Project Update

No game report this week. I'll just note that while I may "war well" I suck at the game of Life (Elizabeth handily won).

I managed to sneak in a little work on my projects last week (and hope to do some more today).

1. I painted my kitchen sponge trees. The flash really highlights the holes where the paint did not penetrate, but they are not as noticeable on the board. I did not make trunks; I merely based them on wood disks painted green and brown.

2. Some Kallistra medievals. Spearmen in the middle and archers on the flank.

Another shot with the archers aiming at the spearmen. I wanted to display the blue hoods on some of the archers.

I am taking a minimalist approach to painting these figures. I spray painted them white and then just added a few details (flesh, weapons, hats and helmets). Up close they look awful but at a distance (and thanks to a bad camera) I think they will look fine. My "bad guy" army will be spray painted black, which I think may look better than white.

3. A Historifgs N-scale general. He is going to lead some of the Francesian armies.

My Medieval Quandary

I recently received an order of 10mm 100 Year's War figures from Kallistra. Here is a bad photo of a strip of the spearmen (to the left is a 15mm Viking from Irregular).

My intention was to base each figure individually. I knew that some were based on strips but I planned to cut them apart. If the bases were too thick to cut then I'd consider multi-figure bases like my Francesia horse and musket armies (bases of 3 figures in 1 rank). However, I did not count on what I received. The men on the strips are not facing toward the long side of the strip but toward the short side. The metal thins near the middle so apparently the strips are supposed to be cut in the middle. It looks like it will be a difficult chore to separate the pairs of figures after making the cut in the middle. The upshot is that the figures probably should be based in 2 ranks, which is completely at odds with all my preferred methods of basing.

Thus my quandary. Do I try to separate all the figures and base them individually or do I bite the bullet and base them in 2 ranks, which seems like the easiest proposition. If I base them in 2 ranks, how many figures should be on a base, and how many should be in a unit? Decisions. Decisions.