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Post by paintdog on Oct 9, 2020 12:24:38 GMT
Thanks, Malcolm. TBH I'm using the Airfix because I'm a bit desperate for SYW figures & HaT have not yet come to the rescue.
I'm planning a Reichenberg game in the future & when I clear this lot out, I can start on the city walls.
donald
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Post by greentiger on Oct 17, 2020 9:28:32 GMT
Today I am painting the french Chasseurs as Croatians...
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Post by Zaphod on Oct 22, 2020 8:47:22 GMT
Been painting up some Airfix Waterloo British Infantry to represent the 1st Royal Scots.
The figures themselves are about forty years old. Yes, my pile of shame is that high and deep!
Cut off their bayonets (to prevent flaking) and shaved off the detail on their backpacks to make space for a unit logo. A Dighton painting of 1812 seems to show a circular emblem perhaps with crown, so I’m going with the central device used on their colours.
Quite nostalgic painting those Airfix figs again. They’re perhaps not the most accurate in terms of uniform but they have a chunkiness I rather like.
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Post by stevo0113 on Jan 6, 2021 7:40:21 GMT
I have recently been enlarging my Bavarian infantry with Hats & another manufactures figures there is a bit of a size difference between the two but Will be all right as long as i don't mix them I in the same unit. I also have just finished a box of Revell 8th army & I am half way though a box of Italieri DAK both great old sets that are easy to paint & a bit of light relief after the nap sets. The tank building is going well & i now have over 300 AFV's finished & painted lock down does have have its up side.
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Post by greentiger on Jan 6, 2021 7:59:08 GMT
Good stuff Steve - sounds similar to what I am on with - have done some Bavarians, Wurtembers (using Italeri Austrian giants) and WW2 Western Desert and Western Front - have been doing a tank blitz to reduce the vast pile of kits but it doesn't look that much smaller!
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Post by stevo0113 on Jan 6, 2021 14:03:33 GMT
I know what you mean the main problem is that is that it its a lot quicker & easier to buy figures Than it is paint them & i just cant help myself my name is Steve & am a addict.
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Post by Dave on Jan 7, 2021 15:00:52 GMT
Good Day. Happy New Year. Some what busy. Between Netflix and the Cov pandemic life gets in the way of painting. So I’ve been working on some of the Italeri battle sets. Everything that I order for Christmas didn’t come in so waiting on my second Christmas. LOL Cheers David
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Post by russt11 on Feb 9, 2021 21:22:38 GMT
A break from napoleonics , got quite a few 100 years war figures . Some lovely figures with some very bold colours .
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Post by waynew on Feb 10, 2021 16:42:11 GMT
I finally broke my hiatus due to a project done for a friend and finished some 1/32 scale figures. I am now - FINALLY- finishing my crowd-funded HaT Landwehr that have been languishing in my storage for over a year half-completed. I put them away for Christmas 2019 because of kids and grandkids coming in and between everything in 2020 (including my own long bout with COVID-19) I've put off dragging them out and finishing them. As it is, I'm hopefully putting the finishing touches on some 21 Acton sprues with something like 10 Marching sprues after that. At the same time, I'm doing touch-ups on the 1/32 scale project as when I took digital pictures of them I found I was totally dissatisfied. They looked great to my naked eye and even my lit magnifying glasses I used for the first time. After that... I think I'm going to look for something easy. Maybe some guys in overcoats? Just for a break.
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Post by stevo0113 on Jun 24, 2021 9:53:45 GMT
I am now building my Russian forces at the moment Both Napoleonic & WW2 as well, I have just finished the two Nappy sets from Hat & I am about to embark on the cavalry sets. I then will turn my attention to WW2 sets from Revell As they seem to make the best WW2 sets in my opinion though they are a hard to find at the moment. I have also bought the four Redbox Russian sets witch look nice & interesting Though they are not really the same era.
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Post by paintdog on Jun 24, 2021 11:07:17 GMT
I've just finished a unit of Newline Thureophori for an Ancients' game on Sunday. Long-term project is Late Romans. I've loads of the Tumbling Dice figures, some Newline Huns & boxes of HaT medium cavalry & missile troops. I'm looking forward to Late Roman Civil Wars come December. donald
BTW the Late Roman figure with the crossbow just needs some "surgery" to make good. I cut off the bow after the hand, & pinned it back on, levelled instead of slanted.
Easy & it's now a "banging" figure.
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Post by plasticpanzers on Jun 25, 2021 9:44:44 GMT
2 regiments of French Chasseurs a Cheval and 1 for Poland.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2021 12:24:26 GMT
Just finishing painting a battalion of some converted Bavarians in attack, into late war French Line Fusiliers in attack (still need to do flank). I have some Hat late French marching to paint up, to act as the next battalion behind this one. Both sets seem to match up well in size.
But next, I want to take a box of Hat 1805 French in greatcoats, & headswap with shakos for late war troops. Mixed in with these will be some much converted Pegasus WW1 French.....hopefully!!
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Post by cheeseman1 on Jun 26, 2021 14:59:28 GMT
I have just started the hobby and are painting assyrian 1/72 hat soldiers
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2021 16:01:13 GMT
Welcome to the hobby Cheeseman! Hope it brings you as much joy as it has me and others on the forum!!
