This evening I blasted through the dark manes and tails on the horses.
I still have the lighter ones to do, eight of the plastics. Then I need to make a start on the metal ones.
Manes and Tails
Fifty Shades of Horse
Well OK… Twenty four shades of Horse.
So that is all of the Horse skin done, still the hooves and manes/tails to go. For some reason one of them has gone a bit blue. I will put a grey wash over it tomorrow and see if that helps.
The command section still needs to be undercoated.
I had a cunning plan yesterday, I still have enough knight parts for six more heavies. They just need horses. I can get six mounts as separate sprues from Perry Miniatures, but as I supported Wargames Atlantic think there are some suitable horses I could print….Time to head to the Computer!
French Knights
This evening my son and I started off our film binge with ‘The Longest Day’. Whilst doing so I made a start on the French knights.
I did a clean up on the metal ones and as I suspected the centre one (La Hire) lost his sword. Well it was 90 degrees to the pommel, so no surprises there. Luckily I had an awful lot of spare arms knocking aound. He now has a plastic replacement.
I also got some paint slapped on some of the horses.
Not a lot, but it is a start.
The Whole Force
Well okay there are technically three forces and some interlopers!
So on the left we have the Hundred Years War English and on the left the Hundred Years War French. Both boxes have Wars of the Roses cavalry, heavy in the left and light in the right. The English box also has Aragorn leading a detachment of rangers…
Sadly I didn’t have time to flock everything this evening.
We will be playing Lion Rampant tomorrow.
While I was looking for this lot I came across my original dwarf from Heroquest… I had even painted him, sadly forgot the base though!
Next to him is an original goblin I think. I am sure the Advanced Heroquest had a shield.
All Done
Well that is the eighteen infantry and six cavalry painted. It was a bit of a rush job, but I got there this evening. As I said yesterday, they won’t win any prizes, but they are done apart from the bases. I will get those done tomorrow.
So here they are with the paint still wet…
I am just hoping that the ones in the shed that I think are done are actually finished. I will find out tomorrow.
I would have done it this evening, but I am knackered and really cannot be bothered.
I will add them all together and see what they look like. I know the crossbow men are in a specific livery, I think I have some liveried spears too.
Panicked Painting Progress.
Well I eventually got started on the pile of plastic for Saturday. Six mounts and six infantry finished.
My son worked hard on the mounted gendarme on the right too.
So that leaves me with twelve foot and six cavalrymen to do.
Will mine win any prizes- nope but they are getting done and that is all I want.
I have actually got some Agincourt mounted knights in a shopping cart somewhere, I just have to remember which site I was on!
Painting Panic
Well Loreil Softvale is on hold for a few days. Thule Gamers is having a big game on Saturday and I said I would go along.
Now I could borrow miniatures, but where is the fun in that soooo.. I decided to break out my unfinished Hundred Years War Agincourt miniatures and try and get a force from them…queue panicked music…
This is what is left… oh yeah the cavalry are Wars of the Roses… the cavalry wasn’t our when I started these… easier to paint though. My son said he wanted to help so tomorrow we begin.
Loreil Softvale
Well I worked on the druid this evening. I managed to get paint in various places that it shouldn’t be. A couple of them will be hidden when I paint the bits. The absolute sod is that I got it under her chin!
You can see the green on her chin and also a khaki colour on the top of her head. Extremely miffed by my incompetence.
As you can see I decided on a more autumnal look for the leaves.
Some Painting
So I got another layer on the tunic and made a start on the creeper round the arm.
A very long way to go, but having fun so far. ,
Starting on the Druid
This evening I decided I had better get my finger out and make a start on Loreil Softvale. I went for a ‘dwarf skin’ colour this time as opposed to the ‘crusader skin’ I used on Mizzi
I also got Grace the Pirate cured and here she is in all her glory.
As the great, late Frankie Howard said in Up Pompei…”don’t point those at me dear, they may go off!”
Now I have definitely had a problem with this print as there is a ‘scar’ above her right eye and I must have missed a support under her right arm as there was a little damage there too.
To be brutally honest I should have oriented her in a different way on the build plate as the supports have left some damage on her chin. Nothing a bit of sanding wouldn’t solve, but annoying anyway.
