Off the Workbench - Mike W, 18/12/17

So the idea of this semi regular repeating post is to give an update on stuff that we're doing here...

It will obviously be dependent upon contributions by club members ad how often they  (and I) can be bothered to write the posts and more importantly take the photos to show what we are doing!

Lately there has been a lot of discussion within the club on the relative merits of different scales and so one of the points of this series of posts is to document the relative volumes of different scales of figures the team are producing.

So I'll start today 18th December 2017, with what's ON MY WORKBENCH.

Boot Hill Mexican Officers & Zapadores

All 28mm, from the Texas Revolution we have 4 x Mexican Officers, 4 x Mexican Zapadores and 4 x Texian volunteers - all 12 from Boot Hill miniatures.

Mexican peasants and the missing figure...

Along the same theme are 6 unfinished 1st Corps (I think) Mexican Fusiliers and 5 finished Mexican peasants who are waiting a 6th figure -  that I temporarily lost - to be painted -up. I hope to get all these completed in the next week.

Reality is the 1st Corps Fusiliers have been sitting waiting to be finished for over six weeks now - to be honest when compared to the Boot Hill figures they are very rough and ready and don't excite me much.

Boot Hill Texians and 1st Corps Fusiliers

Moving on we have a smattering of North Star, Front Rank and Foundry Anglo Dutch Wars figures awaiting completion - these are all to be generic Dutch figures to be added to existing regiments as needed but again have been on the workbench for a couple months now...

Conquest Games Norman Cavalry

Finally in 28mm we have 8 Conquest Games plastic mounted Norman Knights, aim is to get these finished this week and add to the slowly growing Norman forces - with a view to re-fight Hastings using SAGA rules system.

Change of scales down to 12mm / 144, we have an Isreali Jeep awaiting basing, recently found on the floor under the workbench, I really don't remember loosing it in the first place...

Finally a single Jugula Gladiator awaiting construction and painting, its been waiting for a couple of months - one day I'll get around to completing him!

Now to what's OFF THE WORKBENCH...

Eight Boot Hill, 28mm mounted Presidial Guards, all that is waiting is a coat of matt varnish to finish them off. That won't happen until the weather behaves - warms up a little and isn't wet. Impatience will greatly increase the risk of bad varnish finishes that make painting the figures a waste of time...

The other items off the workbench were a selection of 8 x 28mm Anglo Saxon figures, all Gripping Beast plastics, again awaiting a final varnish...