Fred's 2013 Painting Diary

[Techno]

I agree with Peter !

Cheers - Phil.

[Womble67]

Hi there
         I really like your German paras I think they look fantastic, I will also be keeping an eye on this thread for further developments.

Take care

Andy

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice one Fred!
Those Paras look GREAT! 
What is even more worrying is the unit of Late Romans in the background of one of your photos, more stuff I'm planning to do!   

[fred.]

Thanks chaps, glad you like the Paras, they are coming along nicely.

Lemmy don't worry about those Romans they were entered last year. Some of their friends are a possibility for this year, but are a bit down the list.

[fred.]

After a poor weekend - gaming snowed off on Friday, and I felt pretty ill all weekend, I only managed to super glue 10 FJ to 2 bases, I had that little energy 

Feeling much better today - just in time to go back to work on Monday morning 

Did a bit of painting tonight, blocked in the green skin for the lizardmen.

[fred.]

Gaming

Played KoW again on Friday - Lizardmen and Araby style humans trying to run off with the loot from a temple, vs Elves and Dwarfs trying to stop them and get the treasure for themselves. The Lizardmen / Human alliance won - not least due to me and the Dwarf player not paying enough attention to the victory conditions and board layout, we spent too much time killing their troops rather than trying to get the treasure. But it was a fun game, even if we were rather slow on the uptake of how to win  

Painting
Got a bit done this weekend, some blue coats for some of my LoA riflemen - going for Dutch Guarde te Voet.


I also messed around scratching buliding a rocket launcher for the Kingoms of Men army for KoW - its based on the Pendraken organ gun with scratch built rockets and smoke trail shamelessly copied from Dougie's falklands figures!


This is it in its bare format - looks rather odd.


And after a bit of painting, starts to come together

[petercooman]

Looks a treat! Just love the conversion!!

[nikharwood]

That's funky, Forbes 

[barbarian]

YEahhh. Fast suppository delivery ! 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Great work! 

[fred.]

Not a huge amount of painting this week, again...

Probably need to get on with figures for the painting comp, but keep getting distracted.

Friday night played a big game of Kings of War - we used 10mm figures (of course) but went with near to 28mm unit footprints. So a unit of infantry was 6 warmaster bases, and a regiment of cavalry was a massive 10 stands.


Here some Pendraken Minotaurs  (as ogres) take the hill - but were swept away by Elven cavalry the next turn.

Full report over on the KoW forum http://forum.manticblog.com/showthread.php?3405-Battle-for-the-Hill-Elves-vs-Kingdoms-of-Men

[petercooman]

Looks great!!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Look great, nice report too!

[fred.]

On Saturday I made 20 more trees - using Faller plastic armatures and clump foliage. To give a bit of colour variation and just to provide some more trees - these are like the ones that can be seen top left of the battle photo above.

I also made a bunch more mini dice holders for casualty markers, taking two of the small square frames made by Minibits, and gluing them to a 10x20mm base. For KoW units can rack up a fair few casualties so a double dice holder helps, to both keep the dice together, and to keep them showing the right way up. An earlier one of these can be seen at the back of the Minotaur unit.

Managed to put a couple more colours on figures for the painting comp - but generally these are having slow progress. I think I'm going to need to get a couple of entries finished, then see where I am at, otherwise I will end up with many half-finished ones, which won't be any good. Also getting distracted with useful, but not any use for the competition stuff like the trees and casualty markers doesn't help much.

[fred.]

KoW again on Friday night - Men vs Undead. This was so one-sided it was nearly embarrassing - but we manfully stuck to turning the undead into piles of dusty bones. After 3 turns about 2/3rds of the undead were dead, for the loss of 1 hero and 1 small unit of men!!! As an Undead army won the recent KoW tournament, this says lots about the undead commander 

Sunday - had a rummage through my 28mm Perry WotR figures - and realised I have about 1800 pts - a good amount to play in the various tournaments that are happening. For 10mm we are typically playing with 3000 pts. Did a basing on a fair number of stands, with not too much work these figures will get to playable, then to finished - again nothing useful for the painting comp