Celt Warlord and henchmen for the Dragon knights

While the better half has been away I have been do a bit of painting - well when not at Live shows. 

A Mark Copplestone Barbarian Warlord - always liked this figure - he reminded me of the drune  henchmen of Slough Feg. I think I was going paint a baddie but I have gone pretty neutral. I like him. I have to say I find the painting of the skin tone more pleasing that the flesh tones I get with speed paints. 

I also painted up 6 more henchmen for the Dragon Knights - again happy with these lads. They fit in well with the previously painted ones. 

Morts 

The War of the World - Live!

DK and I travelled down to the Ocean city to relive our childhood memories of listening to Jeff Wayne’s musical version (my canon version as I haven’t read the book …) of HG Well War of the Worlds. I remember hearing this back in primary school and being blown away by the art book which came this the album - I did get a cassette copy and eventually a CD copy (which is in the room now) …

We had good seats - right in the middle of the auditorium - to rows up. No obstructions to spoil the view. 

As can he seen - some animations running while the orchestra and cast performed - very well I have to say. The animation could do with a bit of an update but was still impressive. 

A splendid evening - we tried out a Korean BBQ restaurant - cook it yourself but nice. 

Morts

Some more Celts

The paint table has brought some more celts - still playing about with speed paints. 

Was trying to do some patterns on the fabrics - generally a couple of black strips but I did try a check pattern (on the bottom left).

Most of these are renegade miniatures and a couple of black tree minis in there too. The standard is Victrix I think. 

The are another 12 infantry to do, some light cavalry then the heroes. I find the speed paints good for fabrics and some other surfaces but poor for human skin … I have tried various techniques but seem to always adding a layer of flesh paint at the end. The heroes will be done with a combination of normal and speed paints. 

Morts

Cultists, Goblins Zombies and a Demon

A while ago DK gave me some miniatures he had picked up but were now surplus to his requirements. I have been sitting on these planning to sell on eBay. But I decided that I would have an experiment with speed paints again. 

6 cultists - not much to say about these really.

Big headed night goblins. The figure on the right is a conversion of a duplicate of the centre figure on the next set of 3. 

3 more big headed goblins - the red did work well on these figures. 

Then the goblin zombies and a demon. 

These were fun to paint and I think these suited speed paint - the cultists less so but ok. 

I think these will still go on eBay to see if I can make some more cash from them. 

Morts

Some gluing and kit bashing

A while ago I picked up a sprue of fireforge knights to make a few more henchmen for my dragon knights. I used some bits from the Oathmark human cavalry and elven warriors kits. 

The top row uses the arms and heads from the Oathmark humans and work pretty well as lighter infantry- the archers as ranger types in my mind.

The bottom row is a mix of fireforge sergeants on the figure on the left, Oathmark human in the middle and then Oathmark elven on the right. I did think that I could have used the elven archer arms on the rangers above …

Then I glued together a couple of M5s for my British forces - I have 3 more sprues of these. Do I sell or convert to M3 s for the American forces?

The fireforge sprue came with 10 bodies so 4 “historical” knights - with a Oathmark human head and the double sword knight is utilising elven arms. I wasn’t too sure about the fireforge arms for the two-handed sword. 

Anyway I did enjoy the gluing and pick bits - some green stuff needed and then paint. 

Morts

World War Two - the transport

I have painted a some transport vehicles for my WW2 forces. These are 3D prints and I think they look good. They still need weathering a bit.

An Opel Blitz for the Germans - I could paint a camouflage on it but I quite like the single colour. 

For the British couple of universal carriers, a quad 8. I had to add the crew to the carriers by cutting up a few infantry figures (not brilliant but they look ok).

The transfers are the ones I got from Butlers models - the are a bit big for 15mm, although they are meant to be 1/100 scale.  I think I should have got 1/144. 

I have a few more British infantry to paint - then I will start basing them and working out what I have missed … but got to paint the kitchen now. 
 

Morts

Saint Etienne - the final tour

 On Wednesday I had a very pleasant evening at the Bristol Beacon watching Saint Etienne (for the 3rd time) with the better half. 

Excellent seats and the music was great - although they didn’t play Sylvie or Dive which I do like. The one fly in the ointment was the vocals weren’t as clear as I would have liked - but that could be down to my age … but it was still great to see them on their final tour.

Morts