Well, as I'm painting a fair bit of Pendraken these days, I figured I should probably pop up a thread for my various bits, bobs and doodads. Some of it's paid for work, so apologies if that offends :D If it doesn't, do you want some figures painted to a decent gaming standard in decent timescale :D (see my sig for details)
Anyway, enough of that, onto some mini's!
As usual for wargamers I suffer from attention deficit disorder with projects, and never enough figures disease, so I've been trying to finish up and finish off various armies and periods mostly without success. On the go at the moment I have -
1/ bits and bobs for War of the Spanish Succession/ League of Augsberg era French. Almost done, just some lovely LoA dismounted Dragoons and extra artillery to do.
2/ C16th Turks bought for me as a birthday pressie, actually for use with the above to stand in as @turn of the C18th Ottomans. Made a start, got some Janissaries mostly done and finished the screaming hordes of Tartar auxiliaries.
3/ Ever ongoing AVBCW. Currently at four factions done (mostly, honest), and a fifth languishing in undercoat. Recently did some of the nice 25pdrs so will get piccy of them up, and also did a commision for the Solihull Boys Brigade for a club mate (the SoBBs).
4/ "Seasonal Fae Realm" fantasy. Basically, should be a four part project but only got one up and running - the Winter Kings Host, all done and dusted, all very snowy themed. Part way through the Spring Court Warband - kind of Barbarian/celtic-y, bright greens and yellows, woad and chariots etc. Summer should be a "classic" High Fantasy Faerie mob with shining knights and elves and hobbits, Autumn is to be a "Fall of the West" style semi-Arthurian fading abck to barbarism but a last shining beacon sort of thing.
5/ ACW. We did a big Gettysburg game @5 years ago which I was painting a Brigade of Confederates for. I finished the first lot a month ago... they may have taken a long while to inspire me! Decided to do a "quick and dirty" approach, kind of inspired by Nick H's fast paints. Now got two units done, and that's likely to be all for the moment until the next in the list is done -
6/ Recently ordered "bath tub" Italian Wars. Going for a "small scale" extra project, at minimal cost and table foot print. So, sixteen man pike bases on a 40*40mm base, up to 8-10-12 units max per side, using Pike & Shotte in cm's.
Pic's in next post!
So, a shot of 1/ -
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And a shot of 2/
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There's more of those to come - I have Janissaries, Akinji's, Siphahi's, more muskets and arty, with the arty and Janissaries already primed and in process - any one for WIPs?
Now, is there anything people want to see more of... there's loads of piccies (incl. *gasp* non-Pendraken stuff, shush) on my Facebook painting page, but I've more of the personal stuff etc on the phone :D
Very nice chap. 8)
Ta! Anything you want to see more of?
Great work, Pixie ! 8)
Cheers - Phil
Very nice
Very nice indeed!
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Cheers all :) Will bang up a piccy or two tomorrow of the newly done Zouves, I think.
Mmm, show us more Turks, won't you?
My wish is your command...
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More at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1427286977521102.1073741841.1375731686009965&type=3
And hopefully a couple with completed basing later on :D
Looking pretty good so far, Son of the Prophet!
Very nice Toxic! 8)
And the finished article, aside from a spray of Matt varnish. They're done in a quick and easy fashion but one that isn't overdone, garish or too simplistic (he says hopefully!) - the army was a pressie for my 40th, and whilst I don't want them to look dashed off and rushed, I do actually want to get them done and on the table!
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As usual, there's a couple more shots on the FaceBlarg gallery.
Mustapha look at your Face Blarg thingy.
Just had a look and they are very nice. Nice basing mix of materials and colours on the Ottomans (Ottomens?).
Particularly versatile are the WWII 6mm on a Martian coloured playing surface. :)
All good stuff and nice looking chaps to boot.
Look damn fine to me, TP !
Cheers - Phil.
Please do, the more the merrier! It's basically a collection of photos somewhere accessible rather than a living community like the forum ;)
Ho-kay, a shot of the Zouves I finished up in the week -
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These are basically odds & sods I picked up after enjoying getting some left overs done a month or two back. It's a quick paint, undercoat I. Base uniform ish then pick out detail and wash for shading. Minimum time for acceptable reward! I'm towards another unit or two of foot & a couple of guns for a Fire & Fury "pick up game" Division. Unless I sell them first, anyway!
Paint scheme is based on some "sensible" interpretations of Confederate Zouves, and at F&F level the eight bases represent about a third of *all* the Zouves the Rebs actually raised :D But they looked too nice to pass up a bag :D
Couple more piccies on the link on my sig.
You could probably use those as Balkan auxiliaries for the Turks too.
Dang, didn't even think about that! I guess they could... I've some Tufecki muskets to do to back up the Janissaries though so they might be a bit redundant. Especially as I don't think Fire & Fury bases are very compatible with my Pike & Shotte unit bases :)
That is seriously nice painting. Thank you for sharing.
Pleasure - the new ACW are seriously nice sculpts!
Quote from: Subedai on 01 May 2014, 07:11:55 PM
Just had a look and they are very nice. Nice basing mix of materials and colours on the Ottomans (Ottomens?).
Particularly versatile are the WWII 6mm on a Martian coloured playing surface. :)
All good stuff and nice looking chaps to boot.
Missed that on the way past! Is that the Chasseurs d'Afrique? I was actually rather proud of them there bases! There's tufts of sere static grass, a mix of coarse Lidl modelling paste & micro cork rocks and my usual sand. Nothing out of this world :P Although as with all the French early war tanks there's something a bit steam-punk/Jules Verne about them...
I wanted to break up the basing on the Ottomans a little, hence the tiny stones - railway ballast. Gives a nice break from sand-grass-sand :)
Ta!
Quote from: toxicpixie on 03 May 2014, 08:54:19 PM
Quote from: Subedai on 01 May 2014, 07:11:55 PM
Particularly versatile are the WWII 6mm on a Martian coloured playing surface. :)
All good stuff and nice looking chaps to boot.
Missed that on the way past! Is that the Chasseurs d'Afrique? I was actually rather proud of them there bases! There's tufts of sere static grass, a mix of coarse Lidl modelling paste & micro cork rocks and my usual sand. Nothing out of this world :P Although as with all the French early war tanks there's something a bit steam-punk/Jules Verne about them...
You should be proud of that basing, definitely looks the part
I think Subedai missed a couple of vital clues in the comments on those 6mm images, 1er Regiment Chasseurs d'
AfriqueTechnically a cavalry formation they were stationed in the Casablanca ...fought their way across
North Africa to Tunis
So they are actually based for Tatoonie in a Galaxy far far away or more likely Tataouine in Tunisia, that the planet was named after ;)
It's surprising how much alien planets look like of bits of earth :D
Anyway, especially for FierceKitty and his desire for Ottomans, a couple of WIPS of the arty I'm working on.
2nd piccy is of when they invaded Australia then?
They were in sore need of a Four x! Posted from the phone it flipped it but if you click to enbiggen it filps the right way :£
I don't desire Ottomans. We're just good friends.
Quote from: toxicpixie on 06 May 2014, 10:16:50 PM
They were in sore need of a Four x! Posted from the phone it flipped it but if you click to enbiggen it filps the right way :£
Not on my machine, it doesn't.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 07 May 2014, 12:32:36 AM
Not on my machine, it doesn't.
Nor mine, and I'm in the southern hemisphere ;D
Are you a great and powerful Oz?
It's not a southern thing, don't flip on mine either.
IanS
No, nor mine. Not even if I stoke the boiler and open the regulator. :(
How odd, it did for me on the phone, but doesn't on my PC. Hang on...
Wait...
Wait...
Here it is!
Bad me, double posting! Anyway, some more WIPs for the Ottomans are up on Facebook. Sipaphi's, command bases, remaining Janissaries. I must confess I've nabbed the flag design form the Tufekci command stand from BucketKnights 2011 painting comp entry - the black & red anarcho-communist design spoke to me :D
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More piccies on Face ache in link, as well as some non-Pendraken stuff! I intended a full set of photos from bade coat to finished article but got carried away being productive!
Good stuff.
Seeing these I wish I had got the command pack when I got my Janissaries , the soup carriers, and the horn / whistle blowers and drummers all look cool.
Quote from: fred 12df on 10 May 2014, 11:12:40 AM
Good stuff.
Seeing these I wish I had got the command pack when I got my Janissaries , the soup carriers, and the horn / whistle blowers and drummers all look cool.
And essential if you want a Mehter to go with them!
I use them for part of my camp. One thing DBR actually did get right was making it important to defend your baggage.
Yeah, they're really nice looking figures - the kettle is really nicely done, esp.! The pack is five foot command groups of fat pasha, drummer, trumpeter, standard bearer, & then the kettle plus bearers. I've gone with a group for each of the four bases of janissaries I have then split the fat pasha out with the kettle for a Battalia command group, and the other three have a "paint conversion" in red for the upcoming Tufekci Battalia.
