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#1
05-20-2012, 10:22 PM
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Dark ages painting project.
I have wrapped up several weeks of home repairs (not my thing, but it needs to be done) so Now I can get back to more time painting
Iv'e been dinking around with these the last few weeks, 2 pre-feudal Scots armies, a Norse Irish army and some hott elements to go along with them:    -paul 
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05-21-2012, 08:43 AM
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Yes Paul - lovely as ever! Your prolific speed is impressive and personally depressing: I am SLOW!
My new Picts are coming along really nicely as I've had a brainwave. Up until these latest figures I have taken the whole army on as a painting project. My double Saxon army was well over a hundred figures (5 minis per HI base as I have deep bases) and I slogged through, blocking in the colours, lowlights, highlights, belts, scabbards etc etc. Many hours of painting produced little visible result: 100 bronze belt buckles take forever but appeal only to my anally retentive desire for order and completion. I can barely make out the shields when they're on the table let alone the bleeding buckles. Solutions: antidepressants to cure my retentive nature; binoculars to improve appreciation or, and this is the good one, only paint a few figs at a time so you see the progress over the course of an evening's painting! Astounding! Just finished three stands of foot (Ax? Wb? 3Sp? The choices the choices!), a couple of skirmishers and a LH, all varnished and ready for flocking. I am just starting another identical batch, and am sure to finish them soon, and more importantly I can se progress towards my goal. How stupid I was before! As an aside: the Picts units follow hot on the tail of recently completed reinforcements for my (fave) Scots Irish army (which is rapidly drifting into a zaftig fantasy take on gritty Dark Age slaughter - have you seen those Celtos figs?). I have to say that I have had ENOUGH of painting bare legs. I have highlighted more knees this year than I could shake a stick at and will be delighted to add to my betrousered Vikings for a Stonehengs Diplomacy variant based campaign I am planning, and.... start the Sassanid army I have dreamt of since I stole the Airfix Guide to Ancient Wargames from the school library, and picked some up cheap on ebay! Can you truly be an ancient wargamer (and by god I feel ancient) if you don't have an army with an elephant (that's Behemoth for the HoTT fans? Sun's out in Wales Crocus
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06-05-2012, 11:04 PM
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got a little more painting done on these guys:
   -Paul
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#8
06-11-2012, 01:04 AM
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These 3 armies are finsied, I'll let them set overnight and look for needed touch ups tomorrow. It is always enjoyable to see an army come together:
   
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