doctorphalanx

Four complete divisions in a shallow A4 Tuff box. I completed my 3mm armies for Eisenhower . Painting is now getting quite difficult for an ...

Taking advantage of a rare opportunity to do some painting etc over the last couple of weeks, I have now just finished reorganising and reba...

Bought yesterday - the bristles are for 6mm Thirty Years War pikes. Although I'd expected to get a lot of painting done during the Plagu...

Too wet and the colours run. Too dry and the colours dry out. But it's still a great idea. While painting my 6mm Thirty Years War ar...

The Foot bases are particularly packed and dark so I needed to optimise the use of light/bright colours. These artificially vibrant colours ...

Spaced out in comparison to figures on other bases, the Croats, Dragoons, Cannons and Commanders demand a fuller and more conventional appro...

Arquebusiers (using Baccus mounted Dragoon figures). The vivid green sleeves pop close up but generally the addition of sleeves is underwh...

First major use of a magnifying glass which I found helpful in this instance. In accordance with my plan for 'Getting in Sync' ...

Faces: Visible from 15" at a low angle. When it came to adding detail to these 6mm Thirty Years War figures, I had to think long ...

Not Thiry Years War and not 6mm, but indicative of what actually shows up in smaller scales. Since last Monday 'social distancing...

Some textured card used to test washes. It's been a while since I last completed an army of 28mm figures using a wash technique so i...

I may yet have some 'rants' to deliver, but the idea of a rant is too  aggressive for many of my thoughts, so I'm pitching thi...

I had to patch the basic dark brown coat twice as a result of my mistake in using a white gesso undercoat instead of a black one. I am repea...

Some of my 10mm American Civil War figures: I am basically following the same methodology. This is a rough and incomplete draft of my pl...

The next step was to apply an overall light wash - light in colour and light in thickness. Washes are easy to apply and gentle on brushes. I...

Gesso undercoating: straightforward enough. My basic painting approach for 28mm figures is to undercoat, wash, block paint, and stain. F...

Tools for preparing castings:  Large flat file, scalpels, small files, Games Workshop snippers, superglue and pin vices (drills). I dec...