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July 27, 2010September 16, 2015

Glade Riders

Knowing how much Martin enjoys the whacky cartoonish appearances of my old school elven steeds here are my 5 horse unit of old school glade riders. What to say, well they look a bit silly now beside the new ones which look considerably more realistic. I do kinda like the light armoured elves with their crested helms but these probably are a little civilised compared to the new more feral approach which I think I prefer. The paint job on the horses is ok. Obviously my attempt to dapple them wasn’t very effective, they really need a white glaze over the top to blend the spots into the grey but at the time that was a bit beyond me, possibly still is. I remember having a few goes and making a bit of a mess.

July 26, 2010September 16, 2015

Dr Who & Fallschirmjaeger Mortar Team

This is what I spent the last few days of last week working on. My Dr Who, David Tennant figure. He’s 28mm scale, fortunately the same size as all my WH stuff. He was quite easy to paint except for the coat. Leprous Brown is essentially a dirty yellow and as a consequence is a right annoyance to paint. I did a pretty rubbish job on it and had to give up when I realised I was starting to fill in the folds in the coat. Otherwise though I’m pretty happy with him. Basecoated him in scorched brown which worked well (though not as well as I’d hoped for the coat). Did the base with green stuff which I scoured into a kinda cobblestone pattern. All in all a reasonably successful effort I feel.

Oh and this was supposed to be a series of four shots two from in front and two from behind of my 6 FJ mortar teams, however the others were blurry, so I’ll have to redo them. In the meantime here is the back of one of the teams.

Currently I’m painting an Ork Defkopta, though Saturday night I spent time cleaning and assembling my Tiger 2s. Look great, sadly ran out of paint when I was undercoating them so will have to come back to them.

July 21, 2010September 16, 2015

Mounted Lord

A mounted wood elf lord. What can I say, it is my least favourite model (with perhaps the exception of Ariel). The horse is nice, I like the horse, always have despite it’s rather cartoonish appearance. The figure… well where to start. Not a great sculpt very 2 dimensional with an arm out either side holding a weapon. A big crested helmet with no other piece of armour whatsoever save a biggish belt. Then there is my paint job, terrible drybrush highlighting of the blue cloak to start with and then for some god awful reason I thought green gloves and boots would look good with yellow YELLOW clothes and a blue cloak. I’m a guy, I’m not particularly colour sensitive but even to me this is a horror. This is one model that I will happily repaint. I dislike it intensely. But it is posted here as a historical record of something I will hopefully find the time at some point to expunge.