Todoroni On-Line Build for September - part three

The painting is moving along apace. I have finished most of the uniform, detailed the shakos and even painted the bases. I choose a Red/White feather for the plume as this works well with the Green cockade - giving the Red-White-Green of the modern Italian flag.

I have started on the metalwork, the epaulettes and sleeve buttons which were painted over a dark brown base and built up with Citadel metallics.

The Toadies are coming along.

Tony

Todoroni On-Line Build for September - part two

Progress has moved on quite quickly with this group of Toads. I choose to paint the miniatures in a dark Bottle Green tunic with Orange/Red epaulettes and uniform turnbacks similar to the 3o Bella Manicotti featured on Rob Alderman's You Tube feature, see this link for details.

These are colours I very rarely use and they should make these figures stand out. As regular readers will know, I am more of a Dwarf and Orc Redcoat man, but cannot help having a huge smile on my face when I paint these Toads, they are so full of character.

As usual, you can click on the images for a larger view. More to follow and quite soon.

Tony

BLAST - TASTIC less than a month to go

Less that a month to go before the first ever Blast - Tastic show in Bristol. Full details can be found here.

Blast - Tastic

Filton Community Centre

Elm Park

Filton

Bristol

BS34 7PS

Saturday 4th October 2014

10.00 - 4.00

Admission £2.00

See you there.

Tony

Napoleon - The Campaign of Russia

Yesterday - the Freeview TV station is showing a two part documentary called Napoleon - The Campaign of Russia on Thursday 11th September at 10.00pm. For details go to this link and here.

Tony

On-Line Build for September - Todoroni from Alternative Armies

My On-Line Build for September is this group of eight Todaroni from the 3o Bella Manicotti Limited Edition box set from Alternative Armies. I have supplemented the miniatures I have with an officer Toad from the 56505 Todoroni Militia set.

The miniatures were cleaned up and mounted onto 2p coins. The bases were built up with Milliput Fine White epoxy filler.

NOTE; These LE sculpts are no longer available - being part of a 100 boxed sets limited run after which the moulds were destroyed. I was lucky enough to have been given these by Craig Andrews of Orcs in the Webbe - thank you Craig.

I further textured the bases by adding some sieved sand over uPVA glue.

and undercoated the figures with spray paint Black, touching up any areas I had missed with Chaos Black from Games Workshop.

The first proper painting was all that green flesh. The colour was built up over a Forest Green and highlighted with Forest Green and Yellow. In these images I have washed the flesh areas with the green wash from GW.

In this final image, you can see how I have modified/converted one of the musket wielding Toads to be a standard bearer, adding a paperclip flag pole and some Green Stuff.

More to come.

Tony

Warhammer Online - the collector's edition

Sue saw this boxed set at a local charity shop and bought it for me as an  anniversary present. I had not been aware of this until I saw the box and was very surprised at the quality of the presentation.

The hard card box contains the video game (unlikely that I will play it, but you never know), two hard bound books, one showing the artwork of  the game and the second having a couple of graphic novels. There is also a mouse mat and a limited edition metal miniature.

At first glance I am sure there is lots to inspire me in my quest for new wargame terrain. However, I'm not sure I will paint the metal Orc, so this may go on e-bay.

Thank you Sue
XXX

Full details of the game and box set can be found here.

Tony

LOTR Statue

Another new month and another new terrain model, this time a Lord of the Rings statue that was picked up at a bring-and-buy. I think it is part of a pair.

The model was slightly modified, adding a cocktail stick hammer handle and re-mounting the hammer with superglue, I have built a new plinth from a wooden block wrapped in plastic card and mounted it on to an oval of 3mm thick plastic card. The base has been textured in my usual manner. The new plinth has been detailed with more plastic card and further textured by pressing a rough stone into the plastic and then building up the surface texture with modelling paste.

I painted the plinth in the same colours as the LOTR model, adding just a little bit more Bronze and a Green wash. The model stands 150mm tall.

I have a number of similar statues, which I like to add to graveyards or town centres.

Tony