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Some more work in progress as the Analogue Painting Challenge moves into its final weeks.

The Chaos Warrior and Lawful counter part above and below are now waiting on basing being completed.

The Skeleton Chariot moves closer to completion and has only the basing to finish now too.

Another Romano-Brit joins the fray to add to the Warlord stand for SAGA.

More to follow shortly

Cheers for now

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Some work in progress pictures for this year's Painting Challenge

This one is now completed C01 fighter from Citadel.

Two groups of Hearth Guard for SAGA with figures from Gripping Beast's Romano British. Across this warband will be using a very limited colour scheme and Little Big Man's range of shield transfers to bring some more individuality to the figures. The movement base is from Warbases just along the road.

Top left in the picture above are the last of the 16 Undead waiting to be painted and below is the Warlord from the same warband featured above. For both Warlord and Hearthguard there will be mounted versions at some point soon.

More completed pictures to follow as soon as possible.

Cheers for now.

Fantasy Hero 8

The title should really be Heroine as the figure below is an Elfess, if such a word exists, but that would be too much like work - only joking. This figure is from the Citadel Compendium 2 released back in 1984 and along with others from the C08 High Elves were and are some of my favourite miniatures from this period.

To be retaken as face out of focus.

A great figure to paint and after some deliberation opted to paint the chest piece as a metallic breast plate with both steel and gold. The red and gold has worked well on this figure and although it will be difficult to see on these pictures the metal areas have all been lightly gloss varnished as well to lift the over all finish of the figure.

The basing shows some new oak leave foliage that was bought recently for use with this range of figures - yes there will be more later this year - and the leaves really are oak leaf shaped.

Added a few extra layers of tone to the flesh on this figure as felt it needed more depth in the flesh areas and was looking for a paler overall skin tone. The Foundry Expert flesh range was used to achieve the finished colour.

The red on the tunic ended up more red than its original base colour which was more burgundy in tone. The change isn't a bad thing just something noticed during the painting. Base colour was GW's Mechrite Red Foundation Layer and the next three layers were Foundry's Bright Red A, B and C to highlight.

Overall, very pleased with the finished look of this miniature and glad the extra time was spent on her to achieve the look wanted. Hope that you enjoyed the pictures. 

Cheers for now. 

Fantasy Hero 7

A recently completed Citadel Orc from sometime a go - not really sure on the age of this one.

Opted for a more grey-green than some of the very bright greens that are often used with Orcs. The base colour is from Foundry's poorly received World War II range of colours and is Soviet Winter Green shades through A to C

Another member of the Black shields, this orc has a plastic shield from the late eighties with no decoration. Not sure on this and it may change in the future if a good alternative can be found.

Some previous victims of the over-sized chopper hide behind the plastic shield, one in slightly better condition than the other although both have seen better days.

As with previous figures from this range have used militaristic colours rather than some of the more flamboyant colour schemes that are often seen. It is a matter of personal preference nothing more.

Another single figure to follow shortly along with some work in progress.

Cheers for now