Fred's 2013 Painting Diary

[fred.]

Painting Comp Progress

Foot - Pre-20th C. - Min: 3 / Max: 16 figures on a single base, and pre-1900.
LoA - stand painted and based, need to add a flag, and flock the base

Foot - 20th C. - Min: 3 / Max: 16 figures on a single base.
German Paras - 2 stands painted and based, need flock the base

Mounted - Min: 3 / Max: 10 figures on a single base.
Republican Romans - basic painting done
WSS Cav - need to have a look for some figures painted earlier in the year

Vehicle - Single vehicle on or off base.
French tanks - started last year, but never got beyond basic block painting. Need to dig this out

Fantasy & Sci-Fi - Anything Fantasy or Sci-Fi oriented, maximum base size of 60x60mm.
Lizardmen - cavalry stand done, need to flock the base
Dragon Rider - in progress

Open - Single Base - Anything which doesn't fit into the other categories, with a max base size of 100x100mm.
FJ panzerschrek team - pretty much done
Rocket Launcher - conversion - in progress

Open - Army! - Armies, Dungeons, whole table setups, anything!
WSS Armies - need to look these out and tart them up


A bit more progress than I thought, need to get a few finished.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Great list, look forwards to the results!  My dragon rider is in progress too. Still up for s dragon off? You'll win I'm sure! 

[fred.]

A Dragon off sounds good - winner gets a pint?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Since you have two painting stripes already, I'd better say "Beer, lager or wine sir?" 

[fred.]

This is becoming a bit of a what did I do last week, style of diary...

I've been playing lots of Kings of War lately, and looked at my 28mm figures to see what I had in the way of KoW armies - and my Perry WoTR plastics seemed a good match. They  have been a bit of and ad hoc project - mainly as I like the plastic figures, but have never had a game in mind. So with a bit of organising I realised I had enough figures to make a decent sized army - it may be a bit bow heavy being WoTR but it looks promising and will at least let me get these finished.

As part of this I ordered some large custom MDF bases from Leon to make movement trays for the figures - these were very reasonably priced, and delivered very quickly. And while I was on the minibits site I managed to spend another £15 on other important bits and peices 

Played KoW (in 10mm) on Friday night. Elves vs Twilight Kin, which were mainly Abyssals (aka Demons). It was another good game swung back and forwards. Both sides made extensive use of flyers - which while very mobile struggle to deal an effective blow. In the end it was a draw, though I will claim a minor win as I was 500 pts ahead at the end (needing 600 for a win)

[fred.]

Well its been an age since I posted on this thread  

I've been busy with 28mm stuff, Bretons for Saga, and lots and lots of Perry WoTR for Kings of War (which can be seen over on the Mantic forum should you be interested http://forum.manticblog.com/showthread.php?3493-Pathfinder-event-KoM-from-WoTR/page2  ) - I've also bought in to the In Her Majesty's Name line, so have a figures for that to paint too.

But tonight I did managed to paint some 10mm, and it was Pendraken  


Lots of bats for a mate, that I finished off for him, as I was fed up of facing the shiny blobs of coal across the table!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

 

Nice Fred!

[Techno]

 
Nice, Fred.
Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

This is turning into a hall of shame this year !!

Actually painted some Pendraken 10mm - some WWII Germans, heavy weapons and NCOs to use for Chain of Command - a few single and small group bases should add to my many existing stands of infantry to work with CoC.

[nikharwood]

You know we want pics, right? 

[fred.]

They will be forth coming.

On Thursday they were still on painting sticks, so everything was a bit dark due to the black spray.

They have been part based now, and should be finished today or tomorrow.

[fred.]

I have finished the Germans - but forgot to take photos 

Obviously the next thing up is Fire Lizards.

I have been looking at the new Forces of Nature list for Kings of War, and like the look of the list, and I can build lots of the list from figures I already have (and mainly Pendraken ones at that). I am trying to decide on the colour scheme for the Fire Lizards / Salamanders.

Obviously the core colour is red - a fairly a deep red.

For weapons I am thinking about black - perhaps a gloss black. Another option is brass.

A few have shields - I am thinking of black for these as well, probably with brass bands.

For bases I am not sure, I had initially wondered about a black / grey colour - but think this make make everything a bit too dark. My normal basing is a brown, with clumps of green flock - but this seems wrong for fire creatures.

Any thoughts on these chaps?

[Techno]

Can you 'rough' a single one out Fred....and post a pic ?
Be easier to tell from that I reckon.
Black/Red/Brass should look pretty good......Depends on the 'percentage' of each colour as to whether they look a little too dark. (I think !)
Cheers - Phil.

[fred.]

That would be sensible wouldn't it!!!

I was so focused on doing 70 of them on mass - that doing a couple of samples didn't occur to me 

[Techno]