and I have standards.
Very clever Will ;D .
BUA's drybrushed so onto the buildings tomorrow.
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 23 August 2022, 08:25:29 PM*I will leave people to argue over their names, just to flag it here, under this banner, but it's like a red rag to a bull, and I have standards.
That is rerrible Will b ut you missed one - Colours !!
They were hidden under the duster
Base colours applied to some Russian houses, followed by a wash, ready for drybrushing later.
Only a few figures to finish on the Irish commission now.
10mm Austrian Cuirassiers assembled and base coated.
15mm Renaissance Imperialist infantry and generals assembled, undercoatedand basecoated too.
A unit of irregular light infantry all but finished this morning for my 19thC ImagiNations forces. Some highlights here and there left plus the flag, which I've now decided upon the colour for it.
Irregular light infantry all finished, bar flocking their bases. Onto more units later all being well.
Two units flocked this evening. No painting due to kitchen being used for its intended purpose!
QuoteTwo units flocked this evening. No painting due to kitchen being used for its intended purpose!
:o Outrageous, have they no sense of priorities
I know, shocking isn't it ;) ;D .
Another unit base coated and given a devlin mud wash, ready for highlights etc.
Wood and leatherwork inked
15mm Holy Roman Imperialists commission finished. Photos later.
Still neither holy, Romam, and not much of an empire tbh.
Another mid-19thC ImagiNations infantry unit finished, with just the base to be flocked later.
Base flocked and another infantry unit started.
Infantry unit finished and awaiting flocking. Next up artillery, commanders or cavalry, I've yet to decide... :-\
Mountain artillery unit base coated and washed ready for highlights tomorrow.
Good progress, that man =D> =D> =D>
Thanks Paul. The deadline, SWMBO back at work plus the weather turning in September really has helped my output somewhat :) .
Mountain gun finished, but forgot to add a higlight to the barrel to tie it in with the other artillery. Some cavalry started and I've decided to convert one trooper into a standard bearer, which should be fairly simple, he says...
Sword cut off and hole drilled for a pole for the guidion/flag/standard. Fortunately it all went really well for once :) .
#:-S
Base coat colours finished and wash applied to a unit of cavalry. Possibly final highlights to be painted later on today if I'm lucky.
Cavalry unit finished this evening, barring flag and flock. Not entirely happy with them to be honest, but once the flock is on, a nice flag attacjed, they should look OK. I'll have a better idea when I seem them fresh tomorrow morning.
I'm planning some dismounted cavalry for a forthcoming game and of course for general use later on, so plenty of basing to be done this morning. At least it should be warm and sunny so I might even get all the basing done and priming today, which would be a great boon for my timescales. Alongside this some pack horses to have the same done to them, again for the same game etc.
Shields added to two older B& B characters.
10mm Napoleonic Cuirassiers for my Austrians done, just need varnish and basing. Latest batch of 6mm Napoleonic Russians assembled and undercoated along with 3 Burrows and Badgers characters. Dunstalking Hall built and base coated.
First part of the basing done and now waiting for the filler to dry before I apply pva glue and grit. Shouldn't be long given that it is a lovely, sunny and warm day here.
Dismounted cavalry and sundry items primed and first part of base painting completed. A tad overcast here but hope they dry in time for some evening painting.
Light cavalry unit has had base cloours applied followed by a wash. Highlights and lacquer tomorrow. I do not like painting cavalry, even with my very simplistic approach!
Light cavalry finished, but may do another highlight on the clothing, but will wait till evening when there is more consistent light to check. Next up the dismounted riders for two units, plus the horse holder stands to go with them.
Quote from: Steve J on 16 September 2022, 09:03:05 AMLight cavalry finished, but may do another highlight on the clothing, but will wait till evening when there is more consistent light to check. Next up the dismounted riders for two units, plus the horse holder stands to go with them.
You're certainly "on a roll" with the painting Steve.
Cheers,
Geoff
The deadline of the Cotswold Wargaming Day a week on Sunday is rather focussing my mind Geoff!
One unit of dismounted cavalry base coated and washed this evening.
QuoteThe deadline of the Cotswold Wargaming Day a week on Sunday is rather focusing my mind Geoff!
They do rather do that, don't they :!!
I'm now trying to figure out how I can access the kitchen today to paint when it is not being used for its intended purpose!
Managed to find some time to finish of one unit of dismounted cavalry :) .
Another unit of dismounted cavalry base coated and wash applied. Just awaiting the latter to dry before highlights and lacquer being applied.
A picture would be much more interesting than this.
Pictures will follow John, when I've finished painting all the units. Whether they look good is another matter entirely.
I enjoy following others progress
I also find posting my own progress a useful additional motivation
I'm with you Paul and it's one reason that I set up the original thread, not that it's really worked for me though!
Anyway, horse holder bases painted and a load of flocking done tonight. A productive day :) .
=D> =D> =D>
Artillery finished last night and 4 command stands this morning. Only the CO to go and then I have the bare bones of the force finished.
Mrs Lemmey's birthday,no painting here. :^o <:-P
CO finished and remaining bases all flocked. So core force completed. One more cavalry unit would be nice if I can fit it in around other game prep and household duties...
Next set of B& B and 6mm Russians base coated and inked.
New term has hit me hard, painting speed is definitely down to 600 figures per month! ;D
QuoteCO finished and remaining bases all flocked. So core force completed. One more cavalry unit would be nice if I can fit it in around other game prep and household duties...
=D> =D> =D>
Thanks Paul :). You'll be glad to know I managed to paint and flock the additional cavalry unit this morning, then some baggage horses this afternoon, all alongside family duties. Happy days!
Highlighting, basing, basing, progress :P
Started on the opposition to my Ruthenian forces which are broadly Prussian inspired. Bases and figures drybrushed ready for base colours.
Some more units drybrushed tonight, alongside planning some additional bits and pieces for both sides; order placed already :) .
Steve's on a roll :o ;)
Another B&B building built.
Lots of progress on two commissions and a mothballed project from about 2010!
Whilst awaiting for my latest Pendraken order to arrive, which I want to get sorted before resuming painting, I started on some paddy fields for a planned Burmese campaign.
Just based up 130 25mm Norman Saxon and a few Viking Infantry, 56 Norman Cav to do sheilds for
10mm Swedish artillery and generals nearly done.
18mm British Napoleonics nearly based just need flock, and five units worth of'getting up to rules strength' bases assembled (including cutting mounting board for baes, a job I used to hate, and after trying again, still do, it was such a small number of bases {9} and sizes it wasn't worth troubling Leon for).
Squeaky Blinders assembled...
Swedes done
9 stands of Napoleonic reinforcements done for tonight's game, but then looked at our agreed points and I can only field 2 of them ..
Oops.
Cateract op yesterday so painting on ho;d for a while
QuoteCateract op yesterday so painting on ho;d for a while
Hope they heal soon - I'm assuming if you can post then that is a good start (or do they just do one eye at a time?)
Probably in for one myself in a little while.
Only had em in right eye. Sight is normal, but eye aches a bit and I have to scrouge lifts from time to time. Thanks for the kind thoughts. :-bd :-bd
Austrian stands done, then I decided to magnitise and label them. 8-} :-B
#-o
All completed Austrian units now labelled.
