Tackling a new army

 

Not a pile of shame if you start to work on it within a week of buying all this stuff, right?

Last weekend I attended a game day at Centuries in cannington Ontario Canada, hosted by the owner Kamal. The event ran on Friday night and all day Saturday. I only stayed until 5:30 or 6 pm on the Saturday but I was witness to a number of fine tabletop games. There was an ADLG tournament all day Saturday, a big 28mm game of General D'Armee 2 on the Friday night, and on Saturday there were games of Chain of Command 2, Pillage and Barons War. A good time had by all.

For me the draw was Kamal's store, a chance to peruse his stock at leisure. A real danger for me to be in a game store for 12+ hours! Well I selected and deselected a lot of different items before finally settling in on a 'few' items. All but the Grognard cavalry will show up in Midgard games, hopefully sooner than later. I already had a box each of  Oathmark Human cavalry and infantry, so the new purchases are to add to that. The Oathmark Humans have a different look to them than many fantasy and historical figures, this appeals to me. I am not certain why I felt the need to buy these, I have Empire and Bretonian styled troops already, so why another Human army? No real reason I just liked the odd look of them.

So far I have the cavalry mostly assembled and based. I primed up the horses in advance of building them but I will next have to prime up the riders. Between the two packs of cavalry, I had 30 cavalry and I split them up into two units of 8 cavalry each (medium cavalry), and two units of light skirmish cavalry of 5 figures each. This left me 4 extra cavalry figures for leaders and/or standard bearers.

I have also been working on the infantry, I have assembled one unit of heavy infantry and one of light infantry, with many, many more to be built.

But it is a start.

New Zeppelin launched from my ship yard!

 

Courtesy of Sarissa Precision, I now have a Zeppelin for my German/Prussian forces. It is about 15" in length and with the flight stand it virtually soars into the sky. 

The gondola carries 4 figures, while the top centre part lifts off to allow at least 10 figures to stand, ready for action. I thought this might be a challenge to build, but it was actually pretty straight forward despite a couple of mislabelled parts in the instructions. I primed up the grey board coverings and the MDF fins prior to gluing them to the MDF frame. (which I base coated chainmail after assembly)

I used Army painter Army Green and Vallejo Russian uniform for most of the ship and Gory red for the red bits. I would have used German Uniform but I was out of that colour, did not feel like going to the store and was impatient to get it done. I plan to do some highlighting of the base colours to bring them out a bit. I am tempted to leave the exposed metal rectangles as is rather than painting them to match the skin.

I am also thinking that I will cut the flight stand a bit, removing the front and rear support to reduce the footprint. I also am thinking of arming her as I have some spare parts that should fit. Probably use magnets.

Works in progress, actually progressing!

 

So five buildings for my current What a Cowboy! campaign. The first one is a resin model that really resists paint. I thoroughly washed it, cleaned it again with TPS and even used sealant to try and give the paint something to adhere to. It sort of worked.

So, to be fair it is the peak that lost paint, the other section was where a roofing piece that had been glued on fell off with very little effort. As a result it is important that I stop touching this model, so I have glued it to a base, in this case a clip board with the clip removed. The earth is a textured craft foam sheet that I think really painted up nicely. It has enough texture that comes out when dry brushed. The fence is from Renada. 

Figures for What a Cowboy

 

So, I have become interested in the wild west and as a result I have taken out some unpainted and unfinished figures for the game. Most of these figures are Foundry figures, although a few are from old Glory. 

A lot of contrast type paints were used on the unpainted while a lot of touch up was required on the partially painted figures. I do not know when I started painting some of these but I certainly made a lot of mistakes, some really bad washes. As a result all of the partially done figures needed flesh touch ups. 

Some of these even saw some action this past weekend.

Preparation for upcoming Midgard game

 

So, I never thought I would be posting pictures of rulers, but here we are! These are plastic 3d prints for the game Midgard Heroic Battles. They are nifty and easy to paint. I used a flat black Krylon black primer and then dry brushed a craft bronze paint. Then I highlighted them with a Vallejo light gold paint, but thinking that might be it, but I did not like the result. So I used a P3 Gold paint to bring out the scroll work and to paint in the recessed letters. For the 'gems' I used GW paint.

These are fresh off the painting table, once dry I will hit them with a spray varnish, most likely a semi gloss.