Old Glory Pathans (5)

Nearly there now, just 12 more to go...

Must get the last few done, then it's off to see Nick Northstar and buy the TMWWBK book

Old Glory Pathans (4)

Nine more (there were ten, but one of them slipped away from the painting queue and hid. Dashed wily these chaps) Old Glory Pathans.
Nice and easy to paint simply. But not as nice as the Artizan ones. But, on the other hand cheaper than the Artizan ones.

Dan Mersey author of Tim Wubbuk  says Northstar actually have stock of the book. Better crack on with the rest of these then....

Old Glory (and some Tiger Miniatures) Pathans (3)

I painted up the last of the bag O'Pathans I picked up at Partizan.
I bulked the remaining six out to twelve with some Tiger Miniatures models I picked up at Barrage.
Not to put too fine a point on it he Tiger models are terrible. Really rough and harking back to models I'd have rejected when I was twelve. You can still see the sculptors thumb print in some of the clothing, and were this CSI:Wargames I'd have used it to have him hunted down and jailed for crimes against sculpting.
I paid 50p each for them - had I paid 50p for the lot I think I'd have been over charged. However they were a quick and dirty fix to get me a third unit of riflemen. One which will turn out to be expensive when I replace them with Artizan or Perry models a short way down the track.
Scrivs always wisely says "life's too short to paint shit models", but as I'd already undercoated these and all I was doing was slapping a few base coats and a wash on I persisted. Though it made me sad.
Anyway, here's the unit.

And here are the Tiger models (look away now if you value your eyes)

This is about the best of them

(You can see I lost the will to live a bit with this one and he's a bit crudely painted.

Here's some of the nicer Old Glory models to take the taste away

And finally two more Tiger models that I bought to bulk out the OG bag of swordsmen I'm ordering this week to make two units of 16.

All bendy swords, odd anatomy and misshapen limbs. My poor eyes.

Old Glory Pathans (2)

A few more of the Old Glory Pathan models.
Well, 12 more to be precise for that is the size of a rifle armed unit for TMWWBK.

This time I elected to include some dark brown and khaki clothing. to provide a little variety. Straight from the Halfords tin. Other than that they were simply painted with basic colours and then coats of various brown washes just like the previous unit

Someone over on the Lead Adventure Forum took issue with me over my description of these models.
Not because I don't like them (I do) but because I don't like them as much as he does.
Also because I like Artizan models and he doesn't.

Because I am a mature and reasonable person,  I say wargaming is a broad church and we are both entitled to our opinions.
In the same way that I'm entitled to the opinion that he's an arse.

Next, I'll be doing 12 more models including some Tiger models which are, shall we say, not castings I am looking forward to engaging with.

Old Glory Pathans

As part of preparing for The Men Who Would Be Kings (shortened to TMWWBK and pronounced Tim Wubbuk, the Canadian lumberjack, eh) I need some Afghans for my Artizan British to fight.

I knew from speaking to Andy Hawes that he'd used the Old Glory models (amongst others) for his playtest forces. I'd have liked to stick with the Artizan models, as they're dead nice and available from Nice Mr Nick Northstar just down the road, but the Old Glory ones seemed quite the bargain at £25 for a bag o 30 models.

However OG do get a bad press generally, so I was sceptical, but I figured if a talented brushman like Andy said they were OK, then they'd probably be alright for a cack-handed buffoon like me to mess around with.

So I ordered some to collect at Partizan. Annoyingly they only had one of the bags I was after in stock, but I figured if they were terrible better to waste only £25, rather than £50 so I grabbed the one bag I could and bought them home.

And here are the first twelve of them all painted up.

 

Simple white undercoat, pick out some details and the flesh bits then each one covered with a single wash all over. Some had CDA Mid Brown wash, some Devlan Mud and some Gryphonne Sepia.

I then went back and highlighted the white a bit.

Job done (apart from some basing)

So what do I think of the models?

Well, when I first got them out of the bag my heart sank. Used to Perry, GW and Artizan models these were undeniably cruder. 

But actually painting them was really easy and I'm really happy with the end results.

They're just nice simple soldiers - lacking in detail by some standards, but that's no bad thing when you've got to churn out a hatful of them and the exaggerated folds on the clothes and the characterful (caricature?) faces make them easy to paint.

I'll definitely be ordering some more.