Won't help, but it makes me feel better. ;)
6mm Russians drybrushed, flesh base coated and inked
Last 8 bases of Lee's 19mm GNW Swedish cavalry assembled
Doing up a few reinforcements to ancient Indians, partly to make the infantry units large and powerful but unwieldy, and partly so we can fight two Indian armies against each other.
I finally finished some German WWII tanks that have been on their painting sticks for well over a year now, maybe longer :-[ . Nice to get them finished given that some will see action in a forthcoming scenario soon.
Flesh highlights and black leather done.
Quack says cataract op isn't necessary yet, just an annual check up.
Finished painting a Battle Miniatures Russian farm, in advance of a planned game. Some flocking to be done to complete the bases tomorrow.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 16 November 2022, 12:56:20 AMQuack says cataract op isn't necessary yet, just an annual check up.
If you get offered them, don't hesitate. I had mine done about four months ago. In and out in about 20 minutes for each. It took about 48 hours for the first eye to settle down, closer to a week for the second. I don't need specs for distance for the first time in 60 years.
Noted. It's not NHS here, mind you. An operation represents profit to these people, so they're not trying to stall me!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 16 November 2022, 12:56:20 AMQuack says cataract op isn't necessary yet, just an annual check up.
Good stuff, although it;s not too bad. Local and a mask ove face so you can't see anything
Last two units of cavalry for GNW commission, undercoated, basecoated and inkwashed.
Some Russians log houses finished tonight. Flocking tomorrow maybe or the Church to be finished, I'll wait and see how much time I have...
Almost done on Swedish cavalry
Church finished and all bases flocked.
Was it a good sermon?
Very good Will ;D ;D ;D .
Ta.
Just cross belts and hair, then touch ups to do.
Then onto basing...
Swedish cavalry and a few 28mm ransoms finished, photos later.
Started assembling commission of 15mm of Hellenistic Spartans. Only 400 to get done by March!
You'll have em done by tomorrow
Quiet morning:
Assembled and undercoated a battalion of 6mm British motor infantry for my mate's WW2 stuff.
Built a B&B house
Assembled and sculpted bases of 5 Mortal Gods figures.
It's too cold to spray the Hellenistic Greeks, don't feel like hand undercoating them. Meh
Building base coated and inked
Building done apart from basing. B&B figure finished, sand and PVA on 6mm and 10mm and 32mm figures.
WW2 British 6mm basing all done, infantry just need webbing and helmets doing.
Vehicles need second highlights and tracks/tyres doing.
Mortal Gods base coated and inked.
Can tell I haven't done much big painting for a while ..
My back is killing!
Ancients in three scales basecoated and inked.
One of our illustrious (but absent) forum members joined the Tarleton Brigade tonight as I assembled a unit of AWI Legion cavalry for him.
And 5 units of infantry, 3 guns and crews and his command figures for his AWI British.
Undercoat on
Basecoated and new building assembled
Quote from: toxicpixie on 14 January 2023, 09:21:14 AMIts wet enough you should put your overcoat on!
Present yours for a good chewing !
Painted up a 'few' 40mm hexes to add to my naval terrain. The rest will have to wait as its too hot for painting this evening, 28 C (82 F)
Inspired by Pierre the Shy I use them to mark coastlines, very useful for odd parts of various islands in the Pacific
Just got button lace and breadbags to do on Nik's AWI... :-B
Painted up a 'few' more 40mm hexes to add to my naval terrain this morning before it got too hot for painting #:-S
Painted up the last of the 40mm hexes to add to my naval terrain this morning before it got too hot for painting #:-S
I've almost completed a micro painting project :)
Basing is done and it just needs varnishing :!!
All will be revealed in the painting competition :-$
Also prepared and undercoated 192 Baccus 6mm Great War British Middle East infantry advancing for Pierre the Shy
There is an awful lot of figures needing their basing finishing on my painting table (at least five projects).
Lots of painting otherwise done.
Micro painting project varnished :)
Too hot today for painting 6mm #:-S
Made some progress on the 6mm figures :)
Two of the three colours for shirts & shorts done :!!
When you rebase an army you were about to finish basing for a client because they've just found a better set of rules!
^#(^ @-) :-& :-t :-w ^#(^ @-) X_X 8-} 8-}
Commiserations, I hope you are charging them extra
They've agreed to that
Made more progress on the 6mm figures :)
Third of the three colours for shirts & shorts done :)
Boots done :)
Debating when to paint flesh, been a while since I painted any 6mm :-\
Quote from: paulr on 29 January 2023, 06:38:25 AMDebating when to paint flesh, been a while since I painted any 6mm :-\
FWIW I'm just doing hands and face in fleah for the Warpac stuff I'm doing currently, then helmet in green and black weapons...then wash them..its a simple "production line".
Got to look at a few 1/600th aircraft next to support either side.....
Standing in the kitchen with a frying pan full of sand on the hob as the bag I just bought from Homebase was soaking wet.
The things we do.
Going to eat it raw or well done Will ?
Second batch roasting in the oven
Spent a long time blogging yesterday.
Today, bad night's sleep, woke up late, felt okay-ish apart from one eye that might be brewing an infection or a COVID change, added clumps to a load of figures that I've been basing, built some terrain, assembled four other figure, now I feel rough and cold again and am back in bed rattling with tablets.
See how the next hour goes.
It not be fun, hang in there kid.
Sorry to hear that Will and fingers crossed you get better soon.
I did some basing today, so the first 'painting' related activity for simply ages. All for a planned France 1940 campaign. Plenty to do but it's a start.
Plan for later in the week is to find my French starter pack, painting comp is always a great incentive to ascend the lead mountain... 8)
Some 10mm WW2 French assembled and undercoated, along with 20 bases of Plains Indians for ReG. New building assembled for B&B and terrain sculpted for it. Three battalions of 1815 Prussians (all the line infantry from the starter set I got for Xmas) done apart from basing and flags, as well as 3 B&B foxes and a stoat. Plus a whole heap of basing done. Just got to photograph and post them on here now. Might assemble my Landwher cavalry tonight.
What else to do when you are locked in a room with Covid? Would have done more, but the lighting in here is awful after about 4pm.
The weather was finally warm enough for some priming :) . Base coat added to the bases ready for some drybrushing tomorrow.
Nearly finished my Moroccan force to fight the FFL. The main problem is what to call them for short - many aren't Arabs (despite Hollywood; it's also clearly a bit of a hot potato among the locals), they're Amazigh, but some ARE Arabs; "Berber" is related to "barbarian" and is understandably not appreciated by educated North Africans, and "Moorish" again excludes half the troops.
I foresee many opponents who will call the legionaires French, come to think of it.
So call them North Africans?
Freedom fighters?
Anti-colonial forces?
Actually the good guys?
Beau Geste is a bad guy? Oh, my.
German recce cavalry, FAO and FAC drybrushed this morning. Maybe some more this evening depending upon the rugby schedules...
In the end I finished of a German Kompanie that was nearly finished that has sat awaiting paint for far too long. Highlights and lacquer tomorrow.
Quote from: Steve J on 04 February 2023, 07:55:20 PMIn the end I finished of a German Kompanie that was nearly finished that has sat awaiting paint for far too long. Highlights and lacquer tomorrow.
