That starts to look excellent!
Got mine in on Friday morning just before  left for a wargaming weekend with the same friends that are starting 10mm WW-1 now too. So I quickly put some together and took them along and they were all very impressed! Guess I'll be needing some more soon too...

Cheers,
Rob

Quote from: mad lemmey on 10 January 2016, 03:02:12 PM
Hate to upset the applecart, but have you seen Michael's latest?
https://www.facebook.com/1427541787548130/photos/a.1509864919315816.1073741836.1427541787548130/1511613909140917/?type=3

He has already added about 4 new segments since I placed my order just before Christmas
I might have to do another order, once I recover from this one

And doubled the range by doing them all for 20mm based figures as well as the 25mm I needed

Looking great

Take care

Andy

Another two and a half hours last night, touched up the skim

Checked them out before work this morning and they won't need any more touch up

Started cleaning them up where fill has gone 'further than intended', a quick scrap seems to sort out the few that need attention

Busy tonight but hope to paint those areas that need it sand colour tomorrow night

Finally ordered mine this evening

Take care

Andy

I look forward to seeing how they turn out

Quote from: paulr on 12 January 2016, 03:50:10 AM
I look forward to seeing how they turn out

Yeah I've got a couple of ideas so looking forward to doing these.

Take care

Andy

I managed to get more done last night than expected

I finished cleaning up the fill while waiting for my wife to get ready for a belated anniversary dinner

This morning before work I made a good start on painting the sand colour where required, mainly on the segment ends and some edges where there is no filler. I will finish this tonight and hopefully do any second coats, if required, over the darker laser cut areas.

It was interesting how much of a difference painting the dark edges, see above, makes to the look
I will take a picture tonight, cut it fine catching my bus this morning

Before painting the dark edges



After



I finished painting the remaining segments and have done the second coat on those I did this morning, the above has had its second coat

Now waiting for the paint to dry on the rest so I can do their second coat

Love the progress! Can't wait to see them deployed in context of a wargame.  Seen in batches on what looks like a cookie sheet they appear edible 

They will be used in anger for the first time on 31 January, hence the focused progress
There will definitely be some pictures of that demonstration game

Only scrap A4 paper not cookie sheets d_Guy

I finished the second coat last night
And have sprayed them this morning while still calm, hopefully they will look more sandy and less edible

A few sparse clumps of grass should make them a bit less appetising! 

Mollinary

Looking very good indeed

Take care

Andy

Quote from: mollinary on 13 January 2016, 07:06:54 PM
A few sparse clumps of grass should make them a bit less appetising!  

Mollinary

I've been thinking about that

My base cloth is pretty bare and a lot of the areas they will be used in are pretty bare as well; Sinai, Mesopotamia, some parts of Palestine

I'm not sure if I want to leave them plain to blend with the cloth or add dry grass or maybe a wash

Will work on the walls next then can come back to the faces

I'll post some pictures on my base cloth later today

I thought about it as well then added a few clumps.


The Tigris as it is today. But what's it like in January?



So long as you're near a water source of some kind, some clumps will never be inappropriate. And the tendency is to fight over a source of water.