Fred’s 2022 Painting and Gaming Diary

Started by fred., 03 January 2022, 10:00:23 PM

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mmcv

Very nice. I hadn't realised cataloguing live projects had been "a thing", but I've been doing the same myself over the past little while (in line with clearing out my hobby space and trying to organise things a bit better). Must be something in the air.

fred.

Thanks 


if cataloging projects is down to something in the air its a bit worrying, as it started with Nobby, and he's in Runcorn !!
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Basing

Got a right mix of figures based up this afternoon.




These will join a similar number I based a couple of weeks ago, so lots of flocking needed next!
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Cheers Will

Glue dried. So got some dry brushing done. So finally ready for flock

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So the above figures are still waiting to be flocked  :(

But I've been painting another project.

Peninsular Buildings

I picked up a couple more Peninsular buildings when I visited Pendraken at the start of the month. And have now got some paint on all of them, mainly roofs and windows. 



The tile roofs were painted using a mix of 3 GW Contrast paints - which seems to have worked pretty well - the above is a single coat over a very light grey base coat. The 3 colours are Skeleton Horde, Blood Angel Red, Iyadaran Yellow, in a very roughly 3:2:1 ratio. But I did vary the red and yellow to give some variation in roof colours. 

I've got some infantry and cavalry on the go as well



And quite a lot awaiting attention - which is a bit worrying as this was meant to be a small skirmish project. But its too easy to add another bag of figures which gives another unit or two. 

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paulr

Wot mmcv sed :)

Quote...
And quite a lot awaiting attention - which is a bit worrying as this was meant to be a small skirmish project. But its too easy to add another bag of figures which gives another unit or two.
...
My recent Indian order suffered a bit of creep as well ;)
As I worked through my planning the number of figures only ever went up ;D
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QuoteThose buildings really look the part
Thanks. I'm pleased with how they have come out for fairly low effort 



QuoteWot mmcv sed :)
My recent Indian order suffered a bit of creep as well ;)
As I worked through my planning the number of figures only ever went up ;D
You do have a bit more of an excuse when the figures have to travel to the other side of the world!
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Not entirely sure where all of the last 6 weeks has gone! The last few weeks were a trip overseas, followed by Covid, but that leaves a gap at the start of August...

Basing

Finally got these figures finished - its taken a while to get them through all the stages.

The whole random lot!


28mm Japanese Marines and Sailors



These are for Boxer Rebellion era games, the sailors were bought painted and have just had a bit of a tidy up and a rebase.

Epic Scale Tyranids and Squats



Giant stompy Tyranid bio-titans, and tiny Squat mole mortars

10mm Landsknechts and Feudal Japanese




Finally some 10mm Warmonger Miniatures Landsknechts painted as Black Band. At the back left some Samurai era Japanese peasants with bows, and to the right some Scots for the ECW
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I like that you've matched the Biotitans to the Landsknectes, so they form a coherent force :D

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Steve J

Great work there and such a mix of different projects too 8) .

fred.

Thanks all. Good to get these finished!

'Eclectic' is a good word - 'too many projects' is probably also true. There are just too many interesting periods and figures and rules. Even if I get all the different projects painted, getting them on the table is a challenge.


QuoteI like that you've matched the Biotitans to the Landsknectes, so they form a coherent force :D
An interesting observation, and one I'd not spotted myself, I think of the Tyranids as Red and White, whilst the Landsknechts are Red and Black. Of course both are Red, Black and White. I think some of not thinking of them together perhaps indicates the artificial rails we put around subjects, even ones as broad as Fantasy or Sci-Fi. To me adding a dragon or some Ogres to the Landsknechts would seem fine, but adding a bio-titan seems wrong - I'm not entirely sure why. I've seen WWII tanks painted up in totally novel paint schemes for use in an imaginary game setting - and this to me is quite jarring. 
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