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Post by Mike Lewis on Sept 28, 2016 13:00:08 GMT
What have you currently got on the workbench?
I have:
- 3 units of Napoleonic which are nearly finished being rebased (2 french, one british)
- 1 unit of 16 Napoleonic French Old Guard (Airfix figures) that are halfway through painting
- some AIP Prussian Cavalry that I just need to finish tidying up before glossing
After that lot I intend to move on to some Napoleonic Airfix Highlanders and then onto the start of some HAT Punic Wars figures for C&C Ancients.
I also have a load of figures to be painted as part of Imperial Miniatures Stock (Just remoulded all the Sudan infantry figures) but the above are all for me.
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Post by davel on Sept 28, 2016 15:34:14 GMT
Hi Mark,
This is a good idea for a thread. Hope it has a lot of response.
I'm painting up an Expeditionary Force Persian scythed chariot at the moment. It's awesome. I'm picking up some bases for it at Derby this weekend, so hopefully it'll be finished in a couple of weeks or so. I've nearly finished the horses. Then it's on to the chariot, then the driver. The scale is probably nearer 60mm than 54mm. Ex-Force do some lovely figures.
I also have a unit of Ex-Force Pikes prepped and ready to start painting..
Then it's on to some 54mm French cavalry - Cuirassiers (I got them last year from All the King's Men, but you can't get them any more) and Dragoons (Italieri).
There are also some Victrix 54mm British to paint/finish off.
I love the Victrix figures, but was really disappointed a couple of Salutes ago when they said they weren't expanding the range any more (I think they said it wasn't a good seller for them).
Enjoy the thread Dave
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Post by briancarrick on Sept 29, 2016 12:24:13 GMT
My projects have just resumed after something of a hiatus since last May but finally on the painting table I have the command and colour parties for 2 regiments of 7YW Austrians and some C18th British grenadiers, also some units of 7YW Prussian grenadiers and artillery being rebased.
Projects stalled which I've put aside until I get my mojo back are mostly conversions: half painted Van Ginkels Horse from the Williamite Wars, Imperial Chinese Artillery, Napoleonic French foot dragoons and WW1 trench sections with French, British and German infantry.
Painted at the start of the year and still waiting to be varnished are Chinese Imperial cavalry, Risorgimento French and Neapolitan infantry, a Gallic warband and WW1 Austrians. In the past I've given figures 2 coats of artists acrylic varnish but recently I've become dissatisfied with the durability of this and I'm wondering about using yacht varnish, the tin says in drys with a yellowish tinge - has anyone used this varnish before and if so how does it fare?
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Post by kugelfang on Sept 29, 2016 15:36:45 GMT
I went in for surgery for a detached retina a week ago. Oddly enough, that has increased my modeling time. Luckily, I don't have to keep my chin planted on my chest for the following two weeks but I do need to keep my head lowered. I've found that working on my painting desk keeps my head down and keeps me from getting bored. So... I've been working on some 10mm (gasp!) ACW and some 54mm Colonial Brits and Zulus.
--jeff
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Post by Mike Lewis on Sept 29, 2016 15:50:45 GMT
I went in for surgery for a detached retina a week ago. Oddly enough, that has increased my modeling time. Luckily, I don't have to keep my chin planted on my chest for the following two weeks but I do need to keep my head lowered. I've found that working on my painting desk keeps my head down and keeps me from getting bored. So... I've been working on some 10mm (gasp!) ACW and some 54mm Colonial Brits and Zulus. --jeff So a silver lining... I got quite a lot done when I had cataract surgery as I was enforced to sit still and not lift anything for 2 weeks... |
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Post by Mike Lewis on Sept 29, 2016 15:53:25 GMT
I'm painting up an Expeditionary Force Persian scythed chariot at the moment. It's awesome. I'm picking up some bases for it at Derby this weekend, so hopefully it'll be finished in a couple of weeks or so. I've nearly finished the horses. Then it's on to the chariot, then the driver. The scale is probably nearer 60mm than 54mm. Ex-Force do some lovely figures. I also have a unit of Ex-Force Pikes prepped and ready to start painting.. I need to have a look at Expeditionary stuff at the next Toy Soldier show - though they did seem quite expensive... Then it's on to some 54mm French cavalry - Cuirassiers (I got them last year from All the King's Men, but you can't get them any more) and Dragoons (Italieri). There are also some Victrix 54mm British to paint/finish off. I love the Victrix figures, but was really disappointed a couple of Salutes ago when they said they weren't expanding the range any more (I think they said it wasn't a good seller for them). I looked at Victrix and, while they are nice, they are too similar to 28mm figures in style for me in that they have big hands rather than the slender proportions that most 54mm come with... |
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Post by Mike Lewis on Sept 29, 2016 15:54:41 GMT
My projects have just resumed after something of a hiatus since last May but finally on the painting table I have the command and colour parties for 2 regiments of 7YW Austrians and some C18th British grenadiers, also some units of 7YW Prussian grenadiers and artillery being rebased. Projects stalled which I've put aside until I get my mojo back are mostly conversions: half painted Van Ginkels Horse from the Williamite Wars, Imperial Chinese Artillery, Napoleonic French foot dragoons and WW1 trench sections with French, British and German infantry. Painted at the start of the year and still waiting to be varnished are Chinese Imperial cavalry, Risorgimento French and Neapolitan infantry, a Gallic warband and WW1 Austrians. In the past I've given figures 2 coats of artists acrylic varnish but recently I've become dissatisfied with the durability of this and I'm wondering about using yacht varnish, the tin says in drys with a yellowish tinge - has anyone used this varnish before and if so how does it fare? And I thought I had a lot of unfinished stuff...  I have never tried Yacht Varnish on figures (I've used it on boats!) but I would worry about it yellowing with age. |
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Post by davel on Sept 29, 2016 19:18:21 GMT
Hi Mark,
The Ex-Force stuff does seem expensive at first, but when you look at the quality of the sculpts and with the new hard plastic weapons for the newer issues, I think they work out at a reasonable price. They were £20 a box, which for foot worked out at £2.20 per figure (9 figures to a box) and mounted at £4 a figure (5 figures a box).
