Looking for feedback - WAB casualty

[Gunbird]

Hello gents, considering hopping on to the local WAB bandwagon but not entirely convinced as it is games here in 28mm, not my preferred scale, so bought a few bits and decided to paint up a tester. Still not 100% convinced.

I'd like your opinion about it, be honest and to the point.








Details:



What I like:
-quick paintjob using washes
-the blood

What I don't like:
- underside horse (but that is the limit you have with plastic sprues and undercuts)
- the shield

Not sure if I want to paint a 28mm army, so your comments will be taken into account if I'll continue with this or not.

Johan

[Hammers]

Not much wrong with that miniature, mate. The bottom pair of legs/hooves look a little stiff, perhaps.

[joroas]

Nice work, wish I could produce stuff like this........... 

[Gunbird]

Not much wrong with that miniature, mate. The bottom pair of legs/hooves look a little stiff, perhaps.

If I go along in this, there will be more boxes of knights from Conquest games, each with another casualty included. Already looking at trimming off the rider, resculpting that section as well as the legs and adding perhaps a raised head to the horse for a mortally wounded riderless horse.

And thx 

[Malamute]

I really like it. Blood and wounds are always hard to pull off without looking OTT. I think you have done a great job.

[Orctrader]

I'd like your opinion about it, be honest and to the point.

OK.  It's excellent.

Assuming you are painting these fast - as it's an army - the standard you've achieved is quite exceptional .

How long do you spend painting a figure like this?

[anevilgiraffe]

nice work... but either his torso or his thigh looks waaaay too long to me...

[Gunbird]

Gents, thx for the comments.

Mal: The blood is just a Devlan Mud wash as the base, with 1 line of Cavalry Brown while it is still wet and just a few minutes later a line of bright red and let that dry. Then go over it again with Mud and that is it. Just add gloss to the places it pools or is fresher. Really simple.

Orc: (insert blushing smiley here) If I take just the paintjob and take off the drying times (which I speed up in a over at 75C to speed things up) around 2 hours total. But this is my first one ever painted so I can propably take off another 30 minutes when doing sets of knights. At this moment though I don't even have an army list, just testing the water to see if I can paint this (passed) and if I like painting these (not sold on that yet)

Giraffe: Err....not something I can remidy I'm afraid 

[Captain Blood]

I really like it. If that's one of the Conquest Games new plastic Normans, that's the first one I've seen that might actually persuade me to buy a box.
Ironically, this stiff looks a lot less stiff than most of the figures I've seen shown so far in riding poses. Great conversion. Well done 

[OSHIROmodels]

Looks good to me  I think an arrow coming out of his neck would look quite good.

Maybe take some of the sheen of the horse, it looks a bit too shiny.

cheers

James

[Gunbird]

Captain: It is. It is no concersion though, each box of 12 knights comes with a casualty model.

Jim: Can't, only have satin varnish.

[Connectamabob]

I use clear acrylic sealers to apply different specularities to different parts on top of the main sealer coat. MicroScale is my current favorite brand for that stuff.

For short hair like on a horse or a big cat though I like clear heavy acrylic media for canvas painting. The acrylic is thick like crisco, making it kind of sculptable. By painting it on thin with a firm bristled fan brush, you can create a grain like hair/fur. It's something I first started doing on 1:6 and 1:8 figures to simulate skin grain and fine wrinkles, but at gaming mini scales it's good for hair.

The paint work looks good IMO. If it were me I would've dremmeled out the "mudflap" between the horse's real legs, but I don't know what kind of tools you have. Plus I'm a little crazy when it comes to thinning the backs of hanging clothes and stuff like that, and thus have no idea where the line might be drawn by a sane person .