Steve - I think we can be relatively confident that all those Aryan boys will have hair that's plenty blond enough without you giving 'em highlights... 😂🤣
Cheers,
Geoff
Many horses painted today. Sand and PVA on bases a fair few bases, few figures finished too. Still +ve! 🤢
Very good Geoff and I though someone might comment like this when I posted it ;) ;D .
Riders base coated and inked this morning, then room thoroughly tided and cleaned as I'm finally clear! <:-P
:-bd :-bd :-bd
Wasn't going to do much tonight after first day back at work
So flags on Nik's British and they're edged.
Bases painted, highlighted, detailed and pva sealed.
Four Prussians that Leon sent finished and added to bases.
Some tanks assembled undercoated, base coated and inked.
Many other bases inked. Flesh highlights on a batch, two IG units painted, they just need tidying up and basing.
Travois rebased and extra one added.
Many photos taken, some processed.
Waiting for PVA to dry on bases. :!!
Highlights and varnish applied to WWII German Kompanie for BKC.
Lost my flags, had to reorder
Lots of things wrong with me after COVID, most especially maths, nearly every unit I assembled had the wrong number of figures. Must have been iller than I thought!
Some additional support Kompanie bases started for my WWII Germans. You think you've got enough and then there is always something you've forgotten!
It's auto suggestion from people like Leon, Andy Grubb et al
Base colours applied to another German WWII Kompanie. Webbing to follow, then wash, highlights and lacquer. CO base and some support weapons after these.
Next batch of 15mm Hellenistic Spartans started, and extracted and put my 28mm Romans onto new bases.
German WWII Kompanie finished today :) . I think some support units will be started tonight...
Scratchbuilding a devoted FFL fort for the recently-painted army. The job's about half done, and I think it may turn out quite reasonable. I fear I may have to pass on crenellations for the walls, sadly, but though they look good they were clearly far from universal.
Got any pinking shears, those give you nice tirangular crenellations.
I used pinking shears to make the crenellations for my Sumerian City.
Chopped grey board into 10mm wide strips with my guillotine and then snipped down the middle with the shears - Hey Presto! - two strips of crenellations.
Simples! (/meerkat) :)
Support Kompanie ATGs, IG, FAO and FAC base coated and washed. Highlights and lacquer tomorrow.
Fort Soixant-neuf, WIP. It may be that sections of clipped matchstick can be glued onto the walls, then plastered to match the rest, and there will be suitable embrasures for dead legionnaires to be propped up in.
More.
Some will doubtless remember....
...and the reality.
Nice work Alexander and I think a friend had the Airfix fort :-\ .
Support Kompanie bases finished, bar flocking.
Base coats, inks, 8 mile walk with the did, lots of drybrushing today.
Let you purr in satisfgaction over the fort kitty
Nearly ready....
Only tidying up and shield transfers to go on the next 128 Hellenistic pikes, basing on a fantasty thang, and a few 10mm Prussians coming along nicely too.
And she's ready to go. I now require a perimeter of sandbags, but that's child's play.
I apologise for the Tricolore; I knew it should be the Legion flag, but I couldn't resist..
The solution to the crenellation problem was to glue some matchsticks on the walls, then burn notches with a piece of hot iron.
Looks really good Alexander 8) .
German CO base started this morning, with base colours and wash applied. Will highlight and lacquer this afternoon or evening.
Quote from: Steve J on 20 February 2023, 07:03:54 AMLooks really good Alexander 8) .
Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. It is rather fun to see a pile of junk become a model, isn't it?
I think that's one of the joys of scratch building Alexander :) . I know it is for me.
German CO base finished. I think some flocking now to allow them to finally fight a battle, given that they were a present from circa 2008 :-[ .
:-bd =D> :-bd
Transfers, many transfers... :'( X_X @-)
Clump foliage glued on and pva coat applied to stiffen it up prior to flocking bases.
Bases flocked. Maybe some Recce units will get started tonight :-\ .
Recce Cavalry units base coated, barring the tack, which I need to steel myself to do :( .
Tack done and wash applied. Once dry higlights and lacquer to follow. Then the start of flocking the bases.
128 pikemen finished last night ready to be handed to their owner on Saturday.
Photos in a while.
Cavalry all flocked. Some Kubelwagens and a Horch 4x4 painted and washed ready for the next stage.
Kubelwagens and Horch finished. M/C and sidecar next I think...
M/C & sidecar plus some German AC's all base coated and washed.
Gazing wistfully at my postbox.
M/C & sidecar all finished and base flocked.
Bases inked for my 28mm Romans rebased and my 10mm Landwehr cavalry.
German early WWII armoured cars finished. Support units and transport next I think, once I checked my painting plan...
Bases painted, highlighted and sealed yesterday
Some artillery units for on board action assembled and based up, along with a flakvierling, which I found a real challenge due to my shaky arm making assemby an absolute nightmare. Grit to be added tonight than probably no priming until next week as it's going to be too cold.
Base colours applied to some mid-19thC ImagiNations 'Germans', with uniforms loosely based upon those of Prussia and Schleswig-Holstein circa 1848.
A few details added tonight. Arm too shaky for finer details, which will be done tomorrow.
Processing photos... I-)
Final details painted this morning and I do need my arm to be as stable as possible to do these. Wash applied and then some highlights later, once the kitchen is free.
Parthians have arrived, and are being systematically cleaned up.
First Germanic ImaginNations unit finished, bar a flag, which I haven't decided upon :-\ .
https://flag-designer.appspot.com/#d=10&c1=1&c2=7&c3=5&o=4&c4=0&s=0&c5=6 (https://flag-designer.appspot.com/#d=10&c1=1&c2=7&c3=5&o=4&c4=0&s=0&c5=6)
:D
Thats a handy little tool for ImaginNations
Isn't it! :D
Even if you just put it on "random" and see what it sparks.
Thanks for th elink which I think I already have. I'll have a good look later :) .
Lot of progress on Hellenistic Spartans today
Another ImagiNations unit base coated and washed, ready for highlights and lacquer later on today.
Highlights and lacquer completed. Not sure if my eyes are up to anymore painting today :-\ .
I have finally been able to prime some more German WWII vehicles, tanks, artillery and infantry support teams as it's been warm and dry enough today :).
Massive progress on the Spartans
Another ImagiNation unit all base coated and washed ready for highlights and lacquer.
Highlights and lacquer applied. Light Infantry next.
Just shield transfers to do before hand over on Saturday....
Eeeup!
QuoteStanding in the kitchen with a frying pan full of sand on the hob as the bag I just bought from Homebase was soaking wet.
QuoteSecond batch roasting in the oven
What heat? How long? Enquiring minds need to know.
Quote from: Raider4 on 30 March 2023, 09:01:05 AMWhat heat? How long? Enquiring minds need to know.
Gas Mk6, Normal 200, fan 170 - all for 24 hrs
QuoteGas Mk6, Normal 200, fan 170 - all for 24 hrs
Yeah, well I'm not leaving the oven on for 24 hours, not at today's prices.
Half an hour, gas mark 6! :D
Life getting in the way of things has led to little painting mojo of late. At least I have been busy planning some forces for mid-18thC India, which has been fun. Plenty of units to paint between now and October.
Lots of basing done tonight for the 18thC Indian forces.
Day of gaming, inks on bases.
More infantry basing as well as some command bases.
2 units of 10mm Prussian Landwehr base coated, inked, jackets highlighted and flesh applied.
