PanzerKaput Goes To Barons’ War

Ladies and Gentlemen
I give you the second part to the 3 part video on the building of Fort Gummy Bear for my The Barons’ War: A Medieval Skirmish Games on my YouTube Channel Panzerkaput’s Painting School for Scoundrels
I hope you enjoy this video

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After printing it all the next stage is to make it less jelly sweet like and more stone like but had to decide what the stone should be like. In the end I decided on a sandy stone colour as the fort is mainly going to be used for my Outremer games of Barons’ war and so it made sense to go for the sandy colour of the arid region of the middle east.

I have to admit here that there is no amazing tricks of the trade in painting this as it is a lot of dry brushes and washes and nothing much more. So the stones.

Before anything I primed the whole fort using a black spray paint for quickness and ease and then zenith a white spray paint from above as a 45 degree (ish) angle. This is the basis for the drybrushing next. Look no magic or clever things.

So start is the main stone work I drybrushed Vallejo Model Colour Middlestone dry to use it that sandy/yellow colour. This was a very rough and heavy drybrush and I left patches of the prime showing to help give it that stoney look. Then I drybrushed the next level which was of Vallejo Model Colour German Pale Brown, the best beige colour, this time is a bit more control. After this came the final layer of Vallejo Model Colour Dark Sand.

The plastic work on the castle I painted using Vallejo Model Colour Yellow Ochre, a lovely colour as the base of the plaster. Then a drybrushed Vallejo Colour Dark sand as the midtone, so the rough plaster would stand out and if it got on the stones it wouldn’t show. The fainl light drybrush was in Vallejo Game Colour Elfic Flesh

Then I wanted a bit of detail, contrast to the sandy stone and on the band I wanted a reddy brown colour, like the Welsh and Byzantine castles. This was simply done by paint the band in Vallejo Game Colour Charred Brown and then roughly painted Vallejo Game Colour Terracotta and finally a drybrush of Vallejo Game Colour Tan.

The wooden areas where painted first Vallejo Model Colour German Grey and then I picked out the individual planks using the following colours Vallejo Game Colour Cark Fleshtone, Vallejo Game Colour Parasite Brown and Vallejo Game Colour Filthy Brown. Then I drybrushed all the wooden areas using Vallejo Game Colour Elfic Flesh, followed by a watery wash of Vallejo Model Colour German Grey. After this had dried I added another very light drybrush of Vallejo Game Colour Elfic Flesh.

I recently purchased a 3D Resin printer for the express propose of printing terrain, buildings and all those little bits and pieces to make the gaming table look good. There was a few good deals on around Prime Deal and I saw the Elegoo Mars 3 4K printer was going for a song. I rationalised the spending on it simply as I the Outremer Fort for Barons War and this would cost me about £200 and the cost of the printer was about this, so in my mind it made sense, buy the printer and print the fort and it ahs paid for itself. Okay, I missed the part about buying resin, lol.

So sending about £50 on resin, still paid for itself in the end.

This was the first time with a 3D printer and I have always been a bit intimidated by them, hearing so many stories about you need to dial in this, be aware of that, its chemicals and it will kill you if you are not careful, etc, etc. Actually it wasn’t as bad as all that. Being a resin printer, it is a plug and print experience and I am a total noob but I managed to get the hang of it. Okay it is not fully dialled in but the results are rather good.

I have to say the files for the Outremer fort where set up for a resin printer and the perfect for the build plate size too. This was my start project using the resin and decided to print the round tower first. So I hit print and off we went. So once I have finished the printing my wife put a tealight in it and turned it into a lamp, go figure.

Once I finished printing the tower I when around the fort printing each part in turn.

I made some mistakes on the way, learnt so lessons, biggest one is don’t remove the supports before it dries, especially on large flat areas, learnt how to correct them, a hairdryer to heat up the resin, straighten it and then a heavy object to keep it flat while cooling down.

Gluing it together was a pain, but after a while but I found that but contact adhesive and super glue worked, with super glue you have to wait to it goes a little tacky and bind, vice, generally hold together until set.

Also plan when building and printer these big beasts. It is amazing the amount of help and support I got from fellow hobbyists. This is a big beast, maybe a little too big for my first project but I am glad I did it. It was straight forward and once done looked amazing and I felt so good done it.

I know there is a question that everyone asks, why the red resin? This simple answer is that it was the cheapest water washable resin available, so used that. I figured it is going to be primed and painted so the actual colour makes no real difference. Thus Fort Gummy Bear was born.

Next part is the painting of the beast.

I have updated a new video to my YouTube Channel PanzerKaput’s Painting School for Scoundrels

This one is on my first Baron’s War Tourney at Britcon last weekend.

Hope you like the video.

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Here are some photos of my games at The Barons’ War: A Medieval Skirmish Game tournament from last weekend at Britcon. First I would like to Bartosz Nowicki for being a massive gent and organising the show, demoing games while we played and for all the hard work he put in to create this and make the best special.

I would also like to thank all the guys for playing or just popping by to say hi and see the the games as you guys also made it as you are the best playing guys.

Also Mark Farr and Footsore for support the event and without you guys there would be no Barons War.

So what can I say about my event and first tournament for a day and a age. Well the first game went so well right up to the moment a unit of sergeants ran away a long with the rest of my army but my glorious green bowmen stayed after ranking up the most kills of my retinue.

The second game was edgy, no one wanted the middle ground and bowmen and crossbowmen covered it, when to flank my opponent, blunted both attacks and took the objective. Again my green bowmen stayed the course and did the most kills again, Noticing a theme?

Last game, had to stop the attack from burning down the village, let say that went well, set firs to four building, failed to put out any, my Baron changed his green levy with spears and came off worst, Then they got shot up and ran away. But wish who needn’t run away, and who killed the most? Anyone? Yes indeed it was my green bowmen. I think I should just have an army of green troops.

Well I lost all three games, got the least points, and won the wooden spoon. I also won the best painted retinue, which was very nice and proved I am style over content, oh what a dedicated follower of fashion, lol.

Well done Nick Dunning for winning, for Kieran Kirkham for Most Sporting Chap and Benedict Coffin for the best retinue background story.

Here are a few photos of the day

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2 days to Britcon and The Barons’ War: A Medieval Skirmish Game Tourney 😀

At Britcon 2023 Bartosz Nowicki, leading community member, in conjunction with Footsore Miniatures & Games and Warhost, are delighted to be hosting our first ever events for Footsore Miniatures’ Barons War ruleset, with a one-day events themed for Barons War and Outremer on the 12th August.

Are you going?

So are you going and beat me at The Barons’ War: A Medieval Skirmish Game come along.

For further details
http://www.bhgs.org.uk/britcon–barons-war.html

#thebaronswar #footsore #warhost #britcon

At Britcon 2023 Bartosz Nowicki, leading community member, in conjunction with Footsore Miniatures & Games and Warhost, are delighted to be hosting our first ever events for Footsore Miniatures’ Barons War ruleset, with two parallel one-day events themed for Barons War and also Outremer on the 12th August.
Are you going?
So are you going and beat me at The Barons’ War: A Medieval Skirmish Game come along.
For further details
http://www.bhgs.org.uk/britcon–barons-war.html
#thebaronswar #footsore #warhost #britcon