{"id":4550,"date":"2015-10-19T02:30:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T01:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2021-10-29T03:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T02:00:56","slug":"lead-mountain-update-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/19\/lead-mountain-update-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead Mountain: Update 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-18-23.00.07.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4554\" src=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-18-23.00.07-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"2015-10-18 23.00.07\" width=\"647\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the Russians turned up. Four operators in modern gear with AKs (both full length and carbine), four low profile agents in civvies and one female agent (with a certain haircut that should be familiar to fans of a certain Captain America film) in a leather jacket. Overall, I&#8217;m a big fan of them. The low profile guys should be easy to paint while the female agent should be pretty fun (as long as I get the correct paint for the hair colour). However, the operators should be a little harder. I would really prefer to not paint them in more multicam (one man can only paint so much) so I&#8217;m looking at Russian SURPAT which may end up being more of a brown mess (as opposed to the green mess that is my attempt at ACU).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to painting new stuff, I actually went back over my older models and drybrush black areas. This is for two reasons. A, the raw black areas look terrible. B, as time goes on I need to update the models to the latest standard of painting. Overall they all look better, the Brits especially gain due to the black helmet bands and large spaces on the L85. In the process I did notice places where the brits had lost some definition due to crap under coating job so I may potentiall need to strip a few and repaint. Maybe once the challenge is finished.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, as you can see at the top, I&#8217;ve finished painting all my Taliban fighters. 17 guys, all painted, drybrushed, based and varnished. There is a lot of brown and black so I tried to mix it up with some lighter, more vibrant colours. The Radio DishDash guys are especially nice with a level of detail closer to the Empress sets than Spectre. From painting them, I&#8217;m very excited about the upcoming Kickstarter models. Its also nice to finally finish painting a complete set of proper OPFOR. Mercs are all well and good but sometimes you need to paint what&#8217;s on the evening news.<\/p>\n<p>So how is the lead mountain\u00a0currently standing? Items in italics have changed since the last update.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Painted, varnished and based \u2013 117:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>38\u00a0Empress \u2013 Modern British Infantry<\/li>\n<li>14\u00a0Spectre \u2013 UKSF (of various types)<\/li>\n<li>6 Spectre \u2013 Task Force Operators (painted as SAS) + 1 Spectre Dog<\/li>\n<li>10\u00a0Spectre \u2013 AK armed contractors<\/li>\n<li>5 Spectre \u2013 Western Contractors (being used as US Special Forces)<\/li>\n<li>11 Spectre \u2013 Task Force Operators (being used as US Army Rangers<\/li>\n<li>2 Spectre \u2013 Intelligence Agents<\/li>\n<li>1 Spectre \u2013 African Soldier<\/li>\n<li>1 Empress \u2013 Armoured Troopers<\/li>\n<li>4 Empress \u2013 US SEAL Team 6<\/li>\n<li>8 Spectre \u2013 Task Force Contractors (To be split between UKSF and Rangers)<\/li>\n<li><em>17 Radio DishDash \u2013 \u00a0Taliban<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In the process of being painted, varnished and based \u2013 55 :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Empress \u2013 Dog for Counter-IED Team \u2013 Based, needs painting<\/li>\n<li>1 Spectre \u2013 Dog \u2013 Based, needs washing<\/li>\n<li>1 Empress \u2013 Warrior IFV \u2013 Basecoated, some green painted<\/li>\n<li>4 Spectre \u2013 African Soldiers \u2013 partially painted<\/li>\n<li>14 Spectre \u2013 Insurgents \u2013 Based, some colours painted<\/li>\n<li>1\u00a0Evil Bear Wargames \u2013 Hardsuits \u2013 being painted in parts<\/li>\n<li>1 Spectre \u2013 UKSF (ghille suit with M4)<\/li>\n<li>5 Spectre \u2013 Western Contractors\u00a0(Converted with Shemaghs)<\/li>\n<li>4\u00a0Empress \u2013 PLA Special Forces<\/li>\n<li>3 Empress \u2013 Armoured Troopers<\/li>\n<li>7 Spectre \u2013 Task Force Contractors (To be split between UKSF and Rangers)<\/li>\n<li>4 Empress \u2013 US Frogmen<\/li>\n<li><em>5 Spectre Covert Action GRU<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>4 Spectre Direct Action GRU<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Basecoated with Basing Material\u2013 36:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\u00a0Evil Bear Wargames \u2013 Hardsuits<\/li>\n<li>2 Spectre \u2013 Hostages<\/li>\n<li>5 Hasslefree Miniatures \u2013 Modern Troopers<\/li>\n<li>8 Spectre \u2013 SMG Armed Contractors<\/li>\n<li>Spectre \u2013 1 VIP and 3 Bodyguards<\/li>\n<li>6 Spectre \u2013 Intelligence Agents<\/li>\n<li>Spectre \u2013 Female Contractor (Salute 2015 model)<\/li>\n<li>Spectre \u2013 1 Agitator and 1 Bodyguard<\/li>\n<li>6 Spectre \u2013 African Locals<\/li>\n<li>2 Spectre \u2013 Deniable Assets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Basecoated \u2013 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Spectre \u2013\u00a0Contractor (being converted)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Not Arrived \u2013 28:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8 Radio DishDash DELTA Force<\/li>\n<li>12 Radio DishDash US Army Rangers<\/li>\n<li>8 Radio DishDash Somali Gunmen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Total Models: 238<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Models finished (Based, painted and varnished): 117<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Percentage of collection finished: 49.2% painted<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Russians turned up. Four operators in modern gear with AKs (both full length and carbine), four low profile agents in civvies and one female agent (with a certain haircut that should be familiar to fans of a certain Captain America film) in a leather jacket. Overall, I&#8217;m a big fan of them. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1093,903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-wargaming"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Michael Charge","author_link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/author\/chargedog\/"},"featured_img":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/features\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Features<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/category\/wargaming\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Wargaming<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Features<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Wargaming<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 11 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 19\/10\/2015","modified":"Updated on 29\/10\/2021"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 19\/10\/2015 2:30 am","modified":"Updated on 29\/10\/2021 3:00 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvEn5-1bo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4616,"url":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/12\/14\/lead-mountain-update-14\/","url_meta":{"origin":4550,"position":0},"title":"Lead Mountain Update 14","author":"Michael Charge","date":"14\/12\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I got a fair number of models painted last week and almost all of the remaining spectre figures have turned up. 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