From ScottR Last Post - Wrap up.

Hi all,

Well, as requested here is a final post with everything taht I did over the painting Comp.

So kicking off on Dec 21 and finishing Mar 21.  Although I was away for the middle for about a month.  So two months worth and happily double my intended 700 points.

It was a good incentive to get some projects finished and some other moving along a bit.

My Celts and Greeks for Hail Caesar.  The Command stands for my Pike and Shot Scots Royalists under the Earl of Montrose, My 15mm Australians for NAM and lastly....  Hmmm no thats it.

Lots of figures for sure.  My thanks to Curt and his awesome support team who made this program run so smoothly and for putting it together of course.  Now to plan out whats for next years.

So here you are in my basement of Doom with my work laid out.

Figures and terrain from Warlord, Colonel Bills, Battlefront, Foundry, Victrix, Perry and Warbases

My heart felt congratulations to all those that submitted work.  It was an absolute pleasure to troll through the weekly submissions to see the great work that was done.  Until next time.  Cheers.  Scott R.

From ScottR 15mm Australian Vehicles for NAM by Battlefront. 168 Points

 Hi all and here is teh second last of my Australians for the NAM game by Battlefront.  You saw the infantry and in this painting session i managed to get teh vehicles done.  I had them started by basing tehm with a darkish green.  I wasnt very happy with this a sa base so I went back and did them with a black undercoat.

So with the re-undercoating done.  I needed to find a suitable colour.  I did a bit of investigating through teh RAAC Museum in OZ and found that in the 60 the Centurions and M113s which where new to Australia where done in an Olive Drab base.  I wanted one that was a little less brown than a normal Olive drab so i chose the AK Paints version.

I then did the first coat followed by teh first higlight or modulation.  First modulation was the Olive Drab with a bit of sand mixed in.

The second modulation was using AKs Faded Olive Drab.

After the modulaion was complete I then airbrushed the tracks, exhaust pipes and added stowage of jerry cans and baggage etc.  From here the vehicles were taken to the work bench for a bit of touch up and to paint the crew.  Once this was complete.  I sprayed a light mahogany brown around the track areas, sides, front and rear to look like the rtedish dust found in Vietnam from the dark red soil.  I did it fairly light just to add some tone.

Once this was done the vehicles were airbrushed with AKs satin varnish.  This was left to dry so the decals could be added.  The decals were taken from a couple of references.  These included the red and yellow 'Tac' (Tactical plates for the unit and the Green for the !st Australian Task Force or 1ATF.

The next set were a mix of the squadron and troop markings.  The squadron is the yellow circle on the side of the turret.  The troops is the yellow shiled with the red kangaroo.  There is another with a kangaroo holding an umbrella but couldnt find the mpeg to make the decal.

Great work on these pieces of heavy armour, Scott. The various shades on the armour as well as the decals you have applied (those must be pretty difficult to do at this scale), really add a lot of life to the models. 

As for scoring, I count 20 vehicles as well as a few commanders sticking out of various hatches, so I have assigned points for those. 

ScottR 28mm Hail Caesar Greek and Celt (70 points)

 With litlle time left before work cuts into my painting time I have been using all my spare time to get things painted.  My goal for the Analogue Painting Comp this yeat was 700 points.  Well happy to say i ahve already met and passed my goal.  I have about a week left before I start travel with work and therefore will lose the next 3 and half weeks.

Now enough of my woes.  Yesterday i managed to build and paint two 28mm large models.  

The first is a Warlord Games Elephant for my Hellenistic/Successor Greeks.  Sorry no special requirements for this.  Just straight out of the box with Javelin thrower in support.  Javelin thrower is from Victrix.

So here is the elephant finished off.  I used the same basing materials as I did for the Phalanx posted earlier.  This will be the 'Mediterranian' scheme for the Greeks.  The bushes give a nice contrast to the yellowish base colour.

So at the same time I worked on my Celtic Terrain piece.  This could be used as an objective, baggage or even a command base at a pinch.  The Cross I picked up at Colours in Newbury in 2018.  It has been sitting around waiting for me to do my Celts.  The Female figures are from Stuart at Colonel Bill's.  Again, I have had this since Colours and would be a part of the Cross piece.  The General is either a Warlord or Black tree Design figure.  Not sure honestly.

I did do a bit of scratch building with this.  I took the heads and staff being held from the Victrix Chariot box to make the Totems.One head, the Roman legionaire with bandage was taken from the Warlords veteran box.  This just required a bit of cutting and gluing.

The flagstones around the base were a plan in the making for some time.  I had picked up one of the Green Stuff World rollers a few years back from my local store.  Using DAS clay I rolled out a set of patterns.

