I finished painting the 6mm ACW last night, varnished them and glued them onto their bases. Today I've been doing the basing using Ian's method. I switched the Sandtex "bitter chocolate" for B&Q "Cocoa". With hindsight, I might have pooled the paint too thickly and I also might have left the base covered with sand for too long before tapping off the excess - it took a very long time for them to dry to the point where I could dry-brush the texture. After I've posted this I'll be flocking the bases and adding the flags.
While the bases were drying, I took the opportunity to do some other things. Firstly some essential brush cleaning. Then I sorted out my 15mm NSL panzer grenadiers and glued them onto bases. As the ACW bases still weren't dry I decided to assemble and base the 15mm NSL power armour troops as well. Very fiddly, resulting in much swearing and sticking-together of fingers.
Simon and I have opted to use multi-figure basing for Gruntz as it speeds up play with larger forces. Basic grunt squads are on rectangular bases; squad attachments (other than SAWs) are on 20mm hexes; specialists are on 30mm hexes; heavy weapons and small vehicles are on 40mm hexes; leaders are on 40mm octagons.
Panzer grenadier squads; squad attachments and leaders |
More panzer grenadiers and specialists |
Heavy weapons; fan bikes; more specialists |
The power armour troops |
So, this week I will be priming these before moving on to painting some more ACW up. I'll be sticking with the Union for the moment. One thing I will need to do is to order some more flag sheets from Baccus.
In Arnold´s immortal words: "I´ll be back!" - I´m really looking forward to see the final result! :D
ReplyDeleteThat's a lot of points in waiting for the 15mm
ReplyDeleteI just pour the sand on and tip off straight away so that the paint seeps through turning the base more brown and I think that would speed up drying time. I usually leave overnight but if done in the morning is ready to drybrush the sand that evening
Ian
They are looking good. I will re-paint and re-base my ACW after the challenge thanks to you.
ReplyDeleteRe Gangsters: I will probably go 20mm elheim figures.
Lovely work on the ACW and look at all those shinies!
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