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Miniatures Adventure => Medieval Adventures => Topic started by: Stuart H on May 26, 2021, 08:59:10 PM

Title: Crossing Cock Beck
Post by: Stuart H on May 26, 2021, 08:59:10 PM

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A small scene of Lancastarians fleeing the battle across the infamous Cock Beck on the flank of the field. Seeing it for real last summer, struck me what a hard route out it was. And made me think of making this base. It shows some Percy and a Somerset retainer  pursued by Sir Henry Vavasour and a light cavalry man. See my  on the battlefield for more on the landscape and Vavasour.http://28mmtowton.blogspot.com/2021/01/visit-to-towton-battlefield.html (ftp://28mmtowton.blogspot.com/2021/01/visit-to-towton-battlefield.html)
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I started this thinking I would enter Winston's WoRs vignette competition on this site, but I never got past undercoating the figures before the cloase date. I'm a very slow worker, and the liquid water added a new dimension too. But happy with the dynamism and the new techniques I used.
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Title: Re: Crossing Cock Beck
Post by: James Morris on May 26, 2021, 09:13:06 PM

I really like that!  Very evocative.  Do you have a photo taken from slightly further back?

Title: Re: Crossing Cock Beck
Post by: Wilgut Spleens on May 27, 2021, 08:14:03 AM

ooh, that is good! I love the water effect, what did you use to achieve that?

Title: Re: Crossing Cock Beck
Post by: Tordenkuglen on May 27, 2021, 11:46:45 AM

Lovely little diorama, as mentioned, a pic or two from slightly longer distance wouldnt hurt :D but lovely work again :D

Title: Re: Crossing Cock Beck
Post by: Stuart H on May 27, 2021, 08:48:26 PM

Thanks Folks,

I used  Vallejo's Still Water Effect -  about three or four very thin layers -  partly due to a few too many thumb prints when testing if it was dry. I did paint the base of the beck Games Effect - vomit green with a few stippled patches of white for the eddies. I would do this again but probably make these base colours more pronounced and a more dilute amount in the first layer of the water effect.

As to longer-range photos, I'll have to take some more and post.

Stuart

Title: Re: Crossing Cock Beck
Post by: Little Odo on May 28, 2021, 07:46:36 AM

Lovely little vignette. Great work.

Title: Re: Crossing Cock Beck
Post by: OSHIROmodels on May 28, 2021, 08:16:05 AM

Very nice  :)

Title: Re: Crossing Cock Beck
Post by: Stuart H on June 08, 2021, 10:17:58 PM

Sorry its taken a while but here is a more panoramic photo of the scene.

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Title: Re: Crossing Cock Beck
Post by: Eric the Shed on June 09, 2021, 11:56:22 AM

looks great