OGAM Celts

After a dip and a varnish followed by a little basing I have eight finished Celts for games of Of Gods and Mortals.

Definitely quick and dirty, especially when viewed up close. Not even any highlights.
But the Wargames Factory models in particular don't merit any further attention.
The Warlord ones may be rather caricatured, but I like them. The WF ones look less like ferocious warriors and more like someone from the accounts team.
Someone seriously deformed from the accounts team.

 Alan of the Nine Spreadsheets

Anyway they'll do for my purposes and they were quick.
The next batch may need some stripes and checks.

British Naps finished

 

Finished these fellas off.
Gave them a spray with some Purity seal and decided that was matt enough without going back over with the paint on matt.
Base is Khemri brown with a wash and drybrush, then some static grass and a few bits of coarse turf.
Won't win any prizes but they're finished.

The Frenchies need a bit more work (I missed off the epaulettes on a couple) but should join them by the end of the week.
I've found a few more that I  assembled when I first got the boxes. I've rebased them on pennies to match these and will give them a quick coat over the next few weeks. Once I've got nine or ten of each I'll download the Song of Drums and Shakos rules and give them a whirl.

Naps Dipped

So the Naps have had a coat of dip.

Basing and matt varnishing to finish them off.

Ready for the dip

I finished these off soon after my return from the desolate Chaos wastelands otherwise known as Swindon.
This post was supposed to be a before and and after shot of them getting dipped. However matt varnish problems have put a stop to that, so here they are before being coated in dip.

First the archers. I've just been reading She by H Rider Haggard for my book group, which rather inspired the leopard skin loin cloths.
Very basic paintjob - plastikote chocolate brown undercoat, overbrush with Dark Flesh, Iyanden Darksun loincloth with Scorched Brown blotches and pick out the spear tip in Chainmail and the hair Chaos Black. Leather bits Snakebite Leather and the flights in white.

Spearmen painted exactly as above:

Askaris have Deneb Stone clothing and one has a Blood Red hat, while the rifle stocks are Bestial Brown

Meanwhile here are better pictures of the Americans (who needed a little tidying up once I got them away from the hotel room and back into some decent light)

As I say, they've all now been dipped but until I can get some matt varnish I can't make any progress.

Dipped Bolt Action Americans (3)

Blimey has it been a month since I last posted?!
A combination of crazy homelife, busy worklife and a much needed holiday is my excuse for not posting anything recently.
Anyway here's another bunch of US infantry models for my expanding Bolt Action force.
I actually bought and painted these way back before Salute and they've seen action in my (so far) one and only Bolt Action game
They're all Crusader models supplied by the excellent Mr Nick over at Northstar. They're lovely characterful models, nice and chunky and easy to paint. they fit pretty well with the Warlord plastics (though I much prefer them) and were painted the same way as the others in basecoats and dip.
They really don't look as shiny in real life as the pictures make them appear - though maybe I need to go back over everything with the varnish.

  

I also used some of the Warlord plastics to create a medic model

The remaining Warlord models have also been assembled and painted - pictures later this week if I get chance.
As for the game - well it followed my usual gaming pattern and I came a distant second. Good to see that choice of rules makes no real difference to my playing ability.

Dipped Bolt Action Americans (2)

Some more quick and dirty dipped Americans.

 Cigar chompin' Sarge!

 Grenade!

Reasonably happy again with how these have turned out.
Interesting photography variations given that I took them all one after another with the same set up then treated them all the same in Photoshop...
They would definitely improve with some highlights (especially the fleshy bits) but then I might as well go back to my usual basecoat, wash, highlight method and this is definitely quicker
Just keep telling myself to keep it quick and get playing!