I think they're about £22 a box now. To me good value because of quality and you don't need big units.
But each to their own. I'm sold on them so will pay the price.
Best Wishes Dave
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Post by greencommander on Feb 16, 2017 3:13:11 GMT
For me, it is a bunch of mostly scratch-built terrain projects, all at various stages of completion. On one hand, it never feels like I am getting anything done, but on the other hand, there is always something on the bench that interests me: - About 40 concrete highway dividers
- 4 foamcore builings
- Basing some 54mm livestock, including some strange cattle that have both horns and udders. The casts were made in China, so I don't know if the sculptors couldn't make up their minds or if Chinese cattle are hermaphroditic (that's probably a separate thread, though).
- Several barbed wire fence sections, a projects talled because I can't decide how to build the corners or gates
- Kitbashing a Vietnam-Era river patrol boat
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Post by Mike Blake on Nov 5, 2019 9:14:24 GMT
bump
All I will admit to is 11 drawers in my WIP wall cabinet, each with a different project in it...though there is some overlap of genres, so they could count as the same project?
Oh, and another actually out being worked on - some EB Bolshivik First Cavalry mounted and a foot conversion for each of them.
Oh, whoops, I nearly forgot the five or six RUBs of Ottoman infantry, cavalry and artllery on a trolley under the wargames table!
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Post by jhonpog on Nov 6, 2019 0:21:22 GMT
got two projects underway plus terrain: star wars and generic fantasy figures. So many cool things to make so little time
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Post by aducknamedjoe on Nov 6, 2019 0:57:14 GMT
My list is all terrain right now: -Build the ruins inside my cardboard houses so I can take the tops off to reveal them if the building is hit by artillery. -Build a proper bridge. -Build a third cardboard house with an alternate roof style (flat/adobe vs. peaked). -Build a boat/landing craft just because. -Build some cardboard wall sections for a mini-fort. -Finish my outside stockade fort using the two-part wood epoxy jhonpog suggested a while ago. |
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Post by rupertm on Nov 6, 2019 10:14:36 GMT
Just got some Biplant Gauls / Celts off ebay from Russia that I am going to convert most of. Similar size and material to Conte. One pose (bottom row, middle) I have yet to work out what to do with apart from maybe use his head elsewhere but the others will see service in my various Barbarian armies - Germans, Dacians and Gauls. Some could also pass as Vikings. Less than £10 including postage from Russia for 6 figures. Biplant also do some Romans and others. Biplant Gauls on ebay![]() ![]()   |
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Post by Mike Blake on Nov 6, 2019 11:43:39 GMT
Crucified prisoner???
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Post by gonefishing on Nov 6, 2019 14:20:58 GMT
Those Biplant offerings look nice, Rupert, though I'd guess they'll have historians rending their tweed jackets in horror.
As for me, I've nearly completed my collection to be used in a fictional El Dorado campaign. Years ago Chris Peers wrote an article in Wargames Illustrated on how to conduct such a campaign (including rules, though I probably won't use those). Almost all figures for this project are from the excellent Meso-American range by Chintoys - I might also add that these are some of the first figures I've ever collected that I intend to keep unpainted. Here are each of the protagonist's forces:
Spaniards - 4 x 6 man units of conquistadors, plus a few war dog handlers and their assorted mutts (dogs from a cheap toobs collection from Amazon (how appropriate!)
Portuguese - 3 x 8 man units - using the new Chintoys Spanish Warriors for these
French (!) - well, it could have happened...3 x 8 of Chintoys Italians (they look appropriately foppish)
All the Europeans can add to their forces from friendly (read, conquered) Indian types. As for the native kingdoms:
Aztecs - 6 x 8 man units
Maya - 8 x 8 man units
Mixtecs/Zapotecs - 7 x 8 man units
Cannibals (Tupi from Brazil, etc.) - 6 x 8 man units (using Iroquois by CTS for these)
Inca - 8 x 8 man units
As you can see, I've rather downgraded the Aztecs in terms of importance - I get a little tired of them - and will instead have the Maya and Inca as the two main power-brokers on the island of El Dorado; the Inca will have by far the most gold (the main motivator for the Europeans) but will be more remote, whilst the Maya will have a penchant for sacrificing any sods unlucky enough to be captured...
For rules I'll probably use tweaked Lion Rampant or The Sword and the Flame. All good fun and at the very least keeping me off the streets!
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