This evening I cracked on and got the remaining foot painted and based up.
So that is them all done apart from these two
Since this photo was taken I have managed to paint the base brown and add a black edge 😃. I am going to try and get them finished tomorrow.
I have now lost my voice… thus is getting silly. I have gone very squeaky…Still feeling crap if I do too much, I am signed off tomorrow and have only Tuesday before I break up for the Christmas break. I am going to try and get back for the last day.
I did manage a bit of painting this evening, I got this lot done to this level in about an hour this evening…
Things were speeded up by the use of contrast paint and also reducing the amount of paints used. Pretty much the same paints were used across all four miniatures. In fact the only colour used on only one was the yellow on the dwarf on the painting handle.
Tonight I didn’t get anything done on the Weyland Yutani commandos, I decided to make a start on the Sepulcherov Guard Hussars. These five miniatures are from the Flintloque range from Alternative Armies.
I only ended up with two lances, rather than the usual three. I have had them a while and cannot remember why this is. These have a two part caped cloak that means that they don’t sit on the saddle properly as the cloak sits on the blanket roll on the cantle. The arms come separate to the bodies so a bit of extra gluing took place to ensure more than one spot was connected for strength.
The skeletal horses are meant to have wings, but I have decided to leave them off as they are glued at the base of each and I can see them getting knocked off in transit, even with the white metal peg in a hole.
These Wraith cavalry are dressed in red cloaks, black tunics with white lace, red trousers, black shoes, and a black shako with a red top. Their gloves are white and horse furniture is black.
So they should work well with the Contrast paint (my gloves are more likely going to be a different colour. This is the beauty of an imagiNation style force. I can actually decide to do them whatever colour I like.
They will join their comrades in arms in terms of the lancers…
https://bogenwaldblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/01/bodyguard-finished/
Only taken me two years to give them some back up….Funnily enough I was mooching through back back post and in September 2018 I said I would possibly start on the Hussars.
Evidently I painted some Krautian dwarves instead…
https://bogenwaldblog.wordpress.com/2018/09/27/the-krautians-are-finished/
So anyway after glueing them all together I took them out to the shed for a spray… forgot my mask… naughty, naughty – one really can’t hold one’s breath long enough!
Anyway here they are curing…
There was a bit of a space so Aragorn as Ellessar sneaked in for a change of undercoat colour.
You can see the holes the wings go into on the front two mounts…the other niggle with these is that the base size they are on is a lot smaller than the other cavalry.
Tomorrow I will hopefully paint the bases and then make a start on these, errr, chaps.
Well that’s my December miniature marathon finished.
I managed to finish my Hussar Officer, well when I say finished….
The kids were great this afternoon, which meant I could work on him and get him done. I have visitors arriving in half an hour so I suppose I had better get sorted 😱.
So here he is in all of his glory
And from the other side…
Just don’t ask me what unit he is from… I picked colours I liked 😉.
Anyway that is me finished painting for another year.
I just want to wish anyone reading this:
health, wealth and happiness for the coming year.
See you all in 2019.
May your brush points stay pointy and your paint keep flowing!
All the very best.
Cheers
Steve.
I was hoping to get him finished before the end of the month.
I did push on a bit and get the horse finished though…
I still managed to do twenty miniatures in the month (I am counting the horse as a miniature 😁👍😁) which isn’t too shabby. I might get some time tomorrow afternoon, but not enough, I would imagine, to get the rider finished.
As I am bereft of the software to slice the 3D prints then I will just have to get back to painting things again 😉.
I did manage to successfully print a ladder today! Probably took five attempts but getting there.
There are still some issues with the extrusion for the top layer though. I test ran another couple of sundials, but got exactly the same issues of weird printing on the top layer. To be fair though, this is day four of my 3D printer career.
I managed to finish these off tonight…
They painted up really well, the only one I had a bit of a problem with was the one in the bearskin with the axe musket. I just couldn’t work out whether his features were spooky or shot.
The other one with the musket is not actually from the engineers set, he is from the original Deadloque set. He was lying around in a box with a few armed with pitchforks he was volunteered into the engineers on a whim!
I reckon I have time before the end of the month to get one or two more minis painted.
I will start with this one and see how far I get with him.
The tally this month is nineteen finished miniatures. Seventeen from Alternative Armies, one hobbit and half a plastic zombie from GW.
I have just had a thought… does the cavalry mini count as one or two???
I managed to get motivated enough to slap some paint on these fine fellows…
Still a fair way to go, but closer than yesterday 😁
As tomorrow is Christmas Eve, I really doubt I will get anything done.
If I don’t manage to get online tomorrow, I just want to wish everyone a happy Christmas. If you don’t celebrate it, then I wish you a peaceful and contented couple of days.
The title says it all …. so little done this evening.
Hopefully I will get some more done tomorrow night… maybe the run up to Christmas isn’t the best time to try and get stuff painted. I was hoping to get twenty miniatures painted by Christmas Day (15 have already been done)… mwa ha ha!
Somehow I don’t think that I am going to make my self imposed deadline, therefore I am going to aim for the end of the month.
On the upside, these chappies don’t have many belts or straps to worry about, this should hopefully speed things up a bit 🤔
I was having a mooch amongst my gravestone sets and found the Undead engineers.
I managed to get them glued to their bases and then get a Bay brown undercoat. I will hopefully get some paint onto them tomorrow evening.
The following photo shows the fun and games that can be had leaving the island!
Taken by Sandy Macmillan’s Facebook page.
I managed to get Merry from bare metal to finished in just over an hour.
Another figure found in a box. He is being added to the December challenge. So far this month I have managed fourteen full figures and a zombie upper torso bursting out of the ground. Ten days to go, so I reckon I can get a few more in before the end of the month.
Bogenwald 