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.
Tonight I cured the Ikko Ikki heads and arms and randomly stuck them together… they look like this…
They are nice little dudes. There are three bodies and eight heads as well as a yumi, teppo, naginata and katana.
So these are small miniatures … I racked my brains and it suddenly dawned on me they are roughly the same as the Perry Plastics…
This evening I glued some more bits and pieces together. The ruined farm house is for my mate. The other stuff is my own shrine.
I have added signs from one of the market stalls to the box shrine and taken the original front to make a gateway. I just wanted it different from my mates version.
My mate Wiggy has said he will return to role playing after his stroke so long as I run Qin. Time to start reading…
So my mate took his birthday present home with him in the car so I reckon we can class it as a mobile Shrine.
So instead of a pristine shrine, I wanted to go for one that is more run down, hence the faded colours on the building. I also got to work with my home made tufts…
All in all I am quite pleased with how this came out. Next stage trying to repeat it in a scale suitable for 6mm, as well as 15mm too. One day I may even do it in 28mm!
It was my mates birthday a couple of weeks ago and as I am seeing him tomorrow I thought I had better getbmy finger out and make him something,
I made him a small Japanese shrine for his 15mm Sengoku Monster Hunter games.
Basically he can put in either the ancient tree trunk or the building. I will add some tufts etc tomorrow.
These pieces come from the newish shrine set.
I got the Frogherd finished this evening and made a good start on a second.
All of the ones I have painted have armoured footwear. Initially I thought this odd as they would sink into the mire… then it dawned on me that there might be things in a swamp that you wouldn’t want to step in with bare feet.
Bogenwald 