Fred - 2018 Painting Diary

[paulr]

 

Three more bases would also fit the 40 theme

[Techno]

Excellent, Forbes !! 

Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

They do look very impressive, and much better than having regimented lines.

[fred.]

Thanks chaps

Yes the variation in the lines looks a lot better. And most of the GW figures are still in pairs, I only snipped one pair apart per base. But just by putting the figure bases in a bit of jaunty line it looks much better.

[lowlylowlycook]

Nice work!

[petercooman]

Good stuff!

[Subedai]

Enough for a game there. Nice looking lot.

[fred.]

Thanks chaps - got these guys on the table on Friday night (well some of them...)

Played an Undead vs Empire game, the photos are fairly late game

The left flank


Off the photo to the left are the cannon, which had done good work shooting various undead creatures down, the wolves had just been summoned in, but are in a position to be attacked by the flanking cavalry. In the middle near the wood has been a big punch up. But the undead are starting to run out of units to throw in. On the right the knights are about to ride down the zombies

The right flank


On this flank the boney undead generally stayed put. They did advance a couple of columns of spearmen out past the village, but these have all been dealt with. The shooters on the back line, while not appearing to be not very effective did manage to chip off a number of my units, particularly on the far right. Newly rebased handgunners defending the field.

[lowlylowlycook]

Nice looking battle!

[Techno]

Excellent, Forbes !

Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Thanks chaps.

Got some flags stuck on the rebased units, these are from Pendraken flag sheets

[Terry37]

That is an amazing number of figures. The game looks like it was fun and well done!

Terry

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Flags are good!

[paulr]

The edges of the flags look particularly good, painted?

[Techno]

VERY nice, Forbes !!

Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Thanks chaps

The edges of the flags look particularly good, painted?

Yes the edges of the flags have been painted, I always try to do this, to stopped the white cut edges of the paper standing out. I've you don't need to worry too much about an exact match of the colour.

[petercooman]

Nice game!

I've been on and off about big battle fantasy. On the one hand i have everything ready painted for 28mm so can just play KOW without effort, and on the other hand i want to replace everything with 10 mm and try to get it on a table half as big.

But going from something completely ready to starting all over again is a big step! Your pictures always make me think about it 

[paulr]

Thanks chaps

Yes the edges of the flags have been painted, I always try to do this, to stopped the white cut edges of the paper standing out. I've you don't need to worry too much about an exact match of the colour.

I paint the edges of my flags as well, makes a major difference

I was particularly impressed with all the good colour matches and the neat paint work, particularly on the red and yellow checker board

[fred.]

Thanks Paul, the colours seemed to match very easily to the mid-tone blue, red and yellows I picked out, I do think it is helped just by the small area. The checkerboard wasn't too bad to do, as there where lines to follow, and a very small area to cover.

Reading back my post from this morning - I see that between early morning, iPad virtual keyboard, and auto-correct, it has turned my sentence into something like english...

Nice game!

I've been on and off about big battle fantasy. On the one hand i have everything ready painted for 28mm so can just play KOW without effort, and on the other hand i want to replace everything with 10 mm and try to get it on a table half as big.

But going from something completely ready to starting all over again is a big step! Your pictures always make me think about it 

Thanks Peter. I'll not dig out the photos of KoW played in 10mm, but using 28mm unit footprints stuffed with loads of figures.

[d_Guy]

Love the flags. The game wasn't too bad looking either. I use black on flag edges but matching the color looks even better.