I joined the 54mm painting team for the Museum display and got myself all ready to paint my 40 figures. So here are the 5 figures I received two weeks ago which I was given which I must say left me a little downhearted. Don't get me wrong the logistics issues are very understandable (Canterbury charged into it with heaps of us getting stuck in) , it was mainly my enthusiasm and impatience that got the better me as I was all set to charge into it due to my preference of doingf far too much all at once. Seeing other painters in the north island painting 10's at a time does not help - such is my eagerness to paint more of them.
I have done the initial base - coat so all that is left to do on these is the wash and highlights. I'll leave these till I get some more as I prefer to do these things in bulk. The figures are all mostly the same uniform but I did the 5th one differently to see how the change would look for future figures.
The arms on these lads were an absolute bastard to glue on but once done and filled it wasn't too bad.
Very soon I will post an incredible bias account of my Spanish Army giving the french a damn good hammering.
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Absolutely agree re the 54mm chaps. My 5 are at exactly the same stage. I ended up using blutac to hold the arms in place while the glue dried!
Yeah, I think I'm going to wait till I have a decent number to finish the rest as time is at a premium. I'd prefer to do 10 or 20 at a time while everything is out - especially the 50/50 mixes that seem to dry very quickly.
Hopefully by the end of this week we should have some more.
Yeah I also said I'd wait until a decent number showed up. Unfortunate what you say about the arms!! Do they not have pegs or something?
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