WIP 3rd Dragoon Guards; part I

Hoi,

As promised I will start the WIP on my next 7YW unit: The British 3rd Regiment of Dragoon Guards. I started out with base-coating the figures in Army Painter Rat Fur. This is a reddish brown which is very nice for buildings, terrain features but also for doing horses.

I hate doing horses so anything to make the process go faster is welcome. Therefore I used a wash of Valejo Game colours ink Skin Wash 72.093, to give the horses coats a bit more body.

Next up I gave some of the horses, but not all, black manes with Valejo German Camouflage Black.

This was followed by the drummer's horse, they were grey, receiving the same colour as basecoat.

Next up will be all the base tones for the rest of the details, they will follow in Part II of this WIP.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Dookie" by Green Day

Hoi,

As said on the other blog: it's rather a special day today: exactly 200 years ago the Battle of Salamanca took place! I'm a bit sorry that the diorama is not ready to commemorate this feat but hey you can't have it all!

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "the secret of the runes" by Therion

Why Is Roger so Jolly?

Hoi,

Some of the nicest 28/ 30mm figures are produced by Black Scorpion and I have invested in some of their mini's way back. From time to time I allow myself to paint one of them up here's the latest beauty. I really like the pose. The base is a resin scenic base from a brand I forgot, but I find it enhances the mini greatly.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Under Jolly Roger" covered by Therion

Vorwärts! Update Baden-Baden Regiment

Hoi,

Another Austrian 7YW update today, this time the Baden-Baden Regiment of the Reichsarmée. Since I was thoroughly bored with painting white uniforms, yet again for I seem to be painting heaps of white uniforms from time to time, I decided to do two Reichsarmée units for my Austrians. One is this Baden-Baden Regiment. It will need another stand of two soldiers to fill out properly but I ran out of figures while basing these chaps. I now have obtained more figures and will complete the regiment when time permits. The standard was taken from the great Kronoskaf site; see link above.

Now for some pictures:

My 7YW photobucket-folder is filling up nicely I must say. Next regiment in line is the other Reichsarmée unit but at this moment I'm not sure which one I'm going to paint more news will follow soon.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Sing Loud, sing proud" by the Dropkick Murphy's

Back to bases!

Hoi,

Several people have asked me how I create my bases, so here's a WIP on how I create my bases.

First what stuff do we need?

We need the following:
- the figures you want to base
- bases (in this case renedra plastic cavalry bases)
- a craft knife for tidying things up
- universal wall filler (I use Alabastine, but any sort will work)
- an oil-painters utensil called "painters-knife" in Dutch don't know the English name.
- superglue, mine's Pattex gell.
- some grit or gravel 

Now the first step is to glue the horses to the bases, I leave off the riders and paint them separately.

Let the glue cure for a while, to ensure a good bond. Next up I take the painters-knife and smear some wall filler on the base making sure to cover the models' base.

Finish the entire base and while the wall filler hasn't set yet, you can add little amounts of grit in order to make it look more like true ground. Now if you do not smooth out the filler it will end up giving loads of texture  so you don't need to add grit.

If you want to do something extra to the base you could add spare parts as battlefield debris from your bits box. I put on this musket for example but lots of things are possible, like drums or backpacks or cannon balls and even headgear taken from head-swaps for instance.

Hope this has been helpful,

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Carmina Burana" by Orff

London calling...

Hoi,

Well yesterday we returned from  nice family vacation in London! It actually was Arthur's first holiday abroad and he endured all the new things coming down on a 9 months old kid like a real trooper.

Among all the things we visited was the Imperial War Museum:

One of the most important things is dinner, or lunch, or breakfast anything to eat anyway, the food really surprised me and we had loads of 'real' English food which was great.

Since we're back now: services (i.e. updates) will resume as normal again.

Cheers Sander

Listening to: "London Calling" by the Clash

Army Showcase Part VI: ECW Royalists

Hoi,

Today brings you both an Army Showcase as well as a For Sale item since the army showcased here is up for grabs.

As happens so often to us gamers I bought Warhammer Historicals ECW ages ago and started building an 1:72 ECW army from Revell and ACTA figures. I've painted up two blue regiments with both Pike and Shotte and a red one with the Pikes ready and heaps of shotte still undone. I have also finished two guns with crew as well as some skirmishers. Riders are in the works as well with two boxes worth of troops part based part unpainted. I also have some boxes of unpainted stuff lying around as you can see from the pictures.


The whole bunch together:

Some close ups:

Ideally I'd like to get €120,- for the lot or something good for trade, excluding P&P, contact me here via a comment or via straet@gmail.com. First come is first to buy!

At this moment in time the army has been sold already, sorry people!


Cheers Sander

Listening to: "Ixnay on the Hombre" by the Offspring