Thanks lads
Alright, I now have two horsemen, both 'running men', and a new corpse substantially painted. I am going to make them into a mini diorama for the time being. I would show you the WiP, but they will probably end up in a painting competition, so best not for now.
Suffice to say I have discovered that painting the studded, decorative horse harness (sorry, don't know what the correct technical term is) on the plastic horses, is
effing difficult. Unlike the metals, the relief is so shallow that it's barely there. It's extremely painstaking work to get it right. Not looking forward to many more of those...
I foresee many more fully armoured horses in my future!
Anyway, having made good painting progress over the last couple of days, I have rewarded myself with a couple more builds...
(I've decided that I will only build more figures as I paint ones I've built, otherwise I'll end up with 24 plastic horsemen and goodness knows how many more foot figures, and I won't be able to face painting the lot of them... )
So, here are numbers 9 and 10.
First up, for my Milanese - 'Il Brutto'. A villainous Italian with a mace and a mission...
As you can see, he is a fairly straight build from the MMAA box, but using one of the heads from the Mercenaries box, which always screams 'Italian' to me.
I have however, had a little experiment with the horse armour, sliced off the floral motif embossed on the front peytral, and replaced it with a face motif. Made by, er... slicing the faces off a couple of spare heads (one of the ugly heads I never use - I've got dozens of them... ) Not very historically accurate I daresay, and looks a bit odd at the moment. But once painted in, I'm quietly confident...
I am now working out what else I might add as decorative relief to future editions of the Italian horse armour... Hands? Daggers? British 'Tommy' helmets?
Number 10 is a scout. I'm afraid that from my two boxes, I've now used 5 of the 6 available bodies wearing the livery coat. It's just so damn versatile. The problem with the knightly bodies is that the only thing you can use them to build really, are, well.. knights. Whereas lighter horsemen are so much more interesting... Prickers, scurrers, hobilars, foragers, scouts, hunters, mounted longbowmen, crossbowmen, pastry chefs... The list is endless...
Anyway, this young chap is on the lookout for the foe, lance and buckler slung from one side of his saddle, sallet from the other. The head is the 'younger' soft capped head from the WOTR command sprue. I have added a spray of pheasant feathers from a Warlord ECW box (I knew it would come in useful for something in the end).
The right arm is a total cut-and-shut from two of the right arms in the MMAA box, because there wasn't a right arm with the livery coated shoulder in the desired attitude... The fingers are from a longbowman reaching for his arrows... I like the way this horse has turned out... Looks very perky. Nice.
But now I'm thinking about having to paint all that f*cking tack...
01 June 2012, 02:52:46 PM