Cracking on with these is really being helped by posting to the forum - it's encouraging me greatly in getting stuff done! Base these, then there's four eight man Tufikci, three more Sipaphi, two more guns & the cavalry & overall commanders and I'm done. Oh, and some rabble :D
Quote from: OldenBUA on 10 May 2014, 11:29:20 AM
And essential if you want a Mehter to go with them!
I think your youtube link is broken. I'm guessing the Turkic equivalent of an oompa band playing the Janissary equivalent of John Souza marches :)
FierceKitty - yeah, Pike & Shot could do with a touch of that, at least as some sort of scenario rule.
Edit - link just popped up, nice :)
Quote from: FierceKitty on 10 May 2014, 11:30:09 AM
I use them for part of my camp. One thing DBR actually did get right was making it important to defend your baggage.
She can defend herself.
Quote from: Hertsblue on 11 May 2014, 09:14:11 PM
She can defend herself.
But whose going to carry her?!
She doesn't need carrying - restraining, possibly....
Okay, another week, another project. I'll probably finish at least one personal project by the time I die...
This time, some Landsknecht hand gunners & Imperial shorthaftsmen, and the Swiss Pike to run them down.
Either way it goes, someones' about to be in trouble...
Nice work fella! 8)
Look great, to me !
Cheers - Phil
Ta! Basing on the Swiss an edging on both are not done yet, and I'll be popping some flags on when done as well but as test paints I'm rather excited :) Two more Swiss, four landsknecht pike bases to go from the current pile then it's off to the shop for the arty and horse. I'm aiming for a mini 3ft by 2ft base to play on, and make it a "whip it up the club and get a whole game done in an evening" sort of thing :)
This ones very motley I'm afraid - one of the rather nice Amera kits, beautified up by The Better Half of Toxicpixie!
If people feel it a bit rude to post a non-Pendraken auction pop me a note an I'll delete it off, but she's done a cracking job! Might be better in the non-Pendraken section, but thought I'd keep it here in my stuff!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=131196745457
28mm ruined chapel with a variety of scenic effects on. She was a bit nervous about it but it's bloody good, even accounting for bias :)
Quote from: toxicpixie on 22 May 2014, 08:40:02 PM
28mm ruined chapel with a variety of scenic effects on. She was a bit nervous about it but it's bloody good, even accounting for bias :)
Bloody good, even with no bias at all
Very impressive :-bd
The pikeman with the weapon really lowered looks good, but I found him hopelessly impractical when the unit was frontally engaged, and so ended up replacing those figures with others in a more elevated position.
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I'll second that. I have a 15mm pike block with front rank pikes lowered at the charge. Hopelessly impractical - besides being inherently unstable they're a pig to store.
Yeah, I was going to do even deeper bases and sit them back a centimetre or two on them (eg 40*60 deep with the back rank at the back the next three as seen), and I really should had the guts to carry that through. I kind of thought "eh, it'll be alright & looks a bit daft with them when in contact with other troops". And now I try to test them, it's totally impractical. I forsee a very thin sabot!. Which is ok, actually, as I can maybe rest a dice frame on it for hits & a marker for Disorder...
Edit - also, Paulr - thanks! I thought it was good, she's nervous but really good with anything craft like so I had high hopes :D
Just a little something I've had on the desk for a while, finally put the decals on. A Zvesda 1/144th Bf109 for a little AVBCW action with the SCUF and their KGL allies. Might also accompany my SCW Nationalists as well, if needed!
8)
Cheers - Phil
Love to see Renaissance pike blocks. I have tried the deep base for lowered pikes and it works a treat.
Nice!
Ta! I think I'm going to do a sabot base for sure, slip underneath. Might even put a dice frame on for hits :)
Sound idea.
I want to keep the 40mm frontage for club stuff, but also perhaps add a 60mm frontage for so e Impetus stuff (fantasy, as not-Empire :D) and/or as large units, so I might even have a twiddle at two :)
See if I can cut some plasticard and have a fiddle when I get thru my current commissions!
Well, after bash with Impetus Fantasy we're moving off into directions, errr, fantastic... so my recently done Italian Wars Gendarmes & mounted archers have become first victims, sorry testers, for a venture into sabot basing.
My mini's are based on 2mm MDF, and not wanting to make them massively deeper I've decided on some thin plasticard for the sabot; this then has the rough size of the smaller bases marked on top, and sand=pva mix applied to the edges. I then "squidge" the bases about to make sure they fit, let it set, pop some scatter grass on and done. If I'd ordered some dice frames beforehand I'd have added them as well...
The plasticard is too thin for properly picking up the base once there's a dozen figures plus proper bases on top, however it's sturdy enough for pushing around a table top. As it's not intended for storage I can live with that... other issues is that I might used deeper sand/modelling paste on others - whilst the sand is high enough not to look too out place, there's still a definite "lip" on the MDF base. And I need to paint the plasticard around the edges and white bits still, minimise the plastic showing through :D
Anyway - pics!
Well, it appears to work pretty well, and well worth it to play Impetus.
We use them as is couple of weekends ago for a "big battle" Basic Impetus Fantasy. Playing on 40mm bases reminded me just how good full size Inpetus is! Te fantasy version seems to play well, and has enthused us into banging some more armies together as well - the excellent tool box approach has seen us bash out a setting and three airs that enthuse us in a week, and we're now onto the buying figures stage!
Am afraid they're not solely Pendraken, but there'll be a fair few to show here anyway, and it does mean I'll be fleshing out the Italian Wars for a "not-Empire" style army, finishing off the Spring Court Celtic-Fae and sabot basing for that and the Winter-Court Fae as well! So there will be piccies of Pendraken Goodness aplenty.
Excellent stuff. Has the Fae anything to do with 'Lost Girl'?
More Brothers Grimm, Louhi, Wild Hunt, nature red in tooth and claw, eternal cursed winter than anything TV related I'm afraid! Although one of my groups D&D characters is a Satyr with all the carnal fun that a Succubus could only hope for :D
Gensdarmes are lonely without pikemen and guns to back them up! But an attractive start.
It's always very tempting to start with a glamour unit but that's often the inspiration for motivation. The measure of the true grit of a wargamer is to get stuck in to the cannon fodder units to finish an army or project. Have to admit my own Sassanids went on the back burner when it came to the drab levy infantry units.
I find it a morale-booster to begin with something flashy too.
Dross first, elite last, generals last if all (usually).
If I tried that I'd probably give up after the first three battalions of so. But it's a comfort to look up and see a spectacular line of hoplites or eagle warriors or samurai, even if these are to be a minority in your target army (yes, I know you can have an army 100% hoplites, but you'd never take it off the shelf, would you?).
Actually the pike were the main draw for me here - see previous pages with Swiss & Landsknechte blocks, halbards & handgunners! I just needed the gendarmes & cavalry to bulk out for the test fantasy game :D
I must admit i usually sort the interesting bits first then run out of steam for all the filler! The thought of another four pike blocks has slowed me up somewhat...
Right, I'd forgotten those. But you need lots of pikes to make it look like the real thing.
There'll be seven blocks of pike once I'm done, as I'm bath tubbing down. it's three french and four imperialist, but for "cross period" for fantasy they'll likely all be used on one side - and I may add another! Currently three blocks done, only four to go...
There's virtually nothing in a renaissance army that couldn't be used at some point in the Italian wars against any other unit.
It's a great period for switching sides :D Or theatre - quite a few of the troops aren't out of place at the tail end of the WoR, or the Tudor conflicts both internal and external!
Some can even fight on the other side of the Atlantic.
Is that a coded reference to wanting some Aztecs from Pendraken ;)
I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about....But it wouldn't be a bad idea, since you raise the subject.
:D ;D
You never know, stranger things have happened!
Well, hey ain't Aztecs - but they were a lovely quick paint! Sadly not Pendraken, and now gone on eBay - (https://fbcdn-photos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-0/10423842_1455925104657289_3251355761634495559_n.jpg?oh=fd2180c2c922344dca6f4f9213c349b9&oe=5448EE9C&__gda__=1412983459_06cc433ebf8db351bfae9dee6c751bd4)
More on the proper link https://m.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/pb.1375731686009965.-2207520000.1406153349./1455925104657289/?type=1&source=54 (https://m.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/pb.1375731686009965.-2207520000.1406153349./1455925104657289/?type=1&source=54)
There's also some classic Airfix Aussies but their on evilBay ATM not Faceblarg ;)
8)
Cheers - Phil
Very nice!
Ta! They're a dead simple "do a box in couple of days and bang on eBay" technique - undercoat in base colour, pick out webbing, weapon & face, shade and varnish and done! Plus base, I s'pose :)
Works really nicely on the "classic" Airfix figures - these have been quite the nostalgia trip!
I can relate to the word "classic" wrt Haydn or Mozart; but Airfix?! :P Closer to a rapper with a sore throat!
