May Day painting challenge – Update #1
The first step, at least when painting models, always seems to be the most labourious. Since these are plastic miniatures I decided to give them a good wash and scrub with an [...]
Painting & Modelling
May Day weekend painting challenge 2019
This weekend is a bank holiday in the UK, and I will find myself left to my own devices for the weekend – so I decided to set myself a challenge. The task is, on the [...]
Painting Tally – April 2019
Thanks to the Rangers of Shadow Deep project, April continued to be a productive month for painting. Painted: 39 Not only did it see a Gnoll warband of 29 miniatures painted [...]
Let slip the Dogs of War!
It has taken almost a full month, but the Gnoll warband has been finished. The undercoat \ basecoat was applied to the models on March 31st. Since then work on them has been [...]
Painting Tally – March 2019
March once again turned out to be a decent month for painting, as I continued with my miniatures for Rangers of Shadow Deep. Painted: 39 15 Rangers from Foundry, plus 3 [...]
Ranger of Shadow Deep – ‘The Missing’ miniature collection
Yesterday was spent working on the basing of the figures I have recently painted, with the result that all the miniatures (well, all bar a couple of birds) for the first [...]
In praise of Army Painter Strong Tone wash
I have probably mentioned several times in the last that I am something of an enforced painted – I paint because I really don’t like the look of bare plastic and [...]
Painting Wolfhounds
They say that Man’s best friend in his dog. Well, in Rangers of Shadow Deep (reviewed on podcast episode 262) there is a good chance that in a four player game a [...]
Painting Tally – February 2019
February turned out to be a much better month for painting than January had been. Not only did I finally finish those damned Normans, but I also made a start on all the [...]
Norman Cavalry – finally painted!
Back in August 2016 I started building several new cavalry units for a Breton force for Saga, using the plastic Norman Cavalry from Conquest Games. More information can be [...]
Painting Tally – January 2019
January started pretty well, with #hobbystreak meaning that I was at least laying paint onto miniature most days in the month. However, it wasn’t quite enough… [...]
Painting Tally – December 2018
December started really well with a fantastic weekend painting clinic, courtesy of Glenbrook Games. However, with one thing and another I totally failed to actually finish [...]
Painting Tally – November 2018
November was something of a non-event on the painting front Painted: 0 Nothing. Not a sausage. I did start a couple of things, but nothing completed. Purchased: 7 The sum [...]
Painting Tally: October 2018
October turned out to be another somewhat frugal month on the painting table… Painted: 10 I did manage to get the two Gangs of Rome mobs that I needed for the [...]
Through the round window
As part of my preparation for scratch building several houses for Burrows and Badgers, I have been looking for any sources of round window frames in MDF. Round windows seem [...]
Painting Tally: September 2018
My plan for September was for it to be a big follow up to my minor victory of actually getting some figures painted in August. As it turned out, it wasn’t quite as big [...]
Painting white and making cobblestones
I recently finished painting my latest Gangs of Rome miniatures. A few comments have been made about how they liked the white on the models, so I thought I would share how I [...]
Painting Tally – August 2018
August found me reconnecting with hobby time, although much of the month was spent building terrain rather than painting figures: creating bamboo forests, paddy fields and [...]
Making bamboo forest terrain
One of the iconic pieces of terrain in South East Asia and Japan in bamboo forest. These are relatively easy to model, thanks to the fact that you can order plastic model [...]
The Painting Tally: July 2018
July has proven to be another month of little progress on the painting front – due to a combination of a) The Weather and b) My son constantly using my hobby desk for [...]
