Prussia marches to war

Busy week in real life again (the  joys of 4 children, scouting, football, junior school graduations and sports days!) so not a huge amount of paint splashed about.  Still, the skirmishers are done and based, and the next 8 infantry are about 60% done

Beyond that, a quick word on tufts.  So much easier to use than static grass!  I’ve, up until the above unit, been using tufts I’ve had for years.  Unfortunately they are running out so at a local club’s open day I bought the gamers grass and army painter ones below.  Love them both, for different reasons.

The glue on the gamer’s grass tufts means you just stick to the base and done, however I’m not overly enamoured with some of the irregular shapes.  nothing wrong with them, i just prefer round ones.  This is where the army painter ones are better (although nowhere near as good a glue, so a dot of superglue required to assist)

Happy to recommend both

Not gotten much painting done this week for various reasons, however this evening I finished undercoating all of the remaining infantry

I have got most of the base colours down on the Skirmishers, black and white straps to do, as well as the yellow and a bit of touching up. You have to love metal models

My mat from Tiny wargames arrived Saturday.  This meant I had to stop painting and see just how nice a 6×4 table I can put together

All in all, it’s not too bad.  Might revisit how my river is done but otherwise it’s certainly good enough to game on.

…back to the brushes this evening though

Well, that came as a surprise! Humbled and grateful. With so many great projects on the site I’m surprised I got one of these. Thanks !

Of course, it does put more pressure on me to finish the project now ?

See the other award winners for this week here, and read the really rather kind words about my project as well…

Community Spotlight: Prussians, Hellboy Heroes & Dragonborn Triumphant

So the landwher formation is done.

I’ll now concentrate on the skirmish unit I’ve started, then it’ll be a bit of a break as I’m going to paint up GW’s Lost Patrol board game using Contrast paints. Space Marine Scouts and Genestealers should the perfect test subjects I reckon

It’s a dull job, but it needs to be done. Just Tufts required now but the bases are at least coloured. Vallejo airbrush mahogany (applied with brush!) Followed by a Vallejo mid German brown drybrush and finally a gw bleached bone (or whatever the current gw term is).  Without the grass it looks like they’re all stood in the mud and rain looking a touch forlorn

I also got a bit more done on the next unit of skirmishers

After 2 days away from the painting table due to work and children I was back on it this evening.

I managed to get the basing material down on the landwher and their movement trays

I can’t stress just how much I like Tamiya diorama paint

As I needed to wait for the texture to dry ( tomorrow I should be able to get the bases finished) I made a start on the next 6 volunteer Jaegers. Got some base colours blocked in.  These are Warlord miniatures metal sculpts, really nice but even after a clean up, there’s loads of flash I missed ?

Finished the unit of Landwher tonight. The formation just needs to be based now. They won’t win any awards but a reasonable table top quality

5 hours and 17 minutes total for 9 models.