Zulu War Commission and Ronin

I will gloss over Derby as I am sure that many people had a good time at the show I did not nuff said. Once I got back home I cracked on with the first 4 Zulu War figures for commission these pictures I have sent off to the customer for the OK and then will complete the other 20, these are from Empress Miniatures and I have a couple of hundred of these to paint for me and my Dad.

To go with the Ronin buildings in the last post I had a delivery from Perry Miniatures which will give me enough for a few forces, I loved painting the Perry's Samurai for the winter challenge so they were my first stop when I was looking for figures to play Ronin. Before you ask about the base's they were from another of my hair-brain ideas that will not be going any further and as I have almost 100 of these base's I wanted to try them out, and I think they fit well they will give my Ronin figures that little bit of difference and as you can see they do in fact rank up if I ever need to. (base's from Warbase BTW)

Monks

Ronin

Handgunners

Samurai

Bowmen

I am busy prepping a few more commissions for ECW and LOA, so James is a busy boy.

Ronin Buildings and Masai Warriors

Today I had a delivery from Spain, not bad postage time as I only placed to order last Saturday from Plast Craft Games these will be for my games of Ronin on my brand new gaming boards. They are pre cut on plascard and come with resin doors and windows, I will be spraying certain bits red and the resin black before I put them together and I do not see them taking too long to build and have ready for gaming.

On the painting front this week has been mostly taken up with painting Masai Warriors for Marcus of Wargames Foundry, will be dropping them off at "not" Derby on Sunday.

Along side these guys in the last few days I have started on a Zulu War British commission, early days but always like the period.

Getting More out of G+

OK so many of you already use G+ on your blogs but are you getting the most out of it?. I have just a few tips that I find useful so I wanted to take the time to share them.
First when you share a post with G+ it always adds the first picture it finds on the post, some times this may be the profile picture of the first guy to comment which can be very confusing, I have seen my own picture show up a few times on others shared blog posts. To avoid this when you click on the share and the pop up window appears if you hover over the picture you get the option to scroll through pictures available

so you can select the picture or have no picture.

The best thing I have found with G+ is message's with your friends, you can have a message thread with one or several people and only those you select can see the massage. Also when you get a reply it is highlighted on your dashboard and you can respond without leaving your dashboard.

in the G+ screen you click on the share whats new box.

Remove the Public by clicking on the X

Type in the name of the guy's you want to get the massage

Type in your message, you can add files or pictures then click share

When you get a reply it will show as an alert on the top right of your dashboard

You can read it and reply without leaving your Dashboard.

I hope this helps out a few people but for many I have just told you what you already know so sorry for that. Tomorrow I will have some painted figures to share, till then have a good night and keep those brush points sharp.