2013-04-19: Teddy Bears on Parade

I worked in the garden last night instead of painting, but I was able to take a few pictures of the Swordsmen and the Musician+Bear.

  

I have said earlier, the base coating is taking a while to finish as their are many colors and many fiddly bits.  My hope is to get the base coating done soonish, then put in some simple highlights and some quick and dirty washes for shading.  Most the shields I hot glued to a piece of wood to allow me to paint them separately.  I usually don’t have that foresight or opportunity.

 

Looking forward I have three options as to what to paint next month.

A)  Another Steam Tank!

B)  Knights!  I want to give most of them cool hoods and scythes in order for them to be Knights of Moor/Knights of the Black Rose.

C)  Bears!  I have not fallen in love with the new Empire Demigrifs.  So I had looked around for an alternative.  The Thunderwolf models were a possibility, but they are pricey.  I came across these bear toys which I ordered and was very pleased with the size.  I like the fact that they are pretty realistic and have a solid pose.  The only thing I could wish was for more poses, but oh well.

   

 

So readers (reader?), which of the three options should I do?

2013-04-16: A Little Behind with Pictures

For April I decided to paint up a unit of swordsmen and a musician with a bear (the later two are part of the same miniature).  I did a few head swaps since I like the furry hats of the newish Empire archers.

This picture is from a few weeks ago and is the models primed with Armybuilder ‘Skeleton Bone’.  I had used black primers in teh past (often spraying white from above to pop the highlights) but this time I decided that I want to start with a brighter base since I have gotten tired of all the work it takes to get a good yellow over black primer.  The bone color seemed a nice way to have that lighter base without risking having super bright white spots showing where the paint didn’t reach.

The musician and bear miniature was primed a month or so ago and is in some picture from that time.

At this time I am still grinding through the base coating.  The primer has proved to be less aggravating to paint over and works well with my subdued scheme.  All the little pieces of equipment (including skulls and hourglasses, its an Empire thing) is taking a long time as its fiddly painting and I also am not sure what some things are and thus dither as to what color to paint them  My life would have also been easier if I had painted them all an identical pattern, but Stirland is supposed to be rustic and its army hodge-podge so I think they look better when each soldier has a different set of clothes.

I will try to get pictures of the work in progress soon.

2013-04-01: Better Late Than Never

Travel and childcare kept me from posting earlier.  The War Altar/Steam Tank is done except for adding some magnets to make the swappable components.