Tried to paint my first dapple grey horse in my lunch break. One can see what it is meant to be, but I am not too convinced.
Maybe once I get everything else Painted and highlighted then it might look better.
I must remember that …If at first I don’t succeed ….. paint them brown!
And if you are wondering….toffee cow???
First time I ever heard them called a toffee cow was at RAF Machrihanish. A flight sergeant was doing a slide show on mountain rescue and said “no matter where he went there was always a toffee cow”. The name has stuck ever since.
Well I decided to lift the pole up a bit.
This is the start of the process…
The matchstick is there to keep the milliput pole at the height I wanted.
I will extend the milliput back to meet the turntable then trim down the mdf at bit from where it joins.
After building the turnip cart, i had a go at building the Brougham. I had a few problems with this- more user error than the actual model. There was o ne bit that looked a bit different to the instructions, but to be fair it want rocket science to work out what went where. The turnip cart was easy to make, this one really did need some kind of instructions to make sure it all went together properly.
It is a really nice model, I really do like the way it actually has steps to allow the passengers to get in, not to mention 2 little holes, designed I would imagine, for the carriage lights. I do have one minor niggle with it (probably due to Warbases trying to get everything to fit onto one mdf tile) the pole for the horses is too low. Coming from a house where my wife is a carriage driver it is really making my head hurt lol. The horse might get a leg over the pole and that is not good at all. Now do I leave it or do I do something about it. My thoughts were to build it up with milliput and then cut away part of the mdf. To be fair once you get a pair in front of the vehicle it cant really be seen. Looking at the image below you can see the pole coming out between the horses at chest height.
If I were to give it a score out of 10 I would give it about a 9.5. Probably not fair to lose .5 simply because I am being a bit anal!
I am not sure what colour to paint it, probably black or a dark blue.
The Brougham’s were used by individuals as well as by ‘taxi drivers’ They were also known as Growlers due to the sound of the iron shod wheels rumbling over the cobblestones.
The major problem I have is that the Brougham was ‘invented’ in 1834, about 20 years after I was wanting to use it lol!
Well I made up my first ever mdf model. Luckily I started with an easy one. The brougham is a bit of a more complex one. I still managed to snap a bit.
It would have been nice if it had been etched on both sides.
I might actually just get some balsa struts in there to break it up a bit.
Well the arena looked good and we got 4 games in including a free for all with 4 players.
I was quite pleased with the cards, however I picked up flip chart pens instead of whiteboard ones.
Nos morituri te salutamus …. not sure if they ever said it en masses but hey.
The arena and gladiators are all done. I have worked on everything solidly for the last couple of hours to get it finished.
I am now tired. I can go to bed happy in the knowledge that everything is done. I just hope people turn up tomorrow to play it. I managed to purchase chocolate coins to present to the winners of each combat. Sadly the coins are not Roman, but strangely enough I couldn’t find any chocolate sestertius or aureus. Maybe next year….
Nearly finished these. Have to knock the brightness of the bronze down a bit with the Army Painter strong tone.
Started on the rest of the gladiators and lions tonight. I have get them finished by tomorrow night.
I also managed to get the base coat painting done on the arena.
Once dry, it will be dry brushed and then individual rocks picked out. The wood will be a greyish colour.
Bogenwald 