Look what I just found in a forgotten box under the bed!
To be honest, I am not going to paint them as I think they might be spares.
Bugger!
Italian Wars – Heavy Support
This evening my plan was to paint a couple of things. One in Contrast and One in Speedpaints. I managed to get the Contrast mini nearly done…
Please note although I mentioned Italian Wars in the title, I still haven’t found any literary mention of ogre Doppelsoldners, nor any visual evidence either. He is therefore unlikely to have taken part.
He took a lot longer than I expected, but I am quite pleased with how he looks so far.
He is one of six I printed last year…
I will do one in Speedpaints tomorrow evening, well that is the plan anyway.
Funnily enough after saying it was weird that nobody had mentioned the reactivation of the Speedpaints, I am beginning to notice it appearing more. Part of me wonders that these are the People who bought their own?
Small Stature Skirmishers
Tonight I finished off the two units of skirmish shot…theystill need the bases painted but,I will do them all together when I get the rest of the units finished…
As I had the sand and basing glue out I went for the basecoated ones too…
I eventually bit the bullet and gotmyself some Army Painter Speedpaints on pre order… they are actually their way so whe they come I will let you know what I think.
A Bit of Painting
I got the 15mm Japanese fantasy stuff undercoated and also managed to get some work done on my 6mm Imperials…
The ones covered in sand are a skirmish unit, the other four are my Doppelsoldners. Each base is attached to a Pike block along with two bases of skirmishers. It was good to get some work done on these, I haven’t touched them in about a month.
I managed to get out and about today…http://outaboutinshetland.home.blog/2021/12/31/new-years-eve-patterns/
So while I still have time. I hope everyone has an awesome 2022. Health, wealth and happiness to you all.
The End is in Sight
Today I got the Doppelsoldners and skirmish arqubusiers printed and stuck on bases.
As the original skirmish troops are quite fragile, with or without high speed cable reels dropping in them, I have decided to replace them. I literally just binned any unpainted ones and will replace them with the newly printed ones.
So here we have the remains of the army…
In the rear are the skirmish troops. Bottom left are the attached skirmish screen for the Pike blockandbkttom right are the Doppelsoldners. Technically I only need two, but as I have four Pike blocks then I can choose to have them as Landskecht or Tercio. It just gives me that bit more flexibility on a force.
So if we take the above and add the ones done yesterday, then we have the remaining miniatures left to paint…
These will be added to this lot….
The unpainted bases are to be replaced by some of the new ones above.
I am hoping to the new ones sprayed tomorrow and then started on Tuesday.
Cows and Guns
I wish I could have written cows with guns there, but never mind. I worked on the 6mm Italian wars artillery this evening and got four of the six guns done. To hide the base I added some terrarium sand. This needs sealing before painting which is why it is still a natural colour.
The cows need a nkt of work on them.. things like the horns etc, but I am going to leave them pretty much the same colour that they are now.
Bored, Bored, Bored
As you might have guessed, I am a little bored of this project… it honestly seems to be going on FOREVER…
Anyway I cracked on tonight and worked on another three sets of strips, getting them quite a long way on…
On the up side I do seem to be getting faster, I think. These need hats, feathers, Pike spikes and base to do. Hopefully I will get these done tomorrow and get a start on the next three set of strips.
Now these and the ones I finished yesterday seem a lot brighter than some of the earlier ones, but it might simply be that I have used different amounts of paint on the brush, I know that I am doing one at a time rather than spreading the same paint over a couple of models, the other possibility is that I have shaken the paint pots really hard over the last couple of days. For whatever reason, I really do like them.
Three Bases Down
This evening I got another three bases put together…
I also made a start on another few bases worth…
Ye gods this project is beginning to drag a smidge. The under coated ones above are the mix of flexible and ordinary resin, so they should be a bit more resilient. I doubt they would take a direct hit from a filament reel, but to be honest I don’t know what would. From what I remember I can do six strips in four days, or something like that so this lot should be done by the weekend. I will then assess whether I need to do any more. Hopefully my bristle pikes and a few extra miniatures here and there will sort out the damaged ranks of the original set.
One day I might actually paint my cannons!
Bogenwald 