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Other Stuff => Workbench => Topic started by: Jon Suth on August 20, 2012, 10:10:40 AM
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No sooner are we back from Crete than the race begins to get everything ready for the new season in 2013.
As we're going to be away for the bulk of October, I figured that smaller "rounding off" projects would be the way forward.
Hence, to begin with, there is a eclectic selection of different painting projects. My aim is to finish off some bits and pieces for the ACW, more artillery, some extra cavalry and a few new regiments.
Add some more merchant ships to the growing pirate collection and finish off the bulk of the French and Indian Wars unpainted stuff that has been hanging around for a year or more.
When we get back from the US, the rest of year will be devoted to 28mm Anglo Zulu War - I've promised customers to run a two day Zulu event, day one 15mm Islandwana, day two Rorkes Drift (one for one scale) in 28mm.
In the new year, it will be all speed ahead with the Greeks, I've got over 2,000 to paint in five months.
First up, my very first Rapier Miniatures. I bought eight artillery pieces and crews, the officers are mainly Perry. Very nice figures, a joy to paint and I highly recommend them - they are a bargain too if you buy the unit packs (not that they are expensive if you don't) Many thanks to Stephan for the lightning fast delivery.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2365.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2361.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2363.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2364.jpg)
Three packs of Gripping Beast (thanks Lord Sherwell for the id), these I'll use for the French and Indian Wars to lope alongside the Woodland Indians:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2368.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2366.jpg)
Finally, for the first batch of new stuff are three new merchant ships for the hugely popular pirates games. I got these from Ebay, they are scratch built. I did quite a lot of work on them, added detail and a proper base to the hulks. Quite pleased with them. The figures onboard are Blue Moon FIW figures, all of the pirates are in Crete!
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2380.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2379.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2378.jpg)
Next up are some loyal Americans and Canadian militia for the FIW, then some British and French regulars.
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Cheers for shifting this Hammers, didn't know where to put it as it will be multi-period.
Some vintage figures here for two batteries for the rebs. Some Minifigs, Garrison and Hinchcliffe and probably others I don't remember any more!
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2382.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2381.jpg)
No guns yet, they are on order and due any day.
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Have been working on 5 new Confederate regiments, just acquired a couple of hundred Tradition, Garrison and Minifigs that will fit in nicely. Have enough figures in the job lot to make another 4 or five Union regiments, eight more limbers, five more guns for each side, a bunch of skirmishers for both sides and... lots of Hinchliffe Reb shotgun armed cavalry.
Should have the first lot of new Reb regiments done by the weekend.
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In the run up to the US trip, I've been inspired to round off the ACW collection. I'm adding around 12 new infantry regiments, 12 batteries for the union and 8 for the Rebs, ten more limbers, wagons, some more skirmishers, around 120 cavalry and a heap of little vignettes. Here's the progress so far:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2465.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2466.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2467.jpg)
Four new Reb regiments, mainly Tradition, Minifigs and Hinchcliffe.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2468.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2469.jpg)
A pair of old Hinchliffe wagons that have been sitting around unpainted for about 30 years.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2470.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2471.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2472.jpg)
Two newly painted Reb batteries now with their guns.
Next up are some limbers and two more Reb batteries, then two Union ones.
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Newly acquired Indian Mutiny buildings. They just need a little bit of work, but really pleased with them:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2454.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2455.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2456.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2457.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2458.jpg)
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(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2460.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2461.jpg)
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(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2464.jpg)
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New batch of ACW artillery and a nice little wood store:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2500.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2499.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2498.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2497.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2496.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2495.jpg)
No idea of the make of the wood store, will probably use it for FIW.
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Nice job(s)! :o
The wood store is medieval Japanese one from John Jenkins:
http://www.johnjenkinsdesigns.com/JVB03.htm (http://www.johnjenkinsdesigns.com/JVB03.htm)
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Thanks Maichus - I got it on ebay - so this is actually the first John Jenkins building I've bought - quite impressed with the detail. Might have to pick up some of their ACW ones when I'm in the US.
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Meet the Spartans!
First shots of the latest stuff - have actually made some progress on the Greeks for the 2013 season despite being side tracked with ACW and terrain (not to mention about 60 ebay sales). Had hoped to put up the last ACW regiments for the time being, but rain has stopped varnishing.
Here are the Spartan command stands. The 3 stand base is the Spartan King. The Spartans have three divisions, each with 5 36 man hoplite units as as well as skirmishers and so on. The figures are Gorgon and Wargames Foundry. The bases are by Warbases (their 60mm round ones). The hoplites will be based up on their 60x40mm bases six figures to a stand.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2524.jpg)
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Working on two 36 man blocks at the moment, all Gorgon and Foundry with a handful of Vendel mixed in. Most of the blocks will be Warlord.
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A lull in the rain has allowed me to varnish these blokes. Two New Jersey regiments for the ACW collection. Will probably return to the ACW sometime in the spring.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2528.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2527.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2526.jpg)
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Trees have been on the agenda for the past couple of evenings. I'm making another 500 or so to cover the 45 foot table with the things for the French and Indian War games. Doing them in batches of around 50-60 as its a messy job and takes up a lot of room - drying time is a issue too, although the old dehumdifier speeds things up. All of this lot are oaks or similar with the same colouration, there will be other shapes, sizes and hues of green to break things up.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2556.jpg)
Twig branches culled from the Cherry, May, Lilac and Holly trees.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2557.jpg)
Monstrous pile of horsehair and hoghair.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2555.jpg)
Box of the smaller trees around 5" tall.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2558.jpg)
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Some of the bigger ones, mainly singles but some doubles on each base.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2552.jpg)
The latest lot of really big ones, about 8-10 inches tall.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2553.jpg)
Example of one of the finished bases.
