I'll kick off the new year with The Black Pearl. Finished her last evening. I expect I'll move on to some scenery, USS Essex or the Warlord merchant ships, (which are very nice by the way).
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I'll kick off the new year with The Black Pearl. Finished her last evening. I expect I'll move on to some scenery, USS Essex or the Warlord merchant ships, (which are very nice by the way).
Loved this one Jim when I saw it on FB. How did you get the skulls eyes to change color? Really nice effect.
Thanks Vol. Skull Island is actually hollow inside (Woodland Scenics Shaper Sheets) and I use one of those battery tea lights that automatically cycles through the colors. It looks even better in videos. I've also used the amber/white flickering tea lights, which then looks more like a fire or flames might be burning inside the mountain.
Very cool Jim!
Started a new ship, one of Henry's resin prints, the Dash 3rd rate Holsteen. I had to add some rails to have something to tie off later rigging to, and a minor repair to a breakout while drilling a hole.
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Another useful tip on rails Vol. I have only ever used a strip of plasticard for rails but yours looks much more the ticket.
Rob.
Black Seas merchants are up next I think? Looking at the smaller merchant ship I can't help but think this would make a really nice 'generic' pirate ship? Both have nice detail regardless.
I decided to build up some of my 3rd rate 3D hulls to match the Warlord Games Black Seas hulls on the table
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I have done much the same using plasticard in the past Vol.
Rob.
My desk have 15mm Swedish dragoons for my Great Northern Wars army.
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Well, some uniforms of guard units could still get very much... details... mousquetaire style...
The Swedish king Carl XII was very protestantic and had himself a uniform without any decoration.
His guard though... The gold of the corporal weighed 2,2 kg.
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Those I thankfully painted when I was younger as I never could have painted three golden stripes on the reins now.
It was a very colorful period for uniforms. Nice job Jonas!
For most armies every regiment had different colours. Sweden had what was called "enhetsuniform" (unity uniform) with the idea of a blue coat with the turn backs yellow for everyone, so most were blue-yellow but cavalry often wore blue-blue, some infantry regiments were blue-red and some were blue-white. But low quality troops often got cheap coats, especially later in the war for Sweden, often grey-blue or grey-yellow.
Interesting Jonas. I did not know that.
Rob.
Converting cavalry.
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Primed half of the men. Four squadrons.
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We've had a big wind storm here. Our internet was down since yesterday until about half an hour ago. Being rural our internet supplies our phone, our TV, computers, news, weather, etc.
So since there were no distractions....
I got the Holsteen painted!
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I used the painting of the 90 gun Christian VII as a model for this two deck 60 gun Danish ship.
She was a block ship at the 1801 battle of Copenhagen and the only ship taken into British service from the battle.
I am debating how to model her, block ship or under way.
Block ship would give you a very limited useage Vol. I would complete her under way.
Rob.
I generally prefer Battle sails just because that is what the game is all about, and most ships, by the time they got to the distance represented on our table world would have already gone to ACTION STATIONS unless they were taken unawares, running away or in an end chase.
Rob.
I finished the troopers but I still have the step markers left to finish, but that might take a while so I’ll post them anyway.
Stenbocks dragonregemente
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A fine body of men to be sure Jonas
Rob.
Today I has been mostly making new Ship Logs.
Rob.
Tonight I finshed the standing rigging on the Holsteen. I have only been getting small bit of time here and there to work on this one so it has taken longer than the last one. Or at least it seems that way to me.
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Once again Museum quality workmanship, or should I add brushmanship to that Vol.
Rob.
Excellent work, Vol. I wish you had more time in your day to devote to your hobbies. :wink:
Thanks guys, and thanks for the rep points Rob. Are these battle sails what you had in mind Rob?
Jim I could devote more time to the hobbies and wish I could. But at this stage of my life I am more concerned with staying active and mobile. Sitting for long hours bent over a desk painting and rigging frankly hurts these days. So I spend most of my days moving around, taking walks, working out, doing honey-do list stuff, outside and inside maintenance chores, etc. The hobby time is limited to one hour at a sitting max. This can occur more than once a day, but sometimes it is only a half hour before I start to stiffen up and have to move. Such is my life.
I can empathize completely with your situation Vol. I'll be hitting 69 this year and I avoid sitting in place for too long for the same reasons you've shared. It was only recently that the doctors told me the stress from being hunched over models may impact tinnitus in older adults. Having cut back on the modeling time has reduced that problem as well as eye strain and some other issues too. Getting old does suck at times! :shock:
Those are exactly what I had in my mind's eye Jim.
Without wanting this thread becoming a I take more pills than you do brag, I can also empathize. At almost 74 I have been on a walk 10,000 paces a day and don't spend more than half an hour at a time on the computer. My hip and leg has been locking up for some time now if I stay in the same position for too long. fortunately I can walk it off after about ten minutes. As Jim says age is a big down hill slide.
The only thing I can say that is worse than that is not getting old. :wink:
Rob.
I just saw this posted on Facebook. Not on my workbench, but I really like the way it looks. Posted on the Warlord Games pages by Gene Dodd III:
Here’s an easy way to make splash markers:
Stick some putty on a coin, glue a cigarette filter standing up in the center, tease out the cotton to look like a splash, and finish with blue wash and paint.
Certainly a cheap way of producing your markers, coin or not.
Not sure if in England we still have a law about not defacing coin of the realm?
Rob.
When Sweden abandoned the 10-öring, a very small coin worth less than a pence, I hoarded them. Now I have no idea where I put them...
Ah! If only I had the foresight to have done that with our old farthings Jonas.
Rob.