Valiant British Infantry

Painted up some of the Valiant British Infantry to kick off 2014.
 These guys came to me via a trip over the Alps and across the plains of Canterbury from Paul the Plastic Warrior  (Thanks again mate).
Due to Paul's kindness these guys brings my British force up to a total of 52 fig's. Add these to what Gav has painted and we have enough to play some Bolt Action games!

A few Brit's to add to the force.

Mortars should be handy.

Some of the commanders.

I have never been that keen on covering my freshly painted figures with an ink wash of some sort. I have been using a flesh wash on flesh and washes on armour etc for some time now but not over the whole fig. Somehow the first lot of these guys needed something so I decided to try the GW dark brown ink " Devlan mud". I am happy with the result, it seem to work well on these guys. However I am now due for another bottle and at the price for this stuff I decided to have a go at making my own. I followed Pat Smith's recipe, he of Wargaming with Silver Whistle fame.
What do you think.

Left hand fig is done with GW wash and the right hand one with mine.

Left hand one here is mine. My wash is a bit lighter than the GW wash but I think this gives me more control as I can always give them another coat.

Here the two left hand figs have my wash on them and the right hand dude has the GW wash.

Thought it was about time I pimped our groups blog.Southern Strategists If you haven't taken a look please pop over and have a quick look about. Not too much to read(most of the posts are from me) but a few photos from our games.