Painting table Saturday #6

Progress has been slow this week as I try to adjust to new work place and new schedule. I have finished off what I think will be the brown parts for most of the battle suits on the bench.

You can also see the 3rd company laid out, I was figuring out how much I need to do for them, which is more than I thought, in order to finish them off.

Hopefully there will be more progress this week to next but we shall see.
Aruki

Osprey Review #3

Today's review will be from the Osprey men at arms series, Artillery Equipments of the Napoleonic Wars.

Now for the short and sweet of it there are a few parts of this book that could be useful to many Napoleonic wargamers. The most useful part is actually one of the things that many people look at the most closely in these books, the plates. The range of color plates in this book are excellent because it shows how all the equipment was painted and such. Along with the normal uniforms and such. There is also a really useful table on page 16 for general color schemes of all the major and some of the minor countries as well. Note this is specifically for the woodwork and metal carriage fittings. It also notes colors of the barrels as well in a separate paragraph. 

The rest of the book deals with giving detailed descriptions of how the equipment evolved and changed. Along with descriptions about ammunition and other little such things.  In all most of the book if your not actually interested in the topic is very dry. However, page 16 and the color plates are very useful for gamers who are trying to figure out how to paint there artillery.

Aruki

February round up.

I will fully admit that the only reason for February being such a good hobby month is I wasnt working. At the same time I did finish off a huge amount. I managed to complete one goal, have made a dent in another and painted a rather large number of actual in game points. So in review here is what I have painted.

Epic:
1st company veterans (19 stands in total)
2nd company, battle company ( 3 tactical stands, 4 assault stands, 10 rhinos)
2x warlords
4x warhounds

FSA Dindrenzi
1x battleship
1x carrier
3x cruisers
6x frigates


DW Brit
1x aircraft carrier (the name escapes me atm)
6x escorts
6x flight tokens

Bombshell miniatures
1x betty

I cant say I am disapointed with anything out right. but I do think that many of the models look much better when as much as possible is done with the airbrush and only details done with regular brush/
Points wise here is how I ended up.

Feb:73.50 points
YTD total: 73.50 points

This is a huge dent in my goal for the year so I am quite happy.
painted: 174
bought: 4
trade in: 21
trade out: 5
Sold: 0

I cant be to disappointed with that. Especially since I have formulated a plan for dealing with my space marines, which I will discuss in the future. The main thing I still need though is 13x epic space marine scout stands :(.

DW: 365 points
FSA:650 points
epic: 2450+ points
total: 3465+ points

This is well on the way of reaching my goal for the year. The reason for the + points is I still need to figure out the exact points for the titans. At the moments that score only includes the cost of their hulls not their weapons.

Finally we have the spending.
Feb: -$40.07
YTD total: -$67.25

No complaints there what I bought is what I bought. Most of that was one tool and the rest is stuff I will be showing off in the future. That tool has already proved useful.
I have also achieved my 3rd goal which was finishing off the dindrenzi.

Aruki

Painting table Saturday 5

This week my bench has been rather emptied with the progress this past week. So  I added on some suits for my tau. At the moment there are 4 broadsides, 2 missile suits and 2 plasma missile. These models along with the two heavy gun drones will be the first ones done for my repainted tau force.

More updates as I can, will probably be erratic since I start my new job next week.

Aruki