A Weekend's Progress Pt 2

It's the little jobs that matter.

I've been meaning to do this for ages.

A bit of time, some good weather and three 2ft by 4ft boards have been given a coat of grey.

The grey was courtesy of two tubes of white acrylic and one tube of black acrylic paint from the art section of  The Works mixed up in an empty Poundland plastic muffin container and slathered on using Poundland home decorating brushes!

It's great being a Cornish Jock mongrel. I have six fingers to be tight fisted with!

A Weekend's Progress Pt 1

A little series of posts over the next five days showing what I was working on and/ or managed to complete from Fri - Sun this most recent weekend.

First up, a main group shot consisting of:

55 Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards.  Truth be told, I managed to work on these on early Friday so 25 of these are complete.

The Sisters of Battle infantry. These were all based and half are awaiting their Grey Seer undercoat.

The remaining Les Grognards.

All based up and undercoated black, the remaining Guardsmen and weapon teams for the Ventrillian Nobles.

I'm waiting on the chance to order new heads but I will be using the remainder of the Heavy Weapons Squad box to add three mortars in entrenched positions to the Nobles. I also need another two plastic 60mm bases.

Adepta Sororitas Progress

Likely it's been the same for most of you out there but this last week has been very frustrating.

Being away from home and working long hours has left me very little personal time.  I have, however, forced myself to dive in on some hobby time during the week so that I don't feel like it has just been Work, Sleep, Repeat.

Behold, The Sisters (I'm sure that's a line from the Dawn Of War Soulforge game).

First up, the character Junith Eruita. I know she is specific to one Order but she will be painted up as Valourous Heart.

The Sister Superior for the Zephyrim squad.

The stunning new Imagifier.

The amazing new Exorcist.

Still to come, the Rhino, an Immolator, a Canoness, a Hospitaller and the rest of the Zephyrim

Ventrillian Reinforcements

Another project to work on to fully round out a 35 strong Platoon of Imperial Guard.  

Once amalgamated with the 25 already painted I will have a Command Squad and three Heavy Bolter equipped Infantry Squads ready.

Even though the last Chinchilla passed away 13 years ago, I still have what appears to be a never ending carton of sand that was used for the Chinchilla's dust bath to base the figures.

The sand bags are from the Renendra range.

The backpacks you can see on the models are from the Grognards sets from Wargames Atlantic.  I plan to retrofit the others to equip them with these backpacks.  mainly because they look better than the other ones that orginated from the old Warzone Imperial models and I don't have anymore of those.

Although I still have the other three kneeling legs from the Heavy Squad box and other Cadian parts, the plan to build a mortar squad and potentially a fourth Infantry Squad are on hold due to not being able to order Pistoliers from GW.

On that note, for those reading, may your troubles in the current situation be no more serious than my first world problem regarding new toys.

A New Assembly Line Series Beckons

As with most peoples' lives at the moment, mine is a little bit up in the air.

I work away from home and, at present, have no option to work from home.

If I do, there are 45 of these to finish.  I started a  mini line at the weekend, working on the Command Squad and a further Infantry squad.  I drew the line at doing 45 coats before working on 45 bearskins and so on. 

For the Officer in charge, I went for the non respirator Bearskin head.  Being of the same uniform as the others, the moustache will help set him apart from the others.

The Medic, although throwing a grenade rather than being involved in first aiding, has a couple of extra pouches as a conversion for his medi packs.

Ten Down, Forty Five To Go

Why do I continue to be attracted to large, horde armies?

WHY?

I still have another twenty or so waiting to be built as either sci fi French Foreign Legion or to await the potential arrival of Grognard heavy weapons.

Time to crack on as much as possible though as my main focus following today's delivery will be for The Order Of The Valorous Heart.

A Canoness, Zephyrim squad, Immolator, Rhino, Exorcist, Hospitaller and Imagifier are all waiting to be constructed.

Test Squad Complete

I'm happy with the way the brown undercoat worked out with the Khorne Red settling nicely on top. I've used Reikland Fleshshade as a wash.

It's a project I will be able to concentrate on once social distancing/ self isolating fully kicks in.  At the moment, it's back to work tonight with the potential to end up anywhere in the country existing.

Not-Vostroyans Trial Run

A little bit of motivation kicked in yesterday.

In preparation for some 'social distancing' it was off for some retail therapy and a search for a suitable brown spray paint.  I had the idea of using brown as, hopefully, a good base for painting a red greatcoat and doing most of the work for the Vostroyan style bearskin hat, boots and webbing especially as there are 55 models to do.

There wasn't much of choice from the wargaming ranges however the local model shop had a selection of Tamiya sprays and I settled for the NATO Brown.

I trialed it on ten models first.

I then went on to paint the greatcoats Khorne Red with Dawnstone used for the inner lining. Balthasar Gold has been used for the respirator and shoulder/ knee pads on the model.  Boots and the bearskin have been given a coat of Dryad Bark.

I also dabbled with the character models from an earlier post.

The Diversion Project Is Progressing Well

It's been a while since I fully immersed myself in the Emperor's Finest so I have quite enjoyed tackling this Primaris project

The Nuln Oil wash has been applied with some Reikland Fleshshade yet to be added to the gold and yellow parts.

These will need to be finished by this weekend so that I can indulge in cracking on with the Adepta Sororitas Order Of The Valorous Heart.  The Immolator, Rhino and other parts arrive this weekend for construction and the troops need painting.