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
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.
Well no painting tonight as my youngest decided he was going to join the cadets. So as my good lady is away I took him in. Firstly he wanted to meet his friends on the other side of Lerwick. Secondly the cadets poster was wrong and it wasn’t on, thirdly he lost his phone. Luckily I was trying to find him in Lerwick and not London. In the end I went back to the place I dropped him off at. Luckily he was there.
I am now having a lie down in a darkened room.
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!
Well this evening I had a bit of a job to get motivated so I decided on something I could get done in a short time.
Not pretty, but finished.
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.
So here is my Warlord chariot, taken straight from the Angus MacBride painting I would guess.
These are the plastics..actually Wargames Factory and not Atlantic like I said yesterday.
These shaggy little ponies are exactly what they should be looking like. The one thing that bugs me about some manufacturers is that all of their horses are about sixteen hands high at the shoulder, instead of the sub fourteen hands they should be for the earlier periods. From the archeology it is found that the majority of horses in the Middle ages stood at thirteen to fourteen hands
I mean even the Scots Greys at Waterloo were on fourteen hands and under. This it the standard upper height of a pony. If you bear in mind that I am 5’10 and not a skinny bloke I ride my fifteen hands and have also ridden Fjords and Icelandics and they are between thirteen and fourteen hands. I n case you were wondering a ‘hand’ is 4 inches.
Okay Rant over, not even sure why I had it …☺️
We tried Silver Bayonet tonight and the worst Dice throws ever occurred at the table. Thankfully they weren’t mine.
A rifleman did shoot one of my infantrymen, but in the final turn I managed to snatch victory in the last turn.
Well, once again it was a night of more Celts… I have now run out of undercoated ones… tomorrow night is club night so I won’t likely get anything done painting wise…
So I did the remaining ones that I built and undercoated yesterday.
Well I actually built twelve miniatures yesterday. Two were from Wargames Atlantic (from what I remember) the other was one of the Warlord. But here are the nine painted tonight…
Guess who forgot to paint the bases!
So that is thirty seven painted so far. With the painted ones from years ago takes the count up to about fifty. I have got a painted metal chariot done too, but that is still down in the shed… along with half a dozen unpainted mounted troops, and from what I remember two or three plastic chariots too. Enough to keep me going for a while.
Well today I managed to get my original Celts off their Gw bases, somehow I managed to keep all of my fingers. I did try really hard to remove at least one of them with a Stanley knife!
So after a few close calls I got this far…
I must have painted these at least fifteen years ago. Long before Contrast Paint. I vaguely remember being really pleased with these at the time.
The newly painted ones are still on theirs, hopefully I will get them off soon.
The metal ones should snap right off as they are on with superglue. I sadly used polystyrene cement for the others!
So I made another fourteen plastics and undercoated them. I also undercoated a pack of slingers. In the box were another three of the naked dudes charging with a spear so I painted another one. I will eventually get around to doing the other two and will add them as part of the wider warband rather than part of the fanatics unit.
So here the newly painted ones on their lollipop sticks waiting for their proper bases…
I went for more muted colours with these as the skirmishers were generally youngsters or people for whatever reason didn’t take part in the main battle line. So the one thing that really, really annoys me about the whole range – every bloody one of them has at least one gold torc, some of these have actually got two – one neck and one arm. I always thought El Dorado was a myth from the Conquistadors, not the Romans!
As for bases, I have had to order a pile more from Warbases as I was totally running out of both bases and sabot bases too… Needless to say I went a bit mental by ordering a whole host of other goodies. On the up side I got free postage, on the downside free postage starts at £50!
So tomorrow I am going to try and get at least half of the undercoated plastics to the finished stage.
So this evening I managed to do the undercoated plastic Celts. I still have a bucket load to make and paint but it is a start 😁.
So here they are in all of their still wet glory …
I will see what I can get built and undercoated tomorrow (or even find built and undercoated).
I still need to decide what to do about these bases… they are on them, and do do some of the earlier painted ones, problem is- I don’t have any more. Personally I don’t like them. I just have to work out what to do. The metals were fastened on with superglue, these are stuck on with plastic cement.
Bogenwald 