Getting over the Slump - One Figure at a Time

[Hammers]

Hammers gets the cake. 1905 KAR should have a Martini-Enfield, a Lee Metford or a Long Lee Enfield. It's a conversion from a Great War-era rifleman, I used my special age-defying Plynkes formula to take ten years off him. I suppose lengthening and altering the barrel to turn the SMLE into a Long Lee would not have been that hard, but a combination of fear of wrecking the figure and "can't be bothered" defeated that idea. Oh well. Never mind, eh?

Edit: Aaron, white cross belts are correct according to Osprey (they are his bread bag and water bottle straps I think). Haven't checked further than that. Notice the rest of the Slade Wallace gear is black, as befits Rifles (regular British Army version was entirely white: ammo packs, straps and all).

[spraying crumbs]Thank you. I am glad I spotted the Great Plynkes resorting to anachronisms. I always cover a bit for the blowtorch of his critical glare when I showcase my less than historical miniatures. Never again, I say![/spraying crumbs]

[coggon]

Dylan,

Excellent work as usual, and congrats on unslumping yourself.

[Crudeboy]

Indeed, fantastic work. 

I'm currently trying to work myself out of a slump as well. Pretty much as mentioned earlier, start up in small increments. I try to do something every day, even if it's a little basing or putty work.

[Helen]

Great brush work Dylan. I'm glad Peder spotted the "Button Counter." Maybe we could start a club on this!

Seriously, starting my own business I look at the mass of miniatures in front of me an I'm finding it difficult in maintaining ideas to paint so and so a little different from A, B & C. I'm currently stuck on a few Pulp figures.

Glad you are back enjoying what you do best besides drinking.

Helen

[Bugsda]

Excellent paintjob, love it 

I use the one at a time method if I need to get out of a slump, unless an electricity bill hits the door mat. 

[DFlynSqrl]

Looks great Plynkes.

[Plynkes]

No.s 2, 3 and 4

"...and if the slave trade has been swept off the face of the seas, it hasn't really been the work of reformers and statesmen with lofty ideals in London and Paris and Washington, but because a long-forgotten host of fairly feckless young Britons did it for fun. And you may tell the historians I said so."
George MacDonald Fraser


Midshipman and marines from HM Brig Black Joke of the Preventative Squadron, Sierra Leone, 1832.


Took much longer than I'd hoped. Had a nasty and discouraging accident with the young Midshipman. Dropped him on the floor and some bits got bent and broke off, so he had to undergo major surgery and repainting (typical that I didn't drop him until he was almost completely finished). The marine uniforms are more fiddly and take longer to do than the stuff I normally paint too. Reasonably pleased with how they turned out, though they look better in the flesh than in the photos. I hate it when that happens.

[Bugsda]

Excellent! Great quote and first class face painting 

[Captain Blood]

Great painting Plynkes and what a cracking idea for a scenario.
To recover from a slump AND a dropped figure is serious mental toughness 
I recognise the Copplestone Middy, but who makes the marines?
I was thinking maybe some of the Perry BEF Carlist War stuff would be right for this period (have you seen the new Royal Marines rocket launcher?) but these chaps don't look like Perry figures...

[Hammers]

Inspiring scenery for those lovely miniatures, Plynkes. The quote is from Flashman's March isn't it?

[Plynkes]

I recognise the Copplestone Middy, but who makes the marines?
I was thinking maybe some of the Perry BEF Carlist War stuff would be right for this period (have you seen the new Royal Marines rocket launcher?) but these chaps don't look like Perry figures...

I did buy some Perry Carlist War figures to use (the uniforms are pretty much perfect), but I decided that they weren't skirmishy enough (all marching and firing line nonsense), and removing their backpacks and stuff to make them look like marines from a ship was too much effort. So in the end I just used the heads, and put them on some Foundry Napoleonic bodies. They've had a bit of work on them, to get rid of some of the extra Napoleonic fancyness, but that was less of a job than it would have been to alter the Perry figures.

I just noticed that the Perry boys are bringing out some marine infantry in this range, though no pics yet. But I bet they'll have backpacks and shit, so hopefully I haven't been needlessly wasting my time again.

Rather stupidly I also got some Foundry Indian Mutiny sailors for this project. But they are just way too small. Even next to the midshipman they look like midgets. So I'm anxiously waiting to see the new Mutineer Minis ones. Hopefully they'll be suitable for 1830s sailors, at least I don't think anything else available will be any better.


They look too uniform to use Napoleonic ones I think. As they'll be for a shore party it won't matter if they all have rifles (as Mutiny ones probably will).

[matakishi]

I like them a lot, great work!

[Lowtardog]

They are cracking Poly

[Helen]

Great conversions Dyan and lovely paint work.

Helen

[twrchtrwyth]

If that's what you produce in a slump I just don't see what the problem is.
Great painting.