Modelling the Perry Plastics (UPDATE: lots of pics 28.06.2015 p.7)

[War In 15MM]

Wonderful work!

[Tellus]

Superb, Sir!

[OSHIROmodels]

Can imagine that, James, but then you wouldn't see the painted faces, so that's some artistic licence then ...

The nothing wrong with a bit of artistic licence 

cheers

James

[DonVoss]

Absolutly fantastic...

DV

[Admiral Benbow]

Sorry to derail a great thread Admiral, you have certainly stirred some old memories.

Absolutely no problem, love to debauch in old memories ...

looking good so far. Historex in 28mm

Yes, exactly! But Historex had so much more horse halves ...


Two quick pics with new horses:



The right one is the new galloping horse from a combination of two front and back horse halves I had left over from a trotting horse conversion (see below). Quite straightforward, only the right foreleg had to be cut from the plastic grass and re-glued to the base.



And two new trotting/walking horses. The left one was combined from two different horses, front and back, and the right one is a standard Perry horse with his right foreleg cut two times and re-glued straightened. It has been given some new horse tack also from plasticard. This kind of design is from a medieval picture from around 1460 (in Osprey's Armies of Medieval Burgundy). To get those semicircular notches I used a punch-and-die-set.

[Clearco]

   
All your work is being so amazing! Truly inspirational, thank you very much for exciting so much my imagination! 

[Jinx]

Just outstanding work. Ah those were the days no liquid poly for me but god damn awful stuff called banana oil  
The gun crew are exceptional

[Admiral Benbow]

Not much time recently, so an update at least after nearly three weeks with the results of a few nightly painting hours ...

First two modified horses, painting finished but no varnish and groundwork:





One has a new front plate from plasticard and added horse tack, the other one got a modified breast plate and was partly barded with rolled out Magic Sculp. The buckles on the modified breast plate came out of the Perry's MMAA-box, you only have to look carefully to find them ...

The first of the burgundian artillery crew also got some paint:







And a modified man-at-arms with new left arm after carving the original one away; only silver areas painted, WIP.



Lat but not least I built some artillery boxes from plasticard for the gun vignettes. They will show some wood grain when painted, and the open one will show some cannon shots and powder bags.



Will paint some more horses and riders next, and try to finish painting the complete artillery crew.
 

[painterman]

Admiral,
Those are wonderful - love the part-braded horse (Can't find the bosses on the Peytral from a quick look at the sprue) and the draped rear half - a great idea really well executed.
Alos very impressed with the artillery boxes from plasticard.
Great stuff.
Simon.

[Captain Blood]

Beautiful paintwork, Michael.
Lovely work on the ammunition boxes too.

[Sirolf]

I think the buckles are the bucklers from the mercenary box, correct me if I'm wrong...

[OSHIROmodels]

Very nice 

How have you done the armour on the maa? Is it metallic spray that has been buffed?

cheers

James

[Admiral Benbow]

I think the buckles are the bucklers from the mercenary box, correct me if I'm wrong...

Yes, you're wrong. Have a look at the command sprue from the mercenary box. There are those bundles of arrows, and on some of the arrow's ends the Renedra guys included a small air chamber - forming a buckle! But only enough for one horse ...

Very nice 
How have you done the armour on the maa? Is it metallic spray that has been buffed?
cheers
James

Those MAA were proud people and looked after their armour, so it was real shiny. On the other hand I want to get enough contrast to see all the plates and details on those small minatures. So, first step was to paint on a full coat of shiny silver. I used old Warzone silver but could also have used something like Foundry's Spearpoint 35C. Let dry thoroughly. Then - now comes the heresy - a coat of Army Painter Quickshade Dark Tone. This brings on a light shading of all the recesses and has the added benefit of sealing the mini with high gloss varnish. After that I painted on some more darker shadows with a mixture of silver and black and then some real highlights with pure silver. All in all it works quite fast and you don't have to paint all the details manually. Yes, I'm a bit lazy ...
 

[Captain Blood]

Then - now comes the heresy - a coat of Army Painter Quickshade Dark Tone.

Aaaaarrrrggghhhhh!!!!
Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!



(I might have to try some... )

[Ray Rivers]

 

Nice job!

The horses are absolutely awesome!