The roller
is easy to use and a bit of water sprinkled on the clay stops it from sticking.

Once this was dry i could cut them up into paving blocks, break them, etc for a more realistic look, well sort of.  They were then laid down onto the basing surface while it was still very wet.  The surface was manipulated with a brush to partialy cover, andget in between the stones.

These wre then painted, washed, drybrushed.  Then once the base was dry a bit of grass and foliage was added.  Again, keeping with teh same style as the rest of my Celt Army.

Once this was done the Totems were then glued into place and the terrain piece was finished.

So here are some close ups.  Sorry the colour from my camers is a little off and a little out of focus.  not the best for Macro shots.

Ok so there we go. A nice days work.

I have a week left. So trying to get as much in as possible.  Next up on the bench I will be going back to my 15mm Australians.  This time to get the Vehicles done and out of the road.

As for points. well Curtis this will be up to you.

Hellenistic Greek Elephant

28mm Vehicle (Elephant @ 20 points.

4 5 x 28mm figures @ 5 points for total of 20 25 points

Total 40 points

Celt Terrain/Objective Piece

Celt Cross and flagstones terrain piece...... ?  5 Points

4 x 28mm figures @ 5 points for a total of 20 points

Both projects are 60 points plus whatever Curtis wants to add. 

Those models all look great, Scott. I like the basing effect on the cross you used, I think my local hobby store carries those rollers, I may need to go and take a look now. The heads on the spears are a great way to get some use out of the bits left on sprues after finishing a unit. I really like the elephant and its crew too, the metalwork on the armour is very smooth.

Points wise, I am not sure how large the cross is exactly, but I figure 5 points should cover it. I also counted 4 crew and the javelin thrower on the elephant, so I have increased your score accordingly. 

From ScottR - 28mm Celt Fanatics (92 points)

 

Hi all,

In my last Celt post I had finished off the small unit of 3 chariots.  This time around I am finishing off my Naked Fanatics.  The Fanatics I felt would be quick to do using contrast paints.  The figutres selected were a mix of Warlord metals with a few Victrix plastics thrown in as I didnt have enough metals.

I chose one of the Victrix figures to be a standrad bearer.  The standard is pretty nice but being plastic I felt it was a little weak and was worried it might snap during a game.  I delved into my box of bits and found the remnants of one of the metal pikes I had cut down to make the spears.  I made the spears metal for the same reason.  I cut the top and bottom pieces away from the shaft and drilled through the hand. I then super glued the shaft into the hand. Using a micro drill i drilled small holes in the head and bottom pieces and super glued onto the metal shaft.

The next step was to undercoat the figures.  From experience I use Citadels Wraith Bone spray.  I prefer this to the Grey Seer for the colour effect at the end.

The figures were then fully coated with Citadel Contrast Guilliuman Flesh mixed 50/50 with medium to thin the colour.

I had picked up a sheet of Warlord games dry rub decals for the 'Blue Paint' on the fanatics.  Although a bit fidly and some slipped while applying the end result was pretty pleasing.

I didnt have any decals for the Warlord shileds so i hand painted those and the Victrix shields I used the leftovers from the Chariot decal sheet.

This then left the painting of the minor details on the figures.  Belts, weapons and jewelry inlcuding arm bands and torques.

The hair was done using contrast paints and the effect was excellent.  I would like to make an observation here.  I am a person who really prefers metals to plastics.  In the past the early plastics lacked detail.  I have had my plastic Romans and ECW for over 10 years.  The Victrix figures I have started to accumate have been very pleasing in the level of detail and the figures are very dynamic.  The standard Bearer is a Victrix Plastic as is the Guy holding teh Roman Head and standing on the shield.  The level of detail is amazing with beautiful facila features and even eyebrows!

As mentioned before, my Armies have been based for Art de la Guerre (ADLG), but I have based them so that we can play Hail caesar as well.  In ADLG a unit is a single base of which I had one already.  However, for Hail caesar i needed atleast one  base which needed to be expanded to 4 bases.  For this project I have done three bases of 6 figures for a total of 18.  These plus the 6 already done will give me a single unit of 24 for Hail caesar and 4 units in ADLG.

The figures have been based to match the rest of the Army and the new Chariot units.  

This project was 18 x 28mm Figures @ 5 points ea for a total of 90 points.

I think this post should maybe be given an NSFW warning, there are a lot of parts just swinging in the breeze there. Cracking work on these fanatics, they should really make the Romans think twice. The step by step showing how you converted the standard was helpful. I have had far too many plastic banners and poles snap before models even got onto the table. 

I believe it is common practice to reward hand painted shields, so I've adjusted your score a little.