Spring Cleaning Military Orders

Took Monday Tuesday off. I am waiting for the rest of my military orders being delivered to flesh this force out.

I was watching the UHH last night and thinking about my own project. originally this was going to be what you had seen thus far I then expanded this before I even put up my first post. Originally I was going to clear my wish list and what I had on my table. which only consisted of three pigs.

I will want to play the fat Yuan Yuan scenarios on the Corvus Belli site. I needed to print off pig markers. This wasn’t good enough so about a year ago I asked Gerry about a set of three pigs I seen on the XLBS and he advised that they were Wyrd. So I got some. I got new dry brushes and they ended up as a failed project as they were not magic brushes and you shouldn’t try to paint an entire model with dry brushing (in my opinion).

Joan didn’t get the Dettol but these did. And since they were originally supposed to be part of the project it only feels right I include them here.

I find Dettol stinks much worse than any other chemical known to man. Nitromors is more palatable to me. Due to this I get a small food bag, stick the models in and then stick that bag in my ultrasonic cleaner which has only water in it as I cant wait to put everything away. 2 – 3 cycles at 4 minutes and they were clean.

After this I done lots of research on pigs. Don’t try and paint pigs if you are vegan. You will be shocked at what comes up when you google “pigs head”, “pigs trotter” and even “pigs tongue”… Me, I just ordered some Bacon in my next shop. Was like at the end of Supersize me, I went out and got a McDonalds. Not proud but It did happen.

Anyway I am getting side tracked. I will save you the above work. The classic pig breed to my mind is the wee pink ones. If you are painting those they are Scottish human white skin coloured when the sun has been out for no longer than 2 days, the trotters are like your nails. Their eyes are like yours but smaller and pig like. Their noses and tongues are like the colour of your tongue.

So I got out the flesh tones and just painted this like this. Pigs also have small white hair but in piglets this is less apparent. They also have skin freckles. Really every day is a green day not just Tuesday’s anymore.

Anyway enough of what I learned about pigs

So now spending today updating this project rather than painting. My models were dispatched today so hope they will be here in the next couple of days.

I am going to be picking up more Wyrd models. Not to play I don’t think,  just to paint. I painted the puppet wars set but only played the game twice. I love the themes of the models and need a release away from Infinity. Though that’s mostly what I share, I do paint other random models from time to time even when I am not fitting them into infinity.

Anyway more to come.  When they arrive.  Off to watch time team.