Just a brief post with what's been produced on the painting table in the last couple of days, since my last post. One third of the 1er Regiment des Chasseurs a Chevals de la Ligne, are present for inspection, plus a few more 15mm WWII Brits......
I am not convinced by the metal command figures that come in the Warlord plastic box sets.
To be honest, I prefer the look of the plastic trooper figures over the officers.
I tried to "shade" the red jacket of the musician, but I don't think it really worked that well.
Now these two - the first of the plastic troopers - are much nicer, in my opinion.
These are the two "variations" of sword arm, which look pretty similar, to be honest.
I have mixed up the other six with the addition of some spare Perry sword arms!
Now, another six bases of WWII British infantry, all Battlefront Miniatures Flames of War figures, which are pretty nicely detailed for this scale, I think.
All six bases are rifle armed infantrymen.
Here they are all together.
And from a slightly different angle,
Thats my lot tonight. The wind continues to howl outside as we bid farewell to ex tropical cyclone Gabrielle, which is now causing a lot of damage and suffering in the Hawkes Bay region, where my wife and I visited back in early November 2022 (see below)
Unfortunately, it currently looks more like this:
Incredible scenes on the TV news earlier this evening of multiple bridges being washed away by the huge deluge of water - its going to take years to repair all the damage caused in the last few days.
I love the work you are doing on those Perry cavalry. We've been watching teh news from across the ditch about the severe challenges nature has been throwing at the North Island and Auickland over the past few weeks and again the last few days. Hopefully casualties are few and the reciovery speady
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Thanks Richard ...these ones are actually Warlord but I appreciate the comment!
DeleteAs far as I was aware yesterday, a volunteer firefighter was lost in a house collapse (another critically injured) and a body had washed up on a Hawkes Bay beach...but there could be more unfortunately ....
Wow! That is some serious flooding. Hope you remain high and dry. You continue churning over painted figures at a very good clip. Nice work all around!
ReplyDeleteYes it is pretty incredible Jon. Thankfully, we are fine, didn't even come close to being in trouble.
DeleteThat is a relief!
DeleteIt sure was!
DeleteAnother great looking minis sir!
ReplyDeleteThanks Michal
DeleteFine looking work on both sets of figures Keith. I can never figure out why they can't make plastic command figures as part of the sprue as other manufacturers have no problem doing so.
ReplyDeleteThe flooding and damage done is pretty incredible with us hearing of people having to swim out of their houses via the windows due to the height of the flood water. Some areas might be without electricty for around 3 weeks according to the news:(.
You and me both Steve ...production costs is my guess.
DeleteA couple of female colleagues in Hawkes Bay have had their homes inundated and had water up to their necks as they were evacuating, apparently. The impact there is going to be on the same scale as the Christchurch earthquake, I would imagine.
Great work on those Brits. Hope the storm didn't leave too much damage for you.
ReplyDeleteCheers Scotty...no, we were fine in he end😊
DeleteI quite like the officer poses, though the troopers are very nice. You are going at a good pace on the paint desk. A lot of heartache for those directly involved with the flooding - that is serious damage.
ReplyDeleteThanks Norm, and yes, a lot of people will be very badly affected and suffering the consequences for years to come, unfortunately.
DeleteAnother lovely batch Keith. Is the bad weather allowing you more painting time? I spoke to my father in Cambridge yesterday and he was saying that the local dog park had a stand of 20 gum trees and only one has been left standing, the rest looking like someone has driven a tank through them. What I find strange is that Norfolk Island got hit by the full force of the cyclone but escaped serious damage, whereas New Zealand has copped a hiding. I think they were very lucky indeed.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lawrence...yes, there was not much else to do most of the weekend but sit on the garage at the painting desk! I thought the storm altered course and only gave Norfolk Island a glancing blow, hence the minor impact there? Hawkes Bay definitely had the worst of it, along with Gisborne and Wairoa
DeleteGreat painting progress Keith……hope you have seen the worst of the rain and can dry out !
ReplyDeleteCheers Matt...nice sunny day here today but unfortunately more rain forecast for the Hawkes Bay area tomorrow...I think we are in the clear now though...maybe we can get a few weeks of summer now??!
DeleteCrazy flooding! We had similar here early last month, my own home threatened with being washed away. (Thankfully we were spared that)
ReplyDeleteThe time to paint though seems to have paid off and although you aren't a fan of the officer sculpt it looks very good.
A neighbour of ours was home in California over Christmas and had not heard anything about our Auckland floods a couple of weeks ago, because the same thing was happening where he was Dai!
DeleteGlad you like the latest painting output!
Smashing looking figures Keith.
ReplyDeleteHope that the worst is over.
Cheers Richard! For Auckland I think it is but the Hawkes Bay will take months (at least) to recover.
DeleteI think the red jacket looks just fine Keith, you're being too hard on yourself. I saw some of the damage on the news yesterday, it looked like something you see in a disaster movie. It's all you seem to here about nowadays disaster after disaster. What's the world coming to?
ReplyDeleteThanks Ray, I can live with the red jacket, just not sure if I would have preferred it bright, bright red with no shading!
DeleteThe world does seem to be in a bit of a state, I blame the Russians... Or the Chinese....Or perhaps, more convincingly, the French?! Or maybe it is all of us, buggering up the environment and causing global warming....not that that accounts for the disastrous earthquake in the Middle East, of course.....that's just nature!
I am glad you are safe Keith. Very sad for all those affected - seems to be happening more and more lately. My home insurance has tripled in the past year due to being near a river.
ReplyDeleteGreat looking figures as always.
Thanks Ben, yes, it appears that something might be affecting the weather patterns, doesn't it? Our insurance will doubtless go up again, as it did after the CHC earthquake ....c'est la vie, it seems....
DeleteLovely painting Keith…
ReplyDeleteIt looks like Mother Nature is a bit pi**ed off…
Glad to hear that you’ve got off lightly…
All the best. Aly
Thanks Aly, she does seem to be a bit miffed about something, doesn't she?
DeleteGlad that you and your family have been unscathed.
ReplyDeleteThanks Stew, me too! Just heard one if the girls in Hawkes Bay has 2m (6 feet) of river mud through her house...everything destroyed 😞
DeleteAwful to see the storm damage--long term impacts aside, here's to hoping that in the short term basic needs (power, etc) are resumed before too long.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ed....our branch in the area has no power but we should get a generator to them today. Just dealing with a customer trying to get a 0.3m3/90kg generator down to their trade center...looks like it will have to be flown and collected by their staff from Napier Airport....I think there are still thousands without power and that include water supply infrastructure so there is also a shortage of potable water...it's a major disaster by our standards
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