Pictures of Weekends SYW Game

I had a good game of SYW using BP this weekend against my Dad I took loads of photos so wanted to share.

The Advance Brigade heading for the bridge.

Once the River was reach they formed a battle line.

The Second Infantry Brigade heads on.

The Cavalry Brigade march on the flank.

The Prussian Brigades Advance.

The Cavalry form battle lines (and then failed to move for the rest of the game)

First Fire from the two guns

Grenadiers Guard the bridge

The Second Inf Brigade ford the river and press forward

French General call's out the orders

Fredrick plotting another victory

While the French won the first combat it has shaken them too much and the volley from the second line of Prussian's was too much to take and the battle was turned, from this point the french collapsed.

BB Orcs and SYW Command

Well in the morning I will be setting off to Morecambe to have a Black Powder SYW game with my Dad, as I will be commanding the French it was in my own interest to complete the command stands. I have completed two which should do for now.

I have been busy on the second batch of BB figures and while doing it I took a few pictures of how I painted the white armor these I have shown below.

Grey over a black undercoat

Thin white first layer

Second layer of thin white

A wash of Devlin mud over the studs and in the joins

The pictures were taken the other day and I have since finished the figures up to the point of finish touches and base's

I will be gaming this weekend and then next week Liz and I are heading off to Norfolk to have our holiday again now she is more able we can get out and about a bit more. I may post a battle report on Monday when we call in home for Liz's physio appointment before heading off on holiday.

Painting WIP

The last few days have been quite productive for me on the hobby front, I am really getting fired up about the Oldhammer event in August and even my Dad is thinking of building himself a nostalgic army (Norse). I have finished the 15mm WW2 Para’s and will be getting them boxed up and posted off very soon. I am also working on the second batch of Blood Bowl figures, see below I am afraid the camera has killed off most of the highlights (might have to dig the light tent out again). The goblin and one of the Orcs are from Gaspez Arts while the kicking Orc is an old GW sculpt.
I have been working on my Dwarf army too check out my sister blog for my Oldhammer stuff

I have started on a second Command Base for the French SYW this one is coming along well and should be completed so I can take him up at the weekend to Morecambe where he will be straight into action in a Black Powder game.

 

 

SYW Generals and WW2 commission

So things have calmed down since the end of the challenge, I have almost finished the 15mm WW2 commission just the last few touches on them.

I still have the command stands left for the French SYW and with it looking like I will be playing with the french next week when I go up to visit my Dad I thought I had better paint up a few of the command. I have the base left to do but this stand which will be the General is finished, its just a simple clean paint job (no bells and whistles) but it fits with the rest of the army.

Lastly I have started on the next batch of the Orc BB team.

All work no play

Just a quickpost to let you know I am still painting away, I plan to finish the french SYW army by the end of the challenge. So that means I need to complete
40x Grenadiers
24x Musketeers
12x Light Troops
8x Dragoons
4x Command bases
4x Brigade guns
2x Large canons

Not much then in 18 days :)

I will try and post some WIP but time is in short supply.
Peace James

Painting Ronin Day 69 (3 weeks left)

Hello All,
              I arrived back from my holiday yesterday, and leap straight back onto the painting chair. I finished all the figures I had started before I left and this morning I based them. I will take them up to Dad's wargames room today and varnish them. I will take pictures to send off to Curt up their (we are dropping off My parents dog.)
Below is a shot of the completed stuff before dip and basing.

I did do a little bit of painting while away I painted some more forest Indians these I am very happy with how these came out spent that little bit longer on each one.
I think I am well on target for my 3000 with 3 weeks left and will try and push as far as possible. I have just prepped the next lot of French Inf ready for undercoating tomorrow. I have 1 more unit of Cav and 6 cannons and then all I have to do for the complete SYW army is a few command bases.

My internet coverage was poor so I have been off the net while away, I have just caught up and see that Chris has not been resting and is well on his way to his new par of 3000 great work Chris. Great to see Tamsin is right on Frans coattails and leaving Ray in her dust... I like all of you think Ray has a few tricks up his sleeve for these next three weeks.

So I hope everyone is setup for this run in and will all reach their personal Par's

Peace James

Painting Ronin Day 29

So those of you following the challenge will have seen a "small" entry from me last night, not to rub it in but that entry alone would have put me in the top ten, Banzinga
Today I only had an hour on the brushes so not great progress but enough to feed the addiction

I would guess that after so many shots of my work space you will have seen my racks of paints, I am in the process of changing over from GW (I bought the complete range when I worked there), I like the paint but cant stand the containers. The paint seems to dry quick in their pots than others and you have to transfer the paint on to a pallet which means using an old brush or match stick. I am inherently lazy and can guarantee that if I have a old brush or match stick covered in wet paint then my hand/elbow/shirt...etc will land on it. I love the dropper bottles as you can transfer to the pallet with no fuss and they do not dry out (as long as you put the lids on). I have both the AP paints and Vallejo both give great coverage over black and offer great ranges of colors.

One thing I have found more useful these days are the variuos paint extras, I have a corner of my desk full of paint thinners, brush on gloss/matt varnish, micro sol (for transfers) and brush on undercoats.

Anyway enough of my waffle I thought I would add a few pictures of my latest challenge entry

Painting Ronin Day 18

Been a lazy Sunday got the prep work completed this morning below is the mass ranks of the French Heavy Cav (SYW)

I still need to gravel the base's and undercoat will have to wait as I have run out, how did that happen?
Behind the cav you can see my latest WIP 12 American Regulars 2 more French Musketeers and a unit of Scottish Lancers. I completed the Lancers today and am sending Photos off to Curt soon.

I think the Lancers are a prime example of what the Winter Challenge is all about, these have sat in my lead pile for almost 18 months but within 3 weeks of the comp I have them complete and ready for the gaming table.
I hope all the other Ronin are finding the incentive to get to the back of their lead piles to those poor dusty figures.
Peace
James

Painting Ronin Day 16

First thing tonight is a big thumbs up to the company Foundry Miniatures I took advantage of their new bonus pack offers to carry on my North West Frontier idea, I already have on order 60 Afghans so it was the empire forces I needed I love the foundry stuff so I ordered 8 packs getting two more free. Within 48h of placing the order the postman brought me a box of shiny metal today.

Next for my soap box is things you fear when painting, I hate free hand (because I am no good at it). Now it works out to be a vicious circle because you never get better because you never try it. So I now try and do a bit of free hand on figures when its needed. The Hussars I am doing are the Deaths Head so need that symbol on them, it should be on the hat but I could not fit it on there so I found a place that looks good but is not so "in your face" that people will question the skill.

As you can tell I have pushed along with the Hussarsand they are now ready for dip, along with the French and American regulars.

I have a ruck load of figures to photograph and send off to Curt (so as not to overload him I am grouping my work together)
Any way one more shift till the weekend when I should be able to fit in a little extra prep work, that reminds me I got a box from Perry Miniatures today too which contained the Samurai for my entry fee and some cav for FIW plus a box of civies.

Peace James