Thursday, 15 December 2022

Pre Challenge Warm Up

 The 13th Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge starts in 6 days and i've not painted anything for 3 months due to my shoulder injury. So I thought I'd have a practice, I was very rusty.


1st up 2 battalions of Royal Ecossais. These will form the superior troops in my imagiNation Scots 7YW army and 1 battalion can be added to French army if needed (there was only 1 in French army formed by exile Scots)

Unlike the rest of my Scots, these have European dress


I have bought a copy of 02hundred and as it takes place at night I thought I'd paint them in grey scale. These are the 2 simplest sentries (Wargames Foundry make nice sentry types)

The only colour is the helmet badge

Overall quite pleased, although the bases need more work

Also had a delivery of toys today, I really don't need anymore toys but Northstar were running a mystery box and mine had £82 worth of figs and paint for £45. There was only 1 pack I couldn't use, ironically 7YW Austrians. Otherwise loads of pulp, colonial and WW2 figs. Bargain



10 comments:

  1. Good to see you back painting, and I hope you're feeling better Martin..? Looking forward to seeing what you've got lined up for the AHPC this year. Spookily, I've just bought 02 Hundred Hours too - perhaps we could set up a game over the webcam like we did Zombicide, as that would doubtless add to the Fog of War effect. Let me know if you're interested and we'll set up a game in the New Year.

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    1. That sounds like a great idea. We can work something out early in the new year, when I've had a play. Nothing worse that watching somebody read rules on zoom

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    2. Excellent. I hope to play a few games of the opening scenario myself over Christmas. Should be good fun.

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  2. Welcome back, glad to see you can do some painting….another mystery Box !!!!! Oh dear 😱

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    1. ta, love a mystery box. This one was good, and even had a zombie camel!

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  3. Sounds like a really good purchase from Northstar! I quite like the look of the "greyscale" miniatures too, a clever idea if gaming entirely in the darkness hours!

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    1. cheers, most of my collections started as a mystery bag

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    1. Thank you, congratulations on the blog anniversary

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