BG's as ACW G's

Well we have been havin a bit of fun with the Basement Generals of late. We are liking Longstreet, the new rules by Sam Mustafa using his Honour Rulesystem. Its a lot of fun. And since The BAron and I are ever distracted, we have taken to making ACW Generals out of the Basement Generals.

The Baron lobbed the first grenade with this gem of his self portrait:

I followed with this self portrait:

 And being the master at all things photoshop, he followed up with these two:

It's been much fun and nice to see the BG's as ACW Generals. Almost as good as the Hollywood Stars as Russian Generals from a while back.

Been a bit of a Whirlwind

Well, its been a bit of a whirlwind around these parts.

We are in full practice and scrimmage mode for football season for my 5th grader and 8th grader. But we had a setback with the 5th grader. He fractured his collarbone at a football tournament and is out 3-4 weeks. I don't see how he will be back in 3-4 weeks, but that's what the doctor told us. We'll see. In the mean time. I am still assistant coach on a team where my son isn't playing right now. Frustrating that. The 8th grader is fighting to make the A Team squad as Tight End. He has size and some speed. We'll see. I am hopeful.

As is usual, the beginning of the school year is absolute chaos. And many other distractions abound. Not much time left for gaming or painting. I probably won't be gaming with the BG's til November, and I don't know how much time I'll get to spend at the Recruits Gaming Convention because of football games. So each moment is precious on the gaming front right now.

I did get the following accomplished:

1 stand of Spanish Musketeers finished - for my converged grenadier unit.
5 Stands of Spanish Musketeers completed -just need to finish the command stand and the final infantry unit of the Spanish Army is completed.

Once finished with the Spanish, I am not sure where I will head next.

I could delve into 15mm Sci Fi. Hordes to be painted there.
I could start on the 15mm Undead Army for Hail Caesar Fantasy.
I could nick off a dozen Foundry Pirates.
I could do a couple dozen skirmish napoleonic figs.
Or I could start the French 28mm Nappy Cavalry. Chasseurs first, Then Dragoons.

I do not have clarity at the moment. I have a wealth of choices. But no decisions.

And it sure would be nice to finish Fistful of Lead:Warriors of the Wasteland.


 

Weekend Progress - 8-16-13 to 8-18-13

Well gentle readers I continued to make progress on finishing out my current Spanish and British armies for the Penninsula.

I finished 3 new stands of British Foot Artillery, plus a Division and Army Commander as well.

In addition, I got boots, pants, belts, sheaths, and jackets finished on a unit of Spanish Musketeers as well as my missing grenadier stand. Hopefully can finish them tonite.

Happy painting.

Black Watch Completed

I stole some time last night and finished up the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment - The Black Watch for my British Napoleonic Army. First time paint kilts and ticking/dicing on a highland uniform for me. I know how I would improve it, but am satisfied at table length that they look good and represent well. Here you go.

I would like to do another highlight on the flesh, but they are done for now. I may come back to that later. As soon as I finished these I base painted 3 foot artillery pieces. So I hope to have those finished this weekend.

Black Watch almost complete!

Been out of town on vacation. I did finally get some time on my Highlanders. Dicing and ticking and kilts are done. I have to do some gold lace on the officers and finish the drummer and I am done! Pics tomorrow. I am finishing this tonite. That puts me at 11 infantry units. 1 more and I am done with the Brits. 3 cannon and the arty is totally complete as well. And I should finish these cav units...

But, I am moving on to 15mm Sci Fi. I am greatly inspired by the efforts the Propaganda Architect has put into his Modern African Wars figs for Gruntz so its time to get rolling on some more sci fi figs for Gruntz.

This is of course if I don't get my Gamer ADD under control. If I do, then I will finish that last unit of infantry and those cannons!

Highlander Painting WIP

Well I stayed up late last night after attending to a bunch of other life things and voila! Here's the 42nd minus kilts, socks, and bonnets. And a final highlight on the faces. Not good photos. But photos nonetheless.

I can paint this uniform in my sleep at this point. And I love it. The Perry's Foundry sculpts are a breeze to paint, and I am continually amazed at how little Red is actually showing once all the belts and packs and lace and such are completed.

This is the first kilt I have done. I like it, as well as the ticking on the socks and bonnet.

Hope to complete these before the end of the weekend.

Painting Distractions and other nonsense

I ave been very busy as of late with life and so this little corner of the blogosphere has been quiet for me. And its been pretty quiet in the workshop of doom as well.

Since the Bones have arrived I have painted exactly  - ZERO. I finally got so Fusion paint so I can prime them black. Its my painting style so I really don't want to go back to the days of a white primer and painting out all the white. I hated that period in my painting. Anyway I'll get a few primed as a test and see what happens. Once I start I will be painting monsters only really.

I did base paint about 30 Mechwarrior Clix figures. Fleshing out units for my initial Mechwarrior forces. We may pick up the new quick play Alpha Strike rules and actually play Mechwarrior, or we may just continue to use them for whatever we decide to play. Either way, they are a nice distraction.

As I was contemplating 15mm Sci FI, Fantasy or Post Apoc to paint next in the 3 hours I had to paint last night, I pulled the trigger on one of theose units that had been vexing me for several years - The 42nd Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) for the Pennisula. My British Nappies are waiting on 2 infantry units to be finished so I said, what the hell. I got faces, jackets, and kilts all base painted. Hopefiully tonite I can steal an hour and finish highlighting jackets, doing boots and gaiters and getting prepped for belts and lace. I should have about a week of off and on painting to fnish them, but, they were fun. The 92nd Gordon's Highlanders are next and I should have 12 infantry Units finished and the Brit infantry is finally complete. No promises after that, but a few more guns await, as well as 3 more cav units. And you can't have the Penninsula without the KGL. I still have 3 Spanish Infantry units, a couple of cannons, and a cav unit to finish them off.

Then come the French. they wait patiently and are understandably perturbed about being bumpe once again, this time by giants in dresses. They shoud be encouraged though, because a new line of metal Vitula Legion has been released. Scultoed by Paul Hicks these beauties are as vital to the French cause in the Penninsula as the KGL were to the Brits. So once on the market I will gobble these up for a whole division I should think.

The RECRUITS Con announced that they were close to closing the PEL for games at this Falls event. Seems a bit early for a regional gaming con in mid-september. But you all know my love for the Con. I am sure I will run a game. But with Football practice and season starting, I'm gonna be mightily distracted.

Keep rolling sixes

LA