Tuesday 17 September 2013

A Cast of Thousands

Well, not quite thousands... yet.
But hundreds... six hundred and forty to be precise.

Yes, I picked up the infantry castings from Griffin Moulds yesterday: boy am I delighted!
Clean castings; they stand up flush on the desk without having to spend hours filing the underside of bases! Remarkable!!

Anyway, here's the lead mountain...

 
Remember, this is just the first tranche of the project.

And here are a couple of samples I painted of the pre-production castings a couple of weeks ago, just to play around with painting style and colours a little. These are in the colours of a couple of my Pils Holstein regiments.


Right, the game's afoot...



14 comments:

  1. Your painted chaps look great.
    Hope you enjoy the unpacking the cast of thousands/600...

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  2. Like the painted chaps. Really like the pose, these will look great with your flags. Will form a unique collection.

    As for painting, rather you than me!

    cheers

    Paul

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  3. Kind of makes one feel tingly all over!

    Best Regards,

    Stokes

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  4. Looking good, can't wait to see the rest.
    Cheers, Steve

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  5. thats a lorra lorra lead
    Peace James

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  6. Great to see the figures at last. They look extremely nice. Do you have a painting schedule to predict how big your armies will grow by when? Will the bases be textured or "old school"?
    best wishes
    Chris
    http://notjustoldschool.blogspot.co.uk/

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  7. plenty to keep you busy ! like the nicely possed marching men - full of movement

    -- Allan

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  8. Thanks for all the kind comments, and for your interest in taking time to ask questions... all of which will be answered in the fullness of time.
    James - warm up your paint-brush!
    Chris G - basing will be textured, and yes I do have a painting schedule which goes way beyond this batch of figures. It's around 6 years till the project will be fully completed. Stage one, which I'll post about soon, is all about getting some game-able balanced forces completed.
    Phil

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  9. That's quite a few to paint up then Phil.

    The mini's you've painted up do look the business.

    Darrell.

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  10. Lovely stuff, classic figures these are going to look awesome.

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  11. Thanks for the further comments Greg, Darrell and Graham.
    The brushwork is beginning today...
    Phil

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  12. Great stuff Phil, really looking forward to seeing the collection evolve.

    John B WD3

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  13. Are those figures commercially available?
    They look so much like John Ray's and I'd always thought hisnline was exclusive.
    Thanks
    Chris

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