Several dozen 15mm cavalry horses base coated, inked and highlighted, riders attached.
10mm WW2 French starter pack last elements at base coated and inked, highlights on. .
4 giant stompy robots built.
Quiet day.
More basing work done today, adding fine surface filler to blend the figures bases to the base. My order for the balance of the army is on its way, so I imagine lots of basing work to follow.
French done apart from woodwork on rifles
Transylvanians riders bese coated and inked.
28mm trio base coated and inked. Lot of research still to do on these.
Missing arm on older big stompy robot replaced.
Much work on the Transylvanians.
Also after a long conversation about what armies we will use at Campaign in May, I have assembled two units for my army that has been put off for a while.
While = at least two years!
One Transylvania unit completed, 320 10mm Scots assembled
Sounds like you are going bats there Will
My order for some 18thC Indian troops arrived today, so now onto sorting them into units etc, prior to basing.
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 08 April 2023, 10:43:05 AMSounds like you are going bats there Will
They have a certain bite to them!
Ouchhhh
Assembled Nik's next batch and undercoated them this morning.
Many many highlights done and flesh base coated and highlighted on Nik's 120 militia and my 340 Scots
Bases inked on AWI and a few other bits, Scots done apart for a few tabard colours and shield heraldry
Bases painted and sealed
Militia and Landwehr and French and 28mm personalities all waiting for glue to dry on basing before their photoshoot.
Am away on a school residential until Friday, so chances are slim before the weekend! ;)
Nearly all the shields done on four units.
Irregular heraldic period yuck!
I've managed to get back to a little painting after quite a few other wargaming distractions
Progress has resumed on some 6mm WWI British/Imperial infantry for Pierre the Shy
I'll be making more progress on them tomorrow, Anzac Day, which seems appropriate as the figures are destined to land around Cape Helles
Rifle stocks & barrels done :)
Skin base coated :)
Four big stompy killer robots and a space character just need tufts and clumps
6mm WWI British/Imperial infantry for Pierre the Shy
Skin highlighted :)
Touch ups done :)
Washed :)
Final dry brush done :)
Prepared a few 10mm WWI Turkish artillery crews, infantry and pack horses, also for Pierre the Shy
6mm WWI British/Imperial infantry moved off my painting rods, to be bagged up in a few days when 'fully dry'
10mm WWI Turkish artillery crews, infantry and pack horses undercoated :)
10mm ACW commission assembled
28mm Jacobites dug out of the lead mountain and assembled.
Finished a handful of new Tuaregs and a few Abyssinian cavalry. Now have to wait for those Tang....
ACW undercoated.
Med Scots finished to varnishing stage. Now on the ohh, missed a few bits and waiting for shield transfers stage.
Stuff going on...
10mm WWI Turkish artillery crews, infantry and pack horses main base coat done :)
ACW infantry and commanders basecoated and inked, so are the buildings, snake rail built and base coated and inked and sworn at
Flesh and flesh ink on, flesh highlights in a while
10mm WWI Turkish artillery crews, infantry and pack horses - main dry brush done :)
Base coat done on pack horse loads :)
Got to the 'only rifle straps, canteens, coats/blanket rolls to do' stage.
Flesh highlights and firearms done since I last checked in.
ACW infantry, artillery crew and generals done, Prussians done, five extra zombies done, medieval Scots spears done, ACW buildings done apart from one.
Still to paint ACW artillery guns (owner over ordered) and Antietam church
Shed dice looking for armies for Campaign next weekend done (missing a base of elephants, hoping I know where they are)
Basing marathon starts today (no snickers there)
Zombies found for Wednesday's game, 15 short, so using penguin 🐧 as a booster, coz Xenos Rampant you can use anything, right...
A lot of swearing, junked the reduced by shop discount brand name superglue gel I bought, should have remembered after last time that it's a false economy as it takes Olympic powerlifter muscles to get even a dot out the bottle. Staaggered into town and got some runny stuff, made assembling figures onto a myriad of bases a lot easier.
Sand/pva on. Got to get these inked and painted etc by Friday night now.
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 08 May 2023, 09:16:15 PMA lot of swearing, junked the reduced by shop discount brand name superglue gel I bought, should have remembered after last time that it's a false economy as it takes Olympic powerlifter muscles to get even a dot out the bottle. Staaggered into town and got some runny stuff, made assembling figures onto a myriad of bases a lot easier.
Sand/pva on. Got to get these inked and painted etc by Friday night now.
I've found that in the past, we tried stocking some different superglue brands and most of them were awful. These days we stick to recognised brand names for the glues.
If sunflower oil is made from sunflowers and banana bread is made from bananas what's Gorilla Glue made from then? :)
I tend to buy Gorilla Glue superglue whenever Tesco have it on offer ... which why I discovered over the weekend that I have 3 bottles of the stuff. Doh!
There's a group of climate protesters currently operating in Wellington who are trying to get their point across by super gluing their hands to the road surface of major motorway intersections or exits during peak times to cause maximum amount of chaos possible. The police turn up with acetone and arrest them on a regular basis having unstuck them. TBH l'm surprised none of them has been killed by someone not stopping in time. Not sure what brand of glue they use, but there are better ways of getting their point across if you ask me.
QuoteThere's a group of climate protesters currently operating in Wellington who are trying to get their point across by super gluing their hands to the road surface of major motorway intersections or exits during peak times to cause maximum amount of chaos possible.
The (very) grumpy old man in me thinks that the current fad of super-gluing body parts to objects would soon be stopped by a couple of quick applications of a machete.
Just got to the PVA seal stage, flock, tufts and flags to do before Sat morning.
And I'm busy setting up tomorrow...
Got the flock done last night and some tactical clumps (all the bases that I needed to take tomorrow for clients/gaming, about half the batch) done this morning.
10mm WWI pack horses - painting done :)
Quote from: Ithoriel on 09 May 2023, 12:01:27 AMIf sunflower oil is made from sunflowers and banana bread is made from bananas what's Gorilla Glue made from then? :)
Judging by the price Yeti Droppings
When it's at the reduced Clubcard price it's cheaper per ml than Loctite - my other "go to" brand.
Basing continues after a few days orft for Campaign
Many many cavalry started, quite a lot of other figures, 1745 Highlanders, 1815 Prussians, Transylvanians, Star Wars, lots of scales: 10mm, 15mm, 28mm and 1 x 32mm.
Lots and lots of progress, main colours highlighted, horse blankets and reins done, flesh and ink on, just need highlighting. 28mm Scots just need tartan adding.
10mm WWI Turkish artillery crews, infantry - painting done :)
Lots of figures need their bases painting, but I've also got school reports to do .
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 05 June 2023, 05:58:49 AMLots of figures need their bases painting, but I've also got school reports to do .
Priorities man! Those bases wont paint themselves! ;D ;D
10mm WWI Turkish artillery crews, infantry & pack horses washed :)
10mm WWI Turkish artillery crews, infantry & pack horses figure bases painted :)
45 FPW 28mm neeeeeaaaaaaaarly done!
20 more about an hour behind them.
They won't be finished for tomorrow's game. Hey ho!
To make amends, I have ordered French 1st Corps, 1st Division in 10mm that I've been putting off for years. ;)
113 Laming and 1 Hinclife EAP infantry, 42 Lamming EAP Cavalry undercoat, infantry bases painted. Why o Why did I decide to refurb my 25s ??? :'( :'( :'(
After a long break from painting, I'm working on some paddy fields for a game in October. Nice to be back in the swing of things, even if no figures involved just yet.
