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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well it was absolutely my intention to get painting but I am going to run a Geek Club 2.0 in my new school. Off I set to print off some pumpkins for them to have a taster session. Sadly my flamin’ hard drive wouldn’t upen. Turns out it was a dodgy cable, thankfully I had a spare available. So a lot of wasted time occurred. I did manage to slice them and get the printer running. I took a bit of a risk with the resin left in the vat… I gave it a damn good stir… I will find out in 10 minutes if I should have dumped it.
Anyway, when I was out there I rescued this lot…
Eight archers and six can openers. I have the two already on the round bases so Eight of each. I also have the fantasyesque Jean D’arc too. The mounted version is already painted…
Well this evening I went for a bit of a cop out and took a photo of the cavalry in their entirety…
This is the full twenty seven of them. If you remember, if I went off and bought half a dozen of the Perry horses then I could build another six, but to be honest I think I will leave them be for the time being.
So what next, we’ll to be honest my eyes were automatically drawn to this lot that were sat next to the druid bust…
I need to finish the frog riders to make a unit for Dragon Rampant. There are also the two chaps at the front… evidently because. I don’t know any better then I, for some reason printed another ten with pole arms and about the same with bows. I must have done it way back in June. Must be off my head. To be honest at the time, I wasn’t going to do any more but kind of fell down the rabbit hole of each knight needing a bit of a retinue! Luckily I stopped short of going for some mounted sergeants too.
I also want to do some Steppe and Coastal goblins too. Why? Because I always wanted a goblin army when I was playing the game lots. I did have a unit of forty night goblins complete with fanatics as well as chariots and wolf riders, but the force also included orks of various types.
That is the final six mounted knights done. So all twenty four are finished. Well when I say finished I will need to do add some white onto the horses round the legs and faces (still the penultimate half dozen to do too. I will need some form of banner for both sets too.
As you can see, these are all with horse armour. So a lot of metal paint for these. The more I have looked at these then the more I think the gilded helmets are going to he painted silver/gun metal.
Not sure where I am going next…
You will be amazed to hear that the printer hasn’t been on for months… in fact this is the last thing I did…
I reckon the last time I powered it up was 9th/10th July.
Well today I have managed to get the penultimate half dozen finished.
I am actually quite pleased that I don’t actually have six left. In fact I have five… if you remember I did an extra miniature when I did the mounted bowmen…
The French knights trying out the English banner for size!
So here we have the remaining five… ready to go – so to speak…
I forgot to take my steroids today so am feeling a little wobbly right now. If I feel a bit less ropey later on then I will try and crack on with them.
