{"id":10012,"date":"2020-08-09T19:29:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T23:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=10012"},"modified":"2020-08-09T19:29:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T23:29:03","slug":"more-opponents-for-my-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2020\/08\/09\/more-opponents-for-my-vikings\/","title":{"rendered":"More Opponents for my Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With my wife and daughter out of town, I painted the four buildings in the previous post, and I also had a chance to work on twenty more Dark Ages infantry.  The box contained 40 figures, so I am half way done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_7916-1-1024x413.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10014\" \/><figcaption>Today&#8217;s output.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_7917-1024x689.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10005\" \/><figcaption>Dark Ages infantry to oppose my Vikings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_7918-1024x555.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10009\" \/><figcaption>Anglo-Something slingers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_7920-1024x456.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10008\" \/><figcaption>Another view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_7919-1024x589.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10007\" \/><figcaption>Final view.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These were all sprayed white and painted with Contrast paints, except the shields ant silver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some months ago (last September) I picked up a failed 3D print in the flea market at Barrage.  It was missing a handful of track links at different places.  I found an stl file of a Land Raider (not GW), printed part of it, cut off some of the track links and then did a little surgery on the tank.  While close inspection reveals the places I had to fix, I don&#8217;t think it will be obvious on the gaming table.  I will dry brush it a lighter color to match the paint color on the extra Dust turret I had in my bits box.  I also have an extra Panther turret, so I&#8217;ll paint it the same green (which I know is a non-historical paint scheme, but I don&#8217;t think you need to be too fussy with an ahistorical tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_7913-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10010\" \/><figcaption>Work on Progress Tank for sci-fi or pulp games.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With my wife and daughter out of town, I painted the four buildings in the previous post, and I also had a chance to work on twenty more Dark Ages infantry. The box contained 40 figures, so I am half way done. These were all sprayed white and painted with Contrast paints, except the shields &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2020\/08\/09\/more-opponents-for-my-vikings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Opponents for my Vikings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}