Fred's 2014 Painting Diary

[FierceKitty]

If you really want to be pedantic "mail" is interlocking rings, "proof" is rings sewn on to leather backing and a suit of armour is a "harness". However, usage tends to blur accurate meanings over time. 

And one must wonder whether the people who actually wore the stuff would insist on the distinctions. It might be a bit like the Hindu trilogy of creator-preserver-destroyer, or the spheres of influence assigned to the nine muses; neither of which would have been familiar to the people who were active believers in the heyday of those systems.

[Subedai]

Anyway, back on topic.

You keep posting your nicely painted chaps and we will keep wondering where you get the time from to paint them all.

[fred.]

I think it's from doing bits of painting frequently, along side the odd afternoon were I manage to get some time while the family is busy with something else.

[paulr]

I think it's from doing bits of painting frequently, along side the odd afternoon were I manage to get some time while the family is busy with something else.

I certainly find frequently is the key. I try and do some painting every day even 15 minutes can allow some progress. I'm lucky enough to have a dedicated painting area so 15 minutes means about 12 minutes of actual application of paint.

[FierceKitty]

Absolutely agree. A bit every day, even if it's just one unit's spon-bottles or the cap-badges on the nadger-cleaners, is the one that gets results.

[Subedai]

With the best of good intentions, I have said I will paint for an hour a day. Ha, ha! We all know how that turns out. Very occasionally, I do get the hour or even a bit more, but more often than not I can paint for as long as half an hour before I get distracted...and it's not always my fault.

[Techno]

I wish I still had time to paint the wee men....
I don't even have to use all the fingers on one hand to count the number I've 'daubed' in the last three years.
But I DO so enjoy seeing all the figures that all you folk paint.....
Keep up the great work !
Cheers - Phil

[Matt J]

At the moment I'm managing about 3 hours a night most nights when the kids have gone to bed. As each model takes me about an hour it is hardly expedient output 

[fred.]

At the moment I'm managing about 3 hours a night most nights when the kids have gone to bed. As each model takes me about an hour it is hardly expedient output 

This explains a lot. Why you have lots or recent wins in the painting comps, and why I can produce lots of stuff. I couldn't imagine spending an hour on a 10mm figure!!!

I have recently started thinking about what I want to paint, rather than what I should paint. I am also trying to focus on getting playable stuff on the table, as having games definitely means more stuff painted. But when I fancy something different I get those figures out, with the Mongols I have been deliberately just cleaning and spraying 20 or so figures at once, so that I can see the progress. I find that having loads of figures sitting there undercoated, stops me from progressing.

[Womble67]

Totally agree a little every day. Surprising how it mounts up

Take care

Andy

[fred.]

Having a rummage in a one of my draws of stuff today, and found a cheap doormat I had bought to make fields. Decided that it was time to put it to it to use and made up a some fields this afternoon.



I have enough left to make the same again in plain fields too.

[fred.]

I've been painting another batch of Mongols this week, and made a start on basing them today



I'm pleased with how these came out, a couple of changes from the first batch. Going with black undercoat for all, allows a bit of black lining, and shadows in the hard to reach places. I have also gone with a different shade for the bows, after seeing Subatai's on here.

Still haven't decided on basing yet - tried mixing up some flock today, but it seems rather too green. And browsing the net I am struggling to find what I am looking for...

[Matt J]

Still haven't decided on basing yet - tried mixing up some flock today, but it seems rather too green. And browsing the net I am struggling to find what I am looking for...

I had the same problem. In the end went with army painter steppe grass which I think looks the part, not too green. Its on the bases of the Mongols I entered in the comp.

[fred.]

Cheers Matt, that looks the right sort of colour.

And through the magic of eBay some is now on its way!

[Matt J]

happy to help