Old, New and More to Do ...

Having nearly finished (after VERY long time) the last set of Woods Indians for a commission for customer who has the patience of the most prestigious German saints, I'm slowing get back on some sort of track with my painting. Taking in to account personal events, the halt that the Corona virus played and now the upheaval the War in Ukraine is taking on the globe, I'm loathed to compain and moan too much.

But enough of the down-side to things and on to the post proper ... I'm one-more-to-go with the woods Indians. The slowness partly down to a combination of sorting out the whole painting area and, frankly, felling like I'd lost the abilty to paint anything decent. To try and combat this, I made some terrain pieces for the shop and painted some of my own figures - well shop stock figures, to try and get my eye back. It does tend to work; moving from historical figures to something more sci-fi/fantasy seems to cleanse the pallet (no pun intended). And while it comes over as a weak excuse, I'd rather feel happy with the painting I've done on a figure than just get them painted-up quickly only to look at them together and think: nope, don't like 'em.

But, so far, I'm much happier with how they are turning out. As you can see, as well as finishing off the Indians, I also painted a few more figures from CP Models and made a start on another commission of Feudal Japan figs from Bad Squiddo Games. Some very nice variation to work through. I may also be working on some Games Workshop stuff soon too. That'll really will be a change. I've certainly painted my fair share of Warhammer in the past, but I've just loved finding figures from smaller independent suppliers.

Here we have the remaining Woods Indians (minus one) and the first few models from the Feudal Japan commission: Shinobi Sisters, Bushidoge and Shogun Meow.





And some work-in-progress on some 20mm WW2 soldiers.


Woods Indians:

Shinobi Sisters / Bushidoge + Shogun Meow:

Mercenaries / Alien Major / WW2 soldiers


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