Month: April 2017

6mm Desert terrain "Mosque" part IV

         I am finished with this Mosque. The doors could be picked out, but in reality the Mosque doors are super detailed and a mess of colors. It would never look good at this scale. So they are, what they are…….

 WIP

          Three Pump Jacks. The orange idea came from the Russian jacks that were of the news last Sunday. There are 6 more to go. All will get the same look.

Time management


          I have one main project, 20mm Sudan. There is a cubic butt ton of minis to paint. Yet at different stages I am stuck waiting for stuff to dry. The wall plaster on bases, polyurethane dip, washes, and so on. My side project is 6mm Desert terrain. Same issues.

        Perfect example of a day bouncing between projects as things dry.

         Ansar dudes getting bases level and flocked. The Ansar without the wall plaster, leveling out the miniatures stand to the sand floor, is missing it’s flag dude. So it waits on flaggy McNoShow.

          Buildings started and finishing touches. I needed to paint the churches together. In the hope they would come out the same.

All of these items need to get finished. My space is limited and dudes are on blocks ready to go.

         I am swopping between the wet palette for details and the bottom of a base for dry brushing/washes/white glue.

          I MoFo-ing hated these brushes. I won them as prize support many years ago. Never ever liked them.  With that some how my years of hate has made this one turn into my favorite for building and base edging.

6mm Desert terrain "Buildings" part II

          The lion’s share of my focus is on the 6mm Buildings. Other shit is being prep along side and techniques worked out.
Buildings are Gamecraft. I am doing to burning church before tackling the full sized complete version.

Some Wasteland Studios pump jacks

Old 6mm palms numbers have been doubled. They will need a little more love.

Those that double for 20mm & 6mm. Extras added to the fields. More irrigation canals.

The rice paddies and field edges need some green. This boy has 3 brothers, all need plant rows.

I need a better way of edging these irrigation ditches/canals/roads. The current method is not working out.

 Irrigation ditches’ bridges. Plus some new fighting positions.

New Stuff
Some 3D desert ancient races business

Sudan Project "Ansar warriors" part I

Ansar

          Whatever, we all know they are Dervishes. Even if the Mahdi forbade the term Dervish, those that win, write the history. But I will use “Ansar” to confuse everyone.

         Ansar/Dervish term/name includes just about every tribe or tribal type group that fought for the Mahdi. Jaidia, Hademdowah, Taaishi, Jihadiyya, Beja, Hadendowa, Baggara, Mulazimiyya, Amarar, Shukuria, Hallenga, Hamran, Beni-Amer, Bisharin

         Today I have a general mix of the dudes on blocks. It was not until half way through painting them, I thought about having the tribal groups represented. So I started to break them into stylized groups.

          The dudes on blocks will give me the first set of Taaishi warriors, 3 bases of 8 each. The rest will be the first to represent their group. I need to carefully select minis to finish bases next go around

The Taaishi will be primarily rhino shield (never was really rhino skin) and the fuzzy fuzzy hair.

The Baggara will be cavalry with INF in the mop hair style

The Mulazimiyya will have the red head wrap and dervish squares. (red&blue)

The Beja will be in the tan man dresses

The Hademdowah white head wrap and dervish squares

The Jihadiyya head wrap, dervish squares, armed with rifles.

Yearly goal 700 painted for the Sudan project. 643 more to go.

Sudan project "wound markers" part II

Wounded or stamina counters

Low ammo markers. They will pull double duty, in RF&F.

WIP marker/counters

Here I have change from squares to circles. These circle dudes I picked up at AdeptiCon. Way easier to mass produce, no green stuff, and cost about 5 cents less. Yep a whole 5 cents, for a total Sudan project savings of a whopping 85 cents.

Dead dudes are HAT, Waterloo, Newline Design. Damaged guns are Old Glory

6mm desert terrain "Buildings"

           Once again working through the Gamescraft 6mm Desert terrain. Way back prior to Xmas I ordered a cubic butt ton. All were sprayed with a texture followed by a white. The single hut, one room jobs were left that way. They can be seen one one of this years Adoption tables. As for the rest of the buildings, I wanted a more than remote village look.
           I am lucky enough to have served in areas where this building style was popular. The construction materials are roughly the same here in Argentina. Wandering around the city I could personally see current construction and building being leveled.

          I have nailed down a painting technique for these buildings. Now I can start to bang them out quickly. (It is recorded here for future reference.)

One; Whole thing is washed in watered down Army Painter Strong tone. Any rubble washed in Dark tone.
Two; Light sporadic dry brush of Vallejo 120, followed by even less and more sporadic dry brush of Foundry 67C.
Three; Any exposed wall is block in with Vallejo 146. Same area hit with Vallejo 139 picking out  bricks within. All windows and open doors are done with Foundry 101C.
Four; Burnt earth and a black pigment is used to recreate the battle and fire damage.
Details in red or blue, flocking and sealed.

This weekend’s sales

Elhiem has a great sale this weekend! Lots of the odd ball stuff is discounted. I got me some desert explorers.

Michigan Toy Soldier Co has 20% off till Sunday.

Make sure you are logged into your account then enter ebonus2017 in the promo code box and you get 20% off! 


Sudan project "wounded markers"

        Newline Designs British wounded.

          They are mounted to a magnetic MDF 20 x 20mm square. Some wall plaster levels out the top with the square for the 10mm die formed from green stuff.

WIP

          More Beja warriors and Dervishes lined up on the painting blocks. After the mess of trying to paint dude based, I made the switch to blocks of wood.

          I used popsicle sticks in the past or wine corks with 28mm. The sticks were not functional. I needed a heavier option. These are straight up scrap wood. Most my friends use the janga game pieces as their painting blocks. I am cheap.