Fred's 2014 Painting Diary

[Leman]

Mustn't half be some unhappy camels.

[fred.]

But those is Female tanks, so Lewis/Vickers guns.....

One female, followed by two males, as is often the way...

[fred.]

Better photos of the camels - which seem to expose some scruffy painting     

[fred.]

And the Mark V tanks - keeping them separated from the camels this time!


Heading off to crush the Hun



Line abreast

[Ithoriel]

If that constitutes "scruffy painting" I might as well give up now!

Brilliant, as ever.

[fred.]

I was attempting to paint them well - rather than just get some stands on the table - so am probably being rather more picky than usual. It is also the problem that I can now see the painting results better on the photos, then from directly looking at the figures.

I think it is the grey on the red on the left hand camel in the top picture, and the head straps, that are the scruffy bits. I do like how the various blanket rolls and bags have come out.

[paulr]

... It is also the problem that I can now see the painting results better on the photos, then from directly looking at the figures. ...

One could say it magnifies the problem  

Lovely work as always 

[Techno]

Still look great to me, Fred !
Cheers - Phil

[Hertsblue]

Yeah. Love the camels. They'd make a great caravan or baggage train.

[Matt J]

Really good stuff Fred 

I think it is the grey on the red on the left hand camel in the top picture, and the head straps, that are the scruffy bits

I see your point but 5 seconds for a remedy.
Photos tend to pick the bits you just seem to miss with the naked eye.

[Techno]

Photos tend to pick the bits you just seem to miss with the naked eye.

Don't they just !
Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

All my painting is scruffy, saved by distance, washes and basing.

[fred.]

Bit tardy on the updates lately.

I've been playing Songs of Blades and Heroes with my daughters - with various old 28mm Citadel figures. We've had several games, they really seem to enjoy it, and they are getting the idea of tactics now. In the last game my Orcs were beaten up by a horde of halflings, controlled using the Leader special rule by my oldest daughter (11).

The old 28mm have had a bit of basing (not re-basing, as back then they weren't based) and a bit of touching up of chipped paint, and just plain un-painted bits. But I have tried to avoid total re-painting, partly for time, and partly for nostalgia.

I've done a bit of 10mm over the last few days, and finished off the rest of my Centaurs.


I also chopped up the ones I had previously based on big 100x40mm bases for KoW - into 40x40 bases for our new home-brew rules. I used a dremel for this, and it worked very well - much better than trying to remove the figures, then stick them to new bases.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Nice work Fred!

[paulr]

  as always

Good to hear you got your daughters involved.

Best I've managed with my daughter was when she had to do "an art work" based on a book she was reading. She was reading about the Kiwis during the loss of Crete, part of the curriculum. One scene had some kiwis near  a damaged house covering a path with a Bren. She produced a very nice diorama in 15mm including a scratch built corner of the damaged house. Only had advise from Dad and stunned her teacher