Please support this great cause by donating and follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/555132547876509/. Join the event whether you can attend or if you'll join in from home, and please share.

We're running a 24-hour painting marathon for Save the Children. Please check out this great charity's work - http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do. Our target is for a group of us to paint 48 British WWII soldiers (28mm) and sell them off to raise some cash, plus individuals will be painting their own miniature figures for sponsorship pledges. If we can raise £500 GBP, we can really help. I have set it up through JustGiving so that there is no need to handle money, and so that Save the Children can gain through GiftAid (U.K. taxpayers), meaning that an extra 25% on top of what you donate will go to the charity.

So, get over to the forum and get yourself down to the event. If you cannot make it, pledge to get your own project completed at home, and send your donation in via the JustGiving page: http://www.justgiving.com/ironmanII.

Thanks to Firestorm Games for providing the venue, and to Great Escape Games for donating the figures. 
And for those of you that find your hobby time squeezed by a significant other, what better excuse to spend a whole day painting than to raise money for a good cause! 

So please dig deep and donate now!

Général de division finished

Did my first youtube video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtbZxWlRxtI - about doing the groundwork for a 2' x 2' gaming board for Dead Man's Hand.

Général de division

I've been pre-occupied with cowboys for a while, but the Napoleonic project continues.

I have become enamoured and inquisitive about the uses for weathering pigments for my wargaming work. The Napoleonic army is being based using ProPigments. I use Vallejo's basing paste, washed with Vallejo Earth and drybrushed a bit. Then I build up the pigments as shown below:

A mix of Raw and Burnt Umber was slapped on.

Next, just Raw Umber.

 Raw Umber and Raw Sienna.

For a bit of green, I mixed Chromium Green and Raw Umber.

I added a bit of Light Green Earth to the above blend.

Next, white spirit was dabbed on. This flows really nicely and helps to blend the pigments.

Now dry, the base is ready for decoration.