What are you working on....?

[Leslie BT]

But it would be a great picture and show the age range that PP games are suitable to be played by.

There are lots of the old f.. playing.

[Sean Clark]

I painted up my late war Squarebashing Germans and British for my Somme game a couple of years ago. At the time I wasn't sure whether to add flock to their bases or go for the mud and blood look. I opted for grass in the end. However on a recent outing for them at the Amiens game at the Burton club I was struck with how glaring the green was. Not particularly liking the effect I decided to get rid of it and go for a more earthy tone.



This shows what I started with and what I was aiming for.



First job was scraping off as much of the static grass as possible.



I then applied a textured paint from Games Workshop that they sell for basing. There are several variants of this and I have to say it's great. I did the whole army and still have some left although admittedly I wasn't covering the whole base with the stuff just the bits where the grass had been.



A tray full of Hun covered in mud. It only took a couple of hours to do 14 regiments of infantry, 12 MGs, 9 gun bases plus a load of casualties and half bases. I'm rather please with the effect . Onto the British now.

[Colonel Kilgore]

Looking good, Sean - I'm now glad I didn't flock my British in the end!

I did do a light-coloured drybrush on mine, and was quite pleased with that effect.

[Sean Clark]

Yes I may add a light  drybrush too but I'll do the British first and see how I feel.

[Colonel Kilgore]

It's a great effect as you've got them anyway. Funny how flocking normally improves things but, particularly in your shot of the tray of figures, it seems here that less is most definitely more in this instance - the mud really helps to show off the figures.

Good luck with the Brits!

[Leslie BT]

They all look really good Sean, so how many SB armies have you now?

[Sean Clark]

Just the 6! Early and late war for British French and German.  I do want to get a brigade of Belgians at some point as well as do the RCW and I'm very tempted with a couple of Balkans Wars armies as o did the lists for them.

[Radar]

Those do look good. Chapeau!
Mud feels right, but having seen the colourified WW1 film, I was surprised how much greenery there was (not lush fields by any stretch of the imagination). Sort of went against the mental image I have.

[Sean Clark]

 Yes the 1st day of the Somme was apparently quite a green landscape and there are amounts of soldiers walking through knee high grass. I imagine the area around the German lines was quite churned up though after all the preparatory shelling.

[Stewart 46A]

Look good Sean, does your game mat reflect your new basing?

[Sean Clark]

I have a brown felt cloth that I have sprayed and 'muddied' up. Looks ok!

[Radar]

Seeing as my new themed casualty markers have arrived, I've had to put the two regiments of Royalist horse to one side. Horses have been basecoated, tails, manes and points done.

Somewhere in the region of 80 casualty figures have been taken from their old markers and glued on their appropriate new marker bases. Might touch up any damaged paint jobs tonight, add scenics over the course of tomorrow and Friday.

[Hman]

I have been working on these today, additions for my AK forces.

Just need to to let them dry and then final touch up and dry brushing.

Peter P doesn't make these anymore... been on my to do list for a very long time.

[Radar]

Revamped casualty markers complete!



More at http://www.keepyourpowderdry.co.uk/2018/11/casualty-markers-take-3.html?m=1

[Leslie BT]

These casualty markers look really good, great idea well executed.