Look what I just found in a forgotten box under the bed!
To be honest, I am not going to paint them as I think they might be spares.
Bugger!
Neolithic Types
This evening I undercoated the remaining elves and left them to cure. I decided to paint something whilst I waited.
Having a mooch through a box I found a pile of Neolithic hunter gatherers that needed finishing… here they are…
These were really crap prints I did with my first resin printer. I reckon it was from the time it started to act up. I nearly binned them at the time, but slapped some paint on anyway.
Elves Finished…
Well, these ones are Finished… However, I have another five to make a start on tomorrow.
Once I have all of the Catalucian’s painted then I will give them all a varnish at the same time.
These are the remaining ones that need an undercoat.
For reasons known only to myself, I bought a drummer! The only thing I can think of is that I was meant to get a sergeant ir something from the command pack and ended up clicking the wrong thing. I just checked and I cannot find him anywhere!
Elves take Shape..
Tonight I worked on getting the painting finished on the elves… I think I actually succeeded!
I still need to get the bases covered, but I am happy so far.
So first up are the two irregulars…
The three line, well two line and one light…
And finally the two Grenadiers…
I still have two grenadiers and at least two line troops to paint. Methinks I will do them in different facings to denote different units. I did see a picture of the grenadier types in a blue jacket.
Don’t ask me why I went and bought so many as I haven’t got a clue. Obviously I had a plan when I ordered them, but sadly I have no idea now.
Anyway a bit more local news – remember this chap…
He has been herded out of the Voe and was last seen diving deep off the island of Vementry. Hopefully that is him back where he belongs safe and sound. He was evidently around 14 metres (45 feet) long and weighed around 50 tons. Luckily he managed to escape with a little help from his well wishers.
And finally the flipping white stuff has arrived again!
I Hate Effing Cars!
Thus evening I noticed an issue with one of my back tyres, so when I got home I got ready to change it, everything ready to get the spare out… okay first off, the boot won’t open from the outside, but never mind a climb over the back seat and the boot was popped…
I removed the crap out of the boot and opened the lid to reveal the spare, my nice new spare… sadly the screw down plastic turnscrew thing was not playing. An hour and 45 minutes later with the aid of an angle grinder I got the spare out, and 10 minutes after that had the wheel changed…
Needless to say my evening’s painting was somewhat curtailed, but I managed to do a smidge on the Spanish Elves…
The one thing I noticed tonight was that the big strapping grenadier on the right is the smallest miniature in the whole set…
The Spanish Take Shape
This evening I managed to make a bit more progress with the Spanish, or rather Catalucian Elves.
Two grenadiers, two irregulars, two line and a light infantryman. Obviously these are elves, but I have tried to use 1808 Spanish uniforms for ideas… as an example the grenadiers and regulars should have white cross belts, but as they are fantasy, then mine have black.
I actually used Speedpaints for the purple, but as you can imagine I was super careful to make sure it only went where it should go, especially when the uniform was white. Obviously I could have chosen a whole host of facing colours, but I fancied purple.
I still have to work on the white on the uniforms, as can be seen on the grayish leg on one of the regulars.
Out of interest, Shetland had a bit of an unusual visitor in one of the voes near to where I live…
The above is a sperms whale and it is bloody huge, sadly, as it is huge, it shouldn’t be there. I took some better photos with my camera. I will share them on the Shetland blog when I get them off.
The whale is still hanging in there…
A Bit of Painting
Well as, I undercoated the miniatures yesterday I thought it would be rude not to make a start on them this evening…
I spent most of the time on the two irregulars (not that it isn’t isn’t bit obvious). I did however reundercoat the three others before adding the White Conrradt paint onto them. You can sort of see the white grey on the uniforms. I intend to dry brush white over the top to act as a highlight and then give them a glaze to stop any powderyness.
Hopefully I will get the irregulars finished tomorrow and make a good old start on the others.
I will probably do them as all from the same unit, even though I intend to use them for the Silver Bayonet, where soldiers are taken from different units. I think it would look weird if the three of them have different facings and turnbacks.
NEXT!
This evening I ended up late in, but wanted to do something hobby wise, in the end I decided to put some Flintloque miniatures onto some 2p coins and get them sprayed.
It might actually kickstart me into finishing the two officers, last seen in this state….
To be honest I am not looking forwards to the white uniforms on some of them. I am hoping the white Contrast paint will help.
I am going to get back into a kayak tomorrow evening at a pool session with the Shetland Kayak club, so the above miniatures will probably be started on Friday.
It wasn’t a bad evening on the way to do the horse…
ALL DONE
Well sort of… yes I have nearly finished my 6mm Italian Wars Imperial Army… by nearly finished I mean I have one base to paint… but here they are in their all painted glory…
You can see the one still to paint on the right of the photo above.
As you can see from the photo below…I actually had some spares…
I will get the army varnished sometime soon and then add some bushes to break up the green.
If you think about it, this is a 500 point army with half sized Pike blocks… to begin with I nearly went for 1000 points…. eeek! In reality this is only two Pike blocks. In the rules they come in 8, 12, or 16 bases, with a skirmish unit covering the front bases and a Doppelsoldner base attached too.
And finally, this happened when I put the sand over the top of the Speedpaint bases…
All Done?
Well this was a very long time coming, but I think, and hope, that I have finished the 6mm Italian wars troops…
This is the final twelve bases worth painted and covered in sand. I have eighteen other ones in this state that will need the bases painting.
I reckon the empty filament spool landing on the pikes really put a dent in my enjoyment of the project. I checked back through my blog posts and began printing in July at the very least. In September I began painting after my Irregular Miniatures arrived, to be fair it hasn’t been a constant run of painting as I lost heart after the splat of doom occurred.
Anyway I will paint up the bases tomorrow and put everything out together to see what it looks like. In all honesty most of them have sat in a box since they were painted.
You may remember that I halved the number of pike bases jn a unit. I hope it is going to look okay in the final army. Only time will tell to be honest.
Bogenwald 