Founding a Village (Terrain WIP)

Ahhh, finally getting around to putting up another post on this now rather neglected blog.  As per my usual standard, I've stuck to my guns and am still a mercurial painter.  After a pretty impressive outburst of painting and modelling from September to November of 2012, I've sunk back into my always oppressive funk and have not really touched any of my wargaming stuff since then.

For "Christmas" my order of buildings from Pegasus Hobbies finally arrived at my FLGS.  Now if you look back a couple posts ago, I had received a box of two buildings back in October and quickly set about building and painting them.  The rest of my rather large order arrived and again, I quickly built them.  Only problem now is I need to finish shingling on all the building, which is going to be a long task.

As my longtime gaming buddy and best friend Mike put it "I think it's no longer a village, closer to a town.  If you add an Ikea, it could be considered a city."

According to our running gag, in Canada only a settlement with an Ikea store can be considered a city.  Anything else is a large town.

Anyway, next part of my scheme is to cut MDF bases and shingle the roofs.

Something a little different

Rummaging around in my box of Napoleonic figures I found a single Native American in 28mm.  I have no idea what manufacturer or where it came from, but it fits really well with the rest of my slightly-larger-then-28mm 28mm figures.  This model serves as a prototype for additions to my planned F&I Wars ImagiNation project.  I'm not 100% sure on my technique for the skin, but I know how to refine it now.

I've used pretty simple techniques to paint this model.  Prime, dry brush model with white, base coat primary colours, wash and then highlight.  Used four shades of fleshtone as I worked my way up.  I'm not a huge fan of of the "red skinned" or overly tanned Native American style of painting, it looks to artificial (not that my cartoon style of flesh painting isn't mind you).  For the next batches of Native models, I will darken down the flesh slightly as I do think I over-highlighted slightly.