Perry and Foundry Prussian Comparison, French, Gondorians, and a Zombie

Hi,

     I've finally finished painting some models and decided to post a few pics.  First up are two 12 model units of Prussian Cuirassiers.  Foundry spells it Kurassiers.  On the left on are Foundry and the right the new Perry Brothers models.  

I've based each 12 model unit the same, two 3 model bases, two 2 model bases, and two 1 model bases.  The plan is to be able to use them for either Black Powder, Waterloo, or fan produced WAB rules.

Below is a quick side comparison of the two brands.  

left is Foundry, right is Perry

Here are some nice Perry French artillery with crew.  I dipped these in Army Painter and looking at the photo, I don't think I dull coated them enough.

Speaking of dipping,  I did the first in a series of dip experiments.  Here is the least exciting.  I spray painted four dull GW LOTR Gondor Archers flat black, dry brushed Vallejo Gun Metal, then slapped on a few details.  Left to right, I dipped them in Army Painter Dark Shade, American Walnut Minwax, Black Onyx Minwax, and GW Black Ink.  They've been dull coated with Armory dull spray and they all look almost exactly the same (unlike some Biblicals which I'll post another day).

left to right:  Army Painter Dark Shade, American Walnut Minwax, Onyx Minwax, GW Black Ink

I also painted some LOTR goblins and orcs.  All were Army Painter dipped as well.

 Here are some metal Perry Prussian Fusilier command models.  Also Army Painter dipped with a drunken dull coat applied, missing whole portion with a spray paint can seems impossible but occurs more often than not.  Prussians called their light or skirmish capable troops fusiliers not voltiquers.

Here's four more Warlord Prussian Landwehr I finished to make my unit total 24 (a regular size Black Powder unit).

I always keep spare models around to use up spare paint out of the squirt bottles.  Left to right are what are an EM4 Scavenger (wetf that is), a Ral Partha Hoplite, an Old Glory Kindernacht, a GW Familiar, and an unknown archer.  You can't see the hoplite's hand painted shield that I was quite proud of.

That's all for now.  I should have some more WAB battles coming up and I'm about to start painting more Prussian foot troops.

Love Baconfat

Zombies, Rocket Crew, Cannon, Abandoned Buildings, and Terrain.

Hello dear beloved viewer,

I've slapped paint on few more zombies. I'm up to 38 complete with another 30 something in the works.

First up, is a zombie child. It's a USX miniature which I believe is actually RAFM. The line is actually quite large, maybe 32mm scale and full grown USX/RAFM zombies probably won't be added to the pack. They dwarf some of the prepainted Horrorclix stuff. Regardless the undead child is in, because child zombies are very rare.

Second is a Heroclix Invisible Woman that's been chopped up and painted undeadish. I find myself forced into killing superheros to get a more fair ratio of female to male zombies. I shaved off her Fantastic 4, painted her a white tank top, touched up her pants and boots, stabbed her a bit, chopped off half an arm, and liberally applied blood. Heroclix actually are quite easy to zombiefy because of their soft plastic and prepaint equals priming to me.

Thirdly are two terrible prepainted sculpts. I believe they are for Dungeons and Dragons, but zombies are zombies and prepaints save time. All I did was dip them in wood stain to hide the sweat shop labor paint job and paint their bases gray. Zombies don't need to be pretty.

Here are two Mantic brand ghoul models. I saw a advert on theminiaturespage.com come that Wayland Games was offering free Mantic ghoul samples. Free is good. These ghouls had extrabits and are sculpted quite well. The downside is they had weird horns growing out of them (about three each) and what appeared to be railroad spikes randomly stuck in them. They were easily removed. I also removed some of their clothing, because they were both wearing skirts. Skirts would be fine if I was creating a Scottish zombie horde. They'll be a fine addition to the pack.

Due to the fact I'm painting these zombies for the Zombies board game, I painted uptwo of the official Zombies miniatures. They are very small compared to the rest of the pack members, but it seemed right to include a couple. People come in different sizes.

Here is an Old Glory British rocket crew. There done wether they really are or not. The little yellow straps all over their jackets was infuriating. I also have no idea what color the furry trim of the officer's jacket should be. I couldn't find any Osprey books or online pics to help. Yellow and white looked silly; so the trim ended up gray. I'll paint some rockets for them to shoot soon.

Below are some artillery pieces I've been working on. I painted the Victrix British cannon ages ago, but only recently based it. The other two are Prussian guns. The crew will be done soon and posted.

Here are two abandoned buildings that are nearing completion. I am going to make sidewalks out of thin foam board and throw in a little rubbish. You may notice there's a severe lack of rubble. I don't think I like painting rubble. I'm going to try and make some red brick buildings next and I'll make some rubble for that.

Lastly, I thought I'd show my one subscriber how I store my flat terrain. It's hanging on the walls wherever there's not shelves of little tiny toy army men in the way; but one picture of one wall will suffice. I simply carve little chunks out of the foam bottoms. They sit quite well on a nail in the wall.

Love Baconfat