Fred's 2016 Painting Diary

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Looks like a heck of a pair of games!

[Techno]

And great fun, too !
Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

We are finding Irregular Wars much fun! It is a very chaotic set of rules, but this seems to represent the period in question. The battles are tactically interesting, but not so big they take forever to play. Well worth a £12 investment - and Pendraken has lots of figures for the era too.

[fred.]

Had a bonus morning to myself, so was able to make very good progress with stuff for the painting comp.

I think I'm about there with the individual entries - and can review my army entry over the next couple of evenings.

Here is a distant shot, so that Phil doesn't feel embarrassed about commenting on stuff that might be competition entries or not...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice work Forbes! 

(Gotta love the zoom on an iPad)

[Techno]

Here is a distant shot, so that Phil doesn't feel embarrassed about commenting on stuff that might be competition entries or not...

Now, that's what I call really thoughtful, Forbes. 
You've still got more room on your cutting mat than I have, at the moment.

Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

(Gotta love the zoom on an iPad)

Very CSI!!

You've still got more room on your cutting mat than I have, at the moment.

I had a bit of a tidy up to make space for the painting comp stuff - so all the epic bits, and other stuff was carefully put away in boxes. Considering how small all the figures are they don't half take up a lot of space once you put them in boxes to organise them nicely.

[fred.]

I enjoyed painting the WWI British infantry for the painting comp, so I've been painting some more!

I don't know how long ago I sprayed these 9 sticks worth of figures - but a fair while ago.


Got the back 3 sticks painted last night, made some progress on the front 3 sticks, spending a bit of time trying to find out the colours of the flying pig mortars but with no great success. It seems the toffee apple bombs were yellowish with a red stripe.

[Womble67]

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice one Forbes

[paulr]

From memory a yellow shell means it is HE and the red band indicates it has been filled

[fred.]

Thanks chaps.

From memory a yellow shell means it is HE and the red band indicates it has been filled

From my reading I'm pretty sure that yellow is HE

[fred.]

Bit more work on the WWI British



these guys are getting close to being done. This should give me a Brigade in GWSH terms - with a few divisional heavy mortars

Also cleaned up some 30YW cavalry to hope to spray in the next day or two.

But mainly spent the evening on the phone to my Dad trying to resolve some computer issue where he had changed the date incorrectly on several thousand photos. Thank goodness for remote access and time machine backup - finally got it sorted after about 90mins. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Yowch!

[fred.]

Haven't had much time to paint over the weekend - but managed to get some time last night and tonight, to move forward these WWI British.



The photo is a bit dark - and the figures are shiny as they have had a coat of magic wash, they will get some matt varnish tomorrow.

This is another 6 painting sticks cleared - they had been sitting on the sticks so long the double-sided tape was starting to loose its stickiness on some figures!

I've gone for a slightly rag-tag look with different helmet colours, to represent both the green and brown paint, and the different covers. Also I have used a few shades for uniforms and webbing - to try to represent the length of service and multitude of suppliers.

These chaps along with the 6 stands from the other week give me a Brigade for GWSH, along with a few divisional level extras; cavalry, heavy mortars.