Picking up those brushes again.

Hi and welcome to the occasional mutterings of Dave Doc, a military modeller and some time wargamer. I am mainly painting 28mm figures at the moment. But there will be other projects .I have created armies in 6mm and one off figures of 120mm , so anything in between is fair game.Wargaming has given me a real education, History & Geography(obvious really), Artistry, Politics, Economics, Logistics, Project Management -you try building miniature armies without the last 3!

I will use the blog to record my creations & the odd occassion I actually do some gaming.

I have always been inspired by the aesthetic side of wargaming. Playing on well constructed terrain using excellently painted units is always a joy. Sharing hints and tips with the masters has really helped my own style over the years. I will share some hard won hints and tips where I can. My style and preference is certainly "old school". My main interests are the Napoleonic period. I also have an interest in the Colonial Wars of the 19th Century, surely sparked by seeing "Zulu" at an early age. I also enjoy AFV modelling - a chance to get the airbrush out. I will be doing some of that again.

Thursday, 31 January 2013

Ronin #8 for Curt

I completed this lad as the entry fee for Curts 3rd Annual Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge . The figure is by Zenit Miniatures , and is a really detailed sculpt. I wanted something with a little colour to it to draw the eye, so settled on a more muted dark colour for the armour with some of the details picked out in red, yellow and white.






So thats it for the various mixed stuff for the challenge - one for unusual entry to do over the period.

There is potentially the first show attendance of the year coming up this weekend at York , not sure if I am going or not yet - but if any of you good readers are let me know - it would be nice to arrange a meet if i get there.

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  2. Superb Ronin! Missed it on Analogue Hobbies somehow.

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    1. lost in the mountain of entries no doubt

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  3. Fantastic job Dane, just loved the detail work, but the pose itself is tremendous!

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    1. Yeah - it is superb - it was the classic pose i wanted

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  4. Lovely armour especially Dave.

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  5. Thanks again Dave, he's brilliant.

    Have fun at York, if you go, otherwise have fun at home!

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    1. Thanks - should be in the post this week

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  7. A wonderful work, really nice, Dave!

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  8. The detail against the dark armour works well Dave. A unit painted like this would be superb. I watched 'The Last Samurai' on Friday and seeing this little chap has got me tempted to start yet another new period.
    Cheers,
    Pat.

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    1. Oh i agree an army would be wonderful - but one hell of project to tackle!

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No more than 3 things on the PAINTING table at once. Nothing new added until something is finished.

PREPARATION work is done when I don't fancy detail painting. Cleaning up, converting, undercoating etc.

PLANNING is expressions of interest or things that have inspired me to be created with no definite timescale as yet.


On the PAINTING TABLE
AWI -71st Highlanders - a man sized unit 54 FIGURES -comission

On the PREPATION table.
2nd Vistula Lancers - another full on conversion job! commission
9th Lancers - yet another full on conversion job
48 man British Guards Battalion Coldstreamers
Gangsters & Policemen Prohibition Wars - 40 of em

In the PLANNING phase
Dutch Belgian - Hussars - (32 Figure)- WHC
Madhists - 1000's of em! Mine