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Chevauchée Banner

This evening I had another bash at doing a banner fir the English on their Chevauchée. I decided on the above title as I thought English banner or Cross of St George a bit of a can of worms opener… might have increased the traffic loads.

So I was having a faff about and I think I have sorted out a suitable size. Basically 1 centimetre wide and about 4 long.  Evidently one of my French Knights nicked it and legged it back to the Dauphin.

My plan is to transfer the test onto plain paper instead of the squared one.

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All Done

Well I nearly got these finished. The painting is pretty much over. I have spotted some bits I missed so they need a touch up. I took about half an hour trying to paint a swallow tailed banner for the English bowmen. I gave up on that then went for my paint pens which were crap. I totally lost heart and gave up. I will either get some banners or use my nice coloured pencils.

I might make some on the computer and then colour those. A bit like the Flintloque ones from ages ago…

I have also been slowly working on the druid…

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Even More Painting

Woohoo, I managed to actually paint again this evening. I was on training all day so really couldn’t be bothered. So I am quite pleased with myself 😉.

As per normal, they won’t win any prizes, but they are getting paint onto them.

As you can see, painted bits totally outweigh the unpainted bits.

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Commanders…

Nearly finished. Well this evening I decided to bite the bullet and work on finishing the commanders. I nearly got there…

I added a bright silver to the armour as well as getting a wash on the gold too. The yellow harness on the horse looks a bit flat… as does Joan’s face.

Something to sort out when I get painting again. Hopefully it won’t be too long.

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Commanders…

Getting there. Yes I managed a bit more painting this evening. I did have a parent meeting until 9.00 but felt the need to paint…

They are definitely closer to finished now. Another evening and they will be done.

I was going to do Jean with reddish hair. Not sure where that came from as I cannot now find any mention of it. As I had the black out I just went with it.

I am not too impressed by the metal miniatures compared with the plastic ones. I mean if you look at her face then it is closer to Quasimodo than the Maid of Orleans. But hey, I bought them so that is on me!

Regarding miniatures I have some very exciting news. My son is super happy… I mean jumping around happy. I will share more tomorrow. This evening I am just to tired, he is asleep and to show you I would probably wake him up.

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Another Interesting Question

How do you relax?

So I have two main ways to relax.

First up is my painting of miniatures etc. Although frustrating at times I do find it relaxing. I switch off and push paint around on a model.

Second is gaming, mainly through technology but also using miniatures. I tend not to go out much so the technology side is winning at the minute.

Technically reading should be in there too, but I tend to use audio books more than using my eyes.

Funnily enough I don’t find my 3D printing relaxing. Interesting yes, relaxing…no.

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More Painting

Well I got some more paint slapped on the metal commanders this evening…

Not particularly happy with the black and white. I was using ancient white paint, and to be honest it needs binning. It has had so much medium in it it has started to reactivate the paint underneath. The blaze and stockings on the horses are in fact pure white… as is the bridle on the left!

As it was so crap I opened up a brand new Corax White. I mixed it for bloody ages then dropped the sodding pot…sadly this happened!

This is seriously a newly opened pot that I stirred for about 5 minutes. I did think that after I dropped it then an air pocket or perhaps forcefield had stopped the paint escaping.

I mean I really should have guessed that it was crap when I saw the solid lump of paint inside.

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Adding More Colours

So Jean, La Hire and the Bastard of Orleans had some paint splashed on.

So La Hire and the Bastard have their surcoats visible. La Hire is black with white grapes and his comrade is the blue with yellow fleur des lilles with a white bar…. see I did find out 🙂.

The metal was a bit bumpy so I went  for pretty much covering the lot and I will go over the raised details with white when the base colours are dry.