Five of us played this at the club on Thursday and we had so much fun that we're playing again next week.  My empire was based in Russia and Iran, Graham was in Australia, Lee in Europe, Ken in South America and Stu B. was the Great Satan.  When the imperialist dogs sponsored terror attacks in Western Russia, we responded with a financial shitstorm on the yankees and the funding of freedom fighters in the US.  Ken was the first to nuke someone, vapourising Western Canada.  European threats against me bought them a large dose of sunshine across Europe, centred on Ukraine.

Carolingians:  Mark just finished a unit of Carolingian cavalry and they look mighty dangerous and French.

Irish Bonnachts:  I use Vallejo Natural Steel (mixed with some black) and Brass for the metal and Flat Earth for the wood.  If I want a greyer steel, I will add a bit of white.  Shield designs are from LBM Studios.  Next will be a heavy wash...

Irish Bonnachts: It's Friday and I have my favourite left wing radio talk show on while I add a few blobs of paint.  Have been away at the photo studio this week, helping with the pics for the Age of Ravens book.  I gave the flesh two quick highlights and painted the hair.  For the brown I just painted a thinned coat of Vallejo Charred Brown. The blond is GW's Snakebite Leather then a highlight mixed with white.  In my painting plan excel sheet I have a list of 8 or 9 hair colours that I use - various shades of brown, blond and red.

Irish Bonnachts: Ok, so with a cup of tea and the latest episode of Spartacus Vengeance on it's time to tackle some skin. Just a quick slop of Vallejo Medium Fleshtone straight over the brown undercoat does the job.

Irish Bonnachts:  With the latest episode of The Walking Dead on, I did a quick bit of highlighting.  For this unit I am working in batches of 8 figures; often I will do more but it depends on the project.  Not too much highlighting is required 'cos the shading step will really bring out the detail.  I mainly use Vallejo paints and for the clothing I used German Grey, Flat Brown and Game Colour Earth.  Just a quick highlight or two, nothing too exacting because this is about getting a unit finished quickly to a good gaming standard.

Irish Bonnachts: So, for the rest of February I plan to finish a unit of 32 Bonnachts.  Figures are from Crusader with a few First Corps command added. I started by undercoating black then Army Painter Leather Brown.  The plan is to do these pretty quickly!