Fred's 2013 Painting Diary

[fred.]

Ottoman Janissary Hand Gunners



Got these chaps finished and based this afternoon



Was expecting to only get 3 bases out of the figures - but managed to get 4 bases, which is 4 troops for KoW, or 2 Regiments, or a Horde

This gives my Araby army a lot of heavy fire-power on top of the artillery added the other week.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nicely done Fred

[Womble67]

Very nice like the mixed unit approach looks much better than a single coloured unit

take care

andy

[fred.]

Thanks Chaps

For a bit of change of pace, I've cleaned up some Centaurs ready for spraying, should we happen to get a half-decent day over the weekend.



Not that they needed much cleaning up, just a bit of smoothing of the bases really, nice and quick.

So what is the collective noun for Centaurs?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

SOME!

Definitely a herd.
Looking forwards to seeing these. 

[fred.]

SOME!

Yes...

I was just looking at them all, and trying to remember how many I thought I was going to put on a base, and how many units I thought I needed. The figures are an army pack and 3 single packs. Which after a quick check on the website should be 35+15, so 50 in total.

[Hertsblue]

Thanks Chaps

So what is the collective noun for Centaurs?

How about a clatter of Centaurs? 

[fred.]

Last night played Kings of War (KoW) - we had 7 players, 3 on the nominally good side (but don't tell the dwarves that the elves where Dark Elves), 3 on the demon/chaos side, and me with a double sized Nature army holding the objective.


This is part of my force at the start of the battle - with a fair few Pendraken figures in view. In the distance can be seen the demon hordes. It was a very fun game - we generally rather forgot the objective (capture the swamp) and just attacked everyone. The Chaos knights ran away from the Dwarves!! The Demons managed to get into the swamp as the clock ran down - although I still had a lot of units left to eject them, they were a bit too far away.

[fred.]

Managed to get some productive painting done today

Empire Pistolliers (thanks to Hertsblue's vote)


These need their bases finishing and can then join a similar unit to give me a regiment for KoW - though I haven't quite decided a unit of what yet...

Then made good progress with my WWI French - they will form the core of the 2nd Regiment

[Techno]

Looking good Fred !!....Like it !
Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Brilliant work there, keep it up! 

[Albie Bach]

Very nice.
Is that Father Christmas - bottom right of the Empire Pistolliers ? 

[fred.]

Thanks chaps!

Is that Father Christmas - bottom right of the Empire Pistolliers ? 

I missed a trick there, he might get a red top and a white beard...

[kev1964]

Very nice Fred, great father xmas , don't want to see him  coming down my chimney

kev

[Steve J]

Yep, I too thought Father Xmas when I saw the pic .

[fred.]

The 2nd regiment of WWI French are now pretty much done



But didn't get Santa finished off - maybe tonight

[fred.]

Also started to spray the centaurs - I lined up the Centaurs and gnomes, and started spraying black, got all of one side done, swapped them round, but couldn't coax anymore black out of the can.

Went to get a spare can (and the dark brown) but this was thwarted by not being able to get to the extra spray cans under the stairs due to Christmas stuff.

Managed to spray a few white, and some middle brown, so can start on those at some point


Also de-based some Pendraken British WWI infantry, and start to paint them. The British are so much easier than the French - a quick heavy dry brush of brown all over the figure, and they are 80% done. The French have so many different colours in their uniforms, and such complex kit they really take some time to paint.



These guys should make a couple of battalions for GWSH
I even painted the 18 pdrs for good measure.

[Leon]

Looking forward to seeing some new armies hitting the painting diary soon then!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I'd say about £100 worth, by the looks of it!

[fred.]

Yeah!!

But how long will it take them to get painted :-(

My big orders often linger a bit in the lead mountain.