Fred's 2014 Painting Diary

[petercooman]

 

[fred.]

Stepping carefully forwards...

Not much time for painting - but I have made up some movement trays - using some old plastic signage, lined with steel paper.



All sprayed camo green - which seems to blend in with the table fairly well.

[Techno]

Those look rather zippy, Fred !
Cheers - Phil

[jchaos79]

When you are thinking in moving trays for 10mm, then means you are playing Great battles!

[fred.]

Ha, ha!

We are playing home brewed rules at the minute, units are typically 6 to 8 warmaster stands in size. The biggest of the trays I made will take 12 stands, for a pike block 4 wide and 3 deep - but that would be a huge unit - perhaps more often seen with goblins.

[fred.]

Exactly 16,000 views as I post this!!

Something a bit different tonight



We are going to try out the Altar of Freedom ACW rules on Friday - and I don't have any figures for this period, and all my gaming mates figures are based on smaller bases. So I have made some paper top down figures, stuck to mounting board. They can double as sabot bases and as figures in the short term.

One thing you can't argue with is speed of output - I have created the equivalent of 3 box files of figures in 2 evenings - and much of the first evening was spent messing around generating the first page or so of images. Doing the rest of the images tonight was much quicker as I had got the hang of what was needed. Then cutting them out has taken no more than an hour.

I'm quite impressed with both how they look, and feel on the mounting board. Not as good as metal figures of course, but much better than paper cutouts.

[jchaos79]

and should be easy to store, do not consume space.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very nice

[paulr]

Peter did something very similar for our first couple of ITLSU test games and it worked very well

[Techno]

What a great way to test rules.
Cheers - Phil.

[fred.]

Thanks chaps. Yes they will be very compact to store - and make it easy to test out new rules.

[fred.]

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Pendraken Parcel 
 




As you were.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Damn, I almost heard the thunk from here!

[fred.]

It wasn't that big!!

Some bases, just 1 pot of paint (so that's OK with Royal Mail!)

A bit of WWI



These 9.2" howitzers which are fab!!


Some early war Cavalry (and a few extra Royal Naval Div, because I can't count!)

And a few extra Lizardmen to round out some units

Although that seems to mainly be a photo of my keyboard, and some blurry bags

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]