Wednesday 14 August 2013

Third Time Lucky?

 Those with good memories will have seen this lot of lead before. Twice before to be more precise. The fist time I painted them for VBCW in 28mm but the club wanted 20mm. The second time was a big oppsie moment when I picked up a can of white primer instead of the spray varnish.

Hence the title "Third Time Lucky" As you can see I have re-painted them and varnished them and they are now ready to be put back in the box and with luck they need not be seen again. Unless of course I do another WW1 Zombie game. You never know It could happen.

I have not stressed myself too much about the final finish as it was pretty unrewarding to go over them again. It's not like painting fresh lead.

But they are at least done and dusted and I can now move forward. That is of course until I found some more 28mm WW1 figures. Yes you guessed it I could not leave well enough alone and they are now on the paint cue so they may should be ready by Sunday.

Not going into details but Not looking after my Nephew today. It has taken him an extra day to recover from the operation, so I expect to be looking after him tomorrow. He's fine just needed some extra rest so really nothing major.

That's today's quick post, just rectifying my own mistake from about 8 months ago. I hope all is well with you and I should post again on Friday. SO until then take care, have fun and try to get some painting done. Best Wishes Clint

14 comments:

  1. Those are nice, but you need to stop reminding me of all the projects I'm thinking about lol.
    Hope the little fellow will get better soon, any operation sounds serious, especially at his age.

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  2. Thank you Mathyoo. He's fine, you know when a teenage lad is really ill if they don't react when offered free x box games!

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  3. I sense a new project looming

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    1. None planned. And about half way through the figure fast so still no buying till next month. Maybe you know something I don't?

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  4. At least they are done, I know what its like when misfortune srikes you can never seem to find the motivation to re-paint or strip them.

    They look really good though mate. I feel relieved sometimes to get stuff done and off the paint table especially when they've been there a while.

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    1. Those are my feelings exactly. Thank you Simon.

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  5. Repainting or redoing figures is always arse water but you got through it, glad to hear the little horror is on the mend.

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    1. Yes he's here all day tomorrow. Just as well that I have loaded the latest "Tomb Raider" game on my PC..... that should keep him busy. ANd I'm going to teach him trigonometry!

      Re painting is a pain..... I have a re-basing project coming up soon as well and we all know how much fun that is! But no more of that until it happens.

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  6. Well doe that man, finally off the table and I can fully sympathise with anyone who has a whoopsie moment!

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    1. Yeah It did take me a while to get round to them as I kept getting distracted.... oh look shinnies!

      Thank you Michael.

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  7. Well done for all the perseverance. I would have flogged them on evil bay by now. Cracking job on them Clint

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    1. Thank you very much. I now have about 60 or more 28mm WW1 British now so I thought it best to add to the collection rather than split them up.

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  8. Wow there have come out really well and it shows what happens with perseverance

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