Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Zulu War figures the Paints

I have been asked by my customer to let him know the paints used on his commission, I thought it would be fun to share it with you guys also. When I get round to painting my own Empress Miniatures Zulu War Brits I will do a true SBS with pictures but with commissions time is money so just the paints and a finished figure.
First up Flesh, the most involved process, Base flesh then flesh washed with flesh wash then flesh applied again final highlights with elf flesh.

Next up the uniform, Scab red base coat with red mid tone and then highlighted with one of those luckey errors you make, I needed terracotta colour for the Masai warriors and could not find my GW stuff I popped on to wayland games to order some Vallejo paint to use. I had to go by the colour tab on the website and picked the one that looked closed enough to terracotta when it came it was no where near the color I needed but I found it the best for highlighting red.
The trousers are Prussian blue then highlighted with Prussian blue mixed with a little blue.
Helmet is Khaki then washed with dark tone then over painted with the Khaki again.
The Webbing is a light Khaki base and an off white main color.
The last few paints are for the gun and to highlight the black areas.

Monday, 30 September 2013

Pop over to Bloggers for Charity and buy your self some Cracking Figures

Over on the Bloggers for Charity blog +Gary Amos is running an auction with a difference to be able to bid (by email in a confidence) you have to follow the blog and help promote it on the blogosphere. This is a cracking idea as the BfC is a great project that has been gathering pace since its conception in May 2014, in that time it has grown from a one off game for Tripples 2014 to a twice annually run game planned and created by the wargaming blogger community, with all figures and terrain for each game painted/created by bloggers and sold off after the second game with all proceeds going to Charity in 2014 the Charities are Help for Heros and Men Matter.
 If you want to know more follow the link and check out the blog, it you feel inspired you can help in any way you want.
 

Sunday, 29 September 2013

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.