Hey, the moulds are stamped for near forty years ago - that's classic in my book :D
Really must get piccies up from the recent Boys Brigade versus the Fascists AVBCW stuff, but in the meantime here's two 1/72nd PaK38 ATGs I've been working on - currently on eBay for quick paint, quick sale (seller is toxicpixie but I won't link direct as a/ this my painting thread, and b/ they're a bit big for Pendrakens' thrust ;)). Very much in the vein of my last few posts on painting!
Should get those Italian Wars pike finished, I know...
Very nice work, Pixie !
Cheers - Phil
Ta!
I have also done some 10mm samples for a fantasy army for a commision for a friend, but they're not Pendraken either so not great for posting here.
Will deffo get some more Italian Wars and Ottomans done soon, need to use them both :D
Those guns and crew look really good. excellent shading technique.
Yeah, I like it - produces very good looking shading at a very decent investment in time :)
It certainly does. :-bd
Ho-kay, it's actually some old stuff that I've linked to already, but I've just popped on evilBay with some new photo's - some old style Rebs and new style Zouves.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131267208093?ssPageName=STRK:MESCX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1554.l2649
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131267218702?ssPageName=STRK:MESCX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1554.l2649
Listings should be live in within the next ten mins. I experimented with the timed listing tool to try and get both up at same time. I don't think it's been quite successful!
8)
Cheers - Phil
If I didn't already have so many of the blighters, they would make great light order Turcos or zouaves for the FPW. In fact, might still consider a pack to differentiate the Guard Zouaves.
They're really nice figures, DP - so much so that I'm tempted to some for similar reasons if we do move into the mid C18th century European wars that my group is currently becoming convinced are very shiny to game...
Odd to see the uniforms inspired by Europe that were used in the Americas come back to Europe for some real action :D
Indeed, right into 1914!
Awesome pantaloons and a cracking hat will never truly go out of fashion. In fact, I think I should find my pair out the attic!
The only issue with ACW Zouaves is no eagle...
Cracking work btw
Toxicpixie, did you mean mid-C19th or is there an exotic C18th Ottoman uniform I'm unaware of?
Derp, no, I fully mean C19th Dour Puritan! Didn't grip me at all - it was all ACW and Zukus & felt very meh. Then all the postings about the Dranco-Prussian War and Austro-Prussian War and all the smaller conflicts from Denmark to Italy have got us excited :D
Eagles on the standard - it might not survive close scrutiny but a pair of milliput blobs for wings painted gold might do it? Not as good as a proper sculpt but close enough...
You know that small affair in Italy - Solferino is flippin' massive and the Imperial Guard actually get stuck in.
Actually, Italians for same we're partly what tempt me towards the period! Or possibly Danes...
Well apparently there are some new Italian sculpts available.
Dangerous, Dour Puritan, dangerous! I haven't yet finished my last vanity project for the Italian Wars!
In the mean time, a couple of photo's from a recent commision on the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 -
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Looking very good. I have some of those for colourful units in my White Russian army.
They're nice little sculpts - quite animated but not caricatured. The officer is especially good, I don't think his rather fetching moustache comes out well on those shots! Also, I do need better camera skills, they're rather blown up - they look rather better when not in 28mm size shots :D
And very nice they are too!
Nathan has done a lovely paint job on them
I'm just waiting for my package from Pendraken which amongst other things has the mdf bases for them
Alan
Thank Alan, I'm glad you're pleased :D Always a bit nervous sending the end result back out :)
Painted up some "giants", all of 20mm - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1480253388891127.1073741847.1375731686009965&type=1
More Airfix, and more "classic" than "crisp" but nice nostalgia value!
Up on evilBay ATM but if they don't go I might add some Huns and see about some skirmish games!
http://m.ebay.co.uk/sch/toxicpixie/m.html?isRefine=true
Nice painting - much better than those figures deserve!!
I'd forgotten just how horrible the early Airfix support weapons were - perhaps because they never went together and just got lost
Do you find a good market for painted 20mm plastics? I sold a good few sets a number of years ago, none painted particularly well and was surprised at how much some sold for (IIRC £20+)
The support weapons are awful! You wouldn't believe the amount glue sweat and tears went into those... Once painted up & based the figures are a fair bit better than the sculpts suggest. Although I had to pain on detail that just wasn't there on some and I won't mention the flash on others!
20mm plastics - Nappies & WW1 don't seem popular (I thought with the centenary WW1 might be...), but WW2 tends to go quickly. Guns ok, infantry of major nations or exciting units goes well - none of mines gone for silly prices but it's often Comfortable! I've seen some go for ludicrous money - about a dozen Airfix Aussies painted for the western desert for nearly forty quid!
But about a pound a figure isn't unlikely, with all the usual caveats - some one had to want them, there needs to be interest, get the Liston right etc etc.
Been a little quiet on the posting piccies front but I have been doing lots. Not a lot of Pendraken I'm afraid, even if there's been plenty of 10mm (so many Crimean Russians I see them in my sleep :D), but here's the first of a few 'Drakens - they're actually auxiliaries for my (totally not the Teutonic Knights) Dwarven Runic Order (Bear-Knights from Magister Militum, mostly).
https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/np.259938212.566498897/1501526736763792/?type=1&permPage=1 (https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/np.259938212.566498897/1501526736763792/?type=1&permPage=1)
Edit - hmm, meant to drop a preview/image there. The phone is a blunt implement...
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Nice.
I got a bit over eager in the photo department as the base is still drying! Was original going for 15 figures per base, then realised tht looked less "Orc warband" and more "Orc pike block crammed into tiny space" - so now I have four units for the price of two ;)
Like 'em !
Cheers - Phil
Very nice 8)
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Cheers all!
And now a centre piece unit - the Dwarf Rune-Priest with retinue. Cleric in with some hard as nails heavy foot, based for Impetus Fantasy. There's more, which I'll post some point but they're mainly Magister Militum or Copplestones so shan't hijack the Pendraken boards too badly ;)
Authors own collection, we're doing a sort of Northern Crusades-ish Fantasy set up, so I've the Runic Dwarven Order with Crusader mercenaries and Orc subject Auxillia, and we've an Elven Rus/Steppe nomad conquest faction and a full on Prussian pagan Orc faction with orcs, trolls and goblins etc. And likely a remnant Viking winter undead in the works, a Goblin Khanate and possibly Polish themed fantasy actual flying winged hussars and maybe a morphed from my Ottomans Turkish if we wander to the south!
Anyway -
(https://fbcdn-photos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-0/10698649_1508688072714325_1049540404094829479_n.jpg?oh=f1e5292e6b4d38c62bba2be53cfdc794&oe=54DC57E7&__gda__=1423863949_359a0bc15ddceb12dcaae4f7124e0457)
Very nice work!
Ta!
I should add he's a very meaty figure, even more so than the other already very meaty Dwarves - hence no mixing of manufacturers on the same base - the MM dwarves are a bit teeny & slight in comparison...
Again.....Like 'em !
Cheers - Phil
Ta!
Bit of a more illustrated post this time - some Italian Wars hand gunners and crossbow men. Linkee to gallery on Faceache below the sample picture!
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https://m.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/pb.1375731686009965.-2207520000.1415738825./1510085789241220/?type=1&source=42&ref=bookmark (https://m.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/pb.1375731686009965.-2207520000.1415738825./1510085789241220/?type=1&source=42&ref=bookmark)
nice work! :)
Ta! They're all very nice figures - I've found the smaller packs in the Fantasy range really handy for the odd bits and bobs; didn't want thirty hand gunners but ten fitted nicely :D
Very nice indeed, Pixie !
Cheers - Phil.
They're handsome little chaps, Pixie.
Cheers chaps!
Just relaised that as I was on the phone I've posted the mobile link to Faceache - try https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1510087222574410.1073741848.1375731686009965&type=3 (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1510087222574410.1073741848.1375731686009965&type=3) for embiggening the piccies if you haven't worked it out already!
I'll get some of the pike etc when I actually complete them, got a bit carried away and decided to go for larger units for Impetus not Pike & Shotte as originally intended :)
They look really good
Cheers!
Popped a couple of piccies onto the Pendraken website via the Disqus thingy today -
http://www.pendraken.co.uk/FPW37-p5961/ Napoleon III and coach (from the SYW range, very handy!)
And
http://www.pendraken.co.uk/RJ3-p3813/ Some Japanese RJW infantry
Lots of other stuff recently done in 10mm but mostly from other companies, am afraid! I'll get a few into Faceache later/soon and pop a link on though for them as might be interested!
Napoleon & co. Actually took the field for a friend the other week (they were a birthday pressie for him!) Acting as C in C for the Allies in our recent Crimean foray with "Fire & Furia Francese" :)
Really like that picture with the coach. Is the aide on foot the dismounted chasseur I can never get my hands on?
He comes in the Napoleon & aides pack and I don't think he's anywhere else - so quite possibly!
Very nice fella!
Looking good, that man !
Cheers - Phil.
Ta - I keep meanin to go thru the picture album and pop on piccies I've done for anything that doesn't have one. Or I like ;)
On which note, popped a somewhat blurry shot of the Russian infantry for the RJW up!
http://www.pendraken.co.uk/RJ1-p3811/
Cor, I can't believe I haven't posted owt since Xmas!
