Fred's 2014 Painting Diary

[fred.]

Thanks chaps, I see the campaign to re-instate marvellous is doing well 

Nik - the gnomes are funny little figures, I want them as earth creatures for which they work very well as - not quite sure what they are designed to be, as they are very squat, mainly unclothed, and have a couple of different sizes amongst the 4 castings.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Marvellous idea, and marvellous news about marvellous; I'm sure it will go marvellously.

[nikharwood]

Nik - the gnomes are funny little figures, I want them as earth creatures for which they work very well as - not quite sure what they are designed to be, as they are very squat, mainly unclothed, and have a couple of different sizes amongst the 4 castings.

That's marvellous.

[toxicpixie]

Having seen those piccies I was hoping for a Gnome with sling, but there isn't one sadly! Nice paint job, cracking little pointy eared fae-goblin sort of critters

[fred.]

little pointy eared fae-goblin sort of critters

Which is the best description of them!

There is another type of gnome figure in the Accessories range, with a wide brimmed tall pointy hat (gandalf style hat) - while I think they have hand weapons not slings, they might be more what you are looking for, which would be marvellous.

[Ithoriel]

Fred, you are a marvel and I marvel at your marvellous painting skill and these marvellous little chaps are well up to your usual marvellous standard.

The goblinoids are marvellously brown ( perhaps a little too marvellously uniformly brown for my taste, even for earth-critters) but the marvellous water elementals are truly marvellous and the marvellous unicorns are marvellously painted too.

Marvellous!

P.S. I think the EU "marvellous" lake may be pretty well drained now   I'm off to make some toast, grab some pickle and make a dent in the EU cheese mountain

[toxicpixie]

Which is the best description of them!

There is another type of gnome figure in the Accessories range, with a wide brimmed tall pointy hat (gandalf style hat) - while I think they have hand weapons not slings, they might be more what you are looking for, which would be marvellous.

I want about twenty slingers for a Warmaster Albion army, which is actually representing the Fae Court of Spring and has a Celtic-ish elf barbarian flavour - will be using some Celts for the warband and I've got trolls in woad for the warped warriors (ogres), and want some sneaky goblin/gnome types for slingers. Or I might do centaurs with bows, only a couple to a base...

[Ithoriel]

I want about twenty slingers for a Warmaster Albion army, which is actually representing the Fae Court of Spring and has a Celtic-ish elf barbarian flavour - will be using some Celts for the warband and I've got trolls in woad for the warped warriors (ogres), and want some sneaky goblin/gnome types for slingers. Or I might do centaurs with bows, only a couple to a base...

Leon, since we're talking about Warmaster Albion any plans to release the Fimm/ Fomorians/ Balori/ Trevors/ Whatever that were mentioned last year. I realise there's a long line of stuff on the "to be released" list but I would like to replace my GW Ogres, with the race I actually wanted to include when I wrote the list, eventually.

[fred.]

Slightly bigger stuff painted this weekend, in both cases ably assisted by my smallest assistant


Sheds x 2


The start of a WWI trench mat / muddied ground area. This is about 2 to 2.5' wide to go over a standard green mat, with the idea to represent the most churned up area of the trenches. It is an ikea felt underlay mat, with acrylic paint mixed on to it.
I was attempting to follow the method here http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=68458.0 - but I think the paint was a bit thick, and perhaps the room a bit warm. It was hard to mix the paint directly on the mat, we ended up diluting the paint down a bit, and painting it on.

I did manage to spray a batch of 10mm figures, Royal Naval Division, I might even get a coat of dark blue on them now!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

That's so cool!
Two sheds!!
And the trenchline idea is great too.

[fred.]

Two sheds, and I think you can see pretty much all the clear floor space in both of them in that photo 

[fred.]

Made a start on the RND chaps, heavy dry brush of Night Blue, puttees in Kakhi

[Leman]

Got to get me some of them for Antwerp.

[fred.]

Bit more work on the RND chaps



painted the sailor neck cloth things (do these have a proper name?) and the officers in army uniforms.

Trying to decide if I can be bothered to do the webbing in black against the dark blue, might do ammo pouches and bayonets and see where that gets me to.

[nikharwood]

Trying to decide if I can be bothered to do the webbing in black against the dark blue, might do ammo pouches and bayonets and see where that gets me to.

Madness, Forbes, madness. That's where that will get you.