Well this morning before breakfast I got all of their hands and faces painted…
Weapons, boots and helmets left to do.
Trying to work out what colour to do the pikes. Probably just a plain wood colour, I am thinking, as befits a militia armed by a city state. They really aren’t going to be splashing out the gold on what is basically a pointy stick.
Hopefully I will get on with more painting later on.
So I am attempting a new regime. A a big word for trying something new… lol.
Basically I have decided that even an hour to do some painting can feel like a lot. So I am going for about half an hour daily. Obviously if I achieve more…yippee, but providing I do the half hour or use up one colour of paint then I am happy 😊.
Here is the yellow/brown on them. Faces and hands next. That shouldn’t take too long then it will be the buff coat. Now the buff coat is often seen as a golden brown or a light yellowy/brown.
Now as I have a similar colour then my buff coats are going to be pale bone colour…. More like this…
The above is a 17th century version, but the colour will work for me.
The thing with the half hour sessions is that if I feel up to it then I can easily decide to do so
I am now feeling the urge to try the colour out.
Well go me!
Buff done with a bit of time to go…
Not exactly the last three seconds like a film. But in two sessions I have got a bit further forward…
Tomorrow skin and weapons.
Well, I am back in my own house and decided to slap a bit of paint on the militia.
Reddish, blue, green and grey so far. Got a yellow/sand to go then onto the buff coat…
I am knackered at the minute so not feeling the love of these lol.
Well I made a start on the militia this evening.
I have got some paint on the undercoated miniatures.
The base on the right is missing a miniature so I decided to leave him out of the undercoated group. When the rest arrive I will get them based up and painted as one.
As you can see from the above I am going for a muted palette. Colour was still a thing for less well off people but I am wanting the militia to be totally different from the mercenary forces.
So it begins…
As I said yesterday, I have ordered a few more miniatures. 2 bases of pikes, a few bits and bobs to go along with these.
Thankfully not as many as the Mercenary force. I definitely will need more flags. These are just going to have the white version.
If nothing else then it will give another player a small force to play with.
If I can be bothered I will get these sprayed in a while.
Well sort of!
Front and back of the bases are black. Sadly the sides are still white. Still got some vents to snip off and silver ends put on the cut down pikes.
Final Job is varnish time.
After much hunting, cursing and general harrumphing I managed to locate the Militia. Only to find I was short a few miniatures. I have decided to go for a mounted command, as well as adding the missing models. Now either I miscounted the first time round or I had a different plan on how they would be based. The problem with the latter is that no matter how I try to work it out I am still short on Rear rank pikes and shot. Therefore I am going to have to say I am crap at counting.
I mean there is a vague, outside chance I didn’t get what I ordered, but that is highly unlikely.
I just hope the next lot aren’t an absolute mess like the others.
Well I was hoping to get the Florentine forces finished this evening but the bases are still tacky from where I splashed the water/PVA mix about.
So I cut out all the flags I had, ready to get them clashed on the banner poles when the bases dry.
I wanted lots of flags, I ended up with only thirteen. I will have to organise more I think… Tomorrow will tell.
Feeling quite pleased with myself that although I am knackered this evening I got my finger out and got the bases covered….
Hopefully I will get the base edges painted tomorrow and the flags done too.
This evening I decided to get on with the Florentine forces.
Skeleton Brown Dipping inks is the base layer as shown below…
Tomorrow I will hopefully get the patchy planes shoved onto the bases, then flagged and varnished…
Speaking of varnish… Earlier I went to put a second layer of mat varnish on something and somehow managed to pick up a can of black, shook it for ages and somehow missed anything important. The grass looks a bit burnt, but that can be flocked over.
Onto the Militia soon!
I hope!
Yes, I have worked on the Florentine forces this evening…
Red feathers, bases and flags left to do.
There are a few bits and pieces I need to sort out… On some of the upright pikes I obviously forgot to remove some of the supports from the pikes…
I will get these cut off tomorrow. The other thing I need to do is to reduce the length of the pikes to primarily match the rest (they are too long to fit in my box).
I will get these finished tomorrow and sort out the Militia…. Aaaaargggghhhhh!
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