Tuesday 30 July 2019

Just Deserts

Melissa and Rosa are away for a few days with family, so I'm powering my way through some painting (or attempting to).  The last few evenings have been dedicated to some more of the Warlord Games giveaway sprues, and the desert war in particular.

Brits first.  Assembly was pretty easy.  Rather nicely, the sprue seems to contain the parts to produce some pretty good copies of the old airfix models.  Couldn't resist doing at least one, can you guess which?










Next, Afrika Korp.  I actually constructed these first but painted them second (no idea why).  Again, it's possible to do a pretty good copy of the old Airfix soldiers.  The grenadier is a bit of an homage!  I was struggling to work out how to get that strange pale green for the uniforms, but then doing the packs and webbing for the 8th army, using the GW camo shade over khaki and Green Grey I figured it out!












Monday 22 July 2019

Definitely not starting a new period!

Wargames Illustrated have been giving away assorted sprues from Warlord Games in the last few issues, as a result of which I seem to have a collection of models outside of my normal interests.  That's fine by me, as it gives me some different challenges in painting.

Over the weekend the missus and the little miniature were away at her sisters, so attention turned to some of those sprues.  A frantic few hours were spent gluing 8th Army and Afrika Korps, but it was a bunch of Warlord Games Crimean Russians that made it to the painting table First.

These come six to a sprue, with assembly limited to choosing and glueing heads.  They're all in similar marching poses with muskets on their shoulders.  I'm no expert in the period, so just used the painting guide that had been published in WI, so apologies in advance to any experts out there.





On the whole, pretty nice models to paint - nicely sculpted details without being too fussy.  Made a nice change and it was fun interpreting the colours with what I had available (coats were GW Zhandri Dust base, with agrax earthshade and VJ German Camo beige highlight).

Here they are pre-highlight (as of Sunday Night).

It's convinced me that I just couldn't get into the horse and musket era though.  Painting six was an interesting change, but the idea of painting whole regiments of these is just terrifying!  I've done my time doing whole regiments playing Warhammer, and even with my Empire army I usually got a bit of a chance to vary the colours etc.  Especially the straps - I loathe painting white at the best of times, and it really shows up any errors!  I ended up having to tidy up the paintjob with a repeat of the buff base where the white had got out of control.

Having no long term use for these, they'll probably end up on ebay.  I won't be basing them just in case.

Sunday 14 July 2019

A Small Dwarf Army (is there any other kind?)

First things first - Apologies to anyone reading that that I've not been commenting on your blogs.  Had IT problems for a while with the laptop then, when fixed, it got claimed by my other half for the photography course she's doing!  I have been reading and trying to keep up with blogs on the phone and tablet, but they're a pain to comment through.  I'm trying to catch up now so sorry if you're suddenly getting comments on multiple posts!

Anyway, on to the post.  I finished these a while back, but have only just got around to posting.  I finally got around to finishing all the basing for the Grenadier Dwarves, and (sort of) sorting them into units.

 Family photo

Household Guard (with big choppers) 

Crossbows 

Characters and Leaders 

Warriors 

Scouts

Need to do some work on a few more orcs as opposition.