Hail to the Men of Bronze

Ok. So this is the third entry and to be honest I’ve surprised myself for getting this far.

Anyway I finally went out to get some primer today. I always go to Halfords as it’s 2 minutes down the road and although it’s quite expensive @£6.99 not having to drag into town is worth the extra cost.

Quick interlude about primers.All primers are the same whether you spend £1 or £20 on them. The only difference is the amount of propellant in them. End of educational message

So what is described below is the same method I use for painting all 6 and 10mm figures.

It was a bit cold tonight so I put the aerosol in some warm water from the tap for  a few minutes to help loosen the paint and then gave it a good shake to mix the paint

After that I give them a quick wash with watered down Vallejo Black Shade to bring out the detail and make it easier to paint. Hopefully you can see that in the photo below

Next I will put down some base colours

A bit of a late edit but the above shaky close up might give a better view of the wash

So the sample pack arrived today from Newline Designs.

Pack was £4.75 for 30 figures which is around the same price for all the historical 10mm manufacturers. With postage the total cost was £5.95

All the figures are one piece castings and all the figures are identical apart from the 3 command figures included.

Couple of pictures of the figures

Next task is to clean them up and get a primer on them and a wash then will take some more photos so you can get a better idea of how they look