Painting with a Cough

Not to be recommended… this evening I decided that I really needed to paint something. I managed to get so far before giving up as I was coughing my guts up throughout…

Hopefully the cough will have gone by tomorrow and I can carry on.

A Bit More Done

Ye God’s I am absolutely knackered this evening and the pain in my feet is back with a vengeance. I did however manage to finish the last chariot and charioteer.

I also finished the pair of cavalry. I have decided to mount the chariot warrior so cut the base from one of the Warlord miniatures and then built him up to fit in the chariot next to the driver.

I now have nine cavalry finished, this leaves three to go … well I think there were twelve in the pack.

I will try and get them built tomorrow, along with some more warriors on foot.

A Couple More Chariots

This evening I worked on the remaining two chariots and managed to get them nearly finished.

Still a bit to do, but nearly there. The driver is almost finished too.

I almost finished the two cavalry too. Hopefully they will get done tomorrow.

Next question for myself is do I add the warrior to the chariot or onto the base.

My new acquisitions have been posted and should be here by Saturday.

Now in my Tags for these posts I always tend to say Army Painter as to be honest yhey have been used the most. These chariots have also had Vallejo, Contrast and Dipping Inks.

First Chariot Finished

The title says it all really. This evening I worked on the celtic mobile mob.

I got the horseman finished as well as the chariot…

I might darken the legs on the right hand horse.The interesting thing about the chariot crew is that it is basically the same miniature with a different head and the right arm is rotated slightly.

I worked on the other chariots and cavalry too, just never got them finished.

Because I am an idiot and felt that I didn’t have enough to paint I went and bought some Victrix naked fanatics and Celtic cavalry.

My only excuse, apart from being a total pillock  is that I have fifty legionaries and therefore required a few more of the enemy types. Obviously I will need to get some Auxiliaries both infantry and cavalry… oh yeah and some artillery…. I need help, I really do! Does anyone actually reckon I will ever use these?

Undercoated…

That is what I achieved today. Motivational crisis occurred, so sadly no painting this evening.

I reckon I could have had this one finished in ten minutes.

Once again I seem to have a thing about choosing green.

Working on Another One

This evening I set out to do the last undercoated celtic cavalryman. Unfortunately I couldn’t keep my eyes open; so I got this far…

My latest Warbases order arrived and although a bit on the large side I am happy enough with the chariot bases.

The rectangle in the middle is 100mm x 50mm. My thinking was that the Celts would use the chariot almost like a transport system and would fight on foot. I can therefore shove the odd warrior or two in this role.

Another Couple

Well this evening I did manage to get this pair finished…

I finished the one in the centre  and the one on the right. I messed around with the shield on the left then tried a pattern on the right one.

Tomorrow I will crack on with another couple of these.

Another Celt

Well this evening I seriously was not in the frame of mind to be painting. I was feeling a lot of anger and frustration, but I did manage a bit on the W.F. mounted standard…

He is still wet in places. I also slapped some of the colours above on other miniatures. He will be finished in about ten minutes, but this evening I really wasn’t feeling the love.

Hopefully tomorrow I will be more chilled than today.

TTFN

A Couple More Cavalry

Well my original plan this evening was to simply paint a couple of horses… I did get a bit carried away…

I ended up pretty much completing the two of them. Here they are surrounded by a pile of foot who had to be snipped from their GW bases. I thought the metal ones might just pop off when a blade was twisted between the two…Nope!

Basically the bases bent and buckled. In the end I gave up and just snipped them off too.

The face on the left hand horse is going to need a repaint. For when I was painting the red bridle the dog jumped up and the face got the brunt of it. To be honest I think that it was the first time it has ever happened.

So, although I set out to do a little job, I managed something bigger.

A Single Horseman

Tonight I painted a mounted Celt. Just the one, but all done bar the basing.

I also stuck my debased miniatures onto some MDF circular ones. My order from Warbases came yesterday so I now have sixty new ones which should keep me going for a while. Sadly in reality this won’t last me that long as I just realised I have forty already painted that will need basing! Whoops!

Well luckily I have to order some bases for the chariots and now the extra cavalry… see how much this lot costs!