Author Topic: Captain Blood's Fireforge medieval thread. P31. Yet more Bobs! (Read 126811 times)

Captain Blood · « **Reply #150 on:** October 19, 2013, 02:22:27 PM »

Smurfs

Alas, not hopeful that I'll be able to get these foot variants finished and painted in time for our Sherwood outing the weekend after next. So don't count them into any plans!

More urgent figures are ahead of them in the painting queue, and hardly any painting days left...

OSHIROmodels · « **Reply #151 on:** October 19, 2013, 02:25:26 PM »

Quote from: Captain Blood on October 19, 2013, 02:22:27 PM

Smurfs

Alas, not hopeful that I'll be able to get these foot variants finished and painted in time for our Sherwood outing the weekend after next. So don't count them into any plans!

More urgent figures are ahead of them in the painting queue, and hardly any painting days left...

You'll just have to make sure that they don't fall off their gee-gees

cheers

James

Admiral Benbow · « **Reply #152 on:** October 19, 2013, 06:00:56 PM »

Just in time for me to see the potential of those Templars, Richard. I have them on my list for the Crisis show in November in Antwerp. They seem to be best choice for building the Holy Grail knights ...

Captain Blood · « **Reply #153 on:** October 20, 2013, 11:20:02 AM »

Yes, they'd be perfect for Spamalot Michael. Just the right selection of helmets too...
They do have potential - I think that's the right way of looking at them.
It's possible to produce some nice looking figures out of a couple of Fireforge sets (maybe with a sprinkling of Perry heads too

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Certainly hybridising the Fireforge and Perry Medieval sets is a good recipe for Westeros, and I intend (finally) to do a few of these.
I guess, like all plastic figures, how you put them together requires a bit of consideration to get the best result. More so than the Perry figures actually. Because they nearly always look good, no matter what you do with them.
I'm afraid that with the Fireforge figures, thanks to the somewhat overactive poses and slightly outsize weapons, if you just bosh them together straight out of the box without too much thought, they can look a bit spastical. But these foot figures are really pretty good. Better than a great many metals out there, that's for sure...

westwaller · « **Reply #154 on:** October 20, 2013, 11:47:06 AM »

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It's possible to produce some nice looking figures out of a couple of Fireforge sets

I think you have the hit nail right on the head with your assessment of the Fireforge Foot Knights, @Captain Blood. They have a lot of potential but you have to take care with the poses. I ummed and ahhed about getting some for quite a while and eventually snapped up a slightly reduced box (battered) of the Teutonic knights as the price was more in line with what I would want to pay for them!!

I am fairly pleased with them and feel that a lot of the images of them (including the 'official' ones don't do them justice really) I also was quite confused about the differing contents of each of the two boxes as the info is a bit confusing on the Fireforge site IMHO.

Yours so far look cracking (like all your other stuff) and I look forward to seeing these latest additions painted

Captain Blood · « **Reply #155 on:** October 20, 2013, 12:51:56 PM »

Thanks

Here, now under paint, comes Sir Jehan De Lambert of the Manor of South Park...

Blue in vt · « **Reply #156 on:** October 20, 2013, 01:25:02 PM »

Those foot knights look fantastic...once again your ability to strike a very nice, lifelike pose shines through with these figures. I think you could certainly teach many of the sculptors of these figures a thing or two.

Keep up the good work!

Blue

Gibby · « **Reply #157 on:** October 20, 2013, 01:39:43 PM »

Really nice painting!

Paul · « **Reply #158 on:** October 20, 2013, 04:28:47 PM »

Sir Jehan De Lambert

Captain Blood · « **Reply #159 on:** October 21, 2013, 07:47:31 PM »

Glad you like him

Here's the next one, Sir William de Warenne (also known as 'The Timpo Knight', since his colour scheme and motif is based on a plastic Timpo knight I used to own circa 1970

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And here are Sir Jehan and Sir William side by side...

Silent Invader · « **Reply #160 on:** October 21, 2013, 07:54:51 PM »

Have you been painting nights ?

I recall that green one, wasn't there white, red, yellow and blue as well?

Anyways: lovely job

NurgleHH · « **Reply #161 on:** October 21, 2013, 08:17:00 PM »

Being honest, I don't like the Fireforge stuff. My first idae was, that you waste your talent on this stuff. But with your "medieval eye" you gave them a special charm. Please, next your "Med-Eye" on gripping-beast-knights and crusader-knights.

Neldoreth · « **Reply #162 on:** October 21, 2013, 10:15:47 PM »

Lovely paints here. Also, I like your cadence on these... reminds me of my lack of time and low painting output

That is, I'm assuming that you don't have a million other projects on the go and that you aren't in fact painting hundreds of figures per month

Excellent, inspiring. Thanks for posting.

n.

Malamute · « **Reply #163 on:** October 21, 2013, 10:24:25 PM »

Kewl beans.

Bugsda · « **Reply #164 on:** October 22, 2013, 12:05:17 AM »

........and hot tamale, excellent work

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