For your amusement, here is the pile of crates with the Warlord Greeks ready for the paint table:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/IMG_2554.jpg)
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Urgh!
This is just amazing by the sheer quantity. I'm not American but I'm still amazed by quantity. lol
So do the mix of hog/horse hairs go in the tree canopies?
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Yep they do, I've been using Botanico Eco Moss - a kind of sisal string bedding material you're supposed to use for hanging baskets. Can't find any within twenty-five miles, so have reverted to the horsehair.
I tear a bit off, roll it up into a ball, dunk it into some green paint/PVA/water mix, wring it out and then drape it onto the twig. Then I dunk the whole lot into an enormous bucket of home made flock. Shake off the excess and leave to dry overnight. Should be as hard as a rock by then. Just give it a quick blast with spray varnish and done (apart from the base of course).
The reason I'm making so many is that the table is 45 x 6 foot and even a couple of hundred are lost on it.
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Yep they do, I've been using Botanico Eco Moss - a kind of sisal string bedding material you're supposed to use for hanging baskets. Can't find any within twenty-five miles, so have reverted to the horsehair.
I tear a bit off, roll it up into a ball, dunk it into some green paint/PVA/water mix, wring it out and then drape it onto the twig. Then I dunk the whole lot into an enormous bucket of home made flock. Shake off the excess and leave to dry overnight. Should be as hard as a rock by then. Just give it a quick blast with spray varnish and done (apart from the base of course).
The reason I'm making so many is that the table is 45 x 6 foot and even a couple of hundred are lost on it.
You won me over with the 'dunk and shake' part. I've gotta try this at home! ;D
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Dr Viking - wear a pair of gloves when you do it! I've got a box of cheap latex gloves, the paint mix will be a right pain to clean off your hands and don't do it over a surface that you value - the paint will drip!
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here is the pile of crates with the Warlord Greeks ready for the paint table:
Damn! o_o
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Damn! o_o
+1 o_o o_o
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Damn indeed - just spent 2 hours cutting out the bits and pieces for 72 of them, this is going to take longer than I thought!
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Diane's been a busy girl making me ten small crop fields. Details of construction and accessories used will be in a future article for Battlegames Magazine. I've been plodding along with the Spartans and nearing completion of 5 30 man hoplite units - decided to go for 30 instead of 36 as I'm basing them in 6s, so that makes 5 bases a unit with the command stand in the middle.
Have got around to basing my first skirmish unit of Wargames Factory Numidians - doubling up as Greeks - very versatile figures. I've now got two boxes, so I'll be doing another lot of javelins, two lots of slingers and two of archers:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2596.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2595.jpg)
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Just picking my popcorn bucket and sitting, watching. :)
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Sorry for the long absence!
Some new additions to the growing armies. First, a bunch of Spartan skirmishers, the two 8 figure units are Wargames Factory, the other 10 man unit is Essex:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Spartanskirmishers1.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Spartanskirmishers2.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Spartanskirmishers3.jpg)
Black Tree Designs Greek civilians. Nice little figures theses, I think there is another pack I haven't got yet, but there are no pictures of it on the web site:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Civvies4.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Civvies3.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Civvies2.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Civvies1.jpg)
Generic javelin men, not sure who I'm going to assign these too yet, think they are Essex too:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Skirmishers1.jpg)
Archers, Wargames Factory, nice figures and elegant bows, like the quiver too:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Archers1.jpg)
A Spartan scout having a refreshing drink of water at a spring:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Spartanscout.jpg)
Finally, the two butt naked Spartan phalanx hoplites I'm working on at the moment. Having an experiment with an all over Foundry flesh undercoat as there is so much skin to paint on these fellas:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Spartanphalanx1.jpg)
Hope to have these blokes done by the middle of week, then onto to the next batch of Warlord Spartans.
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First up, some of the new Greeks
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(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/20121109_165035.jpg)
Two of the new slinger units, Wargames Factory, quite pleased with these, best of their products I reckon.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/20121109_164853.jpg)
More of the same, this time as javelin men.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/_MG_2591.jpg)
Same unit in one of Diane's new fields.
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Next up, some of the Spartan hoplite units:
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(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/20121109_164950.jpg)
I think these are Gorgon Miniatures, one of the smaller units 24 figures.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/20121109_164938.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/20121109_164917.jpg)
Three of the standard sized 30 figure hoplite units, these boys are Spartans too.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/20121109_164733.jpg)
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More shots, not sure about the flash, sorry.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/20121109_164205.jpg)
Greek light horse, suffering a bit from the flash.
I'll upload some more soon.
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Here are some shots of the first buildings I've finished. First up, a Greek temple:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/Temple3.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/Temple2.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/Temple1.jpg)
A small farm:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/Smallfarm1.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/Smallfarm2-1.jpg)
Working on a larger, richer house complex which will have a formal garden around a paved area and a vegetable garden. This is early stages, will be sorting out the roofs and weathering it tonight. Hopefully, I can get the base material on in the morning and finish it off tomorrow night:
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/2013%20Painting/Bigfarm-1.jpg)
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Meanwhile, in between drilling holes in the nicely re-plastered walls in the house, managed to get the big farm house finished off. The figures are from the lovely and elegant Warlord 28mm range.
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Bighouse1.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Bighouse2.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Bighouse3.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Bighouse4.jpg)
(http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa315/JonSuth/Bighouse5.jpg)
Next up will be three Greek villages, have made the carcasses on 24" square boards, lots of finishing off to do, so it won't be until the weekend.
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Such hugh undertakings.
I am in total awe.