[Song of Drums and Shakos]¶
Black Brunswickers¶

I primed the miniatures with Vallejo black primer applied through the airbrush.

Next, I painted the bases. The border and shadow color is Liquitex Burnt Sienna. The whole base was painted with that reddish brown.

Over that, the main base color, Liquitex Raw Sienna was painted, not drybrushed, so that really the major color now was the lighter brown.

Finally, a drybrush of Schminke Sahara was drybrushed over the base to pick out the raised areas.

The border of the base was then cleaned up with Burnt Sienna.

For the rocks, I used Schminke Stone Grey. As a shade I mixed it with black and a touch of yellow, and brown.

With these two colors I picked out all the larger stones on the bases.

Finally, the rocks where drybrushed with raw Stone Grey.


[Song of Drums and Shakos]¶
Black Brunswickers¶

With a mixture of PVA, flow improver (washing detergent) and black acrylic paint, I sealed the sand on the bases.


[Chain of Command]¶
Polish Infantry Platoon¶

I covered the bases of the 3rd section models (where I ran out of bases at the beginning) with filler and placed again some small rocks. To hold them in place and not loose them again, I mixed some PVA into the filler.

When that was dry, I covered all bases in PVA and sprinkled on sand.

When that coat was dry in turn, I sealed the sand in with a mix of PVA, water, black acrylic paint and washing liquid (to break the surface tension and help the mix to flow into all the nooks and crannies).

I have not decided yet how to do the bases for this project, so for the time being, these models are done. After the foto shooting, they got a coat of gloss varnish to protect them from any harm.

Next up are the senior leaders, anti-tank rifle team and light mortar team.


[Song of Drums and Shakos]¶
Black Brunswickers¶

I finished removing the flash and gluing the miniatures to their base. The riders I kept separate for easier painting, and mounted them on cocktail sticks. Into the horses I drilled holes accordingly, so that after painting I can use the cut down cocktail sticks as pins to hold the riders safely in place.

Then I mixed filler with PVA and blended the cast bases of the miniatures with the steel bases. I used decoration sand, small pebbles and larger ones (all from the dollar store) and pressed them into the filler/PVA mix.

I placed a stone with a larger area at the back of each base; on these I plan to paint a number for easy identification during game play.


[Song of Drums and Shakos]¶
Black Brunswickers¶

Evil Richard, like so often before, made me start a new period/game system - shame on him! But to be honest, I am also always quite weakwilled when it comes to that... ;-)

This time it is my first stint to the Napoleaonic period. The game system is [Song of Drums and Shakos by Ganesha Games](https://www.ganeshagames.net/product_info.php?cPath=1_7&products_id=49 "Ganesha Games"). We will keep the background quite loose, not fixed to a specific time or place; I looked through available factions and figures, and was quite overwhelmed. I wasn't aware how manifold the Napoleonic period is.

In the end I settled for the Brunswickers, to the best of my research as they would have looked like under British service during the peninsular campaign.

I ordered them from Perry Miniatures. For bases I used round steel bases from Product for Wargamers.

I started by removing the flash and gluing the miniatures to their bases.


[Chain of Command]¶
Polish Infantry Platoon¶

Finally, the three sections if the infantry platoon are done.


[Chain of Command]¶
Polish Infantry Platoon¶

I finally made up my mind of how to handle leaders. I used square metal bases from Product for Wargamers, placed MDF hexagonal and octagonal bases from Warbases on them, and traced their outline. With my Proxxon tool and a cutting wheel, I cut away from the square base according to the marking.

  • Junior leaders will be mounted on the hexagonal bases.
  • Senior leaders will be mounted on the octagonal bases.

Leaders have Command Initiative in Chain of Command, which will drop when they get wounded. For that purpose I also ordered dice holder cells and 7mm dice. The cell will be at the back of the base of leaders, and show their current command initiative.

Junior Leader with Command Initiative 2:

The same Junior Leader after having been wounded:


[Chain of Command]¶
Polish Infantry Platoon¶

Although I was at home since beginning of March due to the Corona Pandemic (I was lucky enough, my job can be done 99% from home office) and could have spent time on painting, I somehow was in a painting burn out.

Whatever, I restarted painting, working on the Polish Infantry. Here is the latest batch painted:

This is the overall status, two full sections done.


[Shadowrun]¶
Road Outlaws¶

Bases painted.


[Shadowrun]¶
Federal Citizens¶

The models are done. For the clothes I used Vallejo Game Inks instead of solid colors, in an attempt to give them a cyberpunk-ish appearance.