Beveled edges of hedge bases and painted first side

Metal work highlighted 

Bags and 'apostles' done

Skin and hair base coated

Bases and sabots labelled

Second side of the hedge bases painted

Finished painting the current batch
Wash, final dry brush and figure bases tomorrow

Checked for any touch ups needed and found a few, done
Realised I'd missed the stirrups Done
Wash delayed till this evening

Sorted next batch ready for the painting rods

Washed yesterday evening

Final dry brush and figure bases painted this morning

Yesterday hedges glued to bases and later soaked with diluted PVA, highlighted this morning

Current batch sorted ready for basing as soon as the paint was dry enough
This freed up the painting rods for the next batch

These have now been undercoated before the forecast showers and strong northerlies

Current batch still waiting to be based

Hedges flocked

Next batch:

• armour based coated and dry brushed
• buff coats base coated and dry brushed

Current batch based

Next batch, half the jackets base coated

Flock touched up on the current batch and the hedges

I heard back from the organisers of the NZ Nationals in Kapiti at Easter, there is room for the Battle of Cheriton

Wow! That's a big hall!

Quote from: fsn on 16 January 2019, 08:20:03 AM
Wow! That's a big hall!

Don't be silly. They'll do it in the garden.

 

Flags added to the current batch and edges done

Current batch and hedges varnished

Next batch, remaining jackets base coated

Colonel William Eure's Dragoons









Sir George Lisle & Colonel William Eure's Regiments of Foot





Sir William Balfour's Lifeguard





Sir John Meldrum's Regiment of Horse

'English' Painted and based
    805 Foot
    352 Mounted
      15 Guns
1,172 Total

Dearie, dearie me.

With the number of figures that you paint, Paul.......I'd have thought you'd have got a clue how to do it properly, by now ! 

They are superb.....I really am astonished how you keep up such a wonderful standard, and paint and base them so quickly.


Well done, Matey !!

Cheers - Phil

Outstanding as always! 

I'm guessing you're adding a new pole to the foot standard bearers to fit the flags? Don't think flags that size will fit on the standard model.

Quote from: Techno on 17 January 2019, 07:10:08 AM
They are superb.....I really am astonished how you keep up such a wonderful standard, and paint and base them so quickly.

Maybe Paul just can't wait to get started on some of my Highlanders in tartan plaids      

The main reason for the big push to finish these is actually because Paul had confirmed with the NZ Nationals organisers that they have enough table space for us to play Cheriton at Easter which are being held in Paraparaumu, about an hour north of Wellington.

Plaids are always tartan, aren't they? Just cloaks otherwise (I speak open to correction by true Caledonians).

Speaking as a born and bred Scotsman, I don't know .... 

I've very rarely worn tartan (in fact, the only time I've worn the kilt was recently at my daughter's wedding!) but, given that official clan tartans are reckoned in some quarters to be largely an 18th/19th Century invention courtesy of an enterprising kilt maker,* I tend to regard "plaid" as a chequered pattern and so not necessarily a 'recognised'** tartan.

A cloak is a cloak, I suppose, whether it is a red one, a blue one, a plaid one, etc. 

* but did he get many of his ideas from local weavers who just happened to ply their trade in their own clan areas and therefore their patterns became the local fashion or 'clan tartan?'
** (and the debate goes on..) but what is a 'recognised' tartan? I didn't wear my clan tartan at the wedding and, instead, wore one of the modern patterns (can't remember the name, but it was very fetching. ).

I'm guessing you're a lowlander, though I know that's a terrible accusation.