Figures are from Baccus 6mm
Once my 15mm Sarmatians are finished, I'll have to get on with painting up the rest of these.
About Me
- TamsinP
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- 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 January 2012
some more pics - 6mm ACW
...and some more pics, this time of my 6mm ACW figures (the handful I've actually painted). I'd never painted 6mm before, and was pleasantly surprised how easy it was - you just need to remember that you don't need to paint every detail and not to thin paint for belts, cross-straps etc too much (or it will flow onto other areas).
Figures are from Baccus 6mm
Once my 15mm Sarmatians are finished, I'll have to get on with painting up the rest of these.
Figures are from Baccus 6mm
Once my 15mm Sarmatians are finished, I'll have to get on with painting up the rest of these.
Progress and a pic
Well, i've made a bit of progress with my Sarmatians. Last night I spent a few hours getting 48 Armoured Lancers ready for priming and painting. Having mounted the horses 4 to a stick and allowed the glue to set, I then started fixing the riders to the horses with superglue. No problems so far. But then I hit a problem when I went to fit the lances - they were too close together!
Snap, snap, snap. All off the sticks and refix them 3 to a stick in a different orientation. Allow PVA glue to dry for an hour, re-superglue those riders that had come off, let superglue dry for another hour, start doing lances. Remember halfway through that I have some disposable brush applicators. Look at fingertips which have superglue all over them. Kick self for being an idiot. Start using applicator. Allow glue to set overnight.
Note to self - REMEMBER TO USE A B****Y APPLICATOR WHEN SUPERGLUING STUFF!!!!!
I've just finished priming the 48 lancers with Liquitex grey gesso, so they'll sit around for 24 hours curing then tomorrow I can start painting them.
Well, that's all fine and dandy I hear you say, but what about the pic you promised in the title? I've downloaded pics from my new camera (Fuji Finepix F300 EXR) and had a play with one of them in Paint, so here goes:
Figures are 25mm NSL from Ground Zero Games
More pics to follow over the next few days
Sunday, 1 January 2012
My lead pile .......
So, what is currently in my lead (and resin) pile awaiting painting (and in some cases assembly)?
15mm Sarmatians (for Fields of Glory):
These are my current painting priority - we've got a club competition starting in a few weeks, so they need to be painted and based in time (Well, enough for a basic army anyway - I can vary my army as other BGs are finished).
from Donnington Ancients & Moderns:
72 Armoured Lancers (6 BGs)
72 Protected Lancers (6 BGs)
48 "Other Cavalry" (4 BGs)
16 Light Horse (2 BGs)
48 Light Foot Archers (4 BGs)
24 Light Foot Javelin (2 BGs)
3 Command groups (9 figures)
2 camps (assorted camp followers, booty, firepits, tents)
From Strategia e Tattica:
18 "Other Cavalry" (1 BG)
2 Command Groups (6 figures)
16 Light Foot Javelin (1 BG)
I have already painted 12 Light Foot Archers and 12 Light Foot Javelin from Strategia e Tattica. Most of the Donnington minis are prepped ready for priming, the remainder should be done over the next day or two. I had prepped, primed and started painting the Strategia e Tattica minis, but have decided to strip them back down to bare metal as I'm not happy with how they look.
6mm American Civil War
From Baccus 6mm:
Union: skirmishers, Zouaves, cavalry, artillery and commanders (ten 24-man regiments of infantry already painted and based)
confederate: infantry, skirmishers, Zouaves, cavalry, artillery and commanders
some extra artillery
some resin buildings and bridges.
Starships:
From Ground Zero Games:
NSL Intro Fleet
FSE Intro Fleet
Japanese Mega Fleet plus some extra capital ships, escorts and fighter groups
A couple of merchant/cargo vessels
I'm waiting for some magnetic adapters from Ninja Magic before I make a start on these
15mm Sci Fi
From "The Scene":
20 Combat Robots
10 Large Combat Robots
7 "The Authorities"
From Ground Zero Games:
New israelis: 40 infantry, 2 support weapon teams, 1 heavy weapon, 4 grav-bikes
Armed Civvies: 24 figures
Colonial Security: 16 figures
Bots: 6 spider drones, 6 workbots, 6 humanoid bots
Ravagers (Rim Pirates): 16 figures
Ship Crew: 6 armed, 6 unarmed
Unarmed Civvies: 32 figures
Kra'Vak: 24 figures
ESU: 40 figures
NAC: 64 infantry, 4 support wepons teams
Vehicles: 1 grav sled with support weapon, 1 hover sled
Others: 2 tracked gunbots and 1 ground mount heavy weapon
From Wargames Supply Depot:
36 Chumbondas - actually 20mm, but fit in OK with my GZG figures
Old Traveller and Laserburn stuff:
I dug these out of a cupboard when I visited my dad a few weeks ago:
18 Vargr
9 civvies plus 2 droids
8 Law Enforcers, 1 Law Enforcer on bike, 2 enforcer droids
From Old Crow:
A bunch of 15mm and 25mm vehicles
Matchbox:
A few construction vehicles and light trucks - will probably paint these up as colonist vehicles
Edit to add:
I forgot to include some that are on order but haven't arrived yet - a bunch of Space Demons and Chewks from Khurasan
15mm Sarmatians (for Fields of Glory):
These are my current painting priority - we've got a club competition starting in a few weeks, so they need to be painted and based in time (Well, enough for a basic army anyway - I can vary my army as other BGs are finished).
