They feel pretty sturdy, checked them a few hours after they had been glued

German flocking touched up yesterday and bases edged this morning
Should hopefully get them varnished this afternoon

Light Horse horses base coated and started touching up the base coat
Is it just me or do others find they miss areas when base coating?

I sometimes miss bits. I have found the following useful if you use the glue followed by sand method. Once it is dry, to fix the sand in place I mix a little PVA with the first wash (I use yellow ochre). When that's dry I can then apply a normal wash of chocolate brown. This way bits of sand don't come adrift so much when I do the coats of dry brush.

I also miss parts when basecoating figures here and there. I never realy understood why because some spots where very obvious...afterwards. I guess it is because the wet paint shines a bit like the metal so you think it's glistening wet paint but it's actually the metal showing through... Ah well, missing a bit here or there isn't too bad; I patch it up somewhere along the way with a matching color...

For my groundwork I only use fine sand held in place with diluted white glue. I sprinkle the sand on the bases till the metal bases of the figures are just barely covered. Then I use a fine brush or something like that to form the dry sand where nescessary (like making shellholes in my WW-1 scenery). Then I use a seringe with a 'needle' made of some narrow plastic tubing and use it to carefully let the diluted glue drop/run onto the dry sand while applying minimal pressure. The 'needle' makes it easy to get between the figures and let the sand soak nice and evenly. Give it a day or two to dry, and it's ready to paint; no sweat. It's proven to be tough enough for average gaming.

Cheers,
Rob

I meant base coated as in the main colour painted (e.g. brown horse), not coating bases. Apologies for any confusion

I prime by hand so missing bits doesn't really happen.

The base coat was done by hand but still managed to miss some areas for example under the body by the legs...

Varnished the Germans this evening

Sorry, too busy assembling trenches to take any pictures before the light went

I will hopefully get a chance to take pictures tomorrow while the filler is drying in the trenches

I base my figures individually on small lengths of dowel so that I can turn them easily:

That would certainly help

Lovely job, by the way 

After the good progress this morning on the trenches I got a chance to take some pictures of the Germans this afternoon.

The sun was quite low so I was having to use my shadow to block the direct sun, so apologies for the picture quality

Battalion 701





Each battalion of Pasha II had an attached MG company giving them significant firepower

Battalion 702





Battalion 703





Half of MG Company 701 and Pioneer Company 701

Very nice indeed.

Damn fine work, Paul. 
Cheers - Phil

Very nice work.

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy