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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Doom Beard 78 on June 23, 2020, 06:34:15 PM
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12 weeks of working from home afforded the opportunity to paint up some Dolthraki horsemen. Its been a slow process...
First up, the "heavy" cavalry ( heavy is a relative term here)
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The second unit- these are medium cavalry
and the first figure for the horse archers- I was experimenting with the flesh tone for the bowman: not a sucess
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first figure for the 2nd medium cavalry unit
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Good work, always nice to see more Dothraki
Would you mind taking a photo with a ruler, or measuring (from base of hooves to top of the horses back/riders eyeline)?
I like the sculpts...could live with the weapon interpretation, but am wary of the size ...will they look like they are on plough horses next to my Gripping Beast Arab Light Cavalry...?
:)
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from the hooves to the top of the riders head they are 52-54mm high. They are a lot bigger than most historical cavalry
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Nice work. They look really good
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from the hooves to the top of the riders head they are 52-54mm high. They are a lot bigger than most historical cavalry
Bugger....lovely work on your part, but like you said, way too big to justify adding them to my existing figures...have managed to squeeze some of the foot figures into a wider force, but the mounted are too much of a stretch.
All the same, appreciate your work, and will follow with interest
:)
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Nice work!
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Great work. Will you be adding the kalesi to inspire them (or provide fire support)?
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Very nice work.
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Easy on the steroids!
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Excellent work George :-* :-* :-*
The work on the skin tones of both the Dothraki and horse flesh is lovely. You're style reminds me very much of El Mercenario, which is indeed a compliment mon ami 8)
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Thank you Atehling
I am familiar with El Mercenario, I always enjoyed his work.
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Thank you Atehling
I am familiar with El Mercenario, I always enjoyed his work.
Yeah, it's really inspiring stuff. I'm going to have a go to tryand to do something similar to El Mercenario to see if I can speed up my painting! :)
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This could be an interesting way of doing horses, heavy oil washes and then wiped away the oil using a q-tip( ear bud) to create contrasts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znrCqYFFl9Q
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This could be an interesting way of doing horses, heavy oil washes and then wiped away the oil using a q-tip( ear bud) to create contrasts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znrCqYFFl9Q
I tend to avoid oils per say. I've got too many memories from Uni in being almost permanently covered in the stuff! I'm allergic to white spirit too- not too badly but it was bad enough for me to wear surgical gloves when using oil paints lol.
If I'm doing 'quick' horses prefer to put down a base coat, dry brush with three successive lighter layers when wash the hell out of the model.
These were done in that way:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2EJRTLMkexI/Xr27lKMdNII/AAAAAAABDhA/44I2RzB_y-MUEIaoZzdR2jxousfi1zRdgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_1451.jpg)
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those Knights Hospitaller ( I think) look really effective. I only use drybrushing for the hair and tails. Here's another one I did. I tried to simplify the flesh but not keen on the result, so I'll stick to the long winded process.
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Dunno...
They look nice though.
I will say, I'm glad to see folks painting horses with asymmetrical markings on the legs. It is fairly rare, for example, to have a horse with all four legs sporting white socks. Black, is another thing. Lots of horses have black on all four legs.
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latest figure; Dothraki Horse Archer on white horse. I need to finish off the base but otherwise, this is good to go
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They look good those mate 8)
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Top stuff George. :-*
How many is that finished now?
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Atheling,its 12 finished so far. I started the project shortly after the lockdown was announced. I have been painting slowly over that period while working from home.
Ive got 2 horse archers, 2 light horse , 2 mounted characters and 2 characters on foot including the Khaleesa to do
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Enjoying watching your progress - your horse (and flesh) tones are excellent.
:)
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I'd mixed up the flresh recipes a bity. The darker tones are built up over Vallejo model colour Hull red with lighter layers bbuilt up by Vallejo game colour heavy skintone building up to pure heavy skintone.
