A sort of progress report. I've just 'finished' (well, almost) my penultimate batch of Warlord's plastic British Warriors. I really, really, struggled to get them done - morale has not been good lately, and that, coupled with an horrendously bad cough, has really slowed me down. Anyway, having finished the batch off (bar 15 shields, for which I'm awaiting transfers from LBMS - but that's another story) I decided, with a bit of encouragement from Tim, to get the rest of the warriors out and see how they looked.
So I fished them out, along with the 'warrior wimmin' and spare druids that I hadn't used for anything else, and set in to mix 'em up a bit, and decide how many more I need to paint. So far, there are 167 figures done (that doesn't include the hordes of skirmishers, cavalry, chariots, warlords, etc). Sat on my workbench in a huge phalanx, they look pretty impressive.
Warlord's figures, 'en masse', look really great - they’re a proper horde. I don't have enough light on my bench to photograph the lot now - but I'll leave them on my bench until tomorrow. If (IF!!) we get a decently bright day tomorrow, I'll take a snapshot of the 'phalanx' and post it. So, currently I am pretty stoked - and feeling like biting the bullet, ignoring the pain and tedium of painting yet more woad and plaid, and getting them done - and then, well, they’ll be done!
I've got another box of thirty warriors to assemble and paint, plus I can make up another three figures from the spares box to bring up the round two hundred. And that will be the last (for the moment at least) figures for my British army - about 2,500 WAB points in all. Basically, it's a 2,000 point army 'with options' - so I can swap the chariot component for more warriors for later conflicts where it seems likely to me that chariots would no longer have been in use.
After that I just want to do another 72 auxilia for the Romans, and they too will be 'finished' (well, at least until Warlord come out with something else shiny and new for them).
Sunday, 8 February 2009
