"Winter Project 2014-15 New Toys" Topic

I have my work for the cold Midwest Winter almost ready to start !!

Order from Scenic Express ( Check )
1 – New Grass Master 2.0 ( I really hope its worth the money and speeds things up
1 – Gallon of 2mm Static Grass
2 – Bags of 4mm Static Grass
1 – Gallon of Gray Stone

Order from Litko Bases ( Checks )
2000 + Bases of differnt sizes need

Hobby Lobby –
1 Gallon of PVA Glue
Paints for Bases

Walmart –
24 Cookie Sheets ( nice score only 2 USD each )
Bag of rocks used for fish tanks
40 Lbs of Cat Litter

What needs basing ?
14 – Btns of British Pen Troops each 40 figs
80 – British Rifles
20 – Generals and Staff
700 – British Cavalry
This will complete my British Troops for the Penn !! Next is the Portuguese Troops & Spanish After that.

French Troops
60 – Btns of Line Troops each 36 Figs
8 – Hussar Regts 60 Figs Each
4 – Carabiner Regts 40 Figs each ( Early and Late Uniforms
12 – Curassier Regtd 40 Figs each

Plan is to do it all in a Assembly line as it worked great the last time

Assembly line painting is fantastic for churning out quantities of figures. It takes a looonnnggg time to finish a group, but when you do finish said group, it is usually a LARGE quantity of figures… And that gives a tremendous feeling of accomplishment.

I sometimes break down my larger groups into smaller groups, just to emerge from the tunnel sooner, before I dive back into the next tunnel group of figures to paint. My average painting time, per figure, doing them assembly line style, keeps it to 5-10 minutes of actual brush-time, on each individual figure. They may look alike, but they're painted! I can live with that trade-off. Cheers, and happy painting and gaming!