Building a Blood and Plunder Town

 

Dirty Old Town

I did a little more work on the buildings for my Blood and Plunder set.

First, I dry-brushed the door and window frames to help them stand out a bit more from the walls.  For this I just used a really light grey followed by a light drybrush of off-white.

I then gave the entire building a quick coating or army painter quickshade.  This not only adds an extra level of grime that helped give that lived in look to buildings but also adds a nice protective varnish.

The shutters and doors were all undercoated with leather brown spray paint before being dry-brushed lighter shades of brown until the top highlight was almost white.

I then used various Games Workshop glazes over the doors and shutters to create a weathered painted wood look.  Finally, I picked out the metal studs on the doors with some chainmail paint.

I assembled all the doors and shutters using thin wire to allow them all to open and close before giving the entire model a coat of spray matt varnish.

The next stages will be to add some detailing and do the bases.

The Big Stocktake. Part 8

It's a Pirates life for me.

Whilst waiting on those grass tufts for the WW1 collection I set my printers to work on some of the amazing terrain from Dark Realms

I am not sure if these buildings are on their store yet, but if they are not, I am sure they will be soon.

Resin printers are great for terrain.  I used 2 CR10s Pro V2 machines to print out this little lot.  I am currently in the process of printing a church to go with this set and I will more than likely add a couple more houses too.

I had a few breakages on the balcony supports that hold the roof up.  It's not too much of a drama and replacing the uprights with wooden beams is a simple task and will likely add something to the character of the buildings anyway.

This is what I have got done so far.

The Big Stocktake. Part 7

Almost done with Great War.

The grass tufts arrived so I set about finishing off the bases of my WW1 British.

After basing them all I decided to go back through them all and add Company markings to them.  Again, I haven't gone with historical accuracy on this, rather I went with what would be easy to spot on the tabletop.

I have.

Yellow Company, that consists of mostly assault type troops.

White Company, that has more support troops, Artillery and Mortars

Blue Company, which is a second wave assault company.  Similar to Yellow Company but with slightly less machine guns.

I then took another look at the German A7V tank and decided that I would make it slightly darker than what it was.  Now I'm just waiting on some decals for the German tank, and I can call this collection done.

The Big Stocktake. Part 6

 Pieces of Eight

Blood and Plunder by Firelock Games is up next.

I picked this as the next to post up because I have backed their last Kickstarter campaign quite heavily and know that before too long, I will be inundated with stuff to build and paint.

Everything I have to date is fully painted.

British - 17 Figures

Dutch - 25 Figures

Unaligned - 25 Figures

French - 25 Figures

Characters - 11 Figures

Ships - 7 A combination of Firelock Games and Ainsty Castings.

Total 93 Figures and 7 Ships.

I also have enough cannon for all the ships and plenty to spare.

For this I am lacking somewhat in terrain, so the plan is to add some suitable terrain for some land-based battles.

 

The Big Stocktake. Part 5

Roadblock

I have hit my first roadblock in this project log.

I started to add grass tufts to the many bases of infantry and only had enough to do the German side.  I also realised that I do not have any suitable decals for my German tank.

So, I have done as much as I can with what I had available.  All the Germans are done with the exception of adding markings to the tank.  I did repaint a lot of the helmets because as much as I like the camouflaged look, they did look a bit over whelming on mass.  It's now roughly a 50/50 split.  It also means that I can field two separate companies and tell which models belong to which.

I added some simple markings to my two British tanks.  I am not sure if these are historically accurate, but I think they look okay and will also allow me to tell the difference between the two on the tabletop.

So, whilst waiting for a delivery of grass tufts and decals I will push on with something else.