ECW project - For King and Parliament

[paulr]

+13 hours at the moment with daylight saving

Metal work done

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Blink and you miss daylight here

[mollinary]

Blink and you miss daylight here

You have DAYLIGHT! .??

[paulr]

Officers sashes, drum bands done

Soon be too hot to paint 21C (70F) now heading for 27C (81F)

You have DAYLIGHT! .??

Sunrise 5:41am
Sunset 8:36pm

[Techno]

Rub it in, why don't you. 

I HATE the short days and long nights !!

Cheers - Phil

[paulr]

 
Skin base coated

[paulr]

Hair done

Skin highlighted

Touch ups done

Off to a BBQ in an hour or so

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Off to a BBQ in an hour or so

RAT ?

[Techno]

Onnastick ? 

Cheers - Throat Dibbler.

(A BBQ....Pah ! Bloomin' freezing here this morning !....mind you, that's only the second time I've seen frost on the side of the road this 'winter'....some places in Scotland were down to -10 according to the weather man.....EEEK !)

[paulr]

Current batch washed

Sorted and prepared the next batch:

• Spare officers and standard bearers so Pierre the Shy can have the right standards for later battles
• 2 units of rabble for me
• a unit of Commanded shot pulled together from my left over figures

[paulr]

Final dry brush done on the current batch and their figure bases have also been painted

Next batch waiting for the painting rods to free up and the weather to improve enough for varnishing

[pierre the shy]

Next batch waiting for the painting rods to free up and the weather to improve enough for varnishing

This will be the last batch of Scots......I will take some pictures of the recently completed stuff once the weather is better......Wellington forecast for tonight is for severe NW gales gusting up to 140km/hr......whoosh.

Then its a matter getting them on the table....finally finishing off Alford scenario write up for DGuy ( )  and polishing up the Dunbar scenario for early next year......large scale doses of real world issues have meant I have pretty limited time for gaming related stuff lately.

[d_Guy]

Peter, the table is still free. 
Understand real world issues, going through a few here as well. If I don't respond when you send Alford, please IM me here. My email inbox is overrun with holiday sales material.
Cold blow and a rainy night - keep safe

[paulr]

Painting rods cleared

Weather not looking too promising until Tuesday 
There may be a brief window of undercoating weather this evening 

[paulr]

That weather window was good enough for undercoating, next batch undercoated

[Sandinista]

That weather window was good enough for undercoating, next batch undercoated

Weather window? you're living in the wrong part of the country 

Chhers
Ian

[paulr]

A question for the collective wisdom of the forum...

I'm using ELM14 Peasants mixed weapons https://pendraken.co.uk/search/elm14/ as ECW rabble

The figures are armed with; pitchforks, hoes and a pole mounted cutting implement

During the ECW would these farm implements be metal or would they still be entirely wooden

The club (middle of picture) will obviously be wood

[Steve J]

They could be a mix at this time. Personally I would go with what looks good with the colour scheme of the 'rabble'.

[d_Guy]

Completely agree with Steve. The forks are the least likely to be metal but certainly possible, I believe.

[paulr]

Thanks Steve & d_Guy

I'm planning browns and greys for the rabble so might do they 'cutting' implements metal to add some 'highlights', wooden forks might be a nice reminder of how expensive metal was

Armour base coated and dry brushed

Buff coats base coated and dry brushed