Happy New Year !

All the best for 2014. May your brushes never splay and dice always roll true.

Cheers for now

Rounding up 2013

As 2013 draws to a close in sunny Scotland its a time to reflect before the Hogmanay celebrations start. The year started with the 3rd Painting challenge and progressed  from there.  A new Impetus army has been started and hopefully early next year will see the finish of another one. Several warbands have been completed and a few others started.

In summary the total of figures finished is detailed below:

• 28mm Infantry - 88 figures
• 28mm Cavalry - 6 figures
• 28mm Chariot - 1 set
• 28mm Elephant - 1 set
• 20mm Infantry - 6 figures
• 20mm Vehicles - 4
• 15mm Vehicles - 17

Overall not a bad tally and hopefully something that will be improved on next year. 

Cheers for now

Back to the Brushes 81

Progress has been slow over the last week with Christmas and all it brings. Hopefully the next few days will allow a bit more painting to be done on a variety of different elements for the Analogue Challenge.

The first set of Orcs are now painted but waiting on scenic tufts to arrive in the post to finish the basing.

Have started painting the flesh on to a number of the Trojans and Mycenaeans in bulk to have a large number of these figures sitting ready to go. This is being done in  four stages:

• Block coat of Tallarn Flesh
• Base coat of Foundry Mediterranean Flesh A
• Mid Tone of Foundry Mediterranean Flesh B
• Highlight of Foundry Mediterranean Flesh C

The extra layer of Tallarn Flesh is speeding up the process in that it is reducing the need to touch up the base coat of the Mediterranean flesh. Here are a few pictures of the work in progress at present from stages one to three above:

Tallarn Flesh Block coat

Foundry Mediterranean Flesh A Base Coat

Foundry Mediterranean Flesh B Mid Tone

There will be more to follow shortly as the next batch of Orcs are on the table and the Banditos are started for Dead Mans Hand.

Cheers for now.

Seasons Greetings to one and all

Back to the Brushes 80

So far for week one so good. Should make the target of seven fully painted Orcs for Monday coming. Here are some work in progress pictures taken earlier today.

Once again the natural lighting wasn't that great and never improved through the day. Might have something with it being the shortest day today...

The figure below will be the entry figure for Curt. The final colour scheme has still to be decided on. Having never seen the Wild Bunch its making the choice of colours that bit harder. There could be some time spent on YouTube over the next day or so to get some ideas.

Cheers for now

The Beginning ...

is a very delicate time. The the day before the Analogue Painting Challenge is no less delicate. Ready for the off at some point on Sunday 15th December are the following lost souls

Challenger	Points Target	Blog
1.	AaronH	600	Dulce et Decorum Est
2.	AlanD	500	Dux Homunculorum
3.	AndrewS	1000	Loki’s Great Hall
4.	AndyM	1000	Another Slight Diversion
5.	AnneO’L	200	O’Leary Miniatures
6.	BenD	750	Breakthrough Assault
7.	BenG	600	Monsieur Rosbif & Johnny Frog
8.	BrendonW	600	The Gamer’s Table
9.	BurkhardS	1000	dhcwargamesblog
10.	ByronM	600	Fawcett Ave Conscripts
11.	ChrisP	1000	The Wars of Pooch
12.	ChristopherS	500	Bunker Hill
13.	ClintB	600	Anything But a One
14.	DallasE	250	Fawcett Ave. Conscripts
15.	DaveD	600	One Man and His Brushes
16.	DaveR	?	-
17.	EdwinK	500	Thoughts of a Depressive Diplomatist
18.	FranL	600	The Angry Lurker
19.	GillesW	500	Wilderness of Mirrors
20.	GregB	1000	Fawcett Ave Conscripts
21.	IanW	1066	The Blog with No Name
22.	IannickM	590	Par la bouche de mes canons
23.	JaccoK	500	-
24.	JamesB	4500	Exiles Wargames Painter
25.	JamesL	500	The Man Cave
26.	JeremyM	500	-
27.	JohnM	1500	Wargaming in 28mm and Sometimes Smaller
28.	JuanM	500	Jugando con Munequitos
29.	Kawe	200	Grossbeeren 1813
30.	KentG	1500	15mm Paint Shack
31.	KevH	1000	Kev’s Wargame’s Cabin
32.	KevinH	300	Fawcett Ave. Conscripts
33.	KevinS	2000	Diggers Home
34.	LeeH	600	Big Lee’s Miniature Adventures
35.	LordH	1200	The British Army at Waterloo
36.	MarkG	1000	The Wilde Goose
37.	MartinN	400	Moiterei’s bunte Welt
38.	MichaelA	600	28mm Victorian Warfare
39.	MichaelF	501	MiniStories
40.	MilesR	1500	Lair of the Uber Geek
41.	Millsy	1250	Canister and Grape
42.	PaulJ	500	The Man Cave
43.	PaulS	600	EndTransmission’s gaming stuff
44.	PeterD	500	The Single Handed Admiral
45.	PhilH	?	Diary of a Gaming Magpie
46.	RayR	600	Don’t Throw a 1
47.	ReneV	1045	Painting Armies in Tin
48.	RobH	200	With General Custer Down in Mexico
49.	RobP	500	-
50.	RossM	585	Brushes and Bases
51.	SamuliS	1200	Engineered Gaming
52.	SeanS	500	Sean’s Wargaming Corner
53.	ScottB	600	Scott’s Wargaming
54.	ScottS	1000	Too Much Free Time
55.	SebG	800	Back to the Minis
56.	SidneyR	700	Roundwood’s World
57.	StefanK	450	Monty’s Caravan
58.	SteveM	?	-
59.	TamsinP	1200	Wargaming Girl
60.	TimB	2000	Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog
61.	…and Curt	700

Over the last few days and nights no painting has been done, which on reflection may have been a good thing given the target set. In comparison to others the target isn't that high, however this is a personal challenge so only time will tell.

Good luck to all involved and I will make a point of ensuring that all the above blogs are followed if not already done so.

Cheers for now.