The Curse of Miniature Painting Strikes ...

I have been testing 'the dip' from Army Painter over the last week - I will write that up later, just waiting for a few minis to cure before I write up the experience. Anyway, I digress on with the post.

I had intended to get started on the Warlord Games Imperial Romans however I thought I'd try out the dip with some odd bits I had knocking about. So I took an old WHFB Empire mini I had in a drawer (a spare from my now very neglected Middenheim Army) and gave it a quick paint job and bunged it in the dip to see what happened. I was not happy with the paint surface as I'd over painted it, so I figured that I'd better do a clean mini and found an old Marauder Dwarf (in the same drawer) gave him a bath in Fairy Liquid to get off probably 15 years of grime then sprayed him up with primer and slapped on a nice smooth flat paint job.

Like I said, I am waiting for a few mini's to cure, these are three Long Beards with two handed axes, I have four shields to do tonight and I'll have four more warriors ready for dipping tomorrow. I also found a load of Bretonnian Men At Arms and Peasant Archers and a couple of mounted Knights - I don't like Bretonnian's too much as I think they are 'too fussy' visually as an army, but I think I'll strip these (I'll be trying the Dettol stripping method for these, went to Sainsbury's today and bought some specially - Mrs Simpkins wondered why I was so happy to go to the supermarket) and repaint them just to see what bright colours look like after a dipping. If they are OK for a 'men of the line' standard paint job I may stick them on flea bay and see if anyone want's them. You never know.

Right, it's feeding time here at chez Ringo and Mrs Simpkins is giving me that stare even a Chaos Champion would wither from ….