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A Knight to Remember

So today I set to work on the Speedpaints knight. These paints are a lot different to the Xpress ones. Colours are fine. The biggest issue I found was that they seemed to bleed/spread into other areas.

You can see how much the yellow spread.

Now to be fair, these paints are relatively new and as such I do need to learn how to use them. I had forgotten these weren’t what I am used to so perhaps I didn’t leave them long enough. Possibly a case of “only fools blame their tools, when the skill is lacking!”

So anyway here is the glamour shot…

I had a spare shield so painted it up.

Here he is with his buddy…

So, on the left Speedpaints 2.0 and on the right Xpress paint. Have I got a favourite… I am a bit torn… but if we look at only the blue, then i would have to go Speedpaint. I am going to print some more knights and do some with Contrast and the rest in the above two.

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First Miniatures of 2021

Well, Ann set up aPainting Challenge for the first miniatures of 2021. These were started and finished in January. My original intention was pick something at Random, but my good mate Eric over in the states shared a picture of the GW Green Knight and as I had one already stripped I decided to join up with him and paint the same miniature. In the pot with the Knight was the herald and I had a dozen foot squires so I decided to do a trio. If truth be told so cannot actually remember which was finished first.

I had a few problems along the way with the Contrast paint going over the brush on whites I had. It wasn’t (going over the white) and that became the problem… it is really obvious in the photo below.

The lime green colour is exactly the same as the rest of the green to the left of it.

When I originally decided on a colour scheme it wasn’t going to be green at all, but all of my tests just looked naff so in the end the Green Knight became, in fact, green. Sadly his original shield and back banners disappeared long ago.

I am really pleased with how they came out. I did make a start on the mounted squire…you can just about see him in the background of the photo below.

To avoid issues with the brush on white I went for artist’s acrylic, but eventually went and bought a pot of GW White.