Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia... More Arthurians! (P.26)

[Dr Mathias]

Very nice. I'm impressed at how crisp and contrasty you manage to keep the chain mail.

[Too Bo Coo]

Very nice. I'm impressed at how crisp and contrasty you manage to keep the chain mail.

Me too!

[gamer Mac]

You have really got your painting hat on this weather. Some more cracking figures. Have you tried the game yet?
What's it like?

[Captain Blood]

Saga?
Yes, had a couple of games courtesy of Eric the Shed.
I really like it.
The basic game mechanics are simple, but there's a lot of flavour, intrigue and tactical variety provided by the special abilities customised to the various Dark Age nations. Plus the fact that you can only do so many things in one turn - not everything at once. Which introduces a great degree of tension into the game. Working out how to get the best out of these two factors is quite a learning curve, but I'm sure after a few more games I'll have mastered it to a reasonable level... Possibly 

[Jeff965]

Beautiful work Richard, are we likely to see photographs of these in action?

[Captain Blood]

You will once I've got 37 of them done - which is the required minimum force size for a medium scale Saga game 

Give me a few more weeks... 

[Jeff965]

Excellent I look forward to it.

[Elk101]

I'd missed this thread until now as like Plynkes I misunderstood ' Captain Blood's Twilight' for something else, though unlike Plynkes I thought it was some sort of retirement thing. He's far too young for that, I thought!  

Lovely colours aside, do you wet blend to get that lovely smoothness? I struggle to get the sort of depth your painting does, though that may be because you are very, very good and I am not!

[Captain Blood]

don't do yourself down Steve. It's just technique and practice.

Yes, I do tend to wet blend within the highlight layers, although not always. The real secret to smooth transitions is building up the highlights using several thin layers of paint rather than a couple of layers straight from the pot.

The other secret is patience. It takes a long time to apply several layers of paint! So you need to be resigned to the fact that you're only going to turn out a few figures at a time, not 20-strong units finished after a couple of painting sessions.

[Mithridates1]

Superb job on these guys.  I do like the work you have done on these Musketeers.  And the advice is very good as well - patience!   I keep thinking the same and doing the opposite.......

[Elk101]

Thanks Richard! Practice and actually building up a bit of momentum with painting is my issue as it is very stop-start (partly work, mainly small children). It's good to have something to aim for though!

Cheers

[nikko]

Hello,
impressive painting on excellent Musketeer miniatures !!
Nikko

[Prof.Witchheimer]

Lovely additions, Richard, I especially like the geoguth , very dynamic figure and kind of dynamic painting, looks just great. And I noticed you are finally painting eyes    Great performance, can't wait to see all the 37 guys.

[Hu Rhu]

Excellent as always.  I am thinking of investing in these models myself to replace the rather lack lustre Gripping Beast Saxons that form my current SAGA warband.

Hadn't noticed the eyes until the Prof pointed it out.  But only one figure or is my eyesight failing me?

[Bugsda]

Some of those colour choices will have Chris calling them camp, though, I reckon.
 

They're only camp if they beat me in a comp, otherwise they're theatrical excellence. 

  Theatrically excellent work Richard.