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.
Well after languishing in the doldrums for a while I decided to attempt some painting this evening. Not a huge amount, but at least something. I am finding I don’t have the energy or head space when I get back home so I have been on the console faffing about on Ark, and I mean faffing. I had so many plans to do or make things but really cannot be bothered.
So here are the metal trio.
Jean D’Arc will be in her white armour with blue trappings on the horse. I will have to find out the heraldic colours onbthe other two. I will rephrase that… I want to find out the heraldic colours. To be honest I could have painted them green (seems to be the random colour of choice with the plastics).
As for my trick cup… one of my kids put it in the microwave….
Might just keep it for guests I don’t like 😉.
I will see if I manage any painting tomorrow.
Why do you blog?
The short answer to the question is to help me with my hobby projects. It started off with blogging about something I had painted. In 2017 I started this blog and have now posted 2395 Times. The Longest streak was 960 days, which frankly is bonkers. The Longest blog streak prior to starting this one was 3 days.
I have ‘met’ some amazing people via this blog and follow a lot back. This is definitely a supportive community.Â
I am about half way through my allocated space allowance so I reckon I have got about another five years to go.
As for the long answer… that will have to wait… I need to go to sleep!
This evening I decided to do another half dozen cavalry. Ended up finishing them all off. For some reason known only to myself I chose another shade of green. I have 48 paints right in front of me, plus about another 30 nearby and I choose bloody green!
Ah well, here they are…
So we have half a dozen heavies and half a dozen mounted archers.
I will try to get a bit more done on the plastics tomorrow. Might even make a start on the trio of metallics.
On the home front I undertook a twenty minute job of putting up a wall cupboard that shockingly took twenty minutes to do! That has to actually be a first. I actually knew where everything to do the job was too.
Alive I tell you!
So yes, I am back… trying to get a handle on the hobby side of things. I am ten days into the new job and boy has it been a bit of a roller coaster of a ride so far. I have really not felt in the mood to even look at a model let alone pick one up.
But tonight I managed to slap some paint on a few more horses….
As I have mentioned before, green is generally not seen as a heraldic colour before the 16th Century. It did exist, but wasn’t common. Some of the above hadn’t got the memo!
Hopefully I can do another half dozen tomorrow evening.
I decided I needed to get my backside onto gear even though I couldn’t be bothered. I am choosing random knights and painting the horse tack with the colour I had on the pallette.
I decided to pack in when I totally messed up the red bridle in the middle. For some reason the red just went everywhere. Eighteen more to go and lots of colours to choose from. These will be quite colourful (and shiny)
Well after a bit of a hiatus, I eventually got down to going over all of the remaining horse tack with white…. very, very boring but I got them all done. Well I will probably notice a pile I missed when I add the photo!
Tomorrow I should be able to start adding colour.
Talking of colour I added more to the druid bust…
I am much happier with the autumnal leaves than the mixture I had below.
Still the cloak and hair colour to consider, but I will get there.
Oh and while I remember, I got a DNA kit for my birthday and the results came through. Basically I am 95.1% British with the rest French/German. Based on the info I am from roughly the Humber to Glasgow.
I am definitely a ‘Sais Bach’ little Saxon’ as they say in Wales.
Oh yeah and I have more Neanderthal DNA than 42% of other people.
Nothing too exciting really…
Well this evening I set about painting in the bridles and trappings white. A totally tedious job, but it is what I get when I am messy. Forgot to take a photo, which is a first!
You can see the mess I made in the photo above.
Now to be honest I am going to have to be strong and resolute and get these finished as Wargames Atkantic are bringing out 10mm plastic Samurai/Ashigaru boxes…
This evening I really couldn’t be bothered to do anything, so I said sod it and didn’t even attempt anything.
Well my new job started yesterday and I needed to get some painting done this evening too. So I decided on the remaining horses. Not many but enough to get all the long flowing bits done on the plastic horses.
Next up will be repainting some of the bridles etc white. Well, on ones that are going to be brighter colours.
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