Steady as she goes....

I have managed to paint four times for about an hour each over the last month, and as such I am now nearing the end of painting the red tunics for the British infantry - just one regiment and two skirmish units (Pickets and Marksmen) left before I can see a different paint pot to the bloody red I've been using for the last six weeks or so.....

As from my experience of doing the rebel skirmishers, I will be based the british skirmishers before I attempt to paint them - I had thankfully done the cutting of the metal strips last year.

I have a plan.......

I have had an extended break as I have no not until now been ready to restart, following a close friend passing away six months ago.

To provide some new focus, I have put into storage all miniatures that are nothing to do with AWI, and I have set some basic aspirations/targets around minimum time spent painting AWI each week/month.

I stayed up to watch the Super Bowl last night, being a Packers fan, so I did not get to sleep until 3.30am. I had hoped to start today but I will mark it in for tomorrow night.

The plus side from this, is that it will allow me to review the order I will paint the regiments - likely to be British Foot Infantry but there is scope to continue with some of the Rebels as well. Thankfully, I found all my infantry painting notes that I painstakingly researched.

One month later.....

Somehow I allowed a month to pass with no painting.....tut tut.

Following a day at Salute 2010 in London, I came home with my final AWI Baccus order - British Infantry and (proper) Rebel Infantry.......As I had the time available, I immediately set about undercoating them all, somehow close to about 1200 figures! However, my Chaos Black Undercoat Spray ran out of paint with just one infantry unit and the mounted officers left to do!!

Tonight, I have started to paint some of the British Infantry their (Vallejo Blood) Redcoats (tunics), about 160 figures. Going to try and get back into the habit of painting for around about an hour each evening even if it is at 11pm to midnight.

One of those weeks.....

Sadly, I have had no opportunity since Tuesday last week to do some painting.

I plan to restart tomorrow, and hope to do some over the Easter weekend.

Tunics, Tunics and Tunics!

Tonight, I painted the tunics for the 1st Canadian Regiment (rebels) using Magic Blue (vallejo) and the 4th New York Regiment using Off White (vallejo).

I am now pondering whether I should continue my tunic paint mode, and do the German Light Battalion Regiment and the German Grenadier Regiment, before then facing the skirmishers, or whether I should focus on the 1st Canadian, 2nd New York and 4th New York, and do trousers, flesh, and muskets.....I have until tomorrow night to decide.

Tomorrow night might be the time to photograph the 1st Connecticut Militia, 2nd Connecticut Militia, the Loyalists, and the Canadians (british).

Started work on 2nd New York Regiment

Painted the tunic Scarapena Green, which I may need to tone down as I wanted a pale green.

Trousers painted pale yellow, which is my equivalent of cream colour.

Took about an hour an a half to do those two areas......


Wondering if my approach should be to aim to do tunic and trousers for each regiment, then as a mass batch do flesh, followed by wood part of musket and then metal part of musket.....it might feel like no progress is happening but it defers the need to base them until either I have more shallow trays to store them in, or its Salute 2010, and in which case, I will have purchased a case with the right shape foam holes to put them all in.

Skirmishers are hard work.....

You would think having only 48 figures to paint instead of 96 would mean you should paint them twice as quickly - oh no.....because they are based in an irregular fashion (to reflect their skirmish status), extra care is needed when trying to paint them as you need to navigate the figures to get to the one you are painting.

The quality of my painting is improving, and I suspect that the skirmishers are going to take time to do, so I may mix things up e.g. do an ordered infantry, paint some skirmishers, do another ordered infantry and so on, as the infantry are going to be quick to do, whilst the skirmishers may each take a week to do.

Not much painting done this weekend, due to Dragon Age:Awakenings being released on XBox on Friday, and general tiredness (daughter waking up just after 6am today and yesterday), so I've focused on;

1. Undercoating my second batch of figures that arrived on Saturday (mainly rebels but some germans, artillery and british skirmishers).
2. cutting up the british marksmen and picketts.
3. basing Morgan's Riflemen, ready for painting.
4. researching uniform colours for both rebels and brits.