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Post by alcibiades on Jun 28, 2021 12:18:08 GMT
Finally after 4 month I had time to finish my Late Roman missile troops from Hät No I am working on Persians from the Cunaxa set (linear-A) to add to my Acheamenid troops from Hät. although I love and prefer Hät ancient sets, it’s been years since they took time to bring out a new ancient set. Linear are now really producing a lot of nice sets so I start on those while waiting for Hät to start production again.. Right now it’s mostly Napoleonics, WWI and ACW unfortunately 😔 kind regards, Alcibiades
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Post by grumble on Jun 29, 2021 18:15:46 GMT
I have just started the hobby and are painting assyrian 1/72 hat soldiers Yes, welcome Cheeseman! I hope you post some photos soon of your work.
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Post by stevo0113 on Aug 29, 2021 10:21:56 GMT
I have just finished painting a large batch of napoleonic British infantry & Highlanders both of these were from a different maker & they have really tested my sanity i find them really hard to paint so now I need somthing easier. Bruswick cavalry & infantry I bought a few cavalry sets when they were restocked a few years ago these should get my brunswick army up to scratch. anantryany
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Post by waynew on Aug 29, 2021 21:30:40 GMT
I have just finished painting a large batch of napoleonic British infantry & Highlanders both of these were from a different maker & they have really tested my sanity i find them really hard to paint so now I need somthing easier. Bruswick cavalry & infantry I bought a few cavalry sets when they were restocked a few years ago these should get my brunswick army up to scratch. anantryany I did a big bunch myself - several hundred British Infantry and a couple hundred Highlanders (not to mention I retouched and re-organized the Highlanders I already have); I have some other sets to do but think if I had to face another plaid pattern I'd blow a gasket. Right now I'm stalled on Prussian Landwehr figures due to some technical difficulties and just can't get the gumption to go back. Burn out? I think when I get back at it I'll take smaller bites.
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Post by paintdog on Aug 29, 2021 22:36:56 GMT
"if I had to face another plaid pattern I'd blow a gasket. " Sadly, Wayne, if you painted the Highlanders with a plaid (& not a tartan), you may have to re-paint them all. Plaids are any crisscross patterns of two or more colours; Tartans are plaids with a name to identify a community; Checks are plaids with a regular pattern, usually of only two colours. Cheers donald
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Post by pll on Aug 30, 2021 7:57:13 GMT
I am just starting with half a set of 1:32 SYW (marching) Prussians to be painted as Saxon infantry of the Furst Lubomirsky regiment to match the musketeers and command figures I have already painted for this regiment.
I am hopeful that the long awaited Crowdfunded 1:32 SYW Austrians from Hat which are promised before October will arrive soon. Also the Napoleonic Austrians command set similarly due out in October. It has been a long wait to get anything in 1:32 through from Hat these last years. I have painted many of the SYW Prussians in many other colours to create adversaries for the Prussians from other nations - Austrians, Russians, Bavarians, Swedes and Saxons.
I hope this is the beginning of more coming along in the pipeline from Hat in 1:32 in future.
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Post by waynew on Aug 31, 2021 5:49:10 GMT
"if I had to face another plaid pattern I'd blow a gasket. " Sadly, Wayne, if you painted the Highlanders with a plaid (& not a tartan), you may have to re-paint them all. Plaids are any crisscross patterns of two or more colours; Tartans are plaids with a name to identify a community; Checks are plaids with a regular pattern, usually of only two colours. Cheers donald I am well aware of the difference. My family has its own tartan; I was using the term plaid as a generic term and trying to be lighthearted - I didn't expect to get a lesson in patterns - geez...
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Post by paintdog on Aug 31, 2021 6:12:07 GMT
Sadly, Wayne, if you painted the Highlanders with a plaid (& not a tartan), you may have to re-paint them all. Plaids are any crisscross patterns of two or more colours; Tartans are plaids with a name to identify a community; Checks are plaids with a regular pattern, usually of only two colours. Cheers donald I am well aware of the difference. My family has its own tartan; I was using the term plaid as a generic term and trying to be lighthearted - I didn't expect to get a lesson in patterns - geez... The problem with nuance on forum postings.....
I, too, was attempting to be light-hearted so apologies if I inadvertently caused some 'ire-rising'.
Possibly I need to indicate my (alleged) jokes are, well, jokes?
cheers donald
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2021 7:46:02 GMT
Tartan......Plaid......whatever someone wants to call it, it's a nightmare to paint!!!
Unless its the 42nd Black Watch with their government issue tartan. Bit easier to paint that one.....just!
But the 73rd Camerons....I need paracetamol after painting that lot!!!! And with another manufacturer looking like they are producing some more highlanders in defense/square, looks like I will be painting some more!
I have seen some contributions involving highlanders that have had painstaking work done on the tartan patterns though, and when done well, it looks amazing.
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Post by waynew on Aug 31, 2021 16:19:20 GMT
I am well aware of the difference. My family has its own tartan; I was using the term plaid as a generic term and trying to be lighthearted - I didn't expect to get a lesson in patterns - geez... The problem with nuance on forum postings.....
I, too, was attempting to be light-hearted so apologies if I inadvertently caused some 'ire-rising'.
Possibly I need to indicate my (alleged) jokes are, well, jokes?
cheers donald
It's all good my friend. My remarks were meant tongue in cheek as well - I had thought to put a winky emoji but thought it might be overboard. Actually, I thought your post was funny.
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