Well, I am back in my own house and decided to slap a bit of paint on the militia.
Reddish, blue, green and grey so far. Got a yellow/sand to go then onto the buff coat…
I am knackered at the minute so not feeling the love of these lol.
This was my famous Geek Wall display from 2014. I used roleplay to help secondary school kids write better prose.
It just popped up on my Facebook feed lol!
Well to me honest, I am feeling a bit tired and achy… My Florentine Militia have now got some blue on every base. Be it hose, pantaloons or coat. Every base has at least something blue on there somewhere… Sadly knackers here forgot to take a photo.
I will have to show you on Friday. Tomorrow I am house sitting for my sister whilst looking after her girls…
Flipping heck, I just let the dog out and someone has turned the dark back on!
The family members have returned from their hols and as such we didn’t eat until about 20:30 after two days of leading training I am a bit pooped and really couldn’t be bothered to paint anything. Hopefully tomorrow will see me raring to go.
Well I made a start on the militia this evening.
I have got some paint on the undercoated miniatures.
The base on the right is missing a miniature so I decided to leave him out of the undercoated group. When the rest arrive I will get them based up and painted as one.
As you can see from the above I am going for a muted palette. Colour was still a thing for less well off people but I am wanting the militia to be totally different from the mercenary forces.
So it begins…
As I said yesterday, I have ordered a few more miniatures. 2 bases of pikes, a few bits and bobs to go along with these.
Thankfully not as many as the Mercenary force. I definitely will need more flags. These are just going to have the white version.
If nothing else then it will give another player a small force to play with.
If I can be bothered I will get these sprayed in a while.
Well sort of!
Front and back of the bases are black. Sadly the sides are still white. Still got some vents to snip off and silver ends put on the cut down pikes.
Final Job is varnish time.
After much hunting, cursing and general harrumphing I managed to locate the Militia. Only to find I was short a few miniatures. I have decided to go for a mounted command, as well as adding the missing models. Now either I miscounted the first time round or I had a different plan on how they would be based. The problem with the latter is that no matter how I try to work it out I am still short on Rear rank pikes and shot. Therefore I am going to have to say I am crap at counting.
I mean there is a vague, outside chance I didn’t get what I ordered, but that is highly unlikely.
I just hope the next lot aren’t an absolute mess like the others.
Well I was hoping to get the Florentine forces finished this evening but the bases are still tacky from where I splashed the water/PVA mix about.
So I cut out all the flags I had, ready to get them clashed on the banner poles when the bases dry.
I wanted lots of flags, I ended up with only thirteen. I will have to organise more I think… Tomorrow will tell.
Which author would you love to have dinner with?
First off, do I have a favourite author, yes indeed, I do love my Terry Pratchett books, but would I want to have dinner with him… probably not to be honest
I would in all honesty like to have a bit of a chat with JRR Tolkien. So many questions… He would probably hate to have dinner with me.
Feeling quite pleased with myself that although I am knackered this evening I got my finger out and got the bases covered….
Hopefully I will get the base edges painted tomorrow and the flags done too.
Bogenwald 