ECW Reinforcements

A nice order of foundry miniatures has turned up on my door - did i say in my last post that the army was almost finished - hahahaha as if!!  not content with 700 odd point i wanted to make sure i could do a solid 1000 point for the big club game next month.

So i have 2 large units of commanded shot

and 2 units of muskets

and finally a unit of pike to go with the musket units.

Going to be tight to get these done in 3 weeks but ill give it a go.

More ECW goodness!

Hi guys,

As promised here is my third infantry regiment (bet your getting sick of seeing these things by now).

As you can probably tell by now my Royalist force is going to be pretty colorful overall.  I've got plans for two or three more regiments to round out the army to a solid 1000 points in the long term but for now the army is pretty close to being finished and im really happy with how its turning out. Now if i could only win a game!!!!

Another Cavalry regiment

Hi Guys

As i promised yesterday here is my 2nd cavalry regiment. I'm pretty happy with the flag on this one as it had a big of an accident when i was trying to glue it on and it fell in some paint - I was mortified!!! After a quick wipe off i waited for the remaining paint to dry and then proceeded to repaint it by hand, its not perfect but i think its pretty damn close to what i had originally on the brought flag. 

 Tomorrow ill post up my third infantry regiment, See you then.

ECW Royalist army nears completion

Well im at the stage now where apart from finishing off my command figures im at the basing stage for my whole army. Today i managed to finish off another 3 units.

Rather than do a big photo dump ill spread the three units over the next few days (Gives ya a reason to pop back a few times) :)

We will start off today with the kings Life guard Pike and Musket units.

Tomorrow ill post up my next Cavalry regiment and the day after ill post up my 3rd Infantry regiment.

Till tomorrow.

Another finished Royalist ECW Unit.

Well the title says it all, ive finished another ECW unit, this time the first of four Pike and Musket Regiments.

Overall I'm pretty damn happy with how they turned out as yellow is a pain to paint at the best of times. I think the small amounts of blue in the sashes and pike tassels (which im using as the linking colour in all my units to designate that they are royalists) and in the flag all work well together against the bright yellow and the grey of the pants. Hopefully it will be a really stunning looking unit on the table.

I did have a third Central shot but something went wrong and it didn't come out right. (The lesson boys and girls is to take lots of shots and choose the best!) Something ive heard Will, Rob and Lee say a lot but i obviously forgot!!  Lesson now learned lads!

I'm really keen to hear what you think as i worked on these for a wee while to try and get them right.

More Finished ECW

So following on from yesterdays finished unit here are my artillery pieces for my Royalist army.

New ECW Pics

So today i started mucking around with my new light box using some plain white paper as a background. Definitely an improvement i think over the cloth one i had.

What do you guys think - I welcome any suggestions for the background and weather i should use gimp to add in watermarks or background image etc.. have text or not. At this point in time its just experimentation.

I did a test image with some text and a basic background. it looks ok... i think with another colour it might look better?

Painting Progress.

Well it was a bit of a slow week for painting last week. My leg and back causing me problems but i did get in the odd hour of painting here and there.

I've almost completed another Pike unit for my English Civil War Royalist force.

I also got two units of Confederate infantry finished off (Which can be seen here on my ACW Blog) and nearly completed two more.

And i assembled my first Confederate Cavalry unit.

Also i did some terrain making for my ACW table.

The tutorial for how i made these is on my ACW Blog - LINK

ECW Progress

Got the first stage of basing done on my Cav division today.  They still need a bit of work (Flower and weed tufts) and the odd extra painting highlight. However whilst im currently unable to work the tufts will have to wait.

Still they will do for the South Auckland clubs big ECW event in December.  Really looking forward to seeing over 3000 28mm figs on one table.

Tomorrow i should have some of my Pike and musket units based as well.

Mark
:)

Basing

So today my back was really playing up so getting much painting done wasn't on the cards. Instead i decided to do some basing.  I couldn't finish them but even as they are they are looking ok. Once they have some flock and flower tuff's on they they should look great on the table.

The Army is getting very close to being finished Maybe tomorrow my back will be a little better and i can try and finish my army commanders.

Ecw army progress

So I've been working on this army for what a month or so now and finally am making real progress. Looking forward to starting on the artillery and characters in about two weeks time.

Been a long week so far but im managed to get some progress done on my ECW army.

The army still has a way to go but im making real progress. I've ordered 3 cannons and a mortar to match what Rob has to make sure i can bring as much artillery to bear as he can.

Also i ordered the start of my ACW army from perry miniatures. Packed and shipped in under 24 hours the Perry's rock. I know i said i wouldn't order them until the ACW army is finished but there was a deal going and with the exchange rate being awful for NZ i took my chance whilst i could.

Right now back to my second ECW infantry unit. ... why did i choose yellow...

ECW Cav - small update

Another couple of hours and the riders for the cav are almost done. now to do some work on the horses themselves.

ECW and Bolt Action WIP's

So last night i managed to get a fair bit of work done on my second Cavalry unit for my Royalist force for ECW. now that im starting to see a couple of units together i think its going to be a nice looking army when it finished.

Below is a bit of a dump for some of the vehicles that i have done up for my second Bolt action force - These are for my DAK army.

As always keen for comments and feedback.

All these pictures are being taken on my Nokia 930 windows phone. Its a 20 mp camera and takes a nice shot. I'm still playing with settings but the photo quality on the blog should improve a wee bit over the next couple of days.