Quote from: jaztez on 07 February 2018, 03:47:44 PM
Ha ha well I'm guessing you use coloured ballast and flock then.

Just so. Sometimes, if the mood strikes, I use two different shades to paint the base then ballast the darker areas and flock the lighter.
My very rapid approach is one color - flock only. I use about a 70/30 PVA/water and brush it on. Once the base is dry - drip more of the diluted PVA on the ballast portions. BTW - glad you took my comment as tongue-in-cheek and not touting a "better" way.

Quote from: jaztez on 07 February 2018, 03:47:44 PM
Been there, did that with army painter basing material, didn't like the resulting single tone brown or how easily it fell off.

So that's why I experimented with a wash and natural tones 

Which is why your rapid way looks WAY better than my rapid way. 

Jaztez,

I read through your blog yesterday and really liked it, wish I had started a specific blog for my 15mm Raphia project.

Interesting on the out come of your painting company and may well use them for one of my Seven Year war armies.

Your basing tute was very interesting, I hate basing.  So for 10mm I just flock, easy, simple and I'm happy with the resukts.

I look forward to your progress.

Quote from: Bunny on 11 February 2018, 08:41:56 AM
Jaztez,

I read through your blog yesterday and really liked it, wish I had started a specific blog for my 15mm Raphia project.

Interesting on the out come of your painting company and may well use them for one of my Seven Year war armies.

Your basing tute was very interesting, I hate basing.  So for 10mm I just flock, easy, simple and I'm happy with the resukts.

I look forward to your progress.

Eagerly awaiting pictures.

Another update....Russian artillery finished.....

http://gnwgaming.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/workbench-russian-artillery-completed.html

Very nice indeed

Take care

Andy

They are really nice. This is a great project.

I just thought, looking back through the posts, the amendments toxicpixie mentions that Last Hussar and myself were using are for Black Powder, not Pike and Shotte (not having played Pike and Shotte I don't know how similar they are).

Very similar, but P&S has separate units for the pike and shot elements.

TBH I think we probably had a bit of a mash up of the two going on, alongside the amendments

Nice guns, Jaztez, you'll have them all on table in no time!

Those are great

A small update on how I'm addressing levels of command for the GNW using Black Powder.

No pics of figs, but they are coming in the next update..honest.  Life....

http://gnwgaming.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/gnw-command-control-using-black-powder.html

Interesting ideas.

The extra commanders don't sound too over-powered. Not sure if they might be too effective if they always end up at the point of the advance - but I suppose that is the point. Perhaps you could limit the intervene order to a double order, not a triple?

A nice little post on rules tweaks. Ages since I played BP, but really should give them another run out...

Quote from: toxicpixie on 23 February 2018, 07:37:47 PM
Very similar, but P&S has separate units for the pike and shot elements.

Not for late 17th century, they have single units with Pike Company special rule (I also use it for ECW)

Cheers
Ian

Quote from: sunjester on 23 February 2018, 05:59:32 PM
They are really nice. This is a great project.

I just thought, looking back through the posts, the amendments toxicpixie mentions that Last Hussar and myself were using are for Black Powder, not Pike and Shotte (not having played Pike and Shotte I don't know how similar they are).

These look really good

Quote from: Sandinista on 28 March 2018, 06:16:30 AM
Not for late 17th century, they have single units with Pike Company special rule (I also use it for ECW)

Cheers
Ian

Yes, that sort of gets disappeared for then - you can get bayonets and pike companies and there's another "pike stand" rule isn't there that's like the Pike Company?

Been a while since we played and tbh I think we may have gone "full tool box" and used the BP amendments and bits of stuff and things from wherever

At last....some photos of figures!

GNW Russian Commanders on the workbench for basing:

http://gnwgaming.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/gnw-russian-commandersfinally-nearly.html

VERY spiffy !!

Great job, that man !

Cheers - Phil

A lovely job on those general, i particularly like Peter. 

Those generals look very good

Take care

Andy

 

Cheers chaps!

And some photos of the whole Russian army competed so far....

http://gnwgaming.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/the-gnw-russian-armyso-far.html