Monday, 28 October 2024

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.


20 comments:

  1. Chris, you are turning over the lead at a respectable rate. Looking forward to seeing more SYW regiments marching out from your workbench.

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    1. It’s just a case of using otherwise dead time. Which I often waste.
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    1. They’re nice little models Mark. You have to get yourself some. The howdahs are a bit fiddly to put in place though.
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  3. Those Nellies look pretty good Chris:). A year ago I needed some new flock, but the brand I'd used before was no longer available, so some panicked searching resulted, luckily finding a very close match! Which reminds me I need to order some more...

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    1. Glad to have provided the reminder Steve 😉
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  4. I agree with Jon, you seem to be churning through new units at an impressive rate, Chris!

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    1. It helps when there’s not much metal to cover. Anyway, ‘never mind the quality, feel the width’.
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  5. You are making impressive progress with these armies! The elephants look great, sadly I can't find any mention of them being used by the armies in Italy 1859.. (!)

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    1. Got to clear the decks David.
      You could have elephants with your Ancients though!

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    2. Funny you should say that, as the vague long-term plan is to have an Indian army for a sort of three-cornered campaign with Macedonians and Persians. Though Elephants in 20mm/25mm are a slightly more daunting prospect (I remember Terry Wise using the Britains baby elephant with his 20mm Airfix - a long time ago!).

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    3. I vaguely remember that. Was it in an Airfix guide?
      When we started to do Ancients, Airfix Tarzan sets were in demand for that reason. But the sets were thin on the ground in the late 70s. Had they been in abundance it would have led to a spin off craze for the Zulu Wars with all the surplus African warriors. Confederates as Boers.
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  6. Very nice elephants and the bases look good.

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  7. Super looking elephants Chris.

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    1. Cheers Richard. Appreciate it.
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  8. Lovely looking elephants, all I have from from my 1970s/1980s ancients armies is some Early Imperial Romans which I have relatively recently rebased and three minifigs elephants for 25mm, which would mean, Carthaginian and I'd have to do Republican Roman, or succesors, two sides? I was looking at an pre Marius Republican army last night in the early hours but three Roman armies in 28mm seems I don't know , a bit excessive?! I liked you comparing Grimsby and Real Madrid, made me smile!
    Best Iain

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    1. If you look at it this way having 3 Roman armies isn’t excessive: if you had WWII, Napoleonic and TYW Germanic armies that wouldn’t be excessive. And the Romans could cover a bigger time period 😉
      As for Town and Madrid, it’s not often you see them in the same sentence.
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  9. Great work on the elephants - very nice figures too

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