What's on deck

 Here is what I have sitting on the painting line - a variety of projects, and stages.

Fallschirmjager, 28mm, mix of Wargames Foundry, Perry Miniatures and Warlord Games. Almost done with the base coat of these, the cluster at the front still need black bits painted (boots, webbing/yoke, belts, occasional pouch, water bottle strap). All of them need gunmetal on the weapons. Then will need a once over to check for any missed bits and touch those up. I'm going to try speedpaint Warrior Flesh on the flesh areas which have already had one thin coat of Army Painter Goblin Skin, hopefully that will give some depth and shading to the skin areas. If not a flesh wash on top and then some highlights. I'll try one figure with army painter military shader wash and see how it copes with the Luftwaffe blue.

This illustration was my inspiration/target for these figures, I like the blue helmet and contrast with green uniforms (easier than camouflage!). I also wanted an early war force. I played one game from the Too Fat Lardies Blitzkrieg book at Deep Fried Lard a few years back (run by the greatly missed Derek Hodge), and it was such good fun. It was with his 15mm figures and both the scale and feel of early war was a huge draw. So much that I painted up some 15mm armies (British Paras and Germans for Kampfgruppe Von Luck) but that is another story and project.

Next on the bench are some Warhammer Fantasy figures that someone passed on to me a while back. They had been given to their son but never touched and he found out I enjoyed "painting little men" from my wife so gave them to me. These are the first test figures, and I'll need to ramp up into batch painting to get full units ready. The idea is to knock up some armies for Midgard. These are basically done. I need to add some gloss varnish to the gems (really can't paint them well) and then sort out basing for them, probably relatively simple basing, I might try make a simple basing mixture for these. Some find coloured sand, aquarium rocks and then flock and see how that looks.  

Then some kitbashed zombies for Silver Bayonet, a mix of Warlord Games, Perry Miniatures and Victrix Miniatures along with some Mantic zombie bits to help sell them as zombies! Need to finish off the base colours and then give them a grungy wash - dark/black, brown and green mixed up I think. 

Finally the figures from Flags of War for Devilry Afoot. I'm a bit hesitant on these as I haven't worked out a proper colour scheme for the characters. I'll probably use the painted examples on the Flags of War site as inspiration and tailor each to the colours I have handy, and of course my very limited painting ability.

And that is it for now. I have more sitting around primed or awaiting a wash but these are the ones to hand. There are 16 Romano-British Spearmen waiting for a wash to give them some depth, and then flocking.