Victorian
Although the Victorian era hasn't been my cup of tea so far I didn't want to wag this bonus round. Therefor I digged out some very special single miniatures which I bought from Northstar on Crisis last year:
Both are part of their Tea Time Miniatures range and depict British soldiers having a cup of tea. As chaps from the Crimean War they fit perfectly into the Victorean age so I chose to paint them for the challenge.
The paintjob is not too special actually. As usual I used Vallejo Model Colors and built up the coulours in three stages. I'm more or less satisfied with the result although this pictures are far from good... Anyway bonus round passed and still on target for passing all of them.
Thus I'm alredy preparing my entries for the Myth round and the Hot round. Thor is nearly finished so I counted him as finshed in week 7 for the spreadsheet.
Unfortunately the workload bedides the bonus round is standing back currently. My actual plan is to prepare the bonus entries as soon as possible and then use the remaining time to paint as many other figures as possible. Main topics there will be War of the Roses, 2nd Anglo-Afghan War or First World War. All three conflicts are sideshows for me which have wonderful figures which should be rather quick to paint. Perfect for painting under time pressure...
Well even if Victorian era isn't really your cup of tea these tea drinkers turned out great! Great little sculpts
ReplyDeleteLove the work on the figures. I decided to only enter any Bonus round that I had figures for and would fit in with what I wanted to do as I found I did far less work than I would have done if I just painted up figures I wanted to paint. I am enjoying the freedom of this year ;-)
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For me the collection of Tea Time miniatures started with two of the figures presented by some friends for my birthday so I didn't by them for the challenge only.
DeleteWith the Hot bonus round I'll digg deeper into Victorian British anyway with a couple of Sudan / NWF figures... ;-)
Like them very much. The look great Monty, and now...take one....you have only choice if you are in MIF ore an TIF ;-)
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Actually I prefer my tea without milk...
DeleteGreat job on those guys, I'm very tempted to get some of the Time for tea range myself!
ReplyDeleteLovely entries, Monty. Those are charming figures most excellently painted.
ReplyDeleteNice looking figures! And that's a good way to drink their gin!
ReplyDeleteDon't look to much to the spreadsheet Stefan! Just paint, paint and paint!
Greetings
Peter
That was a nice entry Stefan. I sat that one out as I didn't have any figures suitable for it.
ReplyDeleteCurt let me create my own Myth, so mine's to be humorous. It's nearly done and I've begun my Hot entry as well. I'm a bit behind due to holidays and a death in the family though.
One tea please...and more beautiful figures!
ReplyDeleteI loved these Stefan and have both earmarked for later in the year, seeing what a great job you've done on yours makes me want to promote them to the head of the pile, but I must stick to the plan! Just like you, I'm trying to get the theme round entries completed first and whilst hopeful to still achieve this, I am worried that I am not leaving a lot of extra time for anything else.
ReplyDeleteYou shoudln't worry too much about skipping a bonus round... ;-)
DeleteDoing well so far ,by the look of it.. Can't beat a cup of tea!
ReplyDeleteYour Brits look ace Monty!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your kind comments, fellows.
ReplyDeleteIt was really fun to paint those kind of special miniatures although I had no definite use for them.
Perfect figures,very well painted too!!
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