September has started out well, painted 4 x 12 man imagi-nations units, and I will finish a US Para platoon for FoW tomorrow. Plan to knock out a GE grenadier platoon over the next week. That will leave me with teh 13 Hares from Splintered Light. I don't think I will get to the Hare Fort I have planned, but it will still cap two great months of painting.
I sold several hundred dollars of books and rules on TMP this month. I had gathered a collecting over the past few years while searching for the rules I wanted to use. I do like reading rules and seeing the concepts these use, but it was time to cull the herd. The benefit is that I then spent the money on painting and basing supplies, the final figures for my imagi-nation (for now!), and some terrain. I got the FoW Normandy beach defeses set...expensive, but it comes with some great bunkers that I can use with FoW and for skirmish gaming.
I also traded one book for several FoW items...got a great deal by getting 3 Shermans, a Ranger Platoon, a Fallschrimjager Platoon, and a US Armored Rifle Platoon.
While at work, I have drafted up some notes for my next imagi-nation campaign. It will be a multi-sided conflict in the Grand Dutchy of Hippo-Heimer just to the North of Katzenstein. Rather than a simple linear campaign, this one will involve some map moves and I want to incorporate the Mythic Game Generator into things for random events. I am still short on cavalry, so things will most likely kick off after I get them painted this winter.
Some thoughts on figures: When I started getting figures for my units, I was excited that there were all kinds of poses and unique sculpts. In hindsight, I like to have the units in the advancing pose and not have as many poses in the units. My units are mostly AB figures and Warmodelling/Fantassin figures with a few others thrown in. The AB figures can be bought individually, and that is nice. The Warmodelling come in packs of 8 for infantry...and 6 for command packs. This does force me to use an extra drummer in each unit to get a command stand and three line stands.
Colors: My imagination has troops in all kinds of colors. This is intentional even if it losses some continuity. I am trying out combinations for the future and I have found I like blues mixes with grey, white, or tan/brown for my units. I will keep this in mind when it comes time for my imagi-nation ancient troops.
Basing: I have been using pumice texture and static grass on the FoW bases. Looks good. I just bought some grass tufts to try out too. I am not sure about going back and texturing my imagi-nation figures. It would be a big project.
Rules: I have settled into some rules sets-
Skirmish: Song of Blades and Heroes (with varients)
WW II: Flames of War
Space ships: Starmada
Imagi-Nation: Carnage and Glory computer rules
Ancients: writing my own! Individual figures/losses.
---I like the Pique rules sets. May not use them exactly, but working some concepts into my ancients rules.
Photos: My camera skills are horrible. I need to go back and take new pictures of all the imagi-nation units.
Time to get painting.
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I would love to see better photos of your units! You've done much better on the miniatures front than I have. I've purchased plenty of figures, and prepped quite a few, but haven't painted very many. Mostly due to the hot weather and being either out of town or busy at work. I have been working on some terrain and reading rules for my Exploration of Afrodesia games to come. Basically lots of stuff in progress, but not so much completed.
ReplyDeleteI like your 'rainbow army', and of course would appreciate better pics -though at least you take the photos #horizontaly, not ± from above as so many do!
ReplyDeleteFor uniform colors, *yellow* is sadly underused, specially for coats: with of course while (light grey) it's the hue that combines well with the widest diversity of facing colors.
Cheers!
I agree: grey is a fine uniform colour that is very friendly with other colours.
ReplyDeleteYellow coats have the virtue of standing out (like red and white - fine military colours both) - but I feel that they require undergarments (breeches and waistcoats) that are neither yellow nor white. The uniform coats of the Principality of Ursaminor are yellow; facings various reddish shades for the most part; but the boys have blue breeches. Gives a much nicer effect. Of course, there is nothing wrong with then supplying over-the-knee white gaiters for a very elegant look.
I admire the progress you continue to make: my Altmark-Uberheim Infantry have been hanging fire for several weeks now...
I appreciate the positive comments and support. Keeping up the painting mojo can be a challenge at times, but putting things on the blog does help.
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