144 The Gang So Far (Deathwatch)

Half way through my Deathwatch group, I will post some more details and progress shots in a follow up post but wanted to show them all together in their finished state.

Really liking what I have managed to do with them. No 'Eavy Metal but I am pleased.

The test run of bases is working qiute will too, pretty simple but effective, Already thinking on what I can add to mix them up a bit. More progress to follow!

124 An Exercise in Basing

People may have noticed I have a problem.... I am not proud of it and I have lived with it for a long time... I am crap at basing my models!!!

I get the mini how I want it and then it just lingers, unbased, for evoooor!

Today I had a choice to change this sad state of affairs and try to make something acceptable.

Texture Paint - Will it save me from myself?

Like the hair over my ears, tufty and dead looking

A few minutes with a textured paint pot and some steel legion drab and a tuft of two of grassy stuff and they dont look too bad! Pretty basic but really simple and easy. I can see where I can develop these on from here so thats a bonus.

So basing, like a cream egg... How do you do yours?

096 Based for War

My work on the 30th Cambridgeshire Regiment has been moving on at pace (all be it a snails pace) and I have started to think about how to base them. I have read around and around about 4x2, 6x2, one model per 15mm of a 45mm frontage and a plethora of other ideas and have concluded that I don't really care. I am so unlikely to ever actually game with them that the only possible reason not to simple go with whatever suits me would be any resale ability of a certain base type but to be honest that too is of little concern to me.

I have ordered some 1p slot movement trays from Warbases.co.uk which I may or may not use exactly as intended with a small magnetic insert. I have gone for a ranked up arrangement for the 30th itself and am going to test out a casual grouping for the 95th to see how that looks.

They do way more than just bases and trays and have a huge range of scenery including some great items like bridges.

I'll be doing a mini review of these when they arrive so watch out for it.