Paint Table Saturday 5 - Back to the Paintbrush

I know, I know, nowhere near Saturday, but the picture was taken on that day... so technically it still counts. I was quite surprised to see how long ago I posted the previous update, surprising to see how long my latest painting dry spell lasted this time. But a week or two ago I started prepping some more GHQ tanks and got stuck in again. Also the missing Pz IVD hulls showed up with order number two for my Barbarossa project.

 Between taking this picture and finally posting it here, The Pz IVDs are finished, the KV-85s only need flocking and the T-34s and the two Heroics and Ross armoured cars have moved to the varnishing stage. That leaves me with the detailing (mostly the crew and passengers) of my Barbarossa halftracks.
Meanwhile the pressure is on for my next Flames of War game, I only need to paint 7 to 9 more 15mm tanks in slightly over three weeks. I'm going for no bare metal/resin/plastic or undercoat showing... A man's got to know his limitations as Harry Calahan once said :-)

Happy painting and gaming!

Paint Table Saturday 3

 Well, not too much painting going on this week but that doesn't mean nothing has been happening on the paint table. Mostly decluttering and getting a bit more organized...

While I did start the week as I had intended and I cleaned, based and put my Heroics and Ross miniatures together and continued on the Kuebelwagens, halfway through it I decided to give my paint table a bit of an overhaul. Putting the paints in their cabinet, removing all the clutter that had accumulated over time, taking a look at what I would be doing in the near future and removing everything else. The work area (only half of my desk and all you have seen so far) looks a lot emptier now.

As does the previously unseen other half. It always was the plan to keep the work area free of miniatures and use this side as a holding area for the "in progress" miniatures, neatly ordered in seperate files for scenery, modern/SF, fantasy and historicals... As it this, I still have more on my table than what the plan says but it is quite the improvement compared to earlier in the week. One of those "road to hell" and "good intentions" situations.

The result of this operation? Another shift in focus, what else did you expect? The last few tiles etc of my dungeon project (read more here and here)* resurfaced and I decided to go ahead and at long last finish them. That way I can claim to have a completed a project for once :-)

When that's done it's back to Barbarossa so I can get in my second H&R order...

Happy painting and gaming everybody!

* Gulp, are those dungeon blog posts that old already???

Paint Table Saturday 2

Back again after only one week??? Didn't really expect that myself...
Just one little problem with that, how to keep you guys entertained with my glacial pace of progress. Really, go google for a webcam observing a real life glacier if you want to see some fast paced action :-)

I did finish a few things that were stuck on the table for a while now, the GHQ M3 scout cars are now done as are the 15mm FoW Russians. The two objective markers are also completed so for this week the unpainted pile goes down by 11 items while going up by 8 for new arrivals from my Barbarossa project, meaning I'm at -3 for the week (only thanks to Heroics and Ross making a packing error on my order).

Trying to keep the table empty and staying focused

For the coming week: get stuck in to the Barbarossa Germans, get rid of those Kuebelwagens and get Scooby done (maybe Shaggy too)

Happy painting and gaming and till next time!

Paint Table Saturday

Welcome to the first of what will most likely be a highly irregular view of my paint table... Yet another testament to my ongoing OSPD (Ooh Shiny Personality Disorder).

Rather than continueing and (heaven forbid) finishing the handful of GHQ vehicles and 15 mm FoW that were on my table before Crisis came along two weeks ago, I had to drop everything and dive into the new toys... Good thing I didn't buy all that much for once :-)

So two weeks later nothing happened with the GHQ and FoW but I nearly finished constructing the 16 plastic vehicles I picked up at the bring and buy... Once the schwimwagens and the StuG IIIB are finished all that is left is the 251/10. And then I can return to painting, something that I have hardly gotten to in the past two weeks.
Pretty much all I did on that front was starting on Scooby and the gang, slapping some Panzergrau on a few vehicles and work on a couple of objective bases for FoW that I made with some drums and cans that were included with one of those plastic kits.

Till next week time (that looks more realistic)

Happy gaming and painting!!!