Tonight I got the two knights finished … well I still need to do a shield for each. But the bulk is done for this pair.
I also got a bit done on the foot soldiers…
These still have a whole load to do, but at least all of them have some paint on them.
I am going to have to print some shields, even though I said I wasn’t going to print anything new for a while… I need the shields to finish these.
Well keeping to my word I did more painting this evening…
As I splurged too much AP plate metal out I also hunted the shelves for anything that needed doing metallic.
This pair are nearly done, I still have at least a couple of knights like these to do, the Joan of Arc type as well as all the foot. Probably Goblins after that as they are undercoated.
Well for a while anyway. I have decided to just halt printing for a while as I really have a bucketful of crap to paint.
I decided to make a start, by doing a smidge on the Gallians’s
I was just thinking today on what I need to paint and the light bulb came on. Stop printing and get painting. I will need to print some more stuff for the Geek Club, but to be honest I am really going to try and burn through some of my backlog.
Off the top of my head I have the following :
36 Goblin infantry plus a dozen cavalry
30 odd 15mm samurai and Koreans
About six knights and associated foot
Two full Mordheim Gangs, Sisters of Sigmar and a human group.
All the Vietnam gear
All the ironclads
À table full of buildings
24 skeleton infantry and a dozen cavalry
Oh yeah and the Gladiators.
To be honest this is what I can think of straight off. I am 100% sure there is more… this is only the printed stuff… I am not even thinking about the metal miniatures!
I really, really must kickstart my arse into painting again. I have new paint and brushes… I have pretty things to paint so perhaps I need to put them all together.
While the kids at Geek club were painting some awesome gladiators I decided to have a go at some zombies.
Will they win any prizes…. Nahhh. Did I do all three in forty minutes…Yeahh.
I shall actually paint the child’s T-shirt a different colour as it is hard enough keeping a white one clean on an alive kid, never mind an undead brain chomping one.
I do actually like simplified models… I am really not keen on models with tons of fiddly bits… I would much prefer to paint a mono-pose ork from the nineties than a modern GW one. Obviously this is personal preference and ‘Each to their Own’ as they say.
Well this evening my good lady eventually left me alone and I managed to get these finished…
The necklace one has its string on, sadly I cannot find the earring bits!
I managed to get some Japanese civilians done to go alongside the Ikko Ikki and Onna Bushi.
Tonight I cured the Ikko Ikki heads and arms and randomly stuck them together… they look like this…
They are nice little dudes. There are three bodies and eight heads as well as a yumi, teppo, naginata and katana.
So these are small miniatures … I racked my brains and it suddenly dawned on me they are roughly the same as the Perry Plastics…
So this evening I set about adding the metallics to the knight and his pair of foot soldiers. I got a bit heavy handed on the gun metal so looked for anything I could to avoid wasting the paint. I found a box of various bits and found my armoured bear and a couple of goblins. Basically anything that needed a metallic colour got some.
I will hopefully carry on tomorrow and get the shading and highlights done on the armour.
This weekend I am embarking on a project I never though I was going to do…
I am super annoyed that a whole pile of my Contrast Paints have dried up. I maybe haven’t used them for three months and I am going to have to bin a lot.
I used to say I preferred the pots as you can shove your brush in and get the amount you need, but at £4.50 a pot I reckon I have nearly lost £50 worth of paint. Pretty miffed about it to be honest.
So watch this space and listen for my fell voice on the wind as I drop pots, knock over bottles etc.
This evening I set to work with the Contrast paint. I did a bit more on the knight and his entourage as well as this Operatic Wide Mouthed frog from Alternative Armies.
I really had to push myself to get going, but once sat down I set to work with gusto. Now the pallette in front arrived in the post today. It is made from silicone and is for either wax melts or chocolates… I cannot remember. Anyway it had 24 indentations and is about 30cm long and 18cm wide. This is it on Amazon Here (evidently it is for wax seals). I thought it was a bit on the large size so attacked it with the scissors…
So I am slowly getting back into painting regularly, I am really hoping that I will carry on with it. I did about 45 minutes this evening so it is do-able.
So after getting lots of paint on this knight I have decided to keep going on this one, but will then paint another one using a darker red and lighter black which is more like my original kit.
The other thing is, my crest is a Northumbrian Boar. One of the helms actually has a boar on it… I chose bull horns for this one. So all in all, a new knight is being printed. I have added a couple of foot soldiers to the plate too.
The other thing I am printing is some Wargames Atlantic Ikko Ikki. I decided to join them on Teams for a test period.
They do have some nice stuff… it’s a lot smaller than most things I have already, but that’s the beauty of 3D printing. From what I remember I basically need to increase x and y by 105% and z by 110%.
I will finish painting the above before starting on the next.
This evening I decided to slap some paint on the third Knight. As discussed the other day I went for my reenactment livery.
So this time I used my old favourite… Contrast. However there were some issues…. Dah, Dah, Daahhhh!!
As you probably noticed I haven’t exactly been going hammer and tongs with my painting over the last three or four months. Because of this a whole pile of my contrast is now the equivalent of coloured tar. Luckily for me the livery colours had unopened pots so I managed a speedy paint job.
I was pleased with how they went on, sadly though the ‘Black Legion’ isn’t really Contrast in the same way as the others are.
The big question I am now pondering is whether I actually start to replace my Contrast or go Xpress and Speedpaints…. Watch this space.
