Regimental colours…
I had a mess around with some felt pens and sharpies today. The bat needs improving upon but the regimental colours will look something like this.
Bedtime Zombies
Some interesting colours here!
Instead of all of the zombies being the same colour I decided to go for some variation.
Hopefully when I put a wash on them they will blend together more.
I also got a bit more done on the ghouls.
Lunchtime Ghouls
What colour is a ghoul???
I spent rather a long time thinking about this, ghouls are mortal and not technically undead. They inhabit crypts and graveyards and the like but aren’t zombies. I watched a whole load of YouTube videos and quite a lot of people are painting them in a necrotic flesh type colour, rather than in a colour of someone/thing that never gets out in the sunlight.
I, therefore, am experimenting with a grey undercoat for the skin tone with a flesh coloured wash. We shall see how that comes out.
I managed to get the green looking the colour I wanted, it took a while!
I basically made another base coat of Phtalocyanine emerald with some khaki, then built up from there.
Rather Chilly
Cold crisp mornings are great for photographs but absolutely dire for driving when it has rained onto freezing ground.
The poor snowman has already lost his nose and stands steadfastly awaiting his fate.
Normandy… the refight
A big game today.
Error
This video doesn’t exist
the armour arrives.
Basing Gunk
The perils of mixing by eye!
I needed to make some basing compound. A simple mix of sawdust, acrylic paint, PVA glue and a touch of water.
To begin with it was too dry, so I added some water, it was then too wet, so I added some more sawdust – too dry, more water…Eventually I got the consistency to something close to what I wanted.
I have located everything I could find to cover and I have used less than a quarter of the total made.
I decided not to add it to the ghouls as I wanted to get some more paint on them tonight.
Evening Gunners III
Another small step forwards.
I would have got more done but I decided to get a base coat on the ghouls, four base coats later I just about managed to get them green.
I think another couple of coats and they will be roughly the right colour. The joys of a Black undercoat. This is exactly the same green as the gunners.
The uniform is dark green with red turn backs, collars and cuffs. The colpack is black as are the belts and boots. As elites they have gold detailing.
Lunchtime Gunners III
A few teeny steps forwards.
Managed to get a little bit more done this lunchtime, all the black covered again, red cords base coloured, they need washing to darken them then highlighted back up again.
I tidied up a some of the pant splodges where they shouldn’t have been. They are almost there.
Then onto two units of ghouls one for me and one for my friend for Christmas.
Busy, Busy, Busy
Caroline wasn’t much fun
Well you know it is windy
when you cant get your door open to climb out.
Thankfully we got away with stuff thrown around the garden, roofing felt off the aviary and stable roof and a hole where the aviary wall used to be (thankfully we were using to house our hen and chick so nothing escaped.
Some others weren’t so lucky.
Caroline 1, caravan nil
This evening we are due strong winds and snow. The joys of living in a windy place 🙂
Horde
I had left the gunners at work, because frankly, in hurricane force winds I envisaged the power going off. Strangely it didn’t. So I messed around with the plastic horde. I made a simple standard from the bits box and a rather tattered flag with some green stuff.
The standard was a simple one, based on a couple from the Narodnoe Opolcheniye or peasant militia.
These seemed to have religious figures on them. Obviously an undead militia wouldn’t have this, so I added a cloak to the crosspiece to act as the banner. I am still trying to work out what to paint on it.
The flag is so tattered that I will probably just go for a solid colour, I am thinking red.
Bogenwald 