Another day, another brigade of Union infantry. This is the last one for awhile. I'd like to tackle the skirmisher stands next, the cavalry and maybe some more artillery.
Some pics from my Altar of Freedom game at HAVOC on April 7th, the Battle of Proctor's Creek. There's still plenty left to do for them including painting the skirmish stands and flocking everything. I'd like to bring it down to Historicon or Fall In!.
I finished up the Confederate generals this week, and also cleaned up and primed my Union skirmishers. We'll see how far I get with those in the coming weeks, there's a Blood Bowl 7s games day in May that I need to paint a few more Orc positionals for.
I've been finishing up a bunch of odds and ends this week, getting everything ready for Sunday. All the bases have the AK Interactive Dark Earth on them, and I put the flags on the last of the Union and all of the Confederate infantry.
I also finished up the Union generals as well. I need to finish a single Confederate general for Sunday and the rest I'll save for next week. Then maybe the skirmishers or back to the Steel Rift.
This was a nice, quick win: Eight units of artillery all ready to go. Painting 32 infantry goes a lot faster than painting 288 infantry.
I also picked up AK Interactive's Dark Mud for the bases. It's easy enough to work with and has the added benefit of not needed any paint. It's expensive but worth the convenience, I think.
I finally done painting the Confederate infantry. We're not going to think about the skirmisher stands I want to do for them right now. I'll be top coating and basing them tomorrow in preparation for a demo game this Saturday. After that, I'm hoping to knock out the artillery, characters and a unit of cavalry before the first weekend of April.
I've been slogging through a dozen units of 6mm Confederate infantry in preperation for a game I'll be running at a local convention the first weekend in April. I've made good progress these last few weeks, getting the base colors and wash down, plus a few highlights.
I need to finish highlighting the grey and brown uniforms, the hats, bedrolls and wood. After that, I'll do accessory cleanup, flesh and metals.
I've been plodding through the black on the Steel Rift stuff and I also finished the cockpits as I try to stumble into a color scheme. I hope to finish the maroon next week.
I've had these Bretonnian Squires sitting on my desk since last January and I randomly picked one up this week to try out a color scheme.
I also finished painting another unit of Union infantry. I think my Civil War stuff will be my next big push as I want to run a small game at a local convention in April.
I finished up the Questor Titan that I left nearly finished a few months back. I went with green for the wepaon pods.
I also finished converting six stands of Flayed Ones this week as well. I cut strips of plasticard into long triangles, glued them together, and then glued them to the Exodus Wars models to give them claws. Definitely one of the fiddleist conversions I'm done. Six more stands to go. :P
Finally, I finished another unit of Union Infantry. I based the other eight I've done at somepoint too but never took a picture. They need basing still.
I finished up eight command strips this past week for what I painted so far and got the Tiny Tin Troops standards on them as well. I've done some pretty fiddly conversion projects in the past and these are right up there with them. Between all the aligning, cutting and glueing they're pretty involved. I like the effect though, they add a lot of character.
I finished another two units this week. All that's left are the eight command strips, which I hope to finish next week along with the flags that came in for Tiny Tin Troops. Then I'll get them glued to some bases and put in the flocking queue.
I finished up another two units this week. Three more to go, including some fun with flags, until I start basing them.
Finished up another brigade this week. I'm on the hunt for more Baccus skirmishers as I want to have 3 stands of formed behind three stands of skirmishers to make my units.
I wanted a little more variety in my Chaos Cultist and Mutant stands so I've been doing weapon swaps between the two models. I'm nearly done, the last bit will be to convert Cultists with both Beastmen weapons and vice versa.
I'm also kicking around ideas for heavy weapon cultists. One Heavy Stubber and one panzerfaust-esque model. Nothing to show yet for them.
I also painted up some more Union infantry. Six strips took me about 3 hours, which isn't horrible for me.
Messing around with something different, ACW Union Infantry from Baccus. I took Napoleonic Therapy's method and added a few highlights. Everything is Coat d'arms paints.