Well, things are almost back to normal here in Calgary. The flooding is gone and the cleanup is still going on. Stampede is on, and the C-Trains are running again.
I do a lot of painting on the weekends, and this time I've got some French Marines done.
I decided to do my officers for Muskets and Tomahawks on lipped bases, to make them stand out from the regular soldiers.
They're not painted very well, but good enough for the tabletop! All of the miniatures are from Conquest. The only complaint I have with their miniatures is that sometimes the eyes are sooooooo small! On some of the Indians I just gave up trying to paint them, since I can't even see them! :-)
I got a delivery of French Regulars and some misc FIW minis on Friday, and started cleaning them up.
I picked up some of those 4Ground buildings just to give them a go. I wasn't sure if I'd like them or not. I must say that I do indeed like them...and building them was fun!
Every French Indian War game needs a cart!
This is one of the ruined buildings for WW2. You can see the FIW minis waiting to be scraped clean in the background.
Above is a log cabin, with and without roof. I really like how it has a removable roof, which makes it great to gave with! And they don't have that laser-cut look like most of the laser cut buildings have...if you know what I mean.
I'm definitely going to pick up some more of these. The pre-painted walls they have coming out are a must buy.
Next week I've have some more Fallschirmjager to show off.
I live in Calgary and we've been having some of the worst flooding in decades (or so the news says). The downtown core was shut down Friday, as the river was flooding and they had closed the bridges.
This is a picture of the iconic Saddledome....
After politely declining to work at another bank branch for the day (along with everyone else at the branch), I decided to get some bottled water and other essentials and....paint. :-)
Here are some FIW natives for my growing French force:
I'm not at all happy with how the white girls came out - I should have shaded them with a darker colour than try and wash them. Argh! Oh well, that's what I get for trying to rush things. :-(
All of the miniatures are from Conquest Miniatures, the girls being from the Last of the Mohicans pack. The flowers are from my recent order of Tajima tufts.
I've been working on some Fallschirmjager still, a recoilless gun and some basic jagers. I might paint some Couriers de Bois next to mix things up a bit. I also ordered some of the Conquest French Regulars - I have lots of Old Glory ones, but I've always wanted to see how they rank up (get it?!?!) next to the Conquest regulars (which took forever to come out).
I've got a bit of a mix this week, a Fallschirmjager sniper from Bolt Action and some FIW Indians from Conquest.
I haven't received the other FJ miniatures that I ordered from Artizan yet, so I'm eagerly awaiting those in order to fill out a third squad. In the meantime, I worked on a sniper.
He was easier to paint as I didn't have to do the eyes, my least favourite part of a miniature to paint.
My order from Artizan/North Star contains the Muskets and Tomahawks ruleset, so I thought I'd paint up some of the Conquest miniatures that I've had sitting in a box for years. So sad, I know, but I'm sure some of you are in the same boat!
They were a bit more fiddly to paint than I thought they would be, with all the little details on the models. That and I forgot to paint some war paint on them, and had to put it on after I had already glosscoted them all. I used a brighter static grass for them to make them look a bit more "woodsy". :-)
I've ordered a few more boxes of small static grass tufts from Tajima1 Miniatures, as I only have a few small tufts left of my army painter supply. The Tajima tufts are great, and come in a thin box with all of the tufts laid out and have a way stickier bottom than the army painter ones. I feel that you get a lot more tufts for your money as well, and free shipping if you order four boxes or more! For me, it's only Tajima tufts from now on.
