Hi chaps,
After gawking at Nik's efforts, i decided to start the clock and see how long it actually took me to paint a brigade of AWI figures.
I can't go in and set up my classroom today as it's being cleaned and decorated, my wife is at her school, my daughter is round at her friends, break out the paints!
There are five units of continentals and a unit of Militia, with their casualty markers and a general (from another Brigade, but hey ho!)
You can also see my work area/mess too!
Then I realised that my wife had the camera with her for school stuff :( Mobile phone photos it is :'(
This is them after cleaning, basing and undercoating (2 hours, sitting outside in the sun earlier this summer)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/IMG20110831_001.jpg)
So, start the clock (which will run over several weeks, I'm sure)
1 hour is, base coats done
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/IMG20110831_002.jpg)
Militia and 1st Canadians
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/IMG20110831_003.jpg)
Various Mass. Regiments
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/IMG20110831_004.jpg)
2 hours in, ink washed
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/IMG20110831_005.jpg)
Yes, they are now all either black or sepia... ;)
And to finish the two hours, I varnished the Franco-Prussian stuff I was finishing last night. These will be based up as paint dries on the AWI!
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/IMG20110831_0071.jpg)
I'm not sure this wargaming time-trialing will catch on. Not exactly a spectator-sport is it? :d
Seriously, though, looking forward to seeing the finished articles.
I'm impressed already ! I darent even contemplating time trialling my painting :(
I just wanted to see how long my painting actually took after reading all Nik's posts.
Had an hour for lunch and shopping as the inks dried, then it was highlighting for the next hour and a half, until my back gave up...
So after 3.5 hours, it doesn't look like much has changed but...
Highlights of base colours are done:
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/IMG20110831_008.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/IMG20110831_0073.jpg)
(James II for Southwold Project)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/IMG20110831_0041.jpg)
Militia
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/IMG20110831_0031.jpg)
Hey, for a cheap phone, the macro lens is pretty good!
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/IMG20110831_0021.jpg)
Command group (Poor)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/IMG20110831_0011.jpg)
I've really got to do smaller batches!
Good stuff - good progress there mate 8)
As for the overall effectiveness of speed-painting, there are a number of tricks & tips - not to mention an entire mindset - that you need to plug into to make it work for you...if there's any interest, I could write a more in-depth article to explain the way I tend to approach this way of painting?
Looking good Lemmey! 8)
Quote from: nikharwood on 31 August 2011, 08:23:42 PM
As for the overall effectiveness of speed-painting, there are a number of tricks & tips - not to mention an entire mindset - that you need to plug into to make it work for you...if there's any interest, I could write a more in-depth article to explain the way I tend to approach this way of painting?
:-bd
Quote from: nikharwood on 31 August 2011, 08:23:42 PM
Good stuff - good progress there mate 8)
As for the overall effectiveness of speed-painting, there are a number of tricks & tips - not to mention an entire mindset - that you need to plug into to make it work for you...if there's any interest, I could write a more in-depth article to explain the way I tend to approach this way of painting?
Please, I've been mass painting for years, but someone else's version would be good...
Always welcome another take on the whole blessed process. :)
Okeydokey - I'll scribble some thoughts over the weekend...
Now school is et up and all our visitors have gone, paints came back out...
Hour and a half last night (with a break for an emergancy run to Tesco after discovering my daughter's lunchbox hadn't been cleaned in six weeks),
two hours tonight. :)
Bad photo again, phone camera not picking up on the shading at all...
This is the worst stage, where I can see what they should look like, but the painting looks sh**e! It pick up after this ;)
Yesterday: Guns done, flesh base coated and washed.
Tonight, flesh highlighted, then details for belts, sashes turnbacks and piping given a coat of white before I put 'real' colours on.
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/IMG20110906_0021.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/IMG20110906_0031.jpg)
One units not whited, too little time tonight.
Another 5 hours on the clock last night, started at 8, finished at 2 - borderline insomnia is useful... (well, after Torchwood, Outnumbered and QI, they decided to show Aliens the Director's Cut, it was a long night)...
Got the last white work done, waistcoats, knapsacks and black done, which strangly always moves the figures from dire to acceptable, but I wouldn't game with them yet, they'll need at least another three hours work! ;)
Just got a few hats, their piping, brass work, error correcting and touching up (hmm, maybe I should rephrse that bit), flags, varnishing and basing to do...
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/025.jpg)
The Division
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/032.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/031.jpg)
Poor - The Divisional Commander's name, not his status (hopefully).
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/030.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/029.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/028.jpg)
More Militia
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/027.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/026.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/034.jpg)
James, The Duke of York is coming on well too, he even had time for his portrait to be painted on canvas!
Maybe more later...
2 and a half hours done last night, but the photos were on my camera phone again, was going to post 5, but realised that I took them at half 11 last night, and when I editted them this morning they were as blured as hell! Must hint to Santa that I'd like a decent camera for Xmas, not much changed on first inspection, but brass/bronze work done, white lines and black adjusted and hats and hair completed.
Nice sculpts Clib...
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/14-09-112.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/14-09-111.jpg)
More tonight, but probably won't post piccies as it's sorting out errors and glutches night (like all the water bottles I've muissed on the marching figures)!
Another 2.5 hours (admittedly the last half hour was starting the next unit, 1st New Hampshire, that I forgot to order with this batch, so will be playing catch up!)
THEY'RE GETTING USED TONIGHT - aaagh! Unbased and with no standards (yes, you can insert 'lowereing my standards' jokes here). Battle rep over the weekend!
Total time spent thus far: 19.5 hours in, estimate three hours of basing to be done over the weekend, and done! Hey, if that logic worked, and paint dried instantly, and I never slept I could do an army every 24 hours, with an hour to eat! ;D
Quote from: mad lemmey on 15 September 2011, 08:24:25 AM
THEY'RE GETTING USED TONIGHT - aaagh! Unbased and with no standards (yes, you can insert 'lowereing my standards' jokes here). Battle rep over the weekend!
Bad lemmey ;)
What's that late-night, drunken, nightclub statement: "If the standards are low...lower your standards..."
4 hours and 20 minutes of basing and flag research. No photos but they will be done when finished - honest!
:D
2 hours flagging, base labelling and magnetising tonight, slowed by 'Later' and Wilco Johnson...
Also finished my X Corps Prussians and Wurrtenbergers for 1870.
Just 1st New Hampshire to finish now...
Will post photos tomorrow in daylight.
Later dudes!
Done!
Total time: 25hours, 50 minutes.
Net painting speed, one hour for every minute of Nik's Russians (but with no dog)!
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/017.jpg)
The whole division.
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/013.jpg)
Poor
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/012.jpg)
Bedford Minutemen (as I live in Bedfordshire UK)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/011.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/010.jpg)
2nd New Hampshire
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/009.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/008.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/005-1.jpg)
3 Different Massachusetts Regiments 2nd, 8th & 9th (Flag on the 9th is carried by reenactors, but they don't know their actual colours!)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/007.jpg)
(http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/madlemmey/AWI/006.jpg)
1st Canadian (Flags conjectual)
Excellent work! 8)
Good mass effect - with enough individuals to make the units interesting. Nice one. 8)
Quote from: Hertsblue on 04 October 2011, 05:35:03 PM
Good mass effect - with enough individuals to make the units interesting. Nice one. 8)
Agreed - nicely done [I can lend you some canine interference if you like..!]
These are simply beautiful! They must look the biz on the table!
Theo - they do, kind of...
Anyway, before my modesty takes a dive, battle reports with them here.
http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,4654.0.html (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,4654.0.html)
http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,3788.0.html (http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,3788.0.html)