Well tonight I got my finger out and washed a pile of pennies in hot soapy water. I then cleaned the bottom of the bases and filed them off.
Five minutes later they were all super glued down and ready for their undercoat. I just remembered I need to get them checked for flash and vent remains.
Well as per normal … apart from the bases.
This is a down and dirty speed painting set. I wanted them done and out of the way so that is what I achieved. Could I improve on them, most definitely… am I going to… probably not.
I will try and get the militia onto their bases tomorrow. I can’t promise anything… our old whippet is bleeding lots from her mouth… when I say lots, I mean a gush not a dribble. There was blood from one end of the house to the other. Evidently sight hounds like her bleed like buggery. She was into the vets last week to sort the issue of a very loose tooth, which seems to be causing the problem. Sadly the drugs they needed to clot the blood had run out due to no ferries for a few days. We should know on Friday when she will be back in.
This evening I got the 15mm stuff out again, painted feathers and moccasins. I was just shaking the metallic for the gun barrels and tomahawks when I realised that I had to go and pick my daughter up from her school dance. By time I got back I really couldn’t be bothered to get them back out again!
AHopefully I will do all the metals and bases tomorrow.
Talking of tomorrow I will hopefully find out what is going to happen to us all at work.
Tonight I needed to do something constructive so got the 15mm stuff back out and got busy. I am going to be honest I was literally grabbing a miniature and painting something with the colours on the palette at the time. Hence the occasional red or blue moccasin! Not that you can see any in this image :).
Still a fair old way to go but we are getting there.
Hopefully the momentum will carry on tomorrow… after these I have thirty militia in civilian attire!
I thought I would have a little diversion and do some Woodland Indians for the French and Indian wars…
I was thinking that thirty is a doable number, but when seen like this I am a bit more unsure. Well I will get them done, just might take a bit longer. The last lot were done in August 2018… before I got any contrast paint… we will see how we get on.
I didn’t get anything done this evening as I was playing Dad’s Taxi. I did however pop into the club and had a chat to Mike who had just found his British forces for the French Indian Wars.
It looks like our ancient project might be going to be rekindled…
Some of mine can be found Here
I got the final warrior built this evening so that is all four done, apart from their muskets which I am leaving off to allow me to ain’t the miniatures easier. I certainly had a Eureka moment this evening whilst working on this one. Evidently if you leave the arms off then you can get all the fiddly bits glued on a lot easier!
I really do like this set, and am pleased with how they have gone together. I still reckon they are going to be a right sod to paint, especially all the beadwork on pretty much everything!
After taking the photo I noticed at least a couple of mould lines that I had missed. Once the glue has totally set then I will get them scraped off. I will try and get these onto a wire tomorrow and then sprayed at the weekend.
I am a bit worried that the right arm of the back warrior is in the wrong place and might cause his musket to get in the way of the seated miniature. Only time will tell.
Hopefully I will feel like painting something tomorrow. I also thought I might dust off the old 3D printers and give them a bit of a run.
Tonight I was knackered so decided to just build another model, but ended up doing almost two.
These were not as straight forward as the first one as they have to sort of go together so thankfully I was using plastic cement which did give me a bit of movement until it went off fully.
The biggest problem I had was with the nearest model, the arm looked a bit weird no matter how I positioned it. The other annoyance was the hands on both of these are separate. Somehow I managed not to lose any of the small bits…
The nearest one still has his loincloth to add as well as his medicine pouch, powder horn, knife and war club.
I am actually looking forward to doing these, not sure why as I reckon they are going to be a sod to paint properly 🥴
Well tonight I blasted a bit of paint on the Knight and then lost motivation, so instead of messing about with colours on the frocks of the two female characters I went for a build option instead.
So the first of my four figures is pretty much built. I have the musket to add but will paint it separately.
I was trying to think of a nation to do him as, my first thought was Iroquois but I am not sure now. Most pictures I have seen all of them have ear ornamentation. These guys don’t seem to have so new thinks are required. The box doesn’t help as it simply calls them Indian wars kit number 1… perhaps I am overthinking this!
To be honest I am glad I like this one as, err I just bought another couple of sets, more First Nations and then a female post apocalyptic survivor with a crossbow… it’s not as if I haven’t got three thousand plus bits of lead and plastic to paint already… hey ho…looks like I never ever learn!
Today a little surprise came… Once again I totally forgot that I had pre ordered something.
As I have a whole host of 15mm FIW I thought I would get a set of rules that I could use with them.
Because I am stingy I didn’t purchase the cards, probably should have done. I thought they might have had them in the back of the book so that I could photocopy them… there aren’t any.
I did try Sharp Practice, but didn’t really get on with it.
So some of my FIW miniatures are below.
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