Crossing Cock Beck

[Stuart H]

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

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.

[James Morris]

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

[Wilgut Spleens]

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

[Tordenkuglen]

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

[Stuart H]

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

[Little Odo]

Lovely little vignette. Great work.

[OSHIROmodels]

Very nice 

[Stuart H]

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

[Eric the Shed]

looks great