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Painting Habit Weeks Two & Three

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So far, so good for making a habit of painting…

Well, week two was a bit touch and go. I had started a batch of ten 25mm Russian Pandour (Bloodaxe Miniatures), but I tried using a black undercoat and I was very unhappy with the results I was getting, so about mid-week I stopped painting that batch and started prepping a new batch (of 12) for week three. This time I went back to a white undercoat…

I’ve never really had good luck with a black undercoat, but with a lot of black to be used for the figure, I thought I’d give it another try – it turned out to be a bad idea. I just was not happy with the results. Good news is that I decided to finish the figures in this batch and just mix them in with the rest.

OK, so now back to week three. This second batch of Pandour were undercoated white and they were much easier to paint. After the white undercoat was dry I started with a series of washes – red, black, sepia, brown and green. The idea was to create a set of lines, much like a coloring book. After the series of washes were applied I went back and added the proper paint colors – coloring inside the lines. After the colors were applied it was back to washes – filling in the gaps, or darkening the lines…

Now, please remember I’m not now and never have been a really good painter, but for the most part I am happy with the figures and they (at least to me) look just fine on the game table.

This unit of Pandour need 14 more figures and it will be complete (36 figures). Eleven of these 14 are on the table for painting this week. The command figures were not quite done, so they will be painted next week. At some point I’ll add another 12 figures to the unit.

While I sort of missed the mark for Week Two, I made up the lost time in Week Three – total output for Weeks Two & Three = 22 figures…

I’ve started a photo album to show the progress of my painting projects. To view more photos from my 2009 painting adventure visit my Painting Habit – 2009 photo album: http://picasaweb.google.com/historifigs/PaintingHabit2009#

I’m still sorting out how best to take pictures with my replacement camera, so it may be a few more days before we can post some picturs of the new Resistant Roosters Winter Finns (Company HQ and Mortar Platoon)…

The Spanish are Back

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Our 28mm Spanish soldiers for use in your American War of Independence games are once again available…

We originally released these figures just before our move from California to Wisconsin, however some of the molds went missing during the move. As such we were unable to produce all of the figures until recently when I finally took time to make a new set of molds.

Spanish Soldiers

The molds are now done and figures are shipping! If you’ve been waiting for these, the wait is over. If you’ve always wanted to add a selection of Spanish troops to your AWI armies, now is the time!

These figures will be a regular stock item, so for the most part we can ship orders right away.

Please visit the HistoriFigs website for more pictures and a listing of available figures.

Coming up next time: More Winter Finns (from Resistant Roosters)…

First Post of 2009…

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At long last a posting for 2009! Between keeping busy and not being able to decide which topic to write about I’ve simply just not written any news since – yikes! November.

There are still dozens of topics I could (and will) write about, but for today I’ll try and keep it short…

Well 2008 is now behind us; all-in-all it was not a bad year. Numerous setbacks, but overall we came through much better than we expected. Rather than posting my usual sales charts, I’ll just post a couple of top three charts. The first being based on sales dolalrs:

#1 Custom casting and mold making
#2 15mm miniatures
#3 54mm miniatures

If we leave out dollars and look at the number individual sales we find:

#1 15mm miniatures
#2 25mm miniatures
#3 N-Gauge miniatures

Overall this fits our expectations for breakdown of sales.

So far 2009 is off to a good start. Orders are not backed up (or at least no more than expected)…

Next time we will have a few new releases to announce along with some more listings of figures in new molds. We might be a bit light on pictures (new releases and such) for a little while; our digital camera is down for the count, so we are working on hunting up a replacement.

Look for more (and regular) posting this year – one of our goals for the year is to keep current on news and goings on here at HistoriFigs HQ.

New Molds: 25mm SYW (foot)

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It looks like we have finally finished making new molds for the Scruby 25mm SYW Infantry figures. We started this project a while back, and have finally completed the last of the molds for the SYW Infantry figures – Cavalry to follow.

To give you a better idea of the figures included in this re-molding project see the list presented below.

Troops in Standard Uniforms
Musketeers, In Tricorne Hat
On guard 3501
Firing 3502
Advancing 3503
Artillery and Command in Tricorne Hat
Infantry Officer 3507
Artilleryman 3508
Standard bearer 3509
Grenadiers, In Mitre Hats
On guard 3504
Firing 3505
Advancing 3506
Troops in Special Uniforms
England
Highlander, Battalion company, on guard 3515
Highlander, Grenadier company (bearskin), on guard 3516
Light Infantryman, in cap, standing firing 3517
Austria
Grenadier, fur hat, advancing 3519
Grenadier, fur cap, standing firing 3520
Grenadier, fur cap, standing on guard 3521
Grenzer (Border Regt.), advancing 3522
Grenzer (Border Regt.), on guard 3523
Prussia
Fusilier, fusilier hat, on guard 3525
Fusilier, fusilier hat, standing firing 3526
Jager, in tricorne, high boots, advancing 3527
Jager, Le Noble Frei Jagers, on guard 3528
Russia
Russian Grenadier, standing on guard 3532
France
Light Infantry (cap and wing hat ), on guard 3535
Other Troops
Dismounted Hussar, busby, on guard 3541

More updates soon…

MAFRICA = Sold Out

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Just a quick note this time around…

The first printing of the MAFRICA map is now officially sold out!

We will order in a second print run, so if you did not get your copy from the first printing please let us know that you are still interested in obtaining a copy. This will help us decide how many more we need to print…