Okay - enough WAY off track postings. Let's get back to my personal silliness, the Banana Wars. The first 39 figures, the presidential guard, are making progress on the painting table using red over purple or purple over red for the foot with purple over blue for the mounted - all banana colors, if not perfectly matched to real bananas. Accents will be in greens and yellows. Might get them finished today but might take a day or two more, depends on how much extra effort I want to put out. They are rather smallish 15 mm figures and a very basic and simple sculpting style for the foot. The foot were found in my stash, I think part of flea market purchase of a huge bag of 15 mm figures from a very long time ago. I chose them because they have a sort of bearskin so more distinctive.
The leader of the rifle armed foot is mounted on black horse with white mane and tail, quite distinctive. And the mounted guard are on white horses, a cross between Lippizan and Peruvian Paso horses that, when parading have the most remarkable and in step walking-jumping gait. (Found a half dozen horses from who knows where in my collection in a semi-rearing position which I decided to paint white which put me in mind of the Lippizan horses but then I recalled watching some Peruvian Paso horses who naturally get into step with a very high stepping gait - so I 'combined' them in my imaginary little world.)
Mounted Guard = 6 men, 6 horses
Armed Guard = 12 men on foot and 1 man on 1 horse
Guard Band = 13 men on foot (11 actual musicians, varied instruments)
Had to start somewhere and this is where I decided. Next up will be the more 'traditional' presidential forces to be followed by the leftist and rightist forces. And then probably the large apes followed by port folk and civilians. And in the mix will be working on the watercraft and the buildings along the way.
28 September 2011, 12:59:00 AM
