Stripping!

 

I picked up a third Shado two vehicle, this is not it. It was supposed to be because it looked even worse than this one does what with the shot out window and all, but somehow I grabbed this other one instead, oh well. I have never stripped, miniatures, before but felt like giving it a go this time around. So I disassembled the vehicle (2 Flathead screws was it) and dunked it in a plastic back of Simply Green.

GW Empire steam tank

 

 My Empire painting and builds continue. My photography seems to leave something to be desired (as does my painting) The sides of this are lightly tinted with a blue metallic paint burnished on over a silver/dark metal base. The model itself was built a long time ago and has simply been rattling around in a box. As always the pictures show me where I need to touch things up some more and maybe another wash!

 The Empire war wagon actually should have been done first but somehow this crept into the cue. At any rate the war wagon and some cultist will be done this week. 

 

 

GW Goblins on spiders done!

 

 Not really certain why I painted these up, or even why I bought them in the first place. The spiders resemble real spiders only in the fact that they have eight legs. That said sine there was nothing I could do about the sculpting I decided to go old school 4th/5th edition and paint them as gaudy as I could.

Some Orcs and a few more Empire troops

 

 So, 52 more figures moved from the to do pile into the tabletop ready status. This brings the total for August to 112, which is very good for me, and when you consider I only started up painting again mid to late month! I am basically pleased with having completed these, they are not spectacular paint jobs, but they certainly are good enough to put on a gaming table. The Orcs came out better the the humans and I believe that is due to the fact that I used contrast paints on the humans, but painted the Orcs in a more traditional way. 

Two more Empire units done!

 

 So, two more units done in a reasonably short time (at least for me) The Flagellants were done a few days ago, and within a day the unit of pike men were done. For the pike men I really tried to do a speed paint process, started in the afternoon just after flocking the Flagellants, and all painting done by 2pm the next day. For the most part I went with GW contrast paints on the pike men while the other unit was a mix of traditional paints and some contrast.