No King But Christ The King!

 OK, so it's more of a Covenanter cry than a New Model Army one, but the New Model's men were also Protestant hardliners, by and large, so it's not hard to imagine them yelling this in response to some Royalist taunts. This of course means that I have (at last) finished the commission to paint three regiments of 28mm Parliamentarian horse:

36 Warlord Games' ECW cavalry, painted as generic Parliamentarian horse. They wear orange sashes as field identifiers, marking them as Protestants, and the ubiquitous buff coats and gloves with some proofed plate and the classic Roundhead lobster pot helmet (which was, of course, worn by both sides)

The Red Regiment - they've all got red saddlecloths, and the standard bearer's lance is red

Green Regiment - green saddlecloths and a green lance - with flashing blades and large horse pistols

Blue Regiment, with, you guessed it, blue saddlecloths and a blue lance. They were painted slightly differently to the others, with a lot less use of Contrast...

 The commissioner wanted the bases left to be done by them, so that's what I've done. These fellows are packed up already and will be winging their way to their owner by Thursday, assuming the Royal Mail isn't doing last post collections at like 6pm at my local post office.

 Oh, and while I was doing that, I happened to have a STK-3F Stalker kicking around, so I based it in Skavenblight Dinge and then hit it with a wash of Contrast Asurmen Blue and a drybrush of Ceramite White, to produce this:
 

This Stalker, posed mid-stride, is in the colours of the Lyran Guards, and will eventually be badged up as a machine in the service of the 6th Guards, also known as the "Saucy Sixth", because their Regimental Crest is a woman in a bikini. Don't ask

 

There may be a few more sporadic updates before P and I move, but that depends on how much I get packed how quickly. I hope to get back to updating as close to daily as possible by the end of the year, but we'll see!

Painting Points:
Today: 72
This Week: 72
2025: 478 

Time Flies When You're Busy

So I've been AWOL for uhhhh two weeks? or thereabouts. Apologies, mea culpa, etc etc. Life happened, as it often does, and I had a combination of small holidays (a long weekend in Ynys Mon, and another around Abertawe) as well as various Stuff that meant I didn't get any painting done really. On the plus side, I popped into the Games Workshop in Abertawe, and got some paints to help me with the ECW Parliamentarian cavalry commission, which I started to do again. Today I looked at the rather folorn Song of Ice and Fire Here's The Ruckus warband that I'd been doing what seems like years ago, and started working on Ser Geraint Blondel's retainers. These fellows are interesting in that the billmen aren't wearing livery coats, so the only model with the House livery on is the longbowman. I might put some little badges on the billmen though.

The billmen look rather uniform, don't they? I quite like it

I also took some time to use a nice new Contrast paint (Aggaros Dunes) on the second regiment of ECW horse:

24 of the 36 cavalry troopers have had their buff coats and gloves done now

The ECW commission has a deadline (October) so I'm really going to try to focus on them as much as I can over the next few weeks. I'd like to get them done and sent back to the commissioner as soon as I can now that it's cooled down enough to paint again.

In other news I also spent a little money and got some Really Useful Boxes, Warmag sticky-backed ferrous sheet, and several hundred 5x2mm magnets which will be arriving on Saturday - I sense a few pleasant hours gluing magnets to bases in order to safely store an army or two. If this works the way I hope it will, I'll be doing that to everything, painted or not, so that I can have a properly, safely, sensibly, stored collection.

Rally The Horse

I spent a bit of time today working on the English Civil War commission, blocking out the horses and starting on the saddlecloths. I need to finish those, then do the leather, trousers, sashes, and details on the standard bearer and musician before whacking them all with Agrax Earthshade and then picking out the metal. I'm hoping to do this by the end of the weekend and then make headway on the other two units.

In other news, I also dug out the last remaining Necrons - five more Immortals and five Pariahs - undercoated them and started painting their metal basecoat. I need to do a bit of work on the barrels of the heavy gauss blasters carried by the Immortals, but I reckon I can get the Immortals and Pariahs finished up tomorrow.

 Also, not this coming weekend but the one after, I'm going to Death Unto Darkness, the 40K LARP, as my Sister of Battle Superior. A friend of mine, M, gave me a 3D-printed bolt pistol a while ago and I've given it some paint to match my chainsword, and a name, because you have to name your wargear.

I'm looking forwards to pointing this at people and yelling "SANCTIC BOLT" at them like the huge nerd I am.

 

Respect Your Elders...

...Or else! I have started working on the Venerable Dreadnought, doing a couple of layers of drybrushed highlights to the armour plate, and getting the gold and bone elements to a point where they can be highlighted and detailed. I suspect much of the work on it will be on the right arm, which has got quite a lot of detail on it in the form of the wolf skin, shield, and so on. I also managed to get the latest ISS Vanguard lander finished as well, which is great! Oh, and I've started on the Parliamentarian cavalry. They're meant to be for Second Newbury (1644), and with three units I'm probably going to try to make them at least slightly resemble some of the regiments of horse that were at that battle - obviously Cromwell's lot, then maybe Waller's and Sir John Norwich's. Not sure how quite yet, a little research required here I think.

A lander - this is not a great photo sadly but the big blue canopy is pretty cool. That said I'm actually tempted to redo it to the gold canopy... I'll see what the commissioner wants

A better photo thankfully. It's a funky little ship!

Looking at this made me realise I'd missed a bit on the other side which I have now fixed. Success?

The reason I might change the colour of the canopy to gold is because the engine glow is blue as well...

The dreadnought! Stompy and angry

Warlord Games' Parliamentarian cavalry - the buff coats and plate are basically the same across both armies and all cavalry regiments! The sashes tended to change colour and I'm going to do these ones with orange sashes

So a lot of work in progress, and one completed mini. Not a bad outcome for the day.

Painting Points:
Today: 1
This Week: 4
2025: 349