What's on your workbench?

[RMD]

Finished the British for Sharp Practice in 40mm. Mammoth basing session to come...

More on the blog as usual.

Those are bloody beautiful!

[Panzer21]

Thanks Chaps. The flats have had a bit more obsessive fettling since the picture, especially the standards.

Your 40mm are looking very nice Doug. How many will succumb? ☺

Neil

[DougM]

My goodness, you have been a busy boy!

[DougM]

Thanks Chaps. The flats have had a bit more obsessive fettling since the picture, especially the standards.

Your 40mm are looking very nice Doug. How many will succumb? ☺

Neil

Thanks Neil & Willz...

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

And, just because I'm eclectic......20mm plastic 8th Army....

Geez!!! He's actually "ghost painted" scrim netting on the bloody helmets. It's enough to make a mere mortal give up and chuck all his figures in the bin.....

The flats were impressive enough, that was just sublime!

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Finished the British for Sharp Practice in 40mm. Mammoth basing session to come...

More on the blog as usual.

Aleadodyssey.blogspot.co.uk

Wow. Just.....wow.

[Essex Boy]

What the Baron said.....wow!

[Spanner]

There's some very talented chaps on this board.

Bastards.

Doug, those horse-botherers are excellent, mate. Mark, thanks for the tally-up. So there's still a couple of national contingents that you haven't done, then?

[RMD]

Her Majesty's Inspector General of Artillery and Engineers is pleased to report that construction work has finally begun on the fortress of Jemimafawrenberg...

These are the old Ian Weekly 15mm 'Vaubanesque' models, which I was very pleased to discover (via this very page) are now available from TSS. These are now rather ancient models and so instead of going 'all-in', I bought a few sample pieces to start - a very nice (and large!) 'ravelin', a length of wall with gate and a length of wall with 90-degree angle (which I will use as a 'lunette'). Here they are drying on the draining-board at work (the sight of which raised my boss' eyebrows when he came in for a visit, but he's seen me do far worse...).

The moulds do seem to be a little 'tired', which is a shame, but not excessively so and not entirely unsurprising given the age of the models. They look really great now I've sprayed them with primer. I've actually seen far worse casting quality on some new ranges! I have already therefore, ordered some more pieces and should have a 'proper' fortress ready for the Christmas game, with a few bastions, curtain walls and ravelins.

However, I didn't like the gateway, which is just a boring, square hole. I've therefore hacksawed that section out of the wall and have added the rather spiffing Vaubanesque gateway by Total Battle Miniatures (TBM), which looks perfect.

I'm really looking forward to getting Jemimafawrenberg on the table! I know that a lot of my wargaming friends won't be interested, but it's the fort that counts...

[Panzer21]

And, just because I'm eclectic......20mm plastic 8th Army....

Geez!!! He's actually "ghost painted" scrim netting on the bloody helmets. It's enough to make a mere mortal give up and chuck all his figures in the bin.....

The flats were impressive enough, that was just sublime!

I thank you, but it's not as impressive as you think......
I have just mastered a technique which brings out the detail.
First, Contrast paint applied as a wash.



Then Army Painter ink wash - in this case Strong Tone.



Then highlights as in the first photo. The helmets with scrim were painted darker (Aggros Dunes IIRC) and drybrushed with buff acrylic from Vallejo. Too heavy, put a bit more wash on.

Neil