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Witchland…Thingies

These are thingies or even thingumybobs.

An evil combination of Skaven and zombie. I had a couple of zombie heads going spare and a pile of skaven bodies and I thought I would give it a go. Tail removed and the zombie head attached with Greenstuff. A down and dirty paint job and voila.. a couple of… whatever’s!

Funnily enough I did not enjoy painting these at all. I can’t say why I just didn’t. Strangely exactly the same thing happened with the Witchland Zombies I added to my Flintloque force. I just didn’t enjoy painting them.

I have painted plastics before and never had the same feeling of ‘meh’. It is not as if I haven’t painted plastics before and to be honest I just painted a plastic Space Marine that I quite enjoyed.

It shall probably remain one of those mysterious mysteries.

Speaking of space Marines I built some of the chaos ones.

To be honest I am quite impressed, even though you can’t do much to these ones apart from maybe move the position of the arms a bit and get the middle one to turn his head the other way. I am going to have a mess around with my green stuff tentacle roller tool and see if I can make the next lot look a little different.

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Werewolves finished…

Sort of.

Still the basing to do but I am calling these done. A varnish is required but that can wait. I lightened up the green and the red so at least you can see where I have been this time.

If I were to do these again I would have sorted out the fur a bit better. These were all the same shade of grey, but with different coloured washes to change them a bit. I think I was a bit too rough and ready with the overpainting.

So what do I think of them… Great figures to swell the ranks of the Dark Tzar.

Next I think I will paint up the dwarves from the Schilling pack, either that or the winged hussars…. choices, choices… well that is a minimum choice, I have Ostarian cavalry, Ferach infantry and cavalry, orcs and more nasties from the Witchlands. That is what I can think of off the top of my head!

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Witchland Werewolves

Nearly there with these…

Birthday tea and people packing meant I didn’t get as far on as I would have liked. To be honest they are nearly there… a bright silver edge to the swords and bayonets and another layer of the brighter green and red as the layers I put on earlier are all but gone.

This is the command group for the werewolves…

One of these days, I am actually going to have to properly base everything painted. That will be a dark day… I find painting relaxing and basing stressful.

Finally I went and purchased a couple of the next Conquest magazines. To be honest I will probably never use the miniatures but my little boy enjoys painting things from time to time. It saves me trying to find something for him to paint.

Three figures, six dice and a pot of paint, not to mention a cardboard battle mat for £4.99 isn’t a bad deal.

I only wish they would fasten the top down better…as I put the other one in my basket the top flew off and the contents flew all over the co-op. The people in the queue by the magazine stand helped me get everything back. It really is amazing how far a six sided dice can go on a tiled floor!

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Return to the Witchlands Again

A smidge more tonight

Not that you can really tell 😱

Bits and pieces such as teeth, base coat on the musket woodwork and the gold and face on the vampire Officer.

Before I got these out of their box I was convinced that they were much further on than they actually were. Still a fair bit to go highlights on the uniform etc, claws and the bits that were chipped to heck when someone knocked them off the top shelf. Metalwork on the weapons needs doing too.

I knocked up a poster for this years games day. Quick and easy and hopefully bright enough to spot. I have still to do the leaflets to hand out on the day.

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Return to the Witchlands

I decided to get some more paint onto my werewolves…

I would have got more done but thunder was rumbling around the surrounding area and the lights kept going off.

I thought I had better get back on with them before I carried on with the French Indian Wars stuff.

Whilst painting I noticed the following…

I mean what could possibly go wrong! Luckily I decided to eat my yoghurt before the inevitable happened.

I will probably crack on with these tomorrow night.

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Colours finished…

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….

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Space Marines….

Well okay Space Marine singular…

This is the first time I have painted one of these things for about 20 years. My edge highlighting needs a bit of work.

The windows on the shed were put on hold due to torrential rain, so my two youngest and I decided to paint some of the Conquest miniatures this afternoon.

My daughter did the green one and my son the other blue one.

They both took their time and worked really hard on these.

Tomorrow I shall endeavour to finish the colours for the French forces. I got a bit sidetracked by doing these. 🤔

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Painting with Washes

Okay I didn’t manage to get anything done tonight…

I have been working on the shed and after only four hours sleep I was somewhat pooped.

I painted these about ten years ago for my friend. I wanted them done quickly so I set to work using whatever inks and washes I had. The only actual paint I used was anything metallic.

These were a joy to paint. The portly gentleman on the left had his muskatoon converted into one the fired a stake as befits gypsy vampire hunters.

These are all from Westwind (well from what I remember). I painted up a fair few of these for him, but these were the only ones of his I did with this method.

I tested the theory on this chap to see if it would work.

Here are a few more that I did…

I was quite pleased with the misty base… not so much with the eyes. Following on are one of the child vampires and a rather pale young lady.

The one thing I find looking back at these is that I have made improvements from then to now. Even at a basic level of the bases. What I would like to do sometime, is to get these last two figures again and paint them how I do now. I wonder what the difference would be?

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Ensigns and Sergeants… Nearly There

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.

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Ensigns and Sergeants

Managed a smidge of painting tonight.

Got some blue and white onto these.

I decided not to go near them last night as I was in a foul mood. I decided that even the calming process of painting would not have worked. Not even sure why I was in such a bad mood.

I still have to decide on the colours, more than likely one of the quartered ones (as these would be easiest) for the regimental one and the Kings colour.

Still a fair way to go, but happy so far.

It was rather a nice evening so I managed to get a nice photo over Scalloway castle.

Scalloway is the original capital of Shetland. The castle was built in 1601 and is a nice ruin to tromp around in.