Tagged: foot
Just a Bishop
No, not the tank. The fellow down below has been sitting on my desk for far too long in inglorious white undercoat, so I finally decided to take a moment off between batches to paint him up.
Model by Perry Miniatures.
I previously painted this model up for my friend Kurt, but I decided to go with a more pontifical white-and-yellow combination. Some black was added in order to tie in with both my Hospitallers and my Flemings/Early Crusaders.
I really don’t like painting robes…
It’s been a while now since I’ve touched anything medieval… but I’m sure it’ll come back to me soon. Frostgrave and Guillotine are taking up most of my painting time, and then there’s the final Prussians that are staring at me hard. We’ll see who gets right of way!
Late Roman Archers
Continuing the Late Antiquity theme of late, here are some archers. Three units plus a commander done now!
Models by Gripping Beast.
Paintingwise these are identical to the unarmoured warriors, apart from the fact that their shields are somewhat smaller and have no metal rim, which made painting them a bit easier.
I’m not entirely sold on the colour of the quivers.
As you will have noticed, I’ve given these models separate 20x20mm bases. This is so I can use them for skirmish games like Saga, but they’ll still rank up nicely for the likes of Hail Caesar and Sword & Spear.
So that’s them done. Next up are some Prussians, these should be on the blog in a day or two. Until then!
Irishmen of Berwick
I’m having a very productive month of April, so I thought I’d share some of my output with you again. The regiment below is yet another WSS commission for my wargaming chum Alex, this time Berwick. The pictures are extremely shoddy as I was running out of time and I had to use the iPad for it, but they’ll give you at least an idea of it.
Some lovely models by Ebor, sculpted by Paul Hicks.
These models are from Ebor, the same as the Swiss ones I painted up back in January, although these are predominantly firing poses as opposed to the marching ones from back then. It’s a bit of a shame that the command group is the same; the unit would benefit from its command models standing still instead of marching. Oh well, as long as the owner’s happy with them!
The models will be based and provided with flags by the owner.
I painted this entire unit in just two days, which is quite rapid by my standards. Basecoating them red helped immensely, as well as washes. This time I block painted most of the colours over the red before applying a dip-style agrax earthshade wash to the entire model, and I then reapplied some of the basecoats as a highlight tone. I painted them all in a single batch, which I usually don’t like that much – twelve-strong batches are often more than enough for me. Still, I persevered and it paid off handsomely. They’re not the best paintjobs I’ve ever done but I think with proper basing they’ll certainly look the part!
That’s about it for today, though. I have one further unit I’ll be blogging on this weekend, and then it’s off to more commission painting – the new Gripping Beast crusaders!
Monster Update part two: Flemish Crossbowmen
Continuing on with the monster update, here are some Flemish Crossbowmen. They’re obviously meant to go with the Flemish infantry who featured on the blog almost half a year ago now – yet another project that has gone sadly untouched until now.
Models by Fireforge Games, with some Gripping Beast heads.
As I said back in the first post on the subject of this project, my first intent is to use these as a Saga warband. I’m thinking of using these as Normans, Franks or Anglo-Danish, and the first two warbands do have the option for a point of warriors with crossbows. Thus, I availed myself of the excellent Foot Sergeant plastics of Fireforge Games make. However, as they are more of a 12th- 13th century type of soldier, I used the more old-fashioned bodies and heads on the sprue, and used a couple of spare Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors heads as well. A perfect fit with those GB heads on Fireforge bodies, by the way!
Eight crossbowmen, ready to put bolts into Saxon and Muslim alike.
Painting was done with the same colours and techniques as their mêlée counterparts, though the lack of shields on these guys means they were much quicker to complete. Some sand and tufts and Bob’s your uncle.
At Crisis I loaded up on a goodly amount of extra Perry Miniatures models for this project: two units of twelve bow-armed levies and, of course, the commander pack with Godfrey of Bouillon and his chums. These and sixteen further infantry, as well as some cavalry, will be painted up sometime next year and I hope to conclude this project before 2015.
Again, stay tuned, for another update will grace this blog!
French Dismounted Dragoons
It’s that time of the week again! Yesteryear Wednesday means I dig up some old paintjobs and present them to you, my readers, with varying amounts of pride, shame and certainly nostalgia. Today, I’ll be showing you a not-so-very-old paintjob, dated September 2012. Let’s take a look.
Some Perry Miniatures plastics which are not often seen painted.
These guys were painted while on holidays in the Dordogne. The weather there was quite fine, which did cause me some trouble with paint drying up a lot faster than it does in my usual northern habitat. Still, I made good headway with painting several models in that week, and I was very happy to get these done in good time. These dismounted dragoons are not models that will be seeing a lot of action – dragoons no longer dismounted in Napoleonic times as they did in previous centuries – so they were mainly painted for the joy of it.
Feu!
Painting them was fairly straightforward and pretty much identical to how I recently commission painted the 6th dragoons. The main exception being, of course, the yellow facings and turnbacks. These were first painted white and then washed with casandora yellow and seraphim sepia. This didn’t turn out quite as well as on my Space Orks, but as I wasn’t packing any conventional yellow paint on my trip, it got the job done alright.
On the turnbacks of the coats you can witness the limitations of the washed yellow technique.
One thing I did recently add to the unit were the GW tufts. I’ve been looking at the ‘oldest’ units in my French army, and the green woolly substance really doesn’t impress when on its own. So I added in just a few tufts in between the wool and I find it looks much better that way. I’ll be adding them to the other models as well before I submit them to the harsh judgement of the lens.
So that’s it for this episode. Next week I’ll likely be showing you the mounted dragoons so that they’re out of the way. In the meantime, I can report to you that I’m working on some Flemish foot soldiers from the time of Flemish count Baldwin-with-the-Beard. This guy’s name alone is all kinds of awesome, so I hope my models can deliver as well. You’ll find out this weekend!
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