Another addition to the army that is never finished: the Late Romans.
This time a stand of Light Infantry archers for ADLG or whatever in 28mm.
The figures are Gripping Beast's Romano Brits and paint well although the posing is somewhat static.
In between work, complaining about the weather being very good - it's a Scottish thing - and being more active painting continues on the Crusader spear and crossbows with pictures to follow.
As a slight diversion put some flesh colours and started on the uniform in this motley crew.
The figures were built when purchased from eBay and are from earlier Warlord Games British infantry. By earlier, its the models not the period of WW2.
The rifleman on the left as view has a different approach to the flesh.
Block base tone, in this case Foundry Flesh A. Then thin coat of Foundry Flesh B, followed by another. Next is a very light colouring with Army Painter Flesh wash, followed by glazing with the Foundry mid tone. Still to apply subtle highlighting which will be a mix of Foundry Flesh B & C.
Is it worth it, will see once finished, but the thin coats of paints suits the warm weather.
Anyhoo, there will be another couple of figures from WW2 appearing over the weekend along with the first finished figures for this month's 30 Days 30 Miniatures Painting Challenge.
Cheers for now
The answer to Jonathan' question on what is in the queue for this month starts with a return to a previous project by picking up on the 15mm Late Crusaders for ADLG/DBA to push through the six stands of combined spear and crossbowmen for the Lionhearts Crusaders.
The figures are from Gladiator Miniatures and will match in with two factions already painted: Knights of St John's and the Knights of Jerusalem.
The remaining two stands will be painted with a more generic approach to their colour schemes.
The first figures are already down on their base. Waiting on the off from their crossbow armed sargeants before jumping into the basing mix tray.
Re-purposed from two stands of HI SP from the original DBA army this was created from allowing better use of the figures on the deeper stand for combined basing. Stops those bloody spears getting the way.
Hope this of interest to you.
Cheers for now.
The first of 2022 and this will start this evening with a view to running these monthly until the end of the year.
For the 30 Days 30 Miniatures Painting Challenge there is no theme to this, just to paint and complete 30 miniatures regardless of their starting condition or size.
The outline of the challenge is detailed below, however the main point being to have fun with your hobby.
Cheers for now
