10mm Naps & 15mm Sci-Fi

I painted some stuff.

Firstly, I dragged the 10mm Redline Miniatures Napoleonics out of the lead pile and finished some more of them. Despite the fact they look excellent, I'm never going to play wargames with them, so they went on eBay.

Underneath them in the pile were some 15mm GZG USNC Hardsuit Marines of the space man variety. Fellow geek Pete had bought them for me a while back (at Triples I think) as he's intent on playing Laserburn with the damn things.

As everyone of my age knows, real space soldiers don't wear camo - they wear grubby orange environment suits, and their armour always looks like glossy white plastic. Jim Burns is primarily to blame for this.

After this photo I gloss varnished the white bits. Despite being a quick and dirty paint job, I'm very happy with how they've come out. Eagle-eyed readers will note I went for the truly old school effect of using PVA and sand on the bases, with the obligatory contraction showing the outline of the figure's base on some of them.

Also on the bench are three SLM Hedgehog spear teams, and some Conquest metal Norman command - of which the horses are near enough complete.

More soon, especially since I'm now looking for a suitable grav tank for the space soldiers.

From The Vault II

Some say that I'm just filling space by dredging the vault for 'previously, on the Tangent', and they'd be partially right. I am gainfully employed again, as of Tuesday 10th, a situation which has existed for about a fortnight. Consequently, I've done the square root of absolutely nothing - the BAM Paratroopers are no longer being sold, so normal painting pace has resumed.

I did buy some 28mm scale bricks - made out of real brick - to base them in an Arnhem theme. Worked okay, but rather expensive, all things considered. If the sunlight holds tomorrow I'll photo the first test. The camera isn't really working on any level these days, so might end up deferring again.

Meanwhile, here's a full 8 man section of BEF Miniatures 1940 British Infantry. I painted these for display for the then owner of BEF - a very good mate of mine. Whether they ever made it into the display cabinet I'm not sure.



Warlord bought BEF, primarily for the vehicles - so not sure whether they're still available.

Here's a Heresy Miniatures sci-fi Ganger with bazooka. Rushed him a bit for a game of Flying Lead a couple of years ago. I love the Heresy style, and I'm tempted to get some of their Sci-Fi troopers Andy's just released.

Splintered Light painting WIP

A big pile of painting WIP, all Splintered Light, all brilliant sculpts/casts. Just to prove that sometimes I do get the brushes out. Note these photos were taken outdoors on a bright sunny day, in the shade. My camera is completely stuffed.

I also, somehow, managed to order a Beastlands warband (Satyrs, Fauns & Minotaurs) from SLM, so will need to reduce the lead pile a bit before they arrive

First elements of my Dwarven warband for SSL. For non-uniform units, I tend to batch paint things these days in fairly identical little groups... once the warband is complete it gives a good overall impression of variety


Second elements - a little further behind.


Mr Toad, possibly resident of Toad Hall. Because he's awesome. Rest of the not-Willows gang on the table too.


A little band of Otters which I'm slowly building up. These guys all come with the original Faithful boxed set, and I've got six Otter Rogues to go with them


Rebels/Flowering foxes with wolverine. These belong to my friend who almost never paints, so wanting to battle against painted toy soldiers, I'm working through his boxed set. Also got some supplementary Fox warriors to go with them.


Lastly, the brilliant Fire Dragon, which was intercepted and claimed, then subsequently painted by my 4yr old daughter. She's got drybrushing to learn next. Proof that the Camera is smegged - right wing is bright green, left is vermillion. Camera says otherwise.

Dwarf Shield

Rather happy with the back of the RBG Dwarf I've been working on.



All freehand - looks awesome on the miniature (i.e. without Macro)

That is all.

:)

On the painting table

After all the words of the SSL Battle Report (and all the other wordy bits I've been posting), I thought it would be nice to demonstrate some more colouring in, wargaming, for the purposes of.

So, here's some of the current WIP.

First up is the Musketeer Miniatures early Saxons. Bill Thornhill's sculpting - bloody lovely, way above what one would reasonably expect for figures which are basically aimed at the WAB market. I've got rather a lot of these, and very slowly working through them. Great figures to paint, although I've learnt the hard way about the steel spears. One day I'll finish all 140 of them and get a Romano-British from Musketeer army to play against.


Cyning/Atheling, and his Champion - the General, basically


Armoured Cavalry - a points sink, but pretty.


Geoguth Command - veteran warriors.

Also on the table are Red Box Games adventurers.

Veteran Dwarf type... Accident with the brown ink means I'll have to redo his hands. The green came out really chalky too.


Elf Archer - really struggled with her, specifically the colour of the boots. Camera doesn't show it under this light, but the cloak is fully highlighted, as is her face.


A Njorn - again, struggling to get the palette right on this one.

Lastly we have some Splintered Light Miniatures Druid's Children Rebels - these are my mate's figures from the Batrep below. I've got fed up with playing against unpainted figs, so I've put some paint on them for him over the last two days.


A Pine Marten, and three Foxes.

Alongside this lot there is around a dozen 15mm Splintered Light Saxons, the rest of the SLM warband, a dirty great 15mm Samurai army, two 28mm Cromwell tanks, eight more commissioned tanks, etc etc.