Starwars Legion.
Just a quick update for this one because these were on my radar to sell and sold really fast.
It's not that I don't like the game, I've just never played it! and with so many other games out there it was not that high on my list of things to do.
All painted following the excellent Vlogs from John.
All up 54 Figures for the Empire and 52 for the Rebels along with a selection of terrain elements, also all painted.
Anyway, I'm crossing this one off as Done and Sold.
WW1 is Done
The decals for my German Tank arrived this morning so I wasted no time in getting them on the model.
I deliberately avoided going for a specific tank's markings and instead used decals from a combination of two different tanks. I did this to avoid any die-hard WW1 fanatics pointing out that the camo scheme was wrong, or the tank was only ever at a certain battle etc.
I figured that I'm not really trying to recreate historical accuracy, just models to play games with.
Anyway, I am officially calling the WW1 collection done.
A place of ill repute.
I've started to paint the few buildings I have printed for the 'Blood and Plunder' section of this project.
I went with a really fast technique and managed to get these 3 building to through these 3 simple stages in a couple of hours at most.
I first primed them all with a light grey primer in a regular rattle can.
After that I used Army Painter Leather Brown and Army Painter Dragon Red spray cans to do the wooden areas and roofs.
The red was actually an after-thought, I originally did all the roofs brown before realising I had red spray paint in the garage.
You don't need to be too neat with this process and a little overspray won't hurt.
Any areas with a lot of overspray just quickly tidy up a bit with light grey.
I then used a dark grey through an airbrush to mark out some darker areas. around windows and doors etc. Again, don't worry about being particularly careful. Check out some of the images and you'll see I got spray everywhere in some cases.
Most of this will get covered up during the next step anyway.
Next, it's time to get out a big drybrush.
I used two successively lighter brown tones to quickly drybrush the woodwork and two light greys for the main parts of the building.
For the roofs a quick pale red followed by a more cream colour.
This helps blend in all the colours ready for the next step, which unfortunately may have to wait for a few weeks as I am about to be sent on a short deployment with work.
I dry-brushed the door and window frames to help them stand out a bit more from the walls. For this I just used a really light grey followed by a light drybrush of off-white.
I then gave the entire building a quick coating or army painter quickshade. This not only adds an extra level of grime that helped give that lived in look to buildings but also adds a nice protective varnish.
The shutters and doors were all undercoated with leather brown spray paint before being dry-brushed lighter shades of brown until the top highlight was almost white.
I then used various Games Workshop glazes over the doors and shutters to create a weathered painted wood look. Finally, I picked out the metal studs on the doors with some chainmail paint.
I assembled all the doors and shutters using thin wire to allow them all to open and close before giving the entire model a coat of spray matt varnish.
The next stages will be to add some detailing and do the bases.
It's a Pirates life for me.
Whilst waiting on those grass tufts for the WW1 collection I set my printers to work on some of the amazing terrain from Dark Realms
I am not sure if these buildings are on their store yet, but if they are not, I am sure they will be soon.
Resin printers are great for terrain. I used 2 CR10s Pro V2 machines to print out this little lot. I am currently in the process of printing a church to go with this set and I will more than likely add a couple more houses too.
I had a few breakages on the balcony supports that hold the roof up. It's not too much of a drama and replacing the uprights with wooden beams is a simple task and will likely add something to the character of the buildings anyway.
This is what I have got done so far.
Almost done with Great War.
The grass tufts arrived so I set about finishing off the bases of my WW1 British.
After basing them all I decided to go back through them all and add Company markings to them. Again, I haven't gone with historical accuracy on this, rather I went with what would be easy to spot on the tabletop.
I have.
Yellow Company, that consists of mostly assault type troops.
White Company, that has more support troops, Artillery and Mortars
Blue Company, which is a second wave assault company. Similar to Yellow Company but with slightly less machine guns.
I then took another look at the German A7V tank and decided that I would make it slightly darker than what it was. Now I'm just waiting on some decals for the German tank, and I can call this collection done.
Pieces of Eight
Blood and Plunder by Firelock Games is up next.
I picked this as the next to post up because I have backed their last Kickstarter campaign quite heavily and know that before too long, I will be inundated with stuff to build and paint.
Everything I have to date is fully painted.
British - 17 Figures
Dutch - 25 Figures
Unaligned - 25 Figures
French - 25 Figures
Characters - 11 Figures
Ships - 7 A combination of Firelock Games and Ainsty Castings.
Total 93 Figures and 7 Ships.
I also have enough cannon for all the ships and plenty to spare.
For this I am lacking somewhat in terrain, so the plan is to add some suitable terrain for some land-based battles.