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A mythical beast - a female wargamer! I got back into wargaming in the summer of 2011 after a very, very long break and haven't looked back since. I must admit that I seem to be more of a painter/collector than a gamer, but do hope to correct that at some point in the near future. My gaming interests span the ages, from the "Biblical" era all the way through to the far future. I enjoy games of all sizes, from a handful of figures up to major battles (see my megalomaniacally sized Choson Korean and Russian Seven Years War armies).

Monday 2 October 2017

Sunday Workbench 01 October

Yesterday saw me priming all the prepped figures from my last post over two airbrush sessions. I also finished the Ming spear & dao unit today - I'll be doing a "finished" post tomorrow for those.

Well, here's what I've got primed and waiting in the wings for the Ming Chinese and Choson Koreans:


Choson Korean Infantry

These will be for the pike bases - I'm still waiting for the second pack of 24 I ordered a couple of weeks ago. I might make a start on them once I've painted a couple more Ming units.


Ming Chinese

Back to front: Generals; two 6-base spear & crossbow units; one 6-base armoured spear& dao unit (medium or heavy foot); one 6-base spear & bow unit.
Alongside: 9 Ming horse archers to add three bases to the "red hats" base I paitned last week to give a 4-base unit for FoGR. I have two more packs on back-order which will eventually take the "blue hats" and "green hats" up to 4-base units.


Back to front: spare command figures; two sticks of spear & bow/crossbow/handgun front rank figures (I will need to order a pack of bow/crossbow/handgun to complete them); two 6-base spear & dao units; two 6-base units of light foot bow



I've decided that the next lot of figures to hit my painting desk will be two 6-base units of light foot bowmen. That's all I'll need for FoGR and a lot more than I'll need for ADLG. I've got the next two days off work, so might get them finished before I return to work.

The pack of armoured bow cavalry I ordered a few weeks ago has been dispatched and should be here on Monday or Tuesday. I should get them prepped and primed before the weekend. Of course, I'll need to order another three packs to make up three 4-base units for FoGR.

I also need to get some artillery for the Ming Chinese, but can't find anybody who makes it. I have found earlier Chinese artillery from Irregular - I might order a few packs to get the crew figures. There are also rocket troops from Grumpy, but as they are only available from Eureka I might need to wait until Salute next year to get them.

3 comments:

  1. I have decided that your method of priming in bigger batch numbers is the way to go. I tend to paint in groups of 16 - 18 and so only prime that many, after completing on small batch it seems to take too long before I get around to priming the next lot. Priming seems the block to me as once I actually get a batch going, I fair fly through them.

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  2. way too productive. You put all of us to shame.

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  3. @ Norm - it definitely helps me with getting stuff painted to always have several units prepped and primed to move onto when I finish painting a unit. I usually prime goodly sized batches as it's more efficient.
    What I'm finding interesting here is that painting a single unit rather than a big batch means that I don't find myself rushing steps and so have less touching up to do at the end :)

    @ Paul - *psst* better not look at my blog tomorrow night then ;)

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