Painting Ronin Day 4

Been an odd day sleep escaped me at 03:30 in the morning and while I would love to have got up and done a bit of painting, my dogs would have know I was awake and made a huge fuss. So instead I got up and me and my boys watched Mission Impossible ( I watched while the three dogs continued their sleep). I did get round to a bit of painting and started on another FIW squad.

Six Canadian Mountain men, I have finished these today and will base them up tomorrow. I have almost completed the Scout too. I am still working through the Highlanders and the Hussars which are to go with Dads Prussians not the French as I said yesterday.

I have really enjoyed the gun crew, I find that my style fits so well with Perry Sculpts. I will try to complete the gun tomorrow and do that base too. Just before I hit the pit (went to bed if you have not heard that saying) last night I finished the grass on four more Woods I will now be able to take all the woods I have made up with me on Boxing day and leave them in the Brewerton wargames room.

A thought for you all, Why do you Paint Wargames Figures?
I will give you my reasons tomorrow.

Peace James

Painting Ronin Day 3

Evening all,
                 I have had a good think about this diary and think that if I am to keep this up then it needs to be more than just "here is what I am painting" "here is what is waiting". So I will take these daily chats as a chance to share my thoughts and ideas on painting, wargames and some times just life its self. If anyone has a question on how I do some thing or what I am using just drop the question in the comments and I will answer the next post. That being said Ray asked how I found the black brush on primer on my desk, well Ray I think it is the dogs dangles, I still spray undercoat my figures but I do away with the contorting of my arm or figures to try and spray every nook and cranny, instead I bring them back into the warm and cover any missed bits with this brush primer. I have also used it as a black paint and will again (wait till you see me on the French Inf).
 Anyway back to my painting, I have sent off my first submission to Curt so watch his space. You will find that my submissions come in fits and starts as I never have one figure or group on the go, below is my current crop.

You can see the highlanders but also a light gun and a unit of Hussars from our french SYW and lastly a mounted scout from the FIW. I like to flit between all the figures so while I seem to be making little progress all of a sudden I have 3 or 4 groups/figures complete.

Been doing a little research on the Highlanders and found they would be the 42nd which is cool as I see the tartan every day.

This is my Scottish Terrier Mackie with his Black Watch Tartan collar. The highlanders will take a bit longer than the rest of the FIW figures purely due to the uniform being so much more involved. I have taken the chance while painting my unit of Hussars to do a quick SBS on my horse painting, this should be up on the blog in a few days.
Anyway I seem to have written loads and said nothing, who said this blogging was hard. Today was a good day for me finished last shift of the year at 06:00 had a few hours sleep and pretty much hit the painting table most of the rest of the time. Mr Postman brought me another box of French SYW so looks like this challenge may end up being James paints an entire French SYW army in 3 months.

Peace James

Painting Ronin Day 2

I thought that if you are planning to follow me along in this painting challenge that I had best fill you in on me a bit.

So here I am in my man cave, as you can see what it lacks in floor space it makes up for in shelf space believe it or not but there is another shelf to the left of the camera. I am 39 so big year next year, I work in Warehouse distribution on the night shift I work 22:00-06:00 Mon-Fri I have been happily married to Liz for 16 years and have a great Step daughter Melissa who graduated this year and is in her first job as a teaching assistant. I returned this summer to team sports in the form of Hockey (that field Hockey for you lot over the pond) and have found it great fun and good for my health too.
Enough about me on to the painting, as hoped I finished the Indians today below is the last WIP shot I will be sending finished pictures off to Curt after basing is done tomorrow. I only got down the base coat on the Highlanders skin, but as it is my last night shift of the year tonight I will have plenty of time to paint over the holiday period (as long as Sky keep putting on good ballet for Liz to watch)