End Of The Week - The Crusaders Are Ready

The New Cruelty is content with my output for the week. It has been a week with a project that should have felt like a bit of a slog. I've put some effort in but it has felt easier than I might have feared. Some of it has even been quite pleasurable. There are now 40+ Quar Crusaders ready to go. Enough for a basic force and really enough for most purposes. I am still thinking in terms of what's next?

A Clash of Rhyfles is apparently doing fairly solid business. I have felt like it might be me judging by the money I have already put into it. The thoughts in my head are already moving towards the next move. This will be adding more to both forces. I can see the need for some more support weapons and another infantry squad for each army.

Having had a few weeks of painting on a colour primer, this is the first time it felt it really worked. The Damned wasn't bad but this felt like it worked well. My guess is that I will try it a bit more often. If nothing else it has spread the process up significantly. I don't often get forty four figures done in a week.

I have to look to what to do next. I have a lot of Soviets to do. These will probably use an identical paint plan. The Crusaders usually appear as something closer to Vietnam Americans but I hear Soviets in the lore. I haven't got what I needed to finish the force yet, of the seventy ish minis ready to go, so maybe I need to look for something else. That said this has not caused me a problem with any other project. This is a project that seems to want to grow. I got some more minis this week but my order had some stuff missing, so a step or two away from completion.

Then there are some more bits for Traitor's Toll. I have a the peasants ready to go. I have some armed peasants that have also failed to arrive. I also have some more military minis for the project that need to be built and based. This will slow things down a bit. I could see me building this up to about forty minis again.

I am feeling the urge to return to a couple of older projects. Somewhere along the line I was expecting I would do a few more units. A cavalry unit is one thing I have missed out. This would be twelve mounted figures. I need another batch of mages and clerics alongside some specialists. Not got a plan that I would describe as concrete here.

Another project from last year was Atomfallish / sUnderDground.  I got a frame of Japanese WW2 infantry. This project does call for these but there are plenty of parts on the frame that would certainly work with the cobbled together look of the force. There are plenty of minis available for this project. The WW2 Soviets work with the project and there are a whole range of stuff I can use. I have some more Germans for the British Fascists in the undercity. I have a couple of frames of Americans. There is an idea that there is a massive bunker under the American Embassy which could be used as one of the players in the rubble that London becomes in the game. As it's a nuclear winter scenario, I liked the idea of some civilians in great coats as well.

My brain needs to settle on a plan.

This has been a good weekend and since the car got sorted, things have not been too bad. I got to spend some time with my daughter. These are always the best days. I've also spent a bit of time with some good friends. There is also the prospect of spending time with some other friends. I currently feel like I am in pain almost everywhere. Its not a good feeling.

Quar Crusaders - Now In Colour

It would appear that I am making some progress. The three main uniform colours are now on and I have painted the weapons. I still need to paint the shirts and the collar studs and a few more bits and I want a very Soviet type green for the helmets. After that there are a few colours on a few models to do. To even out the colours I am planning a heavy wash at this stage, before I start doing the flesh.  Then there is the skin to do. This will be a mix of fairly vibrant colours for the skin tones. This will include. pink, bright blue, lime green, orange, yellow and purple. This will involve putting them into groups for batch painting. 

To get roughly equal forces for both sides the basic plan calls for another ten man rifle squad which I should probably have ordered already.  It makes sense to get a tank as well. I can see there is some cavalry on the way so I will probably end up buying the three together at some point.

More vehicles and some artillery crews are further down the pipe. There are some heavy machine guns in the game but I want something a little more traditionally, but chunky. I kind of like the idea of pushing the envelope a bit. So more vehicles seem like a must. This probably means some 3D files. 

There will be the need to add a bit more to The Coftyr army including the cavalry and another squad of infantry.

For both sides there are things like flame throwers. It crosses my mind to do some heroes/special characters, for both side. These are not a thing in the game. As a game it is far to genteel for such weapons.  I also have an urge for priests, medics political officers and the like. I am thinking these can mostly be kit bashed. Not to mention even more vehicles.

There is another box set due out this year with two new forces. I don't actually have a starter set or an actual copy of the rules. I also already have a few Fidwogs which are a bit quickly to paint (no obvious legs). This might be a bit too far.

