This week I have mostly been painting.....

[Harry]

Squeaky clean, job well done

Ha ha. Thanks

Little goblins are great. I missed the chance to buy some not long ago and missed out. Nice to see such old models given attention. These are one of those sets I've really only seen unpainted examples of.

Thanks, well mine have been painted twice now.

Cute! But honestly - the bases must have taken you just as long time to paint as the rats Not that it's a bad thing, everything looks great.

They did. However it took me longer getting around to painting the bases than it took to actually do them. i find bases a bit of a chore.

Cutest herd of vermin ever.

Thanks.

[Harry]

So with Empire back on the menu I got back to these guys and got them finished and based...

Talabecland Handgunners

[Harry]

Here are the detachments I have painted together:



Here is the army shot with all the classic Empire stuff I have painted up so far:

[Lorcryst]

Very good Handgunners, love the Eagle on the breastplate, and the army shot is suitably impressive !

You know, you never cease to amaze me ... I should take a page from your book and get my behind in gear, but I simply have to much to do with Real Life stuff to even think about painting for the moment

[Harry]

Very good Handgunners, love the Eagle on the breastplate, and the army shot is suitably impressive !

You know, you never cease to amaze me ... I should take a page from your book and get my behind in gear, but I simply have to much to do with Real Life stuff to even think about painting for the moment

Thanks. Eagle copied from an old photo of this mini in White Dwarf.

My life is pretty hectic too ... the trick is just to do a little bit ... make a start ... then do a bit more ... before you know it you a doing a bit here and there ... very soon you are finding time to do a bit regularly.

[Harry]

Painted a Fantasy Pirate:

A Marauder skeleton ... THE Marauder skeleton.





The crew so far:

[Eldorad]

Do you have a load of cabinets for all these lovely classics are do you have to keep them boxed up??

[Urgat]

Painted a Fantasy Pirate:

A Marauder skeleton ... THE Marauder skeleton.





The crew so far:

Warning, bad pun incoming:
you sure that's not THE Halfling skeleton?

[Harry]

Do you have a load of cabinets for all these lovely classics are do you have to keep them boxed up??

Sadly no. I am ashamed to say all my stuff just sits on open shelves gathering dust. It gets the dust brushed off it from time to time when it comes down for a photograph or a game but thats it.

Warning, bad pun incoming:
you sure that's not THE Halfling skeleton?

Are you saying he is a bit on the small side?
It could be the Dwarf is just very big.
In fact the marauder skeletons were quite beefy compared to the citadel skeletons at the time.
They look human sized next to the marauder humans from the same era.

[Eldorad]

Sadly no. I am ashamed to say all my stuff just sits on open shelves gathering dust. It gets the dust brushed off it from time to time when it comes down for a photograph or a game but thats it.

I have the same problem though not as many miniatures

[mrtn]

That's a great looking skeleton, I love that he's still got an eye-patch.

[Harry]

I have the same problem though not as many miniatures

Yes ... that is the problem. It would be a huge expense to buy enough to cabinets to put everything in. I think I am passed the point I can consider glass cabinets. In less i come across a room full going very cheap one day.

That's a great looking skeleton, I love that he's still got an eye-patch.

Yes. That is great isn't it.

[Flame of Udun]

The freehand on those hand gunners is really great, also I really like the stripey trousers on your pirates, not something people often pull off well (the stripes I mean not the trousers )!

[Harry]

The freehand on those hand gunners is really great, also I really like the stripey trousers on your pirates, not something people often pull off well (the stripes I mean not the trousers )!

Ha Ha. Thanks very much. I do like the striped trousers. Not that tricky with a bit of practice and it is worth the effort as it adds a lot to the mini. The freehand, however, I find much more tricky and I really am just making my first fumbling attempts at it.

[Harry]

There are some more little bits of freehand on these guys.

Painting these is a bit random and not heralding the start of a lot of Bretonnians from me ...although these are the start of a vintage Bretonnian army I have to paint before I die. I look forward to GW returning to Brets and I will get stuck into these. But meanwhile having finally picked up all the command figures after a while of searching I couldn't help getting some paint on these guys straight away:

[Lorcryst]

Those cream-coloured tabards and capes are wonderfull ... stunning technique !

[lilloser2010]

FAntastic grimey knights there. The blue makes a nice contrast to to the cream.

LilLoser

[was1974]

Wow your work looks very cool again. As an Empire builder I love your vintage Empire. I still need to refurbish my old steam tank. But I have still so much to do.

[dwarfhold13]

and... I'm jealous again! Love your collection. that Empire army reminds me of some of the first fully painted armies I saw on the table, except.. well.. bigger! gotta love those 40 figures 3rd/4th edition armies

[orlanth1000]

What's your recipes for the Cream on the Brets Harry?