And, completing the Dystopian Wars Prussian landship miniature this evening finishes off the land force starter box set
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That leaves me a few flyers left to paint in the remainder of my force. I might leave those for a few days to break up the painting with something different
On a Dystopian Wars theme, I see Spartan are releasing the Martian invader figures soon. I really, really don't need another force (or do I?)
I've no idea where the last week has gone, I seemed to have very little time to do any painting so the posts have slowed down. Still, I have managed to get the Prussian Walze small tanks painted in the last couple of days
These things are tiny! There are ten bases, each with two tanks on and only measuring 20mm square. I thought I was going to go cross-eyed at one point!
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This just leaves me my landship to paint to complete all of the Prussian landforce starter box. Work starts on it this evening, I want it finished before the weekend
On a totally different theme, I should be getting my copy of the Kickstarter boardgame Zombicide soon. That means over 100 new figures that could be painted <gulp> I'm considering the idea of just painting the survivors and leave the zombies unpainted for now.....
My latest painting has been aimed towards that Dystopian Wars Prussian land force box that I mentioned previously. Breaking the seal and emptying the contents out made me realise how much was in there and in need of painting. Because of this, I decided to break the task down into several groups to make things a bit easier and less daunting
Once washed and cleaned I glued the medium tanks & bombards onto the supplied acrylic bases. They were then undercoated black and painted using a similar colour scheme to one of the Metzger robots I had done previously. Grabbing the Vallejo field grey paint, everything got a base coat before highlighting with a mix of the grey with a touch of white added. Details were painted on in bronze and gun metal. I thought of adding markings but have left them plain for now
To finish them off I gave the bases a coating of fine sand and added small clumps of static grass following my basing technique
So, here are the A-6V medium tanks and the B3-S medium bombards
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That leaves the landship and the small tanks to be done
Also today, I received a delivery from The Warstore of some new dice especially for my Dystopian Prussian forces. I thought I would treat myself :)
My visit to the Attack wargames show, in Devizes last Saturday, was a last minute decision. I went without any purchase list (always a dangerous plan) but was pleased to come away with only a couple of things that needed to be painted. I was greatly tempted by a Rorke's Drift box set from Warlord mind you....
So, what did I buy? A copy of the new Spartan Games Dystopian Wars Hurricane Season scenario book, plus a blister pack of a pair of wading Metzger robots for my Prussian force. The book is a lovely hardback thing (not a bad comment from someone in the print industry) and not only does it contain a full campaign to play but has the complete Antarctican force list plus new rules for landing craft. Spartan now produce some lovely resin models of these but I must resist for now as I still have an entire Prussian land force to paint
Anyway, yesterday, whilst trying to avoid all of the Olympic television coverage, I painted both of the Metzger robots. I sort of followed the Spartan picture for one but left off the large red cross on the chest piece whilst the other I painted using the Vallejo German grey that I had painted my fleet in
Both robots took a total of three hours to paint including leaving them to dry for the matt varnish. Quite happy with the look but I now want a walking one as well!
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