Just in Time

Sorry logistics dudes. This isn’t about JIT, as such. Though it does concern the closing out of one process just as supplies arrive for the next.

I finished the bases on the Celts and the Carthaginian host are sitting on their magnetised bases and are boxed up. Except for the elephants.

So they got painted early this evening, and have had their bases textured with Chinchilla dust and covered in burnt umber paint. All that remains is to do the 3-shade dry brush stage and sprinkling of fake grass. And re-boxing! Yes, I underestimated the space they will occupy. They take up a tad more than 2 Ferrero Rocher boxes but 3 looks too much. So I might swap out the Anglo-Hanoverians from their big box.

Colonel Hathi and friends

The completion of painting has worked out perfectly as I had a message today to say that the big SYW order from Heroics & Ros has been despatched. Weather for the next 7 days is forecast to be dry. So I expect to be prepping the new arrivals and undercoating them.

For the latter stages of preparing the SYW re-enforcements I need some more burnt umber paint as well as the flock that I mentioned yesterday. Out comes the order pad again.

Post Script:

Here is a better shot of the Nellies, without the black board and with the bases finished. That's meant to be the sign of Tanit on the cloths but I haven't done the base of the triangle. Oops.

For scale, the bases are 30mm square. It's just occurred to me that I could have put some foot figures on the bases too. Maybe skirmishers.