28mm Romans started day one comp

Might not look like much yet but these lads now have one coat of bolt gun metal one wash of devlan mud and a dry brush of mithril silver two trays to go will start the second in my lunch time tomorrow i was lucky my boss went away and  i got to paint in my afternoon tea as well as lunch today sadly i had to go out tonight to sing some carols down the bay so only and hour when i got home I've managed to do first layer of skin on a few.

analogue painting challenge 28mm pep

Well only one and a half days before the painting challenge starts i had to take out any commission work that i was going to include so here's what I have dug out and have undercoated ready to start i have some dragoons out drying at the moment so not only Romans but also WW2 British and Elite French Naps if i get through these, there's always the below figures to start gluing together. So much to paint so little time. There is one heck of a lot of figures in that cupboard of mine everything from the wild west to ECW ancients and more, I must learn to finish what i have before i buy more, but oh what the hell it's fun & games

Big Red

 Last night i didn't feel like doing a lot so i decided to paint just one figure taht i forgot that i said i would do for a friend, he still a has a few minor things but the figure is mostly done, Richard like to base his own figures so that's a bout it for Big Red

Time to take these lads to war

 Here we are again Taking on those peskie Russians they just never seem to know when to throw the hat in.
Nigel and I took on Craig & Dale we both took two support option so decided that we needed a larger table think it was  an 8x6. the French were on the attack so received two extra Battalions of infantry. I took a guards Division with young guards and cuirassiers and the support. Both Nigel and i decided to hit the flanks and see what happened. as it was three battalions ended up crossing the hill near left of centre on the hill for and interesting wee fight there.

 Just about to hit the Russian lines I took a few hits on most of  my units at this point but not enough to do any real damage. By this stage Niglel had lost one Battalion but his second was well placed to take out a battery of guns

 My guards race across the centre to stop and destroy a Battalion of infantry that broke the lines 

 Craig's cav appears one turn after ours they take out one of my Battalions of infantry in square i roll terriable dice

 good by guns the first of three batteries to be destroyed by the mighty French I took one battery by forcing it to limber just before the assault. the Heavy cav took out the other

 Nigel just couldn't get the upper hand and was repelled i think three times, on the far side i have completely destroy Craigs infantry they are one away from defeat

 the meeting of the cav the game had been won by Nigel destroying the last of Craig's infantry, we get lucky with the dice and destroy one of Craig's heavy cav but bounce off the other, the battle field is left to the French. Found out later that we had used the tactics rules wrong but all and all a fun game

28mm Victrix Old Guard finished

 Finally after nearly 3 weeks I've managed to get these guys finished, the Christmas season really plays havoc with the painting schedule. And after all that i forgot to spray some dull coat on to get rid of the gloss look  ow well there's always the next box of old guard. I'm busy undercoating figures for the comp which starts next week. I've had to change my planned painting list as they have asked for no commission work. It will be a chance for me to paint up some of my piles of lead and maybe the odd plastic if i can be bothered gluing them up 

 well these Lads will be out tonight for there first battle hopefully they do a little better than most of my figures on there first outing

the Painting Challange

 I've taken on the Challenge laid down by the Analogue Hobbies web site which you can find on my blog list, the challenge is to paint as many figures as you can between the 20th December and the 20th of March and base them. So after looking through some of my figures and some commissions I've decide to tackle the Romans i have two armies for commissions and all of the rest of my Romans that i haven't started. then if i have any time left i will get back to to my French.

So the totals of figures are as follows

336 infantry

17 Cavalry

5 ballasters

should keep me busy for a while

below, early roman army

 these are whats left of mine

on the painting desk this week, Germans & old Guard

 Well here we are again haven't had as much time with the brushes this week with family stuff school plays and such oh and my 20th wedding anniversary but for those who know me you know that i will find a pace somewhere in there to paint so here's where i'm at first of all the Old Guard still working on them up to the gold now did the first coat on the back packs last night i think they are coming along well and should have them finished some time next week. I also paint up part of a commission yesterday a few German ww2. I have some Americans and a few German ww1 trench raiders to do before they head off

still a bit of work to do yet on the faces and the back packs and a few other things but they are starting to look the part oh and i still have to do most of the trousers.

 I managed to start the skin on these lads