Tommies on patrol

So after undercoating my first test group of the new Warlord games British infantry, I needed to paint them which would be a very different challenge to a lot of my previous painting, as after all I couldn't really paint their uniforms bright blue now could I?

Now inititally I thought I would have to try and find either the closest colour in my GW paints or try and mix up a close match. However I suddenly remembered something which was with my bitz boxes in the loft.

I had at one point toyed with the idea of starting a flames of war army. However after buying the starter set and a box of paints my enthusasiam faded and it all went up into the loft. Fortunatly the box of paints were the English paint set which meant the problem of what colours to use was solved.
So here is my finished unit. I was happy with how the paint scheme turned out even if I found the paints a pain to use as they come in "squeezy bottles" as opposed to pots which meant as I wasn't used to using the bottles I kept pushing out more paint then I needed. Which although annoying shouldn't become a issue unless I start a full army.

The second grip I have is the transfers warlord provides for the divisional badges. I have never, ever used transfers that are so damn fiddley! I must have lost three just to accidentally squishing them when trying to put them on the models. Plus you have to use a modelling knife to cut them off the sheet as there's literally no room between the transfers to use anything else to cut.

Still in the great scheme of things it's only minor and I was overall very impressed with the overall standard of the kit and the advances Warlord have made since their first plastic kit releases.