The grand plan was to write this up for Savage Worlds Showdown. Whilst Savage Worlds is really an RPG, Showdown is about bigger battles which can be integrated with special characters. This is a project for another date.

Quar Crusaders: Lots And Lots

I can't help thinking I should have made this a Star Wars week.

This is mainly because I had forgotten how much fun it is to paint an army. That said I am getting there. Not to mention the fact that I am resisting the urge to play Star Wars Outlaws. If I can get the webbing done I might just give myself a break. It might also be down to the fact that I might have my mojo back and there is a lot of plastic to get through.

Start Of The Week - May The Fourth Be With You

The start of another week. Sat with my daughter as i who is playing horse riding games. Never thought I could be so content watching Barbie ride a horse.

Normally I would do something better than use last year's graphic. There is never enough time even if I don't have anything to do. My daughter got me a BB-8 companion in one of her games. I am supposed to use this one instead of R2D2. So I feel touched and appalled at the same time 😂

So here we are.

Back to the real world. I have pulled out the Quar Crusaders. Dirty Marxists. 😱 There are a few vehicles on the back side of this as well. All primed in a basecoat so only details to do really. With a few squirrels, or something like them. I'm going to call this a tots of 47 figures equivalents. If I find the time, there are three vehicles. These are also primed so should only really need details and a wash. Kind of saw these as working for Sludge too.

With their counterparts I did them a bit at a time.  This time it should be the whole army. Well the first bit of it. I can see me needing some more grunts for both sides. Then some specialists. A few vehicles. Then there is cavalry coming. This might be a big project.

This is looking like a busy week. My guess is that I can get all of these, the vehicles and finish some other stuff too. But if it takes two weeks I won't be too downhearted.

End Of A Bumper Week (79)

I'm terms of a total count, a depending on my self imposed and highly subjective rules, this is my best ever week. Highly detailed and larger minis count as double and I have finished a lot of stuff over the last seven days. So...Go Me.

It is of course on the back of months not really finishing anything off. Not great. I am not even sure if I have my mojo back yet either. But it doesn't feel bad at all.

If I think about it I have got a lot of stuff done over the last fortnight. At least for me. 

I've posted most of the stuff I have finished already. These are the Carnevale miniatures. I like them but would love them if I hadn't lost one of them and another one one hadn't broken off at the ankles when I picked it up by the head. 

Then there are my mystery men. These are minis from The Damned. Love them but don't have much use for them now. So they have become a team of baddies for sUnderDground, a background that can always use more chaos. There are a few conversions here to fit the background which is kind of a cobble together of anything WW2 to the 1980. It seems to work. I might need to find a few filters for some of the respirators.

Not sure what to do next. It was going to be some aTrench Crusade stuff but I appear to have missed the window for that. I have a big stash of WW2 Soviets to paint. Not really feeling that at the moment. There are peasants and such for Traitor's Toll which seems to be up there. I'd like to do some more sUnderDground stuff. Right now I can't imagine why anyone would want to nuke London but I might be in the minority.

That leaves me with a whole load of Quar Crusaders. The artwork gives them a very Vietnam War American vibe. The lore makes them sound more like communists. Given that I have Soviets to paint and the paint to do it..... Well you get the idea.

I have one more order in. No idea when that is due to arrive. My guess is that will be the last for a while. Partly this down 

Not A Good Week

Nothing much is going right this week. Car stuff mainly. Still that's good news for the painting queue. This is a good chunk of the Fallout Wasteland Warfare box set that I got for something less than half price.

Still got some more to do. Think there are four left but not sure I will ever need a Reticulun. The power armour and a couple of settlers should be good fun though.

In terms of numbers it is looking like a good week. There are a few more details to do on the Carnevale stuff but they should be finished later today.

I am getting an Atomfallish and sUnderDground urge. There are some of The Damned prepped and primed and ready to go. These should be a quick win.

Job Done

For a while there has been a lot of minis on the bench gathering dust. There has been at least three projects on the go and I guess there are five, ISH at the moment. So it feels good to finish one.

These are mostly Traitor's Toll Guards from Wargames Atlantic. My new favourite miniatures company. I appear to have lost a couple of them on the way and there are another four someway down the pipe.

On to finishing the next project.