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With only nine days left before the start of this year's Analogue Painting Challenge, the final preparation work has been completed.

Shown here are a variety of different figures that will keep enough variety to complete the point level set and hopefully more.

First up are range of different figures including in black Citadel Orcs circa 1985, Critical Mass recom troopers in grey and finally  15mm.co.uk Undead in well bone coloured undercoat.

Above shows another three different sets of figures.

First in chaos red under coat, Kaamados Dominion Aagamid Infantry platoon - there are another seven stands drying at present. Next are 11 20mm WWII British vehicles to flesh out the 11th Armoured Division support company. These are from Frontline Wargames. Lastly are the Caesarean Romans from Gripping Beast that will make up the bulk of a Basic Impetus army in 28mm, there are another 16 figures also drying for this range.

Above are Companions and Greek Heavy cavalry from Rapier Miniatures in 6mm and enough figures for two stands of phalanx.

The last picture below show the Curtgeld figure or in this case figures, from Gripping Beast's Early Saxon range - Penda the Last Saxon King. The main question here is do they get a black, grey or white undercoat? Lately have been moving away from black as finding it harder to see things. Guess its an age thing!

As you can see there are variety of different figures to choose from  and if things get boring there are plenty more prepped and undercoated figures to choose from in 28mm for Ancients and Dark Ages.

Cheers for now

A new Beginning for Basic Impetus 2.0

Soon to be available in both print and pdf versions, more details here.

Cheers for now

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Sometimes the colours that you think that will work well together just don't sit well. The juxtaposition is well just wrong. This is an example of this

The ochre for the cloak just doesn't sit well with all that polished steel. Any suggestions? Black - too obvious, blue might work, white  could be too clean and red, well that's been done before at some point in history.

Over to to you for your colour suggestions

Cheers for now

R.I.P Joe Dever 1956 - 2016

An inspiration

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A beginning is a very delicate time...

The prepping has started for this year's Analogue Painting Challenge and here are the first figures waiting to be undercoated shortly.

Below shows thirty Gripping Beast Caesarian Romans that will form the bulk of a Basic Impetus army.

Need another dozen or so of these so will be in contact with Gripping Beast tomorrow to see if they are still available.

More to follow soon

Cheers for now.

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A couple of work in progress shots quickly taken this morning.

First up a Foundry Norman that is very near completion and to his left the Foundry Rat Catcher or Risk Taker move closer to the final colours. The far left corner shows four more Gripping Beast Vikings slowly getting coloured in; these will be for SAGA or similar.

With the Ratcatcher figure keeping to muted browns on the material as want to show the rats in blacks and greys. No real reason why it was just how the miniature started to come together.

Above is a Reaper fighter or cleric type that will be used as such in some form of fantasy based skirmish game in the future. Mostly armour on this one so hoping to finish up soon.

More work in progress to come shortly.

Cheers for now.

C Beams Glitter in the Dark 3

A set of objective markers from Critical Mass Games for use in the same.

The crew are standard heavy weapons from Ground Zero Games posing as technical staff. A better use of spare figures than the lead pile.

Some more finished figures to follow along with prep for the 7th Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge.

Cheers for now