And Now For Something Completely Different 11

This young fellow has been hanging around the edge of the painting table for sometime now, so in between colours for Vikings and working on the first full stand for Project S here he is:

An old Citadel figure that has been brought to life again for Songs of Blades and Heroes, taking the warband into double figures now at ten. Great fun to paint and even more fun to game with.

More to follow shortly with working progress on the Vikings.

Cheers for now.

Back to the Brushes 58

The pictures below show the work in progress of the camps stands for the Late Romans in Impetus with two thirds of the camp nearly completed. The other third has already been started and there will be pictures to follow shortly.

The last picture shows the start of a Desperado gang for Dead Man's Hand. The figures are banditos from Artizan Design and really are full of character. More of these and other stuff for Dead Man's Hand in the near future.

Yesterday saw some good progress on the first stands for Project S, with a good few figures blocked in.   More to follow shortly hopefully.

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Dance of Bronze 6

Here at last are the final pictures of the Mycenaean Chariot that has been on the painting table for the last few months. All the figures are from Redoubt Miniatures and are full of character for the period. Anyway enough chat here's the pictures:

Due to a trip away and a chest infection this has been the first hobby work undertaken in the last few weeks. Starting to feel more energetic so hopefully there will be more brush work to follow as Project S is now ready to start properly.

There are also some plans starting to take shape for a possible display game for next year, but this will depend on a few other factors.

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Back to the Brushes 57

Progress has been slow lately as Project S is being prepared for painting. There is nothing more tedious than removing flash and filing casting lines off miniatures but sometimes there is just no choice it has to be done. Not that these castings are bad, its just the entire army in one go gets a bit soul destroying. The 300 point army at present stands at one hundred and twenty-six figures including all cavalry and infantry and its so very nearly finished. As always there are surplus figures for more options in the future, but these really are for the future.

There will be a fair bit of redesign going on with the blog over the next few days as some of the Basic Impetus pages are redesigned to allow for Project S and other projects including the Vikings, Mycenaeans and Trojans. A very quick picture of the Vikings stands at present:

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Back to the Brushes 56

Time this week just seems to be running away with itself and as a result time for hobbies is reduced, however, the Mycenaean chariot is now complete, just the figures to glue in place and base so all good there.  Some slow progress has also been made on the basing of the Vikings for Impetus. Sadly no pictures of either but this will change over the next few days too.

In addition to this, the first few figures for Project S have been cleaned up and undercoated. They are looking, well black at present but the figures by Gripping Beast are worthy of note. The plan here is to keep the project under wraps until there is something of note to show, at least a few stands anyway.

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Back to the Brushes 55

The last week has seen very little in the way of brush work been done. There was a long period mid week of sorting out figures for the start of a new project which is Impetus related but subsequently very little painting. This however, is about to change.

Below is the last pictures of the Mycenaean Chariot prior to final basing. This will be the last chariot based at an angle with some larger bases have been purchased from Warbases at Carronade.

Work on the multi-purpose Roman camp continues as shown below. The figures are from Foundry and will be on a separate base. The completed camp will have two tents and a few figures on a third stand. This will allow the tents to be used for other Roman armies as necessary.

Lastly, some bases of Vikings for Impetus finally receive their textured bases. It has been a long wait for these gents but now the Basic Impetus army is very nearly completed.

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