Finally Ready for Art of War....almost!

Hi Guys,

Andy Here with a quick post and some pictures of my final models for my Art of War army. As you may have noticed though the StuG in the background is still a work in progress but I still have Friday night for that!

I had to change tactic for these last platoons and did them as one big batch. Normally I really dislike doing it this way but with time running out I decided my best option was to at least get everything up to a certain standard. As it happened I had more time than I expected, which was just as well as I'd never have made it otherwise! 

The End of the Beginning

Hi Folks,

I've finally finished the second Grenadier platoon after what felt like a real slog, so to mark point in the project I thought I'd steal a line from Churchill for the title of this post because it seems rather appropriate. As far as painting an army for wargaming goes this is the first army that I have finished…except I'm not finished and I always knew that. But personally this is quite significant in that I completed what I initially set out to complete and for a time I can relish in the achievement, however small it may be!

Grenadier HQ & Pak40's finished

Hi Folks,

Andy here with a painting update that I have to confess has been a long time coming. Unfortunately real life and work meant these were sat there with just undercoat on them for most of May when these were supposed to have been painted according to my initial schedule. Just like Market Garden, things started to fall behind schedule almost as soon as I'd started!

However whilst I was away with work I did have plenty of spare time to read other blogs and stumbled across an article about staying motivated and completing whole armies and I realised I had been missing a trick. My preferred painting time always used to be whenever I could get a good few hours at the table but as we all know this is often hard to achieve. But why not just sneak in 30mins of painting each day? For a Flames of War platoon thats should be sufficient to get one colour done, or a wash on a platoon.

Now I appreciate this may be nothing new for a lot of people but to me it would be a totally different way of working. Its also made much easier by the fact I have a hobby desk which doesn't require tidying up, meaning my models are there and ready to go each time I sit down.