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.
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.
This evening I decided to get on with the Florentine forces.
Skeleton Brown Dipping inks is the base layer as shown below…
Tomorrow I will hopefully get the patchy planes shoved onto the bases, then flagged and varnished…
Speaking of varnish… Earlier I went to put a second layer of mat varnish on something and somehow managed to pick up a can of black, shook it for ages and somehow missed anything important. The grass looks a bit burnt, but that can be flocked over.
Onto the Militia soon!
I hope!
Yes, I have worked on the Florentine forces this evening…
Red feathers, bases and flags left to do.
There are a few bits and pieces I need to sort out… On some of the upright pikes I obviously forgot to remove some of the supports from the pikes…
I will get these cut off tomorrow. The other thing I need to do is to reduce the length of the pikes to primarily match the rest (they are too long to fit in my box).
I will get these finished tomorrow and sort out the Militia…. Aaaaargggghhhhh!
Well after a day of running adult and child protection training I was a bit pooped. I did want to get something done so I made some pretty guns and got everything done apart from the feathers (and the bases)!
I might have to take a little break from these as it has suddenly dawned on me that the show I am entering another skull into is on Wednesday… I basically have to get the whole thing done by Tuesday night…. Emmmmmm I haven’t even started! Trying for a smilodon skull this time.
The following was my foam deer skull from last year.
Yes indeed, look at me go…
Basically all that is left are the three guns at the back as well as the weapons and feathers.
Sorry John I forgot the silver paint again. I did bring gold though (I don’t know why either) I can only think I looked at the silver and picked up the ‘Glittering Loot’…
I have now added it to the box with the miniatures…no excuse tomorrow
Hopefully I will get these finished then move onto the Militia soon.
This evening I worked on the cavalry and the special characters…
Pretty much done apart from the weapons and ostrich feathers. Still toying with red and white on the feathers. There are three feathers so I was thinking two red and one white.
I really should have done more, but am grumping that I am back to work tomorrow…in reality I forgot to bring the silver from the other room and can’t be arsed to go back through 😂.
Bogenwald 