Fred's 2012 Painting Diary

[Annatar]

Yes something pseudo-japanese works fine for high-elves.

Painted the shield of my highelf, that came with the heroes booster pack, like this.

[mollinary]

Annatar,

Now that - I like!!!!!!!

Mollinary

[fred.]

Haven't got much painting done in the last week.

Played a game of HC on Friday night, the fords scenario from Saga, which generated a very different style of game, my Araby forces managed to rush forward in the first couple of turns, then put in enough shooting to stop the demon hordes. A good game.

Sunday I got the spray cans out and base coated some late roman era buildings brown. These have turned out to be very quick to paint with a couple of shades to dry brush the roofs and I've painted in the plaster walls with off white. With a bit of tidying up of the timber they should be done tomorrow.

[fred.]

Another week goes by...

Painted up my dark ages buildings (from The Baggage Train) - these painted up very easily and have come out looking rather nice (if I do say so myself)



Have added a couple of bases of High Elf cavalry to the figures I bought off of eBay - this gives 2 warmaster units. These are big chunky heavy cavalry figures.



Also have re-based the rest of these figures


I'm currently painting up some extras to bring these up to full units, and to add another unit of spears and bows.


The extra spears are nearly done, only a couple more colours to go.

[fred.]

Lots of gaming over the last week - as family is away on holiday.

Wed - Warmaster, met up with a new player (I watch / helped with this game rather than played)

Fri - Warmaster, the concluding part of a 4k a side Empire vs Lizardmen battle that we started a couple of weeks ago. Empire (me and Dave) just won, the lizards had spent most of the game retreating one flank, until finally the Empire knights crashed into their flank rolling up multiple units in 1 turn. In the centre it got a bit close as the Empire infantry made the mistake of getting stuck in and then getting squashed by a Stegadon and Carnosaur - who then made the mistake of charging a hell blaster frontally!!!

Sat - Hail Caesar - in 28mm with Rome vs Carthage - a first for me, playing HC in period and with the right scale figures. We did play with reduced distances as only had a 6x4 table.

Sun - Maurice - had a couple of play thoughs. Using Marlburian British vs Elves ( as my French aren't painted yet). A very different style of game to HC and WM with short moves, card activation and strict movement. But I quite like it. Not sure that any of my gaming group are interested in this period or style of rules.

[fred.]

WSS French

Sorted through assorted WSS figures that I had, mostly bought as a job lot, with the aim to make a French force to oppose my already painted British. On sorting though the many bags I discovered that a couple of bags were latter figures with turned back coats and waistcoats. There were also lots of bearskin wearing troops - probably Austrian grenadiers.

But even after putting several bags to one side I had enough figures to make a French opposing force. Most of the figures are Pendraken, but I'm not sure about the infantry standing to  attention and the Dragoons with the large muskets at the side of their saddles. The slighter cavalry figures I think are Irregular.


6 battalions of infantry, 2 cannons and 6 cavalry squadrons



Are these Pendraken?

[Leon]

Nope, not ours from that pic.  I can't tell on the Dragoons though, I'll need a closer pic to ID those.

[fred.]

WSS

The French Infantry are pretty much done, painted hat lace last night, and tidied up the extras tonight, then based the 6 regiments. They need a brown wash to give a bit of shading, and then the bases finishing off.



Cavalry are nearly there as well need to paint some horses in different shades, then add some detailing to the horses and hat lace to 4 squadrons. Then there are two still to do, 1 French and 1 British.

I think the unidentified figures from the previous post are probably Old Glory from seeing some photos posted on the Maurice site.

[daveyboy21]

WoW!!!!!
Talented in every scale.........................................I think I hate you LOL
Really admire your dedication Buddy. What's your secret?

[fred.]

Thanks, I think....

The secret is that my missus is a teacher so she spends lots of time preparing lessons / marking so I get lots of painting time.

[Techno]

Lovely stuff again Fred.....You swine 
Cheers - Phil.

[nikharwood]

Nice progress 

[Ben Waterhouse]

Coming along well

[fred.]

Value for Money

I'm sure my fellow Pendraken forum denizens hardly need reminding of the great value for money that is Pendraken, but I happen to have received orders from both Pendraken and GW 10mm this week, both of which cost about £35



Pendraken on the left in lots and lots of little baggies - and a grand total of 4 (yes just four) blisters from GW. The GW figures are Salamanders and a Slaan mage that I can't find proxies for anywhere else. To give GW their due they do deliver quickly. But from a cost perspective there is no comparison.

[fred.]

Lizardmen

As a change of pace, and as I had lots of shiny stuff, I decided to do some test paints of my new Lizardmen. I made use of white, black and green spray paints as base coats.



At the front are GW Salamanders - these have painted up nicely very quickly, the body was a dark brown wash, the sail a deep red, with the spines highlighted in orange. With the fangs and eyes picked out for a bit of detail.

The GW skinks and PD newtmen got the green spray - I have picked out a few details (the yellow stripe continues down the back) and will next give these a strong black wash to bring out some detail.

The PD Lizard riders have only had the top part of the lizard mount washed dark red - I plan to leave the bottom part white (following the paint scheme on the GW site which looks quite effective) the riders will be green.

I haven't decided if I want all the lizardmen in green yet, or will add in some red or blue ones as well.

[fred.]

WSS

Haven't neglected these guys totally - got sand on the bases of the infantry and guns.

Gaming - Friday night
Went round and watched the second half of a WHFB battle - in which the players were getting to grips with the new rules. Lots of detailed stuff happens then it comes down to a few Leadership tests and if these go wrong half-the army can rout in one big ripple. Not sure about how this plays. But we have several people in our group who are big fans of WHFB and WAB. They tend to dislike WM and HC because of the random command rolls. But having seen WHFB it seems to have much more capricious leadership rolls which affect your army far more.

Then played a Saga battle, were my Anglo-Danes comprehensively smashed the Normans. I had some excellent battle-board dice, while my oppo had generally better melee and shooting dice. A slightly strange game were the Normans advanced rapidly on one flank, then withdraw back to their starting positions, and ended up blocking themselves so only one unit could get to fight at once.

[fred.]

Lizardmen Riders

Painted the riders of the lizards tonight. Blocked in the green and yellow - given a brown wash, but think I need to add some more detail - especially seeing the figures in close up on the full size photo.



Added a black wash to the small lizards - which has picked up a lot more detail.

[mollinary]

Sorry to disagree with the sainted Leon, butI think those WSS infantry at attention are Pendraken,as are the Dragoons with the big musket (ooh, Matron!) . But they are such old Pendraken's that poor young Leon may never have seen them. I on the other hand, being as old as the hills, have 'fawsands of 'em!  'cos in those days, when the world was black and white, there were no variants, and everyone looked the same.  So they march (or, if you are feeling pedantic, stand) in the French, Bavarian, English, Scots, Cologne,Spanish, Danish, Prussian, Dutch and Schleswig-Holstein service.

Mollinary

[fred.]

Interesting.  The chaps at attention in tricorns are nice, and I wouldn't mind more of them. But the grenadiers and the dragoons both suffer from big heads.

[fred.]

Lizardmen

Got my test figures based up:



I'm quite pleased with how these have come out - and most are quite quick to paint as well. Not completely sure about the dark turquoise on the the Kroxigor (15mm lizardmen)
For the bases I want a dark brown earth, with assorted jungle style vegetation.


Close up of the Pendraken figures.