Some new painting

[Orctrader]

Thought you might like to see these.

Chinese Pirates from Foundry


Red Rowan's Border Reivers from Graven Images


I have individual photos of each figure if you'd like to see them HERE The Reivers are in “Other Stuff” and the pirates are in, er, “Pirates.”

Thanks for looking  

[dominic]

Very nice! Love the colours and shading!

[Malamute]

Very nice  I like the Border Reivers

[RJ]

Top work Orc!

[vikotnik]

I like the Border Reivers very much! :love:
...and I always wanted to see some of them painted. Lovely choice of colour and very good paint jobs!

[Aaron]

Great job on everything, but I'm especially taken with the armor on the border reivers.

[Orctrader]

Thanks for your comments.  I thought you might like to see them here  

[Captain Blood]

Lovely work - on the reivers in particular. Great colour choice. You've really enhanced the figures.

I just wish I could love this range from Jim Bowen more than I do...  
His feel for the attire and gear of the period is first class. But these boys are more like 35mm, strangely bulky and a few are in slightly weird poses.
Also, the way the figures wearing morions have the morions sitting on the backs of their heads. Not so evident in these examples, but in some of the range - downright peculiar...

But a seriously nice paint job. Thanks for sharing.  :wink:

[Darren]

These are outstanding!

I'm particularly keen on the Border Reivers as my buddy and I just ordered a big wedge of Vendel's Border Reivers and I didn't know Graven Images made some too - they're perfect for exanding our collection, especially what with all the buildings and civilians.  I can feel another bulk purchase coming on!  After all, they make a model that looks like the baby-eating Bishops of Bath and Wells!  It'd be rude not to  :wink:

[matakishi]

I prefer the Chinese, they just....glow! :love:

[Captain Blood]

Darren, you won't find the Graven reivers a good fit with the Vendel ones at all. The Graven figs are nearer 35mm, whereas the Vendel figs are nearer true 25mm than most of today's 28mm figures.

The best Elizabethan era figures bar none, are still Mike Owen's Sea Dogs for Foundry, only a small % of which really look like ship's crew. Most double extremely well as reivers.

Mike's grasp of the detail of the costume of the period is just spot on. Take for example the distinctive Tudor flat cap. On most people's models (including both Vendel's and GI's) this signature piece of headgear from the period looks like a cross between a cowpat and a tea-cosy. But Mike has got them absolutely right.

For cavalry, my preference is Bicorne ECW horse (especially the Scots) wearing old style costume and armour - i.e. doublets, burgonets and so on. You can even add shields to make them more reiver-like. There are some pics of some of mine here:

http://forum.backofbeyond.de/viewtopic.php?t=2086

Just a suggestion. You may not be bothered about scale mismatch, but if you are, Vendel and GI will not be a happy marriage on the tabletop.

[Orctrader]

Thanks guys  

I don't show all of my work here because I'm in quite a few forums and feel slightly guilty because I rarely have the time to comment on others work here  :oops:

For those of you who don't know my work I should point out that I'm a painter and don't actually (please forgive me) game.   :oops:

The Graven Images figures are quite bulky and when I received them I was disappointed.  They took a lot of cleaning.

Once I began painting them, well actually once they were primed, the disappointment changed to delight.  Full of character, good level of detail and absolutely great, full of character faces.  They were an absolute joy to paint.



I like to experiment with my painting and with these decided on a much more muted colour scheme.  Whereas with the Chinese I used my more usual "bright and full of colour" style.  Hence the (matakishi's word) "glow."

Thanks again for the comments.  

[BlueWeasel]

Can you clairify which chinese those are?
Foundry has pulled most of the info from their site with a generic "call, mail or fax in your order" on that line (and the 1812 stuff)

[archangel1]

Thanks guys  
 
...For those of you who don't know my work I should point out that I'm a painter and don't actually (please forgive me) game.   :oops: ...

Hooray! I'm not alone!  :wink: Unfortunately, I can't even prove I'm a painter! No digital camera!  :roll:

[twrchtrwyth]

Nice.