All finished apart from the bases and no doubt all of the bits I will have missed and notice in the photos.
The full army
I will get them based up the same as the Lizardmen and then make a start on either the elves or the samurai. The samurai will be painted up like my 15mm ones. Instead of three colours I will probably just go for one.
Here are a couple of close up shots…
As I said in yesterday’s post I really like the colours here. On my way out to work this morning I saw them in the sun and they actually looked even better. I will try and get them photographed outside tomorrow.
Tonight I worked some more on the 6mm Forces. To be honest I was Nearly gnawing my own arm off, but at least I cracked on and got within spitting distance of finishing.
I am pleased that they have pretty much come out how I wanted them to look.
I decided that each Nobori cluster would have different Symbols on them, for no other reason than I wanted them to look different.
To be honest these aren’t the best painted 6mm I have ever done, but there again the details on these was a bit tricky at times. In no way is this a complaint against the sculptor, the best I have ever managed were pumpkins. Obviously I liked them as I bought lots of armies from Ian at Irregular Miniatures. I just suddenly remembered, that when I moved to shetland that my 6mm Napoleonic’s went in the bin, as No-one wanted them and I needed to reduce the amount I was bringing up here.
Okay, if truth be told it should be the Ronin hair, as that is all I did on them. I spent a lot more time on the 6mm stuff.
The sashimi are all painted black as are the Nobori , bows are done, just a mon to do on the black, weapons and faces on the infantry. Hopefully will be finished soon.
I was relieved yesterday as I managed to get more Spray paint… five cans of it (including a one with filler in). I thought the latter might be useful to fill in the lumps and bumps on the prints…
I gave some roads and my map tiles a few coats and it wasn’t that impressive…
Now to be honest, this could be a case of user error as Although I shook it a fair bit, I didn’t do my usual warm it up too. I will give it another blast tomorrow and see if it makes any difference.
Another band name, for when the first one falls out over artistic differences 😂
Tonight was pretty much spent painting hats on 6mm miniatures, then repainting white for faces, then repainting hats where the white went onto them then… well I think you get the picture!
So to save my sanity and eyesight I nipped our to the shed and grabbed the Ronin. I gave them some quick paint jobs as well as did a smidge more on the Oni.
Still a fair old way to go on them, but at least I have made a start. I really do like these miniatures. Each is different, so they are ideal for skirmish gaming. My box of new stuff arrived today, but I have been very good and handed it over to my wife for safe keeping until my Birthday. Just over two weeks to wait, so not too bad.
Well if I ever form a band then I think I have just found the name…
Tonight I did some more work on the 6mm miniatures. You can’t really see where I have been, but they all have had the purple wash, most have had white added back in for faces, as well as white being put onto the legs etc.
To save my sanity, I decided that I would take a break so made a start on the Battle Valour Oni.
These are nearly finished, really just the weapons and items on the belts to do. Hopefully these will get finished tomorrow.
So tonight I made a start on the next 6mm army. Another Fantasy one again. This time a fantasy samurai army with giant serpents and lizard cavalry. I hummed and hawed about the colours to go for, but eventually decided on purple, black and gold. I am not sure why, but it seemed a good idea at the time.
The problem I found is that the purple contrast paint is a bit naff, so to give it some oomph I used the army painter purple wash to darken it a bit. You can see the difference between the ones on the left and the washed ones on the right.
Yesterday I had a mooch about to see what I could find for the 6mm Forces… quite a lot evidently!
So we have a huge irk and goblin force (left) dwarves and halflings right, with some knights behind the dwarves and then some dark elves I think. What cannot be seen are the medievals to the left of the orks. I also found some WW1 Turks… somewhere I have some Allied Forces including Arab fighters. I was going to evidently do the Middle East!
Whilst mooching I also found some more Samurai bases. I gave them a spray with the remnants of my white, only to find I had missed one out!
Luckily there was just enough left in the can to give it a spray too.
For my birthday I have ordered myself some Baccus samurai. I went for the army pack. I am also considering getting some Irregular 6mm Japanese monks with naginata, they would go nicely with the samurai army I already have.
The pond and paddy fields have remained flat, so it must have been the heat on the windowsill that caused the warping…. lesson learned there I think.
So after yesterday’s warping weirdness, I set upon them with my good lady’s hairdryer. I blasted them on nuclear heat for a while then held them flat on a cold ceramic tile, then into the freezer for a couple of minutes to remove any residual heat.
I think it may have worked, only time will tell.
Now for the random Shetland fact… did you know more flights are cancelled in the summer months than the winter months… the reason being….
Yep, it’s the fog/low cloud (not the Goose, I know we have ninja pyromaniac starlings, but less so with the Geese… to my knowledge no goose has ever nested under a bonnet). We can often be clear, but if Orkney has it then they won’t fly as it is the emergency runway.
So my 6mm army is finished, well apart from the varnishing…
If truth be told, they were actually fun and easy to paint. Once I redid the crossbows they looked a lot better. So tonight I found the sons of Set army and got them resprayed.
I want to get some more practice in before I paint the samurai…
So I now have three armies to paint, these, the samurai and some wood elves. Oh yeah and another larger army on the way. I decided to give Baccus 6mm a go. They are supposed to be really good. I was lucky and managed to get an order in before the online basket shut again. More Samurai as I fancy doing a 6mm Samurai battle for the Games day in October.
I went for their army pack as well as a few other bits and bobs. I might even branch out into a different period…possibly Ancient Greek…
For some reason the terrain bits have warped, the only thing I can think of is that they got too hot on the window sill, when I was trying to dry off the resin. It might be the case that it was the resin, but it had pretty much been cured for days and they stayed flat… I will try warming them up again and flattening them out…
The hidden dangers in Shetland are real, I still don’t know how I avoided the fate of at least one other person every year… yes we have a secret lurker, just waiting for the unwary… we are talking about the dreaded …
Starling
Yep, here he is, like a little bright ninja saboteur! He causes more fires in cars than any other thing I can think of…
Little blighter had shoved this lot under my bonnet…
Luckily I had left my lights on yesterday and couldn’t drive the car this morning. I only found it when I went to jump start it this afternoon.
So be warned people, starlings are everywhere waiting for their chance to strike.
