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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: James Morris on 25 December 2020, 07:09:26 PM
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I used to play a lot of Wars of the Roses using Armati, but sold off all my figures 12 years ago and swore I was going to give it up!
But then...Perry plastics... Never Mind The Billhooks... my gaming buddies painting up Perry minis... Captain Blood’s 142 page thread of WOTR goodness... the forthcoming Worldwarroses event...
So I cracked and painted up a dozen figures to get me restarted. These are a quick paint job using mostly GW Contrast paints with some highlights.
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They look great!
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Great work!
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For a ‘quick job’ they look excellent. The contrast paints are proving interesting.
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Welcome back to the fold. Excellent start, James.
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They look great, I'm considering getting some of these paints to get through a few of those armies just sat in a box.
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They look great, I'm considering getting some of these paints to get through a few of those armies just sat in a box.
My worry is that it would take too long for me to paint them up and that it would break my (probably insane but working) "Rule of three"! :o
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My worry is that it would take too long for me to paint them up and that it would break my (probably insane but working) "Rule of three"! :o
I have similar concerns, but if i were to paint them all "properly" I'd need to discover the fountain of youth first lol
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I have similar concerns, but if i were to paint them all "properly" I'd need to discover the fountain of youth first lol
Yet it seems to be an inevitability! lol
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Rule of 3? Is that no more than three projects at once?
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very nice! a few hundred more figures and you'll have one side done ;)
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For a ‘quick job’ they look excellent. The contrast paints are proving interesting.
Agreed.
Well done James. Suckered in... ;) lol
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Rule of 3? Is that no more than three projects at once?
Yeah, it has worked really well for me since getting back into the swing of things, my output has never been higher..... possibly until now lol
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Great start to the project! Thanks for sharing! :D
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Great work! Apart from the occasional mould line, the sculpts and colours are such that they could almost pass for real troops.
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Got my second unit and a couple of commanders finished off last night. I decided to do a pair of command stands, one each for Lancastrian (Sir Nicholas Latimer) and Yorkist (Sir Roger Vaughan). With both having a red livery, they should be swappable with the troops.
Background is a download from Jon Hodgson’s Patreon page; flags are Freezywater.
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Lovely work James :-*
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Corking. Very bold 8)
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Great work. I love the idea of swapping commander's in that way. What rules are you going to use?
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nice restart and the use of Contrast Colors seems to work quite well.
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Great work. I love the idea of swapping commander's in that way. What rules are you going to use?
Thank you! Rules...not sure yet...probably Never Mind The Billhooks, Lion Rampant or my own homebrew rules.
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Thank you! Rules...not sure yet...probably Never Mind The Billhooks, Lion Rampant or my own homebrew rules.
Jon Hodgson, the age of Arthur illustrator right? It's taken me a while to put two and two together o_o
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EDIT: Double post. The gremlins are out and about again. :)
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Jon Hodgson, the age of Arthur illustrator right? It's taken me a while to put two and two together o_o
Yes, that’s him, now runs his own company called Handiwork Games.
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Yes, that’s him, now runs his own company called Handiwork Games.
I need to check that out then. For some reason I didn't make the connection when I've noticed you mention his background paintings before.
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On with the show... channelling the spirit of Towton, and the snow that hit the UK last week, here's my first foot knights unit. Faced with wall-to-wall plate armour, I dug out a can of Humbrol silver spray for an undercoat, then gave them all a wash of thinned down GW Contrast Black Templar (I like the blue undertones of this one) before highlighting with acrylic silver. I was having slight pangs of nostalgia for the old Perry WOTR Citadel figures while painting these, but the plastics are a pretty fine substitute.
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Nicely done James. Damn but they are shiny! 8)
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Very nice work - your armour technique has worked really well!
Good assembly of poses too. Often I see this foot knight kit assembled a bit too 'randomly', but each one of these looks good!
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Nicely done James. Damn but they are shiny! 8)
Cheers, Richard. That silver spray saved their squires a lot of polishing! (These didn't get the usual spray of Testors Dullcote).
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Very nice work - your armour technique has worked really well!
Good assembly of poses too. Often I see this foot knight kit assembled a bit too 'randomly', but each one of these looks good!
Thank you! I found it took longer to put together than the other kits - needed a bit of care and attention with the poses and checking the fit of arms. It's probably because of the greater number of two-handed weapons in two pieces.
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Excellent stuff James :-*- the armours look great 8)
When it comes to Late Med armours it's always been a little bit of a dilemma; to varnish or not to varnish? I usually opt for matting down but it does take the shine off the armours.
Yours look superb :)
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fantastic painting and photos.
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Great project James - I really like that armour painting technique 8)
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Thank you very much for the kind comments. I was inspired with the silver spray by some folks on the Billhooks Facebook group and it came out far better than I was predicting.
PS Darrell, sorry to shock you, but I never varnish armour. I find that metallic paints are much less likely to chip than matt surfaces and varnish around them. Is that weird? It works for me.
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Darrell, sorry to shock you, but I never varnish armour. I find that metallic paints are much less likely to chip than matt surfaces and varnish around them. Is that weird? It works for me.
Not weird at all matey :) It's something that I should try. As soon as I can get the MIG Ultra Matt brush on varnish for the clothing etc I'll give some armours a go in the same manner as you have done so successfully. With the MIG, I think it's just s matter of getting the consistency right- hopefully anyway :)
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Nice work. What size are your bases?
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Excellent brushwork James
Cheers
Matt
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Nice work. What size are your bases?
Cheers. Each figure is on a 20x25mm base, with twos on 40x25 and threes on 60x25. I like the extra depth and it means I can do configurations for most games.
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Thanks James.