Well it 20.45 and I am not long in. So I am going to throw some paint on some of the bigger miniatures and call it a night.
I am trying to get the old blog done earlier in the evening as it us usually a race to beat midnight. I am going to endeavour to be in bed early tonight. Let’s see how that goes…
As you can see from the above, I have undercoated the 6mm remnants of this army as well some 28mm stuff too. These areall for my mate apart from the ancient plastic Goblin from Advanced Hero quest.
I also set about making some shallow boxes from my kitten food boxes…
Somebody came to check that there were no pouches still in it. These boxes fit in my painting station nicely and my contrast paint fit in them. This means instead if rootling about on the shelf I can pull the box out and choose the colour I want.
Whilst waiting for the undercoat to cure, I set about doing some more on the British Fleet. I am nearly there with these…
I want to put a black dot on the portholes as well as paint the funnel a different colour. The kickstarter for these goes live on 13th December. There is a little YouTube video Here .
And finally, I would have got more done, but my son and I were observing his ants very closely with his digital microscope…
We got a pile of cool videos as well as some other photos. They are difficult to photograph when their antenna keep getting into focus.
As some of you may or may not have guessed, I do love my contrast paint. The rest if the GW paint range I can leave behind, well apart from stuff like this which is ancient and I am still using it!
In case you were wondering, where it is used….
Anyway I think I need to spread my wings and try some original painting using my Army Painter paints… problem is… I have developed a hate, hate relationship with them as no matter how hard I shake the bloody things then they never, ever mix….
So I splashed out on a cheapish vortex mixer…
In the background you can see my photographic test subject. Here it is close up…
As you can see from the whitish fluid there is very little pigment mixed in. Thirty seconds later, this came out of the bottle…
I used this paint to highlight the bronze on the British Ironclad. So there was a success there. However this was not an AP paint so I grabbed a white…
On the left pre shake, on the right after 30 plus seconds on the vortex mixer. Now this was still quite thin, so I gave it another 30 seconds. I then used it to go over the dark green on a British Ironclad. One layer just about covered it and a second totally did.
I decided to print something different last night. I got these off the printer today…
These are from the Lord of the Rings Patreon that I support. These are from the Rohan range.
And finally I have backed another kickstarter. I have absolutely no willpower at all, in the slightest it would seem!
15mm Samurai can be found at the kickstarter page. Now some people have said that these look a bit monopole and the faces are a bit cartoony, but they will fit jn fine with my Tin Soldier ones. I also want to play Ronin by Osprey Games. Being able to print the factions will be good.
Today I got the Doppelsoldners and skirmish arqubusiers printed and stuck on bases.
As the original skirmish troops are quite fragile, with or without high speed cable reels dropping in them, I have decided to replace them. I literally just binned any unpainted ones and will replace them with the newly printed ones.
So here we have the remains of the army…
In the rear are the skirmish troops. Bottom left are the attached skirmish screen for the Pike blockandbkttom right are the Doppelsoldners. Technically I only need two, but as I have four Pike blocks then I can choose to have them as Landskecht or Tercio. It just gives me that bit more flexibility on a force.
So if we take the above and add the ones done yesterday, then we have the remaining miniatures left to paint…
These will be added to this lot….
The unpainted bases are to be replaced by some of the new ones above.
I am hoping to the new ones sprayed tomorrow and then started on Tuesday.
Yes, I got my flexible arqubusiers sorted today, only to find that I am short. It didn’t help that I got carried away doing ranked ones. The rules state 8 Pike and 8 guns. I reduced the size of the Pike to half size, but forgot with the arqubusiers…
They can be used in an army list so there is no loss there, plus I now have more pikes than I need so they could be used in that.
I am however, short four bases of skirmishers to cover the Landskecht Pike blocks. I will do some more tomorrow. I also need the base of Doppelsoldners for each one too. I will have to slice these and get them printed.
I took too long collecting the second lot from the drying off basket… All I can say is that I a glad it is flexible resin…
The straightish one is my first set which I cured after about an hour to get the ISO off… the others was about two days!
As it was my youngest’s birthday today, I didn’t get that much done. The new arqubusiers are still in the printer shed, and I will print the third set off before i spray them white.
I therefore looked at what needed doing on the Ironclads…
It is not really visible on the photo, but the Hull bottom is in fact black. I will carry on with these sometime soon. Hopefully I will get the 6mm stuff printed tomorrow and then undercoated.
Tonight I did a bit more on the vampire and the others on the strip with him…
I also managed to get some contrasting green in the cow bases…
Now in case you were wondering, I haven’t forgotten the 6mm Italian wars. I am in the process of printing some more arqubusiers in the flexible resin mix as some of the ones I was working with were snapping off at the ankles… same with some ifvthe artillery… I can see that I am hoing to have to make replacements in the future. I think I have printed off enough to get me a fair old way through what I need, but another plate ful wouldn’t go amiss.
It has been one of those days, so I was not in the mood for 6mm so instead I decided to get some more paint added to these
I did have to spend a good old while touching up the bits where the paint had chipped… that will teach me to not get them finished…
A quick one tonight as kne of my staff has had a lateral flow test come back as positive so she is booking a PCR test for tomorrow.
I am now off to read all my documents to see what to do
But first… some guns with their bases all painted green…
Wish me luck….
Well I decided to just push on and get the light guns finished. Everything, apart from the bases, is painted…
I have painted the pva water mix over the sand so should be ready to get the bases painted tomorrow evening.
As these are light guns then I decided that the stands would be less gaudy.
I also did a smidge on a couple of the Flintloque miniatures that I started in about April.
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