Well keeping to my word I did more painting this evening…
As I splurged too much AP plate metal out I also hunted the shelves for anything that needed doing metallic.
This pair are nearly done, I still have at least a couple of knights like these to do, the Joan of Arc type as well as all the foot. Probably Goblins after that as they are undercoated.
This evening I was knackered… the poly myalgia does make me tired at times. So rather than lots of swearing as I was trying to paint anything. Instead I went for an easy win and stuck miniatures to bases.
My chap to be is in the front with the boat on the helmet. It originally had a sword in it… but I removed it. Sadly I removed the tail too. I managed to use an old Mordheim archer arm to repair the damaged print (second from left).
I will get these sprayed tomorrow and hopefully get on with the painting.
So this evening I set about adding the metallics to the knight and his pair of foot soldiers. I got a bit heavy handed on the gun metal so looked for anything I could to avoid wasting the paint. I found a box of various bits and found my armoured bear and a couple of goblins. Basically anything that needed a metallic colour got some.
I will hopefully carry on tomorrow and get the shading and highlights done on the armour.
This weekend I am embarking on a project I never though I was going to do…
I am super annoyed that a whole pile of my Contrast Paints have dried up. I maybe haven’t used them for three months and I am going to have to bin a lot.
I used to say I preferred the pots as you can shove your brush in and get the amount you need, but at £4.50 a pot I reckon I have nearly lost £50 worth of paint. Pretty miffed about it to be honest.
So watch this space and listen for my fell voice on the wind as I drop pots, knock over bottles etc.
So after getting lots of paint on this knight I have decided to keep going on this one, but will then paint another one using a darker red and lighter black which is more like my original kit.
The other thing is, my crest is a Northumbrian Boar. One of the helms actually has a boar on it… I chose bull horns for this one. So all in all, a new knight is being printed. I have added a couple of foot soldiers to the plate too.
The other thing I am printing is some Wargames Atlantic Ikko Ikki. I decided to join them on Teams for a test period.
They do have some nice stuff… it’s a lot smaller than most things I have already, but that’s the beauty of 3D printing. From what I remember I basically need to increase x and y by 105% and z by 110%.
I will finish painting the above before starting on the next.
This evening I decided to slap some paint on the third Knight. As discussed the other day I went for my reenactment livery.
So this time I used my old favourite… Contrast. However there were some issues…. Dah, Dah, Daahhhh!!
As you probably noticed I haven’t exactly been going hammer and tongs with my painting over the last three or four months. Because of this a whole pile of my contrast is now the equivalent of coloured tar. Luckily for me the livery colours had unopened pots so I managed a speedy paint job.
I was pleased with how they went on, sadly though the ‘Black Legion’ isn’t really Contrast in the same way as the others are.
The big question I am now pondering is whether I actually start to replace my Contrast or go Xpress and Speedpaints…. Watch this space.
This evening I got this trio cured and glued onto some bases. It was my plan to get them undercoated for painting tomorrow.
This one is going to be done in my re-enactment colours. These colours will be matched on the large shields, but the foot soldier clothing will be in random colours as befits the period.
The more astute of you will notice the lack of undercoat… I have two words ‘Effin midges.
They were so bad I actually ended up finding my net hood to go into the shed to retrieve the above. They were so numerous around the door it seemed misty.
This evening I was sitting in the conservatory messing on the computer. I had actually set an alarm for 21.00 but the midges had somehow got in there with me… they were a bloody nightmare so I evacuated.
I decided to do something constructive. And painting seemed constructive enough.
So I worked on the Xpress painted knight and various other miniatures I had handy to avoid wasting paint.
This is where I got to with him…
I may have gone a bit overboard with the mud along the bottom of the horse trapping. I will need to do something with the stag on the helmet as it is looking very flat.
I also need to grubby up the bottom of his tabard too.
I will get the base done tomorrow which should make it look better overall.
I shall also try something on the Speedpaint knight tomorrow.
I also have to print another one to do a Contrast knight.
Zoggin Heck another day with paint on a brush….I must be Ill or something !
This chappy is done in Speedpaints 2.0. On this one I tried the metallic Speedpaint. It went on so nicely and sort of dried flat. However I put a wash over the metallic bits on the first knight and have actually ended up with a similar effect. I was going to dry brush them with silver anyway so no problem there.
So let’s see if I can manage three days in a row… (probably won’t pick up a brush for a month).
To be honest, I reckon the only reason I did anything today was because of Geek Club in school.
Bloody Hell. I have actually managed to do some painting this evening….
I really, really, really cannot be bothered to paint at the minute so this took a lot of effort. A lot of it was belts and bridles so it took a good old bit of concentration. I really need to get back into this and stop making any excuse I can think of to avoid it.
I think that Duc de Renoir will look okay once he is finished.
I had better get back into researching heraldry as I have a feeling that there may be a fair bit in the future.
Of course I will have to do me…
I have me in 10mm and 15mm… really got to do the 28mm version sometime. Interestingly the maroon and black used above are almost an identical colour match to my soft kit.
So hopefully I will get my arse into gear and keep painting…
This evening I came up with a bit of a cunning plan to test out the XPRESS paint and Speedpaints. So as you may have seen in an earlier post I printed a knight. I now have two,..I am going to paint one in one range and another in the second range. This will give me a bit of an idea as to how they compare on larger miniatures…
So this is a start with the Xpress paint. The blue was thinned with four drops of the Vallejo Medium.
The second one will be a reverse of the above. I still have my original GW Brettonian water slide transfers.
I still have to work out how to do the quarters on the knight.
The tabard on the body is easy, these ones have the long bits covering the legs.
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