Still painting my Foundry Gunfighters, this is Choctaw Charley.
Category: workbench
Tracks
Though I painted the drill on my VSF Tunnelling Machine with a basecoat of Boltgun Metal, for the tracks I decided to use my usual method of a black basecoat. Like the tracks this was quite a challenging area to ensure it was fully painted.
This will then be drybrushed with Boltgun Metal.
Painting the drill
Having undercoated my Ironclad Miniatures Victorian Science Fiction Tunnelling Machine, I painted the drill using Boltgun Metal.
This is a different process to the way I would usually paint something like this. Normally I would give the metal parts a black undercoat and then drybrush with Boltgun Metal. This time I am intending to use a black wash.
This is quite a difficult part to paint, as due to the design it is very easy to miss bits as you paint. I found rotating across the three dimensions certainly helped avoiding missing bits with the paint.
15mm Ruined shop with passage
Having undercoated the Total Battle Miniatures 15mm ruined shop with passage I then added a base coat to cover the rubble and the broken parts of the walls.
I will then paint some of the detail before giving the model a wash using a brown wash.
I intend to add more debris, using wood and plasticard, as well as some printed signs and posters.
95th Rifles
I really enjoyed both watching the Sharpe TV series
The first thing I did was base them using two pence pieces and Citadel Sand.
I will be using them as they were in the Penisular War, so will be giving them gravelly bases with some brush grass.
Old West Gunfighters
I was lucky enough to get for one Christmas a few years back two packs of Foundry Old West Outlaws. I am still in the process of painting the models using a variety of colours.
Have a look at my Old West miniatures Gallery and Old West Workbench.
Crimean War British Infantry
After cleaning the Crimean War British Infantry, I glued them to two pence pieces and the covered this with PVA glue and Citadel Sand.
I also used some slate pieces from a Citadel terrain pack to represent rock.
Bolt Action Partisan Band
After thinking about Bolt Action for a while and reflecting on the rules I finally decided on which force I was going to build. My regular opponent Simon was going Italian, so I actually had quite a wide choice of potential foes, from Early War French, British Desert Rats, Anzio which would mean regular British Infantry and US forces, Russians and even Germans towards the end of the war. I did initially think about Greek, they used regular British equipment so would be quite easy to model. I did consider Late War Germans, so I could get a JagdTiger in 28mm…. but in the end I decided that I would go totally irregular and go with Partisans, so just infantry, or maybe a car or truck or two.
Through mail-order I bought from Warlord Games their Partisan Band, which in theory contains eight figures, quite pleased to find that my parcel contained ten figures.
After cleaning the castings, I stuck them to two pence pieces using super glue, after that was dry, using PVA and Citadel Sand I covered the bases.
The next stage will be a white undercoat.
Adding detail, to the 15mm Ruined Houses
I have the ruined row of three houses and the ruined row of four houses, from Total Battle Miniatures. Having previously posted about the ruined row of three houses, here is the ruined row of four houses.
Still some work to do on the stonework and half-timbered building.
Adding the detail, to the 15mm Ruined Houses
I have the ruined row of three houses and the ruined row of four houses, from Total Battle Miniatures.
Having given most of the model a basecoat, I am now painting in the details of the ruins, using Citadel Scorched Brown.
Once I have finished painted the ruins, I think I will add some additional detrius, broken beams and so on to add a little more detail.
