Saturday 28 May 2016

Northwest Frontier update #1





Over the last couple of weeks I've made a start on my new Northwest Frontier project, tackling a few of the British and Afghan figures.  These are all from the Armies in Plastic 54mm range and my thoughts on how I ended up starting yet another project are here.


I've never tackled any figures in this scale since I randomly daubed some khaki paint over my Airfix Afrika Korps when I was about 8...hopefully there's a slight improvement!  I decided working on 4 at a time seemed like a nice number...not too many that I feel overwhelmed and fairly quickly getting the figures completed.


These are a couple of unpainted figures...they've had a wash with detergent to remove any grease.  I'm never sure if this is really necessary but worry that if I don't do it all the paint will fall off!


And here are a couple more, this time undercoated with a PVA/water mix.  I've never done this with plastic figures before. I usually just undercoat directly but all the online advice seemed to suggest this was a good thing.  It's slightly terrifying watching your nice figure disappear under large blobs of white glue but it does all dry clear and should help protect against paint flaking


A couple of undercoated figures.  The British are undercoated with Army Painter British Khaki and the Afghans in black but I may stick to Khaki for all of them in future.





 
Some completed figures.  They all had a basic paint job, dipped in Army Painter Shade and then highlighted and matt Varnished (Army Painter again)

 
 
 

 
 









...and with completed bases...




And the first batch of Afghans...




5 comments:

  1. They look great...so old school

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  2. They look great...so old school

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  3. I enjoy AIP fogures very much,,both kinds of luck painting them,,flaking on bayonets etc in spite of pva etc,,they seem to require extra cleaning also,,

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    1. The cleaning etc isn't too bad but you're right...swords especially are prone to flaking

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