Turkish Progress...

One week later and I have the 10 figures assembled and based coat painted...

I would have been a bit further on but wasted a couple of days trying to decide on paint colours to use...

Whilst there was a prescribed paint scheme to follow I couldn't source some of the colours; Ushabti Bone being the most difficult to find...

The local Toyworld recently closed down and that had been my goto place for GW paints... Wellington is next nearest option for GW , but its 50kms away and I don't honestly get down there that often... I don't work in the big city and actually commute the opposite way each day to work...

So that left mail order... sadly GW now has absolute rip off pricing for mail order delivery; $20 for delivery - ridiculous! To put that in perspective I just ordered a pot of vallejo paint for another project, from the UK, and that was supplied airmail for £2.15 ... So I wasn't going with the GW Mail order option...

The next options were mail order companies here in NZ with MightyApe and LiveWire and a couple of others I looked at,... but they either didn't stock the colour, or it was a specialist order item and would take 2-3 weeks to arrive, or was only available as part of a boxed set of paints...

When this project was first proposed I did worry that paint supply would be an issue (100 painters all in NZ, all ordering the same colours at the same time) ... oh well, best foot forward now...

So in the end I decided to just press on with the colours I had from my mix of GW, Foundry and Vallejo paints...

And thus, rather than slavishly following the prescribed colours I went with this picture from the Mustering the Troops blog header as my colour guide...

So here's what I have managed so far...

The colours I have used are:
GW Cadian Fleshtone
GW Mournfang Brown for Boots,Belts, Straps and Rifle Straps
GW Boltgun for Rifle Barrels and metallics
Foundry 12B Drab for Trousers and Hats
Foundry 7B Leather for Tunics, Puttees (lower leg strapping), and Water Bottles.
Foundry 14B Tan for Rifle Wood

They still need a little tidying up, then shade washing, and highlights...
I do have the required shade washes of Agrax Earthshade, and Reikland brown wash... so that should all work out OK...

So a few more days work should see them finished off over the weekend I hope, then ready for the next batch...