Fred’s 2022 Painting and Gaming Diary

[mmcv]

Very nice, don't often see cards used for it in smaller scales (I've generally gone chits for activation then cards or dice for combat), what frontage are your ECW units? They look damn fine all lined up like that.

[fred.]

Thanks - the units are 120mm frontage (3 x 40mm square bases) The movement trays are a little bit wider. 

The cards are some quite small ones, I guess about quarter size, that I got 6 packs off eBay for about £5. I think they are normally sold to go in party gift bags. 

[paulr]

   

You're right Fred, that horse couldn't ride across the front of the occupied village

[fred.]

Thanks for confirming Paul. Strange how I missed it last night - as it was a remote game I was the mover of figures so wasn't playing a side so should have picked this up. Probably wasn't material as I think 3 units were killed in that turn to break the Parliamentarians 

This makes it 2-0 to the King!

[fred.]

From the conversation on another thread about live projects I thought a little photo of my desk would be informative (even just for me to inform me of what I've got going on)

[fred.]

Napoleonics
British Dragoons, Infantry & Commanders
French Dragoons and commanders

ECW
Scots pike and shot unit


Epic 6mm
Tyranid bio-titan (just one the others are for painting and basing guides)
Tyranid genestealers (still in bag)
Squat mole mortars and crew
Spaceport builds (painting touch up)
Monorail (MDF)

Boxer Rebellion (28mm)
Japanese Marines
Sailors (bought painted just need basing)

Renaissance
Black Band - pike, guns, gendarmes and command - probably the most figures
Empire Command base - a small repair job
Lots of bags of stuff hiding at the back
Japanese Peasant Archers

WWI/WW2
European Houses

6 headings
15 different forces/terrain

[fred.]

ECW Scots Pike

Think these guys are pretty much painted now

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Superb!

[pierre the shy]

Very nice Fred.....I recognise those figures, got a few myself 

[fred.]

Thanks both - they can move onto the basing stage - and perhaps I'll get a few of the others based up at the same time. 

Lots of stuff that needs finishing - so that should be the next focus. 

[mmcv]

Very nice. I hadn't realised cataloguing live projects had been "a thing", but I've been doing the same myself over the past little while (in line with clearing out my hobby space and trying to organise things a bit better). Must be something in the air.

[fred.]

Thanks 


if cataloging projects is down to something in the air its a bit worrying, as it started with Nobby, and he's in Runcorn !!

[fred.]

Basing

Got a right mix of figures based up this afternoon.




These will join a similar number I based a couple of weeks ago, so lots of flocking needed next!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Looking very good Forbes

[fred.]

Cheers Will

Glue dried. So got some dry brushing done. So finally ready for flock

[fred.]

So the above figures are still waiting to be flocked 

But I've been painting another project.

Peninsular Buildings

I picked up a couple more Peninsular buildings when I visited Pendraken at the start of the month. And have now got some paint on all of them, mainly roofs and windows. 



The tile roofs were painted using a mix of 3 GW Contrast paints - which seems to have worked pretty well - the above is a single coat over a very light grey base coat. The 3 colours are Skeleton Horde, Blood Angel Red, Iyadaran Yellow, in a very roughly 3:2:1 ratio. But I did vary the red and yellow to give some variation in roof colours. 

I've got some infantry and cavalry on the go as well



And quite a lot awaiting attention - which is a bit worrying as this was meant to be a small skirmish project. But its too easy to add another bag of figures which gives another unit or two. 

[mmcv]

Those buildings really look the part

[paulr]

Wot mmcv sed

...
And quite a lot awaiting attention - which is a bit worrying as this was meant to be a small skirmish project. But its too easy to add another bag of figures which gives another unit or two.
...

My recent Indian order suffered a bit of creep as well
As I worked through my planning the number of figures only ever went up

[fred.]

Those buildings really look the part

Thanks. I'm pleased with how they have come out for fairly low effort 

Wot mmcv sed
My recent Indian order suffered a bit of creep as well
As I worked through my planning the number of figures only ever went up

You do have a bit more of an excuse when the figures have to travel to the other side of the world!

[fred.]

Not entirely sure where all of the last 6 weeks has gone! The last few weeks were a trip overseas, followed by Covid, but that leaves a gap at the start of August...

Basing

Finally got these figures finished - its taken a while to get them through all the stages.

The whole random lot!


28mm Japanese Marines and Sailors



These are for Boxer Rebellion era games, the sailors were bought painted and have just had a bit of a tidy up and a rebase.

Epic Scale Tyranids and Squats



Giant stompy Tyranid bio-titans, and tiny Squat mole mortars

10mm Landsknechts and Feudal Japanese




Finally some 10mm Warmonger Miniatures Landsknechts painted as Black Band. At the back left some Samurai era Japanese peasants with bows, and to the right some Scots for the ECW