from Donnington Ancients & Moderns:
72 Armoured Lancers (6 BGs)
72 Protected Lancers (6 BGs)
48 "Other Cavalry" (4 BGs)
16 Light Horse (2 BGs)
48 Light Foot Archers (4 BGs)
24 Light Foot Javelin (2 BGs)
3 Command groups (9 figures)
2 camps (assorted camp followers, booty, firepits, tents)
From Strategia e Tattica:
18 "Other Cavalry" (1 BG)
2 Command Groups (6 figures)
16 Light Foot Javelin (1 BG)
I have already painted 12 Light Foot Archers and 12 Light Foot Javelin from Strategia e Tattica. Most of the Donnington minis are prepped ready for priming, the remainder should be done over the next day or two. I had prepped, primed and started painting the Strategia e Tattica minis, but have decided to strip them back down to bare metal as I'm not happy with how they look.
6mm American Civil War
From Baccus 6mm:
Union: skirmishers, Zouaves, cavalry, artillery and commanders (ten 24-man regiments of infantry already painted and based)
confederate: infantry, skirmishers, Zouaves, cavalry, artillery and commanders
some extra artillery
some resin buildings and bridges.
Starships:
From Ground Zero Games:
NSL Intro Fleet
FSE Intro Fleet
Japanese Mega Fleet plus some extra capital ships, escorts and fighter groups
A couple of merchant/cargo vessels
I'm waiting for some magnetic adapters from Ninja Magic before I make a start on these
15mm Sci Fi
From "The Scene":
20 Combat Robots
10 Large Combat Robots
7 "The Authorities"
From Ground Zero Games:
New israelis: 40 infantry, 2 support weapon teams, 1 heavy weapon, 4 grav-bikes
Armed Civvies: 24 figures
Colonial Security: 16 figures
Bots: 6 spider drones, 6 workbots, 6 humanoid bots
Ravagers (Rim Pirates): 16 figures
Ship Crew: 6 armed, 6 unarmed
Unarmed Civvies: 32 figures
Kra'Vak: 24 figures
ESU: 40 figures
NAC: 64 infantry, 4 support wepons teams
Vehicles: 1 grav sled with support weapon, 1 hover sled
Others: 2 tracked gunbots and 1 ground mount heavy weapon
From Wargames Supply Depot:
36 Chumbondas - actually 20mm, but fit in OK with my GZG figures
Old Traveller and Laserburn stuff:
I dug these out of a cupboard when I visited my dad a few weeks ago:
18 Vargr
9 civvies plus 2 droids
8 Law Enforcers, 1 Law Enforcer on bike, 2 enforcer droids
From Old Crow:
A bunch of 15mm and 25mm vehicles
Matchbox:
A few construction vehicles and light trucks - will probably paint these up as colonist vehicles
Edit to add:
I forgot to include some that are on order but haven't arrived yet - a bunch of Space Demons and Chewks from Khurasan
Welcome to my blog!
So, a new year and another new blog (I'm betting that I'm not the only fool to start a blog today). I guess you'll want me to tell you a bit about myself? OK, here you go.
The reasons I've started a blog are:
To share my hobby - wargaming - with the world at large (or at least those who read it)
To keep track of my gaming
To keep track of my miniatures painting, and hopefully improvement in my painting skills
To guilt-trip myself into getting on with painting all those miniatures in my lead pile!
The games I play ....
Ancients: FoG A&M
ACW: have the Polemos rules, will try them out at some point
Starships: Full Thrust and Full Thrust Light
SciFi Ground Combat: Tomorrow's War; Stargrunt 2; Dirtside 2; Future War Commander, Gruntz, FUBAR
At the club I go to, Central London Wargames Club, I also play Ironclads and WWI Aviation using rules written by club members.
I'm one of those mythical beasts, the female wargamer. Just take some deep breaths - feeling OK now? Yes, I'm a female wargamer. I know it's unusual, but it's true.
I live and work in London and started wargaming again a few months ago after a very long break. I first did wargaming as a teenager but stopped when I found I didn't have any spare time available and the friends I had been wargaming had all drifted away from the hobby. What spurred me to start again after so long? Well, I was off work ill for several months and one day went to look something up on the interweb. One of the pages I found had a link to a page about spaceship wargaming, so I took a look-see and somehow the spark took and reawakened my old interest. I gave it a few days, did some more research and then realised that, yes, I really did want to get back into the hobby after xx years (you didn't expect a lady to give clues to her true age did you? ).
And here I am, starting a blog about wargaming. I guess you want to know what my gaming interests are? Science fiction is obviously one of them, both spaceship battles and ground combat. I'm also interested in ancients and the American Civil War. There are other periods that interest me, but I want to limit my range for now.
Like wargamers everywhere, I have quite a large lead (and resin) pile awaiting the paintbrush - more in my next post!
The reasons I've started a blog are:
To share my hobby - wargaming - with the world at large (or at least those who read it)
To keep track of my gaming
To keep track of my miniatures painting, and hopefully improvement in my painting skills
To guilt-trip myself into getting on with painting all those miniatures in my lead pile!
The games I play ....
Ancients: FoG A&M
ACW: have the Polemos rules, will try them out at some point
Starships: Full Thrust and Full Thrust Light
SciFi Ground Combat: Tomorrow's War; Stargrunt 2; Dirtside 2; Future War Commander, Gruntz, FUBAR
At the club I go to, Central London Wargames Club, I also play Ironclads and WWI Aviation using rules written by club members.
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