Well tonight I got my finger out and washed a pile of pennies in hot soapy water. I then cleaned the bottom of the bases and filed them off.
Five minutes later they were all super glued down and ready for their undercoat. I just remembered I need to get them checked for flash and vent remains.
Well as per normal … apart from the bases.
This is a down and dirty speed painting set. I wanted them done and out of the way so that is what I achieved. Could I improve on them, most definitely… am I going to… probably not.
I will try and get the militia onto their bases tomorrow. I can’t promise anything… our old whippet is bleeding lots from her mouth… when I say lots, I mean a gush not a dribble. There was blood from one end of the house to the other. Evidently sight hounds like her bleed like buggery. She was into the vets last week to sort the issue of a very loose tooth, which seems to be causing the problem. Sadly the drugs they needed to clot the blood had run out due to no ferries for a few days. We should know on Friday when she will be back in.
This evening I got the 15mm stuff out again, painted feathers and moccasins. I was just shaking the metallic for the gun barrels and tomahawks when I realised that I had to go and pick my daughter up from her school dance. By time I got back I really couldn’t be bothered to get them back out again!
AHopefully I will do all the metals and bases tomorrow.
Talking of tomorrow I will hopefully find out what is going to happen to us all at work.
Tonight I needed to do something constructive so got the 15mm stuff back out and got busy. I am going to be honest I was literally grabbing a miniature and painting something with the colours on the palette at the time. Hence the occasional red or blue moccasin! Not that you can see any in this image :).
Still a fair old way to go but we are getting there.
Hopefully the momentum will carry on tomorrow… after these I have thirty militia in civilian attire!
I thought I would have a little diversion and do some Woodland Indians for the French and Indian wars…
I was thinking that thirty is a doable number, but when seen like this I am a bit more unsure. Well I will get them done, just might take a bit longer. The last lot were done in August 2018… before I got any contrast paint… we will see how we get on.
I got the final warrior built this evening so that is all four done, apart from their muskets which I am leaving off to allow me to ain’t the miniatures easier. I certainly had a Eureka moment this evening whilst working on this one. Evidently if you leave the arms off then you can get all the fiddly bits glued on a lot easier!
I really do like this set, and am pleased with how they have gone together. I still reckon they are going to be a right sod to paint, especially all the beadwork on pretty much everything!
After taking the photo I noticed at least a couple of mould lines that I had missed. Once the glue has totally set then I will get them scraped off. I will try and get these onto a wire tomorrow and then sprayed at the weekend.
I am a bit worried that the right arm of the back warrior is in the wrong place and might cause his musket to get in the way of the seated miniature. Only time will tell.
Hopefully I will feel like painting something tomorrow. I also thought I might dust off the old 3D printers and give them a bit of a run.
Tonight I was knackered so decided to just build another model, but ended up doing almost two.
These were not as straight forward as the first one as they have to sort of go together so thankfully I was using plastic cement which did give me a bit of movement until it went off fully.
The biggest problem I had was with the nearest model, the arm looked a bit weird no matter how I positioned it. The other annoyance was the hands on both of these are separate. Somehow I managed not to lose any of the small bits…
The nearest one still has his loincloth to add as well as his medicine pouch, powder horn, knife and war club.
I am actually looking forward to doing these, not sure why as I reckon they are going to be a sod to paint properly 🥴
Well tonight I blasted a bit of paint on the Knight and then lost motivation, so instead of messing about with colours on the frocks of the two female characters I went for a build option instead.
So the first of my four figures is pretty much built. I have the musket to add but will paint it separately.
I was trying to think of a nation to do him as, my first thought was Iroquois but I am not sure now. Most pictures I have seen all of them have ear ornamentation. These guys don’t seem to have so new thinks are required. The box doesn’t help as it simply calls them Indian wars kit number 1… perhaps I am overthinking this!
To be honest I am glad I like this one as, err I just bought another couple of sets, more First Nations and then a female post apocalyptic survivor with a crossbow… it’s not as if I haven’t got three thousand plus bits of lead and plastic to paint already… hey ho…looks like I never ever learn!
After Procrastinating for a good while, I eventually managed to paint the flags…
Huzzah!
And then after third attempt on the white flag it suddenly dawned on me it was wrong again….in the words of Corporal Nobby Nobbs of the Ankh Morpork City Watch….
“Sodding Arseholes!”
The squiggles should be inside the cross!
You know what… I think I may leave it the way it is.
Tomorrow I may start on the Woodland Indians.
The other thing coming up soon is the Shetland Games Day. This takes place on 6th October. Now the question is what should I run… so far I have done:
10mm Mammoth hunting.
The humans are Magister Millitum Eskimo and cave men. The adult mammoth are Pendraken, babies are Irregular miniatures 6mm Tusk mammoth and the rest of the fauna are Magister.
10mm Dinosaur hunting
The human hunters are Pendraken (WW2 Russian Snipers) the dinosaurs are Magister Millitum. Each person took a two man team and had to shoot the male triceratops to win. The other dinosaurs were there to either get in the way or to eat the players.
28mm Gladiator Games
The Figures were a mix of EM4 pre painted as well as some Westwind ones. The rules were EM4 too. The arena was scratch built for the show.
I may have to dust off my Sudan stuff and get the players to brave the hot desert wastes as they struggle to save Charlton Heston in Khartoum.
The other option is xenomorph hunting with the colonial marines… I shall have to see….
Almost there with these.
Just really the colours to go. I am still to decide on a regiment (or two).
If I have one complaint about these, it is that the sergeant’s muskets look more like a one from the turn of the 1890’s. To be honest though, the way they are standing means you can hardly see the musket unless you get down to table level.
Tomorrow I decide on the flags. As a total aside. I painted these with the GW starter brush that came with the Conquest magazine. After initially moaning about the quality I managed to get everything on these done with it.
This is what it looked like after fifteen minutes of painting yesterday.
Bogenwald 