Week26 Updates

A bit more progress over the last few weeks, although I still am not getting out the brushes as often as I would like / need to.  The legionaries are finished up for the moment, pending completing their basing and a matt coat.

I have moved on to some skirmish options for the Romans in Infamy Infamy, using some Strelets figures from M037 Roman Velites.  First up are some javelin equipped skirmishers, which appear to be the Velites named in the set.  I believe these are probably anachronistic by the time of the Cesarean legions, but I figured I would paint the up and possibly still use them.

Item	Colour
Helmet and Shield Boss	VMC 70.998 Bronze
Wolf Pelt	VMC 70.869 Basalt Grey with a drop of black Drybrush with 50/50 Basalt Grey and VMC 70.837 Pale Sand
Flesh	VMC 70.845 Sunny Skin Tone
Tunic	VMC 70.837 Pale Sand
Mail and Javelin tips	VMC 70.997 Silver
Scabbard, straps and boots	VMC 70.871 Leather Brown
Sword Hilt	VMC 70.818 Red Leather
Javelin Shaft and Inner Shield	VMC 70.843 Cork Brown
Shield Face	VMC 70.817 Scarlet / VMC 70.841 Andrea Blue / VMC 70.970 Deep Green

Next up are some slingers from the same Strelets M037 set.  These will defintely get some use accompanying the legions.

Item	Colour
Hair	VMC 70.950 Black
Cloak	VMC 70.829 Amaranth Red (my bottle of this is quite runny, to the point where it need to leave it on wet pallet overnight to get it to a consistency where it provides any coverage) VMC 70.998 Bronze for the cloak pin
Flesh	VMC 70.860 Medium Skin Tone
Tunic	VMC 70.837 Pale Sand
Breaches	VMC 70.816 Luftwaffe Uniform / VMC 70.821 German Cam Beige / VMC 70.819 Iraqi Sand
Scabbard, Sling and boots	VMC 70.871 Leather Brown
Sword Hilt	VMC 70.818 Red Leather
Shot	VMC 70.816 Luftwaffe Uniform
Shot Bag	VMC 70.821 German Cam Beige
Inner Shield	VMC 70.843 Cork Brown
Shield Face	VMC 70.841 Andrea Blue / VMC 70.970 Deep Green

And this is the overall progress in the Roman Legion Box to date.  The Slingers and Velites still need their dip to get up to the same stage as the legionaries, but I am holding off to do them in a batch with the next lot of troops......

...which are eastern style archers also from the same Strelets Roman Velites set.  Hopefully I'll get them knocked over this week and get them dipped and we can move on to finishing up the basing.

 

2023 Week 19

 Still trying to find time to finish up these.  

2023 Week 12

 Going to see if I can get back into the swing of this after such a long absence.

Aim is to try to paint more this year so I’m going to post some weekly progress to keep myself on track.

Tonight I applied some “goop” to the bases of a mixed batch of Hat and Strelets Roman figures.  

These are command and final legionary troops for some Romans I’m putting together for Infamy Infamy.

Here’s what has already been blocked in over the last 6 months of my glacial painting speed, and also what needs to be completed.

StuG IV puzzle models

I ordered a Panther and a StuG IV model from eBay recently.
There are 1:71 scale 4D puzzle models that just clip together.
Unfortunately I received two StuG's instead of the Panther, so the Panther is still coming.

I like that they have some paint on them already, but it doesn't really match any of the camouflage patterns you see and they need some decals. 
So not quite table-ready, but better than bare plastic, and very quick to assemble!

Input needed - Prone basing

Folks
My immediate plans when I first started this endeavour was to use 40mm round bases for prone figures.
However I've noticed that that does leave a lot of space around the figure.  I can make this look decorative on the base, but in the end it means that a given squad or section will take up more space that may be necessary and may look somewhat disjointed.
I am just not sure...
Below are a couple of pictures showing two prone figures on a 40mm round and a 20mmx40mm rectangular. Which do you think looks better?  Let me know in the comments!

Bases Arrive!

Yesterday my package of bases from Back-to-Base-ix arrived.
These are several hundred pieces of 3mm MDF in a range of sizes and shapes.

 Last night I sat down and liberated a sprue's worth of the RedBox Ikko Ikki from their plastic chains and stuck them down on 20mm round bases.  A nice fit I think. Tonight's plan is to texture the bases and hopefully undercoat tomorrow.

 Here is my plan for the WW2 figures:

• 20mm round for single figures.
• 40mm round for prone figures.
• 50mm round for weapons teams

Further steps

Today the parcel post guy arrived at the door with two packages.

One was some new larger trees from wehonest_cn on eBay (a great source of cheap trees) and also a package from AlwaysModel containing some RedBox Ikko-Ikki for Ronin.

I'm itching to get going; I just need those mdf bases to turn up and we can get this party started!

I was wrong

I never thought I'd reach this place.
I have derided others who took this path.
I was wrong.
20mm ... plastics ... it's great but I still feel dirty......