I got a smidge more done tonight…
Sir Willorcby is one of a pair, now no longer available… sadly lady Anna didn’t arrive with him as he came from eBay.
I am still on the hunt for the good lady, but she hasn’t appeared yet.
Regarding his Lordship…. he has a strange appendage that may be a belt buckle or perhaps a strange necktie… I will contact Alternative Armies to see if they can remember.
I managed to get these three fine fellows finished.
They are awesome figures and a joy to paint.
I don’t know why, but this one reminds me of a retired naval captain
The other two are both wearing the same coats, Maybe a couple of hunters…brothers? Or am I going to deeply into this lol!
And this one has to be my favourite of all three. I like him so much you can see him twice 😉
Tomorrow I will try and get these chaps further forward.
I have to workout the colours of their packs and blankets. I will use Prussian troops to decide on the necessary colours.
And one is finished…
I did a bit more on them all but decided to crack on and finish at least one of them.
The rest of them still have a long way to go.
I am quite pleased with the Blue highlights on most of them apart from second on the right, it looks a bit weird. I will try and remember to sort it out tomorrow, as he is the one that had only one unpainted epaulette I don’t rate my chances of remembering to tone down a highlight.
The highlight on the black isn’t showing up very well in these photos. I didn’t want it to be in your face, but maybe this isn’t in your face enough. I went for a blue-grey colour which can be seen on the boots of the second from the left.
As I said yesterday, I really like these figures, and if truth be known I prefer the civilians over the uniformed ones. But to be honest it might be that the one I finished was really quick to paint up!
I think that, although I really like the dwarves, I won’t be getting many more as I have so much other Flintloque stuff to paint up that I would never get to them.
Off the top of my head I have the following:
Ferach
30 infantry and 6 cavalry
Orc
30 infantry plus 2 sets of Sharke’s rifles
Witchlands
30 infantry and 12 cavalry
Not to mention various random specials, individuals and a box of dark elves I haven’t got a clue what to do with. I have a niggling feeling that I am missing stuff from the above lists.
I suppose I could flog off some of the above especially the orcs. I already have one of the rifles sets painted so I really don’t need any more. I have 25 orc Militia which, to be honest, I only bought so that I could get a couple of figures that were no longer available.
And finally….
I succumbed again!
My excuse, I keep trying to convince myself, is that they are for my little boy. These are now starting to get a bit more pricey. £7.99 for three figures and a pot of gun metal paint. Now if I was desperate to collect space Marines then the value would be much better.
I will probably get the next issue to get the half dozen pox walkers and then call it a day unless something awesome appears.
After mixing about half a ton of concrete yesterday, today was a rest day!
I managed to finish the remains of the Sleepy Hollow set.
Here we have the remaining figures. Two agricultural workers and a blacksmith. A couple in their night clothes a member of the militia and a couple of gentlemen of a nondescript employment.
As with the rest these were a joy to paint.
The following photograph shows the full set.
They will join my French and Indian Wars boxes. I will make a start on the rest of my forces soon.
I am honestly not sure what to do with the extra militia I started painting with the Sleepy Hollow minis.
These match in with the Essex minis, but as can be seen from the photo above, not the Blue Moon ones. The joys of the different meaning of 15mm. I suppose I will have to live with the fact that som3 people are short and others tall 🤔
Today’s painting was supported by an appropriate film!
I bought this online, and having watched it today, it suddenly dawned on me that I had never ever seen the start.
I will have to make some suitable terrain to go with this set. I have some 15mm MDF buildings from 4ground. I did try to purchase some snake fencing and other bits and bobs but their Paypal seemed down and they haven’t answered a number of emails.
I am going to make various fields etc to break up the battlefield, interspersed with a large number of deciduous woodland bases.
I managed to get some paint onto these.
Sadly I didn’t get them finished☹️. Too tired tonight! And tomorrow I am on the boat south.
Anyway I present the gentlemen.
If I have one real complaint about these it is the faces, some look really good and others look like they have been hit with a shovel. Ichabod looks particularly weird. This coming from someone who has no skill in this area at all. As the others look really good I would suggest it is a problem with the casting rather than the initial modelling skill.
So once I get back I will finish the ones above then move onto these.
That will mean the whole Sleepy Hollow set will be painted.
After that onto the Militia in the background and thence onto the new stuff still in th3 packet.
Well after a bit of a hiatus, I eventually got the French line finished.
I am rather pleased with them…
And next (suivant) I decided to get the mounted officers started so that they can ride the horses I finished.
As they are all the same pose I went for different uniform colours to give a bit of variation.
Once they are done it is onto the civilians and more militia.
The nice thing about the next lot is that they can represent either side.
Oh and the headless horseman kind of represents himself 😁.
Looking at this photo has the advantage of stopping me trying to find my second drummer..he is evidently already undercoated!
Been a couple of days since I painted anything
as I converted an old stable into a greenhouse.
I did manage to get the Aristo finished. A great little figure. He would make a very good Scarlet Pimpernel. A bit effete in his mannerisms. I do like his hanky to the fore stance.
Next up Is going to be a unit from Zoltan’s 666th regiment. A unit of dogs that marched into the Witchlands ahead of the Ferach advance. They disappeared without a trace, only to turn up later as an undead horde.
There are 8 troopers and an officer/sergeant of sorts. From what I remember the troops only came in three different poses. I grabbed five random troopers in my last purchase from Alternative Armies.
I am not sure what colours I am going to go for. A bit of research into the Witchlands book is required.
I got home a bit earlier than expected.
So I blasted a base coat on my otter dude as well as a bit of highlighting
Still a fair bit to go on him, but it’s a start.
I did a speedy paint job tonight.
This hobgoblin miser was sitting there undercoated. I fancied painting something and half an hour later he is pretty much finished. Not my best painting ever, but another figure down in the lead pile.
I doubt I will get my aristo finished tomorrow night as I am off doing internet safety in one of the schools.
I have still to decide on the colours to use.
Or… who pinched my paint.
I would have got a lot further with these tonight if I hadn’t spent nearly an hour looking for a 17ml pot of paint.
The ones my mate has had painted look like they have a bronze cuirass and helmet, not to mention the rest of the metalwork.
Bronze is about the only metallic paint I don’t have, I used to have a pot of dwarven bronze, but it would seem not anymore!
Still a fair bit to go on these, not to mention tidying up, highlighting and basing. Once these are done I need to do the Ferach troops to go in the present.
I also received a few more figures,
Ferach civilians. These weren’t photographed on the website so I bought them blind. I hadn’t realised two of them were carrying pre black powder weapons. I am a little bit unsure about the first on the right as he looks more human than elvish.
I may retire him into my medieval forces and replace him with a dark elf guerrilla or two. The third one in might go the same way. I like both of the actual models but they don’t particularly shout elf to me.
I also purchased a ghoul officer and some of Zoltan’s 666th foot. This officer has quite a bit of flash on him, but it is nothing to worry about.
I ordered five and ended up receiving six. These are to bring my zombie dogs up to a unit of ten.
The other purchase I made was a wet palette. I have made my own before, but as I had made some money I decided to splash out. Evidently I didn’t read or even look at the dimensions!
A 28mm figure is sat on it. I decided to keep it as one of my daughters loves painting, but next time I shall take note of the dimensions.
Tomorrow I go on a shopping expedition to find some Bronze paint. Luckily the local toy shop sells GW stuff so will have a try in there.
Bogenwald 