Yellow my new fav colour NOT

So I am working through the boiler suited guards and am going insane, I have not had to paint so many layers since I tried to do wet blending. To be honest I am not that bothered as it does give a good finish, it just take a bit longer than I usually take on one colour. Two down 4 to go

Sorry the photo is so poor the colour is a bit washed out. I have been digging out some of the figures I plan to sell on Ebay and found this Warlord games special figure.

Painting Update

So it has been fun to get back up to full speed on the painting front. I have completed the base's on Johns FIW French Inf and just have some tuff's to add and hit them with a varnish.

I have also completed the first 2 AW Miniature Indians and started the flesh on the next two.

With all these different projects on the go at the moment I have been prepping like a madman, I have not had this much prep completed since the build up to last years Winter Painting Challenge. Added to the plastic Saxons I completed while on holiday I have been busy pepping some fantastic Foundry Viking/Norse ( these are the wonderful old Citadel Norse range) below is only the start of the viking horde I am doing them all on individual bases so they can be used for all forms of game system.

While still on the dark ages I have been working through some Saga forces that will be up for sale when completed, the current force is a Welsh one and I finished the Levy bowmen.

I have to admit that I have not been having a great time at work these passed few months the last week before my holidays was one of my lowest points, I sucked it up and ground out that last few shifts and hoped it would not effect my holiday. I had a great holiday and did not think of my work once while away, unfortunately things had not changed and with in 10 min of starting my first shift I felt the need to do physical damage to someone/ something. This is all more than anyone should put up with and I have decided that my 13 years at my current job will be over as soon as I can. This will effect my hobby in a few ways first I might be a little less active online while job hunting and second I need to make my hobby do a bit more that pay for its self so I will be jumping back into selling on evilbay  Ebay. To this end I have dug out a squad of Foundry Zulu war brits that will be going on Ebay this weekend I am posting them on here first so if anyone wants to make an offer feel free I will be looking for around £25 plus postage.

Exiles Back on the Brushes

So I had a great two week summer holiday, I saw plenty of castles and boarder towers. On top of that I even did a little hobby work I had taken loads of GB plastic Saxons which I built about 40-50 shown below.

Upon my return I have thrown myself back into my painting as I have loads on the table awaiting paint. I started on Carls pulp figures, while the sculpts are fantastic the colors were not my fav, yellow and white are not the easiest from a black undercoat. For the yellow I  use a base coat of orange and then the yellow each takes multiple layers to get a good cover. I was very happy with the results and will crack on with the other 5.

Also I worked on some French and Indian War Forest Indians from AW Miniatures, I have loads of these to paint and am enjoying them greatly, just WIP at the moment but getting there.

I have also been prepping like a mad man, loads of Vikings and Saxons and Irish but more of that later. Its great to be back I was not able to follow posts while away so sorry for anything I have missed I will try and catch up with all your blogs over the next week.
Peace James