I decided to take a couple of days away from painting figures this week, but have hit the brushes again today:
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| Back to front: Germans, Romans, Pack horses |
I decided to start with the mounted leader figures and the pack horses for my "Infamy, Infamy!" forces. The pack horses and the chap on foot will form a "stewards" base for the Germans.
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These took me a lot longer to get painted than I'd intended. That's largely because I didn't have "the feels" for them for some reason and allowed myself to get distracted by reading various things. However, a little bit here, a little bit there and they were done.
These figures are from the Copplestone "Near Future" range. Given their look, I think they must be from the Arnold Schwarzenegger block.
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| The chaps |
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| The chapesses |
Today I also got the individual Roman and ancient German figures primed:
I'll start painting them tomorrow.
I have slowed things down a little over the past few days, but have still got things done.
First of all, I have prepped a bunch of individual figures from Donnington to add as leaders and "extras" to my "Infamy, Infamy!" forces:
As well as the "leaders" I also have a Scorpion and crew for the Romans and a civilian and two pack horses to make up a "stewards" base for the Germans (stewards act as a rallying point for the cavalry and as a resupply point for javelin armed troops).
I've also started painting some Copplestone "Near Future" figures - these will be another Citi Def group for Mega City One:
At the moment I am just putting down the base/shade colours; I will do the highlighting once that is done.
The individual figures I ordered from Donnington arrived earlier this week. I will get them prepped and primed over the next couple of days; they will be my leader/character figures for "Infamy, Infamy!" and I will be painting them to a slightly higher standard than the basic groups I've already done.
Command stands for ADLG:
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| Didn't spot the grass on that bow until just now... |
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| Didn't spot the bent spear until just now... |
Engineers (for one "Infamy" scenario):
All the figures are 15mm from Lancashire Games apart from the engineers who are from Baueda (via Magister Militum). the shield designs were hand-painted - a bit rough looking up close, but fine en masse at normal wargaming distances.
As London counts down the hours, minutes and seconds until we enter Tier 2 lockdown measures (and therefore no in-person gaming at the pub), and by popular request*, the Madaxeman Lockdown Podcast returns to the airwaves.
Yes, we are resuming the weekly recordings after a well-deserved break.
* well, Timmy tells us that two people had asked him on Facebook if we'd be starting them up again.
As it turns out, I'm a complete idiot. Somehow I failed to notice that yesterday was Wednesday so I missed doing my usual "Wednesday Workbench" post, so you're getting one today.
I finished painting the last of the Romans yesterday and varnished them this morning. Once the varnish had dried I popped the figures off the painting sticks and sorted the figures into groups for basing.
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| Legionaries & engineers |
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| Auxiliary infantry |
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| Cavalry, auxiliary archers and command stand figures |
This afternoon I spent about an hour gluing the figures onto bases:
Tomorrow I will start basing them; they should get finished on Saturday.
I've fallen a little behind schedule. I was out for a few hours on Thursday, getting thoroughly soaked by rain so when I got home I wasn't in the mood for painting. I've made up for it since, finishing the auxiliary infantry yesterday and getting all the foot (so far) varnished and popped off their painting sticks today. I've also made a good start on the cavalry today, with the horses almost done. I should get them finished tomorrow:
Unless something bad happens, I am confident that next weekend I will have the Romans finished.
I've been making good progress with the Romans. Since my last post I have painted the first batch of auxiliary infantry and done a wash step on them and the legionaries. I've also made a very good start on the second batch of auxiliary infantry; they should be finished tomorrow.
On Friday I will hit them all with an airbrush coat of matt varnish before starting work on the cavalry. That will just leave the command stand figures and some auxiliary archers to do next week before basing them all.
I placed an order with Donnington yesterday for some individual figures to use as leaders and specialists for "Infamy, Infamy!" - once the Roman army is based, I will commence work on them.
I have started work on the 15mm Imperial Romans. On Thursday I managed to get all of the figures primed:
I started painting the first batch yesterday, and finished them today:
