Lordy, these are taking forever…

To speed things up a bit, I didn’t do every bridle. Some of the brown horses and bay horses have theirs missed off. Basically because a brown rein on a brown horse is not visible at long range, therefore at this scale they aren’t visible either.

Highlights done in the blue, red and cream oh and the skin tone too, but in that case I think I overdid it.

Still to do spears and swords and a highlight on the bows. A wash in the hats and most of the quivers need painting too.

Still a long way to go, but feel like I am over another hump.

Tonight’s painting was brought to you by:

A bit of a rip roaring monster film based on an arcade gam3 from the 80’s. Well to be honest the game passed me by. I did however enjoy the film.

Tonight the boys watched Rampage and the girls the Greatest Showman.

Tomorrow I am off to see the new Predator film… we shall see what we think of that.

Bridles and breaching…

Or in other words… whose stupid bloody idea was that.

This has taken for ever… but once I started I had to keep going. Two hours later and it seems like I have got nowhere. Green and blue done for the bow pouch. Still over half of the bridles etc to do.

I really wished that I hadn’t started ☹️

Today’s painting was brought to you by:

Not the most accurate portrayal of 10000 BC… but a jolly jape none the less

The kids got to spend their pocket money today, my youngest chose Lego, as per usual, and a happy chap he was. However he got excited to get started and emptied all of the bags out. This in turn meant it took twice as long to build.

We got there in the end and the Mech was built.

Tomorrow I shall carry on with the bridles…

Now with faces…

I also painted the hats, the effect isn’t obvious from the front.

It can however, be seen much better from the back.

I went for two distinct units of two. I could mix and match them as required, but at least I will be able to see which base belongs to which unit.

I also did a bit of research into Mongol horses.

Very few have a blaze, but for artistic reasons I will leave mine as are.

Tonight’s painting was brought to you by:

Another film I really enjoy… my Mongol horde can act as the Tao Tei…or is it the other way around. 😉

Still a fair way to go but they are beginning to look good en masse. And they don’t look too bad from a distance.

Still to do are the weapons, quivers, boots and the occasional bit I have missed. I am seriously considering missing out the bridles and straps.

All of the bows will be bleached bone, spears monster brown or similar. The next question is do I do all the quivers the same colour to speed things up or do I mix them up a bit….

Totally knackered tonight! Finished work at 20.00.

I still wanted to keep the momentum going so I added the blazes and socks on the horses.

It really does make a difference to the look of them.

I went a bit wild and did probably more than would be realistic…

The camels almost got a blaze. I was on a roll and merrily slapping white paint on faces and noticed just in time.

Tomorrow I will carry on with the riders’ tunics and trousers.

Blue, sand and russet tunics done…

Some trousers done on them using the same three colours.

Still a long way to go but I feel that the end is definitely closer than the beginning. The problem is that they are now at the ‘they look really crap’ stage which I seem to hit with everything I paint. I sometimes think that photographing them as I go along doesn’t help.

Take the following picture as an example…

Was my first thought ‘wow look how far I have come’ err no my first thought was that pale horse with the camel needs another wash, it is far too bright.

I know for a fact that once the rider is painted in and the groundwork is done then it won’t stick out as much.

I decided to call it a night early as quite frankly I am knackered.

I will get onto the greys and creams tomorrow.

Some more work on these…

These have had the wash on, not that you can tell ☹️

I will highlight them tomorrow

I also got manes and tails done. Mostly grey or black to be honest.

I also started on the tunics and breeches. I started with red …. as is a bit obvious based on the photo!

I will get some blue and a sand colour onto the clothing tomorrow, a smattering of green and grey then they will be all finished…..I wish.

I am enjoying doing these though. I am trying to remember to make them bright so that they stand out.

I did find an unusual miniature in amongst the rest

His tunic is longer than the rest…. just checked on the Pendraken website… evidently he is Subedai… being a bit incognito as I know that I didn’t order the commander pack… I better check, as I might have done. If so Genghis and Jebei have also gone undercover too!

Tonight’s painting was brought to you by ‘Kingdom of Heaven’

I don’t have a film with Mongols in it, so this had to suffice. I haven’t seen it for ages and forgot how much I liked it

I managed to get the horses started…

I took the undercoat and gave it a heavy dry brush of leather brown.

Once this was dry I randomly painted various colours onto the horses. These are the base colours. I will give them a wash once dry and then highlight them. Manes and tails after that.

When the horses are done I will move onto the riders.

I will have a look at some pictures of mongol horsemen to see what colours to do the clothing.

I managed a bit on the light cavalry today.

They have progressed from the bare metal.

Through to the sand onto the bases. The sand has been sealed with watered down PVA.

I stood them on the radiator to speed up the drying time.

The whole miniature was brush undercoated with Foundry Bay brown A.

The paint is still wet so it looks I have missed some of the undercoat . Well at least I hope I haven’t missed an6! I will hopefully get a heavy brown dry brush onto them tomorrow, not to mention covering up any of the bases that are showing any metal.