Monday 9 December 2013

Battleaxe - 25mm WWI British Infantry


A joint effort from me and Postie, I painted them and Postie cleaned, undercoated and based them! I'm not sure of their make, anyone know??
These are an ongoing painting project for Battleaxe, for a nice chap called Matt. He's given us a few more to paint up and sounds like he'll be buying some French too!!
These are the third lot of photos I've taken of these Brits, the first lot I accidentally deleted from my camera and I couldn't use the rest because they were rubbish, I'm afraid these are the best pics from a bad bunch.
The figures were a joy to paint, lots of detail and lots of raised edges for highlighting. Although I kept the highlights pretty subtle as they should be rather drab looking uniforms.
To all me fellow Analouge Painting Challenge comrades, you'll be happy to know, I've been slaving away gluing figures to horses and sticks ready for the 15th, its getting on my nerves now though, I've got approx 200 15mm figures in front of me and I can't paint them.............yet!
And lastly a bit of good news, my Secret Santa pressie arrived in the post the other day? Wonder what's in the box!!!!









73 comments:

  1. WWI soldeirs and not a sandbag in sight... hmmm

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  2. Nice job, Ray!
    You mean you haven't opened the box yet?

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    1. Budgie smugglers perhaps?

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    2. Gotta admit I am tempted, but it'll have to wait for Christmas I'm afraid!!!

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  3. Ooh, very nice. I recognise that officer as a Musketeer chap. Lovely little models.

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  4. You're fooling nobody you cheating bollox!

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    1. "It's Not cheating if you are only doing it to win!"

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    2. Clint, I'd like to see you beat Rousell this year. You're such a nice man, they'd never suspect you of sandbagging. You could get away with it and smash the Badger!

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    3. What you on about now Francine?????

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    4. Anne. I am not going to do any tricks or tactics. I am just going to paint and hope with fingers crossed.

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  5. I think the figures are "Renegade Miniatures" but hard to be totally sure with seeing them in person. Nice job though.

    Good luck with the challenge.

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    1. Musketeer......Renegade????/ Who knows, not me that's for sure!

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  6. Actually they are from the Musketeer Miniatures range. Really lovely sculpts and the two of you have done a great job with them. Well done!

    ...and apparently you still can't spell 'analogue' to save your life... :)

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    1. That's 2 for Musketeer and 1 for Renegade. Why couldn't the Challenge be called something that's easy to spell?????

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  7. They look great Ray, both the uniforms and the basing are brilliant.

    John

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  8. Fine modeling, Ray. These troops really do look fantastic.

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  9. Good work Ray...and Postie... :-)

    Marzio.

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  10. Nice to see you and Postie getting a good project. It will help you fund figures for the Challenge!

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    1. I don't really need any new figures Anne, I've got 10 ton of unpainted crap in the shed already!

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  11. Nice paint job and great figures love the machine gun sets

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  12. I do particularly like the MG team...but they are all nice... Damn it that might be another distraction for next year....

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  13. They are rather splendid Ray, great job Sir!

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  14. They're brilliant Ray, well done mate.

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  15. Oh, I do like these Ray! Very well done!

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  16. Well the collaboration is awesome, they look great.

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  17. Very nice paint work Ray !

    best regards Michael

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  18. These look great, no wonder your getting the French to do as well.

    Only 200 odd 15mm eh? You must be getting old LOL

    Ian

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  19. Very nice painting work, Ray. They are fantastic!

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  20. Poxy blogspot, every time I answer a bloody comment, its posted at the bottom of the list aaaaarrrrggggghhhh!

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    1. That happened to me last week on Pat's page. It's another of Blogger current bugs.

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  21. I'll take the bottom from ya then! Excellent figures, Ray! I really like these, I'll have to ask SWMBO if I can plot another project. I already have a trench board afterall... ;)

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  22. Best I can tell they are mostly musketeer. Perhaps a couple of Great War (the guy marching) and the officer with the stick is either Great war or renegade. If he's renegade he would be the biggest of the lot
    Musketeer are smaller and elegant. Great war in the middle. Renegade hefty Very nice painting

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  23. Not sure of the make, but they look great, Ray. Nice!

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  24. Nice work!

    Always loved the British uniforms for this part of WWI and you have done them justice!

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  25. Lovely paintwork on these guys Ray! Postie's basing is pretty damn good too!

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  26. Excellent unit, Ray !
    And by the way that sounds like a perfect synergy between you and postie. I would whish to have one to clean the models for me... ;-)

    Cheers
    Stefan

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  27. Great work , i like the three last pics !
    Cheers .

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  28. I love these! The details on the faces are outstanding. A secret santa gift! Will you wait until Christmas to open it?

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  29. Excellent painted figures!
    It looks like they're going to a picnic and not to a battle!

    Greetings
    Peter

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