First of all I only buy when I can get a good deal ,I saved over £80 on this lot.That equates to 4 boxes for free.
As far as the painting is concerned,mostly ,I paint 150 figures at a time or three boxes if you like in one or two weeks depending of course on the figures.I don`t speed paint ,and numbers never daunt me in the least.I painted straight for 10 years and never missed a day,because I love it.I take it one colour stage at a time and just enjoy doing it.Usually enamal paints three coats on each figure.
I`m halfway through my scratch building programm , ( Roman Fort ) and one more tiny wooden fort to make for my grand son and then the Asterix Gaul Village to make,everything is going to go A OK as far as I can predict. Three or four months scratch building work.
I intend to paint a few Asterix figures soon,but not all of them I have no intention in having a race with Dads Army he is way out in front,and is quite the Road Runner.
"I`ll simmer a new batch of this for you BB,and you`ll paint the lot after a couple of jugs of this home brew potion."
"With kind respect, No thanks ,Dads Army might take the risk and have some though. Go on laugh!"
I will be Painting Napoleonics sometime next year.I still have finishing touches to do on quite a few hundred Scots guards for waterloo first,and work on the French Guns.
Using Warpaints waterbased colours and ink for first time
The 28mm stuff ( Needs Sticking Help! ) I intend to undercoat them and then add main colours and brush on the Army Painter Quickshade,or dip them,and then see the result.In my opinion using matt varnish to dull it down has added extra cost to this type of modelling and this could have been avoided by the makers. However Extra profit for them. Some might even like e`m shinny. Even I might.
The thing is guys like I said I am a collector more than a painter. So in my own sweet time the brushes will come out ,Sable ones this time bought in the paint pack. I usually buy fine point paint brushes cheap and by the dozen,and cut them down to the sizes that I need with my craft knife. Sometimes a magic brush can paint hundreds before the last of it falls out, and then I use the stick for other uses.Sometimes I miss that old faithful brush.
Why the eyes? I`ll ask Fred & MayBell,and let you know. BB