LHMG Hard at Work
Excellent. Its good to see the next generation of wargamers painting!
They are pretty good too. We took some lessons at Historicon and that has really helped. I am going to miss going this year. I am going to try and make Cold Wars instead. Anyway we had a painting day the other day for 15mm FOW and they were a big help with that too. They seem to like the 28mm's better as they tell me they are easier. I tell them practice makes perfect.
Hordes of Nervii with some being assembled at the bottom. The boys have been hard at work and have done most of them. We are pushing to finish this weekend.
Very cool! Thanks for the photos. Its encouraging to see troops in-progress.
Hi Dean,
We didnt quite get them done in time to mail today but the first 90 should be done and in the mail this week. If you have another thirty Nervii send them in.
Bill
Hi, Bill.
Those look great! Thanks to you and to your boys. I'll pop a bag of Celts into the mail for you later this week.
Well done.
Dean
Great job on the Nervii - I especially like the one holding the Roman's head!!!
Hey Dean - send me a few like that will you??? Andy
Hi Andy,
My younger son did that one. He also added some details that dont show in the pictures very well. The boys have done most of the work with everyone including my wife and daughter helping as well. Your pictures inspired me to try stripes and plaid on some of them but they didnt come out nearlly as well as yours. Tell Pete the "Great Blue Whale" says Hi <VBG>.
Bill
Bill,
I think you and your family are doing a terrific job - don't give up on the plaids and stripes just yet. And besides, if you screw it up you can always paint over the boo-boos.
Peter says he doesn't ride in the back seats of Subarus anymore cuz it took a year to get his callipigeon cleft returned to a vertical configuration. Butt-weld should be vertical not horizontal - LOL!
Andy
The Nervii are all ready to go, all matted and mounted snug on their board.
while visions of puffed rice danced in their heads
and away they all flew on the sled of old Gus
But I heard him exclaim as he went out of sight,
Happy Nervii to all, and to all a good-night.
Another poet in the group! The troops look great. Thanks for the painting, the care in packaging, and for the pictures. I hope the boys had fun with them.
That puffed rice is great stuff, so long as you dont get the sweetened rice! I once had someone ship me an entire 25mm pike and shot army in sugar smacks. Its was mid-summer, probably late July, and the package sat on my front porch in the sun for a couple of hours. When I got home, the sugar smacks were like bricks! I had to crack the troops free from the stuff.
Luckily due to my wifes advice I didnt get rice crispies because she was afraid the sugar would bother the finish. I hope you have a big canary (or chickens to feed) because I think we used about 6 or 7 bags (3 - 4 pounds) of it <VBG>.
It turned out to be a family affair to get it all done, as you can see even the dog helped out.
My apologies to whoever wrote, "Twas the Night Before Christmas".
Clement Moore wrote, Twas the Night Before Christmas.
Your wife is very smart! Yep, the puffed rice bags really take a bunch if the box is big but if you buy the grocery store bulk bags, they are pretty cheap!
My apologies to Clement Moore for murdering his poem.
The puffed rice costs next to nothing. It is probably the cheapest packing material around.
So you should have the 90 reinforcements by saturday I would think.
