Wargaming Girl: October 2021

Saturday, 30 October 2021

Paint Table Saturday 30 October

I know what (some of you) are thinking - "That table looks far too clean and tidy!". Please rest assured that this is a very temporary state of affairs and it will soon be looking very cluttered and messy.

I finished painting the Korean cavalry yesterday and hit them and the Ming levy with Klear/ink last night. Today I used the airbrush to matte varnish them and the Korean infantry. After leaving them a few hours, I popped them off their painting sticks, sorted them out into "units" and then glued the figures onto bases.

A couple of the figures refused to stay upright, so I ended up using some "kicker" to quickly cure the superglue. That is why you can see white patches around some of the figures' puddle bases.

Tomorrow I will be adding basing texture. They should all be finished by Tuesday.

Thursday, 28 October 2021

Thursday Workbench 28 October

I forgot to do a "Wednesday Workbench" post yesterday, so you've got a "Thursday Workbench" post instead. I was meant to be at the club this afternoon & evening for an ACW ironclads game, but my lower back was "out" this morning. Luckily a few hours laid flat on my back seems to have sorted it. I had planned to do some shopping in central London before the game, but that will have to wait until next week.

In the photo above you can see the Korean light cavalry that I'm currently working on. They're almost finished - just the metal bits and some touch-ups (mostly hands) to do, then I can hit them with my Klear/ink wash, hopefully tomorrow. The Ming Chinese levy were finished a couple of days ago:

They will also get their Klear/ink wash tomorrow.

On Saturday I will be hitting all of the figures from this project with a coat of matte varnish; I should also make a start on the basing.

Saturday, 23 October 2021

Paint Table Saturday 23 October

Well...I went down a couple of rabbit-holes again this week, so it ended up being Thursday before I got back to painting. Finishing the Korean armoured infantry was very quick and they were done by the evening. On Friday I gave all the Korean infantry a brush-on coat of my Klear/ink mix. I left that to dry overnight, before starting work on some Ming Chinese levy infantry today.

As you can see, I've made some good progress. Hopefully I'll have them finished tomorrow, then on Monday I will be able to start work on the Korean light cavalry. I should have all of these finished by next weekend, including having them based. Assuming I don't encounter any ore rabbit holes, of course!