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October 5, 2012

Rohirim charge

I have just finally collected enough figures to create an impressive Rohirim army.

I have been very reluctant to create a Rohirim army that is what alot of other people do.. pretty much a whole bunch of Rohirm on foot.

I have admitedly collected a few footmen in my endevours to get Horse Lords however.

So as I am nearing the completion of my Haradrim cavalry I am soon (read as “have”) started on 26 mounted Rohirim. That will include 2 Heroes. Probbly need a third for the new source book system of having 1 hero per 10 models. (I’m still struggling with how that affects a Moria Goblin swarm?)

This will be an interesting task as I am going to ue the airbrush alot. Especially for horses and the Rohirim cloaks and cloths. Mostly as a time saver.

Ther will be some conversion required and alot of repair as these are all 2nd hand models that ostly suffer from missing spears and broken bows.

I will edit in some photos later but ther is a small (read as big ) army amassing from this.

I’m hoping we might try some games over Christmas time if were lucky.

June 22, 2011June 23, 2011

Proposal – checking the waters

Hey guys I have been thinking about playing some modern 15mm skirmish just for the fun of it.

I have looked at some rules and ambush alley seems to be a popular set at the moment.

I was wondering if you guys could let me know what type of modern armies you like the sound of.

I am thinking of getting either Eureka minis or rebel minis. Eureka are Australian so I kinda prefer them. Also you can buy individual soldiers in 15mm with them.

I like Soviet or Serbian / kosovo and my second choice is PLA Chinese.

Eureka http://eurekamin.com.au/index.php?cPath=342_357_378 Eureka direct
http://www.eurekamin.com.au/ Eureka
Browse by: Irregular minitures (drop down)
—> “15MM” RANGE select
—> “Moderns” select
—> select your catgory USA, Soviet, 1990’s USA.

Rebel
http://www.rebelminis.com/15mm-modern-milita.html Rebel

EDIT: sorry I used the link HTML tool and .. well it didn’t work.

Ambush alley rules… hugly supported… the new FOW I think.
Ambush alley games

But any of your thoughts are good.. I like the idea I can re-use my FOW terrain.

June 12, 2011

Operation “Get Cracking” Pt 2

Well I finished two test solders/figures.
You will notice this is a habit I have started now when prepping to to do a production line of figures… I suggest this to anyone thinking of painting a platoon or more of figs… paint a couple from start to finish and get the process right and change things.

This one was good.. I changed my usual order in which the flesh gets painted. I do however have to change my formula for the dark or ink wash. I’m still getting bath rings forming on my wash. Dish wash soap doesn’t seem to help. I’m thinking the magic wash is going to have to be tried again.. although I will need to buy some “Klear floor” polish first.

So… here is the first wash over the spray coat of desert yellow. This is a pretty dark wash of Khaki by Tamiya liberally applied over

so here is a comparison photo of the finish

I then jumped ahead and painted boots and wood, webbing’s (khaki), helmet (olive drab), elbow and knee knee patches and bags (olive green) and flesh, I then fished the guns and binoculars in black.
The black wash followed (which didn’t smooth very well.

here is the eye candy..

So the result is that the was darkens the base colour too much over all and needs a wash of almost equal colour.. but tinted so that the shadow will sit in the low spots. Of course a dry brush would solve this.. but I’m hoping to avoid it.