Tonight I was feeling a bit under the weather and thought I would just about manage to tidy up on the white, however I got a bit further than expected.

I got a lot more done on them than I thought I would.

I painted up the lancer to test the colours. He will have white lace, as well as dark leather gloves. The saddle will be dark brown with a grey sheepskin. Metalwork will be the same copper colour as the rest.

Hopefully I will get more done tomorrow .

I had a visitor in school today…took over my office in fact.

I really didn’t get as much done as I wanted this evening. I painted bits white on both the horses and riders re glued a lance arm that was starting to get wobbly and then painted the bone and manes on the mounts…

I had a dry run with the riders in situ, and although one was a very tight fit, they all went on and stayed on…

Having had a look at one of the horses, I reckon it is a recast, if not there was a problem with quality control, it wasn’t that it had flash on, something I don’t see that often with Alternative Armies, but the fact is that one half of the horses skull was a bit in front of and slightly higher than the other. Now that they have the bone colour on, it is not as visible. I was going to photograph it, but now can’t be sure whether I imagined it or not

Tomorrow I will crack on with these and see how far I get.

Supposedly tomorrow I am getting a visit from a senior manager in the education service, as he has already cancelled twice then we will have to see if this is the case or not.

Tonight when I hauled these in from the shed, two things became obvious (or more obvious). Firstly the small hole on the unprimed model, looked small, but on the primed one it looked like a chasm. Secondly, the riders were not going to stay sat on their horses with only a tiny bit of metal touching metal. Therefore I hauled out my Greenstuff and filled the hole as well as giving a big lump for the rider to sit firmly in place. I poked holes in it to paint it up a bit like a sheepskin. Why a wraith, would need a comfy bum is anyone’s guess, but at least he won’t fall of his horse😉.

The other thing I did, was to give them a quick test paint with one of the two reds I have. I really liked this colour when it went on so that was that 😉.

I did a quick test of the bone, which looks okay, so once the Greenstuff is dry, I will get it painted white. I still haven’t decided on the colour of the shabraque the rest of the bits are a black uniform jacket, red cloak and breeches. I might just go black and see how it goes.