Finaly something finished

Well I've just finish my first unit a cavalry.

It was a little cold for spraying but I just had to get these done. In the photos I picked up the inconsistancy of the paint on the side of the base I'll need to fix that when the weather warms up. Also this guy was finished

I was able to start basing the 15mm figures and hope to have them finished by tomorrow.

Next up are these two units. It's too cold to spray prime so they'll get a coat of gesso.

Paint Table Saturday 2/15/14

After all the shoveling from Thursday's snow I was thinking of just veging out but I remembered PTS so down to the table

Not much done Spent about an hour. I should reorganize/clean the work area but...

Two scales/ One day Paint Table saturday

I've found this from Sofie's Blog to be good motivation for putting paint to metal.

first up 10th US Cavalry in 40mm

touching up some mistakes is all that's left for these.

And some work was done on my distraction project

15mm Carthiginian's from Viking Forge.

I'm off tomorrow so hope to finish up the Little Britons figures

Distracted but Happy

Not much happening on the LB front. The first unit of red coats has been painted and based now I'm waiting on warmer weather to seal coat them. The 10th U.S. Cavalry are coming along  with most of the first coat done. Pictures next week.

The distraction has been Pulse of Battle Ancient rules from Piquet. I'm not sure what prompted me to order these as Ancients aren't one of my major periods but I got in on the pre-order and the price was reasonable. Well I'm pretty happy that I did. They're a well laid out set of rules, an Army builder and short history lesson for several periods and two card decks. I've been a fan of Piquet for years and this looks like a great addition to the family.

Of course even though I had some Roman and Numidian armies for DBA there wasn't enough command figures and I felt I needed some more units to make a balanced gaming force. So it was off to the Viking Forge to see what was available. I wanted the figures to match my existing armies. Viking Forge sell the figures individually at $.40 a piece. I ordered about 50 figures giving me 5 command figures per side and an additional 10 units. I have to say knowing that these figures have been around for ages I didn't have high expectations for quality of the molds however they were cleanly cast with out flash and few mold lines. In fact the lines are so negligible that I may just wash and prime. I'm very happy with my purchase. Communication with them was good and shipping was quick.

I'm not unhappy with this distraction so far as every part has been top quality and I cut my original Viking Forge order down from 110 figures to a more manageable 46.

Next week should see the next order off to Spencer Smith.