Horsing About
Tue, Aug 5 2008 03:26
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I'd originally intended this as more of a blog about my "hobby" activity (funny how conversations revolve around "the hobby", as though it was a euphemism). Briefly put, I get zero opportunity to game right now, and (from my point of view) next to no time at the moment for other types of activity, apart from the occasional burst of energy around Slingshot.
When I do get time, my current activities are centred around painting up a couple of Gripping Beast armies, one a thematic Byzantine set and the other a set of Arabs. The two armies are about 2000 WAB points apiece, maybe more if I put some thought into it, and I also have plans to add a few models from other manufacturers to bulk things out.
The last few weeks, maybe a couple of evenings a week, have been involved with painting horses. Running the two armies at once, that's about 100 or so (rough guess, but I just checked) horses. I spent one evening, for example, just working out which horses went with each army, having primed them black as a single group. And then finding out I was short a couple, and going back to Darren, Andy & co and obtaining them. And ordering more stuff anyhow.
Right now - all the bases are done (I do the basing first, bar the flock - with metal based figures I mount on Litko basis and then pad up a little with polyfilla, sand a bevel around the base and add sand before priming the whole model black, and then dry brushing the base with layers of Foundry Base Sand ... I leave the final flocking to the last step before varnish); about 25% of the horses are just about complete just need going back over to check details, blacklining etc. Of the rest, all the non-barded horse have had their hides done; I need to go round in these cases and add detail like socks and markings, and then work on the gear. 14 barded or half barded horse are based and there are two further horse on each side which arrived as part of the "missing" group, which are right at the start of the process.
If I ever get to the infantry, they're mainly (bar the reinforcements) glue gunned to their litko bases (20mm x 20mm) waiting for polyfilla. The horses' riders are still in baggies. Once the horses are done, I plan to do the riders a regiment at a time, and alternate between infantry and riders (I may well spend a day just doing all the infantry bases to the pre-priming stage though). Once I have complete models (some time in 2011 ...) I'll start posting up some pictures.
When I do get time, my current activities are centred around painting up a couple of Gripping Beast armies, one a thematic Byzantine set and the other a set of Arabs. The two armies are about 2000 WAB points apiece, maybe more if I put some thought into it, and I also have plans to add a few models from other manufacturers to bulk things out.
The last few weeks, maybe a couple of evenings a week, have been involved with painting horses. Running the two armies at once, that's about 100 or so (rough guess, but I just checked) horses. I spent one evening, for example, just working out which horses went with each army, having primed them black as a single group. And then finding out I was short a couple, and going back to Darren, Andy & co and obtaining them. And ordering more stuff anyhow.
Right now - all the bases are done (I do the basing first, bar the flock - with metal based figures I mount on Litko basis and then pad up a little with polyfilla, sand a bevel around the base and add sand before priming the whole model black, and then dry brushing the base with layers of Foundry Base Sand ... I leave the final flocking to the last step before varnish); about 25% of the horses are just about complete just need going back over to check details, blacklining etc. Of the rest, all the non-barded horse have had their hides done; I need to go round in these cases and add detail like socks and markings, and then work on the gear. 14 barded or half barded horse are based and there are two further horse on each side which arrived as part of the "missing" group, which are right at the start of the process.
If I ever get to the infantry, they're mainly (bar the reinforcements) glue gunned to their litko bases (20mm x 20mm) waiting for polyfilla. The horses' riders are still in baggies. Once the horses are done, I plan to do the riders a regiment at a time, and alternate between infantry and riders (I may well spend a day just doing all the infantry bases to the pre-priming stage though). Once I have complete models (some time in 2011 ...) I'll start posting up some pictures.