Job over for the Hutt and Tawa crew

With the last few figures being finished off by the Hutt/Tawa team, and many of the crew helping over Easter, it is with some relief (no more painting brown) and sadness (being involved in such an amazing and important event) they say a farewell to this project.

"I can't wait to see the finished product, this will be a highlight of the year for me," says Tom Leamy.

"I want to thank my crew, Rob C, Chris O, Chris P, Rob A, Theren, Scott, Simon, Nick, Tim, Paul and Alex. We worked out that we have managed over 800 figures, and that's with two guys away for a month in the middle of the project. The painting evenings have been a real blast - and you gentlemen are an amazing bunch of artisans who I hold in the highest esteem.

"Thanks to Roly, Rhys and the magnificent Peter for making the whole thing possible. Cheers to all the painters across this mighty land."

Turks from Upper Hutt

Paul Reynolds has painted these Turks really well, even though painting 54mm figures is unfamiliar to him.

As Paul says, "They are certainly different to paint, in some ways it feels like I am painting vehicles; the areas, particularly on the jackets, are so vast.  Until recently I was a 6mm painter and the largest I have painted before is 15mm. Using a size 3 brush certainly contrasts with my more usual 000."

A Turk from Robert Curry

From the Hutt/Tawa crew, here's Robert Curry's first totally finished Turk, just waiting on a restock of Steel Legion Drab at the GW store.

The second batch in the background is already underway: tunics and half of their trousers done, and now on to the 'dreaded' puttees.

Nice progress shot from the Tawa/Hutt crew

Here's a great progress shot from Canny (Hutt/Tawa crew) showing the progress on his Kiwi trench diggers.

They're almost done, but as a result of the late change about the black boots, he has to go back and paint their boots a dark, dark grey and wash with black. 

Hutt club painting night

The Hutt club sounds like it had an great fun painting session the other night.  They certainly look industrious enough in the above photo.  But they say it is hard to paint when you're laughing so much. However, the almost completed final product (below) shows this wasn't too much of a hindrance.