God and sword

Added these two figures to my little collection of swashbucklers and sea dogs. These two figures may be my last using Reaper Pro Paints. I ordered some Foundry paint last week. Hopefully it will be here soon to try out.

These swashbucklers come from a collection I bought two or three years ago. The paint jobs on them is nice, so I am only repainting and rebasing a select few for display (and to enter into a painting competition next month.)

Small break

Just taking a break for a few days from painting. I've been at it pretty good for the last few months. I'm also waiting for my shipment of brand new paints! I decided to bite the bullet and spend the extra few dollars on some Foundry paint. Having repainted one of my old Foundry swashbucklers (the halberdier seen in my last post,) I decided to repaint a few more.

But this time, I wanted to start anew; I completely cleaned off my work table, gave it a quick scrubdown. Moved some primed yet unpainted minis off to the lead mountain for another day, stripped the paint, cleaned, primed and rebased a few of my swashbucklers, and ordered the paint (along with a small sea dogs cannon crew.)

I'm gonna try to approach the project differently, too; Instead of painting 3 to 5 minis at the same time, I'm going to paint them one at a time, not starting a new one until the last one has been finished.

And since my swashbucklers are sea dogs, I may have to build another boat; A small late 16th century ship- nothing big - no galleons - just something large enough to hold my meager selection of figures.

I'll still paint with my Reaper (Pro) paints. They'll certainly not leave my table; Reaper makes a good paint. But the Sea Dogs will get the Foundry paints.

Swashbuckler: halberdier

Into the tomb

Tramp Steamer crew

Tramp steamer crew using Copplestone figures. No conversions here, I just chose some appropriate figures from different Copplestone ranges.

Tramp Steamer crew coming up

I'm busy painting up a tramp steamer crew (to help round up my King Kong collection of characters.) These aren't proper naval crew models, nor are they conversions. They are simply some Copplestone figures I picked out of different ranges to represent a motley group of armed crewman (and a captain and first mate.)

I still need to find a big ape. There are a couple I'm looking at. I need to decide on Kong's size, which differs from 18 to 50 feet. I may stick to the 18-foot version, being easier (and cheaper) to find.

Finished film crew

Here is my finished film crew. (Click on photos for bigger pics.) I've added an assistant and a sound man (though without headphones which would be proper.) The gray bow on top of the tripod to the left is a 1930s style microphone (simplified.) There are also a couple boxes with a few stacked film canisters. Now I just need a movie van.

Pulp hunting expedition details

Black and White world

I wrote an article for Wargame Modelling a Painting Issue No. 3. Here are photos of some of those figures. Keep in mind, these are color photos- the figures have been painted with black and white and all shades of gray.