Spring Clean-Risk Thrift Store Challenge

I began by splitting all the pieces equally between two armies.  I planned to make one army red and one blue.   Once I had the pieces split I began to make sure I cleaned up any flashing that might be on the pieces.

I then mounted each of the figures onto coffee stirrers to get them ready to be primed and painted.

Having set up the first army, I started to paint this group as the red army.  I planned on painting them all red as my base coats.  I then painted white for the pants, oak brown for the rifle and the tip of the bayonet with silver.   The packs were painted a leather brown.   The last bits were flesh tone hands and face with blue to set off the shoulder pads and shirt cuffs.

The calvary was given some saddle flares in white and blue to offset the colors.   While the cannons were painted with a brass and wood colors.

The base was jumbo popsicle sticks cut into 1 inch lengths and supergluing the figures to the base.

Command

I put a infantry with a calvary to represent the army commander.   A single calvary would be a brigade commander.

Infantry

2 figures = Skirmishers

4 figures = Regular Infantry

Cannon

1 cannon = Light Artillery

2 cannon = Regular Artillery

1 cannon and 1 infantry = Calvary Artillery

Calvary

2 figures = Light Calvary

3 figures = Regular Calvary

The test army for the blue was mounted and finished the same way as the red army.

The base coat was completed as blue instead of red and all the details were done the same.   The only difference is that the cuff and shoulder detail was changed to blue.

I have begun to finish the rest of the risk figures.  The first thing is that I tried PVA glue to base the figures.  This worked out well for priming and base coating the figures red.  It went well and easily.

I found painting the figures this way gave me too many odd angles and I decided to remove them all and paint them by holding the figures.   There was about 75 figures in this batch and about 5 hours got them painted up and ready for basing.

The cannon were mounted the same way as the infantry.

The horses are where I started.  Due to the red base coat I would do it differently like I did with my test pieces priming a base color instead of red.  This was followed up for the white pants.

Next up will be the black boots and skin tones.

I started the blue army next.  Picture one is the figures being mounted on sticks for priming.  This time I decided to use my new Monumental Primers to see how they worked.   I planned to specifically to do this so that I could contrast paint the horses.   The cannons were painted up for wood grain to get it sped up.   The infantry was primed and then airbrushed blue to get them ready.

I decided to try some different browns to see how they would come out and see how they looked.  Several looked too close, but here is the samples for anyone interested.

I did the Blue army very similar to the red with the only difference being red shoulder pads and red arm trims.

These are the final pictures of all the stands on display.  I plan to pick up another set to add more infantry to the two armies.   I might plan to add a third green army, but that is only if I can get some games played with these first.

Thanks for following and this will mark my project completed.