North African Village

I finished this little project. I now have four buildings and eight wall pieces complete. All together they make a nice little village. I took a few shots of them all together but the pictures came out blurry. Foiled again by my piece of crap camera!



The picture below shows the test building, and ironically enough it came out to be the best painted. I think I rushed the dry brushing and got a little impatient between coats on the other three.





Nothing like seeing a tank appear from just out of view!



This was a nice distraction for me, instead of painting five shades of blue and gray I got to paint five shades of brown and tan! (Maybe I should start a Napoleanic project? - I shouldn't joke about that, I've already been eyeing the Perry plastic French Infantry boxset!)

ACW Brigade Commanders

I posted these a while back but I just based them today so I thought I'd post a few more pics.

First up, the still un-named Union Brigade Commander.



Next, my currently anonymous Confederate BC. I love this sculpt, except for the fact that he seems to be looking way up in the air, but that may have just been the angle that I mounted him on his horse.



I couldn't help myself, I just like to play with toy soldiers! Here is an "action shot"



I sort of took a break from painting my first Regiment of Iron Brigade black hats to finish up a few things, aside from basing these I based the most recent Confederate Regiment, and built a bunch of North African buildings and walls for Flames of War. I will post pictures of those tomorrow or the day next and hopefully be finished with the next Union Regiment by next weekend.

North African Building

I wanted to start making some terrain for North Africa games of FOW, so I built a test building. The plan is to knock out some more buildings and some walls, just enough to have a little village. Hopefully one day I will be able to create a full table and have lots of movable terrain.

Different projects

Sorry for the lack of posts the last few weeks, I've been working on a lot of different things lately but lazy when it comes to posting pictures. What I'm currently working on:
1. Basing another Confederate regiment that has just been finished
2. Painting a Union "Iron Brigade" regiment
3. Making some building and walls to use for FOW in North Africa
Pictures to follow!

Project Update

I don't have a planned ending to this project, I guess I will keep working on it until I get distracted by something else or run out of table/storage room.

Either way, here is my progress so far. The empty bases represent the lead I already have purchased and is waiting to be painted.



Here is my first Union Brigade, I need to paint up the last regiment and base them (With the Brigade Commander), dull coat everything, and add flags.



Next is the second Union Brigade, as you can see I still have a lot of work to do on this and will need to buy some more figs too. Front to back will be the Brigade Commander, an Infantry Regiment, Cavalry Regiment, the same Regiment dismounted and finally the back row will be the horse holders.



It was difficult to only pick out 9 of the dismounted Union Cavalry from the Sash and Saber lot because they were some of the best figures I've seen by them. But I wanted to equal the same amount of figures (12) as the mounted version. (9 Dismounted + 3 holding 12 total horses.)
I will probably add 2-3 more Infantry Regiments to this Brigade.

Up next, the Confederates! The first brigade is nearing completion. Nothing to really write about. I am considering basing the partially painted Regiment the same as the Union Regiment in the long grass.



And finally the second Confederate Brigade, at this point just the one Infantry Regiment and the Brigade Commander. I am considering providing the Rebels some Cavalry to counter those Yanks, but I'm not convinced the effort is worth it, since I like to paint the dismounted versions as well. Not to mention the time consumed painting all of the horses twice!



I think I am going to have to quit procrastinating here pretty soon and start working on flags. There's just something appealing about the ACW flags that really look great on the table. I thought that if I left them until I had a bunch to do it would be easier but now it's looking like a daunting task!

Any requests for Regiments or flags to be represented shoot me a comment or e-mail. At this point I don't have any picked out.

Plugging away..

Slowly but surely I'm making progress. Here's a few more completed.

Uruk-hai Berserker

What? Something other then ACW???
I know that I've been on a huge ACW kick lately but I actually do paint and play some other things. Lately I've been playing a fair amount of GW's LoTR with my Uncle Luke- no relation, just an honorary title. I've bought a few blisters recently and I painted up a Berserker today.



Nothing too difficult on this, a quick base coat and then a dry brush for highlights. If you take out the dry time between colors its only a few minutes. My painting standard for Lotr is pretty low, a worthy sacrifice to have all painted armies on the table. Nothing irks me more then playing with a shiny metal or all black sprayed army. The basing on these is unusual, kind of a mountain of Mordor/ lava theme.. not really fitting for Uruk-hai, but it ties them all together and looks pretty cool.