Captain Blood's bloodsuckers

[Orctrader]

Brilliant collection of figures.  It's already been said about the standard of painting, so I'll just agree.   

[Blackwolf]

What always strikes me Richard is your use of colour, you must have perfect colour vision( or a very accommodating wife)

[Captain Blood]

Well it’s definitely not the latter 

[Blackwolf]

Well it’s definitely not the latter 

Mine is pretty good, as a colour  vision impaired  ,I need all the help I can get

[Ballardian]

Really lovely paintjobs Richard

[Captain Blood]

Thanks Matt 
They may even see some action tomorrow evening!

[ulverston]

Captain Blood, anything you paint is pure gold (if you know what I mean). Amazing work as always

[Bloggard]

Yeah. I tried the Gilder thing on Hinchliffe horses too, circa 1980 (I was a very young child ) I don’t think they ever dried properly. The oil paint was still sticky in the crevices about 3 months later 

But I think I’ve mastered it now 

    yes that's how I remember it.

[BaronVonJ]

Great work Cap’n.

[huntersmoon]

Nope, not at all. I have recently got into oil washes as a result of using them on my WW2 AFVs. They are WAAAAy better than ink washes like GW and Army Painter. You can mix whatever shade you want. And the trick is, you need a pin prick of oil paint in a generous droplet or three of white spirit. If you use it very very thinned down like this, it dries almost as quickly as an acrylic wash, and dries flat matt too. But the finish is (for my money) much better. It has the added advantage, that if you wish, within the first hour or two you can reanimate it with another drop of white spirit, and move it around. After that it dries properly and is fixed. But it’s not like using neat (or slightly thinned) oil paint where it takes days for the paint to go off. It’s basically a white spirit wash with a tiny bit of tincture in it. It evaporates and dries to the touch within a couple of minutes. It’s flow properties are far superior to ink washes though...

Maybe I’ll do a tutorial 

Did you ever do a tutorial?

[Bloggard]

my goodness, something to be reminded how brilliant both the figures and painting are in this thread.

[Captain Blood]

my goodness, something to be reminded how brilliant both the figures and painting are in this thread.

Aww. Thank you. They are such lovely figures, and I do still have a few of them left to paint. Unfortunately everything has been subordinated to the painting of ECW and Wars of The Roses over the last 2 or 3 years. I really do need to get back to some other stuff. So much to do, so little time

Did you ever do a tutorial?

Erm, not really, no. Not for these.
But I've covered the oil wash technique to some extent in my ECW painting guide, which you can download from my Bloody Miniatures website, here:

https://www.bloodyminiatures.co.uk/s-projects-basic