Had Ofsted this week, so very little painting done indeed
Just spent an hour sorting hair and brasswork on 28mm Franco Prussian figures.
Good.news! Batch 1: 28mm French just need basing now.
Bad news, 12 28mm Chasseurs à peid just arrived to reinforce.
Nick's AWI American regulars nearly done, he ordered three units of infantry, he might end up with four! Continental dragoons were a fun unit to do
Ended up doing the facings on the artillery twice!
Horrah!
Nik's AWI done. Few details added to my 28mm final units. 8)
Phew.
Might try some sleep later?
Whats sleep ?
Lacquer applied to paddy fields and clean done on some Ottoman figures. Slowly getting back into the swing of things... :-\
Lots of infantry and cavalry primed today. More lacquer on the paddy fields tomorrow as it was too wet to be sure it didn't bloom as it dried.
Sand and ova night
QuoteSand and ova night
Sand and ova?
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The mind boggles.
Command bases painted and another layer of lacquer added.
Quote from: fsn on 05 July 2023, 05:46:11 PMSand and ova?
(https://physical.sirv.com/production/catalog/product/s/a/sand25_a.jpg?q=80&canvas.width=700&canvas.height=700&canvas.color=ffffff&w=700&h=700) and (https://render.fineartamerica.com/images/rendered/default/print/8/8/break/images-medium-5/chicken-egg-science-photo-library.jpg)?
The mind boggles.
Makes for a crunchy midnight snack!
Can't make an omelette without breaking teeth.
Productive morning of dry brushing infantry bases and basing up some artillery, oxen and the odd figure or two for table decoration :) .
Lots of terrain up to flocking stage. Lots equates to four double sided spreads of the Daily Mail that my in-laws left here.
It has one redeeming feature, absorbance
Grit applied to bases this evening. You do notice how much quicker many stages are in the warmer and drier weather of Summer compared to Winter, so thing moving along at a fair old lick :) .
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 11 July 2023, 03:30:02 PMLots of terrain up to flocking stage. Lots equates to four double sided spreads of the Daily Mail that my in-laws left here.
It has one redeeming feature, absorbance
I use it to line the chickens litter trays, as my outlaws also read the rag.
More base painting and priming this morning, as both SWMBO and I woke up with a bit of a cold, so head not in the right base for gluing figures to bases etc.
Much terrain finished, last 5 28mm FPW built, three and a half 10mm FPW units built, then I ran out of glue.
Milliputt added to two 28mm character bases. 28mm Orc chieftain built.
Odds'n'sods basing of figures and base coat painting, given the simply dreadful weather means I don't want to risk the final coat of lacquer on my paddy fields :( .
Given the very wet day we've had, at least I managed to base 8 units of infantry and add grit to their bases too. So not a complete wash out :) .
First unit for my 18thC India project has had base colours and a devlin mud wash applied. Highlights and lacquer tonight.
Tidied the wargames shed, part tidied the conservatory as the amazing Mrs Denham will need to use it for a while as her new job involves video calls while working from home and she needs a child free space during the holidays.
Base coated an 1870 French division in 10mm, plus some 28mm 1870 French, and WW2 Soviets and some vampire types.
Then found another whole division of French for 1870! Wooohooo!
Inks on
Another light infantry unit has had base colours and wash applied. Highlights and lacquer tonight if I'm lucky...
Cimarron runaway slave units about done for Drake's privateer rain on Panama.
Blues and reds highlighted. 8)
One infantry unit completed and another started. One bonus of the wet and cool weather we are having, is that I get to spend more time painting!
Another unit completed with another just requiring highlights and lacquer. Then a bit of flocking I think...
Flesh base and inks on, eppilettes on Chasseurs à peid in two scales started, WW2 Soviets uniforms highlighted.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 31 July 2023, 03:01:01 PMCimarron runaway slave units about done for Drake's privateer rain on Panama.
raiD
A few images of my 18thC Indian/Afghan Light Infantry:
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:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
I particularly like the flags :)
Very nice looking units Steve J :-bd
Good luck with the show tomorrow.
I like them Steve!
Thanks chaps! Paul, the flags are cast on and have a nice battered appearance to them, plus the tassles allow for a bit of gold bling if you want :) .
V cool Steve! 8)
Quote from: Steve J on 04 August 2023, 08:50:49 PMThanks chaps! Paul, the flags are cast on and have a nice battered appearance to them, plus the tassles allow for a bit of gold bling if you want :) .
They're from the NW Frontier range, aren't they?
The paint job adds to the nice battered appearance :)
Yes, the NW Frontier range. Shock horror but some are carrying 19thC rifles, but at this scale and once on the table, do don't notice it: well at least I don't. I've seen images of early 20thC Balkan fighters in traditional dress that wouldn't look out of place in the 17thC and still with jezzails, so with some leeway this range can cover quite a broad time period.
Soviets need hair and badges painting.
FPW in two scales need gaiters (and buttons) and bronze work.
More light infantry started.
One of those painting days where one colour takes troops from 'Meh, not keen' to 'Ohhh these are gooooood'!
Piping done on Chasseurs à peid and Zouaves. Zouaves finished apart from basing.
Rest just need tidying up, and basing.
Sand & PVA
All clear on my hip
Other 28mm figures assembled.
About to assemble a batch of 15mm cavalry for a commission.
Quote from: Lord Speedy of Leighton on 11 August 2023, 06:07:22 PMSand & PVA
All clear on my hip
Is that some kind of low quality vajazzle?
Quote from: fsn on 11 August 2023, 08:36:01 PMIs that some kind of low quality vajazzle?
. X-ray results after a month of agony.
Ah! Context.
Hope all is well.
Sporadic annoying pain...
Anyway, FPW bases painted and sealed, WW2 bases rubble added and inked
The privateers are done; I hope to give them a trial tomorrow afternoon.
No doubt the verdict will be death by hanging :d
Or flogging, on eBay?
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 13 August 2023, 02:00:59 PMNo doubt the verdict will be death by hanging :d
just a minute, these are marqued men - no pirates here matey! :ar!
Flock and clumps on.
Tufts in the morning, labels and flags underway
60 horses base coat painted, inked, highlighted and reins and other tack painted and inked.
And a few dozen 10mm spearmen base coated and inked, highlighted and wood/leatherwork done
Few 28mm characters clothing/spacesuits and leather done.
More light infantry painted up over the past few days. Line infantry to come soon...
Painting Vizzini's jacket, inconceivably hard!
Cavalry and 28mms just need tidying up.
10mm spears stalled while I clear the bigger boys.
First unit of 18thC Indian line infantry painted and wash applied. Highlights and lacquer to follow.
18thC Indian line infantry finished, bar lacquering. Painting made so much easier by using some brushes I bought recently from ABC Brushes. Really fine tips and thin handles made it easy to get in to awkward spaces to paint highlights :) .
Second unit of line infantry started. So much quicker once you've done the first unit and have come up with a routine.
Tidy up and varnishing done on cavalry and 28mms
Just got to get things based now.
Second line infantry unit finished.
