Wargaming Girl

Well, this has been a productive weekend. The coureurs de bois got posted by Curt yesterday (more of this later), the regimental guns have also been posted and the skeleton pirates are finished and have been submitted.

The coureurs and guns have gained me 72 points, putting me into 6th place. The skeletons will get me another 48 points and then there are the points for my Villain to come later on as well.

I've taken things a bit easier today and restricted myself to finishing the skeletons, continuing with the NSL heavy carrier and doing some initial steps on another 15mm project - a set of 6 limber teams for my 30 Years War army. So far I've just done some of the basecoats, but will continue working on them alongside the NSL ships.






The Villain bonus theme should be posted a bit later on by Curt and my entry for that round will be revealed. As it will be the prize in my 2nd Blogday draw, my post tomorrow will be the Prize Draw.

Edit: They're up. Head on over, drool at the lovely figures and don't forget to vote!

I'll be scheduling it as I will be going straight to the club from work to play the first of my three games in the club's 30 Years War tournament. Go Danish!


28mm Coureurs de Bois



Lots of pics coming up!

These 8 French Canadian backwoodsmen gained me 32 points (I dropped 1 point per figure as they aren't based - Loki is going to be basing them all). They are my painting contribution for the Bloggers for Charity event.

These were painted over black primer drybrushed with white to provide some pre-highlighting. As the figures were all the same pose, I decided to use a wide range of colours to make every figure different. It also made for some confusion on my part when I went to do the final highlighting. It might have been better if I'd done them before I gave the figures a wash of brown ink - a lesson learned for next time!

I still haven't mastered the art of painting eyes, so I've just done the iris colour and ignored the whites. I have remembered one lesson I learned after painting my Norman Dux a couple of months ago - seal with Klear on its own rather than mixed with ink as the ink mix is very good at hiding all the effort put into the highlighting.


















 I hope you all like them.

Hi folks!

My Koreans have been posted over on Curt's blog, netting me 196 points - a welcome addition to my total and which briefly saw me in 4th place (I've been pushed down to 5th place now). I'll post the pics here tomorrow.

Now that I'm back at the four letter word which shall not be mentioned, my painting will inevitably slow down, so having 454 points in the bag already is quite handy.

This evening I've carried on with the coureurs de bois. I've actually got them to the point where they are very nearly finished. The next step will be a wash of brown ink over the browns and yellows to give a bit of variety and depth to the colouring, then it will be highlights and decorative detailing. I should finish them on Saturday if things go well.

Here are a couple of pics to show them as they are:





I'm not sure what to start on next. I'm tempted to do a unit or two of pirates - perhaps the skeletal crew and pyrats just for fun.