slap chop method – The Wargaming Erratic

What are 28mm figures good for? Well if your a 1/72 figure follower then they are fantastic to paint!

Or rather in my case to experiment with. Recently Wargames Illustrated ran a contrast paints article while Wargames Soldiers and Strategy dealt with slap chop.

I have been edging towards these products simply because I bought a load on impulse. This is normal behaviour for an Erratic: A solution looking for a problem.

The problem has been I could not bring myself to use them in anger on my 1/72, 20-25mm figures without knowing their possibilities for me including my failures. Clearly they have been a great success for others.

And then there was the Wargames Illustrated article on “what a cowboy”, next minute I dug out some Dixon and Blue Moon figures from the dim and distant past, gathering dust in the great figure vault.

And then “ping” what if I experimented with these new paints and methods (new for me) on these figures?

They were definitely bought at Triples in Sheffield but around 2011!!! I think that means they were on the back burner……..

Anyway this is as far as I got and maybe I might not get much further – back on the painting table……

Big turf out and a surprising number of figures – they were already based and undercoated white. I sloshed cheap burnt sienna over them….

I realised some were prohibition era gangsters while I also found a couple of freebies – Rasputin and Karl Marx. I primed these black. I then did some slap chop white dusting – at least I used a stolen make up brush on the gangsters……it worked quite nicely. Need to buy some.

And then I simply ignored all the video and magazine advice I had gathered recently and got paint on the figures! Which was very pleasing. Note the appalling slap chop white work on Mr red hats arm – never mind.

Well this Tangent may develop or simply become another Icarus episode in the world of the wargaming erratic.