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 carlos13th wrote:
Already did that.

Well, that's that, then.

Maybe I just didnt do the best job of it.

You have tried it once, which is once more than I have, which puts you way ahead in my book. Have you finished the samurai sandal you were working on?

Nah migraines came out in full force not long after I wrote the post about painting him which put a prompt end to my painting session.

The model has been sitting with just the face painted in the bottom of a box for ages. He got misplaced in between moves.
Here is how he looks so far though





Lacing on the helmet is off white, blue then off white but not sure if it shows here

Going to do something similar for the armour lacing too. Lacing thst is done will get neatened later,

Man. All those fiddly little bits like the stitching. I don't know if I'd have the patience to build a whole army with that kind of theme.

I'm finding the samurai with lacing easier to do than infinity models ATM. Not sure why but I struggle to get decent coverage my haqqislam so far.m

 Azazelx wrote:
Man. All those fiddly little bits like the stitching. I don't know if I'd have the patience to build a whole army with that kind of theme.

It does make for slow going, but once you get used to it it isn't that onerous.

Looking good! Nice themed army you got.

Not had many updates lately for various reasons but wanted to post something here.

I am heading back to work in January which I am looking forward too. Will be staying with a friend while I do so wont have most of my models still had some nice stuff for christmas I will have with me so I will be working on some of those including a trying to plug away at the few Samurai I have with me when I can.

Atm I am halfway through a Samurai and two monks as well as a Flames of War British machine gun platoon.



Not sure what from that lot I will start painting first but I have started putting together the icestorm stuff so I can play through the introduction rulebook and start to learn the rules.

Nice haul I especially like the SNES controler

Yeah its a Snes controller for PC. So will have to get on the case of some emulation.

Ahh I didn't see the USB plug, that's cool beans. I've got a playstation or xbox 3rd party controller that I use but a plain and simple snes controller would be pretty darn usable too Simpler as well.

Yeah it sadly isnt working on my MAC atm. Cant find the right drivers for it.

Happy new year guys. I'm drinking a cup of coffee nursing the first hangover I have had in nearly two years looking and some models and deciding what to paint today once the house mate wakes up.

The way the house is laid out means going into the living room to early would wake him so I am stuck here deciding between paitning tanks of infantry. At least for now.

Quite a nice haul there for Xmas Carlos!

Don't think I would know what to open first..

Yeah I got lucky there. Played the first scenario of ice storm, clipped all the british infantry from the sprues and attached a few of the nomads from icestorm onto scenic bases but haven't started paitning anything yet.

Spent most of today cooking malaysian food and hopefully will paint soon after chilling for a bit.

Sounds like a fun day. Is that stuff spicy or what?

Yeah it's pretty spicy. Made Nasi Lemak (coconut rice) to have something that cools it down.

So I have decided to write a to do list of what I want to get painted this year inspired by Grimdork's utterly insane list.

I dont have all my hobby stuff on me so it will be slightly limited but here is what I want I plan to do. I will update this to the front page in order too keep track of what I have done and will cross off when I have finished it.

First up is Flames of War.

The majority of my flames of war army was bought by a friend of mine who I was chatting to about painting miniatures. I told him about some sales that were on that I was looking into and he bought me a heafty chunk of the army. The rest comes from presents from the girlfriend and sister.

So I need to paint the following for my Flames of War British which are 15mm scale ww2 miniatures.

British

Vickers Machine Gun Platoon. (This isn't far from being finished. Need to touch them up a little then shade then base)
3 British Infantry Platoons (Around 30 guys a platoon give or take.)
1 British Infantry HQ (Less than 10 models)
5 Cromwell Tanks
3 Sherman Firefly Tanks
1 Heavy Mortor Platoon
4 Universal Carriers with crew
4 6pdr Anti tank Guns with crew
4 Lyod Carriers with crew

So we are looking at around 100-150+ x 15mm infantry along with 20 x 15mm Vehciles

Next up is Infinity. I want to focus on painting up Nomads this year. If I have time and finish my other stuff I my branch out and paint some of the Haqqislam. The Pan O stuff from Icestorm will go to the misses. These are 28mm Sci Fi miniatures.

