Bagpiper was just calling...

This guy was alot of fun to paint.  I did some research, and it's pretty hard to see colour in black and white photos, but with a little digging and the help of a couple of wikis and some dedicated web sites.


I painted a Seaforth Highlander of Canada bag piping soldier.

Recce Platoon Just about done

Three Otter LRC I and two Humber III

I did quite a bit of net surfing to look for a Canadian Army approved camo pattern use on these vehicles during the second world war.  Thanks to Armoured Acorn, I found what I needed to paint what I wanted.  I tried to match the patterns as close to what was pictured, on the Armoured Acorn site, that these vehicles used during the time period of 1943.

Darcy thinks I did a good job.

All I have left to do is wait for the wash to dry and paint on the markings.  This is a work in progress.

What happens when you give your kids a brush?

So back in November, I had a weekend that Darcy was working and Aubie was just put to bed for a nap.  The weather outside wasn't the greatest and the girls ,and I, had a couple of hours to kill.  I just happened to have three model dwarves primed, so I gave my girls a paint brush.

So far so good

It looks like March will be a good month of painting for me.  I've got all my rifle platoons painted and as a side project, I've started on a custom objective marker.



A captured German 8.8cm FlaK36.

Lost my Mind

What am I doing up so late?

Anyway, I've stayed up late for the last couple of nights to finish painting my rifle company for FOW and I did it!  I finished painting the troops.  I know, I know...  I still need to finish the base, but the individual solders are painted.

Feeling pretty good about my paint job too.

On a side note about my modeling, I tried air brushing tonight... Epic fail...  I need practice, and lots of it.  I made the mistake of testing it on one of my models (a good one) and I regretted it afterwards.  I'm going to look up more stuff about it before I try again, and maybe next time I'll use a dummy model as a guinea pig.

Hopefully I was able to fix the model.

Well my pic just finished uploading to Flickr, and I really should get to sleep.

Night
DanJr

Paint to Model

Finally put paint to model tonight, I've been putting this off for far too long.  I'm going to get those infantry done by the end of the month, because I'd love to get my vehicles started.  There are a couple of clubs that are doing F.O.W. nights that I'd like to start going to once the curling season is done which is by mid April.  So that would be my dead line to have 1500 pts fully painted and based.

On a side note, I finished Red Dead Redemption!  Which might also explain why I was lazy in painting my models.

Anyway...
Good night!

DanJr