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Author Topic: Captain Blood's Fireforge medieval thread. P31. Yet more Bobs!  (Read 125858 times)

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Thanks lads :)

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Are the shields free hand?

Thanks Colin. They are indeed.


I'm really jealous of how consistent your heraldic lions are! I cannot for the life of me get them looking correct!

Truthfully, if you look closely, they're actually all over the place in terms of the details. But superficially they look consistent enough, which is the main thing :)

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Those Bobs are truely fab.  :o
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Some utterly nice freehand lion rampants, there, Richard.

Offline LazyStudent

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Awesome painting! And the Bobs are certainly a bunch to be reckoned with! At the rate they're going they'll need their own revolting peasants faction before too long!!

An odd question. What color did you use to paint the shoes on the armored figures? The red/orange brown leather is great, and I don't think I've seen it before.

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Thanks :)

The shoes and other red leatherwork are all done using Vallejo 'Red Leather', and then with a bit of Vallejo 'Bright Orange' and a tiny touch of white mixed in for the highlights.

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Beautiful work! Thank your for sharing recipe too!

Any trick to get those freehand shields to be so consistent as well as beautiful? Like ... do you start with a stencil for the overall shape or something ... or are you just a god?

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No. It's just a little time, patience and a sharp point on a fine brush :)

Using a very thin, watered down mix of paint to start with, just rough out the shape of the heraldic device.
Then gradually firm it up in more solid colour, touching in the background field colour to tidy up the form of the device as it takes shape.
It's about painting in the background colour to help in forming the shape of the device, as much if not more than actually painting the shape itself.

The great thing about painting (unlike say, carpentry, or practical DIY, at which I am utterly useless BTW) is that you can constantly adjust and readjust. You're never irredeemably committed. If a line or shape looks slightly wrong, then just paint over it. Keep painting over and adjusting the areas you're not happy with until you end up with a piece of heraldry you are happy with :)

 

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Re: Captain Blood's Fireforge medieval thread. P27, more paintwork!
« Reply #442 on: February 16, 2020, 01:46:43 PM »



So that's, l-to-r, Bob the baker, Bob the bowman, Bob the brewer, Bob the bumboat man, Bob the butcher and Bob the builder.


Lovely, but surely you need a Bob the Candlestick maker to complete the set?

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No. It's just a little time, patience and a sharp point on a fine brush :)

Using a very thin, watered down mix of paint to start with, just rough out the shape of the heraldic device.
Then gradually firm it up in more solid colour, touching in the background field colour to tidy up the form of the device as it takes shape.
It's about painting in the background colour to help in forming the shape of the device, as much if not more than actually painting the shape itself.

The great thing about painting (unlike say, carpentry, or practical DIY, at which I am utterly useless BTW) is that you can constantly adjust and readjust. You're never irredeemably committed. If a line or shape looks slightly wrong, then just paint over it. Keep painting over and adjusting the areas you're not happy with until you end up with a piece of heraldry you are happy with :)

Well that is beautifully done!

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No. It's just a little time, patience and a sharp point on a fine brush :)

Knowing you haven't got another three hundred of 'em, waiting to be done helps morale tremendously, too!

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Re: Captain Blood's Fireforge medieval thread. P27, more paintwork!
« Reply #445 on: March 05, 2020, 06:38:05 PM »


I've also repurposed one of my WOTR characters to play the part of the baby-eating Bishop of Hereford...



And I remembered that I had these monks amongst my Elizabethan swashbucklers. So they'll be pressed into service as supernumeraries for this setting as well. Perhaps as the Bishop's entourage... (I painted these about 10 years ago, so not quite as good as today's efforts! ;))



Cap'n, I could use these figures myself. If you recall, would you share the manufacturer?  Thanks!

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Lots of great stuff in this thread but those Bob’s steal the show! Respect.
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Re: Captain Blood's Fireforge medieval thread. P27, more paintwork!
« Reply #447 on: March 06, 2020, 12:03:31 AM »
Cap'n, I could use these figures myself. If you recall, would you share the manufacturer?  Thanks!

Yep, the bishop was a Pro Gloria figure, that range is now owned by Warlord Games, so I expect he’s somewhere in their Renaissance range...

The other three are Foundry figures. The monk / friar in the centre is from the Sea Dogs range by Mike Owen.

The other two monks are from the Eldorado Adventurers range by Mark Copplestone.

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They look a cunning and terrible bunch.  May they smite their enemies without mercy.

-Michael

P.S. Is there going to be a Bob the Village Idiot?

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What an awesome thread. So many great characters!

 

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