Another squad of Covenanter Musketeers. Ten of them and an officer and drummer. Here's a pic of the musketeers I'm painting right now:
I'm using Renedra plastic 20mm bases. The figures are a combination of Old Glory Scottish Lowland Musketeers (ECW-41) and Scottish Lowland Command (ECW-50). Using poster tac I've mounted them on plastic soda bottle caps, my new favorite tool for such things.
and... that's about it. That's the only major project I have right now. Should be done by this weekend, I have a second squad of musketeers to do. I am 6 figures short of a 12 musketeer squad so I ordered a 6-pack from Perry miniatures. Shipping from England so I'm being patient. I hope to get these done before my 2 week vacation come last half of August. I hope to not have any painting lined up for that 2 weeks, the first week will be easy as I will be up in Levenworth, WA with family. The second week will be a staycation so we will see if I can stay away from the painting table.
**I typed this last night. This morning I got a message from one of the other firms in my work building in downtown Portland that a package was delivered to them accidentally, and it was from England. Went and got it and BAM - 6 Covenanter musketeers from Perry.
Commendable work, Gabe. I love the blue beanies.
ReplyDeleteManly bonnets! Not whimpy "beanies"!! BONNETS!!
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They do look really cool when you have a few hundred minis out and almost all of them have the bonnets on.
DeleteI would like to add that the plastic bottle caps are, literally, garbage. I really slowed my roll this year with drinking Coca-Cola (my soda of choice) and the caps you see in this picture are from the dumpster. In a prior life, punk-rock days not too long ago, I was did a little dumpster diving... so I re-purposed that skill here and got some soda bottle caps. I did wash them properly.
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