Just popped a couple of shots of a quickie "micro-project" up on Faceache - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1566764856906646.1073741850.1375731686009965&type=1 (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1566764856906646.1073741850.1375731686009965&type=1)
(https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11073276_1566764630240002_4548272013234415602_n.jpg?oh=18805efd6943a4f3d8dc46a587045121&oe=557836A0)
Warrior Miniatures 15mm ECW, a currently generic pike & shot unit in mostly generic red and buff. The ECW are older Gallia sculpts, and are probably best described as "characterful" or possibly "quaint" or "having an old school charm"; I rather like them as they've painted up quickly and nicely and on price they're probably unbeatable in scale... Approached it as a bit of a mini-break for a couple of hours quick paint in between the hundreds of LoA Williamites and slightly later WSS I've currently got on as commissions, which I must get piccies of that are a bit less on the fly than the WIPs I've fired off to the customers :D
Just to add a note of Pendraken, might I say the LoA sculpts are *superb*, cleaner and better detailed than many larger, if anyone is thinking of going into Williamite era warfare DO IT, they're too pretty to make it a bad choice!
Lovely job Nathan :-bd
The colours really work; top job!!!
Good work fella!
Ta chaps :)
If I find a spare fiver I might do another couple of stands for the foot for the Basic Baroque sized game, or at least a command for a larger "full sized" game. Of course, that fiver might have to fight more gendarmes, landsknecte cannon, dwarves, Macedonians and Greeks in 10mm alone, so :D
You may have persuaded me to do an ECW game tomorrow.
Splendid stuff FierceKitty. there's a lot to be said for the ECW in its various stripes, warts an' all ;)
Quote from: toxicpixie on 28 March 2015, 12:21:59 AM
Splendid stuff FierceKitty. there's a lot to be said for the ECW in its various stripes, warts an' all ;)
Superb minis too!
Can't have too many pointy stick infantry ;)
That's made me realise I've got blokes with exceptionally long pointy sticks from Nestor to Marlborough. I think it might be a theme ;)
Quote from: toxicpixie on 28 March 2015, 12:31:36 AM
That's made me realise I've got blokes with exceptionally long pointy sticks from Nestor to Marlborough. I think it might be a theme ;)
;D ;D ;D
Pointy sticks are the one true path :D
A turnpike road is the approved term.
*groan*
I'm not gonna pay for such fishy puns!
Quote from: toxicpixie on 28 March 2015, 12:59:46 AM
*groan*
I'm not gonna pay for such fishy puns!
Don't worry FK, eel get over it!
(fill in silly icthyoid pun of own choice here)
Those are very nice indeed, Pixie.
Cheers - Phil
Thanks Phil :)
Glad everyone liked!
So tempted by a few more after that :D
Great painting, Pixie. And it's the warts that give the period its character - just ask Noll Cromwell.
Very nice stuff! 8)
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Cheers again all :)
I might forgo a couple of pints at the club this month and order some more ECW figures; your comments an painting those have quite enthused me :D
Quote from: toxicpixie on 28 March 2015, 10:18:44 PM
Cheers again all :)
I might forgo a couple of pints at the club this month and order some more ECW figures; your comments an painting those have quite enthused me :D
Post the piccies when you've done them ;)
I shall!
I must make a concerted effort to get some piccies up of various bits & bobs tbh :)
Quote from: toxicpixie on 29 March 2015, 08:30:09 AM
I shall!
I must make a concerted effort to get some piccies up of various bits & bobs tbh :)
It's a new year's resolution of mine; I am determined to improve my photography and post some pics (need the practise for next year's comp ;) ).
Speaking of which I've just bite the bullet and ordered a tripod for the phone, see if I can take some less awful shots :D
Quote from: getagrip on 29 March 2015, 08:31:59 AM
It's a new year's resolution of mine; I am determined to improve my photography and post some pics (need the practise for next year's comp ;) ).
Just pop some photo's up anyway, Gareth !
We can soon help you knock them 'into shape' if we can see what you're not satisfied with. :)
Bit hypocritical of me, as I only take quick 'snaps' of the masters before I send them off to Leon, to check whether the figures are OK by him.
I just hand hold those shots...So they're never super special.
Cheers - Phil
Quote from: Techno on 29 March 2015, 01:01:25 PM
Just pop some photo's up anyway, Gareth !
We can soon help you knock them 'into shape' if we can see what you're not satisfied with. :)
;)
It is going to happen; work has been...interesting :D
Two weeks off now: woo hoo! :)
Hurrah for Easter hols! Shouldn't it be take up with marking and lesson planing though :D
And sleep...
Quote from: toxicpixie on 29 March 2015, 03:50:20 PM
Hurrah for Easter hols! Shouldn't it be take up with marking and lesson planing though :D
And sleep...
I don't mark during holidays.
I do all my work during the week and don't mark at weekends either.
I might point out I leave my house around 5:30 am everyday :)
As for lesson planning, I'm part of the school's leadership team and only teach a 50% timetable. Coupled with that, I'm a specialist SEN teacher (additional needs) so a good chunk of my time is working with kids / teachers / parents to overcome difficulties.
LOVE my job! :D
That's remarkably well organised, you must be slacking somewhere! 5:30am start? That must be it...
Quote from: toxicpixie on 29 March 2015, 07:40:41 PM
That's remarkably well organised, you must be slacking somewhere! 5:30am start? That must be it...
;D ;D ;D
I don't sleep much!
The
ONLY thing Thatcher and I agree on; 4 hours just about does it. More is a lie in :)
;D
I wish... Although a toddling toddler and a leaky dog mean surprisingly little sleep is found in this household...
Quote from: toxicpixie on 29 March 2015, 11:56:11 PM
;D
I wish... Although a toddling toddler and a leaky dog mean surprisingly little sleep is found in this household...
I think it's called domestic bliss; read it somewhere! :D
I think that might be what they these days call the effects of fatigue poisons and endorphins fuelled by coffee and panic!
Quote from: toxicpixie on 30 March 2015, 12:01:45 AM
I think that might be what they these days call the effects of fatigue poisons and endorphins fuelled by coffee and panic!
Don't drink coffee but that's just about the feeling ;D
Don't let the toddler or the dog drink coffee - simples!
Quote from: Hertsblue on 30 March 2015, 08:53:46 AM
Don't let the toddler or the dog drink coffee - simples!
Can you imagine a toddler on coffee :o :o :o
I've seen Outnumbered, no way is either one getting caffeinated :D
It would take away my precious, precious coffee for a start ;)
Quote from: toxicpixie on 30 March 2015, 09:16:31 AM
I've seen Outnumbered, no way is either one getting caffeinated :D
It would take away my precious, precious coffee for a start ;)
My wife has a similar attachment to the brown bean; she is undoubtedly addicted ;)
Quote from: toxicpixie on 30 March 2015, 09:16:31 AM
I've seen Outnumbered, no way is either one getting caffeinated :D
It would take away my precious, precious coffee for a start ;)
You make it sound like the really expensive stuff that comes out of an elephant's bum....
Quote from: Hertsblue on 30 March 2015, 09:22:38 AM
You make it sound like the really expensive stuff that comes out of an elephant's bum....
Kopi luwak, it's actually a civet's bum. My wife's had that and she says it's worth the money. £8 a cup but, with what I spend on lead, who am I to argue :D
I wish! I've drunk many kinds of coffees of strange stripes, but tbh I just like a good, fresh roast with a good bit of grunt. I'd use Pact but Lidl's is actually very good and about a quarter the price :D
The elephants bum coffee was nice, and Blue Mountain as well, but yeah. The incremental difference isn't worth the exponential price jump ;)
Quote from: FierceKitty on 30 March 2015, 12:47:56 PM
Have you tried therapy?
Yes and they said provided I didn't obsess over silly things like apostrophes I'd probably be okay :D
NHS, was it?
If you got advice even that quasi-rational from a shrink here, you did well.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 30 March 2015, 01:16:19 PM
If you got advice even that quasi-rational from a shrink here, you did well.
;D ;D ;D
That bad is it?
Healthcare is OK, though they're trigger-happy on the antibiotics. But mental disease of any sort has a terrible stigma in most of Asia.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 30 March 2015, 01:21:40 PM
Healthcare is OK, though they're trigger-happy on the antibiotics. But mental disease of any sort has a terrible stigma in most of Asia.
I'd heard that.
I think mental health generally is still in the dark ages in most parts of the world. :(
'fraid so. We're lucky to have this asylum.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 30 March 2015, 01:30:57 PM
'fraid so. We're lucky to have this asylum.
