American Civil War - Confederacy Army

 Second part of my ACW project, now complete. The Confederates.

Again, all painted across a number of periods over the last 2 1/2 years and finally done.

Heres the pics!

American Civil War - Union Army

 ACW project is finished. Oddly, I'm not a big one for ACW, but friends bought in, I added some, then it kinda spiralled out from there really. 

Glad to say its all done now though, and heres the first part - the Union.

Essentially, its all Perry as that Battle in a Box was much in demand amongst my lot for when we prepped for a game a while back (Link) and I've kept working on stuff since then to get it all finished up.

I'd say this was painted across four main periods really - leading up to Christmas 17 for the first ACW game, then leading up to the big group game in Christmas 18, then another patch in Summer 19 when the Gettysburg games were fought. Finally, we set a lockdown 2 challenge and I bashed out another 94 minis in short order across the last ten days to finish everything.

Here we go with the pics then!

Up next - The Confederacy

Adeptus Titanicus - Full Legio

 Ordered and finished the last few bits I needed for my Adeptus Titanicus battlegroup. Lovely models, all of these and 95% done, as I have a pair of knights waiting for painting, but not massively interested in those. Knights - bit like a starter, really, aren't they? Nice, but not the main event!

So, here we go with all of the AT stuff. Some of these have been seen before on the blog, but not in the full legio.

Who knows when they'll see the table - we had planned on end of Oct for a first try at the rules (4 player game), but Thee Plague saw that off. Especially as we play in a pub!

Warlord Titans

Reaver Titans

Warhound Titans

Knight Household #1

Knight Household #2

Full Legio

Terrain - Dolmens and Rocks

 More terrain, again very quick and simple. Circles of foamboard, some bark from the park, paint and flock. Done! These'll go nicely with the new hills, I should think

Terrain - Reflocked Small Table

 FINALLY got onto the task of reflocking my smaller indoor table, which I use for a variety of things and clocks in a nice 3x4 size.

Originally, this was done with a dark green flock, many years ago, on a plain unpainted board and which showed gaps of lighter through the flock, but that didn't bother me too much. 

I also put patches of spare static flock, in a not very good fashion, but it was all workable as I had a feeling I'd come back to it.

SO, 6 1/2 years later, here we are - put new flock and static grass on top and textured accordingly. Didn't bother trying to get it to stand on end, other than with brute force by whacking the table to remove the spare.

Painting Tally - October 2020

20 Dwarf Spearmen

16 Dwarf Crossbows

2 Cannon

1 Bolt Thrower

4 Dwarf Characters

8 Dwarf machine crew

2 Reaver Titans

2 Warhound Titans

Monthly total - 55

Yearly total - 987

Terrain - New Hills, New Method

 Nothing too exciting, but found an old can of expanding foam in the shed, from doing some DIY a few years back, and decided to give it a try for making some hills. 

Sprayed out the remaining into a couple of piles, let it dry out then roughly carved it into a hilly shape. From there, I got the poly cutter and gave it a little bit of detailing around the edges, before undercoating black, then giving a zenithal spray of grey to make the rocky colouring.

10 mins later, gave them a good blast of adhesive spray and piled some flock onto the hill to cover. Another 10 mins and gave that a good bashing to get all of the loose stuff off, before finally adding some tufts and such for final detailing.

Pretty easy and pretty happy with the results. These seem to be much more rocky, difficult, hills than the gentle idyllic curves of a lot of terrain, so its a good variety.

Needless to say I've bought another can and prepping to make a pair of MASSIVE hills in the same way.