January challenge

So with the new year underway I have decided to start a monthly challenge for myself, simple idea to pick a miniature or unit and challenge myself to paint it with the month.

I decided to start this so I could set myself a reasonable amount of painting.

I passed this idea onto a FB group I'm a member of and about 8 people have decided to take it up too :)

So January's challenge is to finish my guard army off

I'm posting updates on my other blog as that is dedicated just to my imperial guard.

Il keep you upto date with my progress 

American Civil War union army

So this is a project I started a few months ago but wasn't happy with the colour of there uniforms and i was starting a new job, so I put it on hold but now I'm settled Iv jumped back into it and this is where I am with it,

There are all perry miniatures and I have to admit I did have to blow some dust off them as I had dumped them in the garage in June/ July and not bothered with them until now as I wasn't happy with the blue and it was abit of a tuff slog painting so many models in one go (famous last words "won't be doing that again")

I'm working on all the troop/ soldiers first and I'm painting them in blocks one colour at a time.

 These just need the silver of there rifles and hair painted and a few smaller bits painted.

These need the same as above but also there rifles painted brown 

And we'll you get the idea what these need.

Still got these to work on but il so these after all the infantry are finished.

The reason all these models are painted so basically is because I intend to use the Army painter dip on them as there rank and file troops and I'm not going to expand on this set.