The Plan for this past week was to:
#1 PAINT BRITISH AND CANADIANS! AS MANY AS POSSIBLE!
I did get one battalion done. Originally I thought I’d use
it as one of the British battalions, but then realized I don’t think I ever did
the 85th Battalion – a labour battalion that was thrown into the
attack when the advance on the 4th division’s front ground to a halt.
I may or may not even include the British battalions now. I
did do some work on the terrain plans and looking over them I’m wondering if
I’ll even have ROOM on the table for all the Canadians (let alone some spare
British battalions). I’ve even considered only fielding battalions of 12 for
the Canadians (which will be closer to the battalions of 10 I have for the
Germans…? If I do end up needing the British, I have a few battalions worth of
early war British – in caps – which may be a bit anachronistic at this point in
the war, but whatever – it will make them easily identifiable…
I also happened to finish up a German Mortar team that’s
been haunting the edges of the painting table for months now!
Despite having some time off from other activities this
week, I didn’t get nearly as much done as I’d hoped…
I did do some assembling early in the week – The remainder
of the Irregular miniatures British/Canadians finally arrived and so I had to
get them stuck down to bases and while I was at it I got the Irregular mortars
based and then I did the guns and then I started doing other guns while I was at
it… which was ridiculous, because I’m totally not going to need them and thus
not even going to try and get them done… a good chunk of may painting time was
eaten up priming and gooping figures. It is a very time consuming process.
Basically when new figures
arrive I glue them to their bases, then wait a day. Then I paint the first coat
of black (primer) and wait a day. Then I paint the second coat of black (paint)
and wait a day. Then I goop the bases and wait a day. THEN I can get to
painting! I have tried to rush the process in the past, trying to do both coats
of black in one day or even gooping immediately after the second coat of black
– but I’ve found that if it isn’t left at least 24 hours to cure the black
layers rub off easily and I’m constantly having to touch them up. If I do the
first coat of black before the glue is entirely cured, I end up with figures
popping of their bases. So, I have learned to be patient and try to have other
figures to paint while I’m waiting. This week those figures were post-apocalyptic
DISTRACTIONS! and a Few More Distractions...
This week:
#1 Finish These Canadians!
#2 Finalize Terrain Plans (and maybe get cracking on terrain!)
Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:
February Boardgame Roundup
February Boardgame Roundup
Last of the Canadians!!
Great job...and this German Mortar is very impressive!
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil!
DeleteSo you've got more than enough figures for the game with loads of time left, result!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Well... not quite... but let's pretend that's the case.
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