SYW - Commanders for my Austrian Army - General

 Manufacturer:  FrontRank Miniatures

Scale:  28mm

Hi, 

I currently working on my Austrian Army of the SYW.

Using the rules of "BlackPowder" and the supplement "Last Arguments of Kings" I had to paint up some Commanders for the different brigades that I want to bring onto the battlefield.

The Commander in Chief has already been painted about 4 or 5 years ago and is the FrontRank figure of Field Marshal Prince Charles of Lorraine.

The miniature of this post is also a FrontRank figure and shows a normal Austrian General.

As I like my commanders to be placed on multi-figure bases I decided to let this guy be accompanied by two Austrian Artillerymen I didn´t know where to add them.

More to come soon. :)

Cheers

Mike

Blood&Plunder - A little figure extension

Scale:  28mm

Manufacturer:  WizKids

Hi,

today´s short post is about a extension for Blood&Plunder. 

A figure that probably never will find a place on the gaming table. But as I had seen this figure it was a must have and it had been great fun to paint it up.

Ladies and gentlemen - here it is - my great white shark.

Cheers 

Mike

Blood & Plunder - Support for the "Tortuga" - the bark "Seahorse"

Manufacturer:   FirelockGames

Scale:   28mm

Hi, 

today just a short post about my second ship for Blood&Plunder  -  the bark "Seahorse".

I wanted to give this bark a similar look to the brigantine just to show they belong to the same faction.

Still not knowing how to do the sails. But they are ready for the first games.

Don´t worry about the bottles in the background - I have it under control :)


Cheers
Mike

Blood&Plunder - My pirate´s ship "Tortuga"

Manufacturer:   FirelockGames

Scale:  28mm

Hi, 

today I am posting some pictures of my ready painted pirate´s ship "Tortuga".

It is a model of the Brigantine from FirelockGames for the rule system "Blood&Plunder".
https://www.firelockgames.com/
https://www.firelockgames.com/product-category/blood-plunder/ships/

It was a lot of fun to paint it. The only thing missing are the sails. But in my opinion the ship just looks quite good so far though the sails are missing.

Cheers

Mike

Blood&Plunder - Building a protected position for cannons

Manufacturer:     DIY

Scale:   28mm

Hi again! 

A friend of mine showed me the rules of Blood&Plunder a few weeks ago and as I like skirmish games it was no wonder that I started with these rules, too.

In times of Corona there is a lot of time at home and also for the hobby though I don´t take much use of this. Some days I am not inspired, some days I would like to finish all my projects. But that is the good thing concerning a hobby - you can do it at the time you like to and don´t have to....

As I am not really in the mood for painting figures at the moment (though I also do so) my favourite is to create terrain pieces.

And so this is the result of the last two days - a protected position for some pirates´cannons.

Just a few pictures of the ready piece of terrain and then some photos and description of the working process if you like to read further.

Hope you like it :)

Stay healthy.

Cheers
Mike

And here are some pictures of the working process.

First of all there is the idea how the piece of terrain should look like. Then there is the stadium of  racking your brain how to do it.

I used some pieces of styrofoam and also some of the stones I casted by using the molds of HirstArts and WoodlandScenics.
Though this is fun it is not as easy to arrange the parts so that they will fit in the way you want them to.

Sometimes a few difficulties appear that you have to solve. Here I needed to glue some cardboard to equal the different hights of two styrofoam pieces.

The shape of the hill was roughly done and I was able to start with glueing the rock pieces. 

Doing the wooden planks.

The result of the construction phase.

Next step was to fill the gaps with filler (Moltofill).

After filling the gaps and smoothing the filler.

I like the casted stones of HirstArts very much but I don´t like the gaps between them.

It doesn´t look very realistic.

I never tried this before though I have already done some terrain pieces with those stones. But this time I decided to fill the gaps with some filler.

At first I placed some filler on the stones and started to blend it into the gaps using a brush and some drops of water.

Not perfect but much better than before in my opinion.

After the filler was dry I started with painting the wooden planks and also the earth parts of the model.

This was also a new thing for me as I never tried this technique before. I started painting the stones by putting some washes on them - first a mixed wash of leather brown and yellow and then a darker brown wash.

After that it was totally covered with a thinner black wash.

After the washes had dried it was time for the first dry brushing of a darker gray.

There is not much to see from the brown washes but they still break through the gray. But my first thought was that I had ruined the model.

This opinion got better after the next two steps of dry brushing with lighter gray tones.

The model after the last dry brushing.

There are still some light brown layers on the rocks to see and this makes them look more natural than only using gray tones.
This was the last step only to be followed by putting the palm trees and the plants on the terrain.