After much humming and hawing, I decided it was time for a blog. My main motivation is to share what I can with the wargaming community, but I also want to have something to motivate me. There have been times when I've gone several weeks without doing anything much hobby related. I figure if I get in the habit of posting every Sunday evening, then I'll want to have something to report, right? So, in a way, this blog will be my production supervisor.
First up: Awhile back I took ownership of a big bunch of old Airfix American Civil War figures painted as Confederates.
The figures, and the paint job on them, are about 30 years old. Back in those days, there was not a lot of knowledge around on how to best paint soft-plastic figures, so the paint would usually chip, flake and fall-off....before you finished painting the figure in a lot of cases.
Without too much hesitation, I started "restoring" the figures. The first thing I did was the artillery. This gives you an idea of how they looked to start with.
And I just finished 13 batteries (one gun, 3 gunners, one limber each) today.
6 comments:
Quite a project you've got going.
My now departed buddy, Brian, would have loved your work on the artillery ... the only piece of his I still have is his CSA artillery stand ... he used to be in an artillery unit in the re-enactors ...
Hope you'll have tons of fun ... which rules do you plan to use?
A
Looks like, if they were all Confederates, you're going ahead and divying them up into both sides as you go, right?
Frankfurter, thanks for dropping in. I lost a buddy a few years ago, so I know how that can be. I still have a few things of his that I won't part with.
Rules wise, I'm going to use Fire & Fury. I've played a couple of games with the locals and thought it was a great set of rules.
Snickering, thanks to you, too. The previous owner of these figs had just started to work on some Union Artillery, so with what little I had done and his stuff I was able to put together five batteries for my first game.
As for infantry, I painted about 240 Union troops eons ago, so I just need to re-base them (you'll be seeing some pics of them pretty soon).
Regards,
Bob
bob,
be sure to alert us when you post more eye candy!
:)
A
Good to see someone else useing plastics for F & F! Having played 15mm F & F one thing that struck me was the requirement for a much bigger playing area!
Nick
Nick,
I don't know what you did, but I couldn't see doubling everything. To me, the stands just looked way too big, so I increased everything by 50% instead of 100% and it seems like it's going to work pretty well!
Bob
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