Worked on the base rims this evening and then onto the knights who are almost finished…
I will get the knights finished tomorrow then onto the rest of the civilians and guards.
A Few Finishing Touches
My Philosophy
What’s a personal mantra or philosophy you live by?
Come and sit at my feet and hear my wisdom….
I firmly believe in the saying:
“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice;”
I honestly don’t care about your race, religion, creed or sexual orientation… All I care about is whether you are nice.
Sorry, you trudged all this way for that!
Other Guru’s and Wise Ones are available.
Zulus… Thousands of them….
Well okay, about seventy six would be a closer estimate.
So my Wargames Illustrated came with a ‘free’ sprue of the new Warlord Games Range of Smaller scale Black Powder.
Do I like them… Yes.
Am I going to get any…sadly No.
At £250 for Isandlwana and £220 for Rorkes Drift then they are outside my pocket money range. A brigade box is about £31.00.
These will not fit into any other range of miniatures both size wise and stylistically.
So as much as I love the Zulu Wars I will have to give them a miss….
Undercoated…
And ready to go!
The rest are at this stage:
Halt!
“Madam, Yes you with the Fish! Halt and explain yourself! My men are armed and ….I said HALT….Bugger! Unfortunately the last words of Guard Captain Fishwife. A poor name in the circumstances
The last civilian and five guards from the sprues. For some of the guards I mixed in bits from the sergeants sprue and also gave the female one flowing locks from the civilian set.
Now I think I still have more civilians and definitely have more guards to go. I will build them once this lot are painted.
I also have five sergeants and a knight left to build too.
Battlefield Looters?
As I needed to have a bit of a snooze this afternoon I decided to stay up late and make some more civilians.
I started with the gentleman and thought about him being a bit of a tinker or something but then I saw the weapon roll and the looter was born. His wife followed suit with her ‘found’ sword and a bag of coins she just happened to find along a track.
Got one lady left to build and then onto the five guards.
Even more Civilians
So left to right:
An enchantress?
Beggar, maybe, but definitely down on his luck.
A lady with a purposeful stride and an interesting sack of something.
A woodcutter? Body from Traitor’s Toll, arms and head from the militia/foot sergeant set.
Finally a youngish lady who seems to be carrying nothing.
Next…
More Civilians!
Well I couldn’t find my super thick Sharpie so was going to give up on models tonight. Then I remembered I could build some.forgit to bring my knife with me and sadly my snips let me down. Once the glue has fully cured I will get the lumps and bumps cleaned off.
The two males are a mix of Traitor’s Toll and the militia sprue. They go together nicely.
Tomorrow I shall make another few. Five female and three male civilians and then five guards.
Muddy Streets
Well this evening I got on and painted the bases using Greenstuff World Skeleton Brown.
Tomorrow I will get the rims painted.
Oh I will need to get the gesticulating archer’s skin painted.
I also need to finish the knights on the flank.
Hmmmm Interesting
Well either my blog has suddenly become popular in a particular country or….
It is all extremely odd. I might have got one or two from the far east in the past but that number quite frankly is weird.
Anyone else suddenly become popular?
Actually since posting this I have gone up a further 22 and am now standing at 1000
Having done a bit of research I was getting between 150 and 170 views a week from China in July/start of August then mid august jumped to 500+ then 700+ then ever upwards….
Back at the start of May I had 3 in the first week with about 180 from Taiwan….
All a bit unexpected and weirdly weird.