Nomads

3 Alguaciles
1 Mobile Brigada
1 Reverand Healer
1 Grenzer
1 Spektr
3 Wildcats
1 Intruder
2 Hellcats
1 Alguacile Hacker.
1 Senior Massacre

16 x Infantry

Next up is the reason I started this blog in the first place Samurai at the moment I just don't have the paitence or skill to patch paint enough Samurai to make a Kings of War force. That will come in time as its still my long term goal but I want something smaller more short term.

Short term I want to create a few playable forces for Ronin: Samurai Skirmish Game from Osprey.

For this I hope to paint the following

Bushi Buntai (Samurai)

3 Yari Ashigaru
1 Teppo Ashigaru
1 Yumi Ashigaru
2 Katana Samurai
1 Hatamoto Samurai


Soehi Buntai (Monks)

2 Archer Sohei
4 Naginata Sohei
1 Teppo Sohei
1 Senior Sohei with Katana

Bandit Buntai

3 Peasnts with Bamboo Spears
3 Armoured Bandits 1 Melee weapons
1 Teppo Bandit
1 Archer Bandit
1 Armoured Bandit with Nodachi

25 x 28mm Infantry

I may add to those sightly depending on the points values of the forces in order to balance them. But what is there will be my goal in the first instance.

Finally if I manage to do all that I will paint a SWAT team / Police Force for Fist Full of Kung Fu which will consist of the following

Police

1 Max Payne style plain clothes cop
1 Chow Yun Fat from Hardboiled Cop
4 Person Swat Team with Gas Masks
1 Swat Team Commander
1 Agent in a suit

Thats 8 x 28mm infantry
So thats the plan for this year if all goes well. I am mostly recovered from my head injury so should be able to paint a lot more than I have been able to previously. Hope that holds up.

Thats over 200 models in total maybe more. Now to see if I can actually pull it off.




Automatically Appended Next Post:
Last of us Diorama

Almost forgot to mention this one.

My friend who got me the Flames of War stuff loves Last of Us. Its his favourite game so I plan to paint him a last of us Diorama. It will require painting the following.

1 Hasslefree Clint
1 Hasslefree Beth
1 Clicker Zombie (this will require a conversion of a normal human figure)

Finally I will use a 28mm 4 ground ruined building as part of the Diorama. These are pre painted so require no painting.

Your list is looking pretty rough too, man. Here's hoping we can both put some significant miles down on them whether we get done or not

Yeah lets hope I can do at least most of it.

The actual number of Samurai I have to paint is huge. But lets not try to deal with everything at once.

If I some how get everything on the list done I will either paint more Infinity or more Samurai.

Your to-do list looks good. I'll be watching with interest.

Thanks Josh. Look forward to following what you do too.

If anyone would like to let me know what they are more interested in than others let me know. It might help guide my direction when I am unsure what to tick off next.

I wanna see the zombie Dio, and then the Flames of War stuff

All of it sounds neat though, the models for the Ronin skirmish game and Infinity dudes will be cool too

The Zombie Diorama has to wait until I see the GF next as the models are at hers.

Working on a flames of war platoon right now which isnt to far off done so you may get your second wish.

All these gigantic lists!!

Good luck and have fun!

I'll be along for the ride.

Thanks EyeamRai are you going to do something similar?

I don't have a giant list I'm just starting off with 2 models a week and will increase it if I seem to reach that too easily.

I did not reach my goal this week.

I blame the holidays and the plague...

Mini update here.

Figure small updates of progress will help keep me motivated rather than waiting until everything's done. Hope that isn't too annoying for people.

Flames of war machine gun platoon are painted and dipped. Tomorrow if I am 100% sure everything's dry and the humidity is ok they will get Matt varnished and sealed. Then based.

Here is a photo of them in all their glossy still sticky from the dip glory. The shot doesn't show the whole platoon btw. Just a few close up.



Also weather permitting the YouTube comment section in nation form also known as the nomads will get primed. May put together a few more guys stick them on their bases and get those primed too. Bases are resin and from antenociti's workshop.

Little army dudes look pretty cool, I'm eager to see how they look sealed and based as I don't follow a lot of 15mm/FoW projects.

Bases look pretty sweet. Nice amount of detail but not so much that they're liable to bog you down.