@querion ah those hours aren’t fun – good luck on getting through the week!

@sundancer time for another layer on top of your legion storage tray then? 🙂 wow, amazed that flip-top paint pots have lasted you that long 🙂 ork truck looks fantastic.

@mage oh no! I never seem to realise how relaint I am on the internet until it goes out… Hope coverage is restored at better than ‘intermittent; levels for you 🙂

@elessar2590 nice progress on the Black Guard 🙂 I was lucky enough to get to paint a bunch of LoTR stuff for my cousin back when it was first released, those minis were a lot of fun. I like the way the armour is looking – clearly metallic but still dark and heavy – think you have nailed the look. Re the Perry foot knights, they went together a dream (as you would expect…). I swapped british and French components to try and go for a coherent looking force. Cheated bigime on the painting, primed in Army Painter Plate Mail, added base colours which was Vallejo Yellow Ochre (this has great coverage especially for a yellow), Intense Blue and Cavalry Brown, used flesh for the faces, brown for the belts and brass for the sword hilts, then dipped the whole lot in Army Painter dark tone varnish which had been thinned a little in the tin with turpentine. Re- highlighted/drybrushed again with the base colours, a coat of matt vanished, based and done 🙂 So the silver was dead simple as it is literally the exposed primer with a dip varnish settled over the top 🙂 Couple of ‘in progress’ photos following showing how many sins a coat of varnish and subsequent rehighlighting can truly hide 🙂

Re the 95th, have them painted to tabletop as part of my 2 ‘starter’ forces for Sharp Practice. Really need to revisit the 95th when I get the chance as I am not happy with their paint scheme. Need to paint up a few more Big Men for each side, I want to do another block of French line infantry which will give me an even 8 and I can then sort the colours on the pom poms. Once that’s done I have a gun and squad of dragoons for each force which should be enough for some interesting games. From there not really sure how to progress the British, was thinking of trying to pick up a box if the Victrix centre company highlanders for something a bit different, or I could go for a box of the flank companies and just se them as normal grenadiers. For the French I still have minis to make 3 blocks of voltiguers and 2 of grenadiers, plus a few extra from the Waterloo starter set so plenty to keep me busy. Would love to do a Russian army one day and do some 1812 themed stuff so don’t mind the extra greatcoats 🙂

And a bit of a segue into today’s hobby progress – some base colours down on my British Dragoons: