VSF, VBCW, and fantasy

Between helping my wife recover from surgery and a 4-week (so far) engine replacement in my van, I've been a bit busy, but I do have a few more figures to present.

A friend has become interested in A Very British Civil War, so I dug out an old pack of Wessex Games armed Victorian British constables.  I tried to get a tiny bit of blue in their uniforms by painting them in Deca Ceramcoat Blue Velvet, washed with P3 Armour Wash.  I then painted the belts and shoes, helmet straps, and edging with black, and gloss coated them.  All pistols and the shotgun were painted with IWM Steel.  Skin was a craft flesh washed with a light brown wash.  And no, I didn't paint duty bands on the left cuff.  Happily, they weren't molded on.

The constable to the far right will be called "Monkey" for obvious reasons.  These are older figures and are not on Wessex Games page anymore, unless you go through images on Yahoo.  So I don't know if they are even available anymore.

Next up are rat warriors from Mega Minis, also no longer available.  I got them not long before they sold all their molds.

Unusual for me I primed them in black, dry-brushed them and washed them with a brown wash.

And a Hasslefree vampire hunter, and old GW pirate.  Though it's not apparent in this photo, I drilled out the end of his cannon.  His base still needs terraining.

And here's a paper Winnebago I couldn't resist, since I love Spaceballs!

And, of course, no post of mine is complete without some partially clothed horrible harridan!  I'm not sure who made her, but from the size of her feet, I'd guess GW, though probably Metal Magic for real.

T-t-t-t-thats all folks!

Hasslefree & Reaper

In the usual gamer's ADHD, I've been painting 28's instead of 15mm modern Africa.  These are all Hasslefree with the exception of one Reaper.

First up are fem-Asterix (Rennie) and fem-Obelix (Tilda).  Nice figures who only resemble the originals in clothing.  In this case, I'm glad that Kev added a top to Tilda.  I know, betraying my dirty old man mojo, but the figure is more useable. Hmmm, fem-Asterix eyes didn't come out quite level, did they?

Here are two of Hasslefree's modern figures.  I chose Morgan with a small pistol (held up behind her hair) because I grow tired of enormous pistols.  This is definitely an Impact 1 auto-pistol.  The other is Dionne, who appears to be several months pregnant.  I'm also very tired of painting people in black, so she got brightened up.  Morgan's base is by Bobe's Hobby House and has a Mauser Auto-pistol and another auto-pistol molded into it.  The base is a tiled floor.  The purse is from Wargames Factory's Zombie Vixens.  Hey, at least she HAS a purse!

This is the topless Hayden from Hasslefree and feral dwarf from Reaper.  I didn't realize just how muscular the feral dwarf was until I had her primed.  There is a difficult to remove mold line down the left side of her face, so I painted it as a scar.  Hayden might want to cover up around her. (Oooh, non-pc!)
                                            
I tried something new on Hayden.  I had read Matt Parkes Paints in issue 299 of Wargames Illustrated and he showed a method of painting Tudor gold engraved armor.  So I tried it in kind of reverse with a disposable .005 drafting pen.  Obviously, I need to improve my technique, but I thought it was more interesting than just solid tattoos.  I'd also like to get a dark blue drafting pen, if available.

I bravely show my first attempt.  By the by, the ink is non-water soluble, but is shiny, so a matte coat is needed afterwards, not a problem for me, since all my figures get a matte coat after everything but the metallics are painted.

I tilted the figure up slightly so the neck tattoo would show better.

And this one shows her facial tattoo better.

That's all for now, but there's lots more on the painting table, mostly Black Orc.  Having started painting figures in the '70's, I have some partiality to children of a lesser sculpture.