Looking good, can't wait to see them based I am sure they will look AWESOME 

Thanks chaps. Been doing Dad taxi stuff so far this evening - might get a bit of painting in later.

Managed to get a few more details done, and get these chaps stuck on bases - still waiting for the glue to dry, so lots of white in the background, which doesn't help with iPhone photos

Don't they look all mutts nads-iified. Nice and bright and everything.

MickS

Superb

Lovely work, Forbes. 

Cheers - Phil

Great stuff

Thank you!

They do seem to have come together nicely. I'll remember to think about bright colours more on future units.

They look fantastic 

Quote from: fred. on 19 May 2016, 09:42:38 PM
Not much painting tonight.



Gave the Renaissance troops a brown wash - including the more sandy bases.

Also tried to paint the canopy lines of the Squat helicopters - with not the best results - so might need to touch them up. Not totally sure what to do with the rotor blades. Had initially thought to leave them black - but not sure if that looks a bit dull.

Hi,

Sorry I know I am very late in making comment to this but thought I could help with this post for your Squat copters.  For small scale aircraft canopies like yours I do the following:

1.  paint the glass as needed.
2.  using white glue/paper glu add a bit of water say a 90/10% white glue/water mix and then paint this over the glass.  let it dry.
3.  paint the frame, canopy lines.
4.  using a sharp object, needle nose tweezers, pin, needle, pointed blade lift the edge of the dried white glue and then with tweezers peel off in one go.
5.  white glue won't (shouldn't) lift your previously painted glass.

I used this technique on my 1/144th scale aircraft, helicopters.

Cheers,

Scott

Out of interest Fred, for which rules system have you based up the renaissance figures, and what size are the bases?

Thanks Scott that's a top tip - I will try it on the other 8.

Quote from: Leman on 09 June 2016, 01:44:15 PM
Out of interest Fred, for which rules system have you based up the renaissance figures, and what size are the bases?

They are based for Irregular Wars which is probably best described as small battle rules, with each based representing a company of men, and around a dozen bases to a force. It has a large number of random factors, especially in the game setup, and gives a good game.

May stuff is based on 40x40mm squares, but the rules are base width style, so any square base will work. We used 2" as a base width to keep the measuring and multiplying simple.

Thanks, sounds interesting.

They are good rules - we were hoping they would work for big battles - but didn't scale up that much. But for what they are aimed at they are great.

If you are interested we could try to meet up for a game, as we are virtually next door to each other!

Indeed, Formby and Southport only about 5 miles apart. I will be on the Liverpool Wargames Club stand at Phalanx next week.