Leon should be knighted for services to humanity. ;)
I'm in the middle of a large amount of King Billy's boys for a commission for a fellow forum member (Sandinista, as you might guess if you've seen his recent LoA thread!), and just polished off the first half of the "British" foot - Danes, Frenchmen, Dutch and the usual Scots & Irish that have formed such a big part of the UKs military might :D
Link to Faceache gallery here - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1572290266354105.1073741851.1375731686009965&type=1 (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1572290266354105.1073741851.1375731686009965&type=1)
And a taster piccy, if I haven't mangled the HTML on the phone -
(https://fbcdn-photos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-0/10014881_1572289389687526_2471869026852971052_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=bde27b38e6f477899796c9636142be94&oe=55999416&__gda__=1437358639_0add427daa647a0f2b834b8357e701d2)
I like the look of those, Pixie !! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Those are nice
Ta!
Much kudos to the sculpter, they paint up lovely ;)
I really must sort my pack of pikemen for stretching my WSS chaps back a little ;) And then avoid buying more of the LoA sculpts to go with them...
Looking forward to seeing these in the flesh so to speak :) look good so far
cheers
Ian
I hope they won't disappoint :D
Smashing artwork there, Nathan! :) :-bd
Cheers - I'm hoping they'll fit right in with Ian's basing, looking at his pics of the other stuff he's got for them to face off with :D
Saw those on Faceache earlier, top work sir!
Cheers! I spotted you'd "liked" them :)
And the infantry in all their glory have a couple of shots here - https://m.facebook.com/toxic.pixie/posts/10153210674333898?ref=m_notif¬if_t=like#!/jtppainting/photos/a.1572290266354105.1073741851.1375731686009965/1584271695155962/?type=1&source=57&ref=m_notif¬if_t=like&__tn__=E (https://m.facebook.com/toxic.pixie/posts/10153210674333898?ref=m_notif¬if_t=like#!/jtppainting/photos/a.1572290266354105.1073741851.1375731686009965/1584271695155962/?type=1&source=57&ref=m_notif¬if_t=like&__tn__=E)
Quote from: toxicpixie on 13 May 2015, 09:16:39 PM
And the infantry in all their glory have a couple of shots here - https://m.facebook.com/toxic.pixie/posts/10153210674333898?ref=m_notif¬if_t=like#!/jtppainting/photos/a.1572290266354105.1073741851.1375731686009965/1584271695155962/?type=1&source=57&ref=m_notif¬if_t=like&__tn__=E (https://m.facebook.com/toxic.pixie/posts/10153210674333898?ref=m_notif¬if_t=like#!/jtppainting/photos/a.1572290266354105.1073741851.1375731686009965/1584271695155962/?type=1&source=57&ref=m_notif¬if_t=like&__tn__=E)
You have been busy
Take care
Andy
And now the arty and cavalry!
Should be a fair bit quicker on them, I hope :)
Cavalry always seems to take ages to finish
Take care
Andy
Well, the first set of arty is on the sticks and undercoated, so that's cracking on :)
Quick little WIP of what's on the desk now the infantry are done!
Look forward to seeing this progress, Pixie. :)
Cheers - Phil.
Hopefully you'll get some good "in action" shots from Sandinista when they're all sorted - especially as his camera skills are better than mine!
They are rather nice. Keep up the good work.
Cheers :)
And now, yet more piccies of guns. Guns, guns, GUNS!
https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1572290266354105.1073741851.1375731686009965/1588132054769926/?type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1572290266354105.1073741851.1375731686009965/1588132054769926/?type=3&theater)
The start of a few pics of finished guns.
And a little earlier heavy metal - https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1510087222574410.1073741848.1375731686009965/1588132488103216/?type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1510087222574410.1073741848.1375731686009965/1588132488103216/?type=3&theater)
I'm trying to bang through a little of my lead mountain whilst I sort the LoA out, just a base here and there so I don't go cross eyed with Williamites ;) It's quite handy, as it focuses the mind on just getting them done! As otherwise with personal stuff I end up arguing myself into and out of colour and style and basing and... There's also a couple of pics of the pike I did previously. Sadly as I switched halfway through from deciding to use Pike & Shotte to using Impetus I've gone from 40mm bases to 80mm, thus meaning a quick, cheap and easy project has gone from 16 figures per pike block, to 64 figures per (at full, front rank plus three supporting depth)...
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/p180x540/11058526_1588132054769926_4012109527379014449_n.jpg?oh=ec6e8bc31d59fb6e1b7e471bb30d0dce&oe=55C5FFEF&__gda__=1443589444_bb76b87e3d7755f6db271eba0ed487c8)
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/p180x540/11209517_1588132504769881_8274743780100263537_n.jpg?oh=a38097ea2bba32114fd668839275cabd&oe=55C80364)
Lovely work! 8)
Seconded !! 8)
Cheers - Phil
Bases need edging on all the Italian Wars stuff, just realised that's horribly obvious on the photo's :D
Great work there! m/
:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
Quote from: toxicpixie on 22 May 2015, 12:30:58 PM
Bases need edging on all the Italian Wars stuff, just realised that's horribly obvious on the photo's :D
Surprising how easy it is to miss the edges ;)
I find it's all to easy to 'miss' something until you take a piccy. X_X
Cheers - Phil
:D
There's always something, isn't there! Somehow you miss one guys face, or the sword hilts or the entire armies base edging :D
Or the fact my painting is c**p! ;)
Having just seen your 1870 French I think you're a bit harsh there ;)
Always room for improvements! ;)
You do also need to know where to stop ;)
No, 64 man pike blocks are definitely the way to go, and having used Impetus for Italian Wars since the rules were first published I can heartily recommend them. Best Italian Wars rules i have ever used in the 40 years I've been playing that period.
I really like Impetus for pointy stick warfare of all kinds, right up to the Italian Wars which it does cover nicely - one of my groups does it in 15mm which is why I decided to "bath tub" it in 10mm, which off has ballooned out...
Btw what do you think about the dopplesoldners? They don't feel quite right as skirmishers who can get blown away on contact, and can wander off at will. We normally use them to screen their pike block but sometimes the temptation to go back down some artillery is very strong ;)
Wot is dis "bathtub", pliss?
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Quote from: FierceKitty on 25 May 2015, 09:47:42 AM
Wot is dis "bathtub", pliss?
It's a term for reducing the size of a game (in this case) so that instead of being a full sized ocean going mega tanker of a campaign you shrink it to something like a toy boat that would fit in a bathtub ;)
Ideally you get all the period flavour and command decisions in a small easily playable space & amount of models.
So instead of Frundsbergs landsknectes at Pavia being five units strong, and the Swiss three etc on an eight foot by six foot board, they're two units and one unit etc on a three by two. Or you size down the Panzer Armee Afrika to a division with a German armoured group, an Italian armoured group and an Italian infantry brigade versus the Eight Army at similar reduction in size.
The. Play over terrain resized but essentially similar in effect to recreate the campaign in miniature. Using miniatures. Miniature. *ahem, sorry carried away there!
Like a real war but shrunk in the wash ;)
And cheers, Andy :)
Thank you. :)
Pleasure! Sometimes it works well an you feel like a mini-Monty or mini-Frundsbergs, others it doesn't. Either just looks/feels daft or the tactical/operational decisions you're modelling just don't work at the reduced size/rules/whatever.
http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/131541168075?nav=SEARCH (http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/131541168075?nav=SEARCH)
Just a little shameless plug - a rather nice piece of terrain as done by the Ms Pixie - she's unimpressed with gaming but does like a bit of DIY scenery!
Must get some piccies of Sandinistas Williamite cavalry, now mostly done!
Cool
Like that !
Cheers - Phil
Ta!
Sadly it's still available if anyone wants to avoid eBay fees ;) In fact, if you've an idea for some scenery or want stuff done she's very handy with the "craft" side. Also very handy at general DIY which is good 'cos I'm not :D
Anyway, less of blowing her trumpet, here's some LoA miscellaneous command from Sandinista's nearly complete commission! Oddly enough, they're blowing their own trumpets ;)
What have you done to that poor defenceless keyboard :o :-&
Looking good, Pixie ! (The figures....Not the keyboard. ;))
Cheers - Phil
Nice looking figures - lucky Sandinista.
The keyboard is fine, it said so. Just don't think the bottle of superglue poised over it as a threat ;)
I think I do to my keyboard with paint what Phil does to himself with the Dremel :D
Cheers - I'm impressed my camera skills and shonky lighting have come out ok tbh - usually my photo's are *terrible*!
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Now Sandinista's LoA is off on its travels, I've knocked up a few bits and bobs - some more stuff for my Italian Wars, early-ish mounted crossbows -
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/p180x540/11694957_1606625026253962_5777591283821224159_n.jpg?oh=2d9f60ef1db6482d9f0fef1b49b37715&oe=5615FA34)
There's a second image in the album, as well - https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting (https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting)
Currently also got some 1/72nd Napoleonic Curaissiers on the bench as well, a simple "block and wash" job that will be off on FleaBay unless anyone at the CLub wants them/I can convince them they want me to paint a Waterloo game for Wargamer come December :D
Very nice work sir! 8)
Ta! I popped a piccy on the website as well, as I'm going to attempt the same for anything I paint that isn't shown... actually, if jchaos is reading - feel free to use any of the piccies for your 10mm catalogue thing, it's handy!
