Airbrushed Tau Armour

Finished Tau Hammerhead.

Victrix 28mm French

Finished a comission for Steve Hales of Victrix today, had to take some photos, these are superb miniatures, highly detailed, varied and poseable, really pleased with em. 36 figires, 4 command, 4 Grenadier Company, 4 Voltigeurs, 24 line infantry in colours of 4 companies. A pleasure to paint.

Tau army Building, New Blog, Old Directions!

Quick heads up for anyone interested, I've started a new 40k army building blog to celebrate the new Tau Codex, its here....

http://faststrikescadre.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1

Have a butchers if interested, now onto the models!

Painting 28mm Faces

Thought I'd post a quick how to for painting faces n flesh on 28mm miniatures, heres my process with the exact paints used.

1. Undercoat with old GW Tallarn flesh foundation.

2. Wash with new GW reikland fleshwash (An excellent product)

3. Mix a tiny amount of new GW macragge blue base paint with GW cadian fleshtone layer, be subtle, paint this on sideburns, chin and upper lip, leave bottom lip the washed Tallarn flesh.

4. Paint cheeks, nose, eyebrows and forehead with cadian fleshtone leave small gaps of darked washed tallarn flesh. The new GW layer colours are gel based and are superb for blending. Using them you get a much more subtle blend.

5. Highlight cheeks, nose (use spot for bridge n spot for end) eyebrows and forhead, stay inside the cadian flesh tone, a good Kolinsky sable is a godsend here.

6. Eyes, i paint a narrow black stripe and add 2 small dots with GW ceramite white base, a superb white that covers in one coat.

7. Hair inc beards n taches, paint a brown, sand etc and use variety of colours. Wash with new GW agrax earthshade, highlight raised ridges with original colour, super highlight by adding a tiny bit of GW bleached bone and be subtle, think where light would land and remember "Less is more".

Thats my current method guys!

Victrix 28mm Plastic Napoleonic Peninsula British

These are superb models, i'm painting some French for Steve Hales from Victrix and couldnt resist working on some of my own. I have 2 x 24 man battalions made from 12 centre and 12 flank company with officers, standards and drummers. These have the Victrix transfers on bottle and backpacks, fiddly but superb, first unit is 3rd foot "The Buffs".

Waffen SS on Ebay

Ive listed some Waffen SS on Ebay having fallen out with my gaming group, so any SAGA Players or Historical Players in Stoke drop me a line I'm looking for a game, anyway, ive concluded I'll not game with these again, so, theyre here at..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200910549033

BTW these miniatures won the WWPD Worldwide painting comp! The Panther shown on Blog is also listed here....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200910542177?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

And a SAGA Viking Army here....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200910440677?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649


Overall Planning a move into Napoleonics and back to 6th ed 40k as Tau are my favoured army and due for some love, plus, I need to fund my next SAGA Army of the Shieldwall Colin Patten Vikings!



28mm Plastic Napoleonics

Some pics of work in progress, first up a superb model from Perry Miniatures, a Cuirassier Trumpeter, I'm hopefully getting some British Hussars soon to fight these more pics and an amusing story with a happy ending to follow so stay posted!

The French Line are part of a comission for Victrix's Steve Hales, these are 28mm plastics that Steve built and sent, superb miniatures and around £20 for 48 odd figures, have we ever had it so good?

More soon.

Old Glory 25mm Napoleonics

Heres a blast from my past, some Old Glory 25mm Chasseur A Cheval figs I painted about 5 years ago

Richard III

Gripping Beast Anglo Dane Warlord