I've been self-schooled these past few days on the true meaning of the seven Ps*.
When I signed on I was very excited about Dead Man's Hand and had prepped XX figures including XX of the Great Escape Games casualty figures which I planned to work on for the Challenge. But like every good wargaming squirrel I quickly got distracted by getting into assembling some double decker buses for WWI transports - I have those part assembled and undercoated.
Then I discovered Pillage: Ransack the Middle Ages and I flipped over to assembling some Hail Caesar Saxon Thegns which I'd bought for Saga. On clipping them all from the sprue I realised I wasn't that keen on the figures. The sculpting was quite soft and the weapons are all separate from the arms.
So I decided to swap again, and invested in some Victrix sculpts.
So while I'm currently sitting nearly at the bottom of the table, I have not sat idle.
I have been working my way through the huge 60 figure Victrix Late Saxon/Anglo Dane set.
I wisely chose to start on the "line" troops as i've been away from regular painting for a while - So left the command and leaders for when i had got my hand and head back into accurate assembly and painting.
Black spray undercoat. Chainmail is dry(-ish) brush GW Leadbelcher. The padded gambesons in GW Balor Brown. I then chose a handful of muted colours for the main body of the unarmoured peasants.
Vallejo Game Color (sic) 70.903 Intermediate Blue, Vallejo 70.886 Green Grey (or the much better sounding Gris Verdoso) and all Citadel Eshin Grey, Steel Legion Drab, Tallarn Sand, Gorthor Brown, Loren Forest, Karak Stone and Skrag Brown.
After that I painted all the heads/faces/hands in my usual Flesh Tone.
Followed that with taking each figure in turn and finishing off the legs, arms, belts, bags, shoes etc. using the same muted colours plus a few brighter points with Doombull Brown which over black give a nice deep burgundy colour. Hair colours included Skrag Brown, Steel Legion Drab, Tallarn Sand and Eshin Grey. On those armoured figures with a well-defined hem on the mail I painted the hem either Doombull Brown or Intermediate Blue.
Spear shafts were either Karak Stone or Gorthor Brown, to give some variety.
I then washed with a mix of Army Painter Soft tone, Strong Tone, Windsor & Newton Peat Brown Ink, and other washes as appropriate.
Bases had my usual PVA and budgie grit applied and when dry painted with GW Rhinox Hide and drybrushed with Borthor Brown. Then tufts and flowers from Gamers Grass - Dark Green Shrubs and Dry Green 2mm. I've discovered I need to improve my application skills on those....
And of course I'd forgotten - they all need shields.... So spray undercoated the shields Black (still on sprue). Then a friends suggests White undercoat is preferable. Shield transfers were all from Victrix Little Big Men transfers... Not a type of transfer I had used before - being used to model kit style waterslide decals.
So these are the four "tester" figures which I had been working on ahead of the bulk to see how stuff would come out. (To avoid batching them all and finding the washes left stuff too dark or whatever).
So, have been quietly beavering away at the mass - which will be revealed next week.
Not sure if I'll get the command figures completed in time. I'm hoping I can as they look really promising.
These should be completed by next Sunday....
Dave - Sorry for the late submission - been at Hammerhead show all day.....
* Piss-Poor Planning Precedes Piss Poor Performance 😆
From DaveD . AAah the in challenge distraction . Then learning on the job - it’s all experience 😁. Well these teasers are however worth waiting for . Let’s see the rest next week then . I hope you had a good day at Hammerhead I couldn’t make it this year .
Lovely Figures!
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