Magnificent Little Armies: 10mm Wargaming

This is a picture of the first unit I painted. (Click on the pic to see a much larger version.) The figures are cast in strips approximately 1-inch long and are mounted two strips per base. The bases are wooden, 3mm thick, laser- cut and 1-inch square; they were purchased from Litko. The bases in this picture hadn't received the finishing edge painting using burnt umber acrylic paint. The area around the figures' feet is fine sand glued in place with Liquitex acrylic matte varnish, then it was painted using a thin wash of green acrylic (Ceramcoat Seminole Green), and once that was dry, random dots of very thin brown acrylic wash (Americana Mississippi Mud) were applied to add some variation and give the "grass" a more natural look.

The flag is painted as opposed to using a printed paper flag since it's cast with the figure strip and making the modification would have entailed more work than I cared to do. Still, I think the result looks OK and wasn't all that hard as I used a printed paper flag as a reference. (OK, the sun in the center of the flag was a little fiddly, but for some reason, I was able to paint it to my satisfaction in one go, and that was after a few cups of coffee!)