Waking Dead

Righto, I haven’t posted any updates in a while, but I didn’t really want to bore everyone with tales of me assembling 46 miniatures. To cut a long story short, they’re all (bar two Heavy Weapons teams) glued and undercoated. Now comes the fun bit… painting! So, without further ado, here’s a couple of pictures of my first test model, painted and varnished. Firstly from the front:

And a shot from the rear:

Once again my camera work is rubbish, but you can at least pick out some of the details. I really like the colour scheme, sort of a Middle Eastern desert warrior feel to it – almost Tallarn I guess. The other bit I like is the green tint on the visor; its subtle at a distance but it just adds that extra bit of detail that sits against the other colours. Admittedly this isn’t Grade A painting, but I’m very pleased with it considering I haven’t painted anything for about two years!

I’m also pleased with the way the base turned out, especially the little bits of moss and static grass to give it a bit of variety. The absolute best bit is that because its such a simple colour scheme I managed to knock this out in 90 minutes. As this was my test model I was taking a bit more time to choose colours, so I reckon I can easily do a model an hour this way. Hopefully if I get my skates on and have a couple of good weekends at it I’ll have them all done by the end of April, if not before. That just leaves May to get some much-needed practice games in before the tournament on the 27th. Looking forward to it now – I think I might just get it all done!