Wargaming Girl Giveaway

Tamsin over at Wargaming Girl is having a give away on her blog. She has offered to paint up to 72 points of figures (15mm that would be 24 foot or 12 horse). The reason, she has managed to get 250 followers in less than a year. I believe her to be the most active of bloggers I follow, not only that but she has a great mix of games played and new figures painted. If you don't follow her already then get across to see what all the fuss is about.

The Inevitable Spark Pimping Time

The Inevitable Spark blog is a fairly new blog, having started on my Birthday this year no less. To those who don't know, that's 18th March. Jonathan is an American who is into The Civil War in a big way. OK nothing unusual there I here you say, but I neglected to say which civil war. I mean the English Civil War, and just to be even more different the Scottish element of the ECW. He is currently building a 28mm Royalist Army under Montrose and will also build up the Covenanter version. Jonathan not only paints up some of the best figures and Standards that you will see in blog world he also supplies a rich background that for anyone interested in the period just can not afford to miss out on. He also looks to be doing a Punic War Project as well. Given he has many years of wargaming behind him I am sure he has a rather large collection he could yet show us. Based on what I have seen so far I am keen to see what else he has painted. I urge you all to go visit even if your not into ECW his tartan painting is a must see and he also has a small tutorial type thing going further into his blog.

Other news. I am working well into my secret project but this has been at the expense of all other painting so at the moment I have nothing I can show you. I expect to move back to the normal stuff in a few days though as I can't keep up the work I am doing all the time.

Pimping A Blog and then a ECW Regiment

First up the blog. Really I don't see this so much as pimping as bringing it to the attention of anyone who is in to board wargames rather than figure gaming, or like me both!. Yockbo's Boardgame Blog already has a fair following of 58 peeps and over 61,000 hits so it's no fledgling. What I like about Stephen's blog is that he plays a very varied group of wargames and euro's, mostly wargames. He also plays ASL and other game series so you can get a real feel for some of the games he plays. Stephen comes across as a very experienced player and as he has several different regular opponents you get to see different styles played out. We get a little under a post a week from him on average, though these tend to be on the long side with lots of pictures. Basically a full Battle Report (After Action to us ASL bods). I have to admit I have tried to copy some of the style of Yockbo's so I guess I am a fan (hope he don't sue me now LOL).

Trying to keep up the Standards.

I also have been pimping up a old ECW Regiment. After all the blather about The George only being allowed to run the full depth of a standard of Royal Lifeguards I noticed a very old regiment I had rebased was missing it's standard and the two I had in my box both had the full George. Clearly I dare not stick that bugger to the base, you lot would lynch me! So instead I have repainted it first using a new blue I had just bought (Vallejo Andrea Blue 841).

I still of course have the best part of two armies to base up for a practise game of FoG:R, right now though those Macedonian boys are pulling at me. As can be seen by the progress, hoping to have them done by early next week.

Pimping Time - The Lead Legion

OK I have planned to do a little payback since I received the pimping that got my blog the extra followers but predictably the first pimping could end up benefiting me. Lead Legion is a painting service that has a fantastic offer. Follow the blog, leave the usual comment and either plug the blog on your blog or like on facebook. The reason is hitting 50 followers and rather nice is the prize, that of £50 of painting time. You supply the figures and they supply everything else. They have a good number of shots of their work and it looks all rather good. You only have till I think next Sunday to get in on the act.

Another painting service that has recently had a giveaway is Fog's Soldiers. This blog has quite a few posts that have little to do with the painting service itself (as does Lead Legion) which makes for an interesting read, nip over and see what you think.

A great thing about Painting Service Blogs is that you can measure yourself up against their standards, marvel at output and steal the odd idea just like any other blog. But what you get extra is the possibility of checking out a possible supplier of reinforcements if you are hard pressed or just not into painting. I actually spoke to the wife (yeah I know) about the LL offer and her response was

1. Shut up I'm watching the Telly

2. It speaks!

3. Who the hell are you?

or 4. But would you want stuff painted by someone else?

Now that's a good question but then again I have all those pikemen, all waiting to be painted so my response would be

1. Sod Off

2. Sod Off

3. Sod Off

4. Sod o..... I mean yes dear.