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.
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.
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.
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.
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