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Painting Naked Men… NSFW

Well if this doesn’t get a jump in views then I had better paint naked women 🤣😂🤣😂.

So as you might have guessed, the title is a bit tongue in cheek. I was at a bit of a loss as to what to paint, so as I was in the shed and I spied a pile of undercoated celts.

I went for the fanatics as they were the quickest to paint. These are all metal. I also found eleven plastic ones that were undercoated too. I have had these since about  2010. They were part of a batch which were going to be used in a campaign at the club that never actually got off the ground. As I bought Romans in the summer I thought I should maybe finish them off.

These are original Warlord Celt fanatics. Later they did the SPQR rules, but i can’t a remember what these were for. I got two packs of  them with a random selection of models. The one on the left of the photo is the only unique model out of the eight. I do remember being somewhat miffed about this.

I have two boxes of the plastics as well as some cavalry and chariots…. I know, I know… Early imperial Romans likely wouldn’t have met a chariot in Gaul, possibly in Britain as we were a bit backward.

These were the miniatures James painted last night. He is really chuffed with them as he should be…

As I am typing this I looked up at the shelf and noticed a pile of white patches on the celts… tomorrow I shall be touching up my naked men!

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Froggy Boyz

Well this evening my son and I did indeed have our painting session. I managed to finish the frog riders. If I compare how I feel about these to how I felt about the Sisters then it is like comparing chalk and cheese.

I love these, I think in part because they are such a bonkers idea. Not one of them is sitting on the mount, they are all airborne in one height or another. I also love the randomness of the equipment. Yes I deliberately chose the options to make them this way, but again – bonkers. The lances in the description is frog cavalry with pointed sticks… and that is it down to a tee. They are just long sticks, not even pointy! The frogs themselves look bloody dangerous.

The one thing I noticed when I put them all together is thar the originals are in a polished silver and the new ones ate in gun metal… nothing a wash won’t solve.

So here they are in all their bounding glory…

With these, the frog colour is the unifying colour. If you think back to the frog herds, they were all colours and the leader was pretty colourful too…

In a way I wish I hadn’t gone as bright on the frog herds… at the time I was thinking poison arrow frogs.

James is still busy painting the chaos dudes. They were a present too him from Joe.

The big question is… do I go steppe goblins next… well obviously after I finish the peasants to go with the various knights. With regards to the latter, I have literally just scratched the surface.

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Frog Riders…

Well this evening I went to the gaming club so didn’t get much time to get anything painted. I made a start on my frog riders…

The biggest problem I had with these was making sure I had chosen the same green as the other three that were already painted. This was in fact Greenstuff World Dipping ink, which thankfully was in the house and still usable.

My son and I are having a painting session tomorrow. He is doing some fantasy chaos dudes (Blades of Khorne). I shall carry on with the frogs.

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They are Growing on Me

So last night I decided that although nearly finished I had gone off the Sisters. As the title says, they are now growing on me.

A few things struck me today. The First being I absolutely detested painting up my mates 40k Nuns with Guns. Perhaps it biased me a bit. The second is that I just finished a lot of brightly coloured knights, although there was a lot of armour, there was enough bright colours to nullify it a bit. Also let’s not forget I have had a really tricky start to my new job. Stress levels have been through the roof, so perhaps this influenced how I felt.

The other thing that struck me was that I really am not too keen on the two on the left, and to be honest it is mainly the second one in. I am peeved that the leader has her left hand on backwards, not that you can really tell at first glance…

A big thanks to John and Az for the positive vibes.

Tomorrow my son wants to paint things and I have three frog riders to do so back to bright colours.

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Almost There….

Well after walking the dog I came back in and set to work on these, fully intending to do only a little bit and instead I pushed on and nearly got them done.

I am going to be honest here, I kind of don’t like them. Really not sure why! They are painted to my usual ‘slap it on’ style. Maybe it is the colour pallette, maybe because I had to start them again, or the fact they were printed nearly two years ago. Whatever the reason I will be really glad to see the back of them.

I will finish them tomorrow and maybe with Wednesday eyes I might feel a bit happier with them.  On the upside I took a better photo today.

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Nuns with Armour

So this evening I got my finger out and did a bit more on the Sisters…

Apologies for the bit of a blurry photo. I actually thought my eyes had given up the ghost. I have added gold and ‘enchanted’ iron as well as some leather too. I reckon i will be done in another couple of evenings if I keep cracking on.

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More on the Nuns

Well okay they aren’t exactly nuns, but I was getting sick of writing ‘sisters’.

Still a lot of white, but also a lot more metal. Yes tonight I was working on the armour.

I am really wanting these out of the way, not sure why, maybe because they have been sitting there for a couple of years or maybe because the Mordheim phase has passed.

One day it may come back, but until then I will keep painting  what I have to at least get them out of the way.

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More Sisters

So I managed to get some more done on the Sisters of Sigmar this evening…

So this is them all. Going for a tan/brown to complement the red. Was actually a happy accident as I did the hair on the fourth from the right and really liked it.

Still lots to do, but making progress.

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Pumpkin Success

So I ran my little taster session today and ended up with sixteen children who came along. Twelve girls and four boys. I got my camera out to take a photo and then a crisis occurred so… no photo.

The kids seemed to enjoy themselves and were very keen to come back next term and try something more complicated. Because of the numbers I will have to split them into two groups

I ended up faffing about on the hard drive by downloading all of the orks and goblins from Highland Miniatures. By time I got this done I decided it was too late to start painting… edit… I decided I needed to paint something today so started on the Sisters…

As you can see, I have decided on red instead of the blue and cream I did last time. Funnily enough I am a lot happier with them at this stage than I was before!

The previous colour scheme.
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Pumpkins

Yes the printer worked with the ancient resin, well noy exactly ancient, but kept in the vat instead of the bottle.

I have twenty four of these little chaps for the kids to paint tomorrow.

I have them undercoated now and have a car full of paint, bases and flock.

Wish me luck, I actually haven’t got a clue when we are going to get them done tomorrow. We break up for the October break so will have to get them started and finished in one go.