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First Chariot Finished

The title says it all really. This evening I worked on the celtic mobile mob.

I got the horseman finished as well as the chariot…

I might darken the legs on the right hand horse.The interesting thing about the chariot crew is that it is basically the same miniature with a different head and the right arm is rotated slightly.

I worked on the other chariots and cavalry too, just never got them finished.

Because I am an idiot and felt that I didn’t have enough to paint I went and bought some Victrix naked fanatics and Celtic cavalry.

My only excuse, apart from being a total pillock  is that I have fifty legionaries and therefore required a few more of the enemy types. Obviously I will need to get some Auxiliaries both infantry and cavalry… oh yeah and some artillery…. I need help, I really do! Does anyone actually reckon I will ever use these?

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Undercoated…

That is what I achieved today. Motivational crisis occurred, so sadly no painting this evening.

I reckon I could have had this one finished in ten minutes.

Once again I seem to have a thing about choosing green.

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More Mobile Celts

I never got any painting done this evening, but I did manage to get a couple of chariots built as well as a couple more cavalry…

If I am being brutally honest, I like the horses but noy necessarily the riders. Now to be fair it is mainly the weapon arm. Perhaps I need to choose a better arm…

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Working on Another One

This evening I set out to do the last undercoated celtic cavalryman. Unfortunately I couldn’t keep my eyes open; so I got this far…

My latest Warbases order arrived and although a bit on the large side I am happy enough with the chariot bases.

The rectangle in the middle is 100mm x 50mm. My thinking was that the Celts would use the chariot almost like a transport system and would fight on foot. I can therefore shove the odd warrior or two in this role.

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Another Couple

Well this evening I did manage to get this pair finished…

I finished the one in the centre  and the one on the right. I messed around with the shield on the left then tried a pattern on the right one.

Tomorrow I will crack on with another couple of these.

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Another Celt

Well this evening I seriously was not in the frame of mind to be painting. I was feeling a lot of anger and frustration, but I did manage a bit on the W.F. mounted standard…

He is still wet in places. I also slapped some of the colours above on other miniatures. He will be finished in about ten minutes, but this evening I really wasn’t feeling the love.

Hopefully tomorrow I will be more chilled than today.

TTFN

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A Couple More Cavalry

Well my original plan this evening was to simply paint a couple of horses… I did get a bit carried away…

I ended up pretty much completing the two of them. Here they are surrounded by a pile of foot who had to be snipped from their GW bases. I thought the metal ones might just pop off when a blade was twisted between the two…Nope!

Basically the bases bent and buckled. In the end I gave up and just snipped them off too.

The face on the left hand horse is going to need a repaint. For when I was painting the red bridle the dog jumped up and the face got the brunt of it. To be honest I think that it was the first time it has ever happened.

So, although I set out to do a little job, I managed something bigger.

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A Single Horseman

Tonight I painted a mounted Celt. Just the one, but all done bar the basing.

I also stuck my debased miniatures onto some MDF circular ones. My order from Warbases came yesterday so I now have sixty new ones which should keep me going for a while. Sadly in reality this won’t last me that long as I just realised I have forty already painted that will need basing! Whoops!

Well luckily I have to order some bases for the chariots and now the extra cavalry… see how much this lot costs!

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Painting Celts…Again

I really struggled to get motivated this evening, luckily I has undercoated some more miniatures… I reckon if I hadn’t then I would have achieved sod all.

So I did some foot and a mounted gentleman as well as slapping some paint on the chariot horses (not shown)…

Compared to the Warlord miniatures the Wargames Factory ones are a bit Fugly. The two at the ends are massive compared to the chariot driver in the middle. They are also a lot bigger than the Warlord one too.

Although I do like the horse, I really don’t like the colour.

More will be painted tomorrow.