2018 painting challenge: reduce the mountain some more!

[Terry37]

Looking very good! Wish I could cross stuff off my to-do list that quickly!!!

Terry

[petercooman]

Looking very good! Wish I could cross stuff off my to-do list that quickly!!!

Terry

Pick small bite-size projects like these forces, 10 to 30 men is a reasonable amount. Getting them done motivates you to do another one!


Back to the type 96/99. While i was looking for a picture of the gun to post a reply to Paulr, i came across this picture:



Anybody know if this is a staged picture? Looks a bit 'clean', and i think one of the guys in the back is laughing. If not, i don't think i could turn my back to the enemy and stand still as a weapon mount. Was this standard practice?

[Steve J]

Those IJA chaps are really rather well done

[petercooman]

Thanks!

[paulr]

No, that's actually a light bone color. I do my bases with vallejo dark earth texture paint, drybrush with light brown, and then drybrush with the bone colour. I just drybrushed a little bit more heavy on the edges. I used that colour more heavily on my pacific models to help them blend in with potential beach terrain! i must admit it looks very white in the pictures!

Blending into a beach makes good sense

[lowlylowlycook]

Yeah, nice work on those Japanese!

[petercooman]

Slowly finishing the german panzergrenadiers for bolt action, just finished the SDKFZ 251/10 that comes in the bolt action starter box!


taking pictures of it on my copy of panzer colours was not a good plan, but you get the general idea  





So,adding 1 model means: 130models painted and 5 forces done:

1) pirates   20
2) privateers 10
3) British forces to battle the pirates 19
4) bolt action USMC  33
5)  bolt action IJA 33
6) bolt action germans 21/1done
7) bolt action US airborne 30
8 ) deadzone marauder warband 8-9?
9) deadzone plague zombies mob 30
10) unknown

[lowlylowlycook]

Looking good.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Great job, brilliant setting!

[Womble67]

That looks good

Take care

Andy

[paulr]

 

Mud lovely mud
Setting work for me as well

[petercooman]

Thanks all!

Looking at the pictures, i'll have to go back and paint the straps holding the tarp togheter though! Seem to have missed those!

[paulr]

and the buckles

[petercooman]

Yup. Guess i was too busy smearing mud all over it   

[Techno]

Great work ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Yup. Guess i was too busy smearing mud all over it   

Smear on more mud, no one will know!

[petercooman]

Smear on more mud, no one will know!

Actually i smeared more mud on the underside of the track guards.  And everywhere 

I alsof painted the straps  and all straps and belts on the infantry. Hoping to get them done by the end of next week.

[paulr]

 

[petercooman]

I do my best!

Today i had the first taste of terror. Was in the middle of painting those straps, while the little one was supposed to be doing her afternoon nap, when after an hour  my wife said : i'm taking her back out of bed, she won't sleep.

Almost over with afternoon painting time!!! 

[petercooman]

So nothing has happened on these during the week, but with a 5 day leave from work, i hope i can get these done!

Although i have got a message that my parcel from warlord games will arrive on monday, so there might be some "lag" 

I went in on the deal on terminator genisys last weekend. Getting the base game, a box of resistance fighters and a box of endoskeletons, another sprue of each of the former, an extra rulebook, the deluxe playmat, an endoskeleton heavy weapon booster and the John Connor and Lt booster.

Maybe i can get the panzergrenadiers done by sunday evening, so i can 'flow' right through and get cracking on assembling terminators!