Fred - 2018 Painting Diary

[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.

[fred.]

Thanks d_Guy. I've used a sepia wash in the past on the edges of flags, pretty much anything is an improvement on the stark white of the cut paper.

[fred.]

Missed a few updates, so will try to catch those up before too long...

Pendraken Order
Always good to receive a nice heavy parcel from Pendraken, this one was surprisingly large too, probably because of the MDF bases.



I'll leave it to you to work out whats what, Will always seems to like doing that!

[d_Guy]

Lots of interesting stuff in that order to add in to your existing stuff. You are working much more consistently  than my leisurely attack on Flodden to Kinsale (still trying to work out which portion to ship off to a Pixie for coloration). I will continue to follow this project with great interest.

[fred.]

You are working much more consistently...

Thats not likely to last. Played Kings of War in 28mm on Friday, so busy looking at what I have to add options to that army.

[Womble67]

Always nice to receive a parcel

Take care

Andy