Work has been <bleeping> tiring this week. Hopefully that will turn around tomorrow, as we have a couple new staff joining us. In the meantime, I've only got bits and pieces done, but they are usefully inspiring nonetheless:
- Basecoated my Citadel hills in white. Will finish them in speedpaint green, brown and grey.
- Received and read much of Talking Miniatures:
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A remarkably good oral history of Games Workshop.
I'm serious. It's worth the money. |
- Started on my bit of the Hastings960 project:
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| Three sheets of Saxon Fyrd (300 figures). |
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| Trimmed. |
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| Frames separated... |
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| ... and folded. |
Next is gluing them all - then cutting with my new Beaditive and Fiskars scissors.
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This is a test strip on 80gsm paper rather than the
requested 120gsm. If you see a green tinge, it's because
I experimented with a speedpaint marker on the edges. |
- Tested a speedpaint marker on a couple Reaper Bones orcs (no good pics).
- Finally, a treat - my talented brother has made some progress on the LDV I sent him. Here's the first Scottish militia!
He was a bit disappointed, but hey, I'm not going to look a (beautiful) gift horse in the mouth here. I'll take what he gives me and work with it. The guys in caps could be Scottish BUF, or Republican militia who couldn't find tams. VBCW offers plenty of explanations!
All in all, a productive week for him, not so much for me, but still - making progress!
Happy Solstice, Merry Yule, or whatever you celebrate. Life gets brighter from today (in the northern hemisphere, anyway). See you around.
My intent was to have only the guys in tam-o-shanters be in Scottish Republican grey, with the other twenty being more generic, but my brief confused my brother who has never painted historicals before. Part of the problem may have been a picture that scanned fuzzy.
The militia figure looks fantastic.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas to you and yours.
Thanks! Happy holidays to you as well.
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