A Tale of Four Gamers - the Sequel

Started by Steve J, 23 November 2016, 10:00:39 PM

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Duke Speedy of Leighton

Lots of progress on Picts, including all the 'not-plaid' and shields. Just bronze work, corrections, basing and standards to do. Romans similar (apart from shields)!
Thought I might need this lot for Thursday, but looks like my opponent wants to try ECW instead. ;D
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
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Steve J

Sod all done for a few days courtesy of a virus that my wife caught at school :(

Steve J

Finally feeling better and as a result able to at last finish the static grass on my Fallschirmjager bases :). Next up some Imagi-Nations Ancients.

Duke Speedy of Leighton

Velites and Picts done, apart from varnish and basing. Just need to make a descission on Hastatii shields and they are good to go too...
Just need warm/dry enough conditions to varnish.
These will get based at the same time as the next batch of epic which are getting tested next week.
Brace yourselves for many, many photos.
Then two weeks of Xmas painting to add. ;)
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
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Duke Speedy of Leighton

Varnish cheekily done, just enough heat/daylight to get it done!  #:-S
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
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Steve J

Some basic clean up on elephants to get the howdahs to fit nicely, talk less of the crew, due to tool wear.

Duke Speedy of Leighton

Works do. Great food and nice company.
Designated driver, so stone cold sober.
Left when the singer covering Mowtown soul (badly) started murdering slow Stevie Wonder hits, should have been good dancing music, but this lass made Vic Reaves 'club singer' appear talented!
Normally Stevie is a great choice, but I just called to say I love you done badly is an awful, awful thing! Quite killed the evening.
Home, many, many bases sand and pva'd.
That's better.
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
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Duke Speedy of Leighton

Bases inked.
Two land raiders and four whirlwind tanks for epic base coated and inked
Hastati shields painted and named and cohort added, as per suggestions. Shield Designs started but my 0.1mm black pen has died. Hopefully pick up a replacement tomorrow or Monday.
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
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Norm

I have been doing the dreaded rebasing thing!

My 12mm Kallistra ACW come with 40mm x 20mm bases. Two side by side are ideal for my 100mm Kallistra hexes, but I have recently been bitten by the bug to go to large bases. So I picked up some 80 x 30mm bases from Minibits and broke up 12 of my smaller bases.

At the same time, I also ordered some 30mm x 20m from Leon, with a view to basing 3 bases to a unit, giving a total frontage of 90mm. This would still fit in with my 100mm hex, but had the advantage for my Pendraken napoleonics that as well as line, march column would look good and for attack column, I could throw in an extra bases for a 2 x 2 arrangement. So I broke down another 4 bases to make them up.

Now, after including these new bases in a few of my games, I felt that;

Big bases -
Advantages - Fast to move and looked nice.

Disadvantages - road movement looked daft and was not intuitive to manage.. I like to pull two bases appart toshow skirmish formation or put them in a slight 'V' to show disorder, that can no longer be done and on hills or in building complexes, the units invariably had to sit with one end of the base up in the air, while smaller bases can wrap over contours and fit around buildings better.

Smaller bases -
Advantages, looked very good in march column and was just generally better able to reflect various formations or conditions such as disordered or shaken, without revering to markers.

Disavdantages - To reflect Attack Column, which is a major Napoleonic formation, I needed to create a 4th base and even for line. For line, adding a 3rd base increases handling of units by 50% and for those in Attack Column by 100%. Not much there and then, but over the course of a full game it is significant, especially for bad back sufferers.

So, I have returned all bases back to their former 40mm compromise, which works well. I hadmade the new bases permanent to get a true idea of how they would look and manage, so they were all flocked, sanded and filled etc, to the rebasing twice just to get back to my original position has been indeed tedious and hard  on the finger-tips.

d_Guy

I can only smile, Norm.
Each time I rebase I am sure it is for the last time!  :)
Encumbered by Idjits, we pressed on

Westmarcher

 :D

I have re-based my ACW stuff twice and my SYW stuff four times!  #-o

Each to their own. I couldn't live with the "disadvantages" of big bases as outlined by you above either and now happily have all on 1" or 25mm magnetised square bases with 4 bases to a unit and should I require big bases in future, I shall simply place them on steel paper sabots à la d-guy's bases.

Trouble is, my original SYW bases were flocked with green scatter and as I re-based and built up the collection, I continued doing this even though I had since "graduated" to bases flocked with static grass with my ACW collection. As my supply of green scatter has all but run out now, and I continue to expand my SYW collection (4 mounted officers, 2 howitzers with crews and 3 limbers recently), I have now started using static grass for my SYW stuff also. It looks good. So good, that I am now contemplating applying static grass on top of the green scatter of the bases of all my other SYW units.

I have tested this on a spare base (a cadre of a Reichsarmee unit which I may expand into a full battalion in future) and it looks good (if I was any good a posting pictures, I would post a before and after pic, but I'm rubbish at it! I suppose I could send it to someone by e-mail if they think they could post it for me?) Anyhoo, before I embark on such a venture (folly?), I wonder how long lasting such a course of action will be. Will the static grass hold in the long term? Has anyone done this before?
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Duke Speedy of Leighton

Bases dry brushed, highlighted, detailed, edged and pva sealed.
Epic whirlwinds and land raiders dry brushed and detailed, to be finished off tomorrow.
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
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Duke Speedy of Leighton

40 principes reassembled (didn't like how I had them first time) and the base coated and inked.
40 more assembled, ready for undercoating.
Not bad morning really!
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
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Steve J

Another bl**dy cold putting pay to all gaming related activity :'( :'( :'(

Duke Speedy of Leighton

And they are all now highlighted, apart from bronze work, and then wood and leather work to do, then shield designs...
Not particularly happy with the blue on one shield.
You may refer to me as: Your Grace, Duke Speedy of Leighton.
2016 Pendraken Painting Competion Participation Prize  (Lucky Dip Catagory) Winner