That definitely was quicker :o =D>
I managed to finish it in a day Paul. I reckon it was about 3-4 hours painting time, spread over three sessions, as I find my concentration starts to fail after an hour or so, plus my eyes an shaky arm need a break.
3rd line infantry unit basecoated and washed. Slower than the last one due to family stuff etc. Still, having fun and it's good to see progress!
A few sets of 10mm heraldry sorted.
About 90 figures to go
4th & 5th Line Infantry base colours and wash applied. Highlights and lacquer to follow.
Heraldry done,
Some extras for the next batch assembled.
And some bits base coated, and inked...
3rd line infantry unit finished.
4th & 5th completed over the past two days. Some light cavalry next I think for a break from serried ranks of infantry... :-\ .
You have really been on a roll =D>
Changing it up is a good idea :-bd
10mm medieval spears done. One unit and three generals stands sand/PVA/inked. Two more units quite a long way short of numbers. Two extra packs ordered to get me up to the correct amount.
Next ten bases or thirty figures of Manny's By Fire and Sword Transylvanian cavalry built and base coated.10mm French Cavalry for 1870 assembled and horses painted.
Horse dry brushes done on three different scales of gee-gees. Tack done on 15mms and 1 28mm horse/pony.
Not much painting due to a wonderful hot and sunny day, so spent plenty of time outside. However 4 units of light horse had the horses given their base coat colours this evening.
French cavalry and artillery basecoated and inked
Indy's whip restored
Two units of Light Cavalry had all their colours and wash applied. Highlights and lacquer tonight, once it has cooled down!
Failed last night as too hot (25C) but finished them this morning :) .
Two more units base coated and wash applied. Again too hot to paint (26C in the house at present), so maybe I'll finish them tomorrow...
Gawds it's hot!
15mm Cavalry Transylvanian riders base coated and inked, but due to being back at school, and heat, this is the first painting since last weekend!!
Yep, I'm finding it too hot to paint after Midday, so trying to get a few hours in each morning whilst it's relatively 'fresh'. So only two light cavalry units finished today.
Latest Transylvanian batch completed.
Photos laters
HEIC infantry started, with about 2/3 base colours applied. So much detail my eyes need a break! Final 1/3 this afternoon followed by a wash. At least the highlights should be quick...
First HEIC infantry unit finished, using AWI Militia figures. Lovely sculpts but it has taken me about 6 hours to paint one unit, maybe less. At least not too many of these required!
2nd unit started and hopefully I'll be a bit quicker, having painted one unit already... :-\ .
Quote from: Steve J on 12 September 2023, 07:55:05 AM2nd unit started and hopefully I'll be a bit quicker, having painted one unit already... :-\ .
Oh I do hope so ;D
Well a dose of the latest Covid variant hit painting on the head for about 4 days :( . Slowly getting back into the swing of things with some terrain painting and a bit of figure work too. Hopefully more later, dependent upon the rugby...
2nd HEIC 'Militia' unit finished today. Getting back into the swing of things now :) .
3rd HEIC Militia basecoat and wash applied. Highlights later then a break from painting infantry with some 'easy win' big Ottoman guns most likely :-\
60 odd Pendraken spearmen undercoated, base coated and ink washed this evening.
Ottoman big guns base coated and wash applied. Not in the mood to do the highights today :( .
Ottoman big guns finally finished #:-S .
Scots spears flesh shades done (blue, pasty and red gammon), metalwork, leather and woodwork painted and inked.
Glad Strictly has started again...
Base colours applied to some horses whilst waiting for the South Africa vs Ireland game to start.
Flesh highlights on
Shields whitewashed
Real life stuff put pay to painting over the past few days, so instead a bit of figure prep for basing tomorrow.
Real life...
Yeah, I need another thread for that this week!
.Anyway, spears have been finished and sand/PVA onto bases. Hurrah
Fingers crossed real life issues out of the way until next week, so that I can concentrate on getting stuff finished for the forthcoming Cotswold Wargames Day. Some scenery made and finished this week plus 3 command stands base coated and wash applied, with highlights this afternoon. I know I've got a shedload of flocking to do as well as sort out some flags. Who needs sleep ;) ?
Most of the bits and pieces have arrived for me to start my allied Libyan-Sea Peoples army (though Lancashire games might do well to learn the difference between Nubians and Numidians!). Anybody got a single 15mm Philistine figure to spare?
Yes.
Four command bases finished for HoW today :) .
Started on two bases of elephants for my 18thC India project. Painting is easy, by deciding upon the colours for each is the tricky part, to try and make sure they work well together.
Base coat colours and wash applied to the elephants.
Elephants finished. Now onto a lot of flocking of bases and scaling and printing flags.
Flags all done, so a blast of flocking this afternoon, then the core force is ready for the show tomorrow.
QuoteFlags all done, so a blast of flocking this afternoon, then the core force is ready for the show tomorrow.
#:-S
Whew indeed Paul!
After two weeks off, three batches started, one batch continues and one batch gets moved round the painting table..
Quote from: FierceKitty on 10 October 2023, 11:25:16 AMMost of the bits and pieces have arrived for me to start my allied Libyan-Sea Peoples army (though Lancashire games might do well to learn the difference between Nubians and Numidians!). Anybody got a single 15mm Philistine figure to spare?
If it was five years ago and I could remember/had just done my 15mm NKE I'd send you one!
As it is... no :D
Thanks for the thought.
Three new Burrows and Badgers miniatures assembled tonight.
One stoat heavily converted (it's a conversion you've seen before, just slightly different). A platypus has had a hat added (Phenius and Ferb fans will get that).
FPW 10mms only need gold flag symbols adding and basing doing
One batch flocked, one batch bases painted.
Some First Nations AWI figures removed from bases ready for some re-basing today. Canoes cleaned up ready for priming.
Thought I had finished a batch, realised I'm a gun battery short of a corps!!
Oh well, order going in!
1870 batch done, lots of ACW and AWI undercoated, plus many many distractions for me too
Started Nik''s new batch, base coat and inks on, plus starter colours and inks on some small terrain pieces I could do with using on Wednesday and a few more random figures.
Four crates, two computer terminals, two face huggers, two sentry guns for Aliens done.
Several pieces of Brigade small scale scenery done, including a sea fort, a sound/listening wall and a Roman triumphal arch, apart from basing.
Few dry brush layers done on Nik''s AWI.
Felt like a lot more...
Nik's AWI French just need basing and flags.
Lee's ACW highlights on and flesh painted and inked.
Sand and PVA on two batches, missing terrain base coated and inked, next two batches assembled and one base coated.
About halfway through the allied Libyan-Sea Peoples army. I'm not sure how it'll do against massed archers.
The Libyans and Bedouin are ready. One unit of Sherden, one of Tjekker, and two of Philistines to go.
Army done. Battle test against Egyptians today.
Some units for Dragon Rampant started, with basing colours applied.
TB cavalry horses painted, riders glued on
And some 28mm vikings, three churches and 6 farms started (for Aeronef/Imperial Skies)...
Drybrushed bases, so onto base coat colours for the figures next.
Riders gone through base coats and inks, now halfway through dry brushing
Churches and farms finished.
12 aliens done. Takes me to 32 plus the Queen and two facehuggers.
