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Slow progress with Wild Bill Hickok. Wild Bill Hickok is part of the Foundry OW9/1 Shootists pack.
I decided to use a bit of green stuff to texture the base. This will combined with the Citadel Texture make the base look more like a base and less like a coin. I gave his trousers a coat of light brown paint.
Another work in progress shot of one of my Old West gunfighters, Bill Longley.
I decided to use a bit of green stuff to texture the base. This will combined with the Citadel Texture make the base look more like a base and less like a coin.
Really like the idea and concept of this recent publication by Osprey, Steampunk Soldiers
Steampunk Soldiers is a unique pictorial guide to the last great era of bright and colourful uniforms, as well as an important historical study of the variety of steam-powered weaponry and equipment that abounded in the days before the Great War of the Worlds.
Between 1887 and 1895, the British art student Miles Vandercroft travelled around the world, sketching and painting the soldiers of the countries through which he passed. In this age of dramatic technological advancement, Vandercroft was fascinated by how the rise of steam technology at the start of the American Civil War had transformed warfare and the role of the fighting man. This volume collects all of Vandercroft’s surviving paintings, along with his associated commentary on the specific military units he encountered.
The book is full of full colour pages, as with many Osprey publications and I really love the back story of how and why the book was published.
As one of the reviewers says:
When Samantha Callaghan approached Osprey with her great-great uncle, Miles Vandercroft’s collection of paintings and notes she didn’t really know what she had on her hands, but the publishers were soon to realise that they had a potential hit on their hands, or so the introduction leads us to believe.
If you like Osprey books and like Steampunk then you are going to probably like this book.
I have been sculpting the bases and painting some more Foundry miniatures from their Darkest Africa range that I am going to use with my Tally Ho! rules as well as Old West games.
For these models, I decided to use a bit of green stuff to texture the base. This will combined with the Citadel Texture make the base look more like a base and less like a coin.
Slow but steady progress on my Bolt Action French Partisan Band…
Okay just slow progress.
I have continued to paint my Old West Gunslingers, I am hoping to get a few more finished, despite having started to paint some more.
This is how far I have got with Judge Guthrie Prentice, compared to previously, I have painted his coat, British Uniform 921.
Alas the photographs are a little dark, forgot to check all the settings before taking the pics, needed to up the white balance.
I was given a laser-etched MDF Stage Coach from Sarissa Precision for Cbristmas, it comes as a piece of laser-etched MDF and a smaller piece of laser-etched card.
It was very simple to put together, the card components were quite tricky and you need to watch that you don’t bend or crumple the card aspects. I was really impressed with the wheels which though looked quite delicate, were pretty easy to remove from the MDF.
The model I made looks very much like the marketing material and I was impressed with the quality of the kit and the explanatory instructions, which made construction very simple and relatively quick.
Tally Ho is a game idea that I started developing, probably nearly twenty years ago, but hasn’t come very far. The vision for the game is having small unit actions in the 1930s, normally using a small band of heroic adventurers versus nasty types.
I am aiming to use the blog to expand and explore upon the ideas behind the game and rules and then collate them before publishing them on the main website.
In terms of game mechanics, the main concept was less about realism, but much more about heroic actions in the style of film and television heroes.
Each figure in the game is an individual character and would be represented by a character card. The character would have characteristics that would allow them to carry out certain actions in the game.
These are some of my Foundry Darkest Africa figures currently on the workbench.
These are nice models with a lot of character. I will be using them for Tally Ho! games and also Doctor Who scenarios.
I had a pack of Darkest Africa miniatures from Foundry. I also intend to use them for VSF and Old West scenarios too, as well as Tally Ho! games. This is Enfield from the blister of A League of Exceptional Gentleman.
Another nicely crafted model from The Foundry. The model was glued to a two pence piece and I gave the model a white undercoat. I decided to use a bit of green stuff to texture the base. This will combined with the Citadel Texture make the base look more like a base and less like a coin. In addition I added some Citadel slate as a rock for the base.
Starting on painting the model with a light brown for the hat.