Tuesday 28 August 2012

The figure that nearly never was



Well I didn't think I would ever finish painting this figure, which has been standing on my modeling bench for months. I started painting him a while back and painted the kilt as a red with yellow and black stripping (and actual tartan, the name escapes me). However this came out rather badly as I rushed it and in a fit of pique I stopped painting the figure.

Now I came back to him today as I needed a 2ic for the Partizan game at the weekend. I painted over the terrible red kilt which we will never speak of again, with this nice green kilt. Its a lighter tone variant on the dark green tartan I have painted previously, and I quite like it. The top was of course painted as a red coat. I'm particularly pleased with the stock on the tommy gun which I think came out rather nicely.

All in all I'm chuffed with how this turned out, given that I previously started and cocked up this figure!

In other things war games related I purchased a silver membership to the Osprey site, and have to say its the best £3 a month I have spent in a long time. The site is heaving with uniform plates similar to those usually found in the osprey books. Basically I can now go onto the site, search for a period/soldier etc and it kicks up a plate showing the requested uniform.

Personally I think this is great, you also get money of books and some other stuff I (to my shame) haven't looked into yet. But if you reference the great osprey plates often then I recommend the subscription, which at £3 a month is about as cheap as it gets.


7 comments:

  1. Sounds good. I was gonna get this figure for 7TV I still might considering how lovely you've painted him up. Consider the idea stolen

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  2. I like your painting of this figure! And any attempt by a modeler to paint stripes is an A+ in my book. Fine job.

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  3. Great result Sir; definitely worth preserving with. The Osprey site sounds great too.

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  4. Thanks guys, I always enjoy the challenge of painting tartan, but it was frustrating when I buggered it up first time round.

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  5. Cracking tartan there sir!
    I painted my first tartan on a figure the other day - went for Black Watch tartan as it's dark, thus rendering my hamfistedness invisible!

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  6. Good choice sir, I usually paint the black watch tartan for the same reason!

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  7. Tartan is a pain to paint but there are some good guides to painting it, one is on my blog. Saying that you have done a great job on it and I hope to see him on Sunday.

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