Hmmm I'm seeing double

Another quick update, just finished painting these three models. One Lewis gunner and two (identical) loaders. I also have two, three quarter painted officers which I hope to finish Friday night. Then I'll need to have a quick review of the troops and see what I need to purchase (if anything) to finish my VBCW force for the Big Game. Then just for a change I think I'll paint another 4 of the Empress British Infantry for my Anglo Zulu war force.

My plan is to slowly build up my Anglo-Zulu war force until I have a light company of say 60 men, but that's more of a long term project. I also fancy painting up a small modern British Infantry force to use in little ambush alley (or similar) skirmish games. Must stay focused. 

Get your skates on

Just finished this dispatch skater guy. I'm not sure whether they would have had red skates with snazzy white laces in the 1930's but that's what I wanted the skates to look like so poo to history (as though a skating dispatch rider isn't already flying in the face of reality a tad). Got 5 or so WW1 Infantry models from Musketeer to paint next as part of my VBCW force. Still toying with colours and so forth.

Local Defence Force

Another five of the top notch Musketeer models which I've painted this week.

I'm really pleased with the results and it didn't even take me very long to paint them, hell I painted two of the models in about 3 or 4 hours today which for me is super fast! I think the quality of the castings definitely improves the quality of the painting and makes it easier to get the results which you want.

These guys will make up part of my VBCW SFF force for the Big Game in November but in the long run will form part of my own VBCW force the Wittering Allotment Volunteers. I still have quite a few Musketeer models to paint up but I think the next batch is a selection of Officers, NCO's and Lewis gunners from the WW1 range. Still makes nice filler for my SFF force.

Off to war again

This is the first of the Musketeer Minatures which I ordered.I have a mix of ww1 uniform guys and homeguard/militia types to paint up. One thing I hadn't realised was that Artizan Designs miniatures are slightly taller and "chunkier" than Musketeer's but theres not enough of a size difference to bother me. Love Musketeers sculpts there really clean and have loads of detail. I've also painted another 3 of my Anglo-Zulu war british infantry, and started on another 4 so its all go.

Make Ready!

My first Empress British Infantry model. I'm pleased with how it turned out, this is the "test model" for my latest little side project. I've got another 7 of these guys to paint and Empress's Cinematic Rorke's Drift character pack. In other news i'm just waiting on the good folks at Musketeer sending me the latest additions to my SFF force, but until they appear i'll be working on my Anglo-Zulu war project. 

Lying down on the job

Well that's the last of my Artizan British Infantry painted. I have however ordered a veritable raft of miniatures from Musketeer Miniatures to complete (or almost complete) my SFF force for VBCW. In other news I've ordered some of the lovely anglo-zulu war  British Infantry sculpts from Empress Miniatures to start my other little project off.

The Cult of the Golden Triangle

I got a little distracted over the weekend and in between rebasing my British Infantry I painted up the set of Artizan Design Cultists that I found in a cupboard earlier in the week. They were just crying out to be painted and they were really great fun to paint. I made a point of painting there trousers differnently because I wanted them to look like they had just come home from there various "day jobs" and jumped into there Cult tabard.

I decided to name this little band of nutters "The Cult of the Golden Triangle" mainly because I'm not great at drawing/painting symbols free hand and a triangle filled with gold was nice and simple and gold looks good with purple and red so its all good. I have no idea what I will use these guys for they may just live on my display shelf. But if Artizan release any other models in this range I will be sure to flesh out the cult.