48 TB arabic cavalry done apart from varnish, basing and banners.
5 miles walked with the dog, and I had a lie in until 11:30 today as Rach's match was cancelled! 8)
Quite a bit of basing going on tonight
A good twenty four hours, even with Imi's party
Watched Uncharted on Netflix (bad, but good movie),
Two hours walking the dawg, eleven hours sleep, five Comanches, one Yautja, one AT-ST, three Aliens computer terminals and eight crates done, one wookie, and Imperial commander a battery of 1870 French, a French general, four Alien Eggs, a succubus, Boba Fett, and many AWI Hessian infantry also underway.
Love Twixmas
Imperial officer, 1870 French Officer (Bonnemains) and a 3d printed Colonial Marine type all now done (apart from basing and varnish).
Hessians done apart from tidying up and varnish and basing and flags
Wookie done, 1870 artillery done.
Boba Fett next
After quite a hiatus on the painting front, I based up some WWII British assault pioneers for use with BKC as well as a naval FAO.
Everything on the previous list done apart from basing.
17 pdr ATG, Oerlikon 40mm AA and another FAO based, all for BKC.
Sand & pvva all on
Flags and labels done, photo dump incoming!!! ^#(^
Half way through inking up the Sioux nation in 6mm for a mate!
QuoteHalf way through inking up the Sioux nation in 6mm for a mate!
Wot all of them :o ;D
Over 200 fogures
An A4s worth of 6mm Plains American mounted types flocked tonight for a mate this weekend, and eight ASOIAF cavalry too, and a base for the painting comp.
Plus many figures based coated and inked for painting comp too.
Nothing like last minute. :!!
I was doing really well, until...
I realised I missed the collars and cuffs off a whole battalion! X_X
QuoteI realised I missed the collars and cuffs off a whole battalion! X_X
Matching, or not?
Night of assembly, in at least two scales, several more nights to come I feel.
10mm batch for a friends AWI coming on nicely, Grenadiers done, just need basing, line underway.
More Legion Imperialis stuff finished, and 15mm 1806 Prussian dragoons done too, photos laters.
Dry brushed some units have that have waiting for real life to calm down and allow me the time and energy to get to them. Fingers crossed some 'proper' painting over the weekend...
Dry brushing British AWI today.
Nearly, nearly, nearly painted 24 House Martell spearmen done while I wait for delivery of the base colour to finish the AWI British for Lee
Bases painted and highlighted today, flock.appled, scatter and tufts tomorrow.
There feels like there's only about 100 bases in this batch...
Ashugaru getting highlighted, finished another batch of ASOIAF Martell stuff.
15/18mm Ashugaru and Prussian Hussars done as far as sand & PVA.
6mm ECW assembled and PVA and sanded too.
Gritty.
Ashugaru and Prussian hussars...
?
Commission and an amuse bouche to keep me sane
Base coats and inks on three sets of 6mm to boost my mates collection
Nearly done on 6mms
Many batches finished, get ready for photo dump, probably tomorrow
Repairs on an ancient set of Heresy fantasy figures for Blood Bowl, and building EE terrain for Legion Imperialis.
There's only so much if the latter I can do, I'm off to walk the dog!!
Buildings painted, photos later, just so teh post count goes up a bit...
A lot of progress on a lot of figures, some wait final varnish (but it's wetter than an otters pocket at the moment), others are done and await photography, while others just need final finagling and basing.
Baes painted on 6mm camp.
Half 6mm Plains War Cavalry painting finished. Need to get the other half done and based by Friday night. Then they can be passed on to a friend.
27 x 28mm Napoleonic figures almost finished today. Just need varnish and basing.
Found a missing pioneer, and painted him today. Thus 28 x 28mms varnished. 8)
Finished basing Gaz, Nav, Id and mates. ;D
Hedgehog witch hunter and shrew shamen (called Ezza Goode) done apart from basing.
Coats, trousers and flesh done on two different scales of Napoleon French infantry.
Just finished two new SYW infantry units to use up some leftovers, plus small reinforcements to my Assyrians and 17th-century Scotchmen.
Two scales of French Napoleonics now just need cords and flounders, coat/blankets and straps doing.
QuoteTwo scales of French Napoleonics now just need cords and flounders, coat/blankets and straps doing.
Scales and flounders? sounds very fishy :)
Yes I've already got me coat on, its freezing here today.
After a long break, I finally found time and the inclination to start painting some terrain, which felt good :) .
Glad that you have got your painting mojo back Steve.
If you find a bit more, can you send it my way!
If I do, I will Fred, but don't hold your breath ;) !
New job is really cutting into my Painting time, but a friend gifted me his 10mm Imperial Guard division at the weekend, and seeing as I'm using it in two weeks, rebasing has started!
Nothing like a deadline to focus the mind Will!
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
A day off, so I had a lovely day painting in the shade and breeze of the gardens.
Good couple of days off, only Spears, pikes, standard poles, shields and tidying up to do on the Muscovites commission.
Four hours of painting today,
Mostly attaching shields and spears to 15mm models, undercoating, reattaching, base coating, reattaching, inking...
And more reattachment...
But in other news, it's my first ever day of paid leave that I have chosen to take in thirty years.
Sounds annoying to have to reattach so many times! Poor glue, or lack of good attachment points?
QuoteBut in other news, it's my first ever day of paid leave that I have chosen to take in thirty years.
This needs more explanation - why would you choose not to take paid holiday?
Quote from: fred. on 20 August 2024, 06:45:02 AMSounds annoying to have to reattach so many times! Poor glue, or lack of good attachment points?
This needs more explanation - why would you choose not to take paid holiday?
Question 1
Good glue, end of bottle, poor attachment points.
Question 2
In teaching you don't choose your holiday dates, and any time off (appointments, funerals, caring for children) is actually actively discouraged.
And they're done.
With spears reassembled, again...
Photos later this pm
QuoteQuestion 2
In teaching you don't choose your holiday dates, and any time off (appointments, funerals, caring for children) is actually actively discouraged.
Aah, I understand now - it was about choosing when to take time off!
10mm Napoleonic French and AWI Hessian commission figures both base coated and inked.
Two units of Commission figurine skirmishers finished this morning, bar flocking. Want to make sure the lacquer is dry first...
Another unit of skirmishers finished this evening. Slowly getting back into the painting routine...
Two commissions up to detail stage
Two packs of Young Guard arrived on Friday.
They only need basing now to be ready for Wednesday. 8)
Not bad considering I was working Friday and Saturday. ;D
3 Battalions of 19thC 'Germans' finally flagged and flocked today, having sat in the drawer fully painted for far too long :-[ .
White leather added and brass/bronze done on two batches.
Two battalions of Napoleonics and a battalion of AWI Hessian fusiliers done today. Just need basing. As well as a lovely walk with the hound in the late summer sunshine. Then youngest parents evening.
Two grenadiers and a battalion of jagers still to finish.
Some 19thC 'German' infantry I finished recently:
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:-bd =D> :-bd
Thanks Paul :) !
Very cool
Thanks Will!
Flag and flock added to a unit of Jaegers this morning.
Damn fine work, that man ! :-bd
Four units of 10mm Hessians finished today.
Just basing to do
Thanks Phil! Two command units to go with my 'Prussians' nearly finished, but should be completed by tonight.
Commands finished and a unit of artillery had base colours and wash applied.
Artillery unit finished and limber base coated and washed. Hopefully both flocked by tonight.
