Painting Update

Hello everyone,

I hope all is going well for one and all. I can’t believe how quickly the month has gotten away from me…but I also wanted to share with you folks a quick painting update. Last time I got together with Duncan and Mike, we were looking at some of Duncan’s pile of lead and I asked Duncan if he wanted me to paint up a few pieces for him…after all, I’ve been a fortunate recipient of some of his 3d prints, so literally the least I could do for him.

I’m about half-way through the figures…I’m not sure who the manufacturer is, but they are 28mm…they look to be moderns, I’d say circa 2000’s…and were fun to paint up. They’re metal and unfortunately some of the details and casting is a little sketchy. Hopefully they’ll pass the muster for Duncan.

I had to think for a bit on how to paint these up and I ended up up settling on Soviet/Russian airborne and GRU uniforms (circa 1980’s war) and private drone contractors dressed in suitable non-specific uniforms.

Enjoy the pics.

Running up that Lead/Plastic Hill...

Painted

1/200          

15mm          46    

28mm+          4, +4 (yuppers, I’m adding them here, even though they’re not from my hill, lol)

Fabricated

     

Bought        0 

Progress   +50

More BF Open Fire Grenadiers

Howdy folks,

I hope all is well on your side of the internets. Hard to believe that we are pushing into March now…the last month just sailed by. I had all the best intentions to post a couple of updates, but here we are with only one post for February.

Last month I kept working on the German Grenadiers from the Open Fire box…I gotta say, I had approached this with a certain amount of keenness…but the more of these first-gen plastic sculpts that I paint up, the more i get annoyed with them. So yeah, kinda soul sucking and maybe a little demotivating. Regardless, I decided to push through, and while I was going to base up the second batch for Flames of War, I instead just kept basing them for Force on Force. Maybe I can use them for Afropia and alt history or some such.

At this point, I’m not sure if I’ll finish the rest of the remaining figs or try to sell them off at CanGames…we’ll see how I feel. Anywho, I based these guys for FoF and while I was at it, I ended up putting together a couple of old-school Battlefront Marder III’s. These were fun to finally get some paint on…and I kinda forgot how challenging these old metal models can be. I had a hard time with paint transferring from the tracks to my fingers, so I had a few repeat applications of primer.

Hope you enjoy the pics. In this batch I had 2 leaders that I delineated using FoF classic colour coding…i.e. I painted a couple of desert yellow rocks on their base. 

You can see the 2 leaders in the front range centre-ish

Running up that Lead/Plastic Hill...

Painted

1/200          

15mm          46, +23    

28mm+       

Fabricated

     

Bought        0 

Progress   +46