Heroic Deep sea divers [5x 28mm 25 points]
Last week I erroneously listed some Heroic deep sea divers, but failed to post any pictures. Well the truth of the matter is that I thought I would have them done in time for posting, after all they have been sitting on my table, nearly done, going on 3 or 4 weeks now. Well it works out that I hit a wall with them and just kept putting them off. Not this week, this week I decided to 'eat the frog' as some say and deliberately tackle them, but not until Sunday. (oh well the thought was there)
These came from recreational conflicts some years back. Some assembly was required as each figure is made up of 5 parts (more if optional attachments are used) For the most part I used the arms with hands only substituting the tool arms on a couple of them. For paints I went primarily with the new Vallejo metal paints, except one of them that was painted with an army painter speed paint metal. For colours, I confess, I went a little overboard making them stand out quite a bit, emulating the old Major Matt Mason figures from my youth.
VSF Free State armoured vehicles. [2x 28mm vehicles 40 points]
These miniatures are from Ironclad miniatures, I believe they are now carried by Pendraken. I am using them for my Fenian Free Stater forces on Mars. They are painted in Martian Khaki shade (so reddish/orange shade) This was done with a black primer, followed by a spray of regular khaki then highlighted with some P3 khaki and Jack bone. Over this I applied a GW orange wash. As an example of my planning, I did not think about the orange wash until I stumbled upon it in a drawer. The wash was applied with brush and sponge alternately sponging the wash off and then on again. I also added a black brown wash to bring it down a tone. Finally some highlights of a craft paint Autumn brown and some Vallejo dust to finish. For the wheels I mixed up some dirt with the craft paint and some dirt effects.
The symbol on the side is courtesy of a request to AI to generate a flag and a decal for a VSF Fenian force on Mars.
Back of Beyond Muslim troops in British service [10x 28mm 50 points]
These are Copplestone figures that will see some service with my BoB forces. I followed an LAF post for the khaki, and Sonic Sledgehammer for the flesh (it worked out well) I tell you, there are times where I just do not want to paint historic figures what with all their straps and pouches and difficult to reach areas, it is almost enough to make me not want to paint.
It does not belong in a museum! Guardians of Antiquities [10x 28mm 50 points]
A mix of figures here some from Old Glory (the dynamic poses) and the others are from Foundry. While these had been placed on one of my pile of potential figures for this challenge, they really were not in my sights. However while looking for inspiration for Minerva I stumbled upon a You tube video by Chris Abby. It suggested some speed paint combinations for some Arabic figures. Well I saw that vid Monday morning and had them painted up by the afternoon. While I did use most of the suggested paints I did use a different flesh paint and fixed up the yellow paint job with a P3 paint.
These figures will most likely show up as opposition for the Explorers of Egypt.
Minerva's Flying Circus [5x 28mm figures 25 points]
These are yet more figures for the Pulp Alley games that me and my mates play. They are actually Pulp Alley figures and form up a league.
So, my camera seems to be burst! It has decided to live up to my blog name and become unfocused! So Minerva and her crew were the best pictures that I could take and I even had to resort to using the wife's phone for the last few pics.
This is it for this post. I am on vacation as of Friday and will be out of the country, so there may be no post next week, but maybe I can finish off some stuff before I go and hopefully take pictures of them!
- 25 points for 5x 28mm Heroic Deep sea divers (the scourge of Evil minion deep sea divers)
- 40 points for 2x 28mm Free staters armoured vehicles
- 50 points for 10x 28mm Muslim troops in British service BoB
- 50 points for 10x 28mm Guardians of antiquities
- 25 points for 5x 28mm Minerva's Flying Circus
- Gladiators
- Epic Orcs
- Epic Imperial
- Warlord Chinese
- Red Russians RCW Back of Beyond
- Alien Invaders
- Pulp US Marines
- Urban Cultists
- Egyptian cultists
- VSF Japanese armoured vehicles
- Tripods
- Bugs!
- Evil minion deep sea divers
- Puritans
- Explorers of Egypt
- Jungle explorers
- Heroic deep sea divers
- Muslim troops for the British
- Free stater Armoured cars
- Guardians of Antiquities
- Minerva's Flying Circus
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Sylvain: Reading your post is like watching an action movie, there are lots of extras, fun machines and cool heroes. What is there not to like? Thanks for explaining your painting processes, it might come handy. 190 points well deserved! Fabuleux!