A 19thC 'Russian' artillery unit and limber made from converted bits'n'pieces. I always enjoy doing stuff like this :) .
You know hew sequel is now longer than the original.
Anyway, GNW Russians highlighted, flesh base, ink and highlights on.
Base coats and wash applied to the 19thC 'Russian' artillery and limber.
I hate painting cavalry! Not helped by having gone down with a cold this morning and a deadline looming either.
Quote from: Steve J on 14 October 2024, 09:40:15 AMI hate painting cavalry! Not helped by having gone down with a cold this morning....
You'd better rest your voice. You may be a bit horse too.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 14 October 2024, 10:00:23 AMYou'd better rest your voice. You may be a bit horse too.
dats orrible Kitty
Very good Alexander ;D !
GNW Russians just need standards and tidying up now.
Just need to base up stuff now.
I'm wondering whether I want a Ptolemaic army or an Allemanni one more....
I know very well what advice I'll get here.
Alamanni
Flocking done tonight as arm too shaky for painting :( .
'Prussian' cavalry base colours and wash applied.
Bases painted and varnish done
Highlights and lacquer applied to my 'Prussian' cavalry. Eyes a bit tired now!
Two command stands finished today, bar some flock, which will be applied later.
I made a start on an 'Austrian' style brigade for my 19thC ImagiNations forces :) .
Done, wil post photos later
Next batch undercoated.
A few small terrain items (crates, barrels etc) finished today.
A mix of civilians and light infantry based and primed today. Also making a start on some terrain bases and buildings.
Flesh highlights and boots/hats/bridals/other black kit done on the latest commission.
Sort of got my mojo going, and actually want to paint, but work/life/family balance is slowing things.
10mm Austrian line infantry and command done.
Generals and ADCs next
Austrian generals nearly done.
In the process of doing up a few special units to go with the more generic Hellenistic types and make a Ptolemaic army feasible: two slightly irregular Egyptian phalanxes including converted hoplites, and half a dozen African elephants with lancer riding astride in the pre-tower fashion.
Majority of Austrian Generals done, just dragoons, hussar and chevalex-legeaur ADC to finish.
15mm By Fire & Sword Horses and some 28mms base coated.
Horses done, riders base coated and inked. 4 28mm figures done apart from bases, two more to do.
Riders base coats highlighted, flesh base on and inked
Built my Blood Bowl vampire team.
Two runners were a tad awkward to put together, rest look really good.
The Wargaming Butterfly 🦋 has flapped her resplendent wings, and I have fallen foul of her ways...
Many years ago, I bought some 2nd hand GW fantasy goblins from a friend's son.
Having seen a couple of games down the club, I've spent the last three days going through the boxes, assembling extra units from what he had finished (can't few, sorry to say) and working out whether I can build a viable force by the 15th.
So far I have two and a half out of nine units complete, plus some characters, two 'easy' units base coated and inked, and several more I need to rebase or fettle.
Also, redrawn my list from what I would ideally field, to what-can-I-field-from-what-is-here. It's... Different.
And being Gobbos, no one minds if they lose!
Interesting. Which ruleset? Age of Sigmar or The Old World? Or something else?
OW
I'll probably hate it, but hey...
Just getting back into the saddle after the Xmas break, so have re-started some Alien figures that got based and primed about this time last year :-[ . Two units done bar their lacquer coat, with another two about half-way through.
Just shields to do a n the spears, and started two more units, coz...
One of those two units just needs basing, the other is based coated and inked.
Shield backs done, attached to figures and fronts base coated and inked.
I'm enjoying these waaaaaaaay to much.
Is this the 28mm Goblins? It is meant to be fun, and goblins always add a bit of wackiness to it!
Some more Aliens finished today.
Shields on Gobbos (28mm) done.
Finished about 1/3 of the 15mm Fire and Sword figures I've been ignoring
The core of the Alien force has been lacquered, ready for some flock to be added. Now onto some supporting units as takes my fancy...
Some scorpions painted this afternoon. All of these have been pretty quick to do, as the main colour is black, with a few bright colours here and there. I just wish all units were this quick and easy to paint!
Do they glow in the dark?
Funnily enough I was thinking of the old glow in the dark paint you used to be able to get as a kid IIRC!
The Chauci tribe are nearing completion, and the Suebi about halfway.
An image of my recent Alien painting spree, with some 18thC figures with them for size comparison:
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Think he's in trouble
Sand and ova on two armies today.
QuoteSand and ova on two armies today.
I'm assuming that's a spearchucker auto-correction, but I'm struggling to think what it should be.
PVA
Bloody autocorrect
Bases inked too
Commission highlights nearly done. Also, painting done on bases for two more goblin units.
Should I be using eggs as the glue for bases?
Ova to you to decide
12 civilian figures on individual bases, base coat painted and wash applied this morning. Highlights and lacquer to follow this evening once completely dry. They will be used for Rebel & Patriots games as well as decoration during larger games such as Black Powder II etc.
Civvies finished and flocked. On to make some scenic baggage items for scenarios and general decoration. Base colours and wash applied to these.
Scenic baggae items finished and flocked, reado for a game in the next day or two...
Quote from: Steve J on 05 February 2025, 02:20:56 PMScenic baggae items finished and flocked, reado for a game in the next day or two...
Steve has gone Glasgow, it seems.
QuoteSteve has gone Glasgow, it seems.
Very good ;D ;D ;D. Sadly my shaky hand is to blame, which some days makes painting impossible and typing a challenge as you can see!
Highlights done, flesh base coated and inked.
Much painting done since my last posts.
Lot of stuff very very nearly done.
Some actually done. Photos tomorrow.
Some new old bits started,
The wargames butterfly is flapping like crazy, at least four projects and one commission on the go. Some I'm enjoying, some less so. Distraction involves some 80s GW stuff. Even had to go deep into wargames history to find a scheme for one ancient fantasy figure. The main reference I found was painted by a certain Phil Lewis...
A change of tack and a unit of Cuirassiers for the ECW base coated and washed, ready for highlights and lacquer tonight.
Basing day.
Lots of PVA slopping about!
A mix of stuff primed, some hopefully to be entered into the painting competition...
That stage where you've highlighted the coats, done the flesh, and added black hats and boots, and figures suddenly start looking good.
A 19thC photographer, reporter and camera painted this evening. Flocking tomorrow morning.
Hat brims done.
19th Century types base coated and inked.
Couldn't sleep this morning,
So cross belts, reins, rifle stocks, webbing, sone flesh tones done and a few bases inked.
Various random stages on two different projects basically.b
Facings, collars and iron works done.
Flashes and feathers on the geegees.
Too wet to walk the hound this morning, so C19TH types got final flesh highlights, trousers and hats toned down, bronze bits and reins done.
Finished an C18th batch for a commission, a C19th batch for myself.
Bases painted, sealed and clumped, along with more goblins and a rebase of the existing figures for the C19th batch that a friend sold me, tomorrow will see them flocked and tufted.
Some might even get into the painting comp. Just as padding mind.
Ancient Germans done. We may try 'em out against Gauls this afternoon.
24 bases of 15mm cavalry horses finished today, on to the riders later.
More 10mm Sudan worked on too.
15mm riders base coated and inked.
Flesh tones and inks on Egyptian and Sudanese
Massive progress today, only got bronze, hair, details and tidying up to do.
Then basing for ten mms