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Latest Dothraki. Struggled a bit with the photography, the horse looks better on the table than in this shot
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Lovely mate :-* :-* :-*
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final horse archer. just got 2 more cavalry to do
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Khal Drogo. This guy has severed heads on his horse and carries two in his right hand. a real head hunter
I was dissapointed with the way the face turned out. Just 2 Dothraki horse left and then Jorrah Mormont, the question with Mormont is whether to have him in the heraldry of house Mormont, a field vert, bear sable. or , to assume that as he fled in disgrace he no longer wears his heraldry.
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He looks cool!
Jorrah Mormont, the question with Mormont is whether to have him in the heraldry of house Mormont, a field vert, bear sable. or , to assume that as he fled in disgrace he no longer wears his heraldry.
In the books Jorah wears his tunic with his heraldy in exile. I love the heraldy of the series, so I vote for that, but a disgraced Jorah would be cool as well :-)
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Lovely painting for miniatures from my favorite game!
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Thanks guys for the kind comments
I finished Jerah Mormont; I thought I had a bear decal but alas not . Don't suppose anyone might be able to point to me a suitable bear decal?
Galahad- I have to say that the Rules have been revived my flagging interest in wargaming- they are a lot of fun: simple mechanisms, limited bookkeeping and a fast paced game
To make Mormont stand out from the rest of the horse, I decided to paint the horse as an Appaloosa; first attempt. Simply copied and simplified the pattern from a photo
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There's a good thread in the 'Ancients' section here on how to make your own George:
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=125919.0 (https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=125919.0)
You're right, I looked at all the 'usual suspects' on the LBMS site and there doesn't seem to be one depicting a bear.... this is a bit of a surprise as I would have thought it to be the ultimate symbol of aggression fierceness and status on part of any 'Pagan' warrior's kit.
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Dunno...
They look nice though.
I will say, I'm glad to see folks painting horses with asymmetrical markings on the legs. It is fairly rare, for example, to have a horse with all four legs sporting white socks. Black, is another thing. Lots of horses have black on all four legs.
That’s called a bay lol
Nice work there :)
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Atheling the use of the bear as a heraldric device appears to be quite rare , Other than the Canton of Berne i cannot think of any where else I have seen it used. I did consider looking it up in one of the dusty tomes on heraldry which sit on a bookshelf but wikipedia came to the rescue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_in_heraldry
Quite liked the Berlin design. Might look to pinch that .
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Atheling the use of the bear as a heraldric device appears to be quite rare , Other than the Canton of Berne i cannot think of any where else I have seen it used. I did consider looking it up in one of the dusty tomes on heraldry which sit on a bookshelf but wikipedia came to the rescue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_in_heraldry
Quite liked the Berlin design. Might look to pinch that .
Yeah, it's definitely the Canton Banner for Berne.
Why not use that? Now that i think about it there's a company called Wargames Designs who do banners (I don't know if they are transfers or just paper prints) with the advantage that you can buy them in 28, 15, 10 and 6mm. If they're not transfers you could always buy then trace out the banner design?
EDIT: Sorry George, I forgot the link:
https://www.wargamesdesigns.com/swiss.html (https://www.wargamesdesigns.com/swiss.html)
Let me know how you get on mate.
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The penultimate Dothraki horseman.
I also finished the Khaalesi figure, but she turned out crap; pale skin and milk white hair. Looked like Elric in drag. A difficult figure to do as the depth of the face is very shallow. I then have a the fat merchant friend of the Targaryen's to do and the project is finished and ready to take its place in the display cabinet
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Lovely work mate :-*
Looked like Elric in drag.
lol Classic lol
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Atheling voila
Elric in drag, justg needs the crimson eyes
This figure went very wrong. Might strip the flesh and start again . I have painted a few of the female figures in this range( Cersei, Sansa, Catalin) and have struggled with the faces. Any thoughts on how to fix this ?
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The last Dothraki horseman brings this army to completion
Not the best photo
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Bit late to the party but I must say I really like the paintjob on Jorah and his horse!
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Good work DB, I think Jorah is my favourite, but they all look great as a horde.
:)