Quote from: mad lemmey on 20 July 2015, 09:28:50 AM
Very nice work sir! 8)
Hear, hear.....Excellent work, Pixie.
Cheers - Phil
:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
Very nice basing but it doesn't blend very well with that base cloth ;)
I know, I should take it back. In my defence I did find it in the garden when we moved here ;)
Been having a somewhat random assortment of stuff on the table now, some 10mm WSS commission, the more personal Italian Wars, some left over Hittites, I've also done some not quite Pendraken scale plastics for Waterloo, seeing as it's the anniversary - and had a play with trying to take better piccies! As opposed to "hope the light is good and bung 'em on the grass in the sun" approach of your, I set them up on a white box flap with some white paper to reflect and tried to take a decent shot. Not exactly professional but a step up on my usual photo skills, I think...
eBay link is here if anyone is interested in 1:72nd French Carabiniers - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131567015449?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131567015449?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649)
Facebook gallery is here - https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1609854995930965.1073741852.1375731686009965/1609855039264294/?type=3&src=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-xtf1%2Ft31.0-8%2F11741307_1609855039264294_6776164112251401635_o.jpg&smallsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-xtp1%2Fv%2Ft1.0-9%2F11822448_1609855039264294_6776164112251401635_n.jpg%3Foh%3Ddeae3142baec76c31fb28cb8671e5b49%26oe%3D56574E46&size=1600%2C1200&fbid=1609855039264294 (https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1609854995930965.1073741852.1375731686009965/1609855039264294/?type=3&src=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-xtf1%2Ft31.0-8%2F11741307_1609855039264294_6776164112251401635_o.jpg&smallsrc=https%3A%2F%2Fscontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-xtp1%2Fv%2Ft1.0-9%2F11822448_1609855039264294_6776164112251401635_n.jpg%3Foh%3Ddeae3142baec76c31fb28cb8671e5b49%26oe%3D56574E46&size=1600%2C1200&fbid=1609855039264294)
Sample piccy - (https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtf1/t31.0-8/11741307_1609855039264294_6776164112251401635_o.jpg)
:-bd =D> :-bd =D>
Nice figures and definitely better pictures :) :-bd
Maybe a touch underexposed due to all the white but that should be easy to sort
Cheers Paul!
Very nice work indeed, Pixie ! :-bd
Cheers - Phil
Ta Phil :)
There's some more Pendraken on the way, as I'm now in the throes of a WSS French army, zut alors!
Love those mounted crossbow - a much better figure than the MM one.
Ta!
They paint up really nicely. Even with only two poses per pack a bit of mixed colours and posing makes them look very individual - whilst you could do "serried ranks" of them as a formed unit quite easily as well.
Must get some for my Da Vinci armies. Interestingly, picked up Wargames Illustrated earlier and it had some nice picccies of 28mm models of Da Vinci tanks and flying machines.
You should even one pack goes a long way!
Big piccies of da Vinci machines you say? Interesting... :)
Turns out the DaVinci models are produced by a Far East company called Academy. However they are available through Amazon.
I think my local model shop has some on the shelf :)
Bit big for my 10mm condotteri, but very decently priced for a 28mm player...
Yes, I am that poor, benighted player who boasts(?) Italian Wars in four scales. Please don't ask why; it happened slowly over a period of thirty years.
Technically I do have suitable stuff in 28mm, if I dig out very old Games Worskhop humans from early Warhammer Empire era figures... Not quite the same, as I don't think they're even undercoated let alone painted even if I could find them :D
Hi
There are some simple paper models of Leonardo's motorbike, submarine, flying machine and tank available from http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/foldeez/leo-bike-foldee (http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/foldeez/leo-bike-foldee) (accessible only from the UK).
Cheers
GrumpyOldMan
Sadly it looks like only his motorbike foldee is left there :(
I'd have had a pop at resizing the tank and 'chopper!
Blimey, 120 days and I have not sinned/posted anything? Bad Nathan, no biscuit!
Anyway, few quick shots of last nights Frostgrave game here -
https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1648660532050411.1073741855.1375731686009965/1648660135383784/?type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1648660532050411.1073741855.1375731686009965/1648660135383784/?type=3&theater)
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/12316188_1648660135383784_8323855051036345675_n.jpg?oh=eb24af2d1396b04f9a8dacc8a8e3fe8d&oe=5719BE1D)
Also, for the Nappies fans have a look at the Napoleonics gallery -
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/12187937_1640075472908917_6805089211821851701_n.jpg?oh=1782a6908b79c8f1fe064ba6e4ba4107&oe=571B9591)
https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1609854995930965.1073741852.1375731686009965/1640075472908917/?type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1609854995930965.1073741852.1375731686009965/1640075472908917/?type=3&theater)
Lovely work, Nathan !
Cheers - Phil
Ta Phil. I'm especially pleased with the coke can mini in the back ground, I think I captured it perfectly.
Note to self, remove all club members and impedimenta from view before taking shots :D
Quote from: toxicpixie on 10 December 2015, 11:29:40 AM
Ta Phil. I'm especially pleased with the coke can mini in the back ground, I think I captured it perfectly.
I think we Moderators may have to start taking a careful look at posted photo's, and watch out for 'product placement.' ;) ;D
Cheers - Phil
Technically mine's ALL product placement, he says avoiding looking at his sig ;)
Nice one!
Like it ! ;D
Cheers - Phil
Well, once again I've left it ages before posting owt! I was going to put some stuff in the painting comp, then realised almost all the 10mm Pendraken I've done has a/ gone overseas now and b/ been based by the customer (BTW Sandinista, I see at some had their first outing! Given they were on both sides, I think from the piccies, I hope they won :D). Then I remembered I DID have some personal stuff I'd done, then failed to photo them, then realised just how good the standard of entries are and bottled :)
So, here's some of the Frostgrave stuff I've been doing instead!
https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/ms.c.eJxFkNsNBDEIAzs6hTf039htsAJS8jMyxpg8XFhM2SlU5UcPFKfSqQbGJlXsUqwL2CrYcoGVHCt6QKVBxgAH0AVtSqtIAHvge3ckZotJr9XxuEm~;kU16~;6cQXnAVWePhCTBbAoocRTLA3JLapiQDcMvmyABYRbRH~_ANFABOscMsZj9L2kB3pgtKnoIKprwKty0vqh66KyhdghAcEFGcA~_jD7A~_~_Pa9I~-.bps.a.1648660532050411.1073741855.1375731686009965/1676323542617443/?type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/ms.c.eJxFkNsNBDEIAzs6hTf039htsAJS8jMyxpg8XFhM2SlU5UcPFKfSqQbGJlXsUqwL2CrYcoGVHCt6QKVBxgAH0AVtSqtIAHvge3ckZotJr9XxuEm~;kU16~;6cQXnAVWePhCTBbAoocRTLA3JLapiQDcMvmyABYRbRH~_ANFABOscMsZj9L2kB3pgtKnoIKprwKty0vqh66KyhdghAcEFGcA~_jD7A~_~_Pa9I~-.bps.a.1648660532050411.1073741855.1375731686009965/1676323542617443/?type=3&theater)
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/12705517_1676323542617443_1450851410543856351_n.jpg?oh=f65e01dab482cd1568ef20385f7825f0&oe=57665C7C)
They're up on eBay now along with some scenery by Ms. Pixie (and other bits and bobs that are probably of less interest to members of the forum!) - sadly I can't keep them :(
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/toxicpixie/m.html?_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/toxicpixie/m.html?_ipg=50&_sop=12&_rdc=1)
Those are very evocative ! ...Like 'em lots ! 8)
Cheers - Phil
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
They are a lovely kit - loads of really nice options and dead easy to put together! I'm really hoping I can squeeze a box of the Gnolls into my personal budget when Breeding Pits is released!
Good work
Those of you with youngsters might recognise the Wizards here. Do ya wanna build a golem, lalalala!
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1679556558960808&id=1375731686009965&set=pb.1375731686009965.-2207520000.1457797945.&source=54 (https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1679556558960808&id=1375731686009965&set=pb.1375731686009965.-2207520000.1457797945.&source=54)
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xla1/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/10446659_1679556558960808_3778143531020594985_n.jpg?oh=c8423bf5076d97ca25a3a62a0f40ec70&oe=575DE521)
Very nice, Nathan.
(But I don't recognise the Wizards. :-[)
Cheers - Phil
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Cheers chaps!
If you're lucky Phil I'll pop a link to YouTube with a few songs on ;)
Just let it go.
Those look good.
Loving the banner m/
Quote from: toxicpixie on 12 March 2016, 05:54:36 PM
If you're lucky Phil I'll pop a link to YouTube with a few songs on ;)
Hmmmm..... :-\....That sounds particularly ominous. ;)
Cheers - Phil
You wouldn't believe what has just come on an advert right as I typed the above!!
