Off the Workbench

 A couple months in to the year and I'm already off to a good start. Got 172 figures painted last month. I suspect this month will be better. I am currently in the midst of a 15mm Sea Peoples army for Impetus, having completed my Prussian 3rd Corps for the 100 days.  Reading, I finished my first book of the year

Overall not a bad read. You can read my short review here

In my painting I was forced to change my normal brushes, the Reaper black handle ones. I loved them and they are either way out of stock or getting rid of them. I absolutely detest synthetic brushes, they are literally the devil. so the hunt was on for new sable brushes. I finally settled on Da Vinci brushes from Dick Blick. I don't think they make them, just carry them. But, they are really nice brushes, keep a good point, and seem to be hardy. That was the one thing I loved about the Reaper ones, they took my abusive practices and still worked until they were practically hairless. One caveat, Reaper did have a bum brush from time to time, but the endurance of the good ones far outweighed that con. Anyway, it seems I have found a suitable replacement.

Well the time has come for the latest completed miniatures. So here they are! 

First up some Warlord Games Gauls

At times I think these are the gym Gauls, they are pretty cut. Maybe its that starvation diet they are on, I'm not sure. They are really easy to assemble and not too bad to paint. Shields are all Little Big Men Studios. The only real issue with the figs are mold lines, ugh, they are a pain.

Next up some cool skeletons from Skull & Crown I had misplaced these guys, and recently found them and got then straight to the front of the queue.

I don't really like the pavises, nothing wrong with them, and they came with the Kickstarter, but, I think in the future I am going to go with the coffin lids instead. I think they are more in keeping with the theme, and I don't have to come up with designs, I'm awful at that.

I finally finished my ECW project! I put this together to use with the Baroque rules, and based the armies on Marston Moor. Figuring that I would have more than enough units for pretty much any battle. Baroque loosely figures units at 1500 men per, I did mine at 750, I don't see any reason that would be problematic. This time around the majority are Scots.

That is pretty much the entire Scottish contingent at Marston Moor. I have another cavalry unit I missed getting a picture of plus there is an additional unit of foot in there I made up out of extras.

I also did a couple of Parliamentarian units.

And not to be outdone, a random Royalist cavalry unit made from excess cavalry and general figures.

The Scots flags are all from Wargames Designs they are really nice ones. As good as any others out there. The majority of the foot and cav are Essex miniatures, though there are some Minifig shot mixed in as well.

Finally I did generals. I'll caption the ones I remember.

LtoR Charles II, Aide, Charles I, Boye, Prince Rupert

Left base center Ralph Hopton

Right base center Earl of Leven

And there are of course a bunch of other guys like Essex, Manchester, Cromwell, Fairfax, Maurice Waller, etc. I used a mix of Old Glory 15s, and Blue Moon for the command stands. All the named personalities came from Old Glory 15s, and the others are mostly Blue Moon, including Boye. Yes, I bought a whole pack of figures for the dog. He is a must have IMO.

Well that is all this time around. I hope you enjoyed the post. I'll see you all next time.