Fred's 2014 Painting Diary

[fred.]

Ta chaps - they have come out nicely for a very quick dry brush based paint scheme.

Does anyone know which of the 2 codes these are, as I took them out of the bag far too long ago, to remember?

[fred.]

Got the bases finished on the first batch of the Mongols





I'm rather pleased how these have come out!

[paulr]

Very impressive

[Techno]

Terrific, Fred ! 
Cheers - Phil

[fred.]

Thanks Chaps - glad you like the look of them.

Phil - these paint up very nicely, excellent work.

A couple more shots



And an overhead view



I've deliberately gone for a more sparse basing on these

[Si Tyler]

Your work is always impressive and these are stunning

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Those are lovely!
Nice work chap. 

[Ric]

Those are excellent Fred, the movement in these sculpts is fantastic too!

[fred.]

Thanks chaps, very kind of you.   

[Hertsblue]

They're a credit to sculptor and painter alike. 

[Matt J]

really good Fred, basing is excellent.

[Techno]

Hear, hear.

And thanks for the compliment, Fred !
Cheers - Phil

[kev1964]

Really lovely work Fred, great painting and basing, a top job mate. I'm looking forward to having a go at these next month.


kev

[Subedai]

Thanks Chaps - glad you like the look of them.

Phil - these paint up very nicely, excellent work.

A couple more shots



And an overhead view


I've deliberately gone for a more sparse basing on these

(Only just found this and I am so impressed I just had to re-post the whole post again.)

Glad I could be of help with the wood colours.

They are absolutely stunning. The combo you finally decided on for the bases has worked out a treat and only enhances the figures.

What size bases are they on and are they based that way for any particular rule set?

[mollinary]

Love these, great basing and painting - a winning combination!    Like the bows and spears, I think going for a light colour is much better than the usual dull brown. I go for an even lighter buff colour, but your tan colour really works.  As a (much) younger generation might say "Respect!" 

Mollinary

[fred.]

The tan colour for the bows and spears works well - I nicked it from Subedai's figures! For the smaller scale figures I quite like the paler browns for bows and spears. I also think that most weapons would be fairly new, so not in the dark stained wood we now see in museums and castles. I still go with dark brown for fire arms though.

The bases are 40x40mm - I have gone off the 40x20mm warmaster standard recently, as I like the bigger bases to give a bit more of a diorama feel. Rules wise, not certain, but these should work for a few options, including Hail Caesar, perhaps KoW (but light cavalry aren't great in it) or in a set of home brew rules we are cooking up at the moment.

I've taken a bit more time over these bases - using a mix of rocky areas, tufts, flock and some small bushes. Again the space allows this, rather than crowding everything in.

I also took some more pictures last night
The Mongolian Death Worms, all based up:

Looks like I need to sort the base edges on these - see what comes of using some older bases, not the nice new laser cut ones from Mr Leon.

And some WIP shots of the heavy cavalry, based up much more densely. I thought these would be quite quick with all their armour, but they actually seemed to take longer than the light cav (or its just I had to paint more to get fewer bases!)

[Edmund2011]

Great job!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Those are some if your best yet Fred!

[Techno]

Excellent again, Fred !
Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

Very interesting point about british webbing in WWI. I was considering going with buff but I may look at the dead flesh. I'm assuming it's in GW. Was in the Southport branch about a month ago and the sales person asked the obligatory question, 'And what are you painting at the moment fella?' I received  a very blank look when I replied sword and buckler men from the Great Italian Wars.