Ohh, is that one of the new Hasslefree wizards? Very nice job on those.
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 12 March 2016, 07:52:05 PM
Those look good.
Loving the banner m/
I blame Andrew Eldritch and Pat Morrison :) It's a really evocative image and easy to do, plus very fitting I think :)
Quote from: fred. on 12 March 2016, 09:13:05 PM
You wouldn't believe what has just come on an advert right as I typed the above!!
It's In My braaaaaaiiiiin and I can't get it out!
My wee one loves it, but as far as she's concerned the whole film actually only exists for the five mins that song plays :D
Quote from: mad lemmey on 12 March 2016, 09:14:01 PM
Ohh, is that one of the new Hasslefree wizards? Very nice job on those.
On the promo shot? No, they're two "young female elementalists" from Northstars "official" useful for Frostgrave ranges. Really nice figures and lovely to paint. Although I have a feeling they might be Hasslefree originally, now you mention it, and I just bought them from Northstar...
The two in green on Faceache proper are actual "official" Illusionist and Apprentice :)
Quote from: toxicpixie on 12 March 2016, 09:22:34 PM
It's In My braaaaaaiiiiin and I can't get it out!
My wee one loves it, but as far as she's concerned the whole film actually only exists for the five mins that song plays :D
My little one always looks at those 5 minutes too. I made it easier and just put the clip on a disc ;D ;D ;D
Don't you just get the same five mins on repeat twelve times :D
Quote from: toxicpixie on 12 March 2016, 09:25:03 PM
On the promo shot? No, they're two "young female elementalists" from Northstars "official" useful for Frostgrave ranges. Really nice figures and lovely to paint. Although I have a feeling they might be Hasslefree originally, now you mention it, and I just bought them from Northstar...
The two in green on Faceache proper are actual "official" Illusionist and Apprentice :)
They are in their Fantasy Worlds arrange! ;)
Hasslefree is this creation: http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=resin-master-%252d-apprentice-raisa~hfmaster-h134&category=fantasy-%26%0D%0Asteampunk~%2Anew-fantasy%2A
Who also bears a passing resemblance to a certain fire wizard...
http://northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=7556
These - there may be a resemblance as they may be based on the same idea ;) But Hasslefree's look a bit more adult-ified...
And a few shots of the C19th Italian battle pack I picked Up at WMMS. The bulk is still to go, but that's enough for the Crimea barring a gun! And as I've yet to have an opponent with any troops I shan't hurry the rest. 1859 will come soon enough...
https://facebook.com/jtppainting/albums/1689488814634249 (https://facebook.com/jtppainting/albums/1689488814634249)
Assuming Ofc my phone based editing skills render the link correctly :D
Right, lets try a couple of piccies and links again!
Avanti! Bersigleri light infantry, command base to the fore. Aggressive, confident and probably the best troops the Italians of any state had on offer!
https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/posts/1689488527967611:0 (https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/posts/1689488527967611:0)
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlp1/v/t1.0-9/12932884_1689488527967611_5623274489529947429_n.jpg?oh=702a9c6149d3087261e7e7840fcdf0a2&oe=57B99AD1)
Plenty more images of line infantry and cavalry on the link!
Also, some 28mm goodness - these are on for sale, if anyone's interested in a few "wintery wizards and warriors" :D
https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1691429801106817.1073741860.1375731686009965/1691429821106815/?type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1691429801106817.1073741860.1375731686009965/1691429821106815/?type=3&theater)
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/t31.0-8/12967939_1691429821106815_283433415464562807_o.jpg)
Very nice sir!
Cheers Will :)
I quite fancy the Frostgrave figures for myself but such is not to be!
Well, Ive had a variety of stuff across the desk recently but here's some tiny, tiny chaps - Irregular Mini's 2mm for Bloody Big Battles. I've some much larger stuff to pop up and hopefully two commissions of Pendraken chaps too :D
https://m.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1702243366692127.1073741861.1375731686009965/1702242226692241/?type=3&source=56&ref=m_notif¬if_t=group_activity (https://m.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1702243366692127.1073741861.1375731686009965/1702242226692241/?type=3&source=56&ref=m_notif¬if_t=group_activity)
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/13125024_1702242113358919_7822888286165322294_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=4776ce7fd6b09309d8a48be64935cd48&oe=57E39284)
Looking good
Probably look better with decent camera work ;) I do like those Irregular blocks - they pair up nice and are so quick and cheap to do it's frightening :D
Very nice and a bit of a blast from the past. Reckon I've got a box full of 2mm stashed in a draw somewhere
Very nice work, Pixie...Sorry...Completely missed the earlier ones.
Cheers - Phil
PB - you should dig them out and get cracking, you can have them done in no time flat :)
Cheers, Phil! I like the 2mm as they're actually quite characterful, but the Froatgrave is lovely. And still available if anyone's after a ready made warband...
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Thanks Andy :) I really must pop them on the BBB Yahoo! Group as well :)
And now for something at the other end of the scale, a W40k sized Imperial Knight Titan. Code named "Bryan", he's not the Omnimessiah, he's a very naughty boy!
https://m.facebook.com/jtppainting/albums/1702414990008298/?ref=m_notif (https://m.facebook.com/jtppainting/albums/1702414990008298/?ref=m_notif)
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/13179023_1702414406675023_2349875660841600433_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=bc6738f728f1eaec730622af0944167e&oe=579B976D)
Very nice, indeed, Matey...
How tall is he ?
Cheers - Phil
He's nearly a foot tall, and if you have the version with a carapace mounted weapon a full foot!
Quite an imposing beast.
Dare I ask what it retails for, Nathan ?
Cheers - Phil
Sheesh! It would take me forever to paint that :o
Top stuff!
Quote from: Techno on 07 May 2016, 12:23:35 PM
Dare I ask what it retails for, Nathan ?
Cheers - Phil
I was interested too. I think this is it - costs £85
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Knight-Paladin (https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Knight-Paladin)
Cheers Roy!
It's actually a very nicely done kit, assembles quite pleasantly. I've had worse assembly with fiddly 1/144th Zvesda etc. I'd sort the carapace first before doing the grab bars and stuff if there's a next time. Made attempting to mask straight lines a right sod but I got carried away :D Paintig time wasn't bad once I cracked on, it was decided how much to assemble then mask & paint and what to do on the sprue then stick on and finish that was tricky.
Price is indeed £85 from 'Workshop but I'm told you can get considerably cheaper with some judicious web cruising, an they've also just released a two Knight model boxed fighting game that's on for @£120, which I've seen discounted down to @£90 or so. If you're feeling like a real megalomaniac and need multiple foot tall war machines :D
Great looking 2mm stuff, but that bloody big ladybird looks like it needs DDT applied.
I'm not sure the customer would agree :D
Although to be fair the bigger they are, the more they tend to underperform on the table top so... Now I want an Ork MOB called DDT ;)
;D ;D ;D
I had to google search DDT.
Only use of the term I knew previous to that was for a wrestling move.
(http://orig00.deviantart.net/b06c/f/2010/118/b/6/wrestling_series__ddt_by_lookehereguy.jpg)
That looks painful, not sure Bryan the Titan would stand up to that :D
Nathan - how wide are Irregular 2mm blocks?
Not that I'm interested in getting into 2mm at all - honest
Hah :D
Depends on the block, Alan - the two deep, ten wide are 15mm IIRC, and the three deep, 8 wide are 12mm. The "heavy" cavalry eight wide were about 15mm. Some you can trim the sides off if you really wanted, but I went with 20mm wide bases as that was the smallest size that fitted the largest width of what I'd gone.
I think http://www.tinytintroops.co.uk/Res/2mm/2mm_blocks.htm (http://www.tinytintroops.co.uk/Res/2mm/2mm_blocks.htm) has the best info I've seen available for sizes, AND has piccies of quite a few AND has good descriptions of the blocks :)
Very useful - thanks for that.
Pleasure!
I think someone on the board mentioned it around when I first got interested in using 2mm and I've had it book marked since :D
Thought I had too, but when I came to look for it I couldn't find it. I needed to find that info about the Renaissance dismounted dragoons.
That's normally the way, know exactly where things are until you need them then they disappear :D
There's quite a few multipurpose biases there that could do multiple duty across periods...
Crikey, it's been a while...
THere's some new commission stuff on my FaceAche page from Pendraken forumites (10mm Brit Paras), some 6mm Napoleonics for Blucher, and some thing I should probably have called quits and "let it go" before it got too cold, a 6mm Imagination force for BBB. Link below!
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1758853604364436.1073741865.1375731686009965&type=3r (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1758853604364436.1073741865.1375731686009965&type=3r)
And a teaser shot...
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14462847_1758856651030798_5090510624127597664_n.jpg?oh=223557b0bb506213d836d2d71c628ce2&oe=5879C6FC)
Very tasty ! 8)
Cheers - Phil
Cheers Phil :)
I've some more i the works, paid work permitting - the other half the "regular army" which is a brigade in purple kepi's and short green jackets (the new issue to replace the old green/purple uniform as seen in the historical docu-drama "Frozen", depicting the attempted coup in the winter of 1838), and a "reserve brigade" of Landwehr in motley jackets, trousers and various hats. There's also a couple of stands of "Chassuers Zouve d'Arctic in their baggy, padded trousers and jackets with floppy caps. They're recruited from mainly from ethnic Lapps in the areas ceded by Russia post the Crimean War involvement, and make excellent light infantry.
Now all I need is some opposition...
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Very cool :)
Cheers chaps!
Isn't the obvious enemy, after the Duke's shaming for his involvement in the '38, the forces of the Dukedom of Weaseltown?
Weselton, not weasel! That's tantamount for a war!
Yes, it is - I've got more of the Bacchus ACW in short coats and kepi so I think it'll be them in red coats and dark grey trousers with, Erm, what colour kepi? As tomorrow is Saturday I suspect I'll get some more "research" in...
The aim is Bloody Big Battles at the @500 men per stand level, so Arendelle will have the Royal Guards Brigade of two three stand plus skirmisher stand Regiments (three 500 man battalions plus two companies of the light infantry battalion each) and a gun battery. There's a second stand of skirmishing zouves as well for later periods for each.
Plus the three stand cavalry regiment, with their exciting plumed helmets.
There's then a planned "regular" brigade which is likely the same, two units of four stands incl one skirmisher stand, then a single unit for the Landwehr, likely six plus a skirmish stand and one artillery battery between the lot. Six manouvre units, two guns, probably two commanders.
Given that senior-ish officers were probably involved in mistakenly backing the coup in "38 I suspect the early incarnation of the army is Passive over fear of jumping to disaster but the Royal Guard likely Aggressive as they seem VERY happy to put the boot in once ordered. Regulars as regulars, Landwehr as Raw. Muzzle loading rifles for all, including the arty (just theirs are bigger :D), possibly with muskets for the Landwehr or smooth bores for the second arty battery at least initially. Moving n the usual c19th way through smooth to rifled to breech loaders to repeaters in alarmingly expensively quick time over the period :)
Might lose Passive and Raw go to Regular post experience in the Crimean War and the 1859 "War of Weaseltonian Succession" emboldens and seasons them. As Lord Palmerston said, "Only three men alive understand the question of Weaseltn Succession, one is a reindeer from Arendelle and doesn't speak, one is a melted snowman and the other is me, and I have quite forgotten, oh the drinks have arrived, marvellous, what were we talking about?".
Okay, couple of photo's of the "ragged rabble rising" now up, the 3rd (Landwehr) Brigade of the Army of Arendelle. In BBB terms, probably 6 Raw MLR, with good dice or perhaps A to reflect their fired up "protecting our homes" tenaciousness. Passive still in the '59 War of Weaseltonian Succession (WWS), and perhaps replaced by more regular troops later in the century as Europe rumbles into the unsettled and chaotic times leading WW1.
https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1758853604364436.1073741865.1375731686009965/1760430224206774/?type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.1758853604364436.1073741865.1375731686009965/1760430224206774/?type=3&theater)
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Good stuff, Nathan.
Cheers - Phil
Bit over exposed, sadly - perils of having actual nice weather outside :D
Nice, real militia feel to it 8)
These can't be the figs I put in the post last week, surely?
If so, you're a fast worker.
Cheers
Ry
They are, yes! I'm slipping them in around a couple of larger commissions. Fortunately 6mm and not needing to check any uniform sources is quick :D
Those are great! 8)
Cheers Will :)
As a "personal project", without needing any research or faff, with simple black undercoat > block colour > looks fine at gaming distance painting, and on strips of the same/very similar figure they are astonishingly quick to paint :)
That said as with most anything these days they're potentially up for grabs, but I suspect 6mm prices actually work out a bit expensive unless it's something you really want!
Rising from the dead, ten stories high, my painting thread! My painting thread!
And Godzuki.
*ahem*
Two galleries of Pendraken LoA from odds and spares - Bavarians are done and done, Savoyards need flags and dull cote. No one has commented yet, but I'll see if the observant spot the deliverate mistooks on the Dragoons.
Thanks to d_guy for many spares, Sandinista for flags, B&Q for shade tone.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/jtppainting/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1927109790872149 (https://www.facebook.com/pg/jtppainting/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1927109790872149)
https://www.facebook.com/pg/jtppainting/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1925095644406897 (https://www.facebook.com/pg/jtppainting/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1925095644406897)
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Looks Great
Cheers chaps :)
The Faceache links have several more piccies, if you hadn't clicked through and don't mind looking at them there!
Also, since initial set up of the thread it's been hit by the dreaded apostrophe in the title issue!
Can a mod edit that out if possible, please?!
Great work, nice reference!
Bavarians always look the bees knees.
Cheers again, all :)
And yes, they don't they. Love the flags!
:-bd =D> :-bd
Lovely job! :-bd
@#%$$#! Wacked by the apostrophe yet again!
Nice work, Pixie! (I would +1 Leman but did not want to give the impression I actually understood his complement. :))
Bee's Knee's - top banana! Look the business.
Cheers :)
A kind mod seems to have stripped the apostrophe out the title, but for some reason the reply to puts it back in >_<
I'd promised Leon I'd put these up on the forum and forgot totally! Some French colonials off to fight anywhere around the globe!
Assuming my ability to do the tags on the phone is on the ball :D
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1987783091471485&id=1375731686009965&set=a.1689488814634249.1073741859.1375731686009965&source=54&ref=bookmarks (https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1987783091471485&id=1375731686009965&set=a.1689488814634249.1073741859.1375731686009965&source=54&ref=bookmarks)
Really excellent, Pixie! I really like the dapple greys and the Piedmontese infantry with the anti-tank rifle*
*
OK its not an ATR but a standard bearer, but I liked my first take on it. REMEMBER THE APOSTROPHE
Looking very nice, Nathan. :)
Cheers - Phil.
Cheers chaps!
Bill, it's a pole charge for dealing with Austrian armour ;) I converted them then ofc bought an army pack with real standard bearers!
The " dapple greys" are a thin bodge of white over a black undercoat, so it's not quite patchy but comes up as grey-white-ish. I could have painted them from the period photos in black and white but I'm fairly certain the c19th was actually in colour in real life :D
They are outstanding and they are all mine!!!!
Nathan excelled himself on this commission - Spahis, Chasseurs d Afrique, Foreign Legion and Line Infantry - all beautifully painted
Whilst basing them up I realised that the troops are for the July Monarchy / 2nd Republic period when Eagles were not a la mode so I had to snip them from the flag poles
Alan
I spent seconds, literally seconds dry brushing those eagles! I feel hurt and betrayed, Alan :D
Thanks for the kind words :)
Are you still OK to swap camels for money and Prussians at WMMS?
Very nice indeed
Take Care
Andy
Alan, yes - will swap camels for a pint tbh :)
Barring Mrs Pixie suddenly having a crisis I shall be at WMMS for sure. I hope so, I'm picking up a pack of figures from Leon and swapping you camels!
Inspired by a few nice 28mm's recently, here's some newly uploaded photo's from a commission earlier this year - Otherworlde Kobolds, lovely little figures, bags and bags of character!
https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.2031015883814872.1073741879.1375731686009965/2031016477148146/?type=3&theater (https://www.facebook.com/jtppainting/photos/a.2031015883814872.1073741879.1375731686009965/2031016477148146/?type=3&theater)
With a teaser for those who don't want to click through for Faceache ;)
(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/31870618_2031016480481479_186636841775005696_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=f2302465878a3ace80350118b5cf7d1d&oe=5B5E549F)
I must bag a couple of shots of the current Colonial Sudan and Vietnam GI's as well as the WSS French cavalry I got at WMMS and finished record quick but time is... fleeting... may have a Twilight of the Sun King game in a couple of weeks so will see then if I remember to take piccies!
Very nice indeed
Take care
Andy
Blimey Andy, that was a quick reply :D
They're cracking little mini's, bag full of character. Some commission's you post off and think "job done", others have a tendency to keep flicking through websites afterwards thinking "weeeeeell, I could always paint 'em and stick 'em on ebay, and if they don't go..." ;)
Quote from: toxicpixie on 04 May 2018, 08:57:51 AM
Blimey Andy, that was a quick reply :D
I was just going through my emails :)
Take care
Andy
Those look really good, Nathan !!
Cheers - Phil
Cheers Phil :)
I liked them, could really hear the yapping as I painted :D
Fiendish looking little buggers.
Frighteningly elegant fellows, nicely done. They remind me of the nest of red ants around back.
Cheers chaps :)
Bill, if your ants have spears and shields you're doomed :D
Really cool figures and painting!
Lovely job!
Quote from: toxicpixie on 04 May 2018, 02:16:54 PM
Bill, if your ants have spears and shields you're doomed :D
They might - don't get close enough to tell - particularly once the ritual chanting starts.
Ritual chanting? Maybe they're just sports ball fans :D
Cheers again all!