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.