Saturday, February 7, 2015

Saturday Painting Desk

This last week a smelly bunch of 28 Rebs have been camped on the painting desk.  They’re lucky to get 30 minutes attention a day, since it’s all thesis all the time until the end of February.  The four in a firing pose are Renegade, the first I’ve ever painted, and much fun.  The rest are from the eccentrically sculpted, very hit or miss Old Glory ACW range, not my favourite, even though they do grow on me after a while.  Lots more rebs to go after these ones.   Each figure gets a slightly different colour scheme, which means a fairly slow rate of progress, but I like the motley look that results.

Blessings to your brushes!

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16 comments:

  1. Your Renegade renegades are looking fine! I really enjoy painting Renegade figures too. I have many of their Punic Wars and ECW lines. Great figures but HUGE!

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    1. Thanks Cousin Jonathan.
      They are lovely figures, and very big. Their muskets are almost the thickness of Wargames Foundry cannon barrels. Oddly, for that size, some of the faces are disappointing smooth and somewhat featureless.

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  2. The motley look is just the right touch for these chaps. Next they'll need there British Military observer.

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    1. Hey Robert, nice to hear from you. Thanks. Indeed, a British observer with drinking tea, with cup and saucer!

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  3. One of the things I really enjoy about painting miniatures is how they come alive.

    I'm only familiar with Old Glory 15mm and they also have a bit of eccentricity about them. Mostly I like it as I've read people complaining about 15mm figures being all the same, they obviously haven't come across Old Glory.

    Your brushes are blessed - great work on these rebs.

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    1. Hi Mark:
      Thanks. That's true, isn't it. I usually find with most figures that I reach a tipping point where the figure does come to life and I slow down to get it just right. I suppose that's not why I'm a speed painter, I'm too busy pausing to admire my work - or when, as my wife, says I "chat to my little men".

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  4. Those Rebs are coming along nicely Padre :)

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    1. Thanks Tamsin. I like to think of my scale of production as "artisanal", compared to you and your Challenge co stars who crank out figures like Detroit makes cars. :)

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  5. Ah the joys of writing a thesis. Still, it will be over soon and then it will be back to real life, whatever that entails for you. Nice Rebs BTW. Always enjoy reading your blog, even if I don't often comment on what you're doing.

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    1. Many thanks Ashley. I would say the same of yours, which I quite enjoy in a giant robots stumpy kind of way. Real life for me will be a move in April and a new job in May, and back to very simple decisions about how to dress for work each morning. :)

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  6. They look great Michael coming along very nicely indeed.

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    1. Cheers Simon. I sometimes wonder if I should just paint Rebels figure by figure, as you seem to do so well with your post-apoc figures.

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  7. Very nice, Padre. I like the rag-tag feel that comes from such a wide palette.

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  8. Thanks so much HW. I confess I always cringe when I see Confederate units painted all the same. There may have been a few companies at 1st Manassass dressed all the same, perhaps, but by mid war the accounts say that they looked like scruffy UBoat crews and smelled worse.

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  9. O very nice. As I'm new to ACW gaming in general, I wasn't aware I'd be painting up my rebels in differing shades of grey. :( Those units will take a bit longer than I had first anticipated.

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    1. It depends, mate, on how much you go for 50 shades of grey. ;)

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