Basic Browns About Done. . .

Basic brown areas (Vallejo Chocolate Brown) about finished except for the drum and a few additional bits. Time permitting, I'll finish these this evening before cleaning up various edges with my usual Quaker Gray undercoat. If that goes quickly, I realize that I need to touch up the green bases around more than a few shoes.

But I've also gotta pack my bags and the car.

Tomorrow it's another sojourn north early in the day for a couple of cross-country skiing clinics Saturday with a guest coach (some kind of former champion in the sport), who, it turns out lives not that far from us in the Lansing, Michigan area. Should be fun since one of my usual coaches is also signed up for these same two sessions. He's a good guy originally from Pennsylvania (like yours truly).

Back to real life by late Sunday afternoon (sigh) for a couple of more weeks before Spring Break. With, hopefully, one more trip north for some late season skiing before cleaning, storage waxing, and hanging up my gear for another year.

But a great ski season so far. 29 tours on the snow since early December, though, so probably one of my best ever. Even surpassing the year I lived just outside of Trondheim, Norway.

-- Stokes

Comments

Anonymous said…

Enjoy the skiing !

I'm always struck with admiration regarding your ability to plow through an entire 60 man regiment.

My short attention span limits me to a single company, squadron or battery. Consequently I have several regiments in various stages of completing their paper strength. No doubt their inhabers are somewhat disgruntled with this approach but they have little influence on the recruiting masters out in the field.

Congrats on another major unit being close(ish) to completion !

Cheers Pat

3:27 PM

tradgardmastare said…

Figures coming along splendidly. Enjoy the skiing.
Alan

12:49 AM

Conrad Kinch said…

Splendid productivity Sir. I notice some contrast paints at the back. How do you find them?

7:18 PM

WSTKS-FM Worldwide said…

Thank you, gentlemen! The contrast paints seem great for covering larger areas of the figures. So far, I've used one of the browns for the fur=covered knapsacks on these castings. Also tried the same color on the related strap over the right should from which the knapsacks are slung, but it ran everywhere, and lots of clean-up was necessary the next day once dry. The jury is till out, but I am not sure how much these actually speed up painting large numbers of figures. Time will tell I suppose.

Painterly